Well, there is no need stressing our brain by trying to know if satoshi is a group or a single person. The essence is that the satoshi we know is being spent daily and we will never stop thanking the inventor for coming up with such a disruptive technology that is changing the world already. Even if someone comes out today to identify themselves as satoshi, I am sure no one will even believe. It is just best we leave it except for those who just want to stress themselves on something they will never find an answer to.

Obviously. The same way trading has benefited a lot of people is just the same way trading has messed up a lot of people's portfolio. It is one thing to have the mindset of wanting to make money from trading and it is another thing to be prepared to do it well so as to make it better. Some tend to rush and then miss it along the line which makes them see trading otherwise but for someone who is always ready to learn, they can always do great.

Finding benefits from trading is  a gradual process and no one just started their carrier in trading by starting big anyway. First, you have to learn how to trade safely and effectively, then from there start with the little you have and even if you have a huge amount, still start with little and see where you knowledge takes you before you can even start considering big. I have heard of so many who started with as little as $200 and they were able to make it grow.

At least there is a little bit of hope around the corner with the patterns that bitcoin is showing. 10 months is even a little bit far as we have a lot of possibility of seeing even much more before then. I am still very optimistic though and I want to believe that the down trend so far is over, and we should be looking forward to testing new highs pretty soon. We have missed this market for a while now, time to see some positive actions.

Probably we have all been greedy and looking for money where there is none only to end up dashing our hard earned money to some ponzi schemes where they always reap most of the benefit in the long run and then collapse once it is no longer sustainable. I feel for the OP, but at the same time, life is full of lessons, and the only best thing is to retrace and start taking the right steps.

Not all projects grow in value very fast but that should not always be the main thing, as the long term is all that matters. This is the reason, one should be sure they are investing in a good project and not just some random shitty project. The good thing about good project is that they may be slow, but they are always steady when it comes to growing and with good community support, their prices are always sustainable which makes them lovely to hold for the long positions.

Well, no one can really say at this point, but there is still a huge chance that we may see that, as no one truly knows. For now, we just keep seeing how we test all the necessary resistance and the reaction to them, but for now, there is really no reason to panic. Sometimes, looking at the bigger picture is all that matters at the end and not just the smaller picture that most people are seeing now and getting themselves worked up for no reason at all.

Most times for people who are not traders, I always tell them that if you do not know when to buy and the market is in a downtrend, then buy in margins. That way, you know you are having some good holdings on ground for the long position. Also, if buying in margins, always leave room for a huge percentage between those margins as well until you run out of fiat and then wait and see in few years’ time, how that has increased a lot in value.

Although, we are still going to be consolidating for a while, but I would rather say, anyone who already missed the dip within the range of $6000 should just get in now. We are still in a very safe buy zone. The market could fall lower than what we have now, but no need to panic and for those who still have some free cash lying around, can just buy more for the long position. We are about to start the new moon journey for 2018.

Okay, let it go and then we will buy more. There is really no need anyway to be a bit scared of anything. I am sure the market will recover at some point and then we will keep seeing some actions. However, I really do not see anything on your speculation as they are all based on the past and that does not make any sense. The market can change at any time, so making a negative assumption like this is more like using it to create unnecessary FUD than what the market has already had.

Like someone always say, you cannot finish making those money and any avenue you have to make more, and then keep making as long as you have the time to. He must have thought 1000btc is too huge. However, I can assure him that what some bounty hunters today have could be even more than that, for those who started earlier.

The main impact most small investors have in the market is to allow them to get scared by the reaction in the market which is mostly generated by whales. They sell at the top, use the weak hands and their strategies to drive the market down, and they buy back in huge volume at the bottom.

It is that perception that has always made them to always kick against it and I wonder how long they will keep up with that. It is good though that they are beginning to understand that this is something that cannot be stopped, and hoping they do not perceive the threat to be much more in the future, but I am sure over time, they will have a way to always do what they know how to do best, which is to try to destroy good things.

Listening to people like them is like group of mad men who care less about the people who voted them in but their own pockets.

When it comes to ICO, it is even a different ball game entirely. With most of these altcoins, either ones with shitty project or not, at least they are already on exchanges and you can even decide to discard them at very low prices if you wish at the end. However, for ICO, once you miss it, you have missed it. The thing about the crypto space is that, never stop digging and finding out what the dev has been doing or will do as the case may be. For Altcoins, once I am able to get the real idea of the project and very usable as well as workable, with a very active dev, I do not always mind holding for as long as I can, which applies to ICO as well.

Nice spots to want to book profit. Those are some pretty crazy spots now as resistance if eventually a bull run starts as there are some holders wishing to make some pretty good profit in these regions. Holding really is not a bad thing and it depends on each individual. It is just that I wonder why people hold when they can make the best profit trading it when the time is right and looking for a better market to step in and make more profit.

Risk is good, but it is always better when calculated. I am sure since the OP has been in the employment world, he should have been able to consider that fact before making his decision. I am also sure he must have been able to learn trading pretty well to have been able to go ahead with that decision. Trading is a job on its own which can be highly profitable if you have the cash and you give it most of your time and do it very well.

From my personal experience, if you have the money to start trading and you have the knowledge to go ahead with some little experience you must have gained, then why not ?

Trading can give you a whole lot than what any job can ever give you if you are good at it and you doing your best. Put those time in it that you would give to normal job and you always be swimming in cash. You will even have the chance to dictate your own time.

The day I will see such a price, I will just keep buying until I could buy no more. However, and realistically, it can never happen. A lot of interest is already in bitcoin and most institutions are looking at the brighter side of it already and obviously with the weak hands out of the system right now, it is even getting more interesting. We have had huge support even before now at some values; testing those supports will only make bitcoin to be perceived extremely weak.

And there we have another one. I guess OP should edit his post and add that to his list. Right now, what I am doing is HODL and BODL. I am in for long and I have been in for some years now and with all that I have seen so far, nothing is shaking this hand from mistakenly SODL-ing. Now, with the dip, it just brought a better chance to even load up more.

Anyone who is not even buying now is slacking. This is a good moment to start refueling and loading up for the next rally to the moon. This year to me is going to be an awesome one even more than last year, and this just gave chance to the true believers and investors in cryptocurrency to hold up because I believe we are totally leaving the adoption phase very soon. Before, now and forever, HODL will always pay.

Even if we fall back a little bit, we should probably end up having a double bottom, or just a little bit low. Right now, it is better to load up more because the next one is going to be big. We have seen a huge volume entering the market recently, so I guess some people are already moving in with big money, we may also end up seeing more cash flowing in pretty soon with all the news flying around.

A lot of people keep talking about Tether like this is going to totally shatter the crypto space. Please! What have we not heard already ? However, I have heard that some exchanges like bittrex are already making some moves on allowing USD trading pair on their platform. At least, I feel that should be good enough for the crypto space and curb all these rants about tether that is going on.

Yeah, some of altcoins gained, some of them are still doing. I also noticed some pretty good bounce on Bitcoin Cash, I heard a conference is going on or coming up (not sure) that has to do with blockchain and cryptocurrency with Roger Ver being an invited guest in the conference and I am not sure if that is a coincidence, but it kind of correlated with the bounce. News though normally has a way of playing with the minds of traders, so I guess we see what happens next on this one.

Even though waves have not done much in value, the devs are really working hard to make this project work which is what will give it that value anyway and not just some pump and dump project that at the end their prices cannot be sustained. I am sure if the OP knows what he needs to know about waves, he won't even be here confused. This is a good and solid project that one should have in their portfolio.

Waves is a good project and even though development has been a little bit slow, they still have something good going for them. A project like this usually last anyway, but at the end of it all, it depends on you. I am sure you bought for the long term, so if you feel you are selling at the price you know you are happy with, then you can go ahead, if not, just hold.

A huge slaughter from the press indeed. One thing with the press is they use some of these FUDs to generate traffic for their site and whales pay them a lot to do it as well so as to shed weak hands from the market while they make good gains from it and once they are done, the good news start.

Nothing is ever wrong with the market, while some people are busy prophesying rubbish, most of the big guys already know where this is going which obviously it is going to be good, and they would rather be holding a position at this kind of spot.

Well, she is not saying whether it is important to the community, she just opened a thread to discuss what is important to her. She is a lady and you know sometimes, knowing you have some other ones around sharing your view, makes it even livelier. The truth is, ladies are normally shying away from stuffs like this, so seeing some of them trying to do something quality for themselves is really good.

At least that shows they are not cutting themselves out from the benefit of the crypto world. I wish my woman could have such enthusiasm.

At some point, the weak hands are usually the ones who are busy selling with some stop loss while the whales are busy taking the profit. It is a normal thing in a market and there is just no downtrend that is meant to last forever. The same way we have been having bull runs, is just the same way we are going to keep having bear slowdowns. It takes some experience to get use to and some pretty good old time HODLers are already used to that.

Cryptocurrency is here to stay, nothing is stopping it, corrections are normal, we have had this before, and so it is apparently not new. Take a look at the stock markets, they are also down. Is it the end of stock markets too ? This can only be a bad situation for those who want to see it as such. There is no cause for alarm, the market is healthy and this will pass.