Yeah, I'm really into this idea of - "If Bitcoin could not be manipulated, I'm pretty certain it would be illegal by now".  

There could be an undertune of why bitcoin has not got the hammer of major world power legislation and the imminent manipulation could be the reason and looming but I think why this is taking time is because of the financial benefit and bitcoin is not the only crypto.

I have tried to analyze the following altcoins and I think about 80% of them will be above $50 in 2018. One of those coins is lisk, lisk has outperform others coins of it class this year 2017, in October, lisk was below $4 but went as high as $11 in this November. Wave that is currently bellow $6 will also make the list of those coins that will trade above $50! Wave has one of the best technology and teams I think 2018 is going to favor this coin. Miota, ripple should also be in the list to watch.

If bitcoins are hold by few people and they dont use them and keep them in their wallet, then it does not mean they are lost. They are just stored in the wallet and they can be used by the holder any time. This is just like we hold money on the bank and keep it in the bank for years until we need it.
So  4 million bitcoins are not lost.

You can join signature or bounty campaign and that will help you in growing your bitcoins as it is most concrete way to earn bitcoins and majority of people on this forum are earning through it and you can also grow your bitcoins by investing in altcoins or some ico projects but make sure that you do good research before investing it anywhere.

I'm very new to AltCoins and all of it in general, this is my first post too!

I have started to invest into some AltCoins, but! I am looking to invest a large amount into a coin and Ethereum is looking promising, do you guys think that it is a good investment?
 
And is the price too high atm? ($483.36) or shall I wait for it to drop? do you guys think it will drop?

 

Well, at the current run of bitcoin value i do not know when it will crash or dump its value because as we can see the continuous increasing of value lots of inveators continue holding their bitcoin and there is no panic selling happens that is why value are not dumping.

I think when value hits 10000$ or more than it will be more stable in that value or if crash happens it would not below 9000$ that is why much better to but bitcoin now and do not wait the biggest value reaches of bitcoin.

Very well said, but that is time consuming but yeah, that is sure profit. In order to do that, you have to monitor always the prices of the Altcoins that you are holding and where you could Trade them that you could have profits in return, since different Trading platform have different prices for a certain token, there is a lot of research that is going to require for you to know existing and legit exchanges where you could Trade, also, you have to consider the fact that different exchanges also applies different amount of transaction fees.

So, you have to calculate if you are really going to make some profits if you are going to transfer your Altcoins in another Exchange platform, do the Math and you could Trade, so you could know the profits.

Or some other alts may take btc's place. Notice how almost all alts decline when btc pumps. And how alts rise when btc dips? Alts depend on btc price but if another alt will rise to that level close to btc, i think they'll survive.

Although Bitcoin can gives you many opportunities to change your life, but can you take advantage these opportunities? I know we all have same position, but the fact, the poor are worse than the rich to own Bitcoin. The poor do not have money to buy Bitcoin, so how does Bitcoin change their life?

Yes every one want be a rich and I also want to be a rich I personally know a lot of my friends who become riches just because of bitcoin and that’s what I believe that I can be also rich and bitcoin is the only hope for me because I want to buy a new house and for that I’m doing a hard work here and I’m sure bitcoin can make my dream true.

blockchain or bitcoin?
i hope you know that these are very different things.

blockchain is the technology and it is being adopted regardless of bitcoin. it is being used by many third parties, even altcoins are using it, banks, government, other sectors like hospitals,... in this case blockchain is being adopted and the progress is very good.

bitcoin as a decentralized currency, is a different story. the mass adoption of it takes a lot of time. many people do not yet know about bitcoin, many are skeptical about it, and there are a lot of people who don't come near it because it is not regulated or because it is volatile. there are many reasons and when one is lifted (like regulating bitcoin in Japan) the mass adoption takes one huge step forward. and with it the price rises a lot.

I have been within the crypto world for almost 2 years now, I have learned a lot by myself throughout the years through reading and researching. However, I joined this forum early this year, before that I used to be on other forums until I realised that this forum is quite good when coming to crypto related content.

Buy now? No, honestly current price of Bitcoin can not make me interest and want to buy more. Now is the time to taking profits, if you still want to buying more Bitcoin, it only makes you have more risk while Bitcoin has pumped and breakout to AHT price.

This is great news because in the very first time the bitcoins have already reached nearly $ 5,500 and really many traders have earned big money here. But do not rejoice because I think this is a HYIP. Because we know now that there will be a 2nd HardFork and maybe those who want to get free BTG (Bitcoin Gold). So we expect that after the hardfork will again fall into the price of bitcoins.

I agree with this. Diversification is key in any investment plan. No one knows what's
going to happen in the future, and keeping all your eggs in one basket is just asking
for disaster. Especially with the contentious hard forks coming up, best to spread
your money out. IMO.

I have an unverified paypal acc and i want to buy btc. where can you recommend or if anyone has to sell contact me?

Bitcoin might get unaffected by the Hard fork this time, after Bitcoin Cash people are not affected by such Hard fork. Right now, more and more people are investing in Bitcoin in hope of getting free Bitcoin Gold. Moreover, as seen in the past people expected a BTC dump in the emergence of Bitcoin Cash but it stood strongly at that moment also. Also, generally a dump is seen before one month of coming of Hard fork but one can expect a dump after few days of Bitcoin Gold Fork and before the coming of Bitcoin 2x Fork.