He bought on peak, when prices were very high, and after that on poloniex for a week or more everything was red and prices were going down like crazy, thats why OP should keep his coins and panic selling is not a good option now in that way he will just lose the money and he can say good bye to profit.. Patience and waiting for prices to go up again is the best thing he can do, OP didn't share with us which coins he bought but after the August 1 when drama about bitcoin pass I think prices of altcoins will get back where they were and we can count on raise of some of them. At least I'm keeping mine and I don't have plans to sell yet.

People who have gambling problems generally try to hide it from the people around them. They start lying everyone around them their closest one, family and friends. If you spot that person is lying about gambling you have addicted person in front of you. They will do anything to find money for casino, they will borrow money everywhere with many stories how they will return that very fast. They fall in so big addiction and they start to lie about everything in their life, and that is the worst thing, its hard to get rid off that, that stays in head for all the times.

Lets ask a question `what is for one million for a billionaire?` We all know the answer, nothing, thats why they invest in everything a lot in my opinion.
Put 1 million on 10 different places and if just one investment is x100 he earned a lot. I think all of them have some bitcoins, or some other coins also, they sure don`t search for it they have advisers that do that for them, they just give the money and take profit.
If someone is a billionaire and didn`t invest in bitcoins already that man is a fool in my opinion.

That news could inflict on people opinion about bitcoin. After panic about bitcoin splitting people are investing in bitcoin again and that can explain this sudden price rise.
This is nothing new, bitcoin price is capable to move up and down very fast and that don't surprise me anymore. I knew that price will get back on 3,000$, with mass adoption and legalization in many countries its madness that price is going down. Until the end of the year price can go to 4,000$ and maybe even more.

You don`t even know what you are commenting... next time before you make a comment try not to be lazy, with very simple check you could find out that price is 2716.15 US Dollars, that is 1000$ in less then one day. If you think that price is decreasing then something is wrong with you.
Just type in google predictions about bitcoin price, news in last one month are giving so optimistic statements about future of bitcoin price that for me is hard to believe in all that. As the demand for bitcoin is going up, price will follow too. Bitcoin will get to 4 and 5 thousands one day, and stay there for sure, but when will it happen is just a wild guessing. I know that I would be satisfied if we go to 3,000$ until the next year and stay there for a while.

Yes never until now, but that doesn`t mean that something like that can`t happen in the future. I must agree with your statement about future grow, as long as we expect price to go up we can`t count on stability. We know what is the bottom when some drop is happening, but where is the top? Price of bitcoin in next 5 years will hit 5,000$, 11,000$ , 50,000$ are just some predictions from the bitcoin news sites, there are even more optimistic
predictions, but how much we expect bitcoin to worth in the future, when will price stop with rising?
In the end conclusion that we can`t expect crypto currencies to be stable is on the spot, maybe future can surprise us, but I doubt in that.

We have something in common, we all regret cause we didn`t buy on time! When I think about it now, we missed a great chance to be a millionaires, probably cause we weren`t brave enough to put more money in cryptocurrencies. Past is past, what is done is done, the best thing we can do now is to learn from our mistakes and look forward. Bitcoin is to expensive for my pocket and I try to earn bitcoins, and I finally started to save something, other then that there are many good coins also that are cheap and I`m buying some of them with hope that one day price of this coins will go up significantly.

I have couple friend's on Facebook now that I met on difrent sites. Couple are from my country, and couple from several countries. Usually I talk with people when I play poker, and like you said not everyone is friendly, many don't like to talk at all. But I like to comment hands, to share my opinion and sometimes I click with someone and wr share Facebook, or twiiter and we talk later. We inform each others about some good tournaments, promotiobs.
Even we never met in live we lend money to each other, without any interest, and I never had a problems with them. With one guy I talk almost everyday he is from city close to mine and he is a trader, he gives me tips from time to time.

Tradeducatedbe very tricky, with that part I can agree, but all your strategies and plans in trading are based on what? Thran air? I say that's cause you follow the news, comments and with all that is easily manipulated. In poker you play against people and their cards andyout strategy, cool head good analytic mind can save you from losing money and give you more chances for making profit.I don't think that trading is more educated, calculated, safe and responsible than gambling, what you talk is approach, with same way you can approach to gambling and have better results.
If you are a day trader then that is very similar to gambling, with buying and holding altcoins for long term holding you are more investor, but in a way that is a low bet now that can bring huge profit in next years, but requires a lot of waiting.

Couple days ago price was under 2000$, that was good opportunity for buying bitcoins. Looks now we are going back on 2500$, and I noticed couple threads here on forum how Chinese are buying like crazy and that is very posoble fornprice to get to 3000$ very soon. I'm saying that cause I'm not so sure that waiting is a good option at the moment, I know that with bitcoin anything can happen, price can go down to 1500$ or up to 3000$ in a day and faster, that would be nothing new for bitcoin price.
If you have money buy when you think it's bottom, my opinion is that 1800$ in one shirt moment was a bottom and now bitcoin price will rise.

We gamble cause of money, that drive us I think. Without material gain there is no gambling, that is why we get exited, when we lose a lot or win a lot. Gambling without money involved is just a game for kids, for example there is poker in Facebook, slots, there is many free roulettes but that is not interesting for me. I don't know who can find fun in playing this kids games. If I decide to play a game I play league of legends or maybe counter strike, but to gamble or playing gambling games where I can't win anything that is a completely waste of time.

The most accurate would be to say that bitcoin will rise in long run, but daily fluctuations will always be present. There is no need for confusion, bitcoin price depends from supply and demand, in long run supply should go down and demand up, we will see halving in 2 years, then again in 4.
But daily fluctuations will never stop, did you ever think about what is panic selling? How many bitcoins should be sold/dumped in very short period of time to force price to go down? A group of people can manipulate market with 100k bitcoins in my opinion, they can create false panic selling and when price touch bottom they buy again and with raised demand price is going up again. This is probably the simplest explanation about bitcoin price movement.

When we speak about Warren, I saw this picture couple days ago and i cant stop thinking about it. If he is right you shouldn`t buy and sell, you need bots for that, you just need to invest in all that, and make money while you are sleeping. Be patient or sleep and when you wake up just check your wallet? I will try to save money for the first time in my life for some investment, more I`m thinking about Warren Buffet words more I`m sure in fact that if I need to find a way to earn while I sleep or I will be condemned to work whole my life for some cheap money, and I will never have enough. I think this works for most of the people from lower classes, we killing ourselves on stupid works to be paid 200$ monthly, someone spend that money for breakfast. Buy bots and do nothing if you have enough money for trading.

Wall Street is a center of power, and if they join in crypto world they can bring a lot of money with them. Its a Wall Street, so if they pump in a lot of money they will be whales in bitcoin world like they are now in real, I don`t like them, but we cant stop them from joining. I think they live from other people misery, they started economy crash 10 years ago, they are responsible for many manipulations, cause that is what they are manipulators, nothing more then that, and cause they are so rich they can manipulate with countries, markets, people.
We will see what kind of investors they are, bitcoin started to attract good and bad people and institutions, and I don`t like that fact. How much money they plan to pump in, and what can they do with bitcoins will be seen, but if they say that price can hit 55k in just 5 years that is manipulation, buying now, pumping the price and dumping and leaving the club, thats how they do business.

Some miners and traders are also a gamblers and 30% is pure guessing, there is no way for us to calculate how much percents of all crypto wealth is in gambling. There is many sites, and probably every site have some high rollers, plus so many little players. Its already mentioned, but some fiat casinos now accept bitcoins, and how to track all that, almost impossible. Even thou 30% is guessing, I must admit that its reasonable assumption, maybe a bit high who knows, 30% out of 70 billion, market value of cryptocurrencies, is almost 21 billion, do you really think that people have so much money in bitcoin gambling? When you put things like this in dollars for me 30% maybe even sounds to high. I tried to find more informations about about this topic but I couldn`t, I doubt that we will hear right answer on this question.

I'm not sure how much you are aware that you also mentioned several good reasons why banks should fear from bitcoin. Bitcoin is a threat to banking system, with bitcoin we can skip bank dominance. Do we need to pay for storing bitcoins in wallet like we need to pay to the bank for having bank account? Do we need many documents for registration and do bitcoin charge us so big fees for money transactions in another country.
Bitcoin is better then any fiat currency, and they know it, that's why bank of Albania is issuing the warning about bitcoin. Its not the first time that we hear something like that from the banks, and I doubt its the last time. Keep calm and continue to earn and save bitcoins, donnkt pay attention on this kind of news.

For me bitcoin is also a currency, but bitcoin can be seen as asset too. Bitcoin is universal tool for many things now, for paying, saving, investing, what one individual wish he can do with bitcoins, but its pointless to classify bitcoin.
Use bitcoins as you wish is good suggestion from you, don't pay attention what others say about it, bitcoin is capable to handle our needs for profit, for good earning, to give us fun. For now bitcoin has potential to be that in next decades, if nothing bad happen to blockchain. Bitcoin is perfect you said it right, with possibilities and potential, we must see it as something perfect.

Its hard to set up limits in gambling, my only limit is with how much I will start gambling. I try to not go with all I have (that happened few times), when I deposit I'm ready to lose all, if I increase my bankroll I change the game and increase bets.
Few times I lost deposited, then deposited again and lose again and third time when I'm all in with last of the bitcoins I have I win back all what I have lost and make double profit. In gambling some times you need to push as hard as you can, with all you have. It doesn't always and positive for me, but that is gambling for me, pushing and challenging the limits.

I also don`t think that, but I learned to be careful and I think its not going to be a big deal to chill couple days without any transactions, just for precaution. Its always better to be safe, then to be sorry later, and its not some long time period of waiting, its just day or two. This should not be a problem for anyone, date is announced, so everyone from here should finish with everything before August, and to have couple days free from bitcoin world, that is what I plan to do, and probably many other. I will live some coins in casino, just to see what can happen with them and to have something to play poker with, around 3-5 mbtc.

Looks like people are withdrawing money from bitcoins, panic selling or just a strategy to sell now and buy later while it's cheaper I don't know, but I think we will see bitcoin price under 2000$ mark.
August 1 is just a date, and its just one day, for us to see changes time needs to pass. Week or month, maybe more I can't give some accurate prediction cause I'm not some expert, but I sincerely doubt that everything can happen in just one day and in next day to see price back on 3000$. Patience my dear friends is what we need now, waiting and observing the situation, like last year maybe we will see results in October, November, and that is 4 months from now.