Every new technology that is going to end up changing a lot of things most especially when it affects the government will always be controversial. Let us forget the fact that bitcoin can be used for illegal activities; USD can as well and other currencies too.

The fact that control is going to shift hands from the government to the people is what is creating a huge controversy right now. Regulations of course are bound to happen, but it won't be worse than putting a strong hold on the exchanges.

That is where to easily get your bounties anyway or if you are into ICO investment and you need to do some quick trade of your ERC20 tokens. It was a bit hard for me to use as well initially and I was always pissed with the lagging, but it seems these days, things have really gotten better. That is one thing about exchanges, you have to just get familiar with the interface at first and over time, things always get better.

Come on! Big BTC holders are not so dumb to do that. You think it is a small thing holding for all these years and then just coming to the market with a lot of future prospects and then start dumping to crash the market. Even if they do, for how long is it going to take before the market recovers and those who see it as a chance to buy lower will grab it away from them, and to me that absolutely ends up being their loss!

Mistake people make is that they always feel bitcoin's value is always too high without the knowledge of the possibilities of what it could be in the future. If you are not a regular trader, there is no point waiting for any correction as long as you are going to be holding anyway. A lot of people were expecting a huge correction when the price was around $8200, I hope if they were still waiting, they were really able to catch up now that it is above $11,000 and getting very close to $11,500. If you too will wait then I am afraid your wait may not end forever.

This is a very good ratio and it is good enough for anyone to keep going in the long run. I have tried to put most of my investment into bitcoin and few percentages into other Alts. They cannot really do much on their own without tagging along anyway and for the long run; I am still very much comfortable with bitcoin. However, for the sake of diversifying, some alts like ETH and LTC like OP mentioned are good options too.

I have been holding LTC and ETH basically for a while now as well as BTC and asides the quick run and up that most of the Alts have been having, only bitcoin has been consistent in growth.

Definitely, it has a lot of support and there is so much interest on it, which makes me not surprised. This made me to start trading alts more and keeping some part of the profits to hold some of them for the long run without bothering much about their value while putting most of the percentage on bitcoin.

If you have invested already before this price spike, I will urge you not to worry about losing what you already bought even if the value dips to a level of correction. It would go back up and a time will come when you won't even be bothered at all.

Panicking has made a lot of people to make the wrong mistake and unless you want to trade and you understand what you are doing, to buy back at corrections, then I will say you should just hold and care less what the chart is giving you. I believe before investing, you should understand the volatility of bitcoin by now.

Bitpay has even made it easy for some who may want to convert immediately and directly into fiats.
Some wallets have APIs like you said that can be integrated into an ecommerce site to be able to get exchanges done pretty fast.
I believe things are going to change pretty fast in coming years and there would be a lot of development, and it would be good for merchants who can be early adopters now. Early adopters are always the one to get the best out at the end.

In past who want to effect the growth of bitcoin by spreading rumors and banning it in their respective regions they are already defeated and the threat you are talking about will also be sorted out and that will not happen there are trustable people sitting there and everyone cares about the single investor and now it is being trusted by its every investor and china want to stop it they are defeated in all the ways and they will beg to join again.

This is one world that is just getting interesting and any one getting in now is just getting in at the right time. This year has really shown some huge level of interest in the cryptocurrency world as we see some investors stepping in. In the next few years, the crypto world would have changed totally that most people would wish they had gotten in at this moment.

It is just time. Those who started earlier in the crypto world had a lot of dues they paid and the number of years they held for before they got to this stage. The thing is there is still a very huge room for development and anyone who feels right now that they are late do not just know how lucky they are. The next few years in the crypto world is going to be a pretty huge one, and a lot of people will hope they even joined the train this moment.

Asides the incident that happened earlier this year that caused some huge dip for Ethereum, you can go back to the charts to find out that it has done pretty well in movement.

You can make use of coinmarketcap https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/ to find that out. BTC has grown so fast and sure, I would not deny the fact that when it comes to security, I will give it to BTC.
However, when it comes to profit and you were able to get your ETH secured before the compulsory ETC fork, trust me, from around $10 to more than $400 in 1 year, you should be in big bucks right now.

You can check their official website or just go directly to bittrex or poloniex, if you have some BTC or ETH to exchange with. Any altcoin can be bought from any exchange as long as it is available on the exchange and I believe ripple is available on almost all exchanges.

Although, I really wonder why you are really bent on buying a manipulated centralized banker's coin when there are better alternatives. I would not hold this coin if I were you but it is your choice.

We are in control of the price and that is what makes it totally different. I cannot force anyone to decide to sell at the price he or she wants to sell if he decides to want to sell below the normal market price and that is what decentralization totally is all about.

If you are happy with the way government have been controlling fiats and the whole idea of centralization, you may just either stick to fiat, buy some USDT as well, and may be hold some XRP but as far as decentralization is, volatility cannot be controlled.

I guess we have everything except if the transactions can be faster than we have it when congestions are crazy. We should really give a whole lot of damn about bitcoin as it has really helped in a whole lot of ways more than we can imagine except we are just so ungrateful.

I have seen so many people complaining about transaction fee, and then I imagine the fee I pay most times when trying to make use of western union and even the limit and queue I have to go through at the bank. Most people may not understand, but having freedom from all of that is just so perfect.

Accuracy most especially in decision making. Like you said, most people always attribute trading to the normal buying and selling, but the most important thing here is that we are in a huge unpredictable market and we are all here to make profit.

Two things are always happening in trading, you bought at a good position, new investors are coming in or someone is losing somewhere is what makes someone to be winning somewhere. Any trader who does not want to be dashing other traders their money should know better to learn how to make good decisions with some good strategies.

There apparently is no fork and any one saying they are going ahead with segwit2x has probably been discarded already and we all know it is impossible to pull off. Probably it was just a way to create another FUD which did not work.
Still, any fork that is going to happen next, since there is a stupid bitcoin silver that was supposed to happen by December, is not a threat to the value of bitcoin and it is just going to end up as stupid as it sounds.

It requires a lot of effort. Trading on its own requires so much and it is not every job you can definitely mix such with except if you are looking at the long term trade of setting orders and going ahead with your normal duties. The more effort you put, the more you earn and then you just have to be able to find a way to make it work if you are really passionate about it. Nothing good comes easy except if you are just lucky.

Trying to picture what happens when your boss comes back, heads straight to your desk and it was at that moment you were supposed to quickly sell what you are holding for profit … It is always fun though, having a job that gives you enough time to be able to combine trading with it. You are winning in two ways by collecting your salary at the end of the month and getting a lot from your trading as well.

Totally irrelevant for an addict. Even the rich people that gamble know their limit and most of them just try to go to casinos just to have some fun and probably maybe some bit of luck may shine on them.

However, there is one thing with gambling that if it cannot be controlled, it can be extremely easy for one to lose all they have. Like you said, it does not mean if you are rich, poor, in a relationship or not, as long as you let your guard loses, then you are in for it forever if care is not taken.

Yes, we can but not in all countries anyway. There are still some countries where Amazon does not really ship to so we may just have to look at the concentration to be in some particular regions until then. However, it is still going to be massive anyway considering Amazon being an e-commerce giant with a lot of transactions being done every day. It would definitely pave way for a huge adoption for bitcoin.

It really will push the adoption off the hook and knowing the amount of trading that is being done on the Amazon platform daily and looking at how the trading on Purse.io alone has been going for a while now, then one can really say the market is going to be huge. Bitcoin is surely not ready yet for that massive usage yet, but anything can change with the scaling issue being solved within a split of a second.

A lot of things are going to be changing with waves.
This is one tool that if everything goes as promise, will be widely accepted and adopted by users which would make it the next revolutionary technology after Ethereum. I guess we just have to wait and see. Anyone who is smart now though and have been following the development with waves will definitely buy and hold.

it is always good to come back to thread like this to remind one that no matter the wishes and predictions, bitcoin will always do whatever it wants based on the market and surprise a lot of people.

Someone felt bitcoin needed a crash when bitcoin was at $7500 and now that it is $9500 plus, I hope the person is still not expecting any crash lower than $7500. Anything can happen but as long as no FUD is created, a crash would just be in anyone's wildest dreams.