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I'm not even sure whether this is a bad or a good thing right now but this is definitely unusual and I have never seen it before even though I have been in the crypto scene since 2014.

From what I can see the development (Lightning network etc.) is more active than it ever was, so shouldn't that give a little boost to the price at least?

My personal opinion is that the current state comes from people not wanting (usually) to sell cheaper than current price and buyers not willing (yet) to pay more. I also think that this is kind of boiling point and should not last long.



Not necessarily. LN is still far from the point it can be called finished/non-beta/safe to use. Some still estimate it to be good only in 2 more years. That's a lot, especially for day traders and speculators.
The speculators don't care much of long term development and the good news may not "touch" them so easy. These do factor in as soon as the bull market kicks in; then every tiny good news can cause overreaction. Until then, we have to wait patiently...

Bitcoin price at present time is good because if we look at the present market situation it is the actual position of the crypto market and the abnormal fluctuations in the market seen in the last year 2017 and now we can say that price is stable in these days so we can say that future is prosperous.

in fact at this time the price of bitcoin dropped was very normal because at the beginning of the year bitcoin had already directed its highest price.
I think next year bitcoin will rise...

We do have the Lightning Network but you shouldn't expect the price to increase right away because of this. It's only a solution to the reduce the on chain transactions and there's not a lot of merchants that uses the Lightning Network. Maybe at some point in the future it could boost the price even more once the network gets busy again so that more merchants will be encouraged to use it.

The stability of the bitcoin when investors worry, they wonder whether in the future they will continue like or down much more, This somewhat affect the psychology of investors

Based on Bollinger Band width, Bitcoin reached these low levels of volatility in 2015 and 2016 as well. The price was stuck in a particularly tight range this last couple weeks, but overall this is nothing out of the ordinary.


The market is still reeling from the bubble pop last year, so it doesn't really matter how strong the underlying fundamentals are. The market cycles take time to play out.

For me, a stable crypto price is more welcomed than a volatile crypto price! It has several upsides and with a very little downside. Let me point those out for you,

1. Volatile pricing was one of the major bottleneck for the merchants to accept cryptos as a payment method. Because of the fluctuation risk, the potential to loose money over time was way higher. With a stable price, more merchants will be open to cryptos as a payment method because they won't have to deal with the price fluctuation.

2. Stable price is good because the market is not ready to sell cheaper than current price. It seems to have reached an unwritten consensus among the buyers and sellers. Only an impatient imbecile will sell it cheaper!

3. Stable pricing will effectively discourage a HODLer to hold the crypto for longer time with a hope of good return! It will encourage them to come out of their coffers and to be used as a currency (the original goal of crypto)

4. Stable price effectively encourage the market to see a long term sustainable growth over a period of time! If the fluctuation is not high, people will see a sustainable growth  very similar to the real world stock market because speculators will be acted out of the picture which effectively brings down the risk of huge slide!

So for me, stable pricing of a crypto is welcome than a volatile market. If you want to see a sustainable growth now, start using your cryptos as a currency whenever possible!

The stability of prices of altcoins and bitcoin has been a major concern that needs to be addressed. Most people are of the hope that market prices goes on well so that transactions become very smooth.

The fact still remains that, Bitcoin is more of a currency than what it used to be before now (it volatility), so, the price been see currently interpret Bitcoin stability, which is more of value than the former. Though the Lightning Network impact might not be felt now but in a way still work for Bitcoin price and putting the said digital currency (BTC) into global acceptability.

Probably the current users of bitcoin and the upgraded network are still the same. Not many people, who are new, are getting into the cryptocurrency scene. Unless they are putting in more money in it, so the volume would still increase, and demand would be added, leading to the rise in price.

I think what we need more is basically more mass adoption and the problems encountered during the ATH of Bitcoin could be solved by that Lightning network.

The price just looks like it's stable, although some volatility   is always present when we talk about Bitcoin price.
Many people are holding their coins waiting for the price to recover or because they bought Bitcoin for much biger price and that also influence the market. Also, new investors seemed to be a litte sustained.
Still I'm not worried because situation with price will change and we all know that changes happen in cycles. So at the moment it isn't maybe the best one but it will not last forever. When investing, patience is very important.

It's in beta, and it's not quite straightforward enough to use for the average joe. It's awesome that it's working well, but people won't really care about that until they can actually use it for their daily purchases.

I'd personally say stability is a good thing. Considering that the market thrives on developments, you'd imagine lack of developments would be bad for the market, but that hasn't held true at all. The other alternative, the way I see it, is people lose interest and a sell-off occurs. I'm fine with stability lol.

Although there is a lot of good news about Crypto, you should be sympathetic to it, because the financial world is not stable at the moment. Every home has a huge debt and financial markets are now falling apart. So when bitcoin kept the price above 6k $, that was a success.

The LN hype over the bitcoin price is gone a long time ago.Just don't expect the Lightning Network to be a bitcoin price booster.The current bitcoin price stability is good and bad at the same time.
It's good, because the bulls and aggressive traders are waiting,and it's bad for the same reason. ;D

In this case the crypto price is indeed difficult to predict or stability for now,
All crypto experienced the same thing about prices going down but I am sure this is a positive sign for the crypto world to buy as much as possible the main thing is patience when prices experience a sharp decline.
For that, if we buy as much as possible, be patient a little to wait for the price to go up and sell it, now for the future, I'm sure the crypto price will be stable.

After 9 months of decline from last year's price, here is bitcoin very stable between $6,200 and $6,500. This might give us a hint that the stable price of bitcoin is between this range. Some investors are just feeling sad probably the hype of 2017. As experts are saying one way to be mainstream is to be stable.

Here is bitcoin very stable.

The price of bitcoin may be quite stable now, however, can we tell if this stability has a benefit? We keep saying that stability will make companies start accepting bitcoin as payments. We also say that people may join the crypto world once the price drops at a reasonable rate that many people may be able to afford, but does anyone know if it has affected the market in good terms?

Price stability can only come when crypto is regulated and there is some governing body which controls the crypto. Until that time whales will keep on manipulating it to their benefits by pumping and dumping it and will never let it to be stable.

The lighten network is not doing much for the price stability because it is not a factor that determines the price of bitcoin. what determines the price are :
1. supply of bitcoin and market demand for it
2. number of competing cryptocurrencies
3.exchanges it is traded on
4.regulations governing its sale
5.it is internal governance.

I had to check a bitcoin chart just now, because I get confused on dates and such, and it looks like from October 2014 to October 2015 the price was trading in a pretty narrow range under $300.  And then from December 2015 to around May 2016, bitcoin was again stuck in a range of $380-$450 (or thereabouts).  So periods of price stability have happened in the past, so I'm not surprised we're seemingly in one of those periods now--and I'll add that I'm grateful this time the range bitcoin is "stuck" in is above $6000.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again:  stability is exactly what you want if you're using bitcoin to buy things, or if you're a merchant that accepts bitcoin without a payment processor who converts bitcoin to fiat.  But if you're holding bitcoin as an investment or if you're a trader, obviously stability isn't your friend. 

I'm a little bit in both of the above categories.  I don't actively trade, but I'd definitely like what bitcoin I have to appreciate in value.  I also spend bitcoin now fairly regularly, so for me it's fine if the price is stable (or at least doesn't drop). 

The bitcoin market behaves weird sometimes, but none of what we've seen is really out of the ordinary.  Plus news of development tends to get priced in very quickly.  I'm a believer in efficient markets for the most part.

So far I have known this is the year that Bitcoin makes a stable price in the market, it took how many months that being stability price.
I like the idea who posted above, he stated very well. Indeed, encouraging us to help the market grow by keep holding on our Bitcoin to our portfolio to make demand lessen and make the price expensive. Also in trading that's make contribute the market green.IMO.

The crypto market is always a secret to us all and Bitcoin has never been simple and easy to understand. We just see the price does not change much. It's hard to make a judgment at this point.The current price is still acceptable over 2014 but we need more.

Yeah, The Lighting Network was first proposed by Thaddes Dryja and Joseph Poon in a prospectus in 2015 to create a new revolution in Bitcoin that helps make payments faster and at a lower cost.

The stability of bitcoin at a lower price might be healthy in the future for bitcoin in terms of financial usefulness. The lower the volatility, the lesser the risk of investment. This scenario might atrract large-scale investors to invest in bitcoin due to lower risk.

Ha ha ha....
Next year? Since when?
Don't dream of going up next year, the current prices are getting lower and lower, maybe you need to do research, not make predictions.

Well I think it is because of people remain keeping their bitcoin to see how the price can move up to the next level that is expected higher than before. I cat tell whether it is good or bad since people has different situation and consideration. Just waiting and enjoying the moments ahead, can we be stronger in this situation or not, can we tak a profit from  this or not.                                           

This is definitely not a unique situation, but it's understandable that you haven't seen it yet, since you've been here since 2014.
I remember that the price was also very stable, right after the Mt. Gox crash.

I think it was hovering around a couple hundred dollars for months after the even, only to slowly start rising again.

This isn't a prediction or anything like that, just saying that this situation is definitely not new.

Here are the charts from back then, see almost the same sort of stability as we're seeing now.
Even the time-frame seems similar.

https://i.imgur.com/OBrVoPQ.png

The market can never be eternal stability. It’s just that the market is gathering strength for further movement and as soon as a sufficient volume appears, we will see a roller coaster. It's my opinion.

I remember how that was the time people were pointing at to be an accumulation opportunity, and similarly, I have been pointing out for a while now that current stability offers an amazing accumulation opportunity.

I do believe that there is still downwards potential in the short term, but that is nothing to be afraid of. In my book a lower price means more coins for the same amount of fiat, and that's something I won't ever say no to.

The thing with most people is that they really need the price to increase in order to finally start buying, because that's the only way for them to know if the market is doing good or bad. Down is bad, up is good. It's that simple.

The stability is a bit heart pounding, but it's still normal, although the price is stable the transaction volume, the demand and supply still in a normal rate, so we don't need to be worry, for now we are lacking of new investors, many people still wait for the right moment to invest and some even still traumatised with the huge drop on the early year, because of not too many stores and people are using bitcoin as currency, the development doesn't affect too much on the price

The situation does not concern only one Bitcoin. The price of bitcoin at the present time can be still quite good and the stability of this price also. However, in such a situation, the entire cryptocurrency market has been stagnant for almost a year now. Altcoins generally almost a year in decline. The situation with the ICO is simply disastrous. Therefore, it’s not even a bitcoin case. I am most worried about other types of cryptocurrency.

The condition of the market right now its either stable or bear
I dont know until when is this accumulation stage or maybe its true that it will still get lower as it is right now

Price stability can not really be achieved by the cryptocurrency world ,the individual altcoins , for  cryptoct currency coins are not stable but it will always change every now and then , that is why bitcoins and the whole cryptos is being term as very volatile.

indeed we all really hope if the price of the crypto currency can be stable in the trading market. and for the past 10 years, this year the crypto price has decreased significantly and has made crypto users anxious and many crypto users have stopped because they have suffered huge financial losses. and this year the crypto price is very difficult to rise and tends to continue to decline. no one can predict and prevent price fluctuations.

I think the stability is good for bitcoin so the merchant can add bitcoin as the new option for the payment and now yes, we are stable at a price now. But I am sure that bitcoin price will not stop on the price now, but it will increase higher and then will stable like now. And if we check on the history, we could see the bitcoin price moves from lower price to the higher price, and it will always happen, but of course, there will be a correction of the price so bitcoin price can increase higher. The stable conditions now will change and will move bitcoin price to the new level of the price so the price can jump to the higher price.

with high price fluctuations, in my opinion provide its own advantages, of course, traders will be happy with such conditions, of course, will have many opportunities to get profit

I believe we would see price stability when most project begin to have a working product.

Price stability in my opinion may vary and implementation of LN is a good thing but I guess it isn't ready yet. Considering on the latest price I can see that crypto whales are still on play.

The media do a great job of informing the public about cryptocurrencies. Even despite the fact that sometimes talk about cryptocurrencies from the bad side. All the same, we can clearly see that this sphere is actively developing. Yes, prices have fallen and become more stable. But there are more and more projects based on cryptocurrency, coins are often used as a means of payment for goods and services, the number of exchanges and people working with cryptocurrencies has increased. This is significant progress.

No one can know any of the question you are asking bro, the only thing we practically know now is the fact that this is a market that is trying to find a direction and as a result of that, we can consider the market choosing some level of stability before we get to see that eventually but it is nothing new, it has happened before, it will happen again, until at least we get to see bitcoin in a very usable state when it is something that has grown to the level of huge adoption as well as usage, and I believe that would make stability become normal to some extent, or will I say less volatility actually, as I do not like considering things like this stability.

I am no expert in cryptocurrency but all I can only say is that btc is somewhat like more of a stabilized cryptocurrency where it is playing between the $6K to $6.5K level in the past several months. Despite of the existing Lightining Network contribution of btc in which it had an improved in the transaction speed which is more faster than before and all of what has been improved actually has not change the market price to rise up higher breaking the resistance. Anyways, I still believe that btc may still make a history and make a bullish market before the year ends which most people are waiting to happen soon.

At least it can boost the price but I guess it's not that much to reach the previous ATH. If the price is more like stable one, then we can tell that the development of it is stable so we have nothing to worry about the currency prices in the market.

Maybe it will going to rise in the end of this year, As of now the price of bitcoin was stable and still in a value of $6000. But that was not drop so much, Than the other coins in the market they are look like a shitcoins because of the price are not totally back in a high price but still go down so much. In that way must better to sell them early than to hold.

No no no there will no be any price stability , every 2 years we are going x10 then again back to bear run and wait another bull run.... every time the same thing happened

The current price of bitcoin is stable for a short time. It seems the market has changed the way it works. But that is not the advantage of traders now. We need to change strategy, long-term investment will be a wise decision.

Many people still feel traumatic about the bitcoin price fall from $20.000 to $6.500. market still afraid about bitcoin. Although the development of technology could give good impact to bitcoin and can make the price rise but investors who have many bitcoin can make the price fall although they only sell $2000 btc aproximately, that amount is enough to influence bitcoin market.

everyone wants a stable and better price than now. but this cannot be easily predicted, hopefully the market situation in the future is better than now.

The price is stable, it can be a light for the future, but no one is sure that this will happen. Price volatility of Bitcoin causes people's interest. If the price remains constant, we should forget the gains as in 2017. Many owner will leave cos they are here to earn more and they have no reason to stay here.

you are so long with crypto, but such stability as we have this year seems so unusual to you?! We should to thank God that bitcoin is so so stable, at least it doesn't get cheaper, right? ;D Just remind how many time bitcoin needed to reach 1k $ and if you remind this you will stop to expect from the coin any high and fast jumps anymore.

I really appreciate the stability as well. This is another sign of a healthy growth down the line. We truly need when comparing with a huge fall after the massive spike in 2017.

Lightning network is still in the testing phase so its not yet on its full potential.I think what OP talks about price stability is like those old days when we have $15,000 ~ $20,000 and that's stable. There's assurance that you can sell anytime with those prices. But right now, this is how the market reacts and I think it has some connections to other markets.

I think stability on price is hard in cryptocurrency. Price movement very high and i think its usual because demand and supply can change in a minute. Lightning network good for bitcoin but investor prefer wait and see on the price right now because bear market

Price stability and volatility are both have pros and cons on their sides. If the price of bitcoin is stable than the people who sell stuff can put a set price on bitcoin value and get paid in that without worrying much about the drops or increases in the price however the price stability also kills the adoption because so far in the bitcoin history people have come because they believed the price was going up and they want to be part of this and make money from it. Hence, price stability has both good and bad parts about it.

On the other hand price volatility helped us get bigger prices so far and the traders have made immense amount of money from it and that helped more and more people to flock into bitcoin world and try to make money otherwise they couldn't.

Moreover, the drops and the increases in the price even though helped the traders and new people it really didn't helped at all when it comes to buying/selling stuff everywhere, if it was too stable we could have had much more places on world where we could spend bitcoin instead if fiat.

Those who were going to buy cryptocurrencies have already done this, but for new users is probably not enough.

price stability cannot be done by anyone because there is no coin that is truly stable in price, the price of the coin rises erratically at all times. coins are usually stable at the end of the year but that is only temporary.

in my opinion by looking at the movements that have taken place from last year, indeed this year's movement is unusual, but the reasons are clear, and also changes in the system and trust in crypto are getting better, only investors still think long to invest, and also the issue that made the crypto players decide too quickly to sell their coins

Price stability is realistic, and this has been achieved for over two month with little change in price, I feel this is as a result of lots of investors still expecting a final correction of Bitcoin and some are waiting for the bullish period of 2018. The future is bright for the cryptocurrency space.

Hopefully yes! But it does not mean that lightning network is only the factor that will boost the price of Bitcoin. We have some news that will attract big investors. Once whales will wake up. I assure that the price continuously moving up. We must not depend on a single information because it may lose and our expectation may despair also.

I do not know why, but this "stability" worries me almost more than the volatility I was used to.
Certainly it is a prelude to some kind of explosion, but I would like to know in which direction. Like everyone else.

in my opinion, with the current market conditions which have experienced the most fatal and long-term decline in history, they have a good side and a bad side.

on the good side all the price of coins has dropped very significantly, far from the estimates of people who have been crypto for a long time. we can buy it back at a very cheap price and believe that next year's market conditions will probably be enough to make us smile at the assets we have.

but the negative side can be said that throughout this year we have to be patient and wait a long time to be able to take advantage of the coins we have invested.

Right, that is the nature of all coins and the influence of how the market conditions at that time. I see nothing is really stable, even in a stable state the price of a coin changes, but it is so small and not too influential, because if crypto is stable, it might have been accepted by all government for a long time.

No one knows where it goes but you gotta have some patience in you to continue of what you have started. The market doesn't affect anything right now, nor doesn't care about the good or bad news. Maybe we can't see bull run this year and we should wait it until halving or maybe next year who knows?
The market stability for bitcoin seems like playing a lot in previous days as i have noticed.

As long as it still changes in prices, I think it's okay. We shouldn't expect it also.

The more important factor now in the market is that the miners are now probably cashing out their Bitcoins to sustain their energy-hungry mining systems and other necessities to make themselves run their mining farm. I just read it somewhere but I forgot where. I agree with that factor because if you are the owner of that business, why shouldn't you cash out? I think it's better to pay the bills first rather than some other stuff.

Getting a stabilized price for the coins especially bitcoin is not certain to be much focused on. You can make several predictions and it will all turn around to a side you would not even think of that.

Yes, everyone wanted the price stability in the cryto world. But let us not expect to much on that, let us just focus on buying those low price.

the truth is we can on tell if this happens,I believe in the capacity of lightning network to bring solutions to lots of issues and troubles cryptonians had experienced last Hype

But lets not forget that this is not enough to bring badk investors as all they need is assurance and reality about their money.and having this market will remain as what it was doing till now.this is a sad reality that we must admit

now prices tend to be stable, and many people don't like it. because there really is no profit. many hope that prices will soon rise with a large fluaktuasi, but it doesn't seem to be that fast.

I still even do not see anything heart pounding about it, considering the fact that this is nothing new. I am sure I really do not start need to buttress on that, since a lot of people above me have shared past movement of bitcoin during this period with some series of stability for a very long period, which is more like we seeing history repeating itself again now.

Over time, as we get to see more people getting to use bitcoin, and a lot of merchants are accepting it in real life, I am pretty sure we will get to see a lot of stability but before then, I would have imagined the level at which the market would have skyrocketed.

to achieve current stability is very difficult, because with users who are still minimal it will certainly be easier to control. unless indeed all countries have permitted it, of course it will be more difficult to control

Price stability will not last long, because a stable market does not give income to cryptoinvestors and funds. I think that the wave movements of prices will begin very soon.

There are some impacts that will be caused if the price of bitcoin continues to stabilize at a price of $ 6500, the first impact of every investor who started investing last year precisely in December will suffer high losses and even some of them will leave and will not invest in cryptocurrency.

The second impact, the volatility of bitcoin prices is an excuse for new investors, some government and merchants are reluctant to accept cryptocurrency as a payment system, so if the price of bitcoin starts to stabilize and there isn't even a drastic drop in prices and drastic price increases they will gladly accept bitcoin.

No man. LN is still away from being use as a way of payment. It still need to improve to have a significant impact in the market. The price is stable right now because most people are focus on ETF right now. I don't think it's a good thing though. But At least we are not falling.

There is not even a single stability anywhere. So far, we have seen a lot of slight changes in movement, and the possibility of the market trying to move to the uptrend at the moment, all it takes is just a quick spike and then we will see the huge volatility kick in back again as normal.

It is understandable in most cases that when the market is trying to look for a direction, there is always usually a low volume, and then a lot of traders staying on the sidelines, which is a temporary thing, and not to ever be considered any form of stability at all, which in this case, the market for a while has been moving back and forth from $6k to $7k and lesser as we reach the apex of the triangle which in this case looks like a market which is ready to move upward.

But then psychology must be inclined with what they cam predict. Investors do not need to worry to kuch because such activity happens in the cryptocurrency market is a good indication that it will rise soon enough, this might happen before the uear ends or even 2019. Just wait.

There is no stability with crypto market price. There is only a small scale market price volatility. I know what you were worried all about because we know how bad market for cryptocurrency is now. This is now a fight between holding and selling.

Enduring now would be the key to success or be the reason to lose all the money invested in crypto. Probably no one knows the answer on what will happen to cryptocurrency. Probably, it should be best if one is investing to watch over the market and pull out investment if market will have to get more market price down.

I think the news is made by the whale and it has no credible evidence. This is a market of manipulation and fake news is always overflowing to make investors anxious and sell quickly. We should not believe too much in the news.

Features and price stability are two different things, despite that BTC is down some economist will still tell you that it is overpriced at this $6k+. As for the lightning network development, more features is still expected on that and I don't think that's what will affect price but will only make it more of a valued asset.

It is indeed a good news. Of course a good news gives a good profit. But do not expect that much for the price to increase just because of this. It's unpredictable that the price will rise or fall. But based on the price, we are experiencing a stable price compared to months that passed.

If you say that you didn’t see such a thing happen before then that means you’re lying about being here around 2014. 2014 to 2015 were the nuclear bear market, and the price was slow and became stable after dropping. It’s not a new thing so you guys should stop complaining. We even went through things that seemed to be worst in 2017 and a lot of people said Bitcoin is dead but it didn’t. If you can’t have patience then you should quit.

I also think so, because if you see the price movement of bitcoin from year to year it always forms a similar pattern, where when every mid to the end of the year the price of bitcoin always goes down, and starts to rise again in the beginning until mid-year. will be formed again at the beginning of next year and I hope that it can continue to be repeated so that investors will be easy to make decisions whether selling or buying

no one knows the price of cryptocurrency will go to any price depending on the demand, when the demand is not too much then it certainly will not experience rapid price movements and when there is very much demand the price will move quickly which is show that the price of bitcoin will never be stable.

I think price stability will never be happe, crypto will remain unstable because day by day its demand is growing which it is the reason why its price sudden change. If the price of cryptocurrency change upward then it means many investors are believed to it, but even many people are believe it is still goes down once many people are going to hold and when they sell their crypto.

The market for cryptocurrencies is very sluggish, the decline in trading volume leads to price stability, and the volatility of major cryptocurrencies continues to show a downward trend!
Unless there is financial and financial investment in cryptocurrency, the market for cryptocurrencies is hard to prosper!

Prices stability is a good thing. Companies wishing to adopt cryptocurrencies want more stability to avoid any risks.
The problem is that Bitcoin price is to low compared to how much it is expected to be because if it remains stable at this price, it will have no value on the market.

Yes, but my concern right now more than the price stability is that with the price sitting around 6000USD, shouldn't it have encouraged people to start using it, and for business establishments to start accepting bitcoins as payments? Do you think the price may not be low enough or stable enough for people to wanna get into it, or is bitcoin maybe the problem after all?

No one can predict if bitcoin price will rise again or continue its downdall until next year. Until now eveybody are hoping for the time it will rise again. Price stability of bitcoin can never happen  we all know that btc is volatile as long as  more and more are engage in bitcoin and investors continue investing price will not stable.

Yeah, if it's gonna happend I think we will see a really nice increase. Indeed there is a lot of issues with goverment acceptance which we should go through then question about lightning network take it's side

Yes.I also think that price stability will never happen because the market price which is very volatile will always make its price upside down.But if time comes that a mass adoption for bitcoin will take place and that the government will accept it already,maybe btc price will somehow be stable.

In my opinion at the end of this year the price will rise and the decrease will end. The price indeed cannot be stable or controlled by anyone, but there are a lot of whales who manipulate the price where they often pla (http://yubster.com)y and make some people panic.

This stability is new and we should be familiar with it for a long time. Because this stability will last a long time and that will be the nature of the market in the future. We need to get used to it and make the right strategies to make money. we can not delay in chasing trends.

Bitcoin prices cannot be predicted easily, it looks like bitcoin is like a commodity that if market demand increases automatically prices will also rise, it is not that simple because bitcoin still has the possibility of price increases with news supporting improvements such as the Japanese government recognizes bitcoin until the Japanese change their law, this greatly affects the value of Bitcoin.

I know that bitcoin price is very stable and i have seen that bitcoin is now stable currency and it is good because with this stability crypto investment is affected and it is normal that when the price rise some users rapidly come to this side for buying and when the market is bear they are avoiding buying but for transactions stability is good.

When the price seems like heading up, after a few days it would go down again that's why investors are frustrated because of the price stability. As for the traders, it is a good opportunity to trade because even if the price goes up and down, there is still volatility which makes it a good opportunity to trade for short term. Others are now thinking of knowing how to trade because while traders are happy about the price, investors are patiently or impatiently waiting.

You know, the thing is the aspect a lot of people tend to put the term stability is usually always funny and in a way even with sideways movement, market has been drifting back and forth and I do not see that in any way as a form of stability. That aside!

Considering the fact that this is a new market and a young one, coupled with the fact that it is a decentralized market, like you said, stability is impossibility as we cannot get to see that happen at any point. Based on other markets, there is no way there will never be fluctuations, as that is a normal thing, even as this market gets more matured.

The market was down for a couple of months and i am quite sure more investors and crypto holders' assets were affected on the fall down of crypto prices. It went down but i think it's better that it stayed stagnant on a low price rather than falling it deeper more. I also believe that it is just temporary and will never last any longer as the bull run is coming on the way.

We have once again been able to once again make sure that there is no price stability of Bitcoin. There can only be a temporary balance between supply and demand, caused by a lull in the market, which is perceived by the market as price stabilization. However, it is rather an exception to the general rules. On Wednesday, November 14, the cryptocurrency dropped sharply in its price, and this showed that nothing had changed. It has remained with the same high degree of volatility as it was before.

It is seen very difficult that bitcoin price will stable in future and crypto volatility is high so it is now allowing crypto to recover and it is very difficult to say that it will recover so price some time stable and some time market shows fluctuations but an how the market is good for trading now.

If you are considering price stability as good news, then I think this is bad at your point. How can you consider this even? You never would have stability in prices and if it is so, believe me bitcoin would lose all its charm and blossom. Reason is simple, bitcoin is different from other sources just because of giving big ratio of profits that are only because of this volatile nature.

Implementing the lightning network has nothing to do with the prices,the price only increase when there are more investors enters into the market and now the price is not stable it just fell again after too long from the range of $6000.

The price may increase in the upcoming years just because if new year so people will have mindset which is different from 2018 bearish trend.

I believe that this trip is just temporary for cryptocurrencies as what i can see in the history. This year may be the toughest year of crypto but i never stop believing that a goo reversal of trend will happen next year if ETF will be bringing good result in the crypto economics.

It may be the tough year but not the tough road ahead. Market will make the presence felt soon just matter of time when the dip is happening and when it recovers we know how quickly in matter of days the price rises and everybody who stays invested get their returns on their money invested.

Current situation is ideal for people to accumulate more coins especially coins like bitcoin, ETH and ripple. All these coins are available for cheaper prices and have solid background and can thus give huge returns in short time.

There are a lot of factors that are holding the growth of top 10 coins like availability of so many coins.

No price boost as of the moment but instead we got price decline.

Its not difficult for me to say that it will recover because I believe that it will but I can't tell on how long does we have to wait for that time.

Yes their will be an assurance to lead all along. The process will not stable as what we have seen all the time. In the market it will nout for long and it will down for ome reason. The market will stand for long od we have assunace of it. The crypto world will progress as what we planned for in the success.

I think with the exception of the recent decline, the start of the fourth quarter of the year showed stabillity in bitcoin coin price though it was low. Others consider that stable price as the true price of bitcoin compared to the bubble price last year. That stability could brought bitcoin to bull run in December. But, reality checks two days ago.

Price stability is being hate by some of the people here and being expected by most and actually whether between the too this community will progress but in different time span, if the bitcoin price was very stable people will never be bother about the price speculation, and they can expect what or how muxh they could get if the price was unstablw the possibility for having extra bubble in certain period of time, but preferably it is better if it doesnt have to be stable.

there are no stable coins and they can go down anytime, so it's difficult to predict. stability will only last temporarily and will definitely decrease again. this is the risk so we have to accept it and it is common with us.

Looks more to me as a regression factor. It’s like somebody have frozen the whole market. Also taking into account it is the end of the year, and last year run was more as something strange rather logical technical and fundamental outcome. Simply speaking last December-January was a "pump and dump" festival.

hope the price stability of crypto is ridiculous, you should and we know that price fluctuations are very common in crypto and that is common because there is no benchmark price for the origin of crypto starting. the development of the electricity network guarantees more price stability than the crypto field

The crypto space is still very new and the older it gets, the less volatile it becomes and the more usable it becomes, which in this case, I am sure the value is not even something that would not have skyrocketed hugely more than this. Absolutely, relating with that, we can know that the volatility of bitcoin is not what it used to be few years back.

A lot of things have changed, development is popping up every single time, the market is growing the more, institutions are stepping in the more, so it is a normal thing to see the space get more matured over time, and it is that maturity that will bring about a less volatile environment, and that is if we want to decide to compare with fiat anyway.

There are many tokens, which also deserve your attention. Probably, they are not as popular as the cryptocurrencies that you have mentioned but these alts have a great potential. I like Gladius, Napoleon X, and Credits.

The market has stabilized in the last two weeks and now it has been operating as it was. is still the constant manipulation of the organization. But the price of bitcoin is at risk and this challenges investors alot. This will be the time to decide who is rich or who is poor.

Sometimes investor just want to speculate and making profits and they ignore about technology. There is many improvement in bitcoin and cryptocurrency world but most investor panic because regulation news and thats make market drop sharply

I think, if we look at cryptocurrency prices or value since last years, I think cryptocurrencies have made a huge jump when it comes to gaining value, and still did a great job in keeping their price higher than the last 3 years, but the problem is that, people who are new here and just jumped over crypto last year, are just seeing the value from last year, which is really high, so I cant blame them for saying that cryptocurrency is dying, because they are not yet here when the prices are much lower.

Do you actually want this price stability? How then can it be achieved? I believe it is through regulations that crypto and Bitcoin can have stable price on the market. But if that happens, will Bitcoin and crypto as a whole remain decentralized?

Not for now because market price has drop for more and now it recorded below 5k in just an instance after having it on the range og 5.5K per bitcoin. You see stability is not happening because we know the nature of cryptocurrency and that is the highly volatile in nature. Just see the graph @coinmarketcap.com website and see if there is any crypto that stabilized its market price even USDT has market price fluctuation.

You are even taking things a whole lot too far, as what you saw recently was just the market trying to find a direction and consolidating before that direction, that is not something I classify as permanent stability and it was just for the mean time obviously, as everyone who is conversant with the market will obviously know that already.

However, in the long run, there is no market that can be completely stable when tagged with another currency, and I do not see bitcoin getting stable at all, the only difference we might get to see when there is a huge real life usage is less volatility, and that is about the highest we are ever going to be getting.

Yeah even the current fiat system can't be labeled as stable with currencies changing values every now and then. Crypto's volatility is just a couple of notches higher since it's just at an early stage. And that's also why it can't be seen right now at the same line as fiat when it comes to transactional use.

Price stability can possible to happen but it not take longer because price suddenly change all the time. And the reason why the price change immediately is because the rising demand and at the same time the people who give up to it. But in the end it will become more valuable because everytime many people are getting interested to crypto so the price is also change.

Actually in year 2017, price of BTC made extra jump and thats why now people are so much exhusted about BTC price. If price would 10k$ in 2017, market would stable at present moment. Extra things are always very bad. I think BTC market is now in middle position and very soon it will come up and others will also.

Yes it is but you know you can play the market very well if you know how to trade using the various techniques and ideas that's being used by the professional traders. It may be bearish for a long time but once it is bull run the amount that you used as an investment will make it double or might get triple depending on how you handle your trading strategy.

I mean we are aleady working at a "boosted" price. That is because we are just coming down from an all time high spike that we don't actually see it and would assume that we are in a bear market. Step back and look at the trends and you will see that we are on the green compared to the last 5 years. Besides, we want stability not a price spike.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies market need to be stable for online and offline business to used it.  We are still waiting for this as bitcoin is still at the early stages of it developments.  I believe that when institutional investors came into the market then bitcoin will be a bit stable.

Price stability must be dangerous. Any long-term lateral stability will inevitably fall sharply. When the capital is to escape, the whale will also take the lead to escape. Only true giant whales are not afraid of the decline in the market.

But I think the bitcoin market will not be stable because of the high demand in the market, which seems to be the bitcoin market will continue to be volatile. We have gone through a period where the price of bitcoin bitcoin can last around $6k yesterday, but it cannot continue continuously because this decentralized market manipulation will continue to move on demand.

I think we must be confident about bitcoin. It always been shooting up once down for long. As much it says at down, the more pressure with it comes after. So be hopeful and don’t lose your heart.

Why do you think price stability will be dangerous? This is something that would depend on usage in the long run, so in that case there is nothing dangerous about it, but the truth is that whether we like it or not, even with the stability, when it comes to the comparison between fiat, there will always be fluctuations, It is a market, there would always be time when demand becomes far more than supply and vice versa, so even if it is not something huge when it comes to percentage based on the volatility level we are seeing now, there would still always be some action in the market.

When mainstream adoption comes in, and the institutions already have gained a higher ground, I am pretty sure stability or let me use the word little volatility is something that would eventually be a thing. It is all about the market being usable in real life, and with that happening, there would be some sort of equilibrium between demand and supply, and even if there is fluctuation, it would not be as much as we are seeing now, but in that case, I am pretty sure the market would have grown past this in an unimaginable way based on the rate of adoption.

I think the price of bitcoin will always follow market demand, the higher the demand, the bitcoin value will be much higher compared to now, now at least 40% of the world community knows the existence of bitcoin and many blockchain systems that use transactions between countries around the world.
many governments worry about the existence of this blockchain which constitutes a constraint in adapting to the virtual services of fiat currencies of each country, but bitcoin will continue their service revolution to become the leading service
and will make stable virtual currencies periodically.

prices are stable only during the consolidation area, we can see price of around $ 6000 yesterday. after a downward breakout, we can see that price is now below $ 4000

to say stable prices I think the crypto currency until now has been stable nothing has always changed because maybe that has become the nature of the crypto currency so in my opinion stable at a price definitely not

Price is volatile in market and bitcoin price is low now so the price of crypto is not stable anytime so be careful while doing trading and investing.

Well yes, it should have given the price of Bitcoin and in fact any other crypto currency a boost but fact of the matter is, the price correction for the early year price spike is devastating that it just slowed it down. Then again, other people think that there is a different reason for this so let's see what they have for us.

We already know how the market is really volatile, expect maybe in the last couple of months wherein we enjoyed relatively stable price of $6k-$6500 because other says that its around the ballpark number that miners is still making a profit. However, with the sudden drastic price movement, its really hard to say, we may see the price going deep again. So for me, I still exit at this point and not to trade as much as I did from the past.

my opinion is present environment of the cryptocurrency is not good because of many people are dumping their coins to very cheap rate just for making money so this the main reason the price is always volatile.

The price of the bitcoin will not become stable as you think!  The value of the bitcoin id always changing as time passing by because of the supply and the demand in the market.

Well, the price of bitcoin and even other altcoins will be able to be stable if they really get mass adoption and make them have very high volume.
But we can see that it still not happen yet.

You got your answer a few weeks later and the answer is no, bitcoin is a very volatile coin so if it is showing a period of stability then that probably means that there is not enough demand to push the price up, if you take the time to look at what happened in the past you will see that many of the increases in its price have been very sudden and almost without any warning, so the most likely thing to happen when you see stable prices is that the price will go down after that period which is exactly what happened.

Now the issue is that the price is not stopping on its way down and many people are very worried about what kind of levels we are going to reach if the price does not stabilize.

This fluctuating price has indeed become the original nature of the cryptocurrency world where the price can change at any time without our knowledge. yes indeed this is the risk when we are here so we have to accept it. there is no risky work, everything is certainly risky.

The autumn of 2018 has proved it. Bitcoin volatility was extremely low for a long time. Late September and October were the months of stability. After that, almost all the cryptocurrencies fell.

In crypto market no one coin is stable it is always volatile, so we can't predict the price of cryptocurrency.

Well i think stability is good for currency and stability on cryptocurrency is really weird and i dont think its good and will last long. I believe volatility is the thing that make people invest in crypto, and most people who investing their money in crypto are investors that need a fast profit from the investments. I believe volatility is good things and that what makes exchange a live .

it is trading market and it is always volatile so we can't predict the price stability in any coin.

the same hope that I often hear from investors and I feel confidence and patience remain the main capital in investing and in my opinion the development of crypto currencies depends on the investor itself

it is true because so far no one has been able to predict a market that really came true, so the market is very difficult to predict because the market often experiences price changes

The question is , is it become volatile because of manipulation or not? This is the problem for me, i think cryptomarket is still easy to be manipulated since it doesnt have high enough volume. As you can see that while there is no big news , the price is still suddenly falling or pumping.

Price stability, it is good for a long term period. Bitcoin hype causes a volatility! As what you have said, many people see bitcoin as a short term hodling investment. Many companies are still doubt to join in crypto space because they don't want their money to become shit. They want to have stability in price of bitcoin so that, they can buy it anytime.

Due to many Etf coming in the market we can't really say when the price of btc market will be stable but we can see certain price fluctuations until the trillion dollar market capitalization

I don't know, i mean there should be favourable movement in crypto currency price with the onset of multiple projects and development but then again, it alright. I mean this extended period of a bear market makes it easier for me buy more crypto currency and even be a bit reckless about it since it is all so cheap.

As of this time the bitcoin price is getting lower but their is a hope that time will come it will gi higher through the effort and patience of the supporters and the team to be guided for what is for real. We are all hoping for positive outcome of the bitcoin so that everyone will be happy.

I don’t really get you. So you have been into this for like five years now and you have not seen the price stable for once? That’s a lie. This is not the first time. I know what you getting at though, you just want the price to go up, that’s simply what you want to say and I will advise you to better have patience and that’s all. The price won’t continue to be going up all the time, when it goes up, it will also drop down.

in crypto world we can't predict and we can't see the price stability now the price is decreasing drastically and coin supply is also getting decrease.

if cryptocurrency price stable in limited range, when we could generate from.from its volatility we could generate profits and make our investment growth.

I'm expecting a price buff with Lightning network but other than that it's capacity has increased.

I guess we really had to go with this bear market and wait for it to end. Prices are unstable if we will always base on it, there's uncertain basis with it if that's regular basis of everyone.

Bitcoin is unstable most of the time because of its limited or fixed supply that cause it price up and down rapidly. Another one is the high volatility of the bitcoin, which is also the reason why it is unstable, even an small events, trades, or business activities can significantly affect the price of the top coin. Some experts believes that this volatility will eventually decrease as bitcoin market and the technology matures.

the price of bitcoin are not really stable its just a lot of problem, but never focus on that situation just focus on good never in bad

I think the whole idea why the cryptocurrency had dropped is not about the lightning network that could boost the processes to make more effective. The whole idea is about the current status of the market and how so many people really had been using bitcoin just for holding the coins and not even using it actually in a realistic way. This creates a  real problem because as people suddenly changes their minds and convert their coins back to fiat, it would certainly affect the prices and thus others may follow out of fear especially if they are doing just the same. If only bitcoin was used for actual usage it would have change its value easily back to ATH. So I think we need to boost real usage to avoid this scenario in the future. But worry not so much I know we are just beginning and real usage will come after this for sure.

Right. There should be a bottom to this trend somewhere and we'll eventually bounce from there. Problem is, a lot of us can't really afford the long wait or can't stand this kind of movement. It's going to be a while before we stabilize in a price that we want.

Let those can't afford to wait, stay away for awhile or leave totally.

Only time can tell on how and when this bear would end. I'm holding my horses right now and preparing for that surprise that I'm expecting by 2019.

with a world crisis coming, some countries in collapse, I believe in a bull run, but we do not know when, to believe that the bitcoin has gone up slowly, only support the halving that will have a possible significant high!

well i think that blockchain technology that we know lightning network is doesn't affected with the price in it, because price in the market is about supply and demand about it and that can make the value about bitcoin price in it so it can't make a big impact to change the market

I believe so.The price will surely won't stay for long in a low price.There will be a time that it will rise up suddenly and those people who never failed in hoping and holding their coins will get their rewards soon.This lightning network that most people have expected have not made an impact to make a price increase.Maybe we should be more patient about this.

Nowadays the value of bitcoin is getting worse and I continue believing that the price of bitcoin will recover again in proper time. The price of bitcoin nowadays is continue falling which many holder of it is expecting that the price of bitcoin this December will up. Maybe sooner or before December ends the price of bitcoin recover. Just believe that the price of bitcoin will recover someday.

bitcoin has always risen since it was first created, but now prices are falling and long periods of time have not shown good change, this does not mean a bad market but indeed the world is not good enough, especially after the Chinese vs USA trade war, this very influential on business people throughout the world, this also results in a sluggish bitcoin currency on the market, but things like this usually last not long, because all traders will rise from the fall.

The Lighting Network is not fully actualized as planned although it has a good impact on the market. The correction that followed the all time bull market in December, 2017 was massive which eventually led to panic selling because the naive ones thought the market was collapsing. This raised the withrawal rate against the deposit rate.
The market will recover but will need effort from crypto users by avoiding all forms of FUD and beginning effective awareness creation to reach out to new investors.

while there are many issues that cause Bitcoin to withdraw from this scheme, making the moment the giant players on the market increasingly like this situation and they are not too difficult to benefit from the crypto.view view of 2019 Bitcoin and crypto go through that increasevaries gradually and price stability can be achieved in all crypto markets.

    Right now the bitcoin price is very low 176 th.selling price. this is the time to plan to buy bitcoin when the price is very low hoping to bounce back the price but you need to invest first to help the market recover.s.o.p.

I personally hope the current Bitcoin price will be stable and the lowest at the moment, so that we can see the bitcoin price increase slowly in the future. Because bitcoin has fallen from the price of $ 20k to the current price of $ 3393

The market will rebound but it will take a lot of time. The price of bitcoin will fluctuate between $ 6k5 and $ 7k in 2019 and we can not expect that price to be higher. Investing now will help us make a profit x2 next year.

Well, its now obvious that Bitcoin price is in difficult right now and we really don't know of what will come next but i believed that this will not going to be the end of Bitcoin because it has already been in this difficult situations for so many times before so i believed that next year will be a bounce back as we have already in the tip of waiting.

We are still waiting to have a stable value, but it seems that this stable value is not necessarily what we can find, all of this depends on demand in the market. Indeed, some days the value of the coin seems stable, the ups and downs are not too sharp and remain at the level.

I do not think it is so easy to do the prediction thing because you are not aware of how and when what factor affects the market trends and this is the reason of ambiguity so many people do not want to invest here.

I think the stable word for crypto currencies is difficult because trade continues and no one can predict for sure the future development of crypto currencies

That's right because I think by investing bitcoin from now on to get 2x profit it's easy, because the price of bitcoin will increase in the coming year. so never miss this great opportunity

At present the bitcoin price is low and this is the time to invest and buy more coin and you should not sell coins now and we can't predict the price....

Many people say and predict the price of Bitcoin, various opinions arise, the reality is that there is no definite prediction, for the price to be stable, cryptocurrency for now is quite difficult to analyze, when the right price will stabilize and rise, but Isure for crypto will someday meet the real price.

don't focus on that even the price of bitcoin right now are not good even it is stable just believe on it and never stress yourself because of that

currencies with stable conditions I think are difficult and impossible because crypto currency trading continues to move and continue to grow

In my opinion if the price is stable it will not last long because crypto prices will erratically increase or decrease. Maybe if it have a stable price, crypto will be no longer used as a (http://yubster.com)n investment, maybe as a digital currency for transactions. Because it already has a stable price like the dollar.

Crypto trading is full of drama, we do need a bit of a dump to provide opportunities for new investors. that is good logic even though we lose assets for a while. it only takes some time to hold back and practice patience. I am sure the market will move at the beginning of March 2019

the development of the blockchain and the crypto community is so good at creating crypto values that it is better run, but the development of institutional investors and whales also increases which causes them to manipulate the market a bit, especially prices and this is bad for crypto values. I hope that in the future there will be many other factors that can create a better crypto value

Price stability was always been a goal for crypto market but sad to say it is really hard to predict what's gonna be and it's the community that decided what's the price would be. Having a volatility was always been an issue in crypto currency because of it's nature to shift from to time to time instantly.

Crypto doesn't need to have a stable price, the more it moves up and down,  the we get chances to gain profit.  It's been on volatility risk since before and it never change after all,  in fact,  it is getting more volatile of today. This is the life of crypto,  no need to change it just in favor to us,  we are the one to adjust.

If you say that you haven’t seen such since 2014 then you’re lying, unless maybe you weren’t really here in 2014. There are so many times when the price has been stable. I know this time around it is something else and reason being that the price went from very low to high and then dropped from there, that’s why a lot of people are complaining. Most of them complaining because it didn’t work out for them, they thought it was free money (some kind of money making machine)