Right, since then we have seen people actually tending towards the cashless age gradually as they use these cards to end up paying for stuffs actually. However, with the way things have even advanced further with blockchain technology today, which would even make the growth to even get surplus in the long run.

We are beginning to see people getting the glimpse of the cryptocurrency space as well as blockchain and its disruptions, and we are also seeing the likelihood of experiencing real life usage gradually with some of the developments coming up and all these things, would really be of great help for the growth of the space in the long run.

Obviously, and they won't want to shy away from tapping into a profitable source as far as I am concerned.
For what we can see lately, we can see that banks are trying to do everything to be in the forefront of things as well as they would not want to miss out on the long run.

So in that case, rather than seeing it as a threat, I am sure they will just find a way to just be a part of things, allow it to evolve, and then find a way they can stay relevant within that space. Regulation will be a thing at the end of the day for those who may want to be going through this channel, but at the end of the day, banks actually lost some of the fight against cryptocurrency already.

I would not even want to consider Okex as an exchange I would really want to rely on that much actually, considering that they have had some history as well with some insecurity and the possibility of the users being affected with some inside shitty things.

Kucoin on the other hand is gradually getting there but all I see most of the time with Kucoin is more like just another clone of binance as the whole interface looks pretty similar. However, so far, they have been trying to make an attempt. However when it comes with good reputation so far, I would rather go with bittrex or binance.

Even if an exchange gets hacked or experiences a DDOS attack, the chances of getting affected if you have extra security enabled like email login and 2FA most especially as that would make it a bit difficult for hackers to get into your account, but nothing is impossible anyway if there are some loopholes in some systems which could actually make all accounts vulnerable as the case may be. I have never been hacked though, but I have always made sure that I am making use of these additional securities and even at that, I am not trading more than I can afford to lose at the moment, and that is what actually gives me some confidence

I want to believe that is actually what puts them into trouble most of the time and what makes a whole lot of them to panic unnecessarily. When you focus on the short term too much, the possibility of losing sight of the long term will always be there and that is a thing you really do not want to get caught up with as it would always affect their decisions now.

Basically, what most of them are after is quick gains, easy wealth and being able to achieve that fast, but even in the real world, is not always that easy but knowing that this is a great opportunity for the long run, I would say it is best when they simply just focus on the long term instead as that would help them make better decisions.

No, start trading with nothing.

A lot of people are always in a haste to start trading with real money and this is how they get frustrated so easily.
Practice with demo funds after learning and you have been able to come up with a strategy that you feel will suit you and in that case, concentrate on building on it until you get better before even making any attempt to get into the real world.

I have seen how people usually tend to miss it by thinking as long as they have learned; they can just come in straight. If you put small funds to trade, you may as well just end up keeping small funds every time and losing it all without learning anything and then getting emotional unnecessarily.

Nothing is actually clear yet and whether there will be a bull run or not, it is still something that cannot be ascertained yet with the movement we are seeing currently. What matters now actually is to see the way the market would break out and that is obviously the only time we can get to know how things would peradventure pan out to either the bear or the bull's side.

We are in a sideways movement and times like this it is not best to assume anything as market can decide to do whatever it likes. All we can do is to be patient and wait for it to pick a direction. If it is about a bull run however, that is obviously something I would not want to pay so much concentration on as well.

Unfortunately, more and more common people are usually left behind in the long run except for the smart ones, and you will be surprised to see the way they will always come back joining FOMO at the end, and the institutions will keep ending up stealing from them. The price is not a problem and any smart person should not see it as a problem but actually a step forward to buying at a much lower price than last year.

Only those who can at least see the potential in the future that would know this is not a time to be chickening out and if you do that now, you will get left out eventually.

A pretty crazy decision which I believe it is done out of greed most of the time. The thing with such situations is that, a lot of people tend to want to go all crazy when they see the chance of making shit load of money and because of that, they tend to get carried away trying to build up their fortune in a very short term.

But in reality, things like this cannot happen and you have to always be patient and work for what you need to have and when it comes to investment actually, it is even meant to be a long term thing and not short term and as long as you understand the risks, the chances of you making a terrible decisions and panicking afterwards won't be possible.

The main issue actually is that in some settlements, the younger one does not usually have a choice in that equation, but that all depends on how young the person is anyway. I have seen some culture in at least some part of the world, which I would point mostly to some part of Africa, in which there is early age marriage in which a young girl is being betrothed to an old man worth being his father.

I wonder how all that would not affect such a child psychological and emotional development in the long run, and at the end of the day find it hard to be able to fend for her most especially without having to rely on the husband immediately she gets put the family way.

Well, if we are talking about risking the money you can afford to lose, I would say it is actually a lot better for you to not even use any money at all, when you know you are going to lose it anyway and you do not have what it takes to make something substantial out of it.

Market is ALWAYS unpredictable, and you need understanding and some basic knowledge to help you when it comes to making decisions in this market and if you certainly discard that knowledge part, the possibility of you messing up badly with the volatile market will always be there and that is something you would not want.

That is generally the idea with scaling and the thing is that even though some of these coins on the blockchain has claimed to be able to come up with some speedy transactions, they are not really being used in real life to be able to see how they will thrive when they actually get bombarded with transactions and how reliable they can be without an investor eventually losing his money.

There is a lot of development going on anyway such as the ones you have mentioned with top coins and in that case, it would be hard to see some of these altcoins claiming to be the fastest with no real life product but just a clone, getting down the drain eventually when the scaling issue with bitcoin gets solved and we start seeing real life usage.

No one can be right actually as no one can tell what the next month or the one thereafter would come up with, and the fact that we are still below $7k, does not mean we would cross it and eventually make it a support and then the chances of seeing some huge growth may be there, but like I said, no one can tell and nothing is guaranteed as we cannot see the future.

We have the time and trend however to lead us to knowing where the market would actually eventually end up at the end of everything. Nonetheless, based on the Op's question, quick growth that is driven by greed and not real demand is never sustainable.

Yeah, everything is always going to be publicity as at the end of the day, whatever news come from the mainstream media, it just keeps pushing the market out there. One thing with people is that they will always decide which lane they want to choose irrespective of what they are listening to and practically based on their knowledge.

For what it is worth, even bad news has had some major role to play when it comes to bitcoin gaining more publicity over time. We have seen the way things have been for a while and how a lot of people have gotten to try to find out more about bitcoin even despite the negative news flying around, so at the end, it all depends on how you want to take each news as they come.

There is nothing to agree with what he has said. We are presently just in between bulls and bears and the chances it could fall to any side is still there which is why we have been having sideways movement.

Market would not just start a speedy recovery immediately, the bears have been in charge and they will want to keep being in charge which is why the bulls will do everything to keep the market from going lower to some certain point, but as far as I am concerned, the bulls will actually need to put up a huge fight to be able to win that and because of things like that we see consolidations. Like it or not, once btc breaks out upward, the participation will start kicking in.

No one can predict the future as that actually does not make any sense at all. The only thing you can do most of the time is to just monitor the trends and then see how you can at least take advantage of it when it comes. No one can see tomorrow, and either the market goes down or up, only time can tell. Nevertheless, the bitcoin market is in a sideways movement at this point and the possibility of anything is still intact, which could be either tending towards the bears side or the bulls side but whatever it is, I guess the only thing is to take advantage of any side that comes.

It is always never too late and most especially looking at the way things have been over the years and the way things are getting now, the essence of investing now cannot be discarded at all.

We cannot tell what the future holds actually, but we can at least know that there is a big chance to see the future becoming extremely great. In that case, picking the dips now and accumulating is always a very great option. An option a lot of people usually do not want to always take because they are scared and that is what has made a lot of people to miss out from the past. As long as you are buying the dips, you are making the right decisions and even if it goes down more, just buy more.

Well, I have never really had a sad story since I have started investing in ICOs.
Some ICOs I have invested in may not have made huge profit but one thing I believe in is the long term prospect of a project before I even decide to start investing in it at all.

Due diligence is something i do not joke with, it is my money and I really want to know the team I am giving my money to make use of, which any smart investor would not want to give their hard earned money to a team that cannot deliver and will always know the things to look out for when it comes to past experience to be able to know how to go about that.

Also, I do not invest in empty promises, if you do not have a product that can be used effectively in real life, then, you are irrelevant to me as a project. With this, I have been able to stand up tall in my ICO investment and get the best from it.

What is actually there to be afraid of? Market going down does not really mean anything negative than just the fact that the market is going down and it will give you the opportunity to actually sell the peak and buy the bottom. This is where traders tend to make market decisions and then trade the fluctuations over and over again based on the uptrends and downtrends in any given time frame.

What makes a lot of people worry is that they expect too much when they know so little. If you cannot trade, then hold and if you cannot hold, you should not even be investing at all in the first place because to hold, you need to be able to focus on the long term and to trade you need to have the knowledge of trading.

one thing is that if bitcoin price decides to stall within this range for years, I really do not care and in fact, it would even be more interesting as there would be a lot of sanity in the market for a short while than the craziness that FOMO brings into the market when it comes to people getting too greedy and the transaction fees skyrocketing which I believe before we will start seeing any huge movement though, hopefully we would have gotten to see scaling issue somehow solved.

Being below $8k is still a very good price and even if it goes lower than $6k, it just gives a good buy in the more.