Some people would say that good moment to start crypto career is always. Most people agree that on long runs price can only rise, because of limited number of coins. To some extent I agree with them, but if I would have to me more realistic than I would rather go with your approach. Aim to join crypto when time is best, that way you maximize chance of success.

If you are negotiating for fix payment than best moment for doing so is at a dip, because at that moment value is at its lowest and person can get more coins for their services, so its just like you said.
But there are also agreements that are flexible when it comes to payment. So if value of crypto is rising, payment in crypto is lowered and otherwise. So everything comes to agreement that you have with your employers.
After all, maybe best option would be fix payment, but in that case if price drops you are at loss. Life is full of risks, so everything depends on personal opinion at the end.

You must understand that governments like to be in control of things... they need to be in control if they want for their country to be successful. On the other hand we have bitcoin, which is decentralized and belongs to no one and everyone. Governments can not control it, therefor they turn to banning it until they find the solution for regulations for proper usage. There's a lot of factors which needs to be satisfied before some currency is proclaim totally legal, so that people can use it without fear of punishment. So I would not say that governments fear bitcoin, rather they don't want it because they can not control it.

Not a big fan of social media, that is why I don't use telegram. But i see many people here on forum do, so I wonder should I start using it.

@OP, what kind of group is this? I guess its BTC speculation group or something like that? Even with my "social media not liking" feeling, group that gives serious info could be good thing to have. After all, it is always good to know what other people think, even if there is no real whales in this group. Every bit of information helps, right. 

Because people knows very little about matter they are dealing with, they tend to turn to "professionals" for advice or information. Which in this case is wrong. Its just like you said, and I totally agree with your view. Every prediction from those so called professionals is nothing more than a speculation, same as that of normal trader. But we must not overlook those comments, because they can lead some people to wrong conclusion,
and their decisions could have negative/positive impact on bitcoins price. I guess that comments of professionals are inevitable, but people should try not giving them more weight just like you said. Also they should not make decisions based on those predictions alone.

As long as there are people who truly support bitcoin by holding or otherwise, I guess bitcoin will continue on living and that is the most important thing. From your post and other, I have seen that my knowledge of economics is... scarce, and that I need to cover all the angles before I judge something. Also, I know that legalization of bitcoin is big problem, because people are not able to use bitcoin as a currency. For those people holding is the best and I guess only option.

When ever you think worst is behind you, think again. There is always chance for something as bad or even worst that could happen again. I guess its always like that in crypto world, things can go both ways. But I think that things are going to better. For some reason I am more optimistic than Omkar Godbole, and believe that price is in recovery state. But I'm no expert, so I should wait and watch.

Usually I don't trust people easily, and when it comes to trading I am even worse. But I guess I can put some time aside for tracking this coin, and decide what to do. But to be honest I don't expect much, because you are too confident that its price will boom and speak like we can earn insane amount of money. When something is too good to be truth, we know what to do... but I guess tracking doesn't hurt.

This is truth I guess. Sadly, almost everyone buy bitcoin because they want to earn some extra money, its just like virendarnagpal said. Only small number of people believe in what bitcoin actually represent and support it by buying it. But I guess that everything in crypto world is based on money gain.

I guess that circulation of bitcoin is good like you said. If it was not, everything would be... lets say different. But I don't share your opinion that bitcoin is bubble, at least not in its core. It is bubble in this moment, because people are not using it as a currency, but as an asset or investment.

For now its like this, but when (or if) bitcoin gets accepted as legal currency things will change I guess. Also, as long as everything is working, there is nothing to fear right. I guess my concern was not totally baseless tho, but it was also clouded by constant seeing of "just keep holding" type of advice's.

In most advice people can find that holding bitcoins is best choice, but is that really best for Bitcoin? I can't but ask my self, what would happen if we all would just hold our coins? Only answer that comes to my mind is, bubble would occur and bad things would happen.
 
I don't deny that so far holding has proven to be one of best ways of earning extra money, but bitcoin is made to be currency and not asset. So for strong and stable price we need constant flow, which mean constant transactions of buying and selling, not mostly buying and holding. So if we really wish for bitcoin to success in its goal, we must start using it more frequently (at least as much as we can). Number of holders must not be higher than number of "users".

What are you thoughts on the matter?

I can't deny that number of investors are rising, or at least that new money is pouring into bitcoin market. But I don't see connection between Bitcoins price and World Cup, so please explain that to me. Why would bitcoins price rise and how does World Cup affect bitcoins price?

Many investors agreed about second quarter and said that it will be positive, and I agree with them. Because if we look back, we will see that every year around this period bitcoins price drops, and than rise again after. Some people say that its because of US Tax day, and maybe they are correct. But what is for certain is, that it always rise after this time of year. Same thing happened last year, and I think same is happening now.

What other people say about why Binance doesn't want fiat currencies in their work make sens, so I don't see reason why they would allow Euro and not Dollar... That would be just contradictory.
As for Dollar token, well that is just another crypto, so its fine if they accept it. But I doubt that altcoin prices will break from Bitcoin influence anytime soon... if ever.

Trying to get accurate assumption is hard, and I always try to be as realistic as possible... someone would call me pessimistic too. I guess I am, because if worst possible option is acceptable than it could only be better right. But lets get back to speculations .

Honestly I doubt that price of bitcoin will rise greatly by the end of this year. I guess we can expect small rises and falls in months to come. So if bitcoin price reach $15,000 till the end of this year, I guess that would be awesome. But even if it doesn't reach that high, it still made a lot of progress. Also, we should not forget that last year around same date price was around $1300, and now its $8500. In my book that is really good progress. But I guess that expecting price around $11,000 at the end of this year is realistic and possible. But this is not my worst expectations 

I think I can understand and see why Binance wants to stay with cryptocurrency trading only. But in the same time I can't but wonder why they forbid buying crypto with Dollar, wouldn't it be better if they allowed people to buy crypto with Dollar? They would expend their user base, or am I missing some information here?
Also its kinda funny to see how much even wrong rumors can affect crypto prices. 

I guess you putted a lot of effort in writing this, and I can say that I agree with you on some points and on some I don't. Generally speaking world is already accepting Blockchain, but there are some obstacles that needs to be dealt with first. And for that time is needed.

We don't need that, because paying with your pay cards is similar to paying with digital currency. I see no need for digital USD or Euro. At the end everything would go true banks like it already do. That is why blockchain is good, it doesn't need middle man for transactions and confirmation.

Also, your whole "My vision for a new currency" is something I can't agree with you.


I repeat, Blockchain technology was created so that we could avoid banks and their way of doing business, also with blockchain everything is public, which is good if you ask me. Also, why would people pay banks to store their large amounts of money, when they can create another wallet (but even that is not needed).

I have feeling that you point of view is strongly affected by way of how fiat currencies work, but maybe I'm just seeing it wrong. Maybe my view of things is affected by how much I don't like banks, and your point of view is better. Also, I guess your way of thinking is better than mine for banks , so I guess we could say that your ideas are more realistic than mine.

Its true what you said, and I agree with you. Also its nice too see that there are other people with realistic view of things. Price of $15,000 would be really good achievement for this year, and its more realistic than $25k if you ask me. But even stable price around $10,000 would be good. I guess that last hype was too strong, and currently people are strongly focused on bitcoins price and expect it to return to its max reach from the end of 2017. But they forget that even $8000 price is good enough, just like you said. When I joined "crypto world", bitcoins price was around $400. So even $8000 is truly amazing achievement.

Its always good to hear good news (speculations in this case) that includes Bitcoin. But honestly, it kinda started to be annoying. Hearing same old speculations over and over again, I guess that they do this only to rise their own popularity, people from economic sector I mean. Also, this optimistic speculation that predicts some bizarre price in the future, is only announced to attract new people to market for busting price... nothing more.
But I guess that at the end its better to hear the same old good news every day, than bad news. 

No one can predict future with 100% certainty, we can only wait and hope. But I'm more interested in which countries are paying their workers in Bitcoins, or for that matter in any crypto? Except Japan which legalize Bitcoin, I know there are some companies that offers their employee salary in crypto, but not whole countries. To say that whole countries are prepared to fully accept crypto is incorrect. It will pass a lot of time before countries even totally legalize crypto, yet alone fully adopt it. Most of the things you said is only dreams for now.

Sad but truth. That is nearly exactly what happened when China banned crypto trading and some other things which involve crypto. Their economy was affected by crypto so the first thing they did was to shut down everything, until they come up with a solution and decided to regulate crypto. Only after than they allowed it again. So what you said is truth and have been proven as such in the past.

I'm not sure if I know about any other, but I always thought that MSI Afterburner could see and set all GPUs in your rig just like smoolae said.
Other than that, I guess you could try setting them in BIOS. Never done it on both AMD and Nvidia in the same time, but I guess its possible.

EDIT: Check out ASUS GPU Tweak, its similar to MSI Afterburner as far as I can see.