The market has been in the bearish trend for quite some time now even with good news and many institutional investors are investing and new projects are starting up related to crypto the price still has trouble climbing back up. They say 2019 will be a game changer to this stagnant and im hoping that it actually happens cause i am also invested in altcoins.

I think the popularity of a certain thing or person is not only define in the numbers of it's likers and supporters. Sometimes the more the critics the more it gets popular and promotes it's features some may doubt it but it will serve as a motivation for them to explore and if all doubts are cleared they will start trusting it.

I'd rather go for upward spikes because i can profit from it cause it will always have correction reversal to the downtrend than this continues bearish trend that's getting me nowhere and got me stuck for quite a while now. Hope this 2019 is a good new year cause ive read some news about institutional investors investing in digital assets.

By making advertisement in social media, live stream, personal website or making testimonies or videos in youtube. The more people who uses it the more it attracts others to invest in it. Actually criticism has it's pros and cons because of it more people gets to know about it.

The market is really unpredictable even doing technical analysis seems not so helpful at all cause even if you buy at the dip it will become stable for a while then the price continues to drop and you've expected that the price has stop crashing. The best is strategy is to buy low and when there is an opportunity to sell then sell it all out instead of getting caught up in another bearish trend.

The problem with bounty campaign's is because they're not 100% legit even your posting and completing the minimum post requirement you're still not sure if you'll get paid or not cause the bounty campaign might turn out to be a scam and all your effort is wasted. Another problem is that it takes to long to payout.

This bots could be proven helpful if they're cost efficient i mean worth the money you've bought it to do, what you want it to do. Maybe it could be a malicious software that will make unknown transactions and has some code that will steal your money. Yes trading bots are helpful and convenient but most of it are scams. It's still the best to work hard through your own will power and gain experience in technical and fundemental analysis.

There are no exact statistics about it especially when it's a decentralized currency, the mass media wouldn't bother showing it to the news because of their masters. When you read the news many countries and local merchants in china, japan, russia, philippines. germany, africa are slowly adopting it and accepting as payment.

Actually no at all because bitcoin is still just a currency a tool to be use to send and receice money in transactions. Bitcoin has no intelligence or capacity to restrict anyone sending malicious transactions or aka money laundering or bad money. It is just a currency used to pay someone anonymously over the internet. In fact it can be a tool to be used for corruption by politicians because of it's anonymity.

No one actually knows for sure if who is satoshi or what it is his btc addresses because bitcoin was created to be a digital money that would exceed the old traditional fiat currency and it's features are decentralization and anonymity which is very hard for anyone to trace who belongs to whom. So the answer is indefinite maybe those btc still exist maybe they dont. Who knows.

Cause in the future banking and payment institutions will be using crypto as their main form of transactions instead of obsolete fiat currency. The whole world's money will be digitalized and will be using internet to send and receive money and buy or sell online products. We are considered lucky cause we have discovered and invested in crypto.

Im also a novice in trading like you and had failed a lot because it's really hard to predict the price when analyzing for an uptrend or downtrend because sometimes it might go down even if the token that you've bought has good fundementals when the whales wants it to go down it will go down.

I dont think you can make 10% in just weekly basis. If you're a swing trader maybe you can make 10% if you wait for the right moment to buy especially right now in this bearish trend and be patient until the uptrend comes you can gain a lot from it then just 10%. That's patience is virtue when it comes to trading.

That would only happen if there are no borders, countries and nation. If the world has only one government then it could happen but let's not kid ourselves we all know that no sane government or country would angry to be controlled by one nation that's why wars always break out. Even now many countries are fighting through economic war trying to be the best currency of the stock market.

Some of us needs to know and look for the current price especially if you're a swing trader who is waiting for an uptrend in order to sell your assets an rebuy when the price goes dip. It's not that we want to look at the market price everyday. We look at it because we need to know.

How can we say that bitcoin is dying when there still investors, merchants and businesses like commerce and e-commerce who uses it and at the same time still being mass adapted by governments and local businesses. The world is still in the developing phase of blockchain technology sooner or later it will transition into crypto in terms of payment.

Well i like altcoins when it has good fundementals, gaining market revenue, gaining investors and starting new projects. Cause i'll add it to my buy list or portfolio to invest in when it's price dips that's the perfect opportunity for me to buy cause lately bitcoin has been stagnant and unfruitful so im trying to make profit by investing in alts.

Altcoins has more volatility than bitcoin if you look better you can see that there are altcoins that is continuously pumping and dumping and in an endless loop. For me this is a good opportunity because you can make profit from investing from buying in the dips of altcoins just by waiting for the right time sell. Instead of selling prematurely.

This happened because of the implementation of the new merit system and turned out to be one of the new businesses here in bitcointalk forum. In the past it was only selling hack accounts now more income opportunities can gain scammers profit. It seems to me that this merit system is kind of rubbish because you can get merits if you can pay someone who can do it.

Make it accepted globally as payment for commerce or e-commerce, introduce it to institutional investors and explain the benefits of having a crypto currency in the booming blockchain businesses today cause soon enough the money will move to the internet and that's where will we make our payment, transaction in our businesses.