The centralized nature of ripple is exactly why the coin is not really growing and I think the little growth we can see in the value of ripple is because the bankers using it are imposing it on their clients, and like you said, the coin has already gone against the reason why cryptocurrency was created by satoshi.

Well, I have no interest in ripple that much, I will prefer to carry out my transaction with stables coins if I don’t have any choice than to use ripple, but the first choice of all my transaction would still be bitcoin anytime, any day, which I am also certain that all crypto holders would not have much of their holdings in ripple.

Predicting the market sometime can be really difficult, at first, I thought all these altcoins had bottomed already but I am surprised at the rate they keep going down in price, so I may still advise that you wait for sometimes before investing in altcoins, since experts have said the period we are now, is period where bitcoin becomes the dominant.

Although market is still quite low for one to purchase now, if you feel it is safe to really invest in altcoins this period, and then Absolutely would be the ones at the top 20 or you can extend it to the ones at the top 50, my first choice would have been Binance but seen the hype is getting to much and pushing the coin too high, might experience a little dump soon.

Hahaha, you are too harsh with him, why would you call the coins he took his time to select a shitcoins lol, anyway, they really look shit to me too. I think he has gotten the best advice already, to invest in bitcoin, until now from the time the OP posted this, I have never come across those coins in any discussion in this forum and outside this forum.

This projects doesn’t seems like project of the people and I think he had better trim his selection out of the thousand we have to the top 20 like you say, I even work with top 10, it is safer for me around this zone that the other part of the market. There is no much money to gamble with this time.

The only bear market I am expecting now is for some altcoins and not Bitcoin, isn’t it still clear enough for us to see that we are no longer in red zone anymore? I know we might have some decrease in price because of how volatile the market is, but not so enough to make us go back to bear market, most of the decrease I have been seeing anytime Bitcoin increases is because of the trading acts going on in the market.

Henceforth, what I expect of bitcoin is to strictly revolve around green zone and continue on this bullish part little by little, most of the altcoins that are still in the bear market will just be out too shortly once BTC increase becomes speedy.

Lol, newbie indeed, we cannot really blame investors for any decision that they make, we all have our limit and level of patience, we can only encourage them to understand how the market works and never to quit too soon for the sake of their future.

For me, I have quitting point too for altcoins though and not for bitcoin, my quitting point for Bitcoin is probably till BTC reaches an ATH in the future where it becomes stable and cannot be manipulated, while my quitting point for altcoins is every time I see profit in my investment, I take it and quit. BTC is more reliable for future.

I am certain that there will be a continues increase in the price of BTC too, the indicators are really showing a very positive upward price movement, we have so many developed project that virtually making the value of bitcoin responds to its development and I hope that this increase will be the beginning of the bull run we have all anticipated.

I will also advise that people should continue holding their coins just like I am also doing and the profit we will get later in the future will really be worth the waiting. Patience is just the main key to BTC investment success.

You are correct about this projects, though I don't know all of them but some of the coin you have mentioned are known by me and I can testify that they are good project but one thing I saw about this project is that they don't have a very good user interface which makes it difficult for adoption.

I believe that if they can come up with something better on their user interface, then there would be mass adoption of the coin by potential investors who are interested in the project but never understood how it works.

What have been working for binance is their team work and their commitment to the project, I admire them so much because I love the way they are so organized and will love to follow their pattern in making my business grow. I have been a freelancer for quite a while now and I am already planning on working on my own project because I see that there is nothing as good as owning your project, and am learning from binance pattern in order to build my own project and I hope that it goes well.

And after they might have influenced the market what do you think might follow next? Of course there is going to be a bull run and the price of cryptocurrency is going to increase very high and after that what do you think these celebrities are going to do? They are going to pull off their money (that's what they will do because they are into this for money) and as they start to pull off their money other investors will also do the same thing and the price of cryptocurrency will start to drop again till reaches a low price and that's it.

Oh, you will even give more than that based on what I know. Since the market is highly volatile, if your plans of the market going up doesn't work, then you're in a very big loss cause you will be paying back without any profit and you're also paying all those money plus interest. If you ask me, I'd say bank is better than this one. And by the way there are lots of new platforms around these days that can even lend you money without asking for any collateral at all. But borrowing money is not something I recommend to anyone.

If you ask me I will say that there is no difference between the two of them. Based on what I know about the crypt I lending you will have to deposit your cryptocurrency assets to get some cash from the borrowers and pay back later with some interests and I don't really fancy. People just do it because they don't want to sell their assets and that's the only reason I know they do it and to me, it's not really worth it. What if you borrow and pay plus all those interests and the assets you were trying to save still didn't increase in price?

There are many good Android wallets you do know that? Just that some people are quite careless and makes use of wallets that are not really safe… Why are even talking about only Android like other phones don't face the same challenges too? The only is solution is left for investors to be careful on how they store their coins and try to make use of wallets that are very secured.

There are different types of wallets and each has their level of security. If you talk about mobile wallets, there are ones that are safe to make use of and that is Block chain wallet, Coinbase and the list goes on. People should go for these wallets.

Yes, we should not always see the falloff BTC as an issue, most time they are great blessing s to those that knows how to play the game, some people in other trades like stock, and forex are wishing for the volatility we have here to make money, and that is why you can see now that we have lots of forex trader migrating from full fiat trading into cryptocurrency trading.

I like the purpose for which BTC was created which is for payment and store of value and we will get there one day with a strong conviction, but before then, let us enjoy our volatile system to trade and make money while BTC gradually achieve the aim and purpose for which it has been established.

The pull back was the greatest thing that has ever happened to me, the mistake I made 2 days ago withdrawing my BTC will never happen again, the PULL back really made me correct some of my mistakes, I was never worried though, I knew it was going to happen, because this always follow the rise of BTC.

In a short term, the value will balance up and for short term traders, we can still prepare now as bitcoin has already showed us the next value it will be settling down on for the next 2 weeks, I expect it to go back to $5600 in the next few days.  I think this was the trend the previous increase followed too.

I don’t pay attention to those things when I see it, they have been speculating the downfall of Bitcoin for a while now and Bitcoin has been showing them the other side, yet they still would not back up, I really wonder what they keep doing with their time.

We are already out of the red zone which was the zone of $3k and $4k and I believe that there is no backing down from this point we are now, so they will be surprised to see more growth in the price of Bitcoin and I want to believe that this is how the coin will continue to surge this year till we reach the ATH for this year which will be about $15,000. That is when I expected these people to start buying because they are too blind to see the great performance of BTC.

If one thinks much of these people creating FUD, we will just be having unnecessary headache, some of them are just there to toil with our feelings and emotions but we have gotten too deep in this game that we will know FUD news when we see one.

Do not be surprised that these same people you see badmouthing Bitcoin today are the same people that will sing of its praises to the world again tomorrow, it is just their method of creating dump so that they can be able to have a chance to get into the market and buy at a lower price, while they create FOMO to sell at higher price. We will, just be watching and silently playing along with them.

Lol, I love this word you said “Bull run is Bull run”, whether it come with a very high speed or comes with a very low speed, at the price of $6000, I want to say to you too that, welcome to BULL RUN, I am optimistic that within the next 3 or 4 weeks, BTC will climb up to $6000, we can already see how it is slowly climbing up.

From $6000, there will be so many factors that will also set in and push the price further as against people’s believe that people will sell off, I understand that it is not immediately it gets to $6000 that it will stabilize, it will still fluctuate several times before stabilizing on $6k, and once it becomes stable, FOMO will pick it up till the $15000.

I have never for once been tempted to join Yobit community because of  their bad records not to talk of participating in their campaign, you see, it is not every campaign we have to join, that is why they do advise us to do our research before joining a project.

In this case, research has been done already and that is it right there in front of you, yobit is bad, no argument about this, let us even forget about your loyalty to your friend, it is good to do the right things, since you know they will still scam people through their campaign to pay you. There are other campaign you can join and it does not have to be yobit.

Binance has been the second most favorite coin I have ever seen, I love their team, very hardworking team and extremely intelligent, I love the strategies they use in handling their business, and the strategy they are applying is making it difficult for people to dump the coin without imposing it.

This coins is really a coin that I still will be on in the market for a very long time, their fees are highly competitive and I don’t think any other exchanges are capable of beating this fee yet, and finally, it is a coin I so much rely on too aside BTC and USDT as a utility token. So Binance really does not have any issue and cannot have a collapsed system.

With all the uncertainties we have over the ICO in the market now, I think your option would still be the best for now in selecting, but even in selecting from the top 50, aside the  most popular ones that we know, we still need to study their product and plan carefully and not choose them randomly.

Some of those top 50 coins are just there because of the strong community they have still backing them and doing their promotion for them, majority of them lack quality products that will make them last more than they are now, so the chances of their collapse sometime is high too, some of them gets replaced easily from the position.

It is possible that it happens after the halving, because that is when the Bitcoin market will full start running on BULL and before then, we believe that the price of bitcoin would have at least crossed to $15000 by the end of this year, so the jump we will have in the price then after the halving will almost be like double of the initial price every 2 months.

You really need to see where FOMO to is working, you will be surprised at what it can do, although this is still a speculation and Technical analysis is not enough to predict future price, they are more effective for day trading but at the same time, we cannot rule the possibility out.