Yes over time, I have always known this as something that would happen eventually and like I always say, it is either tether itself implodes, or we get to see some legal action on the tether team and if care is not taken, that may be the end of tether. This is one of the reasons why a lot of investors hedging their funds have lost faith and now looking for better alternatives.

Alternatives are coming up daily with most exchanges even beginning to deal with fiat directly, and in that case, I would say the thing here is that, tether even though it has been used over the years, have failed to keep up with that part, where transparency should be a thing.

This is a highly conservative approach and very few times that is possible to buy a coin which is great if you want to buy something that will definitely go up but there are two problems with it. You will not make a lot of money with it since there are very few chances to make money and actually buy something that hits all of this, meaning low returns on your investment.

Second one is no matter how amazing indicator you find there could be something that breaks all of that and actually drop it further and all of your math would be for nothing since when something that is good to buy at 99 could drop to 85 and suddenly become not good to buy. I would definitely suggest checking these before buying anything but I would definitely relax the numbers and the system a bit to include more chances.

Not just in crypto world but there is absolute zero places where there is "risk free profit" anywhere in the world. However the most sure fire thing you can hope to get is the %4 at freebitco.in website, that way your bitcoins will be going up and you will still make money if bitcoin price goes up as well. Normally if you are going to just hold any coin it is always wiser to make money from holding as well.

If you are going to trade and make money than there is no reason why you should try to get some on top of it but it is definetly a great approach if you are going to hold it. That is why I prefer places that is already known in the crypto space (don't fall to other business that tells you will get 50% a day or so they are scammers) and put my money there while I am waiting for the bull.

The low we are talking about both low compared to what it used to be and also exchanges are known to meddle with their own volumes to make sure they look like one of the most active places.

We in our country can check it honestly because places that changes from fiat to bitcoin here actually shows how much it was sold without a lie (I mean probably because it really gets low and gets high according to market without hesitation and it really got quite low for couple days like 1-2 bitcoin a day compared to 100+ last December) so I have a chance at looking volume like what it is, maybe not exactly but at least shows me the trend.

I have seen bitcoin volumes to go up as much as 360 btc in our country at the peak last year and than during the august and September months it was insanely low and dropped to 1-2 btc a day and mostly around 4-5 bitcoins at most. Lately it has risen back up a bit to 16 bitcoins a day on average and that tells me even though we are not back to great days, people are expecting it to go back up.

I think we are forgetting the miners fee as well. So if  the volume of transactions goes up as much as the loss of the halving than the price doesn't need to double. By logic if there was no transaction fee than the price should have doubled or at least miner costs should have doubled and that should affect the price. However if the transaction number goes up by 2020 or anything above that than the miner costs would not double and they will make that money from the transaction fee as well and that way miners can still make their money from it without doubling their costs.

Hence, I think it is important to check how much transaction fee is paid everyday, if you see the number going up steadily than the price will not increase (at least not double even if it increases a bit). All this considered I doubt the price would change drastically during halving periods.

Well, since like you said, the bulls do not have the momentum to get the market up and the bears seems they have been completely tapped out with no more strength to even be able to break the $6k support, should we then say, with the stock market experiencing correction, there could be a possibility to see smart moneys, trying to move into a market that has been oversold. I am just thinking right now though, based on the way most investors usually think in most cases. I actually believe the stock market will most definitely tank further and still has a lot of room to go down, but in the meantime, I would not be surprised if we get to see a push up in the crypto space. All the same, just assuming things .

Every market will always have its own risk and we know the only risk we can see at the moment in this market is the volatility as well as the fact that this is still a very young market. In fact, I would not even be considering a market that is 10 years already as a young market, this is a market that has been growing and is growing each and every day which is something to consider as a great benefit for investment.

Now, when I am referring to the daily growth, I guess we have to refer to the fact that this is not just about the price alone, but in terms of usage and its great benefit in the long term.

Yes, the risk is always going to be there, but for one thing, you would not even need a soothsayer to tell you the potential gains you can experience in this space in the long run, if you are able to manage your funds well in most cases and have the understanding to know how to play your cards pretty right. The risk in every investment is always going to be there, which is why you need to know where you are buying which in this case, is actually a very good time for the OP to be getting in. If he had invested such amount into bitcoin early last year alone, I am sure even with this dip, he is still going to be in huge profit.

It is not even the first time that we will get to see Ethereum in this shape. It is a normal thing as the whole market has been in a downtrend state for a while, which I believe those who are smart enough, will know that this is a market they should really be trying as much as possible to get into now. It is just a matter of buying in now and being patient for the move to come, and those who have never been patient are the ones who usually end up not getting the best of any market in the long run. This is a good chance and opportunity I must say for those who are smart enough to take it.

End of year predication is just based on how bitcoin is going to perform in the same time frame. Still, I suspect ethereum may not follow bitcoin as it has done in the past. Last time when I had observed, BTC was in down trend whereas eth was in finding new ATH. Hence, expecting by this year end may disappoint you but it will surely have $1k levels again still there could not be any assured thing as usual in crypto world.

Do not deceive yourself about this coin becoming in the top soon.

Yes, it is being used but there have been concerns about it. I recently read in news in which one country which I cannot remember now asked exchanges to delist every completely anonymous cryptocurrency as these countries believe into the transparency of blockchain system.

Like most other coins, it is too a P2P currency but is completely anonymous and as long as someone accepts it as payment, no shit, but I want to assume and believe that in the long run and for most developed parts, when it comes to full anonymous cryptocurrency, there would likely be some crack down, just my own thoughts, as they believe it would actually aid in promoting dark market activities.

It is normal that if you have experienced what quick spikes cause as a result of greed and FOMO, you will likely prefer a steady growth. However, the thing is that everyone will always have a different way to things as well as a different opinion.
For most traders, they would not actually mind those huge spikes as it is that volatility that gives them joy most of the time, when it comes to making more money from the market fluctuations and so many times we have seen that this market is more speculative in nature, so it is a normal thing to always expect that there would keep being increases like this.

That is usually the big thing which matter the most. There is no investment at all that does not come with a risk, even outside cryptocurrency, but this you have mentioned is not a bad idea at all, as I am getting to even come across it for the first time. I never knew Bit Dice had a native token for profit sharing purpose.

However, there are some PoS tokens that one can get as well, which would keep giving you something substantial over time, if you really do not want to tie down your money into mining, and for what it is worth, in the long run, the chances of seeing the whole market doing well and then hitting some huge level is also a plus even if the OP peradventure decides to hold for the long term. That on its own is already an investment.

The teams, the availability of product, the roadmap, as well as the development being made by the team are always actually the things to always look at with the product being in the center of it all. I know at this stage the market is still speculative, and even shitcoins tend to rise as well, but for 2019 and as well as long term, what would really drive in sustainable demand is the product backed token or coin, are usually the ones that would get in some huge demand pretty well. Talking about sleeping giants at the moment, I am thinking of COSS, ENG, SC and ADA.

My sleeping giants for 2019 would actually be XCD, QRX for tokens that will be popping up based on the fact that they are exchange tokens but for existing ones, I am actually looking at Cardano. This is one coin that has really been sleeping for a while now, and there is every chance that when this guy wakes up with a huge bull run and full market recovery, it is going to be a pretty huge one. However, we cannot always tell how things will turn out exactly, so one way or the other, we will just need to be patient and then see the way things would go.

Well, you have even first made the mistake of trying to follow other people prediction in your decision making and that my friend, is one hell of a mistake entirely. One thing with most of these so called self-claimed experts is that they are always busy looking for recognition knowing there are so many people in this space that have no knowledge of what they are even doing at all, let alone be able to make decisions on their own. You are the only one who can help yourself, it is your money and you need to find and gain the knowledge to be able to handle yourself when it comes to making decisions.

Best tip you can receive would be to have a set known good tactic.

For example, if you want to buy check out the bollinger band and RSI and decide upon that. Use stuff that has worked so far for other people and do not get out of that. If you want to have a short term trading than you can not have any emotions or personal feelings towards a coin you buy or sell, you have to be robotic about these things.

Have a certain thing that you look for in indicator world and always buy and sell according to that, never go out of your way and buy anything because "you read on a news that it was suppose to go up" or "it was getting pumped so I jumped on the pump" or whatever. Just check numbers and close your ears and eyes to everyone and everything else. That way you can have a chance at it, still tho on bad bear market days no matter what you do there is absolutely nothing that can save you from that.

There are too many theories and almost all of them looks like the longer time passes the higher bitcoin price will be. It will certainly not be going straight up as we have seen in the past but it will be more than what it is right now in 10 years we can clearly say that.

Sometimes it drops sometimes it goes up but it always breaks the all time high no matter what. The nature of bitcoin is so different than fiat that it can stay low for a long term but in the end the reasons why it will go up is too many which eventually breaks out. I suppose whales probably have something to do with keeping it low but at one point even they do not really keep the peace and just let it go which than directly goes to skylimits and than have a big crash after everyone feels like they have what they want.

What I am even much particular about now is to start seeing real life usage at least as that is what would make any uptrend as well as bull run a bit sustainable in the long term. At this stage, expecting a bull run is all going to be based on speculations alone and I do not see that as something we should be after at all, and at this point in time, I would rather see just a slow adoption until we are able to see the real life usage kick in and in that case, at least, we want to see it happen because of mainstream adoption and not because some people are deciding to get greedy.

If a major news like approval of an ETF will be arriving then we can be sure about next bull run at a fixed time frame. Without any that kind of sure shot things, we cannot predict when more number of new investors will join bitcoins and how far they will take the markets. Being patience and waiting for slow progress is the only option for all the long term holders.

The initial thought was not a lie, blockchain could "help" cure cancer but so does other softwares and thesis works and basically all experiments.

The idea that blockchain for a cancer research could be established and basically all around the world people who find new studies applies to this blockchain and all the new research comes from that blockchain basically being searched by the new one and putting on top if could help it.

Now, I am not saying it would cure it nor it would be the reason for it, its the people who do the studies that really improves it but we are talking about a "software" basically, how much input and help do you expect from a software really ? I think the curren system already works charmingly on sharing their studies with others and blockchain could potentially improve it a bit. There is nothing wrong with any of this.

This is a great news for all of us that wants to invest into any ICO however it would probably only true for american ICO's and basically nothing would change for the global ones. Yes the idea is that if SEC really takes a look at the ICO's we invest we could definitely find out which ones are scam and which ones are legit and that way we could definitely invest into stuff we trust much more with a SEC approval and that would ease our minds.

However, the trouble is two fold, one is you can still be a legit company and than scam people and get away with it, this is crypto I am sure there will still be some loopholes somewhere that would allow them to do it, even tho harder while SEC is looking but still doable. Second trouble is the other countries like I said, if a scammer realizes SEC is looking he can start his company in some other country like Malta or Estonia or whatever and get away with it.

I really do not know what you are referring to as second peak but one way or the other, I really would not expect anyone to assume the future for a market they cannot see its future. Because imagining themselves for future events is the roost cause for many unexpected disasters.

If you are referring to the previous ATH, there is no one who can tell if we may not get to see the opportunity before the end of the year, but if you are referring to a new ATH, you and I both know this is not something we can easily get to see as far as I am concerned in this year. However, when it comes to making profit in the market and adapting to every change in trend, it will only have to do with your knowledge in most cases actually.