But the thing is if everybody was patient, the market wouldn't function as it is now. You should practice patience for sure, but we need some FOMO'ers now don't we?

Gross and disgusting is the only way to put this. And moving ahead the only way to combat this problem is to talk with our feet, don't participate in ICOs that require KYC. Doing so exposes you to such risks.

Are going to be altcoins that have utlity. For instance Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Monero will most likely be relevant. Same can't be said for Mooncoin, Dogecoin, and other coins that provide no value.

I believe we will see a massive surge in Bitcoin users entering come Q3 and as a result I believe we will be above 2 trillion total market cap when all said and done in 2018.

Ethereum I would sell at 2k. Litecoin at 1k. And Ripple at $5. I only hold Ethereum though at the moment, although the other two are worth picking up as the time seems correct.

I mean I would purchase them and re-sell them to the market but you should ask yourself why they aren't doing the same? Maybe they want to avoid the KYC or maybe the Bitcoins are tainted. The problem only arises for ourselves if we ourselves don't want to undergo more KYC and if there is a black-list that denies the taint of Bitcoins. KYC we shouldn't worry about and the black-list really should not exist (although people are vying for it now). All said and done unless you are a government agency with vast resources you won't know if the Bitcoin is tainted or not and if I saw a solid $ opportunity I would take it in a heart beat.

Freaking awesome this picture is! I was gonna send the artist $5 myself but not having the address makes it impossible for me at the moment. Gonna be cool to see more stories like this in the future, especially considering some of these arts may gather a lot of money.

Pretty much agree with you on everything except I think if we surpass $10k we won't rise astronomically quick to $11,700. I think the rise will be gradual as it has been these past 3-4 weeks here. Sometime in June I expect to be near 12k but not until then.

Probably has to do because of the futures and the big players entering the market. Nobody wants to get burned but they have the money and the power to prevent this and I feel like they have been playing with the markets for a few months now. Obviously I can't prove my theory but it is the best theory I have up until now.

They can control the taxation and the laws surrounding it, but they most certainly can't shut it off or deny anybody access by "controlling" the Bitcoin network. Taxes are in for most places that support it, although I would like to see an option to pay in BTC rather than fiat.

Kind of but I don't think it is all doom and gloom for the banks. They have already been established for a couple hundred years which gives them a huge advantage. Despite the fact I think Bitcoin will be adopted at a grand level, I still don't see a way to move forward without banks. I doubt everybody in the older generation will give them up and it will take 50 years and above to eradicate them slowly from society I feel like.

Well if you are keen on learning from your mistakes you can easily make back whatever you lose here. But if you are stubborn and think the world works against you without putting in any real effort, then you won't ever make back what you lost. All it boils down to is mindset and if your mindset is correct, you can make it here.

Clearly can't ban it otherwise they would have already, and now it is too big to stop. If they regulate it, that would be amazing for the space although it will cause short term volatility. It seems the market overreacts to every news regardless of whether it is positive or negative these days.

Its not volatile at all. By defintion volatile means change rapidily and unexpected, you would never see that with the US dollar. Instead what happens is a over time they slowly bleed you out without knowing it, this is the opposite of volatile. Instead it was a stable draining of purchasing power.

I'll one up you and say it is the stupidest idea that these celebrities could think of. They could make money in loads of ways but they are just literally using their name to get riches, makes me sick. Take Pablo Escobar brother for example, do you think Diet Bitcoin stands any chance of being real? I highly doubt it, and if I had to guess I would say it may be used to launder money. Same can't be said for the rest of the stars, but still down right disgusting behavior if you ask me.

I believe you are wrong in here, and that is because while the hacks can happen, it doesn't reveal the identify of the people who got hacked at all. At best you may know what city they are in because of an IP address, but how are you supposed to ascertain their physical location? Only the exchange would know that, and unless they hacked your account and you were verified this simply can't happen.

Seems like a hard accusation to prove, although I have noticed on a bunch of coins I held they were slow to update. I didn't care for that much, but I also didn't think anything malicious of it. Recently I have started using other website like CryptoCompare and CoinGecko and suggest others do the same to lessen Coinmarketcap's power in this position.

Outside the scam and no backing allegations it doesn't get much weirder or obscure than this. I have however been told it is all going to 0 and that I am wasting my time doing what I am doing, that felt nice . Even if I thought another human was wasting their time, if I wasn't close to them I certainly wouldn't say something like that. But apparently with Bitcoin everybody has something to say and they want to say directly to your "dumb" face.

Favorite coin is Bitcoin and it will probably always be my favorite. I have made more gains on other coins but to this day I owe a lot to Bitcoin and without it I wouldn't be in the great position that I am in. Favorite altcoin if I had to say though would be Bcash, jk not .

Isn't that just the funniest thing ever though? The fact that a real project with real use case hardly gets any attention or funding, but the hype project that promises to do literally everything gets a lot of money. It baffles my mind and I honestly will never understand some investors.