I think by now that you have understand that marketcap is less significant right? And most of the time its fake and very misleading specially if you are a newbie:

Market cap = price x total coins in circulation.

So if newbies that are getting into crypto and getting in XRP will come face to face with a rude awakening. Once the pump on XRP is burst, they will be trap and one way to get out is to incurred losses on your end. And do you think that XRP has the capability to sustained that growth?

I wouldn't be bothered by the rising price of XRP, sooner or later it will crash and bitcoin will remain the no. 1 crypto.

Like most of us here, we want bitcoin to really go up in 2018, But with the current issues that we are facing, it will take a lot of time before it can really took off again. Specially if LN will be implemented to resolved the problems.


I'd like to see the price goes to $30K-$40K. There will be a lot of bumps along the way, just like we see in 2017. Nevertheless, it will rise up again and face those challenges and overcome it at the end, reaching $40K. So everyone, just better hold and invest on it while the price is still cheap at the moment.

How time flies, beginning of the year bitcoin is just $700 then it reaches $19K, then it plummeted in $13K. That's the nature of this market. Very volatile and unpredictable. People cash out take profit and that's it. I guess by now you should understand how the market works and it will not go upward everything. Most of the time is will go on a sideward and downward trend.

You will hear people advising you to HOLD. Because of this very reason. HOLD and never sell because bitcoin is for long term investment. If you see prices going down and sell, then you will lose a  lot of potential profit in the future.

I would have to agree. I tend to believed that this is a pump that we are seeing and nothing more. It will be dump later, but I think it will hold its position on top. To be honest, I regretting dumping my XRP earlier, been holding it for months but I lost my faith on it but now its been pumped so hard, I could have really profit if I stay a little longer though.


This is also my thought, maybe pump-and-dump groups suddenly decides to choose XRP and to take short term profit. After all of this pump, they will simply go back to bitcoin market again. I hope you guys don't fall for the trap and can't exit on time.

Correct, it doesn't really matter what time of the day I gamble. But usually it's like early morning for me specially if I go out and play with my friends in a land based casinos. Like 12 - 4:00 am and we just enjoy after a drinking and partying. But If I going to play alone, I go afternoon so that I can go home early.

And when it's online gambling, no particular time as well. Although I want to play online gambling when I want to just past some time or if I'm not that sleepy. I will just spend around 30 minutes to 1 hour and try my luck.

Most of the times when I lost control of my gambling. I can't do anything because its really one of the hardest emotions to control. And just most of the gamblers, I went all in or nothing. There are times that it will end on my favor, but most of the time I end up losing more. And as per my experience, if I tend to control my emotions, I will just walk out and think that there are really a lot of time that I can chase my lost.


That's going overboard I think. Would just simply walk out and just play the scenario on my mind and think that I should not do that the next time I play again. Chasing losses for me is not a good thing, just go away and comeback next day.

As far as bitcoin is concern,  its absolute to put investment in it because you can really get profit from it. Although, sometimes a investors would always in a nervous state when the price is going  down. LOL. That's why you will heard that  people panic and weak hands have been shaken, because they easily sold their coins. They don't look on it at long term. So its not really too late to buy bitcoin, however, you should be here for the long haul.

Altcoins is good as well specially for day trading. So much movement that if you got lucky, you can earn huge profit in a short amount of time. And I agree that you have to diversify so that you can something to fall in terms of your investment.

For me, losing that big amount of bitcoin, I will feel very bad as well. But I can't blame anyone but myself. You decided to risk everything and that's what you get. As a fellow gambler, I would understand everything, as compare to people who don't understand gamblers mindset. Its all or nothing.Its the risk that every gambler has to make. But what if he goes to win another 50 bitcoin? What will be our reaction then?

And for those who are not ready to take such risk, then I will tell you that don't deal with gambling. I myself have lost tons of money in gambling, but its my choice and I have to deal with it personally.

NO. ETH will not ever reach bitcoin in value. Bitcoin has already established itself and no one can really challenge it because there's so much at stake right now. Early adopters will not simply dump their coins and go to ETH, as well as others who have been in the bitcoin market for quite sometime now. And they have different set of followers, bitcoin being as investment platform, and ETH for its smart contract. Who do you did will pour more cash in the market?

ETH will be the top altcoins, but to challenge bitcoin to be the king of crypto is far fetch. For now, its better to take advantage of both since they really work hand in hand. Better to invest on both of them.

We will never really know who is the real person/group behind bitcoin. I believed that Satoshi Nakamoto is not just one person, he maybe a group of person who really work together to put up bitcoin. But as far as identifying he/them, it gonna be next to impossible as bitcoin has been with us for almost a decade now and no one still claims it or even discovered who the real Satoshi is.

There's a lot of individual who claim that they are indeed Satoshi, but looking closer, they can't even show proof of anything or whatsoever. So let's just put everything to rest and just enjoy their creation.

I think he is speculating that maybe next week, the network is not that decongested as compare to the current situations that we are in. But as per the current mempool count, it's down to 100K unconfirmed transactions. So based on my experienced it will be fairly quick if you will send it today. But I don't know why the fees they are charging are high though. For me a 10% fee is fairly high already. So they should be charging like 20$. I guess they are charging so that your transactions can be pick up in the next 5 blocks or less.

https://blockchain.info/charts/mempool-count

LOL mate, you are not the only one whining here. But I took the lost and just shrug it out. Maybe its not really for the Cavaliers to win this time.


Well at crucial seconds, referees don't want to call a foul unless its pretty obvious. They don't want to decide the game for themselves, they want the players to do it. Just like I said, its not for the Cavaliers to win, its just the breaks of the game and it didn't went on their favor, nothing else. No need to cry and rant about Cavaliers losing.

Agreed, actually when I started to played online dice game (without thinking any strategy yet), the simplicity of the game captured my interest on playing with it. However, things just got complicated when you have enough experienced and begin to think of strategy of winning in this game. Starting with nothing on my mind, just to play the game and take the profit is already enough for me then.

And as more people found that playing dice is a good choice, lots of money have been going since then, billions of dollars flowing like in just a matter of years. And online dice is the best profitable business so far as far as involving bitcoins.

Well last year, before Christmas there is a huge pump on bitcoin, however, we have a massive dump this Christmas season so I'm expecting a reversal coming 2018. There will be a continues rise, however, its very slow as what we have seen in the last 5 days or so. But then again, market is based on speculation, we can really say for certain what's going to be the trend.  We just need to be prepared as what goes on, we love to see bullish runs, but I don't see it happening. It will be a slow and painful process to see bitcoin hits $20K next year. We will get there eventual, just a little patience guys.

LOL. But the thing is John McAfee is really good at hyping any coins specially bitcoin. He has still a lot of followers eventhough the guy is really eccentric but we can't take away the fact that he is a genius as well. So a lot of his die hard will follow what every coins the guy bought, everyone of his fan boys will pump as well.

But personally, I would follow the guy though, he may be right, but at the same time he's predictions will go out of the drain. Its better to just join the ride and then exit on time. We also have to remember that he is truly a bagholder of bitcoins, that's why he is making outlandish predictions about it so that he can take profits in the future.

LOL. Airdrop tokens have insignificant value, that is why they are giving it for free. If you have the chance to get ride it, they I suggest you do before this shitcoins turns into of nothing to you. That's why I don't joined airdrops myself, total waste of your valuable time and they worth nothing and they turn out to be scam as well. Asking info not related and I heard that some of them are asking for private keys, but not sure if that is true.

I would rather joined good bounties, at least you have a better chance of joining a good campaign that will make it big once the ICO's ended as compare to airdrops who have been just hype but turns out to be nothing at the end.

Where you have been lately dude? Did you see the bitcoin crash in the last few days? It went down as hard like more than 40% and everyone was caught of guard. $20K is possible but not this year. We have reached the peak already for 2017. Most like in the first quarter of 2018, $20K can be touch and even surpass.

I'm as bullish as you regarding bitcoin, however, its not realistic to target a price that we can't get to. It's about 1 week to go before closing 2017. So for me it can't be done, unless investors again has this attitude of buying bitcoin like crazy, but I doubt they will. Let's just appreciate what could be the end price of bitcoin. A price of above $10K is already acceptable for me.

I think this is the correct price of bitcoin. Remember it was really push hard to almost $20K when all the speculation about bitcoin futures contracts. But its seems corrections took it normal toll to the price. And now the price seems to settle where the price should be.

Again, I'm not complaining because it is still above $10K and no one can really think that we can get to this price at the beginning of the year. We could have reach $20K, but I'm pretty sure it will crash as well. At least what we have seen is the price with no artificial pump.

Of course the offering really pushed the price to almost $20K. Its really crazy and unbelievable seeing a lot of people buying at the top price and its very illogical, well from what I have seen. But correct me if I'm wrong, bitcoin future contracts doesn't involved bitcoin but as FIAT and when it started,  people realized that try to get out and whales cash it out before everyone sees what transcribe.

It's good thing though, as most of us have cash out and took profits. And the price is still strong, more than $10K starting from $700 at the beginning of the year.

But I speculate that we can still push to $20K but not this year though, Everyone thought that we can do it, however the crash dampen our hopes to surpass it at the end of the year.

You don't get it, bitcoin is a investment, so its either you won big or you go home. And we all know that it is very volatile that's why there is risk, very big risk. But as for me, I can't even afford to buy at $10K lest at $100K. So NO, I will not buy at that rate and only investors who have a lot of money can really afford it.


But as what I said, $100K is too much for me, but if someone can really afford it to buy then they may do so. So it really up to the individuals because there are really investors who are willing to pour their cash to the market, while casuals are just holding and will not buy when the price reaches $100K.