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If it sounds great, it's good marketing.

Honestly, it's just a safer way to create a publicly available database of sorts. It's mostly used as currency because each unit is immutable.

The Blockchain is so simple and yet 90% of the people still don't understand how it works.
It's just a bunch of independent computers,who verify transactions by solving complex math tasks.
For that work (solving complex math tasks),they get rewarded with bitcoins.This is also known as bitcoin mining.I guess that this is the most simple explanation of all times. ;D
Great drawing, by the way.

it same as internet everyone know how to use but don't know exactly what is internet.

if future blockchain use in background like internet use in everything but user don't know what blockchain is

Yep, most of people that are in here just want the money behind blockchain and not because for it may give us in the future. It is all about the money and not the technology.

OP, that cartoon sums up my feeling about most people in the ICO space.  Not all, certainly--there are some incredible geniuses, but I suspect that the average gambler from a poor country just wants to get rich and doesn't understand solutions where blockchains are appropriate, and where they're not.  I'm by no means an expert myself, but I'm also not buying into these crazy projects.

All of this reminds me of the late 1990s.  Everyone was sure the internet was going to be the death knell for brick-and-mortar businesses, and internet stocks soared even if the businesses had no viable business plan.  It was a crazy time then, and it's looking to be almost as crazy now.

two things are funny about this picture, the obvious fault that people these days have thinking blockchain is the solution for everything! which i was talking about a couple of days ago with a friend, that these days you keep reading in the news that someone started using the blockchain technology. then no matter how much you try to wrap your head around it you can not think of any reason why they would use it!

the other one is that the person who did the edit thinks the same way but he thinks DAG is now the solution to everything :D
Directed Acyclic Graph is a pretty interesting technology but it (like blockchain) has its usages and also its own disadvantages. (you can find them online with some search). it is not something you use just because you want to be moving where the hype is!

'What is blockchain?' 'I don't know '!  :D :D This definitely cracked me up! In as much as it is a joke,  it still have a very stong meaning backing it up. It's so unfortunate that a lot of people are merely talking about blockchain but still yet they don't know what it truly means. Some just want to flow with the latest topic just because of the fear of being left out.

I would bet that almost 50% of people who enter the crypto world do not necessarily understand 100% of the blockchain itself. they only know where they will invest and will get profit. I myself only know that blockchain is a ledger that records all crypto transactions.

Exactly. Majority will think that blockchain = bitcoin. Lol.

Blockchain is the technology behind almost all crypto right now. Anyways, the more people understands the difference the more they're going to be a smart investors. If they heard that some  company invested or uses blockchain technology doesn't mean that bitcoin will go the moon. :)

Yeah that is something happening right now. People just having hoax about it but not everyone is really trying to make anything out of it. Look at the current ICO project and tell me what you really see? Everyone is now trying to create their own blockchain and thus they are just copying the original one to create their own and forgetting about the original one at all. Whats the point of that if they have their own? Its no better than original as they might claim. Also only devs know rarely what blockchain is but not the common crowd who use the idea behind the project.

I think this year the bitcoin can make their bitcoin price bigger, So we need to be focus here on bitcoin this year if we want to have a better earnings. Also I think the bitcoin recover and the bitcoin demand are continuously increasing so some of the beginners are need to focus to learn about bitcoin.

me i more focus on altcoin because today bitcoin is quietly not good to pick invest unless if you want to hold it will be good. but me i want a quick investment thats why im focus on altcoin. altcoin got many choices of token that can possible be pump in any minute thats why i pick in altcoin

A lot of people in the space now, especially those who came into the space between 2017-2018 were driven by the quick gains crypto offers. Many lack knowledge about the tech, which explains why you see some funny questions during the bearish market conditions like "is this the end of crypto?".

Being part of blockchain technology is a whole lot and involves the risk of either loss or gain. It has been the custom for everyone to take risk once you become a participant of blockchain.

The whole world is focused on ETF bitcoin. It is enough just to approve the ETF for bitcoin and all the crypto currency media to fill the news tapes with this event.
And I personally expect the growth of altcoins to the end of the year.

I have strong belief in blockchain gaming, so i'll be focusing on it this year. Not gambling, i must point out. There is a quite number of projects that caught my interest, and i've already had some profits from them.

ETF won't change anything for the better. Sure the price will go up again, but we don't want people to allow private organizations to hold out keys for us. This is against the idea of Bitcoin. By believing in ETFs we are showing that the idea is not important. The important part is being able to sell our coins for more fiat money :(

Good picture OP. It's how hype works. People repeat slogans without understanding them.

As funny as that picture seems, its speaks volume and I can relate with it. I was asked to talk about recent technology and how it applies to my profession. The first thing that comes to mind was to talk about blockchain and its application. Then the question is how do I make a presentation? That was when it dawn on me that, I really don't have enough transferable information about this technology and a lot of people are equally in the same situation.

A lot of the market is focused on peripherals while the main thing that can push for the ultimate goal is being neglected. The onus is one everybody to change the narrative by focusing more blockchain to make it so understandable to everyone that come across the subject matter.

Saying "blockchain is huge!" Is a way for those who laughed at bitcoin to save face. They were 100% incorrect about bitcoin and can't go back on it without looking like a fool. So they call it blockchain. Which is what bitcoin is.

It is like saying the internet is stupid and wont work back in 1993. Then by 1996 saying that the IP protocol is a good idea though.

Even today, unfortunately, this is true, but the fact that Blockchain isn't known may be due to people not wanting to give up the traditional system. So, the physical money has now become the indispensable of people. It will take some time for them to accept the new generation.

The simple thing is this: daily gains, huge profits, quick money and fear of missing out drove many to this space without understanding the underlying concept that uphold cryptocurrency — the blockchain. While all eyes are on market performance, I think emphasis should be on adoption which can be done by educating people on fundamentals of blockchain.

It's a good interpretation,I agree that most of the people don't know about blockchain,or more precisely they don't care about the blockchain, but institutions already start the research on the blockchain and the potential usage of it, so in 2019 we wills we more usage of blockchain

The graphics is somewhat directed to me or to others that do not understand well what is block chain, even up to know since I entered crypto i still do not FULLY understand the specifics but i know some idea behind it but honestly as a whole.

Blockchain is a tool that we need to know about, because in the future all cash transactions will be built on it. Blockchain technology is already present.

Most of all people who adopt blockchain technology especially in terms of transactions do not know how it works from blockchain technology, they only use this technology to make transactions for profit only without knowing the future and workings of blockchain technology. I think all Bitcoin users must know in advance the basis of the technology they use so that when someone asks us about blockchain technology they become interested in joining bitcoin in transactions.

Not everyone will know what blockchain really is and a lot would not care how it works as long as they get to see what it does, the freedom it brings them when it comes to spending, and the fact that it is an evolution which would disrupt a lot of things, they are Ok with it.

Honestly, the first time I started reading about blockchain technology, if not that i had some few idea on cryptography, and some few techie details, I can imagine how it would have been like for a tech novice or someone who is totally ignorant technology wise, to understand every details about it. Now, what most people even care about is how they can also become wealthy in a short term and that greed has infected the whole ecosystem somehow.

I think we should focus on educating as many people as we can about blockchain technology and trying to get our families invested in a small portfolio of Bitcoin and some solid altcoin projects. My Father is 80 years old and he is buying Bitcoin with his pension every month form Coinbase and also owns another two altcoins as well as part of his divested portfolio.  ;D If you have kids and grandkids, buy them each some coins and let the bags sit for when they are going to make life-changing differences in their lives. It's time to educate your Loved Ones before everyone knows about the Blockchain and has already invested!  ;)

I would still be focusing here in cryptocurrency world since it really changed my life for the better and I would continue on my dreams to have a lot of cash before everything turns not well.

Maybe you can focus for this years at trade of investment at altcoin or bitcoin, you can leave ico project because I see many ico project was drop and scam. Many ico have failed with listing their coin at the exchange market.

maybe you're right, but now I might focus more on holding assets that I have and paying attention to the market. there is a high probability that the market will move quickly and of course it will be a good opportunity to get profit.

We no need to be blockchain expert to use the crypto currencies but having the knowledge about the blockchain will help the people to know how the crypto currencies works from the centralized banking system but anyway people don't want about the blockchain since they are investing on the cryptos.

But what's the point of knowing all the gory details about the blockchain technology and how it works internally? I think it is enough to know that on the outside it is a distributed ledger, that is a digital book keeping the records of all transactions made and through that keeping track of how many coins you have got. On the inside, it is a decentralized fault-tolerant database designed to work in a trustless environment.

What else do we need to know, apart from understanding how to send and receive money in the wallet of our choice? Do you actually need to know the specifics of how the internal combustion engine works to learn how to drive a car, especially if it is an all-electric one?

Well, the picture is funny. If seriously, in addition to observing the crypto market I am monitoring the stock market. I am absolutely sure that there will be a strong correction on the stock market quite soon so I would like to catch that moment and find an entry point to enter just in time. Also I am pretty sure that the correction on the stock market will have the immense effect to the crypto market, the precious metals, FX market and other assets. As at the moment almost all crypto assets are on low values I guess  that the crypto assets may be seemed pretty attractive for stock investors for buying that may cause to push the entire crypto market to the green zone. I wish every investor to make the right choice.

Wherever you can. I have never targeted focus at one point throughout the year. I will only focus if there is indeed an opportunity to make a profit and will not force myself to focus on something that I cannot or do not understand and do not have the expertise nor experience on it. That way you don't have to invest all year and force yourself to focus on anything that you can't or you won't have a chance. So just pay attention to what will happen throughout the year, if like now the crypto market is weakening, then you will be better focused on buying / investing and try to focus on holding it so you can have the opportunity to gain profits next year or whenever you see the market recover.

Applying blockchain technology to life is very necessary because it brings great efficiency in various fields. Blockchain technology is a huge breakthrough in the current technology 4.0. I believe that blockchain will be more and more popular worldwide.

I still entrust this and will continue to invest and I will hold it until the price will rise and I believe if next year prices will return well

It all depends on how and where you apply the blockchain as 'technology'.

If we're purely focusing on corporate solutions to enhance efficiency and profitability, you only need a database structure to get the job done. There isn't any sort of advantage a blockchain grants you over a database. Everyone thinks the blockchain is it because of the hype around it, but when you discard all the hype, there isn't much of value left.

Blockchains are useful when it comes to decentralized incentives such as Bitcoin, because you at all times rely on the chain to remain immutable. If you don't need an immutable chain, there is no need for a blockchain, period.

Most of the problem here in this forum is that.

Something like.
"Yeah let us invest there." After buying the token. "What the hell did we just buy?"
"I do not know but it sounds great."
"People are buying it so I better buy it too."

Sometimes it sounds freaky when people are doing that kind of decisions. Scary too. We dont want them going to bad choices but laziness overcomes.

That's true, some people who came to this place just for investing, no matter what parentage of the investment place he has chosen, their focus is only getting profit. As far as when the crash came they only see on the price and they gone and sell all the assets they have, if he has got a big loss. However, for those who know the parentage of cryptocurrency and till they know blockchain clearly, so there is no anxiety for them to sell their assets in a loss, just hold and leave the price prediction.

I don't disagree with your point as I'm telling essentially the same all the time. The advantage of the blockchain technology as a variety of database solutions is that it can work in a trustless environment where no one trusts anyone in particular. The real break-through in this area consists in using asymmetric cryptography for providing consensus, that is which records or entries in this database are considered valid and which should be discarded.

Of course, if you are using an in-house network, there is no advantage of using blockchain as it adds unnecessary overhead in terms of complexity, capacity, and maintenance. When everyone trusts everyone else, which is assumed for in-house setups, you would be better off by using a conventional distributed database.

Blockchain technology nowadays was very popular actually, and we all knew that in this field of business.  But still lot of the community doesn't know what the real catch of blockchain, even we they've heard it for so many times. And you can never see here that none of the ico project is not related or connected into blockchain, almost all of it are does. Therefore, we need to focus on this trend which is the blockchain technology or the crypto/bitcoin currency.

This is like the "Gluten-free Craze" in the cryptocurrency market everyone knows Blochchain but not everyone knows what it means or even what it does. I think the main idea here is that we should not be part of the people who are in here for the hype as we must understand first what Bitcoin or even Blockchain is and what is causing the hype for them both. Learning and knowing is the things you needed in this young market as we can really get lost if we don't know what we talking about or even what we cryptocurrencies we are investing.

Because majority is not tech savvies and it would be hard honestly to see a layman understand some of the technical details when it comes to blockchain technology :).

What most people understand is probably the application, how things could be over time, and most especially how they can get rich overnight which we know the latter is all most people think about and this is the reason why not being able to understand in particular what blockchain technology is, the disruption it brings and some details on how things would be in the future, it would be hard for them to make better long term plans even in the crypto market.

Those who joined because of the hype are probably gone by now. Most of them bought at the top of the price, disillusioned when it dropped and probably hated bitcoin right now. Those who are still here are the ones who really believed in bitcoin, cryptocurrency and blockchain and  (bounty hunters).

many of us don't fully understand blockchain completely and only join to make a little money in crypto, so they will be easily fooled by the many fake ICOs like vampire that only suck up your investment funds. learn more about the blockchain and the range they can make and what benefits they can provide, with this we will be more advanced and blockchain will shine

Somehow, people seem to stick to the extremes, or rather think that other people are feeling exactly that way, like "they probably hate bitcoin right now" and "those who really believe in bitcoin and blockchain" as in the second coming (of Satoshi Nakamoto). Why don't you consider a possibility that for many people bitcoin as well as other cryptocurrencies is just a means to an end, and they are not necessarily emotionally excited about it in either way, in the way of love or hate? For example, I mostly use crypto as a tool allowing me to avoid dealing with banks, and it just works for me, though I can't say that I'm overly obsessed with bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in general.

I would advise we stay much focused on bitcoin incident not withstanding other Altcoins too. I wish to have all these investments as soon as possible so I start to enjoy soon.

You are correct and that is the way most people think about blockchain that it is bitcoin. And anything related to bitcoin is easy money. People do not care how true this is or not. We have to continue talking about this blockchain to educate the people.

Craziness started when one inventor stating that he was going to build an airplane and so does people laugh him about it. Then here comes the internet, same reaction with the people that are analyzing and thinking beyond the block box.

So, people now are scrutinizing the blockchain technology? I do not think that they are learning on the past since they are still not aware on the trends and the possibilities. Block chain has a lot of use especially in governance where one could see the transparency of the system and less supervision will be needed for block chain will going to record all the doings publicly for them. Relatively, this will eradicate corruption in that certain system.

Lol, probably true. Those left already when the price hits below $10K because if they have bought around the peak price, its almost 50% lost, so for most newbies its going to be unbearable and its a big psychological issue. And those who've decided to stay are pure speculators, whales and smart investors, bounty whores are here to stay as long as we have ICO popping here and there.

It will go through some small corrections until the end of this year, but I think we will have a really fruitful year in the coming period. 2019 will be a very good year for us as long as we learn from failures from failures.

Nothing wrong with gluten-free :)

A lot of people came here solely for quick money, they didn't care about the technology and breaking our dependence on the central banking system.  Even prominent companies started to get in on the hype by creating blockchain solutions which were pretty much useless.  There are a few good coins and projects surrounded by junk.

Just for me, I am focusing in trading i like to study completely how to trade well i like to success in trading someday, right now i know little in trading but not so well i need study more about it.study and study to fullfill our knowledge.

It's a nice cartoon picture good for marketing. Well, that's the problem now most of the people they don't even know what they are investing for, and what is really mean of blockchain and cryptocurrencies of its characteristics that there are pros and cons. They think that when they are invested they are easily enriched in cryptocurrency. Research first before engaging in investment and lack of knowledge will be lost your capital, I think investing is crypto is the easiest way of making money if you know how to handle with it.

of course many people who come to this place just want to invest to get a profit. but they don't think about the nature of the loss they have to experience. in my opinion this year we have to focus on the market price that is going to go down unnoticed.

It seems to be funny picture but it is true. people tend to invest in cryptocurrency but not all of them know much about it. Their end goal is money.

You will really not last here as an investor if you will be only rising the hype, you should also know the risks and the things that may affect the price of Bitcoin in the future or in the near future.

A lot of investors invested of Bitcoin before it reached it's ATH last year which is so close to $20K. If we will be following the price chart and we will be basing the price to it's behaviour annually, we are expecting a huge pump this year. The price are still stagnant at $6K which I think making a lot of investors disappointed since it is not making any great movements the last couple of months but we all know that these coming months will be the crucial one since this is when most of the ATH happens in the year.

Because the only thing that comes to mind when it comes to blockchain technology and cryptocurrency is getting rich overnight, and people usually do not tend to want to know the nitty-gritty of what the blockchain technology itself is all about.

I understand that not every person can be tech savvies and a lot of people find it very hard to even be able to understand some certain terms about the blockchain technology or have the capacity to wrap their heads around all the various meanings and blah. And in that case, they would likely just blend with the idea, as long as people say it is good and it is the future, then I follow put ;D

it's so funny. That's why many traders fail to invest. When they do not understand blockchain technology, they certainly will not know what to invest in and what to get better mentally. The market goes down. Disruptions occur a lot because traders lack this knowledge. ;D

We should spend our time focusing on how we can make bitcoin and other crypto currencies a more of a "everyday thing" instead of a "futuristic investment" for young people. So far people has been using bitcoin like a method to make money, buy it low and sell it high and make profits.

We should leave that and move ourselves away from it and go towards more like " a payment method" and make bitcoin with lightning network into something that everyone uses to pay stuff. You can use debit cards for bitcoin, you can use mobile phones, you can use cold wallet banknotes all I care but we need to make it into something more common.

Maybe I will deepen my knowledge of blockchains and altcoins in order to get enough experience to get the benefits that I want. Therefore I will continue to invest in several ICOs in search of profit.

none understands blockchain but you can see that people are interested in it... This is the best marketing for all cryptos!

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Most people actually just come into this space without the knowledge of anything and as long as you are trying to do something without knowledge, the chance of thriving in such a space is always going to be low.

I want to believe where so much people should be focusing on this year is the matter of real adoption based on the knowledge and belief a lot of people have, knowing that they will derive in the long run with the space rather than looking for short term wealth from nowhere. It takes patience and understanding to get good things and as long as you do not have it, the goodies in the long run will always be hard to come by.

I think this year we should focus on buying  new coins and holding them for future use.Try to invest in other alt coins as well because they are also emerging as a great currency.Just focusing on only one coin is not a good decision.But one think which one should must apply is that we should not panic and keep on investing in cryptocurrency even if the market in showing red in the graph.

This represents one of the many problems that we face, there are a lot of investors that have invested or are thinking about investing in this market and yet they do not have any idea what this market is about, they are only here because they know that there is a lot of money to be made and they do not want to be left behind, but they do not understand that if they do not want to be left behind the first thing that they will need to do is to try to understand why this market exists on the first place and why it has value.

If they did then it will be a lot easier to identify all of those coins that are scams and they will have a greater chance to select a project that does in fact solves a problem in the market.

Honestly speaking, even Bitcoin or crypto stands here in this field of business for more than 5 years, still a lot of people all over the world don't understand yet the definitions of blockchain. They just heard blockchain were they could get profit in it, then that's it. So for me we must focus in the trading market and focus in the ico project that are legit as well for us to get more profit.

This is quite funny at the end with the 'I don't know response' to 'what is blockchain' question. Well, I can say this is peculiar with most persons too who are just following blindly on what is happening in the cryptocurrency markets. We have a lot bragging about what the blockchain can do and will do without even knowing how it will operate. All they just know is that the block chain will change everything.

In my opinion, i think we must learn more about what blackchain is and how it is important to the cryto world.

I choose to focus on altcoin because there areb so many profitable altcoin was born each year. It can help us to earn a lot, as long as we have enough knowledge to deal with it.

this is dangerous, because without knowing the basic blockchain, people will think wrong about blockchain, so they spread negative news. therefore learn before stepping. so that your steps are effective

I think we should focus on crypto this year and we know that many of the crypto are fallen due to low demand and some rise in the present time due to high demand it is seen that blockchain is the most famous technology now and we should focus on it even we should motivate our friends and relatives for the crypto investment.

And just to demonstrate that you're right, just look at the post directly after yours, and following ones. Just purely irresponsible suggestions to simply buy without any knowledge.

Worse is that I'm not even talking about knowledge of blockchain tech - that's very technical and even for me I can only understand the basic concepts of how bitcoin is generated, how it is secured, and how transactions form the blockchain. But most users don't even go to that detail, they don't even know how to use their own wallet. Give them a wallet where they only need username and password and address and that's it. They don't know anything else.

And then they come here and pretend they know what they're doing buying 100 altcoins!

That is actually what I believe everyone should be channeling their focus on. This is a space that is actually growing every day and we have all seen the great benefit it brings when it comes to payment system with a lot of freedom and as long as people start seeing those benefits, the more they will be able to focus more on the fact that they should be more interested in the long term instead which i believe is what would eventually drive in real growth as well as sustainable demand in the long run.

Well, everyone will basically have their own choice, but you have to understand that most altcoins are shitty anyway, so you really want to know the altcoin you want to be playing around with in your wallet. Things like this is what makes me assume if people actually get to understand the space they are investing in at all, or they are just simply looking for a way to get rich and get out whenever they can and then forgetting what they should be placing their focus on which is the future.

Earning is one thing, then knowing what you are into is another different ball game entirely and how will you be able to make decisions, if you really do not know what you are getting into?

That is one great thing a whole lot of people coming into this space and those who have not, really need to wrap their heads around to be able to understand what is actually lurking when it comes to opportunity in this space. If you do not understand where you are headed, you won't even have an idea where you are coming from.

Crypto world encompasses a whole lot of thing and blockchain technology obviously is the future of everything that would disrupt most sectors all over the world, and I guess people should understand what the whole blockchain technology idea is all about, so they can picture the future and then know how to relate that knowledge into their investments as well.

In downtrend market, we usually do not have many options except keeping our faith high and testing our patience. But smart crypto adopters do make use of these down markets by buying at all analyzed dips. It is a hard job but it is possible for the people who do keep their faith not impacted by the down market conditions. I do believe that extending our portfolio while cheaper coins are available is the only viable options for all of us to focus on this year :).

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I think we must focus on the lesser value coins because title by little if will gain profit. Let us spread positive feedback so that demand will increase and price would increase too.

We should support the coins we want to pump, get updates and provide suggestion and believe to the team that they will do something to recover in this bear market, don't put too much blame on team instead push and support them.

Just hold the coins whatever you are having now because the market is so bearing for this year so in future the prices will surely bump so your coin value will get multiplied if the market go bullish for a while.Teaching about the blockchain network is not much important for now but say them what is decentralization then they will easily understand what is blockchain.

I think that next year will bring a lot of money. The market will unfold in the winter and we will see how young coins make X. Personally, my strategy is to buy various coins and wait for the pampas.

Yeah I think many people want to invest and get quickly profit,this people want to choice investment, trading and holding.crypto world understand is very difficult anytime pamp and damp,lossing and recovery.so people want to makes profit without any pain reason.

As what I have seen in the photo that has shown by the OP, people are diving in crypto without further knowledge about this blockchain technology. As long as they had heard a news regarding this to have a potential profit when you invest they are directly diving without knowing everything.
Well, the best thing to focus as of now is investing while at this moment cryptos are very cheap in the market and surely it will achieve your profit in holding long term.

Crypto rising in 2017 makes more peoples want to jump in market and expecting profits by their investment. Some peoples just want to speculate with their money and they really dont understand about blockchain or mass adoption or what system use.

It does every year, it is like a pattern being followed by the price chart and I do hope that this year's price will be the same for Bitcoin and other crypto currencies that pumped. I don't really invest on new projects since I lost my interest on it when I get scammed by a lot of projects in the past. I know that there are a lot out there that is not but still, the trauma is still there. I can't easily trust projects right now and I can't tell whether they are lying or not.

Everybody talks about blockchain but unfortunately, only few knows how it works. It was already used and supported by large companies as well as those well known banks so this thing will surely be the next big thing or might control the world in terms of data storage and online transaction processor. The potential of blockchain really is endless and we could see a modified blockchain which might be used to robots. Not impossible right?  :D

and finally beginner investors trapped in bearish market for several months maybe almost one year.much of them just speculate with their money without any risk calculation

Well, I have no experience regarding this and also in mining. Last months I concentrate in trading where this is very risky and hard. So, I also want to learn this one. Maybe, I find my luck here.

The correct picture is anyone knows what BTC is but don't know how BTC is developing and as BTC lives so far to achieve great value in the current year, there are special interviews about BTC in my country but unlike in the picture it is too embarrassing to us ;D.

I will go on dealing with the cryptocurrencies I trust. I mean, I will continue to invest in Bitcoin and Ethereum. It seems to me that these cryptos will be the best gainers.

I think the focus should be on the ETF, bitcoin has always been something that swings according to the big news and big deals and this years biggest deal seems like the bakkts and cboe and so forth that could potentially change the vision of bitcoin.

I know some people like me that thinks bitcoin is a currency and no something like stocks or gold to invest in and bringing in ETF money into bitcoin might hurt it more than it helps but we should also consider the fact that by using as a currency you are creating a big handicap because dollar or fiat in general is so easy to use as a currency already so you need to get your foot in the door first with investment methods such as ETF and than later on after it gets bigger it would be easier to make it into a currency as well.

Hence, I think this year we should really root for the ETF deals because if it gets accepted it would change the whole future of bitcoin.

I think we should be focusing for people to know about Bitcoin and adapt it. I really hope by the next 5 years more and more people will be using crypto.

Haha this is normal, an investor that doesn't know about the technology behind bitcoin but still invests to bitcoin. They just look at the financial side that bitcoin would them certain profit after the date that they have set.

We should focus on blockchain applications on different industry, targeting numerous users worldwide, we are aiming 240 million users world wide and this is going to happen very soon. Price will increase after the development of the blockchain. Most people dont know how valuable is blockchain.

I think, more than ever, we should develop crypto currencies more to have real life applications rather than just internet services and an addition to your investment portfolio. I mean crypto currency has been seeing alot of advertisement this year so might as well get the people in on it do we can actually use crypto currency as currency.

For me maybe we should focus on marketing for the coins which has good potential in the future. For me this is the things that I can offer because I do not have big capital for the investments of coins. I want to earn by marketing and by joining campaigns. All of us have the same goal here to earn and earn more.

You can keep focus on cryptocurrency and make your chance is well by invest at correct coin, you can buy and invest at altcoin like ethereum or ripple because have chance to see on higher price later.

right, now is the right time to buy cryptocurrency according to your analysis. after that be patient to wait for pump price is best step to reach planned target

there are lots of new traders who don't know anything about blokcchain with the whole making them always think like that, they hope by entering blockchain can change anything and can get a lot of profit, but I'm sure that person doesn't understand what blockchain really is, because there on their mind is just how to benefit from blockchain.

Beside other activities we should focus on crypto and it is very good for us to give time to the crypto for a good future it is noticing that people showing interest to crypto in the present time and it is very profitable for now that we must have to hold when the market is red and if we focus on growing coins we can make a good investment now.

It's really ironic to see how attached some people to cryptocurrencies/blockchain and is persuasive to tell others that blockchain is indeed the next big thing but couldn't even explain well what a blockchain exactly is. Some of people are just riding in the hype and just wanted to earn easy money in the name of blockchain but didn't really know how a blockchain really works.

I am going to focus on the most promising and great altcoins like TRON, Stellar, and Cardano. I am sure they will grow very fast in 10-12 months. It is better to buy these tokens now.

We should focus more on getting more and more people into crypto currency. Because the price of crypto currency is dictated by the amount of people actually investing on crypto currency then more and more people investin on crypto currency will benefit us all. I also hope it could stabilize more this year.

We need to stay focus in the market and keep searching on potential coins because I am sure that we can find one or two profitable coins. And if you still want to try to make a profit, then that is what you need to do. I think you can determine the coins by analyzing each coin like what other people did. Don't worry if you make a mistake and you cannot buy the right coin because someday, you can get the right coin and you can sell at the high price.

This year will be the end of 2018, that only thing I'm doing is that I just continue to participate in the bounty campaign project.
Then wait for me to send the token to the eth wallet address I gave them. So the steps I take again is to search and join again in another bounty project campaign that I think is okay. At least even lower or fallen prices of the altcoins in the market, So I can also save savings in the future through the altcoins that will be paid to me in due time given to us.

Well, that is the world of common men, they simply just know everyone has been talking about how big blockchain technology is going to get in most spheres of life but have no clue how that is even going to happen which is one of the reasons that has subjected this space to huge speculation than anyone could even imagine at all.

Also, this is why we really need to start seeing real life adoption in terms of usage, as that would douse this people mentality of getting rich quick, see the real value, get to understand what this whole thing is all about and then at least, we will get to see a more matured and sustainable space in the long run.

Cryptassist ICO project has attempted to use DAG or maybe they were still developing the project into DAG. But, there were rumors that they will going to proceed into tokenization. And I do not really know also what is DAG. Can you please made some discussions about DAG coins? And how it differs from the block chain technology or the ethereum platform base?

I think it mean people know how blockchain work and helps you to give highly security all people are doing just storing there coins in block chain if you someone ask you about blockchain and the true of it then know one will be able to give true answer.

For me focus on trading if you have opportunity to get an income with the current situation of yhe market just do it because some users are very scared to take a risk in trading right now but me still continue finding a good coin and earn profit even small amount i am satisfied with that. Also now i am using the trading site on my signature which helps me to increase my revenue due to their new feature which is nxy mining.

If you are actually reading the first post in this thread, OP didn't actually asked for an answer in his thread title. It is about a short comic that is relevant to our present situation where most of the people are carried by the hype yet they don't know what they are into. It's relevant because just like what you are doing,  instead of actually reading and understanding anything you are just trying to do a post in order to complete a post requirement. You must read the topic and the post below it next time for you to avoid spam and worthless shit.

That comic really hits me. I admit that I don't know a lot and I only know the basic understanding of bitcoin. I stopped when there are too many jargons on the explanation. I did that because I represent the average user of bitcoin and I believe that knowing everything about it is not really necessary.

I think this year would be great for alt coins. Alt coins price increase when the bitcoin price decrease both are similar to each other. Its clearly mean that people leave the bitcoins and move to alt coins.

   Yes, it maybe true that the Focus now for our future is Blockchain, we can see almost everyday about the integration of some company to use the technology on Blockchain for betterment of the company's future, But i still have some reservation on the issue of Regulation by the GOVERNMENT Financial institutions, how will affect the future on technology...???

Instead of focusing on other things it is good to focus on the most prominent coins which have huge credibility in the market. Yes, we have to find the potential projects always which there will be a huge demand in the future. Don't think about the present situation of the market you will be loosing most value.

I would say the major thing that would help this space and we are meant to always focus on mostly is the fact of real life usage. This is the major thing we should always be clamoring on and not just some quick growth based on speculation that is not sustainable in the long run.

For this year, we are pretty close, so I would not expect something huge, but in coming years, I am most certain there would have been a lot of improvement to this aspect and possibly we will get to see things in different light as the case may be. More money will move in, we will see more people adopting and more chances of it being used in the real life.

It is really funny how they are forcing people to believe them because of unknown and rare terms but they don't know it at the first place. There is a bad thing having on our community.There are lots of people in here who just engaged to blockchain technology because of bitcoin's hype last year. Its sad knowing people did just gain interest because of money.

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If you want to focus on something then focus on it at the beginning for you to achieve what you wanted and what you want to have in the future. At this point, I really want to save more, but as of now, I can't save more because of a lot of expenses we have right now. Maybe for the next few months, I can able to save some even a little. Little savings will still a big help for us.

There are many ways to raise a little money if you are faced with your monthly fee selection,I suggest that you save even if small in this month so that it will get used to if you are faced with future costs.You must focus on saving if that is your choice.

 I think we should all focus on promoting Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology to the whole world. I am really happy to see the market is not significantly reduced anymore. Meanwhile, the stock market is worrying many investors as Microsoft lost more than 3.56% of its value in just one day and other technology companies. That's a good sign and I'm guessing that many investors are joining the Crypto market.

Well we little guys can only do so much on that aspect. And eventually people will all get to kniw about crypto so probably it's better to focus on a more personal note. Especially with the market's current status. Try to formulate a plan for a few years onwards for different crypto market scenarios.

People are just think about when to buy and when to sell but never understand the block chain. Better to learn about block chain and then do investing with coins.

Mostly all of us have a different vision about crypto,but sadly we are still in struggle situation thats why everyone of us have a different focus in this year,but in my own i probably focus to hold some of my crypto coins because for me as of now,market is still bearish and i wait the moment that will recover  soon and bring back the profitable moment.

This year is bad for bitcoin users so better to focus on alt and trade with them for long term at least a year. I hope 2019 brings smart price of bitcoin.

No body want to understand blockchain they consider it as a wallet where we can store our bitcoins and hold them as long as we want .Every person thought its just a wallet buts its more than wallets.

For me I should focus on altcoins because now the price of all altcoins is very low. But few altcoins will have good future so I invest on those altcoins and hold it for future. Once the market returns to normal surely the price of all coins will have huge growth. Till that we have to hold and wait with patience. Then only we can see the good profit in future than you invest.

many here invest for profit only, knowing little of the projects or even the potential that blockchain offer, even then it will be an incentive to seek, learn and know this technology!

Wow, nice and very entertaining. This is one good representation of one question that needed to be answered with a clear understanding. For me, we should be focus on watching the markets movement so we can strategized better in the future on how to handle the same mistakes we made. But,as of now we just keep of waiting on the new trends on how the market will be back to normal. More on studying and make a deeper sense about the market situation.

I agree to you, we need to study well about the market's movement so that next time we can get some idea how our investments will go well and how to avoid losing our investments.

to be safer i pay attention to bitcoin, because this coin is another reference coin. for now i feel safest. and i don't know why prices tend to be stable at this time, like making a consolidation area

right, I agree with you. even many people don't care about the blockchain, while what they think is "how to get money from crypto".
even everyone will leave a few topics about the blockchain because they feel they have no knowledge of the blockchain.

Aside the general definition we all know about Blockchain as the digital ledger, there is more to Blockchain which has not been discovered, according to some crypto experts. It is of no doubts most crypto users do not know how the Blockchain fully function.

Well i think its a silent message for those people who are greedy and invest there all money without knowing how block chain work and how it can gives you profit.

to be profesional in cryptomarket even as investor, trader or maybe bounty hunter, we did not need to understand about blockchain 100%.our knowledge on risk management i think enough for us.

So far I think the focus of this year is to wait, now the cryptocurrency market is not ideal, there is no ups and downs for a long time, maybe there is no opportunity to buy this year, need to wait.

Many people are giving opinion that we should focus on alt coin instead of bitcoins because its falling down and showing negative signals.

I am confused what your point relate to? Are you asking us where should we need to invest in this year or telling people to understand blockchain before taking invest in bitcoins.

We should focus on enlightenment and reeducation the society about cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.  This current condition of our financial system is not encouraging and we need the system that is transparent,  decentralised and speed.

My first and last choice is bitcoin, I do not have any other option or priority. My total focus is on bitcoin. Although I have already invested a good money in bitcoin but still I am interested to invest more and more, because I am sure that bitcoin is going to give me a good profit.

your choice is correct. especially for beginners in the world of cryptocurrency, then bitcoin is the best choice, because it is safest coin to invest. and btc is a parameter for all existing coins

For me l have to focus now on saving a coins for the future because l believe that it gonna make a big value to meet all my goals in life.Because l can do nothing now but to wait for the price increase.

Somewhat true. When we feel like we are baing enthusiastic into something we forgot to know what is the real essence of it. Just lik in internet and in blockchain. But good thing is, we probably know the essence of using it. This has potential, it is the future and such.

The tendency of someone to just focus on profit, no matter the bounty hunter, investor or crypto trader, they do not realize the great technology behind it, even if they want to learn it can be used in everyday life.

they just think how to doubled their money, but unfortunately did not understand why its market could give them profit.

Well, it was literally an amazing illustration to boost things up especially now that many people are getting discouraged because of our present situation. I think we must first focus on popularizing the crypto usage but with total and complete knowledge in tacked with it so that many people are not being ignorant on how crypto works and that we can educate them on how to properly use it so that we can establish a tough blockchain movement to benefit all of us and not to make suffer because of the careless movements of those people afraid of risking to gain benefits for own sake.

Even top coins can't avoid some crashes and those newly created coins depend on the top coins. Well, BTC is really good for a long-term investment because it already established a better foundation which is getting more popular as the time goes by due to its some historical achievements.

At least year many coin have sell to public and you must focus at coin have listed with lower price like coin under 10 gwei, you can buy wtn, ftxt or many under lower price coin because have potential to be on higher price, you can take much profit later.

Yes, the concept of blockchain is not that difficult to understand but how the details of every bit of transactions and processes are the things complicated. The codes and how computers connect without any central control. This makes blockchain seems only few can understand it.

Most investors are yet to understand what the crypto space entails and  what it can deliver, that is beyond just buying and selling token.
Blockchain is a list of record data, know as blocks, that are linked with the use of  cryptography, this is an evolving technology that the world is yet to tap into it full potential,

Anyways if you're thinking about focus then you should only see bitcoin about blockchain. I think people should first understand what is bitcoin and how its work. I think that's the reason why people loss money in bitcoin because they're not well aware.

The picture is really funny. What the general audience should know is that blockchain is not a cryptocurrency. And mass adoption of blockchain by companies doesn’t mean that the price of cryptocurrency will skyrocket. I think we should focus on the Bitcoin adoption at the moment.

it's true because with us saving coins that have high potential for our future, later it can fulfill our economy later with the results of profits from storing coins that after we sell later

maybe at this time with conditions like now to focus very difficult in my opinion we must be able to be smarter in utilizing every opportunity to get an advantage in investing of course because now the risk in investing is very large

or maybe we could focusing developt our skills in trading.earning profit from market now become more difficult, so if we able to do this we could gain profit although in bad market condition.

I think that's the right thing. It is more correct for a beginner to prefer bitcoin instead of altcoin. Trading and learning Bitcoin in this market will be more useful to you.

We should focus on adoptions and technological development of cryptocurrencies. Blockchain technology is the future of our financial system and we should not play with it.  I think 2019 is going to be a great year and many big and institutionals investors are going to come into the market.

Almost all are asking for same question after the decreasing of bitcoin market and showing negative signals. Many of us are disappointing what should we do and where to focus.

I think lite coins would be the good option. People are attracting on bitcoins but they're not aware about alt power. They just thought bitcoin is the number one currency but alt has different power which is similar to bitcoins.

Blockchain is not all about mining Bitcoin, there is also ETH and other cryptocurrencies that you can mine. And it doesn’t just end in mining, cause there are even more that can be done with it, I believe. So Blockchain is worth investing on this year, but will it continue to be trending, or maybe tomorrow something else might pop up and take the crown from it.

Ill dont know on what i'm going to do in this year, For now i'm just thinking on what gonna be good to doing in this year. Because the market for now was to red situation. Maybe in this year i'm just hold some of my coins that i have and wait on when they recover again or else buy some potential coins in the market.

yes, I believe that it because there is these misconception floating around which denies a lot of people to even do a simple google search. These misconceprions are ,for example, cryptocurency is criminal money , it is something cryptographic therefore very sophistacated and i will not understand it ever.

I think we should just focus on the new altcoins. I have been watching the new altcoins lately. It has great support from investors and it is always pumping strong. ETERNAL TOKEN and Ark. It was the altcoins that brought a lot of money to me. When Bitcoin goes down, we should focus on ICO projects or the new altcoins that appear.

It will not be easy to convey information to people around about the technology of the blockchain, because many people are only engaged in current affairs and do not want to think about the new.

I just want to hold my current favorite currency in my wallet that I've been holding since January and buy some more investments in some altcoin we like to invest with our money. I think it would be the best thing to do this year to make a valuable earnings of profit after it started to increase in the market.

I am constantly seeking the information about the new projects and the possible sleeping giants. It seems to be, it will be good to invest in these cryptocurrencies. For instance, Gladius, KickCoin, Credits are cool.

I think because they are lazy to read and search for information about crypto, they just want instant results, so many are trapped in investments that will ultimately harm them.

for this year I have saved a lot of ethereum and EOS, seeing a tremendous surge at the end of 2017, Ethereum must be seen for its movements in early 2019,
following EOS will be a better alternative to smart contracts Ethereum ERC20.

maybe EOS in future could give you huge amount.this one of best investment at this moment.eos platform developted well and their will much massive usage of this in future.

Because people are too lazy on just focusing how to earn on cryptocurrency but not knowing anything about the technology behind it and how it works. I think we should focus on blockchain technology adoption first and everything will follow.

We need to focus on growing our assets in this year as the price is not at the high price so we can buy more and more coins amount. But of course, it will depend on the money we have, and we still have money, then I am sure that it won't be a problem for us to buy more coins. But if we are limit of the money, then we need to be patient for a while until the price increase again, and we can sell the coins to make a profit. Although we don't know how long we need to wait for the price, I am sure that the end, the price will increase higher.

We also need to focus on our target instead of thinking to back out. Focus on what you can do and not on the things that you can't. Always think that when there is crypto there is hope.

This is right, in cryptos there are lots of opportunities and we need to stay positive so we can do more things to be able to get more profits.

this happens a lot to new traders they think they master the blockchain and they think they can find out the price movements that are in place of exchange even though it is not true and will make them lose when they don't know what the blockchain is and its functions.

focusing to the think that we able to realize was more important.we could take some benefits and advantages from what we did to realize it.

because what is good for now while the market is still red is buying a lot of coins for us to hold until the market has started to return to green again, even though now it is difficult to get income but someday we can get very large income

at the moment you might be able to focus more on learning what bloc is like and what makes this blockchain technology so expensive that you can find out what influences price increases and how cryptocurrency prices can go up, lots of new traders who don't really understand what is blockchain.

n my opinion. better now we focus on investing and trading coins. currently the crypto price is at the lowest point and it is possible to use investment in the long run. after that we can trade coins to earn profits in a short time. so we have two short-term and long-term alternatives to develop our assets.

Yes. you are right about that. People who are entering crypto world is empty minded they did not know what is the process and some definition in cryptocurrency. Its good to know or having a knowledge in the blockchain because inside of bitcoin there is a blockchain. We need to know more about it before we can fully understand what is cryptocurrency and how it works.

This year should be focused on blockchain.  How to make blockchain spread fast and make it part of our everyday life. The importance of blockchain is to wide to be ignored. It should be included in kindergarten academic curriculum to enforce early adoption.

I think, that cartoon describe that many investor in cryptomarket just want to make speculation and earn profits in short term. Blockchain is good technology and its need time for growing more bigger and i think hold it for long term is good option.

This is probably one of the best things we can do at the moment, this is not really the moment to be thinking about the profits that you can get out of this market, this is the moment to protect your capital and to learn as much as possible about the blockchain, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, if you do that your efforts are going to be rewarded in the future with big profits.

Focus on the bigger picture. Despite the bearish market that we felt almost the entire year, i am still determined and focused to hold my digital assets in place. At least, i can feel the growing value of my portfolio today as the market is starting to recover.

Yes, we should look at the bigger picture and not focus too much on minute things because it would just make you desperate or impatient when you think that the price is not going up or if it is going up, it would suddenly go down causing panic to people especially to the new ones in the crypto scene. I am one of them before wherein I feel the need to react in every news and even join some pump and dump groups because of being impatient and end up losing more.

We should focus more in relaying the information to others about cryptocurrency because if there is mass adoption then the price would go up since the demand would be there.

Hope the blockchain can solve everything but he himself does not know the blockchain maybe this is also intended for some new investors who do not know what they invest and invest because of FOMO, and now where should we focus, I also look for answers to this because of bearish market.

I think we should focus more on blockchain application not just for currency but other ways to use it. I mean blockchain technologies are flexible and transparent. This two characteristics alone coukd makenit big and be of use to our daily lives. I also hope we could focus on using crypto currencies for basic needs.

indeed, if you look at the number of companies that apply the blockchain to support their work, this is very good as a foundation. hopefully with the receipt of the blockchain while introducing cryptoworld

For my own opinion in this bearish trend of cryptocurrency market, I think the good things to focus this year is to make an investment on stock and take a little quit in investing cryptocurrency. But we also need to monitor crypto market trend closely for better timing of doing an investment especially when bullish market comes.

Crypto currencies and blockchain are two unique networks that cannot be separated, both are very harmonious and very helpful to human interests, especially in financial matters. Right now, it seems that many developers are still exploring the benefits of blockchain technology for the various projects that they will launch, even many companies have applied this technology to their systems, ranging from hospitals to automotive. For ordinary people like us, for the time being we will only focus on the use of cryptocurrency because its existence has real been very beneficial for us.

Year is about to end and there in no big movement in the market. I think the best option here is to hold the coins and keep whatever we have. There is no point in selling at loss. Starting a new trade is also risky as the market is not stable and bitcoin is near the edge of support. Anything can happen from here.

This was exactly how it was explained to me by someone trying to convince me to do signature campaigns. I really don't get it at first because I just don't get how people are getting paid just by campaigns and where do they get those money to give bounty hunters adding up to that, how does block chain works. But thankfully they have explained it to me in the most simplest way that I can understand.
Going back to the topic, I think that we should be focusing more on how to further educate people on how blockchain works. It will be beneficial to them in a sense that this is technology and soon more and more people will adapt to this technology.

You summed up the whole talk very nicely. That is exactly how people are unaware of what blockchain technology is how it works. Its very easy to get knowledge about it. Our internet is full of blockchain expert who are trying to educate masses.

If you say something you know the stock investment. Because it is huge volume so normal Investors are never participate in these things and all the investors are looking for quick profit so day trading is the perfect way to earn more profit and it is more recommended in this bearish market. Trading is the best way to earn good profit in crypto so other destinations are little complicated in this scenario.

Personally, I am going to focus on investments. I love some altcoins and I trust them as it seems to me, these tokens will go to the Moon soon. These are Credits, Gladius

I predict investment in the world of crypto will increasingly evolving rapidly, and will certainly be more and make a profit for all of us. So I will also be focusing on investing my money in the ICO project proper, I'll focus learn to recognize which nice ICO and scam ICO.

many people talk about crypto and this is something new and provides benefits, such as what are the benefits of blockchain and cryptocurrency if people get one good with the presence of crypto technology and blockchain, the blockchain is not just about money but utility that can help other people non-profit nature will provide other benefits

This cartoon is an allusion to all of us, there are still many who don't understand the blockchain, even though they say that the blockchain is an amazing breakthrough in the latest fintech, including me ;D

I think sooner or later every company and even government agency will use the blockchain as a system to make it easier for them to store data. The blockchain is different from the cryptocurrency so as they don't need to worry about the impact it will cause, or maybe they are still confused between the blockchain and cryptocurrency. Look likes they assume that blockchain is part of cryptocurrency so they are reluctant to adopt it, even though cryptocurrency is part of the blockchain. They can use the blockchain without having to use cryptocurrency.

In my opinion of the downward trend of the e-money market, I think the good thing to focus on this year is to invest in stocks and give up a bit on investing in e-money.

I can focus on bounty campaign and airdrop project, I have tired by making investment at ico project because always get and find scam ico, many time I make investment but always bad price of ico after listing at the exchange market.

Focusing with the usage of blockchain and introducing it to much wider venue will make this system more acceptable, we should bring the chain inside businesses and government institutions as it can be more useful than making it as an investment assets that needs only to being hold, future ahead needs more alternatives not alone in e-currency but also to the transactions that be done much easier.

I think it is better focusing on bitcoin itself it is better to have earnings while the market is too quiet, it is not like stocks that has no surprise, bitcoin has always surprise in the market and within a short period of time you can earn a good value of money.

The year is about to be over and it seems that the best thing someone could have done in this year is not to look for great profits but just for a way to avoid the huge losses that we had experimented, this reminds me of something that I read in a book once that they are phases in a market in which it is impossible for almost everyone to make any money in it and you should concentrate on keeping your capital more than increasing it.

You are right in the blockchain economic system. It requires understanding and understanding of all that and it is very much needed as a guideline that will make the development of the blockchain and of course its investors.

I think, this year not as complicated as the last year...

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   Read what people are talking about on internet. The ones that are most popular have more chances to have a great future than some others less known.
This is internet, this is future, many things depends from marketing.
   I`m focusing on the projects that are in the center of attention. I read good and bad things about them, but eventually I`m the one who decide where to
invest and how long I plan to wait to see project in full power.

most bitcoin users don't know in detail what the blockchain is. the most important thing for them is to get profit from bitcoin investments, I am the same. maybe this year it would be better to focus on blockchain technology and its development. but I think looking for profit is even better.

Yes that's good, for now it's really not good to invest in ICO, because I personally experience fraud at ICO, so it's better to seek profits from the Bounty campaign, so we can fill the time by doing assignments as Bounty participants, and hopefully while we are working, we see the price of Bitcoin going up, so it will be good for the future.

I am not going to invest in ICOs this year. Unfortunately, my experience here was not positive, and I am simply to make another mistake. For me, it will be better to focus on the best altcoins like Ethereum, Eidoo for example

It's okay if people don't deeply know about blockchain. People just need to know how it works. Not all people are techo savvy or geeks. But it will be better if all people here learn more about Blockchain, if they still don't understand then atleast they try to understand. I think we also need to spread word about bitcoin and blockchain, make it popular is a good thing, right?

The ICO investment is now becoming more risky than before because of the scam projects. The ICO doesn't now have a good feedback from the crypto community because most of the ICOs are only focusing to earn money. I will not also invest my money in ICOs in this current year because of the bad feedback that I keep receiving.

right, it's too risky to follow ico right now, I prefer to trade with the funds we have. especially nowadays many coins go down, so by seeing the potential of good coins, we can maximize profits, but remember not to miss investment in bitcoin

Profit? everyone will need it and there is nothing I heard that someone wants to make a loss. So these are all things we are looking for to make a profit, but some people don't study deeply.

That's the problem, most people didn't bother to study what they are investing in, thinking that it will be a smooth journey inside this market reaching goals about gaining huge profits, without knowing why investors need to invest with the development those people will continue losing their assets as massive dumped will push them to sell out with losses.

  I think we should focus on trading this year helps our coins will survived in the future. We need much more acknowledgement to our product can hold  and uprising the price if necessary and promote to other people. Some people didn't no yet about bitcoin what is bitcoin is all about we need to share to us.

That is the problem, if someone tried to influence other people about Blockchain and probably any part of cryptocurrency most especially Bitcoin without having the proper knowledge about it then its going to be very ugly, and the main thing here is that if you ought to tell someone about something then you should know what to say, that's the moral lesson about this.

I think that in conditions and situations like today to stay focused it is very difficult and difficult we must be able to take advantage of every opportunity we will get

Probably it is their first time to enter in the market of cryptocurrency that they didn't know the supply and demand and even blockchain technology because all they know is how to invest my money so that i could get a profit in the future. I've seen someone carelessly wasting their Bitcoin during its dip, imagine how much that would cost if they just invest it. Though we can't do anything because it is their money and cryptocurrency.

if I myself will not invest in the ICO this year, because last year I experienced a big fraud in the ICO that made my money disappear. so this year it remains the same as last year if I think many ICOs are deceptive

Trading and investing  both are really good because it is good to trade at very low price purchasing and then selling at high price as a trader same as an investor. We should focus on investing than we focus on Trading  as trading needs some special skills but in investing you will only have to have money and patience so my priority is buying more and more.

Let's focus on creating huge markets that  specializes on digital items and infused it with blockchain technology. If only someone that is rich enough that will fund that and the idea is to sell movies, shows, songs, video games and games items that only accept cryptocurrencies then that would be a big help.

You need to study the market every step of the way and also there is the whole STO and Dapps going wild So i think there should be expected investments coming from those angles Markets this year seems to be focused regulations and trading So is more like watching closing now as crypto tends to establish itself more fully

Seeing these conditions, I think it would be better for us to increase investment, because when Bitcoin found its identity again to enter its path, we did not do Fomo and stayed out of the market as we wanted

I think we should focus in holding our holding currency and not to cut the lose that we are still encountered in this year. And I think also is buying more currency that we know that can make our investments grow in the future and I am sure that we can get a better earnings in this coming months while their value still in the lowest price.

The illustration seems very vulgar as to what most people in cryptocurrency does. They want to invest in this and that but didn't even know what is the real usage of those investments. Even I will also admit that I am like those bastards saying many things about blockchain and cryptocurrencies but I am sure of myself that I am learning based on my experience and researches about blockchain.

I am holding a bag of useless illiquid tokens. So do millions of other people in our community. We must do something about it! So I decided to Pick up the gauntlet. I’m having meetings with projects leaders, big companies, and trading platform, trying to find the best solution for all of us. Would love to hear your situation, thoughts, and ideas.

i think we have to back to our self.if we want to have worthed token or coins we have to commitment to hold it till reached high price.dont ever sell your asset cheaply.

we have to focus on one point in order to get our point and fatigue I think that is the trick method for us to get what we want and aspire to

that's a good question. People are now definitely disoriented when they suffer too much losses. The mental collapse is the worst that causes traders to fail forever.
First, we need to regain our spirit and regain the inspiration to work. After that, we will observe and establish new strategies that are more suitable for the market. Don't buy in a hurry when you see the price of cheap altcoins, because it can die at any time.

Right now, I only focus on how to recover my balance even if I only get a small profit. It does not matter for me to try still because I am sure that this year will be a good start to raise more profit. We can get benefits from the market because every coin especially coins with the low price was trying to increase and I think it will make another effect to the other coins. We cannot expect for the bull run only without trying to reach any profit we can because the bull market still mystery for us.

Focus on getting more coins of all kinds, cause truth is nobody can claim which coins will be in top 10 in next 5 years, list can stay the same or it can be completely different, only way to not miss some great thing is to invest in them all, not all in just one!
When market suffers from drop, each of us is losing some dollars, but what the hell, we need to be here in good and bad times. Now are bad, lets wait for good times and lets wait them with some dignity, not like crying pussies.

Stability

I think majority of crypto owners don't know what blockchain is and some are here just for quick profits. I think blockchain is still an undervalued product at this moment, it deserves more appreciation rather than just focusing on manipulated market prices. The focus should be on growth, government regulation and development.

Blockchain is the technology behind almost all of the coins. But it has other used in other sectors as well, but it doesn't mean that they're going to support crypto for that matter. We can't just focus on single factor here because the market is free and open and it's beyond our control, like government regulations or even ETF's. Let the ecosystem flow and we can just all follow it regardless it went on a bullish or bearish trend.

very true what you say because many investors panic and fear when crypto currencies experience bad news because these investors do not have confidence and do not understand all the risks that will be obtained

cryptocurrency and blockchain someday will be used like internet used.someday people need blockchain and cryptocurrency not blockchain need people like current condition.and when it happen i am sure demand will rise massively.

Holding is much better and if you hold the right coin then we know how things changes in 2017 for people holding btc and selling at high price. Such type of coins will definitely make your retirement life super rich and give you best returns of the investment. But one should be able to focus on such coins right at the pre - ICO or ICO stage in order to get the coin ate cheapest rate.
 

now in 2019, is it still the blockchain that is in focus? 2018 a lot of blockchain projects that fail, some of which fail they just try to find a momentary profit, cheat, lie to investors, etc. blockchain is not just crypto, blockchain is not only a token, hopefully 2019 there are positive changes to the blockchain and cryptocurrency.

the blockchain provides a change to the system that has existed. indeed, many recognize their intelligence, but to use it requires a lot of consideration. I think we are currently focusing on holding bitcoin so that it is not missed by the moment

apart from the picture we should focus on development coins like Tron , Eos and neo and eth all these coins are having the second phase of development product release this year so we can expect the new product release from these coins

This is the reality. People really dont know about blockchain but they are all aware that cryptocurrency can bring you money. first, based on your drawings , we should be focusing on how to discuss people everything on this technology and how it works. Lastly, we should be more optimistic that crypto will prosper and the market will become green again.

When comes to this year we need to improve the lot of development in our side not in the Bitcoin side because we are the only reason for both growth and also the falling down it is because of our understanding the cryptocurrency will reduce then the value will be falling on.

We should focus on how we accurately disseminate information regrading bitcoin on how to be uses in our daily life because many people I know thinks that bitcoin is just a scam and so other dont trust it but the fact is its the most transparent and the most secured digital money on earth.

As soon as the market is not going up, I do not trade actively. Therefore, I will focus on holding. However, sometimes, I will make small deals - sell the altcoins I do not need and invest in tokens I believe in.

As long as the market was in bad situation, the things that I can do for now is to hold the coins I have in my wallet. Then, aside from that I will take advantage to buy Ethereum, Trx, Neo, utrust, Bitcoin and Nem because they are all cheap by now then hold them until it rise up again in the market.

Our focus should not be in ways to try to make money but in ways to keep ourselves from losing money, many were so concentrated on making money that they found themselves in a terrible position when the market began to crash and instead of accepting their losses and move on they were on denial and decided to keep holding useless coins with terrible results for them.

Yes, I agree, for now it is really terrible if we keep thinking of chasing money in market conditions like now, instead of wanting to get profit instead of getting a loss. So I myself am very careful in keeping my money so that I don't lose in this terrible market.

if this year I will focus more on the realife world from the world of cryptocurrency because this crypto world might be hopeless because
there are fewer investors and players playing in this cryptocurrency world and I just focus on trading and marketing

I think the focus for investing will be better. with relatively low prices it will be more affordable to get more coins. although many do not believe in the current conditions, but I think it is part of the whales scenario, where you will buy coins at a low price, which will result in a pho and prices will rise again

I would like to say this on a lighter note, everyone here is preaching about doing researches but there are only a handful of people here that can solve all the technical issues, the illustration was spot on and majority of the investors does not even know everything in detail, i mean technical details before investing in them, they just look at the team behind the project and the viability and invest in them thinking about a good profit in the end and nothing else.
The focus this year should be to accumulate and invest in good coins and wait for the market to recover in a couple of years and make a good profit, rather than investing when the market is riding high.

I also do that by holding it better for now than doing active trading, because active trading is still difficult to earn, so I better hold coins like bitcoin and ethereum in the long run because the results I will get are definitely big

But if you can watch for the chance to make a profit, I think you can try to trade, and it will help you to gain something from the market. It's not always dangerous to keep trying to make a profit as long as you can be careful to choose the coins to trade. I see that in the market, many of the coins were in the up and down of the price so you might get lucky to buy at low price and sell at the high price. But if you don't want to risk your money again, then watching the market movements will be better.

  It is funny to see this scenario play out almost to a T.  Someone approaches me like this about every 2-3 weeks. 

It is true, that nowadays nobody wants to know the meaning of blockchain technology. Everyone wants to get money as fast as possible. That's why it is a lot of fuss around current bearish market, because people get used to the fact that cryptocurrency gives easy money and no one wants to analyse the situation.

Focus and discipline are two of the important factors that we need to consider in dealing with cryptocurrency considering that it's a volatile market and is very unpredictable, but knowing what to focus and prioritize is what matters the most. Furthermore, I believe that what we should focus more would be incorporating extra effort in education, to become educated on how this market truly works, be strategic, be informed, to explore new ideas, and no never stop learning.

  I saw we should focus on teaching people the difference between public and private blockchain.  People hear the magic word "blockchain" and they think big companies are becoming decentralized.  Not at all. 

agree that things like this understanding should indeed be done to be able to provide education on understanding what it is actually a blockchain and also so that they understand it

100%

Same here.  This can be frustrating... people just don't seem to get it. 

  I think the number 1 thing that will produce value to the market is everyone focusing on utility.  If you aren't working on a project you can you use your voice to encourage projects to focus on utility and adoption rather than returns.  IMHO

Well, according to the topic as stated at the first page, the people in the entire world must be aware about the goodness of Blockchain technology. It is actually popular now worldwide, in fact some country regulated it already. Which means Blockchain are becoming more trend in our times now. And beside it can help and give a good result in the economy of each nations as well, so lets be focus more about the Blockchain technology.

It is hard to let them know because everyone is fighting the blockchain technology due to the revolution that bitcoin is going to bring to the society. You can hardly read news about it or read about any improvement that has been made due to the blockchain. It becomes a trend but it goes so slowly.

answering the question of the topic in decentralized education, so that the bitcoin goes up even more it just needs people to understand its functioning and its importance

First of all teach the people what is the bitcoin before introducing them into the cryptocurrencies because many of them don't know what is the crypto the invested their money and looking for the returns they consider it as a investment but is really not an investment and speculation nature gives the profit to the people who are holding it but there is no purpose of having cryptocurrencies until we keep converting them into fiat.

yes we have to see market prices that are soaring. and we can join in there to get what we want. and don't rush to take opinions if you don't want to be disappointed.

  In my own side, I will focus on ico projects in bounty campaign and when I exchange my token I will invest in bitcoin either long term or short term investment. It is very important to work first then invest either what happened to your investment either successful or not maybe you can not affect financially.

although bitcoin and blockchain technology are currently popular but there are still some who ban the use of bitcoin and there are still countries that don't like bitcoin they don't even like blockchain technology, all countries should be able to support blockchain technology and support the use of bitcoin.

So what happen last year they are focusing to the price of the coins to decrease more instead of pumping that's reality happen in crypto market because panic selling happen this year. But this year 2019 let see if there have more panic seller again but today market are quietly stable and time to focus to up the value of the cryptocoins so it will have more profit this year.

We don't know what is gonna happen with the falling months of the year. Everyone were moving forward with the hope of profiting, upon this majority of the users keep hold of their assets minimizing the extra money spend on unnecessary things. Importantly myself focus is upon a job for my daily living, leaving my crypto holdings as it is. This will get back me good earning when I open the wallet after some time period as the market is very dry at the moment.

Its increasing every year and we can’t stop it because blockchain technology is really good, and its the solution in our problem with regards on making transaction. Let’s focus on supporting blockchain technology, it will grow more if we continue to support it, so this year we should be focus on this.

Changes are the only thing that is permanent. So we could be heading to the new fronts of technology. The use of blockchain for almost anything could lead into something new. I do think that such changes could also lead to an almost universal use of cryptocurrency and the growth of new coins probably by each of the governments around the world. But this might take a bit long enough to be fully implemented. As of now 2019, it can be just a new beginning of the cryptocurrency. So the focus this year could be more about cryptocurrency usage and this will probably happen like a natural evolution that changes slowly.

If you are focusing in trading, well you must focus in it while you are feeding yourself knowledge about in trading.
Then if you are focusing as bounty hunters, of course you must stay and continue of seeking good bounty campaign in the forum,
or even in the bounty site platform too.

This is however a wrong perception. They should see the government like Japan who has already accepted and willing to use it as a currency.

Yes that's true, because there is still a lot that I have to do at this time in Bitcoin, one of which is to learn how to trade well, because we have to adjust to the prices on the market. So there is still a lot to do and focus on that point.

It should be more important for the development of Crypto to be improving much more than before the previous year will made a last for most of the people but the people will holding a confidence in this year if you want to get more profit more investment will needed for the development

Marketing goal is to advertise a product briefly but tempting. It won't make all people aware of all technology aspects of cryptocurrency. So it may take much more time to make all people use the cryptocurrency as primary medium of exchange.

I think you need to follow the Ethereum and Cardan. According to recent news, there is a fight between them. I think it will be interesting to watch.

Your focus will depend on your passion or on what you are doing. Its good to have some focus and don’t listen to those who brings the hype. This year its better to focus on improving the skills that you have and don’t ever feel bad if you don’t acquire it easily, just learn to take step by step and you will be good.

My focus this year on cryptocurrency market is just holding my coin and token. Cryptocurrency is digital currency that will used in the future and i think its profitable investment

Yes, so many people dont know about blockchain technology and yet they seems intrested in blockchain. I do think in this year we would see so many company that start to try to use blockchain technology, i do also think we still in early stages of developments, and maybe it will takes anothers 3-5 years for blockchain to be mature and widely used by big company.

From your exposure, at this time I am really focused on collecting bitcoin, so that in the next 3-5 years I will make a big profit. with the use of blockchain widely by large companies, of course it will encourage itcoin to grow as well. therefore, while the price is still relatively low, it is a good opportunity to buy

I will stick to holding bitcoins, still have few worthless alts that I'm hoping to sell at some point.
Obviously will gather more btc as the price is attractive. For a moment I was thinking on buying in to grin as its shows some serious hype for the moment. Changed my mind though as following hype movements isn't in my nature.
Probably will regret later but it's not about the money as much as about adoption.
Maybe we as a community should focus exactly on that? The adoption rate.
Spreading good and valuable information through the merchants environment around us, should help a little.
 

Actually, I divided my investment in to two. I invested the half of my money in bitcoins and the other half is in altcoins. I will hold this bitcoins and the bags of altcoins for me to ensure that I will get high returns from it.

if you want to choose which one is the best for now see from the condition of cryptocurrency which is currently not good then I suggest that at this time you better not focus on cryptocurrency, look for activities and other jobs that can benefit you.

I also keep buying bitcoins for me to increase the bitcoins that I have. I do not have care to altcoins because I experienced to lose big amount of money due to buying altcoins. It is really better if we will just make investment with bitcoins because it has potential and it is really worth it to hold.

We are still in the bear market so we should focus on how we will protect our investment for us to not experience losses. We can survive in the market if we have information to handle the risks that we are taking.

I agree. There's a recent hack and people are still not learning the proper way to secure their assets and those people who used that exchange has learned the hard way. Guy please take time to study all the kind of wallets and the risk when you use them so they won't be a problem in the future if we enter in a huge bull again.

At present, I'm just trying to survive... We'll see....:(

No doubt it’s a great investment but mate we should not only focusing in holding it will be good if we invest more along with holding as holding is great way to have safe profit. This is good time for all of us but never mind the miner fall and try to ignore and  hold to wait till recovery don’t flow with emotions and consider 2019 as an year of investment.

to focus I don't think fully because the current situation is greatly decreasing for me to wait and take advantage of every opportunity we will get in investing in crypto currencies

that's totally different wilth me , when all people give up with current condition and feel bored personally my spirit get burned.i see this situation as best opportunity for me if i am courage to invest some in bitcoin and altcoin.moreover working in bounty campaign, much bounty hunter retired and it will be my chance to collect more tokens.

Well every government favors the bitcoin technology and also they are willing to adapt it in different parts of their country. The Problem is that they are not willing to accept bitcoin as a main currency because it seems that they will lose control on the monetary system of the world if they tend to accept and legalize the bitcoin.

This happened to me especially at the end of 2017 when the whole market was skyrocketing and suddenly everyone wanted to become an expert on cryptocurrencies and since my friends knew i was interested in the topic I got asked many questions about it, I warned them that it was too late and that they should not invest in the market at that moment, some listened and some did not and even when I warned them to not do it some blamed me for their losses.

buy this situation we need to implement lots of changes in development for be getting the Niyas vappa not only Bitcoin and also in all cryptocurrency it happens when the cryptocurrency cannot be regret by any problem.

dont be pessimist with currency.actually there are still many opportunity in this market we hard work to find it.last ico on BTT was give their investors profits more than 500%.so i think we have to be smart to find good ico.

if we working and learning hard in this market , i am sure we stiill find the opportunities.and bittorent token could be good example for us, as we know cryptocurrency market now bloody and investors very pessimist with this condition.but market show to us that we still could earn money as long as we still have faith.

right, believe in the future of bitcoin to be an encouragement for us to keep holding it. I don't know how long we waited, but certainly bitcoin will grow later. and that is the first thing we must believe

cryptocurrency market has more than 2000 coins,so if we said there is no more opportunity from this market  i think this is totally wrong.impossible if one of these coins could not give us profit in trading or investment.although it will be difficult but we have to keep observe and research on crypto market.

this is the same as what happened to me, some of my friends were desperate to buy bitcoin when prices were expensive and they didn't know what to rely on in bitcoin because they didn't know what made prices go up and didn't know the technology that bitcoin had so they only saw price movements and hope to provide benefits.

Actuay, there are still many crypto member here that doesn't really know what the blockchain is and just pretending that they know it even if they not. Going on with the flow because bitcoin is already been known by many people now, but in reality they didn't know the blocks and how these blocks works. Anyway, nice and funny cryptographic. To be honest, it is hard to explain to some conscious person what really is a blockchain technology.

This year users who were been depending much on cryptocurrency for their living needs to concentrate much upon trading. Through trading only it is possible to get some good earning. If not finding a day job is much preferred for the present market trend. As the market hasn't turned bullish it is good to keep the portfolio undisturbed.

we can choose one of them to trade.and maybe only major and existing coins could give profits and certainity.investing new coins need long time to see its developtment progress.and ofcourse price will be very volatile.

just to remember...

I think we should focus more on the altcoins that are on the top right now. There are a lot of altcoins right now that shows potential on being next to bitcoin or being even with it so investing on those would totally help us benefit a lot in the future. If we are going to stick on bitcoin alone, we would depend on it our whole lives, we should try new coins and quit focusing on bitcoin alone. The altcoin season hasn't come yet that means the best is yet to come for altcoins.

For this year  may not be the right year for altcoins as the ICO dying and that there are full scammers on it, although we wanted to focus on altcoins, people chooses to focus on Bitcoin and aiming for another bull run again this year, which is 2 months from now and we can't see any positive good sign for now that we will go that far.

It is good to look at all the available options but in the end, the investor must choose the best one if has desires for becoming rich in a short duration with the easiest and working way. Altcoins have some potential options but none of them can produce as good profits as bitcoin does. I would recommend everyone to make bitcoin their top priority. Also, we must not forget how altcoins depend on bitcoin for their survival.

Funny comic in the starting post. :) Really, you do not need to know what it is in technical terms, you need to quickly implement it in your business, to overtake the competition! After all, the unknown miracle of blockchain is a super fancy technology that only cool companies implement. And programmers will take care of the technical component. You just need to tell customers that your company uses blockchain technology, so they need your services so much and they are obliged to buy them from you. 8)

Maybe 40% of users of crypto are not knowledgable about blockchain. how it works and help. everyone is focusing on investing and know more in cryptocurrencies. newbie's are attracted of crypto they not here for blockchain. that's why many of users even here in forum is still lack of knowledge about blockchain technologies. but blockchain was only known for the help of crypto. so we couldn't blame other users if they didn't there for blockchain. so soon they will learn it because they have to.

It is necessary to focus on a new rally in the cryptocurrency market, for example, on this coin (https://neironix.io/cryptocurrency/bitcoin) , it is the most reliable in this market and will certainly not disappear anywhere and will still grow at least two or three times. 8)

new member know about blockchain because its profitable. no need to knoe what is blockchain, just need to know about how to make money from blockchain.

As of now, since the market is on a downfall and as a bounty hunter I am waiting if there is any project or ICO that is being proposed and I am looking if that is actually profitable, and I am gonna join that even if the chances of being successful is low because there are low amounts of investors at a time like this but we should have courage to earn even if that is happening, grind every day and make profit because that is what we need here, to create money. We should focus on holding our token since the market is on a downfall, and wait for that particular token to pump, maybe it cannot happen now but also maybe it can be happen soon.

Everyone says that this year is the altseason

Personally, I do not think that alts are going to have bigger growth chances of value compared to Bitcoin.
In order to follow the trends I have bought some alts!

We should focus on accumulating more cryptocurrencies as a long term investment. The prices are now dropping and a lot of traders are saying that we are still in the bear market, it is a bad market situation for the traders but for the investors, bear market is a great opportunity to buy more assets at a very cheap price and we should focus on that thing and hold them until the bull run starts.

We have had a ups and downs in 2019 and nothing too special this year. We are waiting for the booming year of 2020 to come.
Somehow, I feel very good for the next year of crypto market. Bitcoin is in a downtrend again, just like the end of 2018 and it has started a very strong uptrend. I believe history will repeat and we will have a glorious year.

But overall we do have a great year for 2019 as we do have lots of realization, in the market, in the projects, ICO/IEO, how exchange works, new projects, new developments. A lot of negative news too just like hacking of Binance, Upbits and IDAX seems like a scam and run away etc. Still we do have a great year that we should thank of most especially Bitcoin's price becomes more stable and the demand is getting stronger.

It's a nice picture, many people still don't know much about Blockchain, but that will change. A logical assumption is that we need to focus on education, spreading knowledge. It's something that we are doing all these years, but it's time to push harder. If we focus on that, people will learn about Blockchain, more people will be involved, the prices will grow.

very interesting indeed, what Blockchain people know is that Bitcoin and Bitcoin is that Blockchain, yes that is true,
but Bitcoin was born from Blockchain, and you know that, if there is some positive news about this technology that will be legalized in the country, I don't know certainly whether bitcoin will also be included ?, because the word used is blockchain technology not bitcoin, if you understand you will definitely feel suspicious,
Be careful if you want to invest all your money into Bitcoin, is not wrong i just speculation

There is no need to learn blockchain because not all of us are going to become blockchain developer. The main focus should be on the products of blockchain that start from crypto currencies  and what benefits are provided by these institutions. Though the understanding of blockchain can give a good idea about the importance and future of its products, but adopting the changing trend is enough.

We do need to learn about Blockchain but only the basic ones. Going technical is up to you whether you are just simply curious or would like to use this as a way to learn new skill that you can use to earn bitcoins or some other cryptocurrency. Learning the basics would provide you solid grasp and understanding as what is happening behind the transactions that you are doing. Since it would limit us asking and wondering why does your transaction process slower or what fee should I pay.

Bitcoin become best investing have to focus on this years because only bitcoin have available with higher price, forget with moment remember when bitcoin still higher price last 2017 because right now still keep profitable for investing with bitcoin, you can use short or long term for investing with bitcoin and price keep always higher on this year.

I don't have too big expectations for the next year. Price will probably stay in the current range with few corrections, at least at the begininig of the year. We can expect some price rise too but probably not more than 10000$, at least that is my vision. 2017 will hardly happen any time soon so we need to be realistic to avoid big disappointments.

If there will be no hacking cases next year and if more people will know about the big event next year, I think that the rise in price will happen just like what happened back in 2017, people will get interested about the price movement back in 2017 because of the halving and they would probably panic buy since the price of bitcoin is really cheap compare to the recent all time high.

People pin so much hope in the coming halving but it will not happen fast, it will be gradual and steady, it's not like that the price of the coins here will double one week after the halving, the effect will happen a few months after the halving, but I highly doubt if the price will triple in 2020 the best price that I could think of is $20000 and I'm still moderate.

The idea of incorporating blockchain to a usable product is well enough to support projects that will be developed. You can take your chance when you understand things will be manifested in terms of bringing good things to this industry. The target venue where the system will be use is very important to decide whether the project will be bringing functional system to end being successful from this market.

A good prediction but one that is probably not going to be received with open arms, most people in the forum and most people in the market of cryptocurrencies want only one thing and that is for the price of bitcoin to go up very rapidly, and while we know that that is completely possible with bitcoin it is not possible for this to happen all the time, so after a positive year like the one we had seen it is completely natural for me to think that 2020 is not going to be as good as this year.

In my opinion,  I think we should focus on accumulating bitcoin and Alts. Because next year seem to be well for cryptocurrency. There would be no room for much deep, as the market seems to be recovering through my personal analysis.
Talking about the subject matter,  learning blockchain is too broad,  but focusing on one aspect of it per time would be better.
But the knowledge of integrating blockchain into our daily activities is necessary to further engender mass adoption.

Almost any and every people that I have asked about this they think cryptocurrency would be great next year, it is not a big deal where everything could turn up not like what you have been expected so far, if you cannot make the big impact then just do the small one instead of just wishing without doing nothing.

There is big expectations, but everything won't happen in reality. Something will happen good, for the same we need to focus on just adding as much cryptocurrencies to the portfolio. This will make the portfolio go strong when there is big growth. My suggestion is to make use of the fluctuation until there happens some growth in large scale with the difference of $1000+

So, to prepare for that happen, we have to buy more, instead of just hoping without buying it is like a hope that is not accompanied by high confidence. By buying more then we at least have a focus on every price movement that happens every time just to get the best moment to buy more on each coin that has the potential to grow bigger.

fear must be resisted, if you are afraid to take steps to buy bitcoin you will not enjoy the results later, learn to start trading in crypto currency,
surely you will not regret it later if you are already proficient

yes that's true everyone of us here should do his part to make Cryptocurrency great and adopted, just by participating in this forum, we can make a big difference since we are the early birds here, we should focus on sharing our experiences, on what it's like to use Cryptocurrency and buy stuff using it.

We have an advantage because we can call us an early birds or the people who first adopt the bitcoin. The thing that we should focus on this current year is developing our skills in terms of trading of bitcoin for us to become more familiar to the chart and its value that have high volatility. Trading is not easy and it requires a lot of time to study and researching in order to understand the market.

Some financiers claim global inflation around the world that depreciate fiat currencies.  If you take this information into account, cryptocurrencies are a very good way out of the current situation, when people can choose digital assets in order to save their money.  It seems to me that we have a very good opportunity now to invest in cryptocurrency at competitive prices, because in the future digital assets will definitely increase in price, as their demand in the market will increase.

the thread was posted last year 2018  . 2018 was late imo and people only realize to start or to focus on blockchain tech ? if they do that they are now behind because others are already done with that but they can still catch up and make thier performance better so that they can won the competition  .

anyway we are now currently on the year 2019 and its also about to end   , blockchain is also more popular .  i think people are done with it and now foccusing on other things   .

Compared to 2018, blockchain adoption and awareness has increased in 2019. Even Chinese president openly acknowledged the blockchain technology (Xi Jinping’s endorsement of blockchain sparks China stocks frenzy (https://www.ft.com/content/2789d21a-f955-11e9-98fd-4d6c20050229)). I am sure in 2020 more people will get to know about blockchain technology and will see more of its adaptance.

Is that a sign that the cryptocurrency next year will experience a significant increase? if investors from the capital market switch to crypto currencies it will be amazing to see how fresh funds come here

It must be admitted that I personally have been in the crypto world for about 4 years, but I do not fully understand the blockchain. I don't
think it's important that we need understand blockchain or not, what we have to understand and master is the blockchain product itself
namely cryptocurrency. Which is where our goal from the beginning to jump into the world of cryptocurrency is not to understand the
blockchain, but to be able to make money from cryptocurrency. So from that focus with crytocurrency is the right decision to be able to
produce money. Like learning to analyze markets, investigate ICO / IEO projects, study trading, and so on.

it's never too late to start. It doesn't matter what year it is or people say oh you're too late the others are more than that.
as long as development is still needed there is no harm in trying, remember the more you try the more opportunities or opportunities that will arise.

We should be focused on a way to stay focus on crypto during a bear market. Not let the distractions of life keep you away from what can be a great opportunity.

There are people who doesn't want to make investment because they think that they are late. They are still many opportunities in the market and they should not be discouraged. Changing their mindset can help them to be a better person. Once they able to change their mindset then they can see the opportunities by making investment in the market. They are not late and they can still say that they are part of the early investors.

I hope that right now, while we are discussing blockchain, there are enthusiasts who are creating something fundamentally new, who understand that we need more to act and less to talk.

in my opinion for the end of this year it will be the year of altcoin, this is just my speculation, I have TOMO and XTZ both of these coins wake up when the bear bitcoin market is come, isn't this a sign?

in this bear market if you are careful in trading you will get a lot of profit, a lot of coins are having pumps now, ATOM, AOA, INS are having pumps this week, I think the altseason will come

I think the blockchain has a simple structure. Many investors may not be aware of this. Now let's assess the situation. Maybe the blockchain is not that important. We may be very important because we are investors in this market.

besides changing our mindset, we must be aware of the risks, so that panic will not come later. especially to invest in cryptocurrency, of course, is different from investing in property that tends to always go up in price. therefore the courage to invest in crypto is currently needed because the price is cheap

Most of the altcoins follow BTC's price path so thats why they still are called alts.
Anyway I barely can believe that alts market could rise at this moment when btc and eth are falling constantly for a few weeks.

Even in the stock market the most important part of it is the investor LOL, anything with regards to the currency the most important part of it is naturally the investor or the user, That's the basic of how the investment system works LOL.


Exactly, as long as we are holding our coins, the dump will be lessen. Bitcoin and other alts are just basically following the law of supply and demand, just hold cryptocurrency and the demand will go up. Hold bitcoin and wait for the pump.


Well, if you are going to start marginal trading, then the dumping stage will give a profit. Not all dumps are bad just start marginal trading in bear market and you will get a lot of money out from it.

Just because it's cheap today, it's worth it to buy. We also need to consider the market chart thus we can get rid from the situation wherein we needed to hold for a long time just because of a wrong decision that was performed within a day. Although courage if vital in investing, it doesn't always necessary in crypto because it can cause you loss too.

Such an interesting picture that covers everything about blockchain space at this moment. I'm pretty sure that 90-99% so called crypto enthusiasts do not know what blockchain is. Most of them participate this space hoping for quick profit. That is also the reason why we are now still in this deep-freeze winter situation.

Blockchain is a secure way to store data or digital currency cause it is verified by a network of computers solving complex algorithm and once that's solve miners are rewarded. Actually in my understanding there are tons of type of blockchain depending on their business they could customize it, mostly there are two types of blockchain one is pow(proof of work) and pos(proof of stake).

When it comes to investing, we need to check all of the data that we could find in the internet before we have a judgement if we are going to buy a certain coin or token. Check all the fundamentals if the team are still working hard to sustain the project and also try to apply some technical analysis to find some sweet spot for potential entry of your long term investing.

That is true, and you also have to do detailed Research and identification before choosing to invest and try to communicate from the project section especially the development team and always ask questions that you think should be asked about project development and if the project is good, your questions will always be answered correctly and accurate.
and besides, try to check the project over the internet or other and try to ask those who are already involved in the project, and many other ways all depend on your intelligence to do research in any way and make a long-term investment is a good choice and more profitable.

Many people mix blockchain with cryptocurrency. It took me time to understand that these two are different technologies. Every new invention requires time to get popular. With time more and more people are getting awareness about blockchain and a compared to 2018 people have more knowledge about blockchain.

And don't you think that there is something wrong with that? I know that people feel very confident about what the market is going to do during the next year and that's why I'm seeing all kind of predictions about bitcoin surpassing its all time high but I'm really doubtful that will be the case especially now that we are seeing the price going below 7000 and we are not seeing any kind of reaction from the bulls, that tells me that maybe they have given up resisting the bears at that point.

Already many countries have understood this and started their implementation with innovative ideas. Recently we have seen China openly calling projects to start implementing blockchain and use it in the government space.

If you want to succeed in life, you need to keep taking opportunities of becoming better and earning better. Those who don’t take risks ever learn or do anything big. Success is a combination of hard work and risks. Without facing challenges and hardships in the form of risks, one cannot be successful at all. As far as investing into cryptos is concerned, they have still long way to go so keep investing into them.

Crypto currencies are giving major investment goals right now and all those who have enjoyed huge returns from it back in 2017 are so willing to invest into bitcoin and other famous coins in order to secure their profits from future pump. Keep in mind that if you invest when others have doubts, it means you are taking a risk and only those get big returns that stand out of the crowds.

Cryptos are bound to increase and decrease in values because of their limited supply and the buying and selling strategies which investors use. They never let cryptos stay at one fixed price. What makes crypto unique from other conventional investments is this very thing i.e. unstable value of crypto currencies? People who know real worth of bitcoin and popular crypto currencies, they are investing into them right now to make huge profits.

The truth is so many people are coming here because of the profit, they got their inspirations from people posting their earnings on social media and of course people will be attracted on profit not on the technology, I guess as long as they entered the community, they will later learn how this technology works, after a few weeks or months.

honestly, I don't really understand blockchain, but I know how to use it. Well, so far I haven't told you much about this, but I'm not really focused on the blockchain, but on the crypto. I know that all crypto use blockchain for faster delivery, but, in-depth explanation, I don't really understand that. I also only see this as a technological and business development. reading this is like reading my life  ;D

Its true that most people are only after the profit but setting aside the real potential of blockchain but who cares about it anyway? Economically blockchain can contribute to speed up processes by making private or public records secure and transparent. We might not feel the change after it is implemented but it will make our world better.

Many investors and traders that are quitting in the market because they cannot grow their survive and their trading portfolio is keep decreasing. It is now the month od December and the 2019 will now end in few days. It is better if we will focus next year on how we are we going to survive in the market obstacles and challenges. We should also improve our trading pyschology in order to fully control our emotions.

In my opinion what we should focus on is Bitcoin mining. Should find yourself some capital. I focus on participating in bonus campaigns to get free coins. To do that, I have to focus on research, invest and spend a lot of time on campaigns.
In this world, nothing can be easily achieved without sweat and effort. Initially, I also had a lot of difficulties participating in finding free coins. Gradually over the years I had quite a lot of experience.

Maybe because some investor do invest when the bitcoin show that the price was increase. They only believe to a thing that everybody get some profit and they are not willing to trust crypto. The tendency was they didn't know much more about crypto so they invest on it because there are so many millionaire who get profit because they stay in a longer but some investor want to get in fast money and easy money.

It seems to me over the past year and a half that the crypto market has taught us one main thing - you need to be flexible and rely only on yourself.
For me, this means the need to expand our own boundaries of investing outside the cryptocurrency market.
The diversification of my assets should be much more universal than before. In view of this, I am considering other investment profiles, in a more classic format.

It is completely understandable that such people are quitting this market, who is going to want to be part of it if they keep losing money, I know that this is not really the fault of the market itself but the fault of all of those people that do not really took the time to learn how to trade or how to invest before they do it, so I think that as you say it is important to concentrate on controlling your emotions and learning what type of trader you are and then studying that particular form of trading so you can become more effective.

Crypto is a market where you do make huge profits that can turn you millionaire but that does not mean you can gather such huge profit in no time. It takes a lot of time and courage as well. Courage in a sense that you have to support your coin during its downfall such as bitcoin sincere investors is doing right now. They are trying to collect this expensive coin at low rates when seasonal investors are dumping it.

Of course, there is a lot of people’s fault in what is happening today, but nevertheless, it is necessary to take into account the fact that most investors in 2016 and 2017 started their activities thanks to the growing trend for cryptocurrency around the world.  The entire Internet was filled with advertising and information that using cryptocurrency you can earn big money and many people have made their choice in favor of investing in cryptocurrency.  But while not having enough knowledge and trusting each new project, many users lost their money, thereby replenishing the pockets of scammers with their money, and not increasing the capitalization of the cryptocurrency market.  It is because of this that the cryptocurrency market first soared very high, and then immediately fell, as fraudsters began to withdraw stolen funds from the cryptocurrency market to fiat.

The year is almost over now and we should just be thankful with those things that  had happened this year, whether it is good or not, what matters is that we've been grateful and we've given so much knowledge and opportunity again that we will bring this upcoming year, so hope and I wish everyone will have a great New year.

Indeed. We should grateful on what is happening right now, even we experience a lot of ups and downs in the market this year of 2019. Good thing that bitcoin is starting to get back it's price again, so i think we should still focus on our investments because there is still a chance that it could increased it's price even more, especially for bitcoin.

Oh, this is incomparable. The bullish mood has come on the day and I think bitcoin is up.

This is what I think is happening as well, during 2017 there was a huge transfer of money from investors to scammers, and the big difference between those two groups of people is that investors care not only about their profits but also about the health of this market and they want that to improve over time, but scammers could care less they only want something and that is money and if they have to destroy this market to obtain it they are not going to have any problems doing exactly that.

Scammer always make bitcoin and altcoin have lower price because they sell bitcoin and altcoin assets with higher amount and make crypto have lower price, we make many mistake by investing with scam project because after they are receiving coin from investor will sell all their assets without holding and make many altcoin have lower price.

We should be really ready for the year 2020 because i think many good things will happen to cryptocurrency, specially with bitcoin because of its halving. Lots of companies also having cryptocurrency in their projects like samsung and many more so invest now while the market is still low and prepare for the things coming after 2019 ends.

Our main focus should be on mass adoption.
Mass adoption is going to bring more funds in the market and increase the usage of the most cryptos.
There are many projects with tokens that cannot operate due to the fact that there is low adoption. We have to turn this down.

I guess in this coming year 2020 I will totally focus on investing and buying different cryptocurrencies because I also want to have a strong portfolio like others who always earn a good and high income. I still studying trading and it's totally difficult for me but I promise to my self that I will become a good trader where always earn a good income. So, this coming year 2020 I will totally focus on my goal which is trading and investing.

A lot of people said that last year with btc going on a downward spiral. A lot of them didn't expect that we'd be in the position we are this year with btc staying steady above 7k. For me, i'd say i'd focus on other things outside crypto first. I'm holding a good bag of btc and my preferred alts and i don't plan on being aggressive trading with them. A good way to avoid getting carried away with market movement when you're holding is to keep your attention on other things.

Only a few days left in the year and it seems the altcoin market seems to be in a downturn. So we might expect the prices will recover in the coming which seems to be that there are many huge expectations in the market after the Bitcoin halving.

I guess don't expect to be the key to survive in the crypto world, no one can predict for sure, even when bitcoin goes up, not much altcoin is carried. I think focusing on the long term will help keep our psychological stable, to deal with situations of uncertainty like now

Bitcoin halving will probably make all of us happy since halving has the history of generating great revenues. Market has stayed down for long time now and investors are desperately in the favor of this even which is expected to happen by the mid of next year. Altcoins will simply only increase in values when bitcoin is moving up on graphs. Altcoins on their own can never change market trends.

the altcoin market is already progressing, it looks like this will be back bull for the altcoin market,
just waiting for bitcoin dominance to decrease and altcoin season is coming

I think 2020 is not a year for all alts.  Bitcoin dominance will undoubtedly remain the same and may rise even higher as the Halving event is now very hot and people seem to be focusing their money on buying bitcoin.  This is causing a lot of people to actively buy bitcoins and has made the price of bitcoin soar in recent days.  I believe that bitcoin will still be the central coin in 2020 and will bring significant profits to those who hold it from now on.

Blockchain is now in the field of investigation in large companies. But Blockchain offers an opportunity for small investors. If you develop the right project, the miners will join your system. In this case, you get a powerful network. Blockchain is still the most important point.

That is without a doubt something important but unfortunately we do not have control over that aspect which is why many do not focus on it, I cannot force people to adopt bitcoin each one of them needs to take their decision by themselves and they need to do it because they believe they are going to benefit out of it, unfortunately most people are not thinking on the long term and most of them will buy when we are at the end of the next bull run and they will lose their money because of it.

I think the prices of altcoins will rise in 2020. Prices have been falling for a long time. And they don't give you any hope. There are a lot of investor losses. People need to get used to this market again. I think prices will go up. It is not investment advice.

I think you should focus in studying the market for the next year. It is not a good idea to speculate the market without a valid analysis on what is currently going on the market. We all know that the price of cryptocurrencies are falling but it is not a signal that we should jump in right away. Study the market and look for possible entries so you will have a lower risk of losing money in the long run.

Blockchain is here to stay and many countries and companies have started to make use of it and some others are still figuring out what best can be done in order to use the technology and crypto as well.

I like when people try to differentiate between blockchain and cryptocurrency, now not all cryptocurrency are blockchain and not all blockchains are cryprocurrency but the 2 keep growing independently. The space had continue to grow even in the bear market but more focus is on bitcoin than any other this outgoing year. The growing adoption is with mixed with feeling from scam that has infested the space.  The ICOs and IEOs are just getting some part of the space richer.

Yes, exactly and I think that this coming year we should focus on teaching other persons in our life especially our loved ones, let's help them understand what crypto really is and what is blockchain, because we are  now in a new era and we really need to be updated and we really need to know what this means are.

There is no doubt that blockchain made unbeatable names in the market as everywhere we can see people using and adopting the blockchain system because this is an era of technologies and crypto is the best technology to get an advantage. We should invest this year in crypto and try to secure our future from crises with the help of these new technologies especially from crypto-investment

if so, why should we focus more on forcing or inviting others to understand about crypto and blockchain, wouldn't that be better for ourselves so we can maximize every moment that happens to finally get good results. after all, other people will definitely come with their own desires without having to be forced to understand about crypto and blockchain

it will be better because everyone needs freedom from the will they have. if we impose the will of others to focus on crypto and blockchain as if we can guarantee the safety of crypto itself, but in reality no one can guarantee crypto security except from the confidence of oneself or each of its users

The Altcoin market can make very fast moves this year. Very old projects have not been up for a long time. LTC, Zcash for a long time at low prices. I think there are big investors with these coins. These investors can play with the board in the market.

Influencing others to enter the cryptocurrency market is a good idea, the cryptocurrency community will become more strong if we will start inviting others. Most of my friends are now using bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies because I influenced them. I manage to invite them to use and adopt cryptocurrencies after I discussed to them the benefits and advantages that they can get from it. As a bitcoin user, we have a task and that task is to influence other to use and adopt bitcoin and cryptocurrency and it is my focus in this beginning of the year.

It is probably the most beneficial backbone technology suited mostly for the benefits of security, efficiency and if people want to find effective ways of making their business work. And literally it is best suited for currency and money. But it could also be applied to identity systems and records, including voting and analytics. If I am to create a system it could probably be an inventory system that is fully regulated using the blockchain technology. Leading its way to become a point of sale system in a large scale business.

now it's 2020, and this topic was made in 2018, this topic is very favorite to see trends from crypto currency lovers every year, and I think 2020 will be the year of bitcoin because of halving

I think that focusing in promoting bitcoin is much better than bitcoin mining because if there will be more demand in the market then that means that the price of bitcoin will go up and that would make the miners happy because of the higher value of each bitcoin that they will get as a mining reward.

I say we focus on what we want to have and what we already have, we have to nurture it in order to make a comeback after of 2 years in the bearish season, we have to make the most of it to be ready when the bull run comes, so we could say hello to the profits we've been waiting for. Promoting bitcoin and altcoins is also the best thing to do, we don't have to choose either of the two because we both make profits on them.

We should also focus on being smart. After the start of a pump is not the right time to buy.

The general objective of the crowd is now bitcoin.  We should follow the crowd because it will make the price of bitcoin soar.  Following the trend will make us more certain.  or you can invest in ETH, when PoS is formed, the demand will definitely increase.

I think we should focus on accumulating potential coins, there are many potential coins that have been crashed and for me there are opportunities that we can get from it. Yes it is risky but the potential rewards is really great for me. If we want to earn huge amount of profit then we should be used to take high risks investment and decisions.

Doubtful, if you have to convince people to adopt this technology then that is because they do not understand it, bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general use a lot of technical terms and what it is even worse is that you really need to understand how the economy of the world works to see its real value and most people have been deceived all their lives about the workings of the economy, in fact many still believe that our currencies are somehow backed with something when we know that is not true.

We could only get the benefit when we know that which type of money is going to get fane or get increment in terms of its worth. Valuable coins are not easy to be pointed out but we can make predictions .Investments and trading is also a way to earn more and more money in less time but these two methods is dependent upon the experience.

Some coins that already became too low is already hard to recover, I mean if it just keep on decreasing in price even BTC sometimes arises then there's no mean that the project is surviving even the project is potential but no team is able to update or improve it at times of bear season it will still be unnoticed. Better focus on those alt or projects that have active team that keeps evolving their project.

will be more profitable if we choose the right altcoin, so it has a maximum increase. but if we doubt I think coins in the top ten ranks can be an option, so that we don't fall into fictitious projects like many new projects today. for me choosing BTC, ETH, BNB is enough to provide a sense of security in investing

 I really hope adoption, thats the most important part of bitcoin right now, if you could actually find places to spend your bitcoin there would be a lot of buyers and a lot less sellers. Right now people don't have much else to sell their bitcoins, some countries have more places that accept bitcoin than others but its still not a global spending thing and going towards being like gold where you invest but don't spend directly. Hopefully this year there will be some improvements towards bitcoin acceptence in shops and places or at least some technology that would allow us to spend bitcoin even in places that don't take bitcoin so we could actually spend our bitcoins. If we could spend it there would be a lot of us that spend and not sell which would increase the price as well.

Bitcoin will get accepted internationally at large scale soon. Actually it has achieved this status earlier but the matter is that it does face some clash with the regular economic system that is being followed worldwide by the authoritative and regulatory bodies. I think that this year we should focus more and more upon bitcoin trading as it would benefit due to fluctuation in the prices.

Lolol, this describes most of us, but yeah, quite honestly we or I would say atleast me has got myself a bit educated on blockchain and know the basics of it so surely now I can truly say from my heart that indeed blockchain is the future :D

Most see this still as investment rather than a system that will helps a lot if being implemented well. Let people learned and understand the functions
of this chain and eventually follow the flow and makes services that will be based to the chain. We've seen numbers of programs that being useful now
and helps different venues of establishments that seen the favorable helps of blockchain system.

And this is slowing down adoption, most people do not understand how smart phones work but that does not matter because the investment they make on them is small and the benefits they get out of them are significant, but with bitcoin even if the benefits are clear as day to us the average person does not see them, they also do not understand bitcoin and why it exists so it is not really that easy for them to adopt bitcoin even if they want but as you say this will change as we give them more time to understand it.

I disagree. It is not that people doesn't know how smartphone works, they are just thinking different from us. They are investing into other things because they are not enlightened with the opportunities around with cryptocurrencies. Blockchain and cryptocurrencies will really change the future and I hope that the average person will know this so they can take action while it is not late.

Because the most important thing is when crypto and blockchain get a big adoption in this case at least slowly there will be many people who can understand it and of course with more and more people who have an interest to use and invest in this industry in fact most people don't have to understand it first, because at first they only realized the benefits and a profit that could be obtained in the crypto market.

Yes, for sure that we will have more great news this year, and we can see a positive movement towards the price of Bitcoin, but still let's watch out what could be the possibly happen to the Bitcoin, if people are really buying it or it's the whale in control of it again.

Are we going to see new ATH? Or it will be just up to $10k? or we will  be expecting a massive dump after the dump? No one knows, so let's be ready.

We have different mindset and goals, I'm a trader and I want to focus in this current year in improving my trading skills and knowledge. 2019 is a bad year for mr because my win rate is low and I keeo struggling in trading that is why I decided to imrpove what I know in trading. There are still a lot of information that I need to learn and it is why I keep seeking differrent sources of knowledge in order for me to have an effective strategies.

In any case, learning is never too late.  I believe that even with the current state of the cryptocurrency market, many traders who do not have a very large amount of experience should work to become more professional.  I am also from the number of cryptocurrency users who do not have much experience, since I am just starting to learn scalping as the simplest strategy for beginners, because I only recently joined the cryptocurrency community.  Of course, a lot of knowledge is not needed in order to sell more expensively, but to buy cheaper, but nevertheless, waiting for the right moment for your order without any analysis can cause very big losses.

I am not so sure that I agree with your prediction while for regular people a war it something that they do not want and that should be avoided at all costs for governments is not only a way to assert their will upon other countries, this is also a way to enrich themselves, their friends and their companies, if we lived in a rational world people will care about the deficit and all the money that needs to be printed for such war but it doesn't seem like anyone cares anymore.

This year, investors attention is most focused on halving of Bitcoin. Miners are changing their equipment to more powerful, because the event is about 4 months away. People are hoping for a rise in the value of Bitcoin this year. Ethereum will also be updated to the new version and will switch to POS-mining this summer. In general, this is a year of big events in the world of cryptocurrencies.

Yeah exactly this is what the companies are doing if they are not in the IT sector and they still want to make a good use of the blockchain technology.
The blockchain is a really simple way to easily do the complex tasks and it would also at the same time create a safe and secure environment for them .
I think this year the cryptocurrencies and the blockchain should both get recognition and at the same time we are facing a really really bad situation in Australia , maybe we should try making mining sustainable.

In 2020 just keep a limited amount in trading and if you lose out that amount then concentrate on something else beacuse it means that trading may just not your cup of tea . Not every one could be good at it so need to be tensed  just figure out something else where you can make money .

Bounty campaigns are always nice to join and earn free altcoins or even a bitcoin without making monetary investment. There are countless campaigns you can find easily on internet but I will definitely suggest you doing little research before participating. Moreover try to learn trading with small amounts since this is very useful and proven way of making money in the crypto world. Try it first with small amount of altcoins. 

There us no profit without full time dedication, a lot of work and efforts. Every true trader knows that. And you need to learn and gain new experience all the time to be successful.
Although,.I.don't agree that focus should be on mining. Umless you have some big mining farm, mining isn't that profitable for individuals anymore.

The reason is that many people here discuss about bitcoin and altcoins and explain everything about it while they forget to tell that it is the part of blockchain and they often do not explain about the blockchain technology. I try myself to tell people about everything related to bitcoin. We all have to do like that. We have to take the start from bitcoin as it is money and it will attract people and then continue to go to blockchain explanation

In 2020, I think we need to focus on altcoins. After a lot of projects came out, prices fell a lot. But that doesn't mean they're bad projects. Perhaps this year will be the year they will prove themselves. Bitcoin needs to allow these projects.

There is a lot of undervalued altcoins in the market and I strongly agree that focusing in altcoins will give us a chance to bounce back from the losses that we experienced from the last few months because of the bear market. A lot of projects in altcoins are still coming out but not all of them are good in long term basis because most of them are just trash and created to scam people, so you better be careful in investing in them.

Reviving altcoin is the best choice for this year and beyond, because in recent years many altcoins have become junk and many people have been harmed by their project.
and furthermore I'm sure many people are smarter and more careful in choosing good and profitable projects because they learn from before.

I will not mind if investors took a focus on altcoins but if that is going to happen I actually hope that this time around they focus only on good altcoins because it is incredibly frustrating to see people throwing their money away to projects that are not worth it, and I know that is not my money and they can do whatever they want with it but then those people are going to get scammed and are going to blame the market for it when at the end they were the ones that decided out of greed to invest in those bad projects

Me I want to focus more on signature campaigns and investment.  I want to have a longterm investment which hopefully become successful someday.  I do believe that bitcoin will rise this year and I will keep holding until it happen.

focus on trading, learn the techniques, study analysis, science will be very useful, I'm sure of that, look at the market, prices have recovered, and the dominance of bitcoin has fallen, the sign is the altcoin season we will soon see

well me too also want to focus on the signature campaigns to earn money, apart from this i have my own plannings for trading because i am sure that this year will be a good season for trading , and also i have hold my whole bitcoin for selling on a good price as everyone is very hopeful for the halving and may it bring a good profit for all of us.

For several years, we saw what the real development of various blockchain projects is. Some are built solely on manipulation, others on conscientious work and development.
Both of them have both ups and downs.

However, a project built purely on speculation is losing much in terms of long-term prospects, but in the short-term it is an excellent choice. In other words, in crypto everything is the same as before.

I just thought of something about this. maybe I am one of those people who didn't study the blockchain so deeply, well I'm a user, businessman, and others. there are many people like me who only understand the basics, and I think deepening about things like this is very good for a developer.
the point is, to use and utilize crypto, we don't have to know the system to such detail, but by knowing the benefits, etc., we can use it. Well, I have many friends who trade, but don't understand the function of the coins or tokens they trade, however, they only take advantage of the fluctuations. everyone has their own way to understand and use crypto for their business.

In crypto, it is impossible for us to achieve easily because everywhere we have to invest money, instead of mining, trading is always the best option because for mining we have to invest a huge amount of money to mine the Bitcoin and even it will take time to mature the coins. Instead of mining better add some potential coins to your portfolio.

I would prefer mining if I have a rig.

Mining might not be profitable in the short term but in the long term, I think it is really profitable. Trading ia good since you can add more coins, mining on the other hand might not give you other coins but still, the coin you are earning is stable. The price might fall but you are still getting some of that coin. Mining's profit in time is increasing while in trading is still risky and unexpectable.

This is what most of the new projects are building. They are focusing on the speculation of their project's product which is the altcoin or token itself that they are making. The use case of blockchain is starting to being applied in some of the companies that are interested with this innovation and its pure technology that they are applying.

only if you agree on the cost that mining can give  . it would be okay if you total them before you start and see if you can still earn some coin after you pay those cost  . also it would be more beneficial if you will just hodl the coin that you mine  .  in mining you can also mine other coins if that is what you want , same as when you do trading because you want other types of coins  . trading is more on an  active way but its less hassel and the potential is bigger  .

Rather than mining and on other related services it is good to go for buying of bitcoin and altcoins. Right now if we go for mining it'll be much more expensive than buying bitcoin as the capital requirement for mining is high. My suggestion is to go on buying cryptocurrencies and earn short term profit. Further investing on mining hardware seems to be more effective.

My opinion is that we need to start thinking about how Bitcoin will be used if we introduce it into daily life. It will not work to make purchases in the store using Bitcoin, since its price is constantly changing in relation to the dollar, which we will use in any case for some time, even when switching to Bitcoin. Therefore, I believe that this is the main question: how to use these technologies for the good.

This is a sad reality that most of crypto users don't know blockchain and how crypto use blockchain. money is very important now a days than knowledge. but what should we focus now is on bitcoin that most of people know than blockchain, the price is more valuable than altcoins and some of altcoins now are not that profitable. choosing profitable altcoins now are so hard, choose that have more future using blockchain and really helpful for improvement.

without cryptocurrency blockchain it will not work, and that is not everyone thinks about it, what is thought is the price of the assets they hold, and only calculates the profit from what they sell, it is indeed worth the money, but knowledge will be more valuable, to produce $

Our emphasis should not be to try to make money, but to avoid losing money. Many were so focused on making money that they were in a terrible position when the market started collapsing, and instead of acknowledging their losses and moving on, they were in denial and decided to keep keeping worthless coins with terrible results. They would have much more money if they managed to cut the losses early and jump in at the bottom.

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We should focus first in improving our knowledge about the blockchain. And how can it help us to gain more income. So that when we invest on it we will not lose our capital.

Dag blockchain is good from what I learn from other regardng to DAG blockchain. It is not like the blockchain where records are being kept and then stored and locked. So, if DAG to be used then it could be better but I do not think also it could handle a large or volume of transactions just like what blockchain did.

Indeed. We should focus on improving our knowledge about crypto and blockchain space. We should be gathering information on where we could earn more cryptocurrencies with our abilities instead of joining and participating in bounty campaigns airdrops that are not enough to provide our daily needs in life. Also, grab every opportunity in the crypto world that you think will benefit you in the long term.

Hi,

Totally agree, blockchain technology is here to stay and in the business sector we have the best example. I share with you world companies like "Amazon" that already use them.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/02/19/blockchain-50/?sh=73544c3e7553

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Dag blockchain is a good record of the immutable data of a specific timestamp that is managed through clusters. And remember, it's not a sole proprietorship the blockchain network has no central authority. It is a lot like a democratic system since it is a shared and unchangeable laser, the information contained in it is open to the public. Everything that is being built in the blockchain is naturally very transparent and everyone involved is responsible for it.

Mainly individuals who embrace blockchain innovation particularly in terms of exchanges don't know how it works from blockchain innovation; they as it were use this innovation to create exchanges for benefit as it were without knowing long run and workings of blockchain innovation. In my opinion all Bitcoin clients must know in progress the premise of the innovation they utilize so that when somebody inquires us approximately blockchain innovation they ended up curious about joining bitcoin in exchanges.

It unmistakable that blockchain is technology the world focus in this year and will also focus in years after but I dont think i have see an individual that embraced blockchain in terms of exchange and dont know how blockchain works except if you are relating your message to naive cryptocurrency traders that did develop their knowledge about  crypto before they start trading.

Exactly. Being more knowledgeable is an advantage to excel here in Blockchain world. So, its really better to focus on learning everything first in order to gain huge profits that will definitely help us get the financial freedom that we are dreaming of, especially in this time of trying.

In my opinion, blockchain is not a panacea.  Blockchain cannot solve all problems.  The scope of blockchain technology is actually very limited.  Blockchain software solutions have very significant drawbacks - they are expensive and slow. 

Because of this, it makes sense to use blockchain technology only in very important projects in which participants do not trust each other. 

The ideal application of blockchain technology is the world's reserve currency (i.e. Bitcoin). 

Also, blockchain technology can be used in projects related to maintaining a register of owners of shares, real estate, etc.

Machine to never be 100% efficient explain the reason why blockchan have some drawbacks but I still dont consider blockchain to be slow (cause it depend on the Dev integration) and the US SEC CEO even claim that blockchain outperforms the current payment mechanism, domestically and internationally.


It can be used by the hospital to store medical record and it can also be used for election.

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This is really funny, but that's the reality so many people are in this crypto space but they don't know "what is blockchain" or what problems it can help solve in the society, everyone just see the crypto space as a get rich quick place, and I can't blame them for that because I believe everyone wants to get rich, anyway nice marketing :D, it's funny how people make use of something they don't fully understand.

I think we should focus on digital currencies/crpto, trading,joining campaign and investing. If we do so, we can be efficient in gaining income in this crypto world.nowadays tge bitcoin is popular to the world, many investors and big company are engaging in crypto infustry now. Some of those crypto miners and crypto traders.

Except for bitcoin, Staking, Lending and Defi are certainly still breathtaking in the market.  AAVE's rapid outbursts once again bring Lending back into place after disappearing years ago, SOV could be just as interesting.  Attention was also paid to NFT boot platforms that support games.  The rest are Defi and Staking with ETH.  I will definitely stick with this trend and a plan needs to be prepared in the long term!

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The point of the illustration was definitely true and correct. Ever since when I started to came here in crypto business even up to the presence the majority of the people in the different country are claimed to know about the blockchain, sounds funny but really true. Only few of the community in crypto space had the understanding fully about the real catch of the blockchain.

Games on blockchain technology, this is what I will do this year, in parallel, I will invest money in individual projects that conduct ICOs and which I subjectively like, I will also do my own business as a bonus and try to deal with such a phenomenon as NFT, which is also an interesting area. has recently become very popular. The world of cryptocurrency and the infrastructure around it is developing rapidly, so quickly that I can't keep up with everything - but it's very interesting! Good luck to all!

This year bitcoin have been in higher price and not worth to focus more, I think become interested by holding and investing with altcoin. Have close space for bitcoin how ever we use not bigger fund to invest and trade with cryptocurrency, when using bitcoin as investment maybe need bigger amount to get much profit, but with small amount just nothing we get.

Bitcoin & co are platforms for scams. Sure. No investment it earns. Dollar & gold is only a truth valuable!

You are right. Most people who jumped in crypto don’t understand how blockchain works. Their concern only to make a profit. That is not wrong but it is good that we crypto people know the use of blockchain so we can understand how it will help us in our life in the future.

But there are other things that we can consider learning like trading cryptocurrency so we can have passive income or someday it will be your main source of income.

This is absolutely true. Those who are new to crypto doesn't understand anything with this technology rather than trading. They dont value once potential and probably be jumping into small profiting scheme.

Understanding blockchain takes years and for a newbie to jump into that is a pretty crazy one because there should be some fundamentals that they first have to complete before they can go for blockchain maybe the basic concept of blockchain will suffice for the beginning but in-depth is a different story. Also, there is nothing wrong with profiting in bitcoin even if you don't know shit about the technical stuff behind it, if it was then the prices shouldn't be reaching this high.

For me it is better to focus on how we earn money using our crypto currency because knowing how blockchain works is just a piece of knowledge that we can use to be a better crypto currency users and we must use it to earn more.

If the people like you claim are actually making the money in here I will tell you they aren't a novice like you claimed they may not be able to give you the best definition they have clue to how the whole thing works

Those influencer of other companies in cryptocurrencies are begginners, and they don't know much about blockchain. That's why it leading to failed. And other newbies in cryptocurrencies also falling for this trap. Before we enter we must study first about blockchain so that they could not scam us.

*the illustration above reminds me of a salesman who once came to my house 'lol'...
This is the reason why it is important for all of us who are in this forum to not only make this forum a place to make money through bounties but also as a place to get the latest knowledge.

I keep focus with trading and getting chance on Binance launchpad because almost this year all binance launchpad coin always raise higher price more than ten time, looks first time with SFP coin from IEO 0,1$ success raise above $4 after trading. I am waiting what new coin launchpad on Binance and have ready more than 10 BNB to get more with Binance coin launchpad.

To gain and gather wealth in crypto, you need to do the trend and follow the sheeps else you wouldn't gain anything.
Idos are quite hot right now, I know of an Ido that was held on poolz launchpad who won lottery and was able to participate on yellow road Ido. Guess what, he was able to turn $200 investment into $12000 because 0f fomo by traders.
You have to follow every trend to make money in crypto.

Agree. Simply buying Bitcoin only is not enough to grow your investment. So you need to invest in altcoins because it will give you a higher gain. So focus on looking for undervalued altcoins that you believe will have a great potential in the future.

Almost IDO launchpad on POOLZ become most worth and higher value coin but is not easy you can participated and qualify to get coin, they have many rule and looks just few percent can participated and get IDO coin there. Almost many investor miss to get coin with sold out and not in waitlist to received coin, just how lucky you are when joining IDO on POOLZ investment.

I got a job interview with an Insurance company and I'm trying to apply for their IT Digital Programme that would kinda boost my career into the IT Industry. The final interview will consist of me presenting a 10 minute presentation about a way on how to further improve their company.

Personally, I instantly thought about Blockchain Technology because it would greatly benefit their security. As a fresh graduate with little knowledge about Blockchain, I believe this is the opportunity to present an idea that would revolve around Blockchain Technology because it is something that would progress endlessly.

Any inputs would be greatly appreciated if you have some.

got it all explained. xD

I think good ideas if you try explain about blockchain to company and they can adopt it how to pay salary for many worker, become easy and transparent how payment process and get more benefit when worker hold their salary keep on bitcoin or altcoin. I think you need to make simple words how to make them understand with bitcoin or altcoin.

Enhancing your knowledge in sorting good projects will adds up in growing your invesment. Bitcoin is best but adding solid projects within alts market will bring more to your table.

It's a good practice to sort first then select those project which have solid foundations and accumulate from time to time.

Make sure to have good amount of patience as the journey most of the time take a long ride before you see
actual results that favors your investment.

Various services will appear in the future to facilitate various activities under blockchain, just like the internet, It may be confusing but eventually everyone learns how to work.

In this picture, that guy is advocating blockchain technology but doesn’t know what it is.

It’s not bad to become an advocate of blockchain technology, but it’s really important that we should know what are we advocating for. I remember a good friend of mine who asked someone who is an advocate of Bitcoin, blockchain and cryptocurrencies like, “You know what is a node?”, and he replied “I don’t know!”.

Oh well, looks like if we want to become real advocates of a specific subject, we should always know what it is. As the old saying goes, “Know your product”, “Know what you’re discussing about”, etc.

IOTA DAG seems oldish... Hedera tooked HASHGRAPH as data-modell. Hmmmm. I don't start a new thread, with a new picture...

Hashgraph????

Not all would really be going for technical side of things which it is understandable that those informations couldn't be known or tended to be grasps for everybody who do involved with crypto.

Its not really necessary though but I do agree that it is somewhat important on some point at least.Make yourself knowledgeable at least on which you could really extent out
your level of awareness and knowledge about crypto and blockchain tech because having more knowledge is always been and advantage on any angle.

Imo, you don't need to see how it functions to be using it successfully. How many of almost 5 billion people using the Internet understand how it works? And what about 6 billion using electricity? It's good for you to know this stuff, no doubt about it, same as it's good for a blockchain developer to know how to cook Tom Yum soup, but let's not blame people for not knowing things out of their field of expertise.

In my opinion blockchain is not an easy thing to understand, it takes a lot of knowledge so that we can fully understand blockchain, even many of us here are still having difficulty understanding how blockchain actually works regularly on the internet by utilizing computing to create groups or blocks that are connected to each other.
I personally might think blockchain is a complicated thing and still requires a lot of knowledge to figure it out.

That's right, even though I'm new to bitcoin, but I'll try my best if I can also enter trading just to make money and this year in the new year I also need to focus on it so I can know how to make money with crypto and how to invest and more.  all how to enter trading we just have to endure newbies must learn everything soon.

Technically, there really are a few people that understand how it works.

But with that percentage, there are a lot of people that use it without even knowing how it works.

Just like those people who have invest in cryptocurrencies, they don't know what blockchain is but they're part of the economy where people are using the tech.

Only be very careful with that and when researching don't trust those "experts" too much. No one can tell you exactly in what direction the price is going. What you can do is to read several different predictions on reliable sites and then find the arithmetic mean, and bet on that number. But not too much, only what you can afford to lose. Don't try to make trading your main source of income, just have fun with it. :)

In crypto it is not easy to predict coin price movements and it requires more in-depth research for sure but clearly nothing guarantees that the prediction will be accurate,
Regarding trading, I think it comes back to each person's choice and what must be realized is that trading is a big risk

Trading can be much more beneficial rather than just holding it for a year, I mean, there's certainly nothing wrong with hodling it as it is the most basic and proven way to make profits but if you want more than just hodling it and wait then trading can be way more interesting and beneficial if you have some extra time to spare like weekly but aside from that, it really requires capital and ofcourse knowledge about it.
And just like holding, only trade funds what you can afford to lose as it's the right way to avoid being too drowned.

This is what underlies that this is a place where it fluctuates. because indeed we cannot know what will happen and even research and observations about the market are only to clarify and ensure that the predictions we make are obtained from existing data even though it is only speculation and whether it is true or not can only be seen from the results. the movement itself.

this is what must be based on from the start, many people do not understand this and immediately jump into trading without seeing the risks involved. Most of those who are here are sometimes beginners who don't really understand how and what the system works and only focus on coins that are becoming hype no matter what even the prices are too high.

After I read some of the comments from top to bottom, I think this is the simplest answer that ordinary people will be able to understand easily.
Very easy to digest for beginners and I don't think their interpretation will go wrong if they develop their own questions later.
So i will answer like yours if newbies ask me someday, bless you mate!

Focus on any project that has a real use case.  NOT a good price.  NOT a good marketing campaign.  NOT a meme.  REAL UTILITY.  There is somewhere around 5,000 cryptos and endless whitepapers claiming all kinds of solutions.  However, 90% of them are just pump and dumps into fiat.  Its almost sickening given that we are almost a decade into this technology.

That's right. Trading is not something where you can completely rely on your skill and your success was guaranteed with that. There is too much uncertainty involved for anyone to be a real expert in this field. That's why learning the basics of money management is way more important than researching about "how to trade successfully".