This is what I believe we might be seeing with bitcoin at the moment, and maybe the altcoins will end up being able to have some push during the consolidation. Before we can even start thinking of any possibility when it comes to bullishness, I would say we close above $7000 weekly and in that case, we might just hope for some good days to the upper side in some days ahead.

After all, it is even though the market is still trying to move pretty good in the short term, it still does not guarantee anything much. Because only a new ATH will confirm the persistence of bull's dominance. Without that, I am not ready to enjoy these time-being short-living bull's actions.

Always a smart move and the smartest move when you are picking them at their dips. The bear market is always a good time to always go bullish and be buying the dips while everyone is busy getting scared and some are even panic selling. The best time to sell is when everyone starts buying and most especially when people start getting greedy is when you should be more scared. For an investor, always look out for buying good coins with products at the dip, as you cannot have it better.

Well, for someone like me with the knowledge of trading, I have gallantly taken time to wait for the bear market and I made sure I was able to take advantage of the dips as most of the altcoins reached their historical bottom. That is what I always expect any smart investor to always do anyway but what you see people doing is to keep buying the peaks and then selling the bottom, which is the most stupid thing for anyone to ever do but unfortunately people do it.

That is actually the thing. It is not like those who are doing all these things does not know the negative impact they bring, but they just really do not care or I will rather say they are selfish to the point of never caring.

Cheating is a bad and unethical thing to do, but as long as you will always see good people and also see bad people in the world at the same time, there is nothing we can do about it. As long as there are some rules in place that limits their activities or get them caught and negged, then we will gradually keep having some sanity, but that is something we all know may be hard to achieve 100%.

Right, shapeshift is a very good way to go in that aspect when it comes to one having to do KYC but there is a fixed miner's fee though that the exchange charges. Also, you will still have some transaction limit placed somehow unless you go through some instructions on their platform.

Moreover, it is a very good one for those who are not looking to do some serious trading and would just want to use exchange service to exchange their coins. Also, desktop wallets like Exodus, uses shapeshift directly on their application for those who would always want to exchange. For good rates, volume, fees and minimal limitation, I would rather go for binance.

Actually we have had something close to it already even though it is not as much as 80%. So far, it should always be expected that things like this should happen as long as greed sets into the market at times. One thing I have always noticed right from the onset is that, there is absolutely no way you can push a price manipulatively upward when there is really no serious demand except people wanting to get rich and expect that it won't have to correct. It does not happen that way!

Corrections are always a normal thing in the market and so far, the correction we have had so far has been a very healthy correction and I would not necessarily call it a big crash. Things and times are changing pretty fast, and no one absolutely knows how things would end up panning out as we forge ahead, but so far, the market looks like it is ready for some pretty good uptrend at least for the short term, and I guess at this stage, we will just have to wait and see how far it eventually goes.

Yes, having the same type of businesses within one ecosystem is that they create a stiff competition for themselves and that certainly will benefit the consumers. In this case, knowing the number of exchanges popping up every day, no exchange will certainly not want to stay non relevant in the long run and will try as much as possible to do what they can to stand out among other exchanges, which means there will be no room for slackers.

Yeah, exchanges and many of them is not a bad thing for the community. Obviously, some will try to stay relevant by upping their game; some will definitely not and then at the end of it all, end up not being able to cope with being in the market. As long as stiff competition is being created, which is what huge number of exchanges will create; it would make investors happier to use any trusted platform to carry out their exchange without any issue.

Not just us but apparently no one in the whole crypto world doesn't care about it neither. In the end if it gets accepted we will definitely see a spike however if it gets rejected again apparently no one would even care about it.

We just want to see bitcoin succeed but etf has become a kids toy at this point and after a certain amount of rejections it started to feel like it doesn't even matter anymore if it gets rejected or not. The important part here is that the more they reject the closer we get to acceptance and people knows this so each ETF is a great opportunity to get rejected again to one day getting accepted.

As far as he is not claiming to be a bag holder and still believes in what he is holding, then classifying him as a bag holder because the market is down and he is still holding so much of bitcoin makes no sense. He made very solid point in his statement and he sure looks like someone who is more focused on the long term than trying to dwell so much on the short term. I really love the quote where he said;
Unfortunately, the gullible ones who are the main target of the whales tend not to ask themselves those questions and they make horrible investment decisions as a result of that.

That shows certainly that people will always find ways to make things sound awry, most especially when it comes to adopting new technologies and some will be so gullible and ignorant to the point of not being able to make decisions on their own. This is life and you need to always be able to take hold of it and make certain decisions as no one will be making it for you. However, the ignorance, fear of the unknown and some negativity will make certain people susceptible to listening to anything at all.

To safeguard ourselves, it is always necessary to keep analyzing and filtering out. When we turn lazy or not finding enough time to analyze then keep investing into good projects may become impossible and this may lead to losses too.

Peer to peer transactions in which transactions can still be done without the need of having to log in to your wallet anytime and probably with the evolution of crypto debit cards or there about, that would make a lot of sense. Hopefully we will get to see technologies popping up in the long run in which people can easily make payments very quickly even in a peer to peer way and I am really looking forward to it with the hope that we are really getting close.

There is really no such crypto which is the best for real world transactions yet. It is not like there are not so many coins available yet for real life transactions, but the truth remains that they are not being used at the moment in real life until we start seeing merchants accepting them as a means of payment and people tending to use it and adopt its usage as a currency which is something we all know is hard to find in the space at the moment.

In a case where day to day transactions starts popping up in which I can buy groceries, but different items with crypto, then I would prefer bitcoin any day.

Nobody can tell you how Nubit is going to move in price at any point in time. No one can predict the future and certainly, if we could, we would have been so rich that coming to this thread to even give you an answer to your question won’t be a thing. I like to suggest you, instead of looking for when something to happen, we all must look only for whether some pump will be possible for ever.

Nubit is a coin with potential and as long as they keep this good team, I want to believe it is worth taking a risk on. The whole ball is just left in your court to do further research and be sure you are making the right decision. As far as I am concerned, this is a market that has hit the rock bottom and makes it an easy buy and hold.

People though are always trying to look for the easy way out and because of that they end up getting burned fast in the process. Nothing good comes easy and you have to work for it, which is why a lot of people fail to understand the main thing here that as long as you are so much in a haste to want to get rich, then you will be so fast enough to get drained and lose everything. You have to plan, work smart and endeavor to do your best. Nothing better than that!

I doubt if most people understand the difference between the two anyway as all they care about is to end up trying to want to get rich overnight and as long as there is a promise of riches and wealth for them, they tend to quickly want to bail out all of a sudden. Because of their mindset, they find it hard to identify if a project is really a scam or not and in that case, we will always see people who fall victim for stuffs like this.

The future is certainly bright and anyone who understands the pure nature of bitcoin and blockchain technology at large, will understand perfectly well that they simply have less to worry about when it comes to the future as I believe there would keep being progress over time, things would change, we will get to see massive adoption and real life as a currency, and we will have some good number of the global population that would prefer to make use of it.

Now for blockchain technology, I am sure we already know how fast that is making some great impact already and how it will keep evolving. Bitcoin and blockchain technology will work and help for each other which will lead them growing bigger in coming years. Both will stay with us for ever hence adopting them for day today life will be essential to stay competitive in this world.

That is not stability, unless of course you have no idea what stable means. Firstly, I really do not care if crypto price is stable or not, but what I want is for us to start seeing more real life usage as that would always drive in demand for the market and all these level of manipulation, panic, FUD and insane activities in the market will reduce. It is a decentralized market, and we will be deceiving ourselves to think that there would be any form of stability in the long run; highest that would happen is to see the volatility reducing to a very good and reasonable extent.

With higher liquidity, high level of real life usage and the speculations dropping down and reducing, we might over time see some level of stability. But we also have to understand that no matter what, it is still a decentralized market and there would always be certain fluctuations one way or the other as time goes on and will not be fully stabilized since it is not centralized. Let's see how regulations and ushering in of bigger institutional whales, as well as real life adoption will make the whole thing be like.

For now, I agree it could be hard to make use of as a currency due to the fact that there is really not much of a facility to always make that happen pretty fast. Over time, with development in scaling issue, and a faster level of transaction, I am sure we will get to keep seeing several means of seeing this happening.

ETF should not be something anyone should be focused on in this market and with the way there is so much evolving around it, I am sure the whales might want to use it to instigate price movement but at this stage, we only have time and trend in our hands to see how the market leads. In the past, bitcoin had showed big movements and broke resistance levels before we did realizing the reasons for that. I mean another rally may happen at any time .

It has been the best thing that has ever happened to me. I have been working for hotels all my life and made enough money to barely live while working in horrible conditions. Right now I have made enough money to live for the past two years by just staying at home and accepting bitcoin for my work and I have been working decent hours and staying home doing whatever I want.

Cryptocurrencies are overall just like penny stocks which were available in early 1970's. Buying and holding them will bring big changes to our life. Bitcoin or any other cryptos here is not something you buy and sell or simply trade and make money as many thing it is. Bitcoin and crypto in general is something that can change your life like it changed mine. If you use it like a payment option than you will open doors to many people who will give you work using bitcoin as payment.

This is actually news that has been going on since 2017 since Japan decided to take the bull by the horn to accept the usage of cryptocurrency and then regulate it. I do not know if this is already active in some companies in Japan, but it would really be something worth it in the long run, for development, usage and more advantage for those who see reasons why it benefits them in the long run.

Well, it would have been a bit ideal if OP is about to put a link to be able to get the source of information, but I would not be surprised since Japan anyway has been able to find a way to regulate cryptocurrency and certainly gaining huge benefit from it.

I am as well convinced that as we step into 2019, a lot of things will end up becoming a reality and we will start seeing a different perspective entirely for this space. I believe this is a start and as we tend to keep seeing more of this, things would keep getting even better in the long run. A good way to start for Japan if this is truly real news.

If you have been trading for over three years, then maybe you have not ended up learning enough to know to be able to know that having a strategy, knowing how to study and understand the market conditions, will always be at your best interest. It is  a good thing you have been able to identify that greed has always been an obstacle to your success and since you know for those years markets are always bound to drop back lower, then you should have been able to put that to work and set every greedy emotions aside in the long run.

The best time to always take advantage of the market in general is when the market is down as this gives an opportunity to buy in and be able to enjoy the enormous profit in the long run. However, investment requires great discipline, knowledge and understanding of the market which a lot of people do not always have and that subjects them to emotion at times. It is never too late, unless the market is already in a FOMO state as you would not want to be jumping in front of a moving train.

I do not trade futures at all but apparently everyone around here uses bitmex. They came out with one thing different than all other exchanges and they became the most successful exchange in that expect and all of a sudden its either binance for regular trading or bitmex for future trading. Having a gist that is different than other exchanges put them way above everyone else, I respect them for it.

There are several others and future cmeo and all that but the easiest and probably the most anonymous way of doing it is bitmex and probably the most known for it as well. There are several others but somehow bitmex got itself heard a lot more.

No one can even start to guess what bitcoin could do.
Sometimes it goes up sometimes it goes down. Regularly we just assume that the price of bitcoin will do whatever it wants and we are just going to follow it. Consider it like this, we are in a car (a bitcoin car lol) and the bitcoin is the driver, we are just passengers in that car.

Bitcoin told us it will take us to somewhere and we hopped into the car and right now we are passengers on that ride waiting for bitcoin to drive us to riches. Whether it will or not, we decide ourselves, we can keep on being in the ride or we can ask for a stop and leave the ride.