this may be a little off topic but i am seeing it now, in a year (more or less) we are going to see more and more adoption of decentralized exchanges instead of these centralized ones that the government of certain countries keep messing with.

and everyone else would also love it since the centralized exchanges have never been a good choice anyways. and as the decentralized ones become more popular and everything moves to more P2P ways, things will get a lot better.

boy that was a long wall of text!
you should learn to write more in paragraphs and make it easy for others to read and follow your thoughts!

where should i begin. i disagree with many parts of what you said but not so hard. mainly i disagree with this:

4% is such an abstract number. it depends on the market and a lot of things. sometimes 4% is very small and falls under the normal fluctuations in an altcoin market or even bitcoin.

yes but not that big.

first of all i do believe that there are a lot more people like Peter Thiel who have been investing in bitcoin for a very long time. including big players like Warren Buffett.

and the way news like this is going to affect the price is that it simply shows people that the way bitcoin has always been advertised in the media (in a negative light) has always been bullshit and they missed out on bitcoin because they fell for it!

so far bitcoin fees went up because of many things including more adoption which is practically even more dominance, and more usage, and more spam attack. that meant a big pump of altcoins that used the opportunity to advertise and do a fake pump.
in the end none of them have yet exited the exchanges and pure speculation space. whereas bitcoin is actually used as a currency in the real world. the dominance doesn't get any bigger than that

nah, the resistance has been a little higher, more in $15000 level than in $14000 level. and if you look at the charts, price has already been crossing $14k before so it is not new and right now it is struggling with this $15k resistance which was placed there.

i think we still have some time and more rise before we can start talking about $18k and above though.

ok, thanks for your opinion...

that's where you messed up.
ethereum is one of the weakest projects filled with problems. and as far as scaling goes, it is even worse than bitcoin.

as you said above we already have MasterCard and visa we don't need Visa 2.0

i would consider 2017 the first best year for bitcoin really. mainly because all the previous years even the biggest rises of all times in the early years were 100% pure speculation game of people finding out about bitcoin and buying more of it driving the price up.

this year however there is still mostly speculation game but there are also a lot of real adoption for bitcoin. we are seeing real physical merchants out there accepting bitcoin that have never existed back in 2010,...

to be honest i am much happier with a bitcoin with lower fee transactions and less drama. all of that can lead to more work done on actual things that matter like improving bitcoin and increasing the adoption of it.

but as for speculation, i can see $20,000 be reached by the end of January actually. there is nothing stopping it either. with all the altcoin pumps these days everyone is gathering as much money as they can to get ready for the bitcoin rally.

bittrex has been acting pretty shady lately. they have even been leaking their users documentation they submit for their verification process to outside and possibly even selling it on black market.
i wouldn't be surprised that their platform either has bugs that hackers exploited or they may have even robbed you themselves.

if you check out the scam accusation board of the forum you can see lots of people who have been victims of using bittrex in the past couple of months.

i don't see any mention of it anywhere on their website and no surprise there with their crappy service.

but the real questions you should be asking are two things:
1. is it even safe to invest your funds there with a shady exchange? probably not
2. is the dice game provably fair? absolutely not! they are running a scam dice and force you to play and lose there so that they can pay the profit on the investments.

there are a couple of things that i am waiting for and i do believe they can change the final price destination of bitcoin.
mainly it is the scaling things that i am looking forward to (but there are other mainstream adoptions too). if we can do something about scaling and get more SegWit adoption and finally have more Lightning Network usage and adoption you can expect $100,000 be reached super easily.

because it is not dropping

nearly a month ago price was below $10,000 and still in the 4 digit price levels and now it is in the 5 digit price levels and above $10,000. this is called a rise.
2 months ago it was a lot less and so on until 1 year ago which price was barely even $1000 and was struggling to exit the 3 digit price and enter 4. and now price is 10+ times more than that day. this is also called a rise.

we have a ton of things to look forward to and each of them can help with the adoption and the price rise as a consequence.

- the fist one is the mainstream adoption which was started with the CME and similar futures that are starting and will be followed by ETFs and lots of media attention to bitcoin.
- the other things are regarding bitcoin itself and the improvements it is going to get such as Lightning Network, the Atomic Swap, MimbleWimble, Private Transactions, Schnor (spell check!),... each of which open up a lot of possibilities for bitcoin.

these are not accusations, these are facts!

• supply is in full control of a small group, the  creators behind it which are banks. they control almost all of it but technically they have more than 60% of the supply. that is 60 billion coins * ~$2 = $120 billion
• there are not nodes run by peers! which is exact contrast of a decentralized network. instead the nodes are run by Banks and Ripple Labs
• here is the best part: Ripple Labs can "freeze" your account aka your funds. they did it with John McCaleb funds who was the co-founder of ripple!

technically it should only work as the hour resets. the website also mentioned the example if you scroll down a bit you will see it.

but i believe they have disabled their "free" accelerator services, possibly to force people into signing up for the "paid" version of it. i have been trying to accelerate a transaction for the past 3 days and i have been failing.

they also have warned us that bitcoin can not go above $100 and they also actually predicted that it can not survive for more than a year from their prediction.
this has happened years ago and bitcoin is still around and going stronger every day.

and since these "warnings", or should i say people who warn us out of the goodness of their hearts, are only coming out at the times of correction and drop i wouldn't even give them the smallest attention ...

the "technology" is already released, things are almost finished even from what i can tell. what they are working on is the finishing touches, the necessary tests to find and eliminate the bugs. we are talking about a 200+ billion dollar market, you can't just release things without enough testing.

bitcoin dominance will not fall below 99% for many many years.
the market cap percentage out of total however will be at 20% and much lower pretty soon.

all of them shitcoins with a huge premine and lots of coins unaccounted for but technically in circulation inflating their market cap

none of the altcoins.
unless you mean in market cap then Ripple is already #1 since it has 100 billion coins

you are covering a lot of topics in one comment and none of them have anything to do with your title!

it is hard to tell what you want to do. yeah altcoins are tied to bitcoin price but they usually go down no matter what. if you check out altcoin prices during the bitcoin rises you can see they still go down by that time too.
this is one of the reasons why i don't like them as long term investments. they are too unexpected for long term and too unstable for my risk tolerance.

but if you already know this (altcoins dump because of bitcoin rise and fall) then try to use it. short them when bitcoin is rising or buy them at the bottom after they got severely dumped to benefit from their recovery.
you don't always have to know the reasons for all things, you just have to know they are happening and how you can use them to your own advantage.

this is such a funny statement
bitcoin was "too expensive" when it was $1000 too, according to many like you. but it still went up 19-20x times. it was actually "too expensive" back when it reached $1 too, i can show you the topics in speculation board calling it that if you like and it still went up ~20000x

there is no denying how different pumping groups are pumping altcoins that are small and easy to manipulate. but i don't get what is the relationship between an altcoin getting pumped and your subject here!