You should register for an account on Coinbase and you'll be able to buy bitcoins, ethereums, litecoin, bitcoincash on Coinbase immediately.  I don't think they have a one week waiting period anymore but your limits might be kind of low. 

The bulls are returning to the cryptocurrency markets, that's why.  Everything has been oversold making prices drop very low this year and now is the recovery stage.  Many cryptocurrencies will break their all time highs later this year.   

Well, this price rise isn't unexpected but long overdue.  The market has been bleeding for months and it's time for the bulls to return.  This recovery will be strong and gaining 45billion is nothing compared to the highs during December of last year.  

Have you been buying more?  If you bought at $20 then Waves at $4 should be considered stealing.  Just keep buying more and you'll be in the profit zone much sooner than if you just wait for it to go back above $20 which it will eventually. 

It's good to see the Waves team has an official bitcointalk thread again.  Waves has so much going on positively this year that there's no way to stop it from becoming a tsunami.  I am glad to be a Waves supporter since day one.  Go WAVES!

I try not to think of the cryptocurrencies that disappoint me but think of the ones that brought me profits.  Don't waste your time with disappointments but learn from it and try to prevent a similar situation from happening again.  

If you haven't sold, then you haven't loss anything.  Stop comparing the highest price to what the price is now.  You didn't sell at the top so it was never "your" money.  Until the money is in your hands, it was never yours.  Just comparing the highs to the lows will make you go crazy. 

The term "bubble" get's thrown out way too much in the cryptocurrency world.  I have been hearing about this so called bubble for years and I still have yet to see it happen.  Maybe it's just a word to scare the newbies.  

I think the best altcoin to invest in right now would be Waves platform tokens.  The price is under four dollars and there is so much going on with the project.  There will be smart contracts and atomic swaps implemented this year. 

Just keep buying the dip until it reverses and becomes a hump.  Buying the dip isn't a one time thing, you should buy in increments.  If you single shot it, you will run out of money and just watching cheap cryptocurrencies is painful. 

There are a lot of websites that has listings of upcoming ICO's such as https://www.smithandcrown.com/sale/.  You can also browse the announcements section of this forum.  The original posts of each thread will have a detailed description of the project. 

Verge has a very long road to get to the top 3 ranking which I doubt will ever happen.  I don't even think Verge will even make it into the top 10 spots.  There are much better projects out there that deserve the rank well before XVG.

We don't need a new thread everyday saying that cryptocurrencies are red or green today.  We all know how to check the prices and look at coinmarketcap multiple times everyday.   

Sometimes when a new coin is first listed on a small exchange, the prices are very cheap compared to when or if it get's listed on a larger exchange such as Bittrex, Binance or similar exchanges.  If you like the coin, it's a good strategy but just don't invest more than you can afford to lose.

This is a very unfortunate situation and brings a bad reputation to the cryptocurrency world.  Projects can make so much more money the legit way if they had good intentions on developing the project instead of scamming the community this way.  This is another reason not to invest in anonymous team projects.

Yeah, your timing for investing in cryptocurrencies was off but that's not your fault.  You probably first heard of it when it was all over the media during bitcoins peak.  If you have more money left, just buy more of some of what you already own.  You'll be buying at a huge discount. 

Investing in ICO's aren't for everyone.  It takes a lot of patience these days to see profits from your investment.  The days of ICO's doing a 5x immediately after being listed on an exchange might be very rare if not impossible now. 

No problem Bittzy78.  Thank you for the update.  Once the wallet fix is out, I am sure INSN will be rolling again just like the old days.  I'll keep an eye out for it and hope it comes soon. 

This is cryptocurrency and the market can easily recover with a bullish run in weeks or months.  Two years in the cryptocurrency world is like decades, the market doesn't need that much time to recover. 

It's a no brainer.  Your personal wallet will always be safer than keeping coins on an exchange but if you're an active trader, you will have no choice but to keep some coins on an exchange which should be fine as long as you're trading an a reputable exchange.