it has been more than worth it to invest in bitcoin so far. with the continued adoption and the over time growth all around the world price will continue to go up.
these days newer countries that we never thought are adopting bitcoin, Indians are so interested in investing in bitcoin, i have seen lots of interest coming from Africa also. all these will only lead to higher prices long term.

it can and the biggest reason for it is one simple difference: bitcoin has no charge back.
with a quick search you can find the biggest issue every Paypal users faces and that is charge back when you are the receiver of the payment. so many merchants have already lost so much money using paypal and all these money could have been saved if they used bitcoin.

there are too many things to consider when trading and price + volume is one of them which is also one of the most important things.

i always look at the trade volume but remember to check the volume for previous days, weeks, and look at the bigger picture not just last 24 hours or 2, 3 days.

and then comes price, remember that when price is 0.01BTC 100% rise means going to 0.02BTC and that is very hard. but when price is 100 satoshi for example 100% profit means going to 200 satoshi and that is much easier.

none of the things i said are rules, and they have exceptions but they are good guidelines in my opinion.

you have to make up your mind: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1747804.0 is it $200 or bounce back

anyways i do really think we may see the continuation of the trend in 20 days ago. meaning another slow rise with strong buy supports and long stable (accumulation) phases.
although it can also depend on how much cheap coins whales got from weak hands in the previous days.

many of the bitcoin users today aren't so eager to buy bitcoin apparently, so many you see around here who are just dancing! to the song without moving.
we need some adoption and some more people to come in and invest money and stop panicking so that maybe some day we can see a lot more friction when whales dump.

we got to learn how to take the coins out of the hands of whales next time they dump.

when you look at how big bitcoin has gotten in the past 8 years and then look at how small bitcoin still is compared to what it can really be then you can easily understand that numbers like $1000 are so tiny.
there is a reason why bitcoin has 8 decimal places down to 1 satoshi, that is because it is going to be worth something some day.

with this last FUD drop it seems we are back at the where all this has started, before the sudden rise and to the time when price was slowly rising after normal accumulation phases.



what do you think? the bottom and the good ol' slow rise?

i am not so sure about 2K and certainly not soon. but whenever there is a shakeout like this and it lasts long enough, that means that there are whales somewhere that are quietly accumulating cheap coins they get from these weak hands and when they are done accumulating the pumping begins.

that is not bitcoin transaction, that is what their exchanges report as trading volume. and it is as you said mostly because there is 0 fees for trading and also i do believe that they are reporting lots of fake volume to compete with each other.

can you be any more vague?

you say you have some method that is making you 4 bitcoin a month on autopilot!
my suggestion is stop being greedy and be happy about what you are supposedly earning!

i hope not.

but at the same time the time is different from 2013 and if you hadn't cut the important part from that chart we could have seen it here too. the important part is the part in 2013 leading to the $1100 price which was like one candle in that chart! and compared to today it seems stupid to see a mirror.

unless the owner of a bitcoin address tells us we have little to no way of finding that out.
what you can do is to search all the addresses that sent to or received bitcoin from the said address. you can find out if there are any other addresses linked with the said address (used both in same transaction as input) then find out who those addresses belong to and find a possible link between a real person, possibly a service like an exchange and those addresses.
check out walletexplorer.com too.

despite never using any of these services myself but sites like purse.io and gyft.com have been around for a long time and are trusted as far as i have seen from the feedback other people leave and they offer discounts like 15%

unless you are talking about some other site!

i would love to hear the poster's opinion on this also but as far as my knowledge goes this chart is a big speculation based on the analysis of the market cycles.
you can read about these things more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_wave_principle
and here: www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/111401.asp
but i generally i do not like any technical analysis with bitcoin but many of the are correct to some extent.

possibly you are going to have a hard time on mobile because some of these platforms are not too mobile friendly.

i can not understand this.

as others have already said, between these two i also suggest poloniex.
try to stay away from yobit because it is shady and there are lots of problems with their service.
and there are a lot more exchange out there you can try.

DDoS happens for any site, but the safety of exchanges is more serious than that.
they get hacked!
you can search and find it in the history about exchanges that were hacked and ran away like Cryptsy, MtGox, Bter, Bitfinex (this last one was hacked but stayed)

well as i said you will have a hard time and poloniex is a pretty heavy site to load even on computer.

try using a bot or a different kind of service only through their API if you had trouble with any of the websites.

this topic is asking about creating a new business. and if you are talking about doing trading then you are off topic here. and if you are talking about creating a new trading platform then we have enough of those, so unless it is in a country that has demand but no exchange service i don't see it becoming successful. but if there are people in your country who are trading bitcoin but in foreign exchanges an exchange service can become successful working with local banks.

the first spike was 2013 and then there were no spike in 2014, 2015 and now we saw one in 2016. there is not enough information to say there is any relationship between the two!

also the 2013 spike was a fake pump mostly by MtGox.
this spike was a tiny spike compared to 2013 and was only because $1000 was close and there was a mentality thing about this price. so again you can not compare these two.

the momentum to go to the moon has been killed but the overall momentum is still there and price will continue rising after a while.

right now there is a crazy stage where nobody is sure what is going to happen and so far price has been going up and down, shaking out weaker hands and forming a parabolic rise:

this is a discussion that has been going on ever since price started to go to ~$20 and has been going on for years, and no matter how much you argue, there is no conclusion to it because bitcoin has a certain level of anonymity and we don't know how many were mining bitcoin from the start (for example Hal Finney was one of them)

follow up here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=37333.0

p.s. in the end bitcoin is still bitcoin

i have been thinking about this subject for a long time and even studied many of the ICO projects that has existed.

but so far i have not been able to come to a complete conclusion as to what i should consider when speculating about the future of an ICO project. and after reading this topic i see only one or maybe two good points but in the end i say it is not worth investing in any ICO because they are too unpredictable.

and you say things like team, that may be a good criteria but at the same time, an experienced team can easily mean and experienced team in fooling you into a scam.