Strongly agree with this point as it is completely centralized and being monitored all the time. As soon as the currency reaches a higher price the owner of the currency releases many more coins in the market. It's market cap is so much that it is near to impossible for XRP to reach $10000 within 2 years. It took Bitcoin 9 whole years to reach the $10,000 being a decentralized currency with limited supply. XRP on the other hand is centralized and has a whole lot more supply. It can't reach $10,000 until next 5 years for sure.

You can start Bitcoin or crypto trading whenever you want and with as much money you want but the thing is you must know how to trade and how to survive the waves. Anybody can put money into cryptocurrencies and start trading but the profit comes only when you know when to enter and when to exit. Even if your predictions are wrong, a good entry and exit point will earn you sufficient profit. You must not panic sell your coins when the down trend begins. You must learn to hold the coin during the downs and sell the profits when the ups.

There was a similar pattern in the Bitcoin charts last year which indicated that there was a huge dip in it's price the same time last year.
As the dip was over there came a spike in it's price and since then Bitcoin's price kept on skyrocketing. Also we know that after every correction Bitcoin has suffered, it regained its value and increased in price rapidly. If this is the same case now then it shouldn't be long enough before we see the Bitcoin boat go to the moon. The price will surely increase in the upcoming days and IMO the market will recover within the end of this month.

Its good to see that people are holding on to their Bitcoins. I guess this is why the BTC bounce back was good increased $2000 in price in a short while. There were people who sold their BTC for cheaper rates as we can see that the price went as low as $9200 . It must be pretty had for them to see BTC re-bound now. I will always be holding BTC as I know that it has bright furture ahead. The wiser people know that BTC has a long way to go and this cannot be the ultimate bubble burst but just a correction/manipulation.

Bitcoin is in its developing stage yet and to expect it to be well established in the industry will be foolishness knowing it's high fees and other issues regarding scaling. It still has to face more obstacles before it gets implemented in real world applications. Although there are some merchants in a few countries that do accept Bitcoin as a payment, it will be accepted worldwide only when it's issues are solved. We can expect the Lightning netwokr to solve most of the issues and may be then many other merchants will start accepting bitcoin as a payment mode since micro transactions will be possible at that time. Until then we will just have to wait for it to be a reality.

You can call it whatever you want but what really matters is it's return. At the end of the day you will just see how much profit you have  made from investing in Bitcoin. The market right now is down and this would be the best time in history Bitcoin would be at this price. You can consider it as cheap as dust because i don't think it will ever come back at this price again. A bubble is something which grows more than its actual worth and comes back to it when it bursts. Bitcoin has a worth lot more potential and so it will continue to rise in future giving corrections like these then and there. It is known that majority of these coins are owned by the early investors and they will surely use it to manipulate the market every now and then. The weak hands will loose the money while the HOLDERS will gain profit in future.

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What would you have done if you would have invested in Altcoins and then the Alts would have bleeded badly because of the rise in BTC.
Alts were bleeding badly during the BTG fork and most of the beginners were saying that Altcoins are going to die. Now since the Alts are rising does it mean that BTC is going to die. No my friend. This is how crypto works. People exchange the coins from one to the other. So if one coin is rising the other will obviously decline in price. This does not mean that it is going to die.

I have been using Yobit since many months but never really faced any issue like yours. I would have recommended you to check out your transaction on etherchain but since you say that the transaction was confirmed I would suggest you to contact their support. Additionally you can contact dominikhergoz who is the admin of that exchange and tell him about your issue. Give them your transaction ID and ask for help in the chatbox in yobit. I am sure somebody would help you out in this case.

I think it must be just your PC since I am able to use my Binance account properly. There is no kind of lag when I am using Binance from my Laptop. Is your PC configuration modertae ? If Yes, then it must be your lower spec of PC that is generating the lag. It may also be poor internet connection since sometimes slow internet connection generates a mild lag in loading the pages while the faster connections loads quickly.
Try to clear cache memory and the temp files in your PC. Clear cookies and then retry loading the page. It must solve your issue.

There are many accusing Bitcoin because many people are making good money out of it. Bitcoin is not making money out of thin air because there are thousands of people investing in it. There are thousands of transactions taking place everyday and the miners have to do lots of work in order to mien those transactions and maintain the network. There are many people like Jamie Dimon, Roger Ver who will accuse BTC to manipulate it's price and make more money for themselves. Don't listen to such people and concentrate on increasing your capital.

Bitcoin is not making the wealthy richer, it is making the wiser ones wealthy since the most talented people in the crypto community are driving the market trends. For example people like Roger Ver, Jamie Dimon, Goldman Sachs are manipulating the market through their influence and making more money out of it. The new comers and the non-talented people are the ones who are losing their money in these cases. People losing money in pump and dumps are clear cases as they become the bag holders. So the people who are wise enough are making money from the non-wiser ones.

This might be the thing as I was thinking the same thing. ETH recently had a good spike and went upto $1400 in a few weeks.
Bitcoin on the other hand was around $17000 a month ago and now it's just about $13000 . This couldn't be a coincidence.
We can see that the money is flowing towards Altcoins and ICOs. I think ETH is having a spike in it's price because of the ICOs.
Many people are investing in ICOs these days and many major ICO tokens are seeing a good spike. Things are being tough for BTC now and there should be a really positive news in the market for BTC to see a spike in its price.

2018 started with some huge gains as XRP and ETH made some good gains and other low price coins made 10x - 100x over the few months.
A correction will definitely take place when such huge gains are made within a short time. This might be the time for some correction as BTC has gone down now. At present I am holding some BTC and ETH as I believe in them. Also it would be a good time in investing in some potential ICOs as new year is the best time to make new investments.

Every thing has some positive sides and some negative sides. Not only Bitcoin but every investment has some kind of risk involved in it.
Investments are subject to risks and without risks you can't earn more money. Bitcoin is highly volatile in nature and this why there are many people saying Bitcoin is a risky investment. But the thing is that although there are risks, the opportunity of making profits are more than that.
This is why BTC has grown so much popular over the last year since it made more than 15x times it's price since the beginning of the year.

I have heard the same kind of news saying that half of BTC mined is owned by the top 1000 investors of BTC. This does seem scary but I don't think it is that bad since it would take them quite a lot of time to withdraw such big amount. Imagine for yourself, how would you cash out 1000 BTC if you had them, at once. Obviously your bank wouldn't allow such huge transaction and would probably seize your account if they see such huge incoming transaction. Forget about Cash because nobody will be able to provide such a huge amount of cash at once. People will only be able to withdraw it little by little and they can only use it to buy products and services.

There is something big news definitely needed for BTC to break the next resistance. Bitcoin had been going up and down from $13k to $16k level and never broke it's ATH at $19.5k . A big news influencing BTC's growth is definitely needed now to break the new ATH. I think the establishment of the Lightning Network will break the new ATH as it will probably solve the network congestion and huge fees problems of the Bitcoin network.
The LN is being tested now and it gets implemented the network will be running smooth. So there are chances that the BTC will be back on track.

You are going in the right track mate. The coins should at least be in the top 20 from the list in coinmarketcap. Low price coins have more potential gain than expensive coins. You must surely wait for the dips as buying in the highs will give you more risks and if the coin falls in price then most of your investment will drop in value. If you are not sure how much % of your investment you should allocate to your coins then you should just divide it equally. Do keep a portion of your investment in BTC as most of the new traders forget that. You will find it's benefit in future.

The project should be valuable and realistic and their team should be knowledgeable. Their team should have a good support which are available to solve user's queries at least 5 days a week. The coin should have better scope to rise in future. The development team should be more focused on the developing the project. Read their whitepaper as it has the most details about the project. Find out what their milestones are and what they are focused on. If they are just focusing on increasing the coin's price then it is probably going to drop in price. The project should be more focused on implementing itself in the real world.