you can do arbitrage trading with any coin! it doesn't have to be USD or any variants of stable coins. for example you can do it with LTC. if you find a big enough difference between the price of it in two BTC/LTC markets on two exchanges you can do the arbitrage that way.

just make sure the market on both exchanges are active (sometimes exchanges deactivate some markets for different reasons like delisting a coin and price goes higher or drops lower because of that) and make sure you can deposit and withdraw coins you want first.

i think the market may consider this as a good news and they certainly are hyping this up all over Reddit and ... these days. but in retrospect i'd say this is more of a bad news than a good one because it means all the scams will come back. the Malware Ads that were fooling the newcomers to download false wallets. the ICO Scams that were fooling newcomers to take their money and all the pumpers ,.... will come back too. and that is more damaging to the whole market than it is good.

wow you are putting a lot of faith in something that is practically useless and won't add/remove anything from bitcoin or its future. with or without ETF, bitcoin is still the same decentralized currency that has been rising for the past 9 years and it still has the same scarcity as always.

with ETF we will not see a new ATH this year and without it we won't see below the strong support at $6k either.

i think "fair value" is a wrong term to use here. it seems to me that the term that should have been used is "Intrinsic Value". in which case you can say that intrinsic value of bitcoin is above $10k and i can see how it can be true. it is basically a price that you come up with after fundamental analysis which is why it is also referred to "Fundamental Value".

you basically analyse the asset and say it has to be worth this much and if it is above that price then it is considered a bubble and if it is below that price it is considered under priced.

i think the Indian government messed things up for themselves mostly and the RBI is to blame for that. before RBI banning exchange accounts the government could monitor what everyone was doing because they were all going to a centralized exchange and their identity was revealed. but now they are all trading off the market and using localbitcoins,... so the government no longer has any idea who is doing what so they can not TAX them

they are  currently working on regulating cryptocurrencies.
it is not exactly a U turn because the government never banned bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in first place to want to change that, it was just their Reserve Bank that blocked exchange accounts. and also it won't be total freedom, it will be a regulated cryptocurrency market in India.

when it comes to bitcoin you should only trust your own personal judgement and analysis of the market otherwise what you read online is most of the times pure nonsense written by those who want to spread FUD or have little understanding of the market.
it is not that hard to form a speculative opinion either. you just have to watch the market for some time and see what are the things that makes it move.

that doesn't make any sense!
it is like saying if US dollar value decreases the price of goods will drop too! that is completely wrong. the price of everything will go up because value of USD would be lower in that scenario and things like bitcoin which are also an investment should technically rise because people seeing their money is losing value would want to invest it in something to "store the value" and one of those things is bitcoin.

instead of wishing for things that would never happen you should have took your head out of the sand and bought bitcoin. if you had done it then you would have already made $1000+ profit on each bitcoin because of the small rise that happened while you were in dreamland

there is no reason for bitcoin to drop that low and anyone who is advocating this "opinion" is doing so because they have been left behind and now want a chance to get back in.

the fact is even if there was a big bad news price may not go below $6k. of course we can never predict with 100% accuracy but as i said there is no reason for it to go below that as it was tested many times already and the support there is pretty strong.

you meant to say fork "bitcoin" right?!

fee is not a consensus rule it is set by the users and miners. in other words bitcoin has no fee it is miners that reject 0 fee transactions and it is nodes that don't relay 0 fee transactions and it is users that pay fee. if they decide to do otherwise it will BE otherwise!

 if you run a node then just set minrelaytxfee to 0 and if you are  a miner then stop rejecting  0 fee transactions. now you have bitcoin with no fee but  consequences...


it won't be over for many years!

LOL, if price goes back to $20k and breaks it by the end of the year i assure you that $60k is going to be nothing. it will be reached within days of $20k fast and easy.

the problem is such rise won't happen in first place. the rise back to $20k will be a slow one then it will speed up. something like last time. price reached $1k slowly then speed up and suddenly exploded

this is still speculation, it is not completely a sure thing that SEC approves ETF this time either. but it seems like the media doesn't stop hyping up the situation.

what is most interesting to me is that price is still pretty much the same as before which shows that the market doesn't believe the hype otherwise they should have bought bitcoin in a FOMO action and price should have risen a lot more than this, possible to $9k already.

the strategy is same as always. accumulate bitcoin specially when it is in a dip and short term trade altcoins specially those that are getting pumped. try to start with a small amount and trade for a little while and see how the market works. slow down your pace and watch the market most of the times instead of just jumping in. then you will slowly learn what strategy to  choose.

i don't know about this particular one but most of these ICOs are just listing big names without any real partnership or anything behind them. this is an advertising technique they are using to pretend they are legit so that they can raise more money before running away.

WRONG.
the cases of an actual bitcoin ban in countries are extremely rare. the news is filled with lies about bans though and i think you have fallen for that FUD.

in those rare cases like Bangladesh, it was done because the government feared they were going to lose control over their people and their tyranny could be reduced so they decided to ban bitcoin.

well you can't do that. you are either in one of those rare countries so your government is not going to change their rules or you are anywhere else in the world and your government has never banned it so there is nothing to change!

funny you should mention McAfee because i have a feeling that ever since we found out that he is getting paid $100k for a simple tweet which is a lot of money for doing nothing, everyone else seems to be following the same footsteps in their own ways.
we have had a lot of speculation like this predicting ridiculously high prices for bitcoin in a time frame that always seems impossible.

in order to rise another $500-$600 in the following 10 days we don't really need ETF approval, it can actually happen a lot easier than that without any hype even. there is enough demand and buys happening these days that this rise can easily happen. the problem is the sells, and not just random people selling but a bear whale dumping large amounts because he doesn't want to believe his time is over.

let's say it is 1 in the morning, if i tell you 10 million times it is daylight outside, does that make it true?


1. this is the one i knew about.
2. this is not a hard fork! this is an invalid block which then other miners build on and separated themselves from the main chain effectively creating an orphaned chain.
3. you still can not categorize any of the altcoins created out of bitcoin under "bitcoin hard forks". just because some website lists them or they are created out of bitcoin you can't say bitcoin had X number of forks. the correct statement is "X number of altcoins were created using bitcoin code and its blockchain history"

so still there is only 1 hard fork for bitcoin so far.

those who know more are always like this. in other words you are knowledgeable enough to know your knowledge is nothing but a drop of the ocean.

and regarding these newbies based on what i have seen i think it is mostly because of merit system. many of the topics that are created with a technical subject are for gaining merit. some of them even ask you to give them merit if you liked what you read!