Maybe not either, we have talked about halving a lot so I think we are all just sitting and waiting for a good run on the price but we did not see it coming so we are waiting up til now. I guess what happened on the price when it reaches $10K is that people who bought in between $5K to $6K range just secured their profit since we already anticipated that there will be a massive bull run after the halving. I don't want to assume that halving do not really affects the bitcoin price and we are just all focusing on it.

I was about to call you a part of that scam lol haha but then I see the JK below.

I've also seen this earlier, it attracted me coz it is a giveaway then I saw the deposit first word, no need to ring any bells, that was a pure scam. They are fishing typically, they can't get big fishes with a thin nylon and small hook, they should have thought of this. We don't have any complaints against it, so anyone here who wants to try this? JK  

Lightning Network is a solution for faster and cheaper transaction, a new solution that has been on the air for a long time that hasn't been on the ground for application. Some people say it is not good because it does not support any offline transfer although it is a new technology, whether it does not support that it is possible to have that kind of feature in the future.
As I say, one beneficial characteristics of lightning network is, it increases the handling transaction of a coin example bitcoin, you can have faster and cheaper transaction with bitcoin using the the lightning network. But aside from it does not handle any offline support, one major thing that is off for lightning network it has a problem when it comes to tracking and tracing.

On top of the main reason which is the volatility, it is worth to consider also that the cryptocurrencies is decentralized whose value relies on the law of demand and supply that is unlikely to happen in stock market since it is regulated by a central body that is connected to the government. These market are good in terms of investment, but If I were asked what is better it depends on what are you planning to do, short or long term because if you are targeting for a long term investment then most probably go with the stock market.

It hasn't crashed yet but we can see it declining obviously because of the global problem that we have. People are pulling out their investments every where like in stock market, oil industry even in crypto market whose category will fall into the economic side on which real estate is also belong. I guess property owners have stopped asking for their client's payment of course every one is suffering during these times. I am living in an apartment, luckily my landlady is very considerate although they haven't receive my rental fee as well as my neighbors for 2 months and a half.

Basically cryptocurrency market is both for short and long term investment and trading unlike forex which is less volatile so you could be waiting a month before you can decide whether you pull it out or still continue holding. Crypto trading more complex than forex in my opinion since forex is heavily regulated that'sy speculation of the people could help your investment grow in no time, could also lose it all otherwise. Cryptocurrency like bitcoin is most likely to be the best short and long term trade material for cryptocurrency.

Well you have your own judgment on their platform but for me it looks good enough to trade some coins, by far, not most of the coin listed on Bilaxy does not have any potential you just have to look at it in detailed way, It is just that 50 coins by estimation has a low trading volume on that exchange not that bad for an exchange that has been around for just 2 years. Shitcoins are everywhere, even on worlds greatest exchange by now.

There is a something in the future that does not look so good, after this pandemic we might face an economic collapse, high debts, and worst a second wave of this corona virus. What's best to do for now is to avoid any unnecessary expenses, just focus on what you need for at least every month. And I agree borrowing money is not a good idea during these times, but if it's reasonable and you think it'll worth the interest (if any) then why not? just leave it at the last option at the very least.

This is the key to avoid getting into the fake exchanges. When you are trading often, let's say you are trading every day might as well bookmark the website or platform where you are trading so you can easily access it with just a simple click, or put it on your favorites so it will pop up whenever you are typing on the search bar. I've been seeing a lot of this recently, some are typosquatting the original website that it would look like it is the original website but its not. So everyone should be aware on the sites, always check the security of the website, google can easily detect it.

Bitcoin is an asset but not safe haven, let's just compare the basic ones and the most discussed among all topics, bitcoin and gold, Gold is a safe haven and an asset since gold can store a value and it maintained its value over a long time period, it is volatile yes but it is very low that you would not even feel it when it drops, on the other side bitcoin, it is an asset because it can store a value but not a safe haven since it is very volatile, there is no word safe for something uncertain and volatile.

Pretty obvious if you are really wanted to do a safe trading practices just go with the trend exchanges since those are the high volume exchanges and high liquidity like Coinbase, Binance, Bitmex etc.
Choosing an exchange is like choosing a house for your money, you better be researching all about it first before entering so you'll be totally safe. As my personal opinion, Binance is the greatest at the moment.

If people would follow of what is obvious then it will happen sooner or later than what it should be, coz man speculation these days are pretty massive.
I don't know man, it seems like people look at the market in a very technical way when it should be not simply because it is decentralized, people should not be relying on the technical side as it is just a past data hoping to happen again.
Of course we all do, we made the halving event an opening for gullible people, look where are they now, looking for the 24hour price changes.

Yeah at the moment trader who have decent job might just do a full trading lifestyle since most of us are prohibited to go outside without a reasonable facts. But I do not count the trading as a job, why? because it is more of like a business since you do buying and selling, you are just acting like a store with so much risk in it. What could be a job that is related to crypto is into computer science, programmers, IT, software engineers and any computer related jobs, not just being a trader is a job. imo.

Any time is a good time yo buy bitcoin but If I were you I would buy as soon as possible now because halving is coming to the mark and it is speculated to reach it's all time high again this time.
If you are willing to buy peer to peer for a lower fee then I suggests to transact with reputable ones here in the forum, you can find them in marketplace. Don't trynna talk with someone who messaged you, it should be you who contacted them first, just a tip.

The government should consider the fact that everyone is not doing any thing to get a money, all of us have just what we have saved from working and some relief that is given to us. The government should choose the long road for recovery, they should not impose higher taxes just to recover the losses that they have got in expense of people's hard work money. Tax is progressive but do not increase it by a sudden because of the damage recovery idea.

Yeah, the creation of bitcoin was mainly to be a peer to peer electronic cash system which disallow any form or middle men to avoid extra cost. There is the ironic part of decentralized cryptocurrency going into centralized exchanges but the degree is not the same, like the category bitcoin is decentralized because it is not govern by any group or organization but it do not goes the same as exchanges because centralized exchange means there is a central command for which the transactions are being gathered.

We can't do nothing about it, it is decentralized after all, we could not do a thing against it if that is what Chinese people want to do, to mine then it is other's country thing if they should have a large mining farms in order to achieve the balance but I doubt it is happening. One factor why most of the hashrate is coming from China is because their electricity rate is low, if I would compare it to our electricity rate here it is 50% less than what China is offering for their people, so that counts for another factor why most of Chinese is mining.

These people are whales, as for slang whale definition is a large player in the market, it is not only believe to be a person, there are some groups who form community that purposely doing things that will affect the market so they can manage to take advantage of the collateral continuous dump or pump. Although bitcoin is totally decentralized, these manage to come up to this smart idea. However these whales are not large enough to totally collapse the market, the ocean of crypto is much larger than what we think.             

In day trading I advise just to trade the top 10 coins listed in the market, the most valuable and high volume ones since that is where your profit is coming from, prediction would be meaningless if it just about 1% to 3%, you can't get any thing with that. Whales do have the best advantage on day trading since they are impacting very well in the market, they could just easily set a trap for small traders and they end up losing.
But imma say day trading has more risk than just a normal trading practice.

The core of bitcoin is the pure speculation from the people, as I see the positive remarks of some famous people out there, they helped bitcoin a lot especially that we are having this even called  halving that will cut the supply into half, and guess what we are all anticipating the good from it since we already had 2 great halving results in the past 8 years. We already hit the $20K ATH, I guess it is time for us to go after that price range.
Bitcoin will be bitcoin, no matter how deep it goes, high it flies bitcoin is going to be just fine.