as i am writing this price is $984 according to bitfinex and it seems like the opportunity to buy cheap coins with a big discount is now officially over.

finally the sell pressure is not to be seen and it seems to me like FOMO[1] is kicking in. specially since many weak hands sold their coins in the depressing days recently. lets see where this ends up. i hope everyone learns some lessons from this.

[1] Fear of Missing Out

very interesting, do we have any news that i missed which led to this rise. i remember hearing F2pool wanting to activate it a while back but if they activate it won't be 50% it will go to max

and yeah, if it activates i believe it would be a big step forward for the whole cryptocurrency world.
first it will be a big hype rise for litecoin which can end up being the new ATH record for it.
second it is bitcoin's brother being upgraded and if miners see SegWit in action we may see it activate in bitcoin too and the both coins rise to the moon fast.

right now litecoin is rising irregardless of this. try to enjoy the ride!

not really, it is because of how bitcoin is and has nothing to do with eth and its contracts.
it is the season of altcoin pumping and everywhere you look there are altcoins, some of which so random, getting pumped 100% at a time.
for example: Dash, XMR, XRP, PIVX, NXT, LTC, Doge, Lisk, FCT, Ark, and lots of others.

BE WARNED

there is another wave of bullshit talk about low prices such as $700, $800, and even $600 price. this is the ETF all over again.

i am not saying it will or will not go there, i am just saying remember not so long ago people were saying price will fall to $600 because ETF was rejected and we saw what happened.
just make your own decisions.

if you want to invest that money in, then buy bitcoin. it is cheap right now. but if you want altcoins no matter what then i think it is best if you don't think about the bigger coins right now because it is almost too late to get any of them, coins like ETH, DASH, Monero have gotten pumped for the past weeks. it is near the end.

if you want profit look in coins that haven't been pumped. coins like LTC, XRP, Doge, ... these coins are either not pumped yet or they are starting to rise and when they do you can expect a big profit.

OP is right afterall, the bitcoin debates and the fluctuations or even sometimes when bitcoin price stays the same stable price, it is always a good opportunity for ethereum supporters to pump their coin and help us bitcoinhodlers hodl more bitcoin when we dump etherum after the pump

well it is still profit and if you can make $30 on your investment it is nearly 3% profit in a short time! i say it is a good deal. if you can make it regularly then it sums up to a nice little profit at the end of the month.

but i get what you say though. i personally prefer holding bitcoin for long term, it is less stressful and more profitable at least for me. instead i trade altcoins short term and make 300% haha

the problem with this question is that, money will always be problem in the real world that we live in.

it really doesn't matter how much money you have and how much of it you gamble, since there is no limit to the maximum amount you gamble in real world and also there is no restriction on what you gamble in the real world, you can gamble all your life away and become poor in a blink of an eye.
and when you gamble as a rich person the risk is even higher because others gamble with more caution but not a rich person.

lol, if i wanted to choose i would have chosen Lisk instead of these two
i mean seriously it is a good coin with features that are much better than that scam ethereum, what the hell are you guys doing over there. just get the word out, your coins should be worth $50 at least by now.
being based on Javascript is more than enough to give it the edge.

can you elaborate? did whales leave Bittrex for some reason, to come back now? i don't remember seeing any signs and as someone who has been trading on bittrex i have not seen any signs of total daily volume of bittrex dropping or even see any of the pumping coins be left hanging. the activity has been there

unless you know something secret that i don't

good article, i liked it.

my opinion which i think is worth mentioning here is that the mining industry is not stupid enough to fork without consensus, meaning without the majority of hashrate supporting a single thing. it is simply way too risky move to do.

imagine a split happens and one of the chains' coins be worth a lot less. this simply means they are losing 12.5BTC to 14.5BTC (depending on fees) worth of revenue. and depending on how low that price would be, they can potentially lose a lot of money on each block. now considering they mine multiple blocks each day this loss is also multiplied each day and sums up to a big enough $$$ number that will definitely make any person with smallest of brains think twice.

pump and dumps kill the altcoins in long term. when price goes up, people join in and then they get dumped on and are forced to sell at a loss, the next time price rises fewer join in and price goes less up. the next time less and less until the coin disappears or it takes a year to see another pump and then disappears.

i wish i could tell you otherwise.

we are making money! isn't it obvious... lol
why do you think there are so many pump and dumps, so many ICOs, Pre-mines and so many different methods of manipulation. because simply everyone is looking to make more money and guarantee they can do that.

once, there were innovations. there were enthusiasm and the developers knew what open source and inventing something meant. they weren't doing it to make money.

these days (so called) developers are looking at community to see what kind of "bling" the community is looking for. so they add it to attract more people.
and worst of all they are looking to make money from creating a new altcoin. so they care less and less about real world application and care more about that "bling".

not saying there are no innovations, there surely are many but they all go unnoticed. i am not going to name any names but these coins always go on with low price and die. maybe some day someone picks up the idea and makes an awesome coin out of it but not today.

i am always afraid of investing in ETC, that is why i have never held any more than a couple of hours until today. my fear is from ETH manipulations. they are known to dump it to prevent it from going anywhere and don't forget when they forked they had all the coins.
but regardless of this, i find ETC a good coin because it is not centralized like ETH but still i has the same bugs and problems. and we can see these days it is being pumped anyways.

i have missed Decred so there is no point in talking about it

but i have always believed in Lisk, it is a good coin. but it is sad to see that it is not popular. it needs more advertising to get the word out. it is a lot better than ethereum.
in the long term i think it has lots of potential to go up.

i am sorry to disappoint you but what you seek is not found in altcoins.

the only thing you will ever find in altcoins, is pump and dumps so it is best if you try to adapt to those or don't enter the market at all.
and by adapt i mean, invest before the pump and sell those coins short term after they got pumped a bit and gave you the profit you want.


none of these matter.
the only thing matters is how many whales and manipulators that altcoin has. if it has lots of rich whales (Ethereum for example) you an be sure of the pump and a big profit.
and if the pumpers and whales don't pay attention to a coin, no matter how much innovation it has, it will never go up.

i wouldn't call bitcoin rises a "pump" because a pumps is not a real rise and it will fall, and if bitcoin was being pumped we would have gone down back to $0.10 already.

pump happens in the fake altcoin markets when out of nowhere and because of nothing the price rises and it rises big and fast. and also it is followed by a big dump right after the top has reached.

No, the possibility of a fork is getting further and further away. at first there was like a 5% possibility of fork and now it is like 0.005% possibility or even less.

and if a "company" or whatever imaginary thing advised you to pull out of trading bitcoin then maybe you should stop listening to them and use your own head.

there are already too many "where to invest bitcoin" topics that you can go through and see what is happening and you'll realize it is mostly disappointing because real businesses are rarely accept investors and when they do they take one or two big ones.

the only other business is casinos that is also risky but it can also give a good profit.

if you ask what i am doing, is that i hold most of it in bitcoin and that is my investment. and i plan on hodling it for years.
in the meantime i dedicate a percentage of it to trading. sometimes bitcoin trading when i am feeling good about market and most of the times the altcoins that are being pumped.
i also though about lending but that was too much work in a already saturated market and full of scammers.

this is always a bad question.
and to find the answer you need to do it on your own, people here will only advertise the bags they are holding in 99% of the times!

and for trading just check altcoins that have a high enough daily trade volume and are not in a bubble.
for trade volume it is easy, just change the chart to 1 day charts and check the daily volume.
for bubble again on the same chart you need to look for a flat line or a big sharp drop in price to get it. when you saw a big sharp rise be sure that it is already too late to get in.

although there are a lot more, but what i said is the important part.

if you want to trade short term then there are so many other good opportunities, such as buying at $1015 and selling at at least $1050 over and over today and making money!

but if you want to go long then now is the dip everyone were talking about when price was over $1200. buy and hodl for at least a couple of month until you see a sudden rise, then sell and buy back at correction. then hodl until another and so on but over all hodl for at least 5 years.

NO.
i have invested my money and i have diversified my money, and i am not willing to change the percentage of that diversification that much. it may chance up to 5% at times but this is not the time.

i have invested in bitcoin, gold, real estate (house), and some in altcoins and i have always been this way. and at times like this when bitcoin price drops i up the percentage of my bitcoin investment to buy more cheap coins. and when things are normal again and stable i bring it back to normal comfortable percentages.