Let us also say that you have 2.1 BTC and currently holds it. For sure it will not just go up a few cents if you save it, your money will be doubled or more of it's current value now depending on price movements that will happen in the future. You can either spend it or save it because if it was me I will for spend some just because im using btc not just to earn money, but I use it to buy something as well so I will hold most of it and spend some percent of the bitcoin I got. That case though of you having 50 cents now from 13 cents 7 months ago was caused by a price rise and many calls it as price being pumped.

I can't tell when you will be rich but for sure you will be one when the time comes so just sell the altcoins you hold now when it pumps hard, and set a target price to sell into. The earliest point of time that you will be reach maybe after next bitcoin halving because we might see yet another bitcoin price rise after it so better trade and multiply your btc portfolio before that time comes. I might be wrong since this is just a guess.

We will see soon if levent's prediction or yours will come true but for now I think levent's speculation is very possible after all, Ethereum looks so hyped right now because of some ICO's that gathers ethereum in their crowdfunding, which I think is what boosted ETH price to the current levels we see now. The question is when those ICO's will unload the ethereum they have gathered? If they do that ethereum it might fall under 160$ or even 120$ so I personally am waiting for it to happen but if it doesnt, it is still okay.

I think it is in the right price considering that it is an infrastructure project and is unique, and have some real use unlike THE BILLION COIN. Although I trust it a little, I have some doubts about it too, after all the token is quite pricy but it aint released on market yet so there will probably be price adjustments. It seems to be fishy too for now I will watch news about it.

Investors have high expectations to it and also to other ICO'S but it will be one of the popular coins this year or the other I think by following their roadmaps and doing their work professionally which they would likely do. They would need to maintain good public relations till the end which lacks on those ICO's who failed. I also have high hopes on this project so for now I might consider buying into ICO too.

I guess the dump of ETH is pretty normal considering that it is pumped so hard this year. I think it might not grow for about one week for now and will probably stabilize because it is always on the run up in this past months and also, many whales probably took profits right now but if you really want to profit buy now it might go up more in the next coming weeks or buy later before a consensus about bitcoin proposal is implemented.

I was thinking of using paxful because of a recommendation made by a friend of mine and this now changed my mind so for now I will watch your thread and see what happens before starting to use it. Like what you experienced, I have experienced being scammed and my money being taken away and that's why I don't trust big funds to sites like paxful and even if I did put some money, I always make sure that it stays below 10$ this is my tip to you OP, so that even if you loss some its not that big.

For now it is unclear whether bitcoin will split into two or it will just have some block scaling. If your bitcoin is in cold wallet that you have control over the private key and not in an exchange, you don't need to worry about this split just because you will have the same amount of bitcoin on the two chains if ever there is a split that will occur. That being said there is no risk of losing your coin just sit back and watch it happen.

If I were you don't ever recommend an online wallet like coins.ph, I personally use the website this guy use but so far it is okay to use but I don't recommend online wallet such as this but if you want online wallet I recommend blockchain.info more than coins.ph. It is better to follow this guy's first recommendation because it is better to use your own PC or hardware to store bitcoin via electrum and the likes because you control private keys of the bitcoin addresses there. Also like what others say, paper wallet is also good.

I think there aren't any upcoming project that would act like a bitcoin savings account giving interest because you can only store bitcoin on a secure wallet but it does not give interest There are some online wallets who offers that feature but it ain't trusted so I don't recommend it. There are other features that offers you interest for storing your bitcoin on their website specially gambling sites like crypto-games.net but I also dont recommend it. If you want OP test it because their investment feature offers interest.

To be exact government cannot shut down internet permanently that easy because right now it is a basic need for the citizens nowadays. Even if they can censor internet there are a way around it, which is VPN or like apps that changes internet tunneling protocol. At the very least they can try to stop bitcoin but they can't shut it down completely.

It really depends on what you want to do. If you want to keep your trading profits in cryptocurrency for a while before a big pump in btc occurs, you can say that you are in profit if the amount of satoshi you invested have multiplied. If you always cash it out and convert it onto fiat, you can say you are in profit if the amount of dollars you invested have multiplied.

The things that causes a coin to go up or down in price is demand and user's trading activites of a certain coin so when a place or certain country starts using a certain currency, it goes up in price just because of demand. If one country begins to use for example bitcoin, they would buy it therefore making it's value go up and at the same time, if many peoe sells, therefore it will go down in value. Another factor that triggers a coin's price to go up and down are news and FUDs.

For now I can say it is not the right time to buy nor is the right time to sell but if you want it is also a good time to buy now. There is a lot of potential that in the next few weeks, bitcoin price will go up because it has been stable in these price ranges for quite a while so I am expecting some crazy price movements again either upward or downward. If it goes down then just buy more bitcoin and wait for pump.

Bitcoin really is anonymous like ETH, one can track transactions originating from an address but still no one really knows who owns that address, unless it is announced publicly by the owner that he/she owns that address it is also the same in ETH. To trade btc for eth/litecoin anonymously and vice versa just use exchanges. About mixer they are used for one to avoid transactions being tracked on block explorers to know how they really work, find threads here about bitmixer or chipmixer for example there is an instructions there on how to use mixers. Also about the trading btc with someone for their cash in person or at a casino for example, there aren't any traces left sometimes but this can be bad because it might result into scam just do it on exchanges instead. Also you can use bitcoin addresses more than once since it won't really reveal your identity unless you said publicly that btc address is yours. Besides shapeshift, there are other way to convert bitcoin for altcoins anonymously which is via famous exchange sites like bittrex or poloniex there might be a trace but no one can certainly know that you did a transaction or not sometimes just because in the logs it only displays someone buying or selling without a username so it is still anonymous.

To control the emotion and to not make the worst mistake which is buy at a high price and sell at lowest, then one should research a coin before buying it and not to buy when a coin is already pumped because most of the time it is just manipulated and therefore will result into a loss. If one trust the altcoin he/she bought or bitcoin, then just wait for it to pump again and stop doing the stop loss strategy because it could mean loss when there is pumped again in the near future. A good example of this is lisk. Way back it reached 0.0005 BTC each from 0.001 BTC and others have done the stop loss strategy which is to buy high and sell low, but now it is at 0.00126837 BTC according to coinmarketcap so if they waited they could have had a profit of at least 0.00026837 BTC per lisk they own.

You can use both of the exchanges you mentioned because poloniex does not have waves listed in it but if you want you can use bittrex only because it got all the pairs you want to buy and is also the best way to get ETH, waves and LTC. It is also relatively easier to buy them using bitcoin, not via bank accounts because it would be a hassle and you are right about it having a 0.25% fee for trades. Also, there aren't USD pairs available for waves so buy using bitcoin only.

The odds that we will face a much more stronger correction for the whole market in a very near future lets say about a week is so low because bitcoin is not in a bubble anyway right now, the price rise is caused mainly by mass adoption. If there were to be a strong correction, I guess it might happen a month or two from now but im sure we will see one if the consensus on bitcoin scaling made by August 1, 2017 is not good.

Its up to them it they will believe it or not though sometimes I also think like you that Quran verses love that are like that is the main reason why many terrorist are Muslims but that is not the case most of the time its just like a coincidence because if the country where ISIS is founded is not a muslim religion believer, then ISIS members would also be not Muslims therefore there is a possibility that most terrorist being Muslim is just a coincidence.

Don't say all because we can still find some things that aren't made in China, but most useful things that are cheap are made in China specially some helpful tools that are quite good to use so it is a good thing. I personally use some items made in China, a solar powered lamp made in China that I am usinh for a few years now and it is still working fine, even my electric fan that was bought 1 year ago and is made in China is pretty durable and is still running in a pretty good condition, so I trust the quality of China's products.