I think I will buy some more TRX, once the price goes down a little bit. There is a lot of hype being generated around this coin on Twitter, and the price is still low enough to invest early and make some good profit. I will continue to keep an eye on this coin.

So the price is close to $3 now, and you expect it to reach $24 at the end of February? Good luck with that. There is a lot of uncertainty around Ripple and it's not going to continue to rise forever.

I think you need to add XVG there as well. Although the price dropped back down again before the month was over, at one point the week on week increase was something like 2500%. Although the price will not rise that violently once again, I'm hoping it will start going back up soon.

This disturbed me as well. Because I think this wasn't a correction at all, but an obvious dump. And we're always talking about how decentralized bitcoin is, but this dump made me think otherwise. And although the price may eventually recover, I think at least some people's trust in bitcoin has been hurt.

If 2017 ends at around $16K, then it is still better than what almost everyone had expected. Remember, at the end of November we were here, talking about whether the price would hit $10K before the year was over. So $16K is already very high for me.

I think it's still too early for this, now? We don't even know what the majority of the world's governments will act regarding bitcoin. A blockchain course would make more sense in my opinion, but nevertheless this is still good in terms of exposure.

Binance is pretty good for purchasing ripple. But as far as wallets go, I still haven't found a reliable solution. I'm keeping my ripples on the exchange for now, but I know this isn't a sustainable solution, especially as the price continues to go up. I'm still waiting for a good wallet solution.

How much can the alts rise though? I think their success is highly dependent on the success of bitcoin, at least for now. If bitcoin failed, alts may initially rise, but in the long term people would lose trust in cryptocurrencies as a whole, so bitcoin's stagnancy would hurt alts as well.

I don't know what the price is going to be, but my main problem with bitcoin right now is that the transfer fees are simply not sustainable at the moment. I logged on to mycelium after a long while to send some bitcoin, and the standard transfer fee was $27! It threw me off so hard, that price used to be like 6$ tops. So this definitely needs to be solved.

IOTA hasn't been stable at all so far in my opinion. It has been pumped up to the $5 level twice, but is currently at around $3.5 and it is not displaying any signs of continuous improvement. I think I'd rather invest in ripple.

It would heavily set back the cryptocurrency scene, because currently pretty much all altcoins rely on bitcoin to succeed. But bitcoin will not pop because there is no reason for it to. Sure, the network has problems and the price has fallen recently, but it will eventually recover.

What are you basing your price estimation on? Leaving aside the bubble allegations for now, why should the price go down to 2-5K? This is a temporary correction and the real price will be reached once again soon enough.

If the development team is willing to put their name out there, along with pictures and possibly linking their LinkedIn profiles as well, it shows that they are taking their ICO seriously. Most ICOs throw around random names with no portraits, and honestly it makes me trust that ICO less.

It is certainly possible, if you can bet on the right coin at the right time. XVG increased by like 1000% in just a week, and it looks like it's going to go up even more. If you find such coins at the 2-3 cent levels, and if they are promising, making a lot of money is a possibility.

And it has fallen below that level once again. I'm not panicking at all (because this level is still way higher than what we would have expected at the end of November) but this fluctuation is not the behavior I had expected. I was expecting the price to go up strongly once again, after bouncing back from the lowest resistance point.

Has lightning network become our Xanadu now? A lot of people are referring to it, saying all our problems will be solved once we get there, but no one knows how and when we will get there exactly. And it really does not help solve our problems.

Well, I think ripple is independent to a certain extent. A few days ago, when bitcoin and every other altcoin was freefalling, the only green coin was ripple. I think this might be one of the indicators that ripple may eventually become very big and challenge btc.

I think the reasoning is that, due to the holidays, families who hadn't seen each other in a long time get together, and one of the topics that are discussed is bitcoin, because generally one family member is investing in bitcoin. So the other family members decide to check it out as well. A similar effect had also occurred during thanksgiving.

I think the media is basing their argument that bitcoin is dangerous on its financial volatility, I haven't seen many references to bitcoin being used by terrorists and so on. The main argument is that bitcoin looks like a bubble, even if it's not a bubble it is too unpredictable and volatile anyway, so it's dangerous.

Well everything picked back up, while this piece was being written, probably I think the increased confidence with which people returned to cryptocurrencies offset the decrease by a considerable margin. I mean, XVG went up by 150% within the last 24 hours. It's crazy.