With today's gold price stabilization, I don't think you need to consider it as an investment since we haven't seen its price increasing that much for a very long time while bitcoin on the other hand has its own support for the price to rise each every year. So gold is more likely an asset, a safe haven for your money because it never losses its value. You better think what you need right now, an asset or an investment.

Less ROI for gold or none at all. If you are looking for ROI with certainty then go with business, but if you are looking for investment with good ROI then go with bitcoin but also need to consider the bitcoin because it has a high volatility rate.

Pandemic is anyone's problem right now, any market like stock or oil or crypto, it does not matter since what runs these market is the people and the people is afraid of losing so they are pulling out however with the crypto market that we have, we already resisted at a certain price unlike stock and oil that reaches the bottom rock ( although it does not affect the oil industry that much). Halving is coming near, I'm quite doubtful with it since we have a huge problem, global problem so I'll be 50/50 over the rise of the price of the bitcoin this year's halving. But who knows? Market have shown some spikes.

This is what I only think of it, even if North Korea welcomes the use of cryptocurrency it would not be beneficial to all its people but only for those in higher ladders. I have watched one of travel vlog in North Korea, it looks strange because their airport has nothing, no people, no staffs not unlike the normal airport and if there is any they are always escorted by korean  police. Do you imaging crypto in that country? there is no future at all but it will indeed help the community. They only even have one televised channel for people to watch and that is the news channel, no doubt there are lots of people tried to escape North Korea.

I've been seeing a lot of posts these days talking about addresses that is having a huge amount of bitcoin into it like what's the matter with these addresses? you know there are more of  address that looks like this, some amount is even higher than this and most of it is an exchange address or sum of funds from selected client inside the exchange. But if this address does not belong to any exchange, if this is owned by a single person then he could be a millionaire or a billionaire that invested in crpyto. All transaction made was in 2019, so I assume that the person behind that address is holding. No need to dig for the owner's info tho.

I think it is somehow a safe haven, but not that strong. With our imaginary price resistance range, we have seen the price of bitcoin not going beyond a certain range of price for the last 2 to 3 years and that is the very reason why users, websites and even merchants pursue to have bitcoin on their payment methods. I guess people calling it safe haven because they already rid the price of bitcoin in skyrocket.

Volatility is what makes bitcoin not the safe haven because it does not behave like the tether or other stable coins. For now, what fits best with bitcoin is a form of investment especially the price per bitcoin is high.

Well maybe out of curiosity some people are digging information about these addresses without respecting someone's privacy. For a thing like this, I guess it is enough to know if the address belongs to an exchange, a person, or an institution. Why not try to keep your business in acquiring bitcoins? make the amount of those addresses a fuel to be inspired and be on the top 10 addresses, it is free to fantasize 

What I think of the spike in bitcoin trap is due to other market condition, stock and oil market is down as of the moment and the only market working good now is the cryptomarket, So there at least be less doubt why bitcoin is getting increase by now. About the halving, as it gets near to happen I am becoming more skeptical about it in a way of thinking that what would people be buying in crisis like this? Necessity or asset?


Stop with this, we already said this last 2019, actually we always says this if it is no getting great.

Wit the a hurting lost I've had today makes me want to have a bot, I don't get it, the price drops/increases whenever I have a thing to do for like 2 to 5 minutes but it does not show when I closely monitor the market. It makes me want to take a shot with these bot, thank  you for having these bots for sample I might look at it when things gets so dark to me today. At first I don't really think that I would use a bot for my entire journey but the market is so challenging these days when we are all locked up in our home.

being afraid to lose is just a normal thing, however there should be no emotion involve in trading, everything should be align technically and mentally. I'm currently trading now, and I can really tell that the market is volatile this time, it went down a hundred $100 in just a minute making my trade in down position, but it slowly increasing and I hope it gets back to $7550. Risking is part of trading, that is a door to enter for you to know whether you'll win or lose.

I thought at first that we are going to easily find this corona virus since we already had its type of corona virus before but I was wrong. Just today, our quarantine has been extended due to the fact that there is no slowing of covid-19 cases. We haven't seen yet the worst of the present economy that we have, I don't want it to happen but the situation is getting out of hand now. The latest testing of supposed to be the cure for corona virus shows lack of competence to the virus, and as for Japanese scientist it is very unlikely to find the cure not until next year  

$100 is huge enough for me to start trading, exchanges has a lower minimum limit than that so it means you can deposit it to any exchange anytime. If you are going to day trade, make sure that you already decided to lose that $100 in just a matter of an hour or a day especially when you are trading future contracts there is a possibility that you could lose that amount in just an hour. I advice to follow some guides in trading , any type of trading you want. You can find it most in youtube so you'll have visuals to follow through.

I've been seeing a good market price right now for the bitcoin, I don't want to conclude that it was because of the stimulus checks that the american have received last week. But you are right, even if these checks are going to inject to the market it would just cause a small curve and that's it. I believe american that is investing in crypto is not spending their stimulus checks, most probably they are just spending what they kids want, the $500.

Speculation these days compared to the past few years is different, the expectation towards the market is very high that even a single mistake will keep them away from the market.

I guess we will see much more of these social platforms to support bitcoin especially that the halving is coming in the next few weeks, a great thing to see this day indeed. However, @Avikz is right a billionaire like him would likely to give the market more waves making the price movement a lot quicker that trading is going to be hard. I think the bullish market is taking off soon, I notice how the price change in just a couple of hour from $7K to $7.5K , quite a sign for what is coming.  

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Crypto becoming bigger than anyone have thought is the reason why government is calling it a "threat" to their standardized set of terms financially. We have seen economists calling it a bubble, and government tend to ban it. But now? I see establishments and businesses growing with cryptocurrency, they are having a wide variety of payment options which people most love when buying, and the best is that government is considering it now to be an alternative for fiat currency and is having the idea of Digital Central Bank Currency.

Pretty clever analogy, it only means that government is only looking with the same level as their eyes, they are not looking down and taking crap.

This is an exchange wallet, the funds that you have seen might be enormous in your eye but it comes from various person who has their funds in the exchange. Notice how the huge the amount is that is being composed by many person, I agree if Huobi gets hacked then this will be stolen since it is stored in a single wallet. Better to keep it to yourself at the end of the day, don't let it sleep with the exchange overnight.

lol yeah, I've seen some folks talking about where they can buy stock of oil as if there is a person who sells for free The oil price crash is not what it really looks like, the price did crash because there were no demands so as you guys can see there is a massive price dump from oil industry but it does not mean anything.

I must agree, panic and fear is natural behavior of a human but being an entity in here, as one that affects the price must also know that panic and fear should be align in what the mind thinks what it could be about. Bitcoin may be strong now with so much price resistance we got from a great support of whales and decentralized network but we don't know until when it would look that way. We are seeing the world collapsing now, and even I am afraid what could happen next not just talking about the market and all that revolves in there.

As the day continues and progress I've been seeing a lot of ATM machines related posts in the forum making me think how far we have reach through innovation that we have been dealing with sine 2009 that boomed at 2017. And at that year is the real game changer for cryptocurrency is, Imagine if we did not reach ATH at $20K price, we could've not had any companies that recognized bitcoin or any crypto at all. During this pandemic, even the bitcoin price is lower than we have expected about months ago, the adoption increases in so many ways and it makes me glad.

Well it is really disheartening that proves that, no system is perfect nor fully secured. I'm quite afraid that news like this will affect the views of the mass towards technology making them think that it is not safe from anything in here. But I've read that "MAZE", cognizant's prime suspect for the ransomware hasn't saying anything or discussing any thing with them, In fact they denied that the attack was made by them, looks like it will be a good battle from both ends.

Have you not wondering why China easily handled the virus? I mean the suspicion is quite strong with a pretty basic logic of thinking and we already have many of threads talking about theories with the pandemic. We've known China for a long time, their economic progress is really noticeable as the world goes on that even USA is a bit shaken with the China's industrialization taking a hard bang on the spot. It's good to know that China recovering, I hope they'll find the cure for the pandemic as quickly as possible.