The proof of power of bitcoin is not in the price, i guess... it's the resistance against Segwit, China, and Dimon. Man, 2017 is such a tough year. Lots of bad news came out against bitcoin but it doesn't kill it - it made it stronger, instead.

Man, you must be old! ha ha ha! Anyway, the major difference between cryptocurrency and stock market is the government. Everything else is the same. Think about it this way - Ethereum is "McDonalds", Litecoin is "Apple Inc", Ripple is "IBM", and Bitcoin is "US Dollars" - and then Poloniex is "Nasdaq". So just like the good old days, you would pick a stock of your choice and then keep it on your portfolio, wait for the price to climb up, and then sell... and then wait for the price to pull down a little bit and then buy back. You see it is not very much different from the stock market, is it? - Though stocks and exchanges are regulated by the SEC; cryptocurrency on the other hand, is a punk - nobody regulates it. Verily, the only risk for you grandpa, is once those exchanges decide to go out of business, your coins go out of business too.

Have you ever tried trading in your entire life? How do you think you are going to buy altcoins anyway? Sometimes you just have to research such topics in this forum and you will definitely find an answer. Anyway, let me give you something to ponder - go to this website https://www.poloniex.com and please do yourself a favor, create an account and then transfer your bitcoins to your poloniex btc wallet. After doing it, you'll surely figure out the answer to the topic.

I honestly don't want to sell as much as I can. My vision is that someday bitcoin will be recognized globally as a peer-to-peer payment and I won't be needing papers anymore. My job pays me bitcoins and I haven't earned fiats for a while - believe me, I haven't been this financially liberated before. A piece of advice, don't sell your bitcoins too soon especially if you don't need immediate cash. Just hold on and let's see what will happen on 2020.

What if? - I honestly don't care too much anymore. About a month ago, I didn't know what will happen to my career since I had left my day job and focused on bitcoins and writing blogs. Currently, I am exclusively earning bitcoins and what happened a month ago had bring so much pain in my ass. However, after that catastrophe, I became more confident with bitcoins and realized that its not only China who plays this game that I am playing - I also have South Korea, Japan, and India. So if ever I read another news about China and Bitcoin, I wouldn't give a damn anymore. Price might pull down a little but as I have said, I became more confident with bitcoins now. No offense to the Chinese.

This is the best answer that I had read so far. ha ha ha. Imagine yourself travelling in Australia and then there you see a very cute vegan-shaped Aussie wearing "buy bitcoin" tees. Man you just walk right next to her and ask if she's into bitcoins. That should break the ice.

Now that makes a lot of sense. Anyway, John Mcafee (my childhood idol) is backing up the development of cryptocurrency in India and it sounds good for me in the name of Bitcoins. India is adopting Bitcoin enthusiastically for nearly 10 percent of global cryptocurrency trades in May 2017 says thequint.com. 1 out of 6 people in this planet is an Indian, if China plays hard-to-get then let the Indians rule it. Now I'm starting to love Indians (but I still hate my boss from my previous company, his name is Sandeep, and he still sucks)

Yes, it did... especially when China and Dimon cried out loud and scared the hell out of the weak hands. It dies everytime the noobs sell their shares on bad news and the fags follow their lead. Anyway, bitcoin is not a vertebrate though, so it could die multiple times but it will resurrect just like the Mario Brothers game or like the Pacman. Yesterday I heard that South Korea is planning to ban ICOs so I expected another crash early this morning; but what have happened was the other way around. Anybody can talk shit about bitcoins but I don't care - it is only for the strong.

I choose Poloniex over Bittrex just because I like it's graphic interface. However, as far as I can remember back in June, when all altcoins are down in Poloniex there are green altcoins in Bittrex which had given me at least profit during the bloody nights. Another reason why I choose Poloniex is the Gunbot. I run a BTC/ALTCOINS algo 24/7 in Amazon Webspace, and recently added funds for USDT/BTC algorithm.

Well, I did... please feel free to read my blog - https://thenoodlepunk.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/punk-goes-block-chain/ - Anyway, I don't have plenty of cash or paper money in my wallet nor in my bank account - I only keep as little as what I need for a week because my salary is BTC. Now, if you want to know the risk, or to see how your money grows - you must try it yourself - because your cost of living might be different from most of us here. Please be informed that your paper-money is also at risk, it is nothing much different from BTC anyway. Have you heard what is happening now in Zimbabwe? Read - https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-trading-at-85-premium-in-zimbabwe-priced-at-7200 - I know not everyone would agree, but BTC and FIAT are just the same (or shall I say the latter is better), it's just a matter of perception from the end-user. PS: Your financial decisions should not be directly influenced by somebody else's thoughts... don't make it a habit asking what do you have to do with your money because that won't bring you any good. If you want financial freedom, then do your own research. read, watch, observe, not ask... CAVEAT.

That is your money, my friend... I won't solicit an advise from just anybody if I were you. Anyway, I had heard the news about South Korea plotting ban against ICOs but I haven't read anything there about bitcoins or putting exchanges on cease. Here is my source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/south-korea-ico-ban-bitcoin-price-ethereum-show-market-not-impressed. Your profile indicates that you are new to this kind of bizkneez, and I assume that you are a weak-hand in the making. Now, moving on, I can only give you something to ponder about - anything that you cannot afford to lose, convert it back to fiat asap. However, If the bitcoin price goes to the moon, then blame the article on Twitter (which I assume where you had read the news) but at least you had nothing to lose. CAVEAT.

What is wrong with the bubble, anyway? People are slowly adapting bitcoin and it hasn't reached the 1/4 of the world's population yet. That's why I don't see any reason for you to panic about it being a bubble. As a matter of fact, everytime the price goes way down, there are new supporters coming right up... many of them are probably newbies who were waiting for a perfect entry price. The cycle will repeat, and repeat, until it hits the $10,000 mark - and then it might go down for a little bit of correction... then here comes the new set of supporters. I hope you realize how the market psychology works. Maybe yes it is a bubble, but not until the grandson of your grandson becomes a grandpa. But for the mean time, let's make money out of it... don't be too scared amigo.

I had become a huge fan of stock market trading for quite a while – when suddenly, I met a genius, he introduced me to the Bitcoin.
Bitcoin had given me a lot of options to make a living. After learning it, I have decided to leave the stock market behind and move all my assets to bitcoin. - This is what I wrote in my blog about a week ago. Honestly, there is nothing bad in trading with the stock market but I just find it a bit slow-return-of-investment. Another thing that I'm not a fan of - stocks' prices can be easily manipulated by the mainstream media and the government. In fact, when they declared conflict with the Chinese, casino related stocks went down by 50% and that is not something for me to be happy about.

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Every morning, I wake up and make 100 push ups to let my blood rush into my brain, then have a cup of coffee before opening my machine and start working with blogs and trade altcoins at the same time. It takes 10 hours of my day to deal with this kind of job, then the remaining 14 hours are for sleeping and other chores. 

That's how boring my life is...

Its like hearing a mailman talking shit about lycos in the late 90s. 
Anyway, I would probably find it weird if a banker says something positive about bitcoin. But you know what, I guess both of them had bought bitcoins on dip 

Well, I'll keep my share as soon as the fork happens. I like the idea that my hard wallet used to support BTC alone but after the fork on BCH, they upgraded my wallet and became able to support the new blockchain. Now, it seems like I'll be getting another free set of coins.

Regarding BTC price, I guess there is no need to panic at the moment... if the price goes down then it's gonna be an opportunity to buy.

I actually have a sticker at the rear of my car, and will soon wear a tshirt with "buy bitcoin" print on it... unfortunately, I don't go out that much. ha ha ha! Anyway, I would sell t-shirts soon, gonna post it here in the services section (I'm just waiting to rank up since nobody loves to deal with a Full Member that much). I need to earn money since I don't want to go back to having a day job anymore.

I assume that the Chinese are on a solid HODL at the moment (probably because there is no easy way to cash in/out). 
For a man who has been earning a lot from bitcoin, it is definitely hard to just let go, move on, and go back to fiat... I assume that most of the Chinese are looking for an alternate way in cashing out. VPNs + BTC-Yen-Yuan would do the trick if you know what I mean.

Where the hell in the my post did I say that an exchange defines the bitcoin community? Your replies are damn too aggressive.

Hell yeah? can you share your source on "the volume coming from China is still big."?

here is mine:
Currently, the Japanese yen accounts for 47.3% of BTC volume by currency, followed by the U.S. Dollar with 32.52%, which adds up to almost 80%. China's share, which was hovering around 90% levels a year ago, is now condensed to 4.54%. While the South Korean won and euro are at 7.34% and 4.85% respectively, according to cryptocompare.
source: http://www.investopedia.com/news/bitcoins-price-behaving-sticky/

no offense meant to you, sir... just for the readers' sake.