The side that keeps saying there should be either flat or very minimum tax on capital gains basically argues that if a person is willing to invest money into the economy in order to improve the companies should be allowed to not pay as much tax as others. If I am making money by working than I should be taxed an income tax same as a company getting income tax as well but when I invest I should be allowed to pay less taxes so I can reinvest my earnings back to economy to keep it alive.

Moreover, one important misinformation is that people who buy stocks usually end up buying from other people and not from companies, IPO's are a different beast but when you are buying an apple stock for example you are not buying it from apple and helping them out, you are buying from another person. So, I think capital gains should be taxed according to the level of investment and higher the profits higher the tax should be.

2019 seems like it will start off pretty decent or horrible, I mean this first 2 months (we can call it 1.5 even) will be either amazing for all of us or it will be horrible.

If all the sec, nasdaq, bakkt things happen than we will start the new year amazingly and hopefully the momentum will be on our side and we will go greatly, however if none of that happens and all we have been waiting for is nothing than the year might follow like that, people are already very upset about how 2018 went and if the price doesn't go up because those things didn't happen I am sure there will be a lot more people getting out cashing in their crypto and leaving the market which will make the volume even less.

So, we reeeeallly need this first 2 months to be amazing in order to keep the crypto fire going.

Always hope for the better things to happen . I am also expecting lot of positive news around on bitcoin ecosystem will be happening in 2019. I believe those positive thing and development will be the reason why we are going to have a new ATH in 2019. Legalizing bitcoin similar to Japan by another country and bitcoin based ETF are the things will be leading to those miracles, probably. We never forget the contribution from new investors, when bitcoin will be having prices above $10k they will start joining us .

I'm not sure that there will be your moon, I mean on what height it will be , jokes apart, we are going to have another excellent year for bitcoins for sure. Bitcoin has already started its positive run hence we must grab as much as possible right away.

The great thing about this person is talking about is that 2018 was a year of bear market but bull investments. A lot of huge companies put money together to invest into crypto business and those business are now bigger and better. We have seen the problem with bitcoin and crypto market last year, it went upto 20 thousand dollars but failed to sustain it there and fell down a lot, when it falls down a lot the price is unstoppable and can go as low as 3 thousand dollars as we can see.

So what do we have to do? Find a way to sustain high prices and in case of emergency have a landing spot higher than 10 thousand for example (numbers could change). That can be done with higher investments and sustainable business around the world for crypto. Right now, this is what we have and in case price goes above 20 thousand ever again, we are now better prepared for it.

I don’t have such regrets and I am still young anyway. But I don’t really see why you should regret, there is still plenty time and there are many opportunities. Its best for you to focus much on learning this quickly and knowing how to trade perfectly before this year is over(which will in few days). Trust me, there is still plenty and use it wisely.

Yup, those people are even very lucky they got in when the market is in bear. People who bought during the last bear and missed out on selling are regretting why they did, lol. Some of them are losing well over 50% of their investment. It’s best he takes the opportunity to buy at lower price while he waits for the price to get pumped.

I believe already following what you have stated. Yes, I'm not bothering about short term trends, that is the reason, I'm always buying at dips and ignoring all the bouncing back of market movements. I believe this will be possible for any trader only when they are having long-term based plans rather than looking for active trading to book some small profit on daily basis. I never care about reversal of bear markets. If that will be happening, I am the first person to find it more exciting rather than worrying about missing out the buying opportunities.

Yes, changes in market trend may not happen instantly as it requires first sustaining market only after sustaining phase it will start reversing. This is the usual thing for the any market when the direction of market about to change.

I think this is by far the best time to get in except like 2+ years ago, right now prices has shown themselves to be capable of going really high but they also showed how volatile they could be by swinging all sides. This tells us there is a chance bitcoin could drop of course but it also shows if bitcoin prices reaches 20 thousand dollars in a month than nobody would be shocked, it wouldn't be so weird for bitcoin because it does that kind of stuff, of course we would be really happy and excited but we wouldn't be thinking "how did it happen" because it can happen and it did happened.

We are just waiting for it to happen again. Thats why right now is the best time to get into bitcoin and crypto in general since prices are low but that showed us what it can be as well.

It is just consequences of last years ICO hype, I mean we have invested over a billion dollars total into ICO's in 2017 and probably kept that up early 2018 as well, that made ICO space so big that the expectations grew bigger and bigger as well, people literally made 1000%+ of what they invested and anything like 50% increase was unacceptable and honestly if the prices went down even a bit people were calling the ICO's "scam" even tough market is horrible and there was nothing they could do about it.

So, right now the 2018 of horrible ICO and non funded new coins are all because we got into a hype last year and now considering new coins as toxic and not expecting anything new to grew while all these big coins are not growing. We want to first fix the things we have in our hands before we move to things that could improve the things we have.

Even the bearish market is still persisting, we do not need to worry about that for preparing ourselves for finding a big opportunities after this bearish markets. If you are afraid to start investing right now then you can gather as much as capital you are able to. When you will be having enough amount of capital then you can diversify your portfolio once the market turns positive. This is my plan of preparing myself.

All Cryptocurrency are definitely having bright future but how we will make use of them in the biggest question here. I'm not seeing many people are buying right now at comparatively cheaper price levels but they are all simply waiting with previous stash alone. I guess that must be a wrong approach because we must make use of the current lower markets so that when crypto market will be bouncing back to new ATH, we also will find ourselves rich.

Yes, we only will be taking care of our capital more consciously and others will just sell recommendation for earning money for them. But OP is asking about any tools for finding good investment opportunities. I'm sure no such tool will be available but we can make use of any technical analysis tool for trading.

It means we need to  find the any good investment opportunity among altcoins and then we can go for technical analysis using those tools then we can trade them effectively for profit making.

I'm seeing many people are not at all using their brain for filtering altcoins to find out the right altcoins. There could be multiple reasons why they are not doing on their own but finding a potential coin must be derived through our own research and analysis otherwise we cannot blame anyone else for losing our capital later on due to investing into inappropriate coins. We must spend our time to protect our capital, depending on others for maximizing our capital will not fetch the expected results.

Nobody is being selfish here, if they don’t want to tell anybody, then its none of you business. And for your information you shouldn’t go around telling people about your source of income, cause if you do that, one day you might likely get yourself in trouble.

If you find out about something, stay low-key and enjoy it while it works for you. Another thing you got to know is that if cryptocurrency works for you, it might not work for another person. You might have found out about it when things were good and during a Bull run and you invest and make profit. If you decide to introduce to another person, they might invest and lose and then start to blame you for misleading them.

I don’t believe this news, it’s likely to be a fake news. Why I’m saying this is because most of these Bitcoin enthusiasts will say just anything in the name of getting out a good news out there and encouraging others to keep on with their Hodl, but to me that’s making no sense.

Facebook will never create cryptocurrency. And even if they do, why will it be on WhatsApp? WhatsApp is an app made for the sole purpose of chatting with your loved ones. Do you ever wonder why Facebook don’t even display ads on WhatsApp? That’s because they want people to feel comfortable making use of the app.

Where did you come up with the idea that another cryptocurrency will beat BTC? No cryptocurrency will be able to do that. Bitcoin is the man cryptocurrency we know, others are nothing, they are just altcoins. Bitcoin is the first and has been there for long more than every other cryptocurrency. If you check coinmarketcap you will see that no coin is able to do as you said. BTC still has the biggest market cap  and no coin has market cap that is close to BTC mkt cap.

Lol, how is that possible please? As the number one cryptocurrency on the coin list, out of the $127 billion market cap, Bitcoin occupies the largest which is $66 billion. XRP has $14 billion, while ETH is $13 billion. Not even the second and third biggest coins in the market are close to achieving that, not to talk of other coins that will always end up becoming shit coins later on. So how do you prove what you just said?

I have heard a lot of people tell stories of how they were able to make a lot of money by gambling with cryptocurrency, but that never worked for me. I have tried gambling back in 2015 when I started, so many times and it never work out for me. So it just don’t work for everyone. I will recommend trading, as long as you have done the necessary training and got the skills you will be able to do it and earn from it.

After gambling I have tried trading but that also not getting me expected results in short term. But, when I am converting my day trading into positional long term based trading, I'm finding myself profitable. I have tried different types of markets but only with cryptocurrencies and long term based trading I am finding myself successful.

Mining also produced the same results what I got with gambling. I have bought few graphics cards in 2014 but I did not cover those graphics card costs also. Due to the higher electricity cost in my country I stopped mining after few months. But, campaigning is really a great way of earning. But, Now a days we are not getting regular opportunities. If we get regularly then  that will be a great way of earning always.

I don’t know if what I’m about to say is right or wrong, but I do think that if a certain number of Bitcoins happens to get missing, then it will lead to an increase in the price of Bitcoin. Why I’m saying this is because there will be lesser supply of Bitcoin, and since the lesser the supply means bigger price, there should probably be an increase in price, and then we will all be buying in satoshis.

There are total of 17 million Bitcoins mined, and based on the research I have made, close to 4 million Bitcoins are likely to be missing and not 7 million like you have said. So that means we currently have about 13 million Bitcoins or so trading in the market. The number of Bitcoins to be mined are remaining about 4 million.

No country is going to adopt cryptocurrency as their currency unless they are just trying to be stupid, well that’s never going to work. The only thing they might do is try to make use of the blockchain to build their currency, something that will be more stable, but that’s doesn’t change anything except the fastness in making transactions and maybe reducing the cost (but I know government, the cost will be high) but you will still pay tax and other things. So, nothing really changes.

That will be possible but it will take more time. In the case of bitcoin being accepted by government when it will become universally being used by people, I believe bitcoin might be trading in billions by considering how many people will be are adopting it and how much demand it will be having by that time.

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Tom Lee has always been bullish on bitcoin, he was still bullish on bitcoin even when we reached 20 thousand dollars.
He is kinda the junior version of Mccaffe who said he would eat his own penis if bitcoin is not a million dollars.

Tom Lee is just the lite version and always sees bitcoin as bullish as it gets even when the price falls. He doesn't see the negativity in bitcoin and only hears about the positive stuff. To give him some credit dude lives in a bubble of everyone asking him how to get bitcoins if they are not interested yet and people who goes up to him and ask "do you really think it will go up that much ?" all day. Hence, it is normal that he thinks price will go up, I would have thought the same thing if all I hear was amazingly good stuff about bitcoin.

Unfortunately that is both too costly and too dangerous for governments.

In all over the world even the politicians that lose the elections try to find a way to trick the system and get themselves more votes, hence it would be impossible to find enough politicians to get blockchain integrated with the elections system. In many of the countries in the world we do not get a fair elections and there are even countries where only a single person runs for presidency (even if not actually, they have opponents only on paper).

Hence, it would be a dream to make them think it would be a good idea to make elections decentralized and legit. Not even in the best of the countries like USA, UK, France and what not would accept such a thing. Hence it can't be implemented at all.

Apparently people can pay their taxes with bitcoin in ohio state now. Don't think that it is a minor thing, if people can start paying their taxes in one state, in only goes faster. Weed has been around for decades and governments have been fighting against it and only recently has started to legalize weed in some states, if ohio started to accept bitcoin as a payment for taxes it means the rest of the country is watching and just like colarado getting a lot of weed money, if ohio gets a lot of taxes from bitcoin it means other states will want to do the same for more money for their pockets. Hence it might look small for now but it means a lot for the future, bitcoin is literally accepted by a government as a payment to them, not only acceptable to use but also supported. This only means amazing things for all of us.