It's the same mechanics that made first companies who accepted Bitcoin profit greatly from this decision. They caught early Bitcoin investors who were itching to spend their coins on anything really. They would buy things they didn't really need only to test Bitcoin payments and they had almost free coins that were worth now much more than when they were buying them.

Now crypto holders want more stability and think that backed companies are better than decentralized ones. They are not!

They must be producing a lot of power that would otherwise go to waste.

Most power plants around the would could do the same but they aren't because the demand for power is high and they can make money selling it instead of buying hardware and taking on additional costs and unneeded risk.

There was a private investor who bought an old power plant to mine Bitcoin. I wonder how he's doing 

They said the opposite that these new accounts are waking up to start trading again.

The survey was done by a Japanese exchange where some old traders are coming back seeing the beginning of a new bull market.

They probably became inactive in 2018 following the crash of BTC from the all time high and the beginning of a bear market. Simply sold what they had and moved on.

I'm one of those people who wouldn't sell below 10 thousand dolars but I also don't walk away just because there's a bear market.

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I used to have a lot of altcoins but now it's almost exclusively Bitcoin. Back to the roots we could say

I wish you all the best and hope your investment will become very profitable.

Gambling is not all fun and positive experience. It all often ends in tears.

I would never try to get my siblings involved in gambling and not because I don't like it or think it's bad. I like it but I don't want to take responsibility for other people's mistakes and misery, especially people who are close to me and who I will have to keep seeing in that mess. It should always be their choice. If they choose to gamble I will not interfere but they should be aware of the consequences.

Cash is much better than the IOU money that banks are offering us.

Cash has its disadvantages compared to cryptocurrencies because it can be damaged and it's easier to steal but it's still better than fiat on your bank account that can be monitored and seized.

Cashless society is possible just like a world without the military and wars but possible doesn't mean it's going to happen in our lifetime.

It's not only a round number and we all know that people like round numbers like 10 thousand dollars and now 12 thousand so it was easy to predict they will want to take profit.

We hit a yearly high and a round number and a popular resistance level because it was the August 2019 peak price.

Profit taking is normal and doesn't change the trend.

nothing guarantees 100% investment safety. You can buy a new car at the dealership and they will also not guarantee the car will work fine. Things happen and there were cases where people bought new houses and found out the pipes are leaking and the walls are cracking.

It's great that people are beginning to demand more information from the teams because some of these teams were involved in scam projects before.

If a project has even one scammer in the team you should warn people about them and stay away yourself.

But why wouldn't those people choose fiat money that are as stable as stablecoins but also backed by the government?

Most stablecoins are backed by promises and some are even backed by lies (usdt).

My opinion is that stablecoins can be useful by people who are not allowed to trade coins for fiat money or want to avoid taxation by exchanging to another coin instaed of fiat money but that's it. Don't ever trust stablecoin or treat them like an investment.

IEO is probably the closes to the traditional stock market investment. It's an easy way to invest in a company that's already on the market, has an established position, usually is regulated.

I don't know enough about STO projects but it looks like they lack usability. They're more secure than ICOs which are of course the worst choice of the three but not as good as investing in a physical firm.

I remained invested all throughout 2017 18 19 and now. The only thing that I did in those years was switching from altcoins to Bitcoin.

If you're waiting for the altcoin season you can safely do the same and have one less problem on your minds. I still have some ETH and ADA but that's all.

Because these projects are meant to exploit people.

First of all their mining farms usually don't exist and people buy false promises. Out of maybe around 50 cloud mining companies maybe 2 that I remember hashnest and genesis mining really had hardware. the other 48 were ponzi scams that disappeared long ago.

Cloud mining is too risky for an average investor and the money they can make every year is very small. Not worth giving away the control of your crypto to someone you don't fully trust.

I use this forum and threads in the speculation section but it's mostly tradingview all over again. People who speculate here have their accoiunts on tradingview and publish there or read other people's predictions and make their own based on hints from other people.

It really doesn't matter where you look you will still see very similar analysis.

Maybe they weren't expecting 2.0 to really happen. Maybe they were so tired of the prolonged bear market. Maybe it's basic human psychology that makes us think things are worse than they really are.

This exact thing makes people commit suicides. They think there's no way out of the situation but there always is, you just have to live long enough to see it resolve itself.

Almost nothing. I prefer to claim giveaways and airdrops and of course write for my signature campaign which isn't a typical altcoin hunting, but so much better and worth every hour spent on it.

Giveaways and all the basic stuff in 2019 gave me a profit of about 0.05 BTC so pocket money. The signature campaign brought me more than 0.4 BTC on a year which is a hefty sum.

They should be arrested but what sentence would you give them?

I find it a bit awkward that you can be sentenced for 5 years in prison when you rape someone and a hacker who exploits a vulnerability in a program can get 10.

I wonder what sentences they will get but probably higher than a typical rapist or a thief.

There are coins worth holding like BTC and ETH and there are coins good only for trading like XRP or EOS.

 I wouldn't hold coins that I don't trust and don't believe they can achieve anything in the long run.

To be honest most coins are crap not even worth trading.

If this really is just a police division there should be an attourney or a judge assigned to the case who signed a warrant allowing the bank to freeze funds.

A policeman cannot order a seazure of assets or anything like that.

Some previous posters gave you good advice that you should follow: get a lawyer.

It can as well be different in the opposite way. There's more people but also more holders who bought Bitcoin in the longest bear market in history.

I hold my coins and I'm bullish but let's not forget that if all those people who bought for sub 10 thousand think of 20 -25 thousand as their target we may never go very far.

The big bubble that used to be 5-10x can this time be only 1 -1,5x and this will make it dramatically different. The next bubble in 5 or more years can only be 0.5x and so on. It still won't be bad because imagine going 0.5x from 40 thousand dollars. That would still leave us at 60 which is a great price. I wouldn't wait for 100 or 200 thousand dollar bitcoin though.

Only uneducated people call Bitcoin Blockckchain.

There's this attitude propagated by fans of cryptocurrencies who don't like Bitcoin because it's decentralized and independent. Those people often say things like blockchain not bitcoin thinking that the technology is more important than its use case.

Many banks have addopted this attitude thinking they can launch their own blockchains and have their own coins.