It sounds good but I don't have an idea how this could happen in near future and we see again 5k. When we look to recent prices, 5k means almost a 50% raise. For a 50% raise, we must have a good news or an interesting story that could persuade majority of investors and potential buyers.

We don't know whether satoshi is a Japanese or not. This name might be chosen as a nickname by an American, a Chinese or a South Korean. If he/she was an American, Americans would find him/her more sympathetic and we saw a merely difference on bitcoin. When it came to American officials, we wouldn't have another story.

This info makes a lot of people suprised and horrified but it shouldn't. Even though 1k addresses doesn't mean 1k people, this figure shows how much bitcoin is opened to manipulation and speculation. We can see the same thing on fiat currencies. Most of US dollars is only in a few hands and they control almost entire exchanges.

Jeff Bezos is only a person who stands on the show window. He is making business in accordance with regulations because of the sector his firms work. There are richer persons who makes illegal business and has bigger capital than Bezos, especially some families.

US goverment focused on near targets and figures rather than future of the nation. They govern country according to populist strategies. They care about the next election and voters' expectations is only short termed. This situation will always end by a crisis.

We should add this list payments can be done by cryptocurrencies. Some of online shopping sites may start to accept payments in bitcoin. This is going to be realized before ETF. I think, the most effective measure on the price of bitcoin will be ways of making bitcoin closer to ordinary people.

Banks may take the place of miners and become a controller and also a miner. Even though, some of mining companies might be sold to banks in a few years. If this happened, goverments would take measures against cryptocurrency owners and they would try to control totally all the system via legislation.

Blockchain technology or bitcoin seems so complicated to ordinary people and they don't want to invest something that they don't understand. Also, they only focus on how much cryptocurrencies are volatile and figures make them afraid of investing.

If US officials feel that they lose their relatively high control on cryptocurrencies, they can easily change their minds and be faster than Chinese goverment. Since cryptocurrencies are decentralized, they firstly want to have full control on the crypto-market.

Everybody didn't go in the market from 1$. There are many people who paid more than 3k for a bitcoin. Although there are some people who enjoy their profit, we can't ignore others who lost an important amount of money for theirselves. There is only one thing to do for them. Waiting for the next rise. However, a person who can stay patient and behave reasonable will not be a loser.

If we don't see a proper improvement on adoption side, we can't see an up trend on prices of cryptocurrencies.  Also, high fee rates and difficulties on transaction side must be resolved. It is not possible to see records on prices.

Accepting positivite effect of speculators on crptocurrency makes no sense. I know that somehow they make crypto-market more attractive to investors for a while but it causes fluctuations and many investors and supporters goes out of the market without coming back. A few years ago, this situation might be acceptable for many investors. Howerver, having a more regular and trustable market right now is important more than anything.

As usage of blockchain technology and each of people individually experience its benefits, improvement and development of cryptocurrencies will keep on. It is good to see such applications in our daily life.

It is too early to say about 2019. We have to wait for a while. Some people would easily say that 2017 was an up year and 2018 was a down year and why not 2019 could be an up year? But it is not so simple.

Buying some crypto doesn't make you an equity or a stock trader. You don't need to stay online and stare price list for 24-7. If you have some free time and enjoy to gain info about how market goes on, you may spend an hour or less on the net. Anybody addicted or obsedded to something else will experience depression, not gain a profit.

For an ordinary person, it is really so difficult to buy or trade on crypto-market. If it was user frendly and easy task for an ordinary person, we would see higher figures and adoption of some major cryptocurrencies may be realized. Crypto-community should find ways to reach as much as people it can. This task is not for a group ar individuals. There must be ways to make it easier and better.

Transaction speed will be zero and confirmation process will be stopped. Nothing happens to existing data and bitcoin will just be inactived. If miners didn't satisfy with money they have gain and stop mining, owners could also do mining task. By doing that and reaching to a resolution, no body pays fee for transactions or payments made for sales. This scenario sounds like a more efficient crypto market and why not?

If bitcoin is used in banking system, there will be any difference between bitcoin or one of fiat currencies. Bitcoin will be a fiat currency. It means that bitcoin is controlled by banks and traditional markets. As we all know, main reason of creation of bitcoin is to make p2p transactions. Also, we can't talk about anonymity and decentralization.

The meaning of bitcoin and what it exactly offers to people have changed a lot in the first decade of bitcoin. Since fundamentals also have been changed, we can say that most of them do not say the same thing. If bitcoin gain more power on traditional markets, fundamentals may have more power, create their own agenda, and make original ideas of bitcoin be discussed on the internet. Reaching this level may take one more decade but there are many people who don't forget the idea of barrierless electronic cash.

We all know cryptocurrencies have a greate potential and BTC is superior but beeing a reserve currency means a lot and it is not the time to say such things. For now, that's a speculation which badly effects the trust to cryptocurrencies. I think, people who trust, support or invest cryptocurrencies shouldn't focus on such long term targets.