We are just starting the year and there are a lot of possibilities ahead. I believe 17k is a possibility and it is not like a huge one considering where we were coming from anyway. We still have some resistances ahead of us, so one should still keep all those in mind but I believe in the possibility of seeing this value or probably a little more even before the end of 2018, but I guess time will end up proving us wrong or right since that is all we have.

17k sounds very reasonable. Bitcoin has shown sign of strength and of course we have broken some resistance already which will make the remaining upcoming ones to break if we keep go testing them. However, I am sure that there is a huge possibility to see this happen, so the predictions that anyone gives, should not be far from reality. 2018 is still very young, so a lot is possible.

Because he is a soothsayer and can see the future … It amuses me the rate at which some people will just jump into some baseless conclusion without anything to back it up which I believe there can be nothing to actually back that up anyway.

He could have just stopped by saying, buying now is a good thing since the market is oversold anyway, but concluding on the price at the end of 2018 which is even unrealistic with what he said, makes it all funny. I personally may not see bitcoin hitting 30k this year, but who knows? We cannot see the future and anything can change.

Creating his own or following others will still not guarantee him anything as he is bound to still lose everything anyway, depending on how he ends up placing his limit. One thing is that online gambling is even worst when it comes to strategies and the OP should know that it is all about luck and when 1 person is winning with the strategy, 99 others are failing badly. He should better keep his 0.5 whatever in his wallet and watch it grow.

Practically there is no strategy to playing dice and we can only be luck for a while before the house edge ends up catching up with you. Still, if we want to keep auto rolling, we can try out the martingale strategy which is very common, but that does not guarantee for us anything and in fact, with very long streaks of losses, all that we have will be gone within the twinkle of an eye.

I never did as well and the closest I ever ended up in such situation was even online when I thought I have gotten it right and then ended up losing everything.

I was at home but I only gave my wife that LOOK OF SHAME after she warned me. She even made matter worst by laughing at me throughout because I told her I found some strategy and once I am done with the house edge, we are going to be made, but I guess the house edge got done with me first.

That would have really been a terribly bad combination but since you have been able to deduce that already, good for you. The thing is that escaping worry with gambling will only add to it, most especially for someone who had the mindset of luck shining on them and for those who never imagined how much they could end up losing in gambling. From all those things that the OP mentioned, the last place such a person would ever want to go is a casino.

Even if you make repost associated with the ICO, you will not be banned. I still make reposts and most of the pages of the ICOs are still operating on Facebook which makes me worried why only some are being banned. The problem is they cannot advertise anything using Facebook advert and some may get their page locked it reported or suspected of being scam. So far, some projects are still doing the Facebook campaign.

Altcoins to me are just good for the long term profit as a lot of them usually do not get sustained with their value except few and most of them are easily driven down by the huge rally on bitcoin, either bull or bear rally. However, for the sake of profit anyway which most of them can really give some mouthwatering profit in the long run, most of them are always a good catch but the truth is we cannot know which will be profitable and which will not, we are only holding and hoping to see if we get lucky holding the right ones.

Almost all the years usually start like this, but I always see it as a way the market is just trying to prepare itself for the way forward. Bitcoin really had a huge increase last year, followed by all the altcoins when bitcoin started consolidating, before the free fall. We just have to take our time with the market since that is what we are experiencing now until we see the trend change fully.

I feel the market is gaining some level of strength gradually, so I would not be surprised we end up seeing some growth in coming weeks. The market will have to do some series of test on resistance and support before even declaring any point to go ahead, most especially after all that had happen. We just have to be patient enough to wait for it.

I would not be surprised if it is but I still want to believe that it is not and what we are experiencing now is bitcoin heading to the accumulation phase. Time will tell anyway as anything we say now is pure speculation and what we hope to expect but when the time comes, a lot of signals will indicate to us where we are exactly. I am still waiting as well to see how everything plays out in coming weeks and months and trying to get more fiat for the time ahead to load up more for the run ahead of us before the end of the year.

If you are shying away as a result of some government punishment, you may end up not being able to take hold of your own future. You have so many ways you can get it even without having to use any exchange if it is not available to you and hold for your own future. I have always told myself that if my country mistakenly wants to try that shit, which I know they cannot anyway, then I will gladly relocate to a place where they have no problem with it.

Well, everyone have their own strategy and while some believe in just holding forever, some absolutely believe that it would always be good for them when they do the short term thingy or long term thingy depending on how they follow the trend. I have not been doing this for a while, but with my level of trading, I feel I would rather prefer the full long term investment with trend following. The essence is to increase my bitcoin quantity in the long run anyway and still play safe.

It will never work for everyone that refuses to thread the learning path. It is not a curse; it is just a simple reality. Downtrends are the point where things get really bad for those who do not have any strategy and they get exposed hugely by having huge loss in such situation. They may think everything works fine with buying low and selling high which you can be lucky when the market is in an uptrend, but at times like this, without knowledge, then your funds will end up getting messed up.

Yeah, I have seen situations like this several times and it takes being cautious to play with markets like this and not being too greedy as well.

Normally, when there is a little scare in the market coupled with a sharp drop there is usually the tendency to see a quick rise which normally end up forming a sharp doji and that should be a good selling point for a market that have the tendency to continue further. Is situations like that; it is good not to expect too much from such trades but something Okay.

Those who are smart already opted out of HitBTC and Yobit a long time ago since they both operate on the same level. These are exchanges that a lot has been raised as they are involved in a lot of scam and all they are just after is money and stealing a lot of funds as much as they can without any apology. I guess some people always prefer learning their lessons the hard way, and problem is nothing new for shit exchanges like this.

Yeah, a whole lot of them usually end up having a huge pump, but it is always good to be very careful holding them for too long after the pump as some of them also sometimes get dumped by investors afterwards and that made me to remember the case of TRON on binance as it got to a point where it just seemed like some people really just do not want the coin to go any higher at all and then the dump just kept coming.

All the above, what the OP has shared is a great innovation and opportunity for traders to always take advantage of the movements of these coins once listed.

Yeah, some of the changes that we would experience will be the usage of lightening network, which I believe would bring a lot of changes to the bitcoin sector on lightening transactions and adoption on the mainstream level. I have no doubt this would be a major development for bitcoin and I am sure we may see the likes of Apple in the future accepting bitcoin as a result of that. We are still early, so I guess we need not to rush.

Before we can start seeing big institutions and merchants accepting bitcoin, we may have to see some few things in place and some trust that the system has really come to stay. I am sure, for now, they may not even want to take that risk yet, but I still do not know why a lot of them are still on the sidelines when they can easily just make use of the services that converts it to fiat immediately. It is their choice anyway.

Well, relating that to the supply that you mentioned, in that case, I want to assume that the finite supply may not be a real problem as there must have been a huge demand for the banks to have even experienced being threatened in the first place and we all know how adoption would have been like for the bitcoin's value.

I am sure there should be enough in satoshis to probably go around, or maybe even if there is not, like you said, other cryptocurrencies may come to play. I really do not like assumptions anyway, but let's face it, I do not see cryptocurrency would throw banks to the garbage; they will not stop existing one way or the other and blend with the evolution.

On a very good and normal day, how would anyone even do anything without electricity? Okay, except for laptop with a good battery, an internet access, probably that would suffice for some few minutes, but in places where they are actually and totally ridden of electricity, it is impossible, probably possible with the use of mechanical or solar generators anyway. One thing is that this is one thing that makes it a problem for the whole population to adopt with the knowledge that some people in the globe still lack infrastructure.

Like they always say, when you are in Roman, you behave like a roman and as long as people are still seeing altcoins as a quick way to just make bucks, it would keep ending up that way. Not like some of them are not doing well, and some have grown over the years, so it is all about having patience on your holding, but no one can expect a coin to pump overnight and expect to see it keep growing. If the growth is not organic, then do not expect much. Moreover, bitcoin too had its own share, but that notwithstanding, it is obvious they are just in the shadow of bitcoin.

I very much believe that this year is even going to be more interesting than the ones we have seen in the past. With the whole news of regulation flying around, the lightening network preparing us for mainstream and the segwit adoption increasing by the day, I am sure a lot would change for bitcoin most especially, but for the whole market, I am sure more money should be coming in this year as well. It won't be a bad thing to have some of them around.

Not all, but some alts have good future and obviously ETH is one of them. There are so many other alts though that would also do fine in the long run, so at the end of it all, the most important thing is to hold an altcoin with product and usefulness in the community and as long as there is a solution this project backed coin or token is providing, that is what would make it stay relevant and end up raising its demand in the long run.

That should really be the first question. With the trend in the market, I doubt if any ICO is doing any good now, except for few though and I recently saw one coin on coinmarketcap recently during the downtrend getting pumped hugely and that surprised me. If he is for real, then he is in for some nice treat for life because all he need now is to be smart.

He does not even need to know much about trading and if he can do some risk management and long term trend following, that would help him to join the whales in any good altcoin market by buying when everyone is scared and dumping, and then selling when everyone is trying to rush in and catch-up.