Honestly I don't even remember how many times I have written on this forum about how ethereum was too low and it needs to be higher and it is highly undervalued right now and deserves 120-130+ prices give or take. Thankfully bitcoin and crypto space went up a bit but ethereum increase much more than others thanks to this hard fork. I have all my ethereums in my exchange that I use, after this hardfork I will probably move it to a wallet and stake it.

I may just get a vps so I can just put it there and keep there but I do not trust vps that much neither considering anything could happen there and I can lose all my coins. If I can find a way to safely do that I will probably do that but if I can't I will probably just stake while my PC is open and close when I go to bed, it will be inefficient but it will be a way of doing it at least.

I believe we cannot ignore the need of stable coins in this modern crypto era as the applications of such stable coins is being innovated now only. I mean to say people may come up with more innovative ideas for having stable coins. At the same time I'm not seeing any future for this stable coins as they will keep on circulating from the devs and then simply going back to them. People may not hold for longer and due to many availability of these coins, success for most of these coins may not be possible.

I believe he's denoting about controlling the supply of coin and circulation. Because, a stable coin cannot have some unlimited supply on its own but it should be based on some reserve. As far as I have learned, tether is maintaining USD balances for their stable coin's circulation. Most probably he meant that.

Securities needs to be really vetted well as well. I mean I am not an expert on this subject so I am quite new and don't know the details but unfortunately we are in crypto and I am afraid if STO gets bigger and ICO starts to go away some coins may come up saying they are STO and securities and so forth and that would make some newbies like me to invest into it whereas they are nothing just a scam and have no registration anywhere at all.

I think instead of looking at the way coins are trying to get funded, it is more reasonable to look at the team, look at what other coins this team created before and see how they fared before. If there is couple of guys together that previously did all kinds of difference coins combined on their CV that gives me more trust than anything STO or ICO honestly.

As far as I am concerned, POS algorithm has nothing to do with efficiency and faster from POW. I mean to say both POS and POW are equally efficient and faster. But, after POS will be implemented into etehreum network, I am expecting more people start mining by holding large number of ethereum which will be leading to huge price increase in coming months. I'm eagerly waiting for ethereum to adopt POS.

I do not think that miners will be holding large number of their own mined ethereums. Usually miners will go for selling their mining rewards time to time so that they are able to cover their mining costs. There will be very less possibility for dumping once ethereum will be entering into POS mode of mining.

I was an active trader in 2017 but now I have turned into long term trader hence obviously I am also will not be spending big time for my trading in 2019. Most probably I will be right with my decision but it took long hours of frustrations and big money to take the decision of being long-term trader rather than trying out on daily basis.

I have already started to buy bitcoins and few other altcoins as I feeling that this must be the right time to buy and hold even market will be reacting on its own way. I will be ready to hold for years so I will not be bothering about what is going to happen in 2019. If market will be rising I will keep buying and if it will be falling down then I will wait and buy. Moreover, I am expecting market will keep rising in 2019 it may be completely different from most other people as they are speculating about mixed trend for this year.

Predicting about the movements of bitcoin and ethereum is not that difficult when you are watching them for years and you are always keeping update yourself with news and events related to them. Even we are not able to predicting them accurately we can get approximate price levels like where they will be trading time to time. I am always more than 80% successful with my predictions so far with bitcoin and ethereum price movements.

I don't see both ETH and BTC will be testing its bottom again this year. What we had as low in 2018 will be remaining as bottom for next 2 to 3 years. Because, I am expecting both ETH and BTC will be in uptrend in coming months and the we cannot expect any further downfall like what we had in 2018.

I just wonder that trading fee is playing major role in deciding our profit levels while trading in crypto exchanges ? Because I never bother about trading fees because most of the time as far as I have noticed that it is just less than 0.5%, it means I assume myself I never need to bother it as a criteria for choosing an exchange for having cheaper fees or it will be having no impact on my trading performances.

Moreover, I am not an active trader who will be trading multiple times in a day and most of the times per week. This might be another reason why so far I am just ignoring trading fee. I just start studying your article and let me ask if I will be getting any questions.

It depends on what you expect from bitcoin.

If you think that bitcoin will be capable of outpacing the other coins on growing and increasing in price than it is a great idea. However if you think there is a chance altcoins outperform bitcoin (historically quite possible) than it wouldn't make any sense.

When bitcoin goes down some of the other coins go down even faster, like bitcoin goes down 5% while ethereum goes down 15% or that type stuff however when the bitcoin price goes up than the altcoins go up faster like bitcoin goes up 5% while ethereum goes up 15% at the same time. It means if you trust that bitcoin will go up, buy something else like ethereum, if you think bitcoin will go down than keep your money at bitcoin no matter what. That is a valid strategy even whales use daily.

I have seen couple of topics like this that stated "is it true that..." and continued to ask if what is "said" is true and all that.

Well, in order to even take you seriously don't you think it would be really good if you provided with a source ? For example here you said "is it true that the future of digital money is getting worse in 2019 ?", well who said that ? Did you ? If you said that than you should answer your own question first. If you didn't than who said that ?

I mean I have seen plenty of amazing news for 2019 starting with BAKKT and moving with SEC and tapping off with NASDAQ possibly. So, who says that 2019 will be getting worse ? Could it be ? Sure why not but the way the question was asked is making it like it is common thought that 2019 will be a bad year and everyone feels that way which is definitely not true at all.

Honestly I think stable prices do make it a bit boring right now. We have been waiting for the increase for so long that even when price goes up a bit people get excited about it. If we see $5k this month I am sure there will be topics here that say price is going to $100k and so forth.

Mark my words, if price moves about 50% quickly (today, tomorrow, next month doesn't matter when) people will start talking about 30-50 thousand dollars right away. The only reason for that is people have waited a long time for a next bull, it has been all downhill since the $20k mark, we didn't jumped up a bit while going down, it was pure down. Hence, I think the thing that influences the prices most will be the hype behind the bull, as soon as we start to go up people will get too excited and that will make the price go even higher and turn it into a cycle.

This is exactly my thought on money, euro has shown that it is doable even tough a huge challenge.
Even in a continent like Europe where bigger countries exists the euro currency have been going a rough time where Germany tries to make it more valuable while Greece is making it go down the hill.

Countries like Greece who have no idea how economy works and have governments that have no intention of fixing the issues will make euro worth less and less overtime, maybe not against other currencies but certainly within itself.

So if we make a currency that's worldwide, how could a great nation that makes profits all the time like China could control the value of their currency whereas nations like USA who have no control over money and constantly devalues dollar would be equals ? Hence, it would be insane for countries like UK and China to accept be in the same sentence as USA or Somalia.

You are right, a prediction may work and may not. We cannot do anything about that. For example, you follow some expert and he is giving some predictions and in market it is happening then are you going to reward him ? I am sure that is not a practice at all. Something will apply when their predictions fail. We cannot blame them. Because, we only need to take care of our hard earned money. We should not blindly believe someone else for making important financial decisions.

We can have other's predictions for the reason of having some overall idea. We need to do our own due diligence. So that, we may get accurate picture of market movements. If we just follow someone else then that will lead to unwanted results most of the times and may give profits some times. Doesn't this sound like gambling ?

I do not understand this obsession with being number 2 all the time. Ethereum to me is by far the better coin for multiple reasons, XRP doesn't even worth 1 cent to me because what they do is shady and its not even REMOTELY relevant to the Ripple company, ethereum and XRP are equally related to Ripple company in value, dash, turtlecoin, nano, bitcoin, litecoin and all other coins you can think of have the same relevance to Ripple company. Hence ripple is worthless to me.

However, even if that is the case, I wouldn't mind ethereum being third and XRP being 2nd as long as all of crypto market finds green in their future. If we can have a bull run where all coins go %200+ in price, I wouldn't mind ethereum being 400-500 while xrp is 3-4 dollars, by all means as long as my favorite coin goes up, I am in favor of all coins going up as well.

I think it is not just whales at this point. Look at the topics here, everyone is talking about the hard fork and everyone talks about how ethereum passed XRP at marketcap and how they must be doing something good for the coin since its looking like its going better and there is a bigger potential now and if we stayed with PoW these wouldn't happen and all that news.

Hence, I think yeah at this point whales already grabbed as much as they can but the smaller investors are getting into it as well. By smaller I do not mean couple hundred, I mean people with millions of dollars already invested but people with 10-50 thousand dollars is investing as well. I have seen people who sold their rigs and bought eth with it which honestly shows how much people love ethereum.

I think a bull run is enough, I mean do you really think if bitcoin was 30 thousand dollars the other coins wouldn't be going up?

We all know market goes up when bitcoin goes up so we just need to find a reason for bitcoin to gup in order to make crypto market as a whole to go up. Considering the market is already established at this point the only way we can actually go even higher is the finance world getting into crypto heavily. For that to happen we need to make sure the lines are clearly drawn for those companies and SEC is trying to achieve that.

You have to understand these huge big investment banks usually don't invest into stuff themselves, they use other peoples money to invest into stuff, so if we can make crypto known greatly in mainstream media and get the SEC to draw the lines clearly for these companies they will have their customers calling them to buy this new "bit thing" and the price will soar like eagle.

I think everyone is just focusing on the history side of things and check if the exchange is trustworthy by previous testimonies.

For example binance is not as old as some of the other exchanges but they became one of the biggest by doing marketing amazingly by allowing people to get less transaction fee's and also allow people to offer affiliates and make money, that made them highest volume exchange pretty quickly because it gave people the chance to be an exchange for some people.

Moreover, what kept them so high was the fact that nobody had ever written a bad thing about them, you don't see people talking about how "binance took my money and I can't take it back" or how they were hacked or something. If you look at other big places like coinbase you see them putting fake volumes and keeping peoples money without paying them all the time which makes them less trustworthy.

Hence, when we are selecting an exchange, we go for the one with the least problems.

Trading is a really tough job if you want to be consistent with it. Markets always have a downturn in the end even if it goes green for a long time, that makes things really hard for many people involved. This is not just crypto problem though, it is a general problem for everything in trading, like stocks and forex and all that. In the end there is always a bad red market that takes away all your profits you previously made.

You need to be really wise and have the relevant information at hand all the time and follow the markets constantly in order to anticipate things other people didn't see coming. It requires a lot of time invested into research and a lot of time into keeping up with the news and even that's not enough sometimes.

You also need to have a lot of cash always ready to drop the averages constantly. It is really not for people who are inexperienced and its not even for experience but lazy people.

Candlestick pattern recognition had helped me a lot. Learning candlestick patterns is also a much easier one compared to any other trading strategies and application of it in real trading is marvelous. You can easily identify the reversal of market using candlestick patterns. But, always relying on only one way of technical analysis is not good. Combining multiple moving averages cross over along with candlesticks help you better.

Timeframe consideration must be dependent on the way of your trading. If you are into scalping or day-trading then you can go for 30 min or 1 hr charts. But, I am also preferring to use 4hr candlestick patterns as they are filtering out the in-between noise and showing only major trend reversal points.

But, what actually happened to the ICO industry is not just due to bitcoin price fall down. But, ICOs are suffering severely due to its own scammers. Yes, due to the unregulated environment, many scammy people have started to misuse the platform in the name of ICOs to steal innocent people's money. I don't think in 2019 this ICO industry will be surviving or may not, by considering how depth it has fallen down on its own reasons.

We must need some regulations for these ICOs. That regulations could be possible in decentralized manner like from this community itself we can regulate them so that it will not suffer any more. I have seen many people have started discussions on this but none of them found reasonable to this community. It seems people are not interested to regulate the ICO industry and this must be the core reason why it is into its current state.

Personally I have stopped contributing into ICOs and honestly I'm not having any idea to resume it. I will be watching how some ICOs will be performing and based on that I will decide further.

But I'm not seeing people are losing their trust level toward bitcoin due to the downfall we had in 2018. Interestingly, the people I have seen, are finding it as their opportunity of entering as they have already started showing interest in bitcoin when it was trading around $20k. Actually they are waiting for right time to buy and it has finally arrived for them. Because, if you go for studying how bitcoin prices are trading then you will never lose your confident on it. Yes, extreme ups and downs are very much common with bitcoin prices.

Yes, from common people to institutional fund managing houses start showing interest in adopting bitcoin for gaining maximum returns for their capital. When more people are getting into bitcoin, we can see bitcoin will be flying again.