Many developed and developing countries are focusing on cashless system so that they may remove most of their ATM in near future as people do not need to withdraw and hold cash for their daily needs. Just having some mobile APP or simply holding a debit/credit will be more than enough to lead a happy life as all your daily needed things will be available for those payment processors. Moreover it may like, no one will be there to accept cash from you then why you need to go for ATMs. Now tell me, cash is becoming a thing of past or not (if not in your country, at least for some other people) ?

Now digital payments are seeming like an optional but in near future it may become as the only available payment methods. Just think about revolutions on payment options and make sure you are preparing yourself to face those revolutions.

I may need to agree with you as OP is not providing any link for source/reference. But, why not a new thing for whatsapp users beyond the features of facebook.

Mark Zuckerberg  must have been well aware of cryptos as his 'old friends' Winklevoss twins are icons in crypto world. It is time for facebook corp to react as googlepay and applepay are emerging, hence to stay competitive,  they may go for this kind of things.

But, what are impacts it is going to create in crypto space or in bitcoin ecosystem. Nothing negatively, I am sure. Why ? It will be another altcoins but it may get quickly adopted by common people due to the popularity of facebook/whatsapp. But, it may not have value outside whatsapp or at least out side facebook's products. People still need bitcoins.

Moreover I believe, a new crypto from any market giant will help bitcoin to be promoted indirectly as bitcoin is not a purpose specific money whereas all altcoins are.  

Not believing into cryptocurrency might turn a life time mistake, fortunately I got chances to rectify my mistake as I was doing this number one mistake. I would have got chances to buy bitcoin by the year of 2010 or 2011 but I started believing only in 2013 after seeing the prices were hitting $1000 levels. I still believe I have done a lifetime mistake of not taking enough time to go for analyzing about the features and future of bitcoin by 2010 even I have heard about it by that time.

A common mistake I do repeat with trading is, getting excited about a pump and buying that particular coin without going for proper researching and then regretting about buying. When I was active with yobit.net, I have done many times this mistake after that I started preventing myself from checking who got biggest gain for a day.

You may not get panic when you are keeping your faith on bitcoin high all the times. For the case of other coins, if you have chosen that coin after dedicated research, then you never need to worry about continuous dropping in downfall market. It means if the coins are highly reputed and long-term based to coins, you will never lose your hope on holding down so that you never need to stop trading them.

Do not expect regulations nor legalization will stop this kind of downfall of the market. Market fluctuation is beyond those regulations and legalization hence this has nothing to do with market and trading perspective. Moreover, regulations and legalization will our freedom as these are all completely against our decentralized concept based system.

Right now story is 2019, everyone talks about how 2019 could be the year when bitcoin and crypto markets could recover. Main reason for that is 3 fold, one is SEC allowing ETF would bring the prices higher, the other is BAKKT ETF starting and the next one is NASDAQ having their own ETF.

Now, if all three of them happens I am sure price will double at least if not more, however even if one of them happens we will see a sudden surge in price even if it is followed by a correction. People are waiting for these to happen for the past month and even right now when the price is going up a bit I think we can tie it to the fact that people are optimistic about the future. When something big happens price usually doesn't change all that much because it already changed a week leading up to that point. We might be seeing that right now.

Stoploss is a weapon to prevent unexpected losses but this is not linked to create any magic in trading. I mean it is not a tool that will enable you enter or exit a position but it will help you to take risk in calculated way. I agree every trader must use stoploss and must have a strategy which is also giving you stoploss along with entry and target levels.

I never care about any other trading but I am making easy magic with my bitcoin trading as I am doing it in positional way without having any time-frame. Yes, we can create magic according to the asset like what we are trading and how we are trading. I must say: there is a possibility to create magic in trading but it is up to you on how you are approaching.

Bitcoin is good for all the traders when it is being approached in long-term basis. If you go for day trading with the bitcoin then you may not find that magic that will be giving you easy money for those long term traders.

BCH is now BTC-ABC. As per many people's view bitcoincash is just another shitcoin as it is backed by some incapable techies. People behind this coin have many times claimed themselves as the creator of bitcoin but never produced enough proof. This alone more than enough to demonstrate their manners and professionalism. We cannot expect a continuous progress for these coins from such kind of people.

Bitcoin is far superior from bitcoincash in terms of all the basics infrastructures required for the success of one crypto-coin. OP must be just spreading FUD as he might be a bagholder of bitcoincash. Such type of people are not new to this forum hence we never need to give importance to his opinion as time will make all of us to forget such people.

I guess no criteria will save you as of now. Almost all projects are severely suffering due to lack of support from contributors hence unable to manage their plans on executing road maps. Another factor we need to consider here is, price of ethereum and bitcoins. Both are trading at less than 80% compared to last year prices. Hence, this time no criteria will help you as far as I am concerned. Please stay away and watch the markets keenly.

Just start from your own analysis. Take some 3 to 5 ICOs for analysis and then wait for them to hit exchanges. Now check for their trading prices and ICO prices. Now you will realize that you have picked a good or bad one. Keep picking ICOs and go for analyzing and then conclude. You will become a pro-investor for ICOs.

I do see it is also a good strategy like completely avoiding all the ICOs. You may miss some good opportunities out of this but definitely you will never get struck like how I am doing. Yes, I have invested into more than 10 ICOs with strong researches but unfortunately all of them are still in negative earning.

It was about 50 cents when the OP asked this question, it was regarding if he should keep it during 15th December or not. Looking back on the prices right now it clearly shows that the price went up to 58 cents or so before the 15th December and during it went down to about 52 cents each which is really not a great deal of difference but if he sold right before the fork he could have made some profits, however if you look at the price right now it is about 78 cents or so which tells you that if you kept the going from those times you have made about 50% increase in just 2 weeks.

People who kept saying that OP should sell and get out and branding doesn't work and everything is in trouble and it is dying could look at the price can look at the 50% increase and the 57th spot and can assume they were wrong.

TA is definitely BS when it comes to bitcoin. The trouble is not that TA is a valid way to calculate bottoms and even tops and anything in between, it definitely calculates stuff very precisely, the BS part comes from the fact that whenever something major happens in bitcoin the price moves very quickly without caring about what the TA shows.

The biggest example we can give for this happened just a month ago when Craig Wright sold off about 8 thousand bitcoins all at once, now which type of TA could have predicted something like that, bitcoin price went down 10%+ in half an hour and TA couldn't calculate that. Hence, yeah on a regular day TA is great and would definitely work on calculating correct prices if no outside involvement happens but it is BS when something major like that happens.

This is not the first time that we are experiencing a year long bear market. If you consider ATH to new ATH as a bear market then the last bear market was persisting from late 2013 to late 2016, around 3 years. But, we do not need to be losing our confident here. This time, bitcoin will not take such a long period to have a new ATH. I am expecting $20k levels before end of 2019 or earlier to that as this time we have more adopters and ETH also may get approved.

Prepare yourself. If we get into a rally which may lead to a new ATH then the stopping may be around $50k as only psychological levels will work rather than just round numbered levels. We may expect $100k by end of 2020.

Financial crisis is here and bitcoin has not skyroceted yet. American stocks are incredibly low, they have fallen as much as they did back in 2008 according to another topic here and that means the crisis already begun and no increase sight in scene. Yes, bitcoin went from 3 thousands to over 4 thousand but it went back to 3 thousands once again and even the 4 thousand wasn't really a big increase. The price needs to be at least over 6 thousand once again in order for us to say "recover" let alone anything remotely near the 20 thousand dollar line.

Hence, I doubt the financial crisis will have any affects on bitcoin at all for now, maybe in the future when FED keeps the strict investment rules there will be some rich folk preferring bitcoin over stocks and savings because of bad returns on them but that would take years to have any affect on the price and would be gradual and not instant results.

I never believe into HYIP kind of programs which are saying like paying interest on daily basis or weekly basis too. That is very much impossible for any business. But, in my country banks are paying around 0.5% interest rate monthly (actually they are doing per year basis and the rate of interest is around 6% to 7.7% and I'm taking the least one and on monthly basis).

Basically I'm not always ready to believe any new investment opportunities but I am looking for gaining some monthly interest from banks. I believe like 1% of fixed percentage profits will be possible for any business. But, profit sharing like 10% or 25% must not be true. We must stay away from them.

Even best traders are also finding failures time to time. If there are best traders existing then they might be having their own capitals to risk and will never look for others money for their trading purposes and they will not mess up things like paying interests periodically to others. It means, they are making losses that is the reason they need new capital and that is the reason they are offering such a profit-sharing schemes.

Dominance is one way of looking at why bitcoin is not dropping as much as the others but also a way of looking why its not moving as fast as others when going up as well.

The deal is when you want to sell you sell your lets say xvg to bitcoin and bitcoin to dollar, which means your xvg only got a sell order, your bitcoin got a buy order AND a sell order, thats why bitcoin didn't dropped too much whereas xvg dropped a lot.

When people are getting out this is the reason why bitcoin is not dropping as fast as other coins. However when buying you spend dollars to buy bitcoin and SELL your bitcoin to buy xvg. Now your bitcoin got bought but also sold whereas your xvg only got bought.  It makes bitcoin not go as fast as your xvg. This logic has always applied on volatile days and will always be used no matter what.

Neo-nazis love crypto currency and not bitcoin directly. That is something we can sort of call correct because crypto currency and ICO's are a way of them showing support to each other. They could build hate speech places all their own without the media or outside world showing who they are and how they are so they can build platforms for themselves by funding it themselves.

When they try to do it on facebook they are compromised and everyone who is not a neo-nazi sees them directly for who they are, thats same for youtube, twitter, instagram, reddit and many more places. Hence they go out and fund each other with some sort of ICO and open places for each other to be racist ignorant and only be around other racist people together. This is not a bitcoin deal, its a crypto deal and I see no problem with sending neo-nazis to a place where only they live and leave us alone online.

Basically bitcoin is controlled by the miners who gather all the new minted coins and all the transaction fee's tied to that. They collect a lot of bitcoins and are rich in bitcoins as well which gives them the rights to move the market however they want. Bitcoin abc is the same miners I talked about and this is even worse considering they are the ones who control all of the market and have most of it with their mining equipment.

Bitcoin sv is the Craig who had a lot of bitcoin (and probably still has a lot) and sold a lot of it to get bitcoin SV to a great price. The cash ones make no sense when to go up or down because they literally worth nothing but even when bitcoin goes up we have to think about the risk of some whale bitcoin early adopter selling many coins to drop the price whenever they want.

OP is not emphasizing all of us to follow the lessons, he just obtained from his experience. But, it is always good to learn from others mistakes so that we do not need to pay to learn the same kind of mistakes while trading. Here I meant, the payment is the losses we might need to pay while making mistakes .

If you want to learn to be smart trader by gathering more experience then it is always good to learn from others mistakes instead of keep trying by your own. I love to hear more people will be adding their experiences similar to OP so that we will be having some guidelines for each and every scenario.

I am not ready to believe such a services. In my country, there are no such insurance options for covering my bank saving accounts or my trading accounts. Why this service is taking responsibility for exchanges and web wallet providers whereas real life insurance companies are not able to do so (or at least in my country).

I was entering to this discussion like imagining typical insurance services which is also accepting major cryptos for buying policies and for paying premiums. But, this sounds like non-realistic as it will not be possible to cover our BTC holding by an insurance company. I guess they have messed up by without analyzing how a basic insurance coverage works.

How can there be a chart like this when everyone used the same chart for 2008 crisis and when stock markets fell in 2008 and everyone thought the market wouldn't recovered but right now bigger than it used to be ? I mean we are talking about a time period where people are really in big trouble and somehow managed to get back on their feet.

Crypto is bigger than stocks of just one country and will eventually pass those as the main investment method of the world however somehow people still think whenever there is a big rise they believe its a suckers rally.

One day bitcoin will go up again and we will see a bigger than $20k price and when that day comes everyone will realize how big of a mistake they did by not trusting bitcoin and crypto. This is a world changing system that needs to be supported by everyone.

For the anniversary the price of bitcoin went up a bit. It is still not even remotely close to what it used to be but it is a good feeling to have bitcoin increasing again. I really hope we can see the 20 thousand dollars once again because the current price not only affects our economy but our community as well.

Bitcointalk was the main hub for all crypto discussions and even here there are not many new topics or not many new messages and every day the same people talk about the same topics constantly, I really hope the hype and interest of the public turns back to crypto in 2019 so we can see the increase of interest towards crypto we really need it. 20 thousand dollar days were filled with happy people here who dream about becoming really rich whereas right now there are people who do not believe the price will go up even while its going up a bit and think it will fall back.