No serious trader will ever bother to provide noobs advice aside from a few tips here and there, and that's if that person knows you. If you actively search for "experienced" traders, you mostly end up with idiots selling you guides/tutorials with information that can be found freely by using Google, and the worst of all is that it isn't of value to starters at all. If you can't figure out the basics yourself (without paying for free to find information), you'll never be able to come anywhere in this market, and that's a fact.

If there is no approval from 'higher hand', there will be no CME group offering Bitcoin related financial instruments. It's like they just assume that it will come through without even taking a likely rejection scenario into consideration. I can somewhat understand that CME stands on a whole different level than the Winklevoss twins and SolidX did with their ETF's, but that doesn't justify the overconfident attitude of the CME ceo. Ultimately, we don't need them to be approved in order to see the price contine to go up, but if it does turn out to become reality, we'll see the market blast through the $10,000 this year with ease. One way or another, institutional capital will find its way to Bitcoin for sure, it's just a matter of time.

+$13,000 levels is definitely not a joke, but it mainly comes from the lacking supply. In order to escape their broken system, the people there are willing to enter the market at any available price, which perfectly shows how desperate they are. Imagine how things must have been for these people in a situation where there wasn't something like Bitcoin they can jump into to escape from that barbaric system. I feel really sorry for these people, but at the same time it makes me happy that we have Bitcoin to outrule governments, and in these situations it perfectly shows how powerful Bitcoin as tool is. At this point it's far away from most of the people here, but this can happen basically in any country, so think twice before cashing out your coins for fiat. Selling Bitcoin for fiat = going backwards, even when you made profit.

You might get enough satisfaction out of the 'fun' aspect of cloudmining, but that's not the case when it comes to the majority of the people here. They actually think that it will be a good long term investment, but as delusional and greedy that they are, they don't realize that it's nothing more than a waste of precious time and money. People having bought themselves contracts last year are still just hoping to get their initial investment amount back, while people smart enough to buy Bitcoin or the other crypto coins directly, are now enjoying profits ranging from 100 to +1000%. It's all common sense stuff that we're talking about - there is no need to be an 'expert' or whatever to understand the difference.

It will. However, things are still not settled when it comes to getting an approval, so a rejection might even turn out to have a short term negative impact on the market. It's obvious that the market nowadays gets bought up in advance of a certain happening, and current situation isn't anything different. Only time till tell whether or not we've already experienced the correction that people were waiting for, but there is no point into discarding the possibility of a test of the $5000 level in the coming weeks. As I said before, if there is no approval when it comes to CME's future market, this market can tank as easily as it came back up in the last two days - with the orderbooks being as thin as they are right now, it won't take any effort to make this market tank real hard.

BCC will not be able to hold its current crazy high value for too long, and as soon as delusional people stop buying this shitcoin, or just run out of money, it will tank to sub 0.1BTC levels again. Do people even wonder how far the Jihan cartel is with selling its entire BCC holdings? Probably not, but they will find out when it's too late.

It's up to you of course, but what's the point of securing profits when you haven't even made a 10% return (if you end up selling at $7500)? If the market increases further after you have sold your coins, which is very likely going to happen, the chances are on the higher side that you will end up buying back your coins at premium levels.

It's funny how news articles with their predictions are just going with the flow of the market. A few days ago the market would likely keep falling down further, and now suddenly it's recovering. It just shows that the people they hire to write articles and for their "knowledge", don't know how this market works. You can hire me too - If the price tanks, I'll just state the obvious, add some extra information to make it seem valid and professional, and ready you are. The same applies for when the price rockets up, but for half the price. Great deal, isn't it?

You don't get it. People not paying sufficient fees according to the network situation, and thus have to wait a good while for their first confirmation, means that Bitcoin isn't working as it should. That's the general logic people seem to thrive on. If you pay appropriate fees according to the network situation, you'll never experience any delays or whatever. I have never had to experience any delays or other inconvienences due to filled mempools. I just pay what's needed to get a quick first confirmation. If you follow that path, it's like these "problems" don't even exist.

There are quite some people with similar 'problems', but they aren't going to freely admit like you did that they tried to use false information. Bittrex and basically all other exchanges have somewhat of a zero tolerance policy going on in cases like these. Bittrex is already being bombarded with support tickets, so even as legit complaint your ticket(s) will have a low priority, but in case of users trying to game their verification process, Bittrex will have even less incentive to sort things out. It may sound harsh, but you right now completely depend on how much mercy Bittrex is willing to grant you.

The problem with people is that they aren't understanding what changes Bitcoin is capable of forcing through in the financial world, and in terms of breaking through this currupt on debt based system. I too started out as someone being just interested in Bitcoin for speculation purposes, but once became clear what Bitcoin is actually about, I immediately took a long term position into Bitcoin. So yes, I pulled the trigger and went for it, and looking back now, it was a perfect entry point. I can however understand that people might feel unsure about entering at current levels due to the massive increase this year, but as you said, the trigger needs to be pulled, and if you don't pull the trigger, you'll be left with nothing.

And what if there were no bounty/signature campaigns, would you then still consider Bitcoin a helpful/useful tool? It's something I have been noticing a lot, people telling that Bitcoin is great because it allows them to earn extra income, where they obviously hint at bounty/signature campaigns, where it makes their life easier, and bla bla. One have to look further than just the options that allow you to earn money through afore mentioned options. If one day bounty/signature campaigns aren't allowed anymore, you'll be finding yourself in a very difficult situation.

The main thing is that you should re-submit your ticket every couple of days due to the mega flood of complaints and questions exchanges and other services are bombarded with. I am fairly sure that services are well aware of that, and thus aren't likely going to scroll back at a time where constantly more tickets are flowing into their system. They just expect/assume people to resend their tickets. That's how things go normally, but we all know that Genesis Mining isn't a normal service, which may very well cause them to on purposely ignore certain tickets. Never ever pump any money into that service again, also don't re-invest your 'earning' back into their service, because that's what they want you to do.

Might be, but those who are liquidating some of their coins to buy presents with are in no shape or form going to affect the market, unless a huge number of people do this at the same time, which I very much doubt. If we look at the same period of time last year, the market moved up a bit, instead of going down. Other than that, people by default think that when the holidays are coming, the market will go down due to people's expenses, but more often than not, that's not the case. And if the market does happen to go down, it mostly has other reasons.

Not all women are grannies... People have one thing in common, and that's the will to move forward in life, and at the same time see their wealth increase instead of decrease. I personally don't care about why there aren't more women in Bitcoin than is the case right now, because I do not differentiate between people concerning their gender, skin color, religion, etc. People are constantly looking for insignificant things to blow up, and that while there are far more important matters to focus on. If there aren't a lot women into Bitcoin, so what? No one cares.

Correct. However, that doesn't mean Bitcoin will never be able to function as proper currency tool when it comes to buying stuff (regardless of how low or high the value of the items are). Lightning Network is what people are waiting for, and this will directly result in a far higher transaction processing capacity per second, far lower fees, etc. Ultimately, this will allow people to conduct micro transactions, allow people in third world countries to utilize Bitcoin without having to worry about confirmation times, costly fees, etc. If Amazon is ignoring Bitcoin on purpose right now because of the current 'drawbacks', they will have no reason to ignore Bitcoin any longer with Lightning Network being functional.

Bitcoin Cash has very wealthy entities to back up its market, and pump it if needed. People however are delusional enough to do the pumping for them, and thus allowing large BCC holders to dump their stash on frightened chickens thinking BTC is losing it. Anyone thinking that BCC has even a slight chance of succeeding is nothing more than a fool. BCC is an obsolete shitcoin that came into existence due to the greed of a few malicious entities. Basically ANY altcoin nowadays has more to offer than BCC, but yet people fail to see that due to their greed and fear.

Altcoins have lower overall transaction fees because their network doesn't experience much usage (if any at all). It's not that long ago where people were referring to Ethereum as being the Bitcoin killer, but yet it failed miserably in that aspect. Due to an insane amount of usage, its fees have shot up significantly, and its network experienced various major difficulties. No chance.

What is that for logic? It all depends on how and in what scenario you use one of these two options. PayPal functions very well as platform for people to transact with each other, buy stuff, etc. Bitcoin severely lacks in that aspect. Bitcoin is better in other aspects, but not in the aspects PayPal enjoys most of its usage.

Most holders do think so, but that's more in the way that they believe in the long term value of Bitcoin. I too believe that we at some point at least will reach $100K levels. It makes current levels look like a complete joke, which is the reason I am not selling any of my coins for fiat anymore. But I am realistic enough to understand that short term speaking, we can't talk about Bitcoin being worth more than current levels, because at this point that's not the case. Bitcoin is overbought, and for that reason it needs to come down and settle at more 'appropriate' levels before we experience another rush. Good thing is that this market moves over things in a quick fashion, which means that we probably don't have to wait very long before the rush towards newer highs continues.

Segwit2x being cancelled was quite a surprise, especially for those who were desperately looking forward to cash out their split coins. The market going down was no surprise at all. S2X being cancelled made people sell their coins, and if the fork would have kicked in, afterwards people would have sold their coins too, so there is no real difference in this regard. The only difference, which happens to be a major one, is that S2X being cancelled, is a victory for everyone involved in Bitcoin. S2X was nothing more than a cash grab move, which potentially could cause severe damage to everything related to Bitcoin. Instead of people being disappointed in not getting any "free money", they should be happy that there is no S2X.

In order to put force behind your words, and because of the fact that you're so confident in a price increase, have you already bought yourself some Bitcoins? People who just assume that they will make profit in a very short period of time, are mostly the ones that end up losing. It's gambling. At this point the market can go into any direction since it's a combination of people shifting to altcoins and panic that's dictating this market. People here are talkers. They say that they will buy when the price is going down, but when the price is actually going down, they don't pull the trigger. People lack the confidence to buy at the time the market is being sold down, that's a fact. They'll start buying when the price is going back up again.