I always consider an exchange and trading platforms are two different things, the most significant difference is; how much coins listed on these platforms to be included as exchanges or trading platforms.
Anyway, if you just want to trade bitcoin, ethereum, bcash or dash, most exchanges support these coins.
To choose the best exchange always depend on your country as not all of the exchanges support various fiat currencies to deposit or withdraw. But, if you just want to trade bitcoin and altçoins, it doesn't matter. Livecoins and etherdelta just works fine for me without any problem. I've never tried about binance, but it seems promising as well. Binance is definitely a  trading platforms, so many coins listed by this site and you may want to read some reviews from customers as well : https://www.cryptocompare.com/exchanges/binance/overview

There are too many coins for short-term trading, even bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum can be used for short-term trading objects.
The same thing for long-term investment, the best one is bitcoin obviously, especially at current market situation which bitcoin could raise $2000-$3000 within hours and vice versa. The implication of bitcoin on rally is; most altcoins prices will likely going down or barely can't increase due to money flow into bitcoin or switch to bitcoin.

I prefer to read an article instead of watching videos about the reasons why bitcoin could reach a certain price in 2018.
There are many predictions about bitcoin and how surprising to see the range within $40k-$100K, why not $40-$50?
I will vote for $50,000 if bitcoin can raise $3000 every month, but we know bitcoin could rise more than that, it's better to expect lower price but it turns out to reach a higher price such as $100K or even higher.

Bitcoin gain so much value within years, but it's different in this year or in the last few months since August when bitcoin price increase significantly. Many people worry this is a bubble, in short; bitcoin isn't a bubble and it won't burst simply because bitcoin has a real usability, a better monetary system. It just a matter of time or until the economic collapse, then people will realize; decentralized digital currency becomes a savior such as in Venezuela or Zimbabwe.

What are these? Your imagination?
We're discussing bitcoin futures, not bitcoin in the future, LoL
Cash will be converted into digital currency and vice versa
Banks will not allow bitcoin as a payment method, it's not banks decision, but the government.
Government will not pay people on bitcoin, not even in 50 years later, the government have to support fiat currency at any cost.

It just the time for bitcoin, for few years bitcoin struggle to raise even $1000 takes months but for now, it just a few hours to increase as much $1000, that's why most people feel unsettled. At current market situation, more demand comes into cryptocurrency as the media always reports crypto development all this time, every day. Since bitcoin rise over $10K, financial institutions such as CME trading group started to glance to bitcoin and don't want to miss the chance to be involved as the early investors in the crypto market.

$40,000 by the end of 2018? It's still a long way to go, and there are too many predictions about bitcoin in the future.
Bitcoin can reach $100,000 in 2018 if there are no any significant obstacles such as government regulations against bitcoin.
The biggest obstacle is the government, or specifically bankers who lobbying central authority to ban cryptocurrency.
Even though Bitcoin has gained some support in the financial industry thanks to CME and Nasdaq, banking institutions are still not convinced.

Such as happened in Bulgaria where bankers have cracked down and shut down the accounts of exchanges and Deutsche bank issued market briefing and stated bitcoin will crash in 2018, Banks is the natural enemy of bitcoin.

I always set custom fees $0.5-$0.8 which confirmed within 1 minute or few hours but it's been a long day since the last time my transaction stuck for days. It's better if you provide the txid to support your claim as BTC0.00041 is a big fee obviously, in that case, your transaction may too big or mempool is too overloaded.
You may check current mempool to decide whether your transaction will be confirmed within minutes or hours, <200K unconfirmed transactions and BTC214 total fees isn't too much compared to a few days ago that reach over BTC1000. But it seems current network require high fees to included the transactions into the mempool, just don't do any transactions if you don't want to pay ridiculously high fees.

$16,500 isn't the top, don't you know bitcoin price in South Korea reached over $22,500? There are few exchanges which listed bitcoin over $20,000 yesterday. However, bitcoin price will continue to increase after Bank of America wins the patent of an exchange system for the cryptocurrency, people in the US will be attracted to learn about cryptocurrency and more adopters is coming.
Bitcoin futures will be launched in this month and in 2018, so the rally isn't over yet.

It's surprising, I have no idea how they win it, but since Bank of America wins the patent and get in to exchange system to convert cryptocurrency and fiat currency, will affect bitcoin significantly, bitcoin price will skyrocket in the US obviously, more than in Japan or South Korea. Nevertheless, there is a concern about your transactions and capital gains will be completely recorded if you're dealing with BoA. People can easily trade cryptocurrency as long as they pay the taxes.

The biggest obstacle is government regulations about cryptocurrency, bitcoin may regulate as a commodity or digital asset instead of currency or as a legitimate means of payment due to bitcoin volatility and could harm fiat currency in the long-term, that's the point why a country afraid of bitcoin, it's decentralized technology. However, only a few countries which may affect bitcoin price significantly, the big players such as Japan, US, Europe, South Korea which most of them already have regulations about cryptocurrency.

You won't lose investing in bitcoin as the price on rally right now, it seems $20,000 by the end of the year may be achieved and not impossible at all. Bitcoin continues to grow bigger as time goes one, gained value over $1000 within 24 hours, and people keep speculating it will fall, the bubble will pop and collapse, maybe someday but not anytime soon.
Current price is $17,431 on cmc, $16,310 on preev, $17,178 on Gdax, but it's $21,777 on bitcoin.co.id

You've been developing this project for months, I guess. How many people on your team are working on it?
Seems there are too many people waiting for this project to be launched  especially for the free version.
Any estimated time for this tool be completed? Like a week or a month?

There are too many such similar scam sites, and it becomes everyone's duty to do some research before put the money on the line.
However, some newbies always take the bait and get scammed, as many people thought it's the easy way to earn bitcoin which they find out the opposite after give their money.

It seems like an ICO projects aims to take down the government's fiat currencies   but earning $2,598 every day for everyone is just impossible.
Once millions of people start using Bitcoin Mine, everyone earning over 2,598.15$ every day, the global financial industry and government currencies will collapse. This will make a room for new, safer and more stable currency to take over - Bitcoin.

The game plan is always the same, buy in the dip and sell at the peaks.
But, you have to determine the best price to buy, altcoins price seems decline at the moment, you can buy litecoin, xmr, dash, waves or ethereum. What about bitcoin? Bitcoin is on rally right now, it could rise or fall as much $1000-$2000 within a day.
Bitcoin price may get corrected a bit, but it will recover and reach new higher price, maybe $20,000 by the end of the year. Then, choose wisely which coins you want to buy.

The fact says the opposite, bitcoin has been used as currency and a good way to store value.
How about in the future, whether it will be collapse or not? No one knows for sure.
But for now, bitcoin still the best digital currency which meant to be an alternative currency, the problem is; most people consider it as speculative object to make profits.

Indeed, they are the biggest stock exchange in the US which has a market cap 3 times bigger than Nasdaq.
So, they have to watch closely to CME group and Nasdaq about how they will handle the bitcoin futures contract, whether it will be worth to be listed or something will going wrong as Jeffrey Sprecher said;
Sprecher said, adding that he feared that bitcoin sellers would use the futures as an opportunity to manipulate the market and exit large positions, a scenario that would reflect poorly on exchanges that list bitcoin futures.

Especially at current market situation and bitcoin volatility that can increase $1000-$2000 in a day or vice versa.

Unlimited, unpredictable for now.
Bitcoin price has surpassed $15K on several exchanges, even though it's around $13,600 across the global exchanges.
Bitcoin may get corrected at some points, but it will always rebound and reach a new ATH.
All I can say, bitcoin worth more than $50,000 or $100,000 due to mass adoption is coming to the market.
It just time matter and how long you can wait for bitcoin reaches a higher price.

It's nothing compared to bitfinex hacked last year which cause BTC120,000 lost in act, and here they are, keep in the business of global exchanges. After some hacked cases, it's weird for a big platform to keep big amount of bitcoin in hot wallet obviously, that's why people consider it as exit scam. They still trace this address and cooperate with law enforcement as well.
Clearly, this is a matter of deep concern and we are working hard to rectify the matter in the coming days. In addition to undertaking our own investigation, the incident has been reported to the relevant authorities and law enforcement and we are co-operating with them as a matter of urgency.
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Bitcoin futures will affect the market obviously, but indirectly.
futures market is something different, it is there for people to hedge against risk. It is a pessimistic way to invest, and it bases itself on profiting when things go bad.

"Bitcoin futures" is basically a gambling or a betting game where big whales buy the futures contract (Bitcoin future will have 5 BTC as contract unit) and hold it until expire, but there is no bitcoin involved at all such as people buy and sell bitcoin in exchanges. Whoever can guess the right price at the end of time will get the funds.
You can read more: https://seekingalpha.com/article/4128569-5-things-aware-cme-bitcoin-futures