The idea of the price manipulation is to benefit mainstream/institution to get into the market at a low price and possess a large portion definitely from the smaller holders. This will allow more funds at larger realm to flow into the space, though it may start in bits. More existing institution are adopting blockchain and they are getting how to possess the trade volume and maintain it. The stable coin are getting validated, which could allow individuals to convert their fiat probably considering a low volatility coin.

I expect the ratings to have changed with revelation of the fake volume for trades of most of the exchanges. It is disheartening to know that more than 75% of the visible trade volumes were fake in the highly rated exchanges. I am they might even changes due to this news cause thats where they make most of their money. Everyone will understand why their trade order may not be filled in such a long period, this will also increase users of those credible exchanges in the coming year.

It was announced on most of their media: medium, telegram, bitcointalk etc. around a month ago. I am not sure they could have raised the fund if they had not extended the date of the ICO. The softcap was easy and the hardcap is closer at 94% but was getting slower towards the end of the ICO, Maybe because the site is not regularly updated.

I used to read that cryptocuurency is not affect by global recession. fortunately have not had the experience of recession since i started. The market of gold lately has not been different from trading a stable coin. It just help to preserve value not necessarily for making profit.

maybe I should get familiar to Xmas runs. The surge is just to appease the moment, Its an important in the year for cryptocurrency. I believe if there is no manipulation at all, the price can rise to the moon itself. This surge is for a while.

It might be difficult to get all you need now on investment. If had done some bounties you might have learnt how to identify a good project. Learning to identify a good project will be helpful in ICO investment. Presently people do more of buying from the exchanges that ICO investment, thats the most lucrative venture in investment in bearish market.

Do we always have buyers over the counter this much around this time of the year? The highest ever price of bitcoin was on this very day 2017(December 19). Have been waiting to see what will happen today and there it was, another surge though far from previous year. There was an argument that the OTC sales has significant no effect in BTC over all price.

some analysis said bitcoin has one or two more bull runs, I dont know if to believe that. If this really happens the excitement in the space will be reduced and community also. I want to believe that the introduction of some new rule from government might affect the long time price pump. This will control manipulation and reduce it to the minimum, this they consider to be factor hindering its approval by the SEC.

people dont go into gambling because of the money or gain or wins, they go into it because of the addiction. Gamblers always have a terrible hope even when losing, they are always looking for the last trial probably it will be their time to win. percentage of winning in gambling is always low, which they keep like that and thats where some people earn. they earn in the high percentage of gambling loss. Gambling is increasing from country to country and younger men are joining the queue daily.

there are a lot of things to consider before buying into the market now and cheap is not one of them because all of them are cheap. You need to consider the value in bitcoin from the ICO price, it helps in making a better decision, also is to look at the stage of the project and how purchase volume is now. you will surprise how some currencies are getting a high volume buy order in this bear market. coin with low buy order should give a warning signal.

most of the referred tool for sorting good bounty campaign are no more effective. no regular updates, some request logging to acquire traffic and data. Some even demands money/bitcoin. The information provided on these sites does not mean all bounty campaign provided are research and well recommended. You will still need your due diligence. Most bounty this year does not show to be resourceful we need to wait for the new year.

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If your follow the project one will understand that it was not easy in the market. Large sum of the investment was not from public sale and the fund was one of the longest period. More government are involve in the project which makes it interesting, cause they are the right channel to implement the project. The has overcome the softcap challenge a long time ago and team is confident of fulfilling the roadmap.

$1500 is possible if the exchanges allow it but I dont expect them to go back to where the coin was before the pump, most times it doesn't go that deep, thats 100% dump if it gets to $1500.

the trend has changed, is now a buying market, buy as much as you can. Bear market is at the deepest price where one can make the highest gain with a long term plan. The long term plan depends on the approach of the bull run, not necessarily 2-5 years. The idea of hodling is changing, most people dont tell people this to pull traders to market when the market is healthy and make them victim of the dump. no matter the condition of the market the best strategy is to hold except for extreme cases of a true news of a dying token.

bitcoin still looks like the best buy now until we see a slight upward movement in the next few weeks followed by some side way movement for some weeks also. Other altcoin will can be considerably acquired now especially for token that has prospect and significant price dip. Fiat is more important in the market than flipping token.

Bitcoin reward rarely has vacant slots and they demand high post members with high number of posts per week to get highest pay, which is challenging in a forum where spam are diligently monitored and deleted. The highest paid in bitcoin can give a little above 2 btc thoughout the year, and there is only one campaign that offers this, where as, under normal market condition an altcoin campaign within 2 month can make >1 btc for high rank members. Altcoin was not has profitable this even for the highest rank project but the best idea is to hold such coins for the coming bull market run

Its a time for shake off in the space; shake off in ICOs, and price manipulation. More work is going into the space to amend some part of the space within some countries. Over the years we have looked down on the influence of governments and now we have seen some influence. Some believe cryptocurrency might not come back without the ETF approval, however, 9 disapproval had gone with no negative effect. Sometimes I don't know what to believe because the space is still young and some trends are not familiar.

Everyone is now thinking the same way. It is a difficult to know when a token is at its peak, the peak of last bull run was only for a day and went side ways. No one can under estimate the value of Fiat in the space, another alternative is the stable coin which can keep the value of any coin through any market run; bear or bull. The trend will always be the same, so hodling a fools' claim in a bull run, it is only useful in the bear market.

I am rightly corrected. its per post