Now I am not sure when the next rally is going to occur. But one thing is sure. The next one should take us comfortably above the 10K mark, and probably around $12,000 per coin. And unlike the case we had in 2016, I think this time investors will be accumulating the coins expecting a price rise from the block reward halving. We still have 1 year and 2 days to go for the event, but the impact will be seen in the market from 2nd half of 2019. I expect the prices to reach 10-12K before this rally.

Satoshi never claimed that Bitcoin is 100% anonymous, when he invented it in 2009. If that was the case, then why all the transactions are stored in the Blockchain? But even then, complete anonymity is possible as long as you are not converting your Bitcoins to fiat. If fiat is not involved, then no once can trace your Bitcoin wallet back to you.

The hackers will be caught, sooner or later. They are greedy and they would be looking forward to cashout their coins. At some point the authorities will be able to link a fiat bank account with the wallets they are using.

Have a good anti-virus system installed in your laptop (like Norton or Kaspersky) and you should be fine. But even then, they can't protect you from the phishing links and physical keyloggers. Never open any wallet or exchange links from the email. This step should prevent 99.99% of the phishing incidents. Normally Norton/Kasper are capable of flagging down keyloggers, but better take precautions and avoid unknown people physically accessing your system.

Hardware wallet is also a good option, in case you are not averse to spending $100 or $200 on it. But then, you should be comfortable with using the hardware wallet and careful in storing the passwords and backup seed.

Why there is a listing fee? The exchanges are already collecting fee from the users for trading, and therefore the listing should be completely free.

IMO, it makes the exchanges more prone to scams and ponzis. Now what happens in case you are charging a certain amount for listing is that good projects which can't afford this amount will be denied listing. At the same time, scam coins may get listed if they are ready to pay a certain amount.

In case they want to charge for listing, then trading should be made free. Can't have it both ways.

You can make investment in Bitcoin, at any point of time. The only condition is that you should hold on to your investemnt for at least 3 years. In case you can't wait for this long, and you want to become a billionaire overnight, then Bitcoin is not going to work for you. In such cases, you need to go for HYIPs and pyramid schemes.

I have been tracking the returns from Bitcoin ever since 2012. The only instance of someone losing money in Bitcoin is if he listens to the FUD and does panic selling. And unlike other assets, there is a lot of FUD and negative propaganda associated with Bitcoin.

That said, I can't say the same about altcoins (perhaps with the exception of Ethereum). In case you want to make investments in ETH, just remember that they can be more volatile than BTC. So invest amounts which you can afford to lose.

When the token is trading at 3% if its ICO price, the only thing that is left to do is to convert them to ETH or BTC as quick as you can, and cover at least a small fraction of your losses. From what I have seen in the past, no token will make a comeback after these sort of losses. And the trading volumes indicate that the promoters are also dumping at least some of their holdings.

There were many positive factors in 2017. First of all, the number of bounty hunters were quite small. Even social media bounties had only a few hundred participants. Look at the ongoing bounty projects. For most of the social media bounties, you will find users in their thousands or even tens of thousands. So the reward per user has undergone a sharp decline.

I am yet to see any positive signals in the ICO industry, and there is nothing even to indicate that the decline has been stalled. Even in 2019, we had a few well publicized scam projects which stole the money from investors, and there were many projects which failed to achieve softcap. And the most worrying sign is the sharp decline in the investment volumes directed towards the ICOs.

Hmm... looks like Giannis got carried away with all the sudden attention he got during last week. Or perhaps his fans were expecting too much from him and he was under a lot of pressure to repeat his performance. He is just 24 years and far away from becoming a legend. Mike Budenholzer should remember this during the next match, and try to calm him down.

There will also be a bunch of gamblers, who after finding that the value of their coins have increased, would go for additional amounts. For example, someone was planning to gamble for BTC0.10 ($320 in March) earlier. Now the worth of those coins have increased to $800, and he may decide to gamble away the entire amount. You will be able to find such people here itself.

Who told you that Bitcoins were first traded for $0.30? That's wrong. The first coins were mined in January 2009, and the first exchange (New Liberty Standard) was established almost a year later. The first exchange rates (in 2010) were around $0.001 per coin and by 2011, the prices had breached the psychologically important level of $1 per coin.

I am not very excited about the projects which you have listed out. These projects are copycats of already existing coins and they have launched very active bounty campaigns to advertise themselves. Personally I don't have anything against these coins, but I am not finding a convincing reason either to support or invest in these projects.

You need to ask whether this will be practical or not. We have around 100 million cryptocurrency users in the world. What will happen if everyone of them creates their own cryptocurrency? Rather than increasing the number of cryptocurrencies (which is already too high in my opinion), why can't we work to improve some of the existing coins?

If you have a good idea, then go ahead and create your own coin. But you need a lot of funds ready, for marketing and development purposes. And also, you need to build a good team, which composes of people with good reputation who will remain committed to it until the project is completed. If you go ahead without these, then your coin will end up like the thousands of dead or dormant coins which are not traded in any of the exchanges.

Doesn't mean that the users are greedy or not ready to help. There are a lot of good projects ongoing now. But we don't know whether the bounty campaigns for these projects will be successful or not. As I have seen from the past 2-3 years, a project having solid basics can have a failed bounty campaign. A lot depends on the market situation and the dedication shown by the promoters. It is very difficult to cherry-pick a few campaigns out of the thousands which are active now. You need to make the selection yourself.

The other markets are not this volatile. Check the crypto charts during the last 18 months. It can be seen that many of the top-10 coins lost as much as 98% of their value during this period. You will not find similar assets in the stock market (among the large-cap and mid-cap stocks). At the most, the stocks can have 30% or 40% price movements during a one year period (anything above that would be exceptions).

It is a fake news and I am surprised that this thread is alive after so many days. This is not just a lie, but it is a lie that even retarded people will have difficulty in believing. Forget about Russia, not even libertarian countries such as Switzerland will be ready to convert a part of their forex reserves to a volatile and decentralized asset, such as Bitcoin.   

Admins, please lock this thread. No point in beating the dead horse again and again.

The next resistance level is going to be 9.5K - 10K, and 8,000 is not a significant milestone. I expect the 8K level to be breached anytime soon and then the values should move towards 10K. Right now it can't be predicted whether 10K can be breached or not. The chances are that it should happen by the end of this year, if we have no major exchange hacks or similar scandals.

Insane? I don't think so. He is doing the right thing. By setting up a daily or weekly limit, he is making sure that the losses will never get out of hand. If you don't have such a threshold, then the chances are that you may get carried away during the game and will end up losing more than what you could afford. What he is doing is responsible gambling.

There is no shortage of irresponsible people who gamble away their savings. Although these people constitute a minority, they tarnish the reputation of all the gamblers and the gambling industry as a whole. But responsible gamblers hold back on their spending when the exchange rate goes up. I have noticed this in 2013, and in 2017. When the prices increase, the turnover get reduced at major gambling sites.