I have gotten many advantages of the bitcoin in the last year. I invested little amount in the year start of 2017 and somehow managed to store more in late times. The surprising thing was it went 10x if original rate in just a year of time and this solved many of my financial problems. I loved myself at that time most because I paid the whole thing myself. I’m short terms bitcoin is my own bank and I can collect the cash whenever I need it.

Surely it is not very glorious if continued like this. I mean come one the fees are really off the charts and no one is there is who isn't complaining about it. People will have aggression against the bitcoin fee structure and it may not be good for the crypto currency as whole. People may think of switching the bitcoin to Ethereum or may be some other currency.

This is really decentralised process and no one can decide the ultimate fate of the bitcoin or crypto world as whole. The thing is crypto currency all depends on the investors and how much they are diving into it. The more people trust these crypto currencies the more sure we will be in the future about the global presence of bitcoin and altcoins. Without inevstment they will run dry and soon will become vanished.

So let's hope that bitcoin will always fullfil the expectations of every inevstment and then investors won't go away with it. ;-)

The bitcoin itself is part of the global market so whatever is invested into it is going into global markets development in terms of investor base. I mean it could be indirect effect really but it is showing it on enormous ways and levels now. The effect is not just limited to investor base and it could really make it via international relations with big traders and merchants too. We are very connected with bitcoin now and there is no limit for that one.

There is still room for the bitcoin to spread in the hearts of top merchants and once this is done on the mass level then it will contribute the global market in the same way as the Visa and MasterCard companies are doing right now. :-)

I don't believe in single coin of the crypto currency but I would always choose more than 5-7 coins at time to investment my money. The principle behind is very simple. Here having the portfolio of the coins means having your increased odds of earning profit with it. With more coins you can just avail more chances of hitting right market and thus balancing your investment. For me the current holding are XGM, XRP, XEM, NXT (very excited) and obviously can not miss the ETH at any point.

These coins are most stable in their growth and I have no doubt about their growth in the future as well. The trick really is just to stick to few coins which you trust because there is no single coin which can dump at anytime in the crypto.

Wow for the things which you have mentioned here are new in the first place! I can't imagine how the money is concentrated in the 1K Bitcoin addresses, I'm sure that these might be the oldest one who kept the bitcoin as it is and never sold it. Over the time they might have gotten costly anyway. FBI seems to me very rich and who knows they might be taking little satoshi out of it. Haha. !
How do you got the estimate of unused 64% of BTC. I mean there is already 16 ml + coins in circulation and how you can be sure about unused coins. There has to be all of them in use otherwise how could we have so much market cap. You getting what is I want to ask?

I am not sure why are you restricting yourself while choosing the coins with only two in the bucket. You can expand your wings and chance of getting profited with ETH, XRP and other coins out there. I mean there is no point ins ticking to LTC only. There is no question about the bitcoin but it is really very high and with whatever small investment you may make it would be very small and with the little change in the prices of bitcoin it won't rise much. To make quick and trusted trades you should start looking into portfolio of ETH, XRP and LTC if you like it that much. These coins can make you profited in the future if you hold for long terms.

I think amazon and bitcoin is not having any thing in common. For the amazon to work properly it needs to be very fast and the customers it owns is general people who may or may not be knowing the bitcoin in first place. This way they might loose some customer base. Yes they can have the other payments system in place of sure but this also confuses people on choosing the transaction agents. This is about whether amazon will merge the bitcoin system or not. With current regulation on the bitcoin it might be difficult to manage in each and every other country. SO they might need to target the use of bitcoin payment mode to country specific. So you see many complications might just arrive during the journey of adding up the bitcoin payment processor.

I don't think this is the right way looking at this matter. The interest is all about the bitcoin and OP is asking what would happen if bitcoin dies. Will it really drive people away from bitcoin and will they be attached towards the alt coins etc.

According to me I really believe that people will have to put their money somewhere so they will choose some of the best coins in the alt list and then they will transfer the funds in there. Because bitcoin would be a lot for the fiat conversion and the fiat conversion might shut temporary so people will have no choice but to invest into alts. This is what might happen according to me. It could be forceful transfer or may be individual.

Im very practical guy who will always try out thing after having some solid proofs. If you can see from the surrounding environment of the crypto currency the you will find that holding is always best choice of investment. The holding, well for long terms is the best investment. Just look at the current market, what do you think how much you could have earned if you would have invested earlier this year and held it for up until the year end. The whole 10 years would have passed easily for you that kind of wealth you could have earned. This is what happens to those who hold and the rest keep crying why they did not held for long terms.

Obviously who wouldn't want to invest money into something innovative like blockchain and then get credited with huge profits in the return. You know yourself how you can make money from the bitcoin by investing just few dollars and then getting back pile of thousand dollar bill! Thats what everyone wants, the money, they want to fulfil the need that they are in. The bitcoin has made lives very easier. Even for me, I was able to nil my education loan all its the help of bitcoin and nothing else. IF I would have Benin the search of my real job up until now then I could have faced bank legally but bitcoin saved my ass at right time!

This and many other kinds of stories are out there and that is why demand of the bitcoin os huge. Its for need or greed but its there for sure. :-)

I am sure with the current advances in the web app and mobile app development it is completely secured to use these kind of apps. Im not technical guy but as far as I use the app like coinable, electrum etc they seems to be very easy to use for my daily needs. I mean can easily secure them with the password and plus I have added security of the mobile phone password itself. With that calculation we will have two to three security check to reach the money that we are storing in the app itself. However, there could be concerns regarding the use of it when we reach in the real market with increased use of the currency. The more the use the more connected we are and we might just get exposed to vulnerabilities. For now everything looks traditional and we might need upgrade in the future.

Yeah they are already ripen I guess. What happening now is they are going to fall from the tree and we have to stand below it with empty bucket!!
Yup, thats what gonna happen, we are going to get blessed with huge profits of you have had invested into them back in start of the year 2017. This is very lucky period to find ourselves into crypto land and just take out as much profits as we want. :-) To be frank, I never imagined every alt coin that is in the top 20 list of the coinamrekt will go crazy like this but it did. I missed opportunity to invest into coins which I thought will go crazy but back then I was not ready.

Anyway now the time is like very optimum and we should just wait for the coins to pop even more. :-)

What I can sense from your talk in the OP is you are very comfortable with the USDT kind of trades so I would suggest you to follow the same. I mean if thats your type then you should really go with it because it will make you more easy on the trades or exchanges that you will make in the future.

Your strategy will work surely because this is long lasting working model where people just hold the BTC and try to increase the wealth in that way. The fees, well they are always dynamic and you can always find a way to take out your BTC with very small fees in the future. So better focus over the trades rather than the exchanger fees. That part comes later.

This question is obsolete now after looking at the rates of the bitcoin and the alt coins too. This is history changer whee alt coins are increase altogether with the bitcoin and we might just even better world in the year 2018. Who thought that the pattern where alts and bitcoins use to go up and down in the reverse direction always will go in the same direction and that is too so faster.

The only lesson we should take from this scenario is never sell your coins until you earn 10X - 100X profits from each of them. If you loose your faith early with the time then you are as good as dead. LOlz. I mean I have done such mistakes earlier and now I can see myself that holding works.

I never think about the downward movement of the crypto currency these days and I will never look at it in that way henceforth. Its just to motivate you all. :-)

Why not, I like the assumption that they have made because it just feels very good to know that our penny investment soon will become worth millions of dollars I guess. :-) At least not for the real speculation but for our satisfaction I completely believe into this kind of assumptions. Apart from this as the growth is taking place for each and every coin this will bring new ways of earning opportunity to rest of the world who has not entered into it yet. So if you ask me then there is still big population which is yet to invest into bitcoin and when they will start to do that then just imagine how much pretty well bitcoin will start moving upwards. :-)
We have long lasting proof of the bitcoin since 2009. It shown us major drawbacks, major advantages and all the good/bad sides of it. But in the end it is trying to keep that good side always up which will take it to that 1 million USD shot by 2020.

This question hurts me a lot because I already sold my LTC one and half month ago. Lolz. No thats seriously hurting statement and I can’t buy anymore because I  think it has reached very high now and there is no point for me to buy it at this point. I was very happy in the previous months when the LTC risen to 80-90 USD because that was still profitable for me to hold at that high. When I saw the bitcoin moving very fast towards the rates of 8-9K then I started feeling to buy the bitcoin and which I did in the first by selling my LTC for it.

Anyway I’m still in profit with the BTC but I could have made even more profits from the LTC as I had invested in it when LTC was literally 20-25 USD back then. So considering that entry point into LTC and looking at the current rate of it I could have been Richie rich. Lolz. No worries I understand that crypto currencies are really uncertain and we just can’t loose the hopes very easily. Must see up the pace of investment in rightful manner.

You can checkout my suggestion down below.

I have the traditional coins with trust score to 100%. This include BTC, ETH, LTC which will turn to be 100% legit investment going upto 5K to 50K depending upon the ability.

But, as you are asking for the coins under $1 value and turning to be $10, then I have the list with 50-80% of trust score.

This includes,

1) NEM (XRM) : The best coins valued around 50 cents today and is already on the verge of turning to be 1-2 USD before the end of December and start of the January month.
2) Ripple : Who doesn't want this coin which is centralised but have got huge chances of turning into million dollars investment if you just hold enough coins today!
3) Cordanno : Another coin with huge market capitalism but always undervalued for its purpose. But personally I am positive about this coin and it is going to be ATH soon for its utility purpose only.
4) SCL : The social coin, most awaited coin ever is now not he exchanger. Playing at 20 cents currently will turn to be $5++ investment in the future and most probably in the January 2018. Think about this one on top priority. :-)

Litecoin was good investment few weeks ago and now whoever invest into it will have the same position as to investing into ETH or BTC where the prices are already too high and we can barely expect the 10x or 100x kinda profits from it in the short period or even int he next few months. So it would be better to get our focus into ETH on the first basis as it is having more market cap and more chances of hiking in few months. As we have already know from various discussions that ETH is gonna hike all above the 1K rates then it puts us into ambiguity whether to invest into that coin or LTC.

The LTC discussion started to take the speed when the coin is hiking now a days otherwise few months ago there was no singe word about it anywhere. This is natural thing to happen and people will start speaking about various coins when they will see that particular coin has started astounding upward movement in the market.

You are brain is your tool when it comes to investing into ICO. When I started at very first in the crypto world then I was totally confused about where to invest my money. But slowly I grabbed the tricks and tips of the market over the Internet. I came to know many things about the bitcoin and other crypto currencies. The first thing that I hit was scam ICO which ran away with all the investment that I had. Lolz. So after then I started reading lots of posts like you made here, how to invest in ICO etc, and then through the discussion I came to know that one must invest into the ICO projects which are having good backing in terms of funds, in terms of team members. These are core factors which has to be there in crypto ICO. The team members if are well know then it builds up good relation with that ICO and trust score increases automatically. There were many ICO which were sponsored by the Mr. Vitalik the founder of ETH and this drove fire of investment into those specific coins. Thus, it is important to know who is behind that project. Then you should also checkout the advertising and marketing strategies of these ICO project which form the basis of attracting new customers into there projects. Altogether you can find your right spot and invest into them.