Quite possible that we're just having a bubble right now. But we'll still see if it would hover around a little below $10k or it would burst back to somewhere $8k. We're all just speculating the reason's why and the news regarding China may also be possible, but more unlikely than the article's author point of view. I still wish it would just go sideways and does not dip back down, we might see another great time for bitcoin.

I'm thinking that he really does not want Bitcoin taking over his country, especially a large percentage of mining rigs are located in his country, and he does not like that. China's a communist type of government and most likely, they are preparing their country to shift from bitcoin to his cryptocurrency. In which I suppose would be centralized, he want surveillance and control over his people. It's like precautionary measure because he knows that cryptography with blockchain technology would soon be the next thing.

While this is true in some points, it could be also due to China's president statement about the support of the government to blockchain-related technologies. But take note that he said 'blockchain' and not 'bitcoin' which may have made some confusion. Let's just hope it's not tied to anything and it's not just another bubble that would burst sooner than we might think. It's really difficult to predict the causes of these pumps and dumps but it's likely to be caused by some whales in the market.

It's probably that, and China's president announcing support on blockchain technologies could have gained attention especially from the miners and crypto-people in China. However, I don't think their government support bitcoin in particular, they're gonna make their own cryptocurrency, which I'm not sure how would it affect the prices in few years time. Hopefully, China won't ban bitcoin despite their opposition, because if they would, it would shake the bitcoin network and most probably the market.

We can only predict and speculate but we'll never guess it right. And as of now, we're nearing the $10k mark and looks like it's going to continue. Hoping for another bull market though, but cannot guarantee because the price is so unpredictable. That 7k to 9k pump almost took only half a day to happen. Those who bought at low surely got some hefty profit. I wished I had bought at that time though, but risk is a factor to decisions.

I was also surprised of the pump. I haven't expected it to happen sooner than I think. What do you think caused such increase in price?

I just hope it won't dip back to where it came from and we see the start of the bull market. Although this signifies bitcoin demand, I could also see the potential risk that comes eith bitcoin investment. Also, these trends tend to be followed by another dip.

Unlimited clicks with no intervals or with interval limits? If I could spam that button, I'd happily do so because it's easy. And see if they'll really payout. But with intervals, I won't waste my time. I don't really think this sites are profitable. You might earn such small amount but the site owner who would put a lot of advertisement in the site would just gain more, exploiting your greed towards few cents to profit much more amounts from you. I always remember that time is more valuable than anything. You can't get back time, so do your thing while you have time to do so.

To summarize and hand you some takeaways from as far as my knowledge can provide, here are some keypoints to remember about bitcoin and altcoins.

Bitcoin - the first decentralized cryptocurrency.
   a. Decentralized, exists on every full node on the network.
   b. Limited supply, therefore deflationary.
   c. Development of features is slow, but is good to ensure security.
   d. No central founder/institution. Made by a person named Satoshi Nakamoto, which identity isn't verified until now.

Altcoins - variations based on Bitcoin's network and blockchain framework.
   a. Over 4,000 altcoins exist in the market.
   b. More prone to full shut down in times of crash.
   c. Some are decentralized, while others like stablecoins are manipulated.
   d. Often features something Bitcoin still does not have.

Blockchain could really transform the way government officials work under the administration. Blockchain follows principles such as transparency, and security through blocks hash. However, it's seems that China is not going to tolerate decentralized system, instead they're making their own "digital currency" that would still be monitored, but at least transparent provided that the ledger is distributed and not hidden centralized.  Corrupt acts would potentially lessen and therefore makes progress faster for the country.

I'm not quite familiar with that Brave browser, nor is it legitimate and does actually pay off (which I assume is a yes since that payout amount is small), but it's also one great way for people to know about cryptocurrencies. It does help crypto in gaining more publicity and trigger their curiosity to learn more and potentially invest. However, I just hope it's not another scam because it would certainly affect crypto's image to the public. I have also not heard of BAT altcoin, but nevertheless, quite impressive for a browser to have a touch of cryptocurrency.

I don't think people paying in BTC is enough for the price fluctuations we see today. Besides, the price today isn't really doing good. The OP has a point but I don't think it's enough factor that could drive the price up. It's still mainly by whales, or by trading which is primarily affected by news and such. I also don't think that it would do any good even if BTC is introduced to innocent victims via these ransomwares, because most likely, the victims would remember BTC in a negative way, as used in illegal activities.

We can't really know Facebook's agenda here, or they're just following terms and conditions in their platform and did not intend to block Cointelegraph specifically. There are no evidences that proves it is because of Libra, but theories are always there. It's not also impossible that it is because of Libra, but we can only speculate as of now. They may want to censor other crypto-related pages in preparation for their own cryptocurrency.

It's great to see that even some politicians are aware and in favor of cryptocurrencies. But I don't think it's enough, and that we'll see mass adoption in a few years. We're still far away of global adoption due to other relevant factors such as technology's availability and such. I think what's needed to be done first is to fix the current system, lessen poverty, help third-world gain economic stability, and all would follow, including adoption of digital and cryptocurrencies.

We cannot say it would even hit those prices. However, you're right, great debts made to invest would fireback and crash of prices would happen, economic crisis is yet to start again. However, the same is true with fiat. With more debt to purchase, and higher prices, leads to crisis. But I don't think that would happen even if the next halving occurs. We just need to wait and handle the situation to make the most out of it.

A good read for someone starting in trading. However, it's not enough to only know their mistakes, it's essential that they learn from these and utilize these learnings to lessen wromg decisions in trading. The best way to learn is to fail. But having the same failure over and over won't lead you to success. Takeaways can be summarized to: Do research, know what's in the news, and assess which factors would affect the price, and also learn to allot funds on personal neccessities. Don't go all in.

Bitcoin effectively removes most of the constraints you get from centralized financial institutions such as banks. The only thing I can think of that could be a limitation to having bitcoin transactions is lack of computer literacy, or lack of available technology. Aside from that, bitcoin is a free platform, free from governing institutions that manipulate and control prices, impose tax and additional fees for transactions. We can also get privacy if we didn't provide KYC, but remains transparent because every transactions are searchable in the blockchain.

Investing in stablecoins would take you too much time to ear profit. That's why investors are not attracted to stablecoins. Bitcoin may not increase in price today, but it's limited supply would make its price potentially pump. Another thing is that bitcoin has already proven itself that it's worth to hold. If they're useless as you're saying, then people would not hold or even trade bitcoin, they'll just sell it off because it's worth nothing, which is clearly not the case. Also, because fewer people engage in these altcoins, market crash and crypto-related negative news would likely bring death to these altcoins. Who would invest on something that may be gone and not recover? Seems like more risk than bitcoin.

It's better if you had provided links to verify the thread. Anyways, it's not much of a deal. Libra is just another altcoin. The only thing different to it is that it's supposed to be ran by Facebook, which can influence the public. And another thing is that I think he can't get the votes of legislators because of the fact that Facebook has been involved in privacy concerns, considering the amount of data Facebook has in each of its users, add to it the supposed to be Libra, which would also run through their databases, it would just make things worse.

Altcoins tend to crash to death because primarily, they're worth cannot be stated. Considering the market for altcoins is crowded, and most of these so called coins offer nothing of real value to be holded by investors, makes them prone to irrecoverable death. Their basically useless in the sense, but not all of them. ETH and other top altcoins still has something in them. Just don't expect altcoins to continue to grow or even surpass bitcoin in the next few years because it's highly unlikely to happen.

It could be a possibility, however we can't tell whose agenda is it. We don't really know what's in store to these institutions and what they're planning to crash the bitcoin price. However, ehat we could do is to educate people here in the forum and other holders that we shouldn't really be afraid of this "quantum supremacy" as they say. There are some videos online dedicated to explaining if quantum computers could really break encryption, and the answer is no. We need to encourage them not to get driven by these news. Or maybe it's a cooperation of a whale and media site to dip the price? No one knows.