One time a bought a cellphone (2nd hand) to one of my closest friend who told me all about bitcoin and how to make money out of it. It was in the peak of bitcoin price's so its a 1:1 preev exchange.

However, if its something on a online website or something, no, I haven't tried it maybe I was not searching for it though. Bitcoin just like the rest of you guys its a investment for me, so I'm keeping it safe and will probably sell it again and book the profits once we hit all-time-high.

Right, everyone has the right to do with their bitcoin anyways, whether it's Steve or an average Joe like the rest of us. He also doesn't need to prove it.

Also remember that he reported losing 7 BTC to a scammer, https://www.ccn.com/apple-co-founder-steve-wozniak-lost-7-btc-to-scam-artist-with-stolen-credit-card/. So maybe he really dumps it to cover what he has lost.

How about this fella?  freightjoe?

You can check out this guy's posting history, and have a good laugh. 

I just came from a long bounty, I think I'm like 5-6 months on this campaign and the project looks solid and legit so I don't have any qualms that the campaign will pay in Q1 and be listed in a exchange.

But in your case, it looks for me that a lot of bounties are going that route because of the conditions of the market, but for me it's not fair to all participants. They should provide the other part of the bargain we can consider this shady and could be a potential scam. And I'm sure that when you questioned or attack them in their official bounty we will be kick out instantly for even asking that sort of questions.

willing to take the Full Member spot is possible.

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It depends. Other's are comfortable trading with some low volume exchanges simply because they can pump-and-dump. But in general, traders go to platforms wherein it has established already, like Binance and Bitfinex.

If someone is interested, you can also read a report regarding exchanges faking their trade volumes here, https://www.blockchaintransparency.org/.

As you can see in the report only Binance and Bitfinex has been found out not manipulating trading volumes, so that alone speak how trustworthy this two platforms are.

Just a few corrections: Bitcoin reached $19++ at the end of 2017. And it's lowest point in the last year or so is $3100-$3200. And obviously, bitcoin still dominates and remain the top cryptocurrency despite the bearish season extending for more than a year now.

It still the number 1 because its touted as a investment, store of value, although still not recognized as payment system, people can still used it to purchase things online.

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Edit: Sorry Hhampuz, I thought this campaign is open, I will just check back next week.

The big difference is that a crypto back by government will be centralized and the tax on top will be so great that everyone will not buy them. You might as well go and trade if you have a local forex platform instead of buying those government coins.

So it doesn't makes any difference at all, if they have their own crypto, nothing will change it's just another form to get tax out of people who loves crypto currency.

Obviously, that's everyone's wish for the year 2019. But let's be realistic, as much as we wanted to see crypto recover in 2019, we might not see all-time-highs because I believed that we are still in the bearish trend going into 2019.

So be sure that you make some adjustments on our end so that we won't get disappointed when 2019 didn't come as expected.

I haven't seen a pump time as of yet, of course we have seen some spike, but this is not the pump time that we all have been waiting for. I guess everyone should call 2018 a goodbye, it brought has head aches because everyone has suffered a lot.

And the only thing we can cling for next year is "Hope". We hope that the pattern will change and we will eventually see the bull run. We are tired of this year, bearish sentiments, we need something that will bring back the confidence of the investors again.

For the purist crypto enthusiast, XRP will get a lot of hate. Specially the way it goes against the decentralization nature of crypto. But for those speculators who loves to make money out of this market, then XRP is the pump-and-dump coins for them.

Just imagine at the beginning of this year how XRP was pump and now overtaking Ethereum and now the second coin, I don't think it will just die down like that.

But that $1k bounce was not sustainable though isn't it? After that bounce the price keeps fluctuating again, meaning investors are just shorting bitcoin right now and will keep doing that unless the bounce is for real.

Although I'm glad it didn't went further below $3K, but I'm seeing the price fluctuating between $3600-$3800 before we can actually see a good spike in the next coming months.

Yeah sometimes it's really hard to think that if you don't have bitcoins in your wallet and only fiat. lol. So we need to be very careful and think twice before selling it. I always used my bitcoin in paying my monthly bill so personally I have to make ways and earn so that I can be calm.

The only choice you have is to hold on it because you can't even sell them in a exchange because it's worthless. There's no rule whatsoever, this is a free market and everyone can do what ever he/she pleases.

But its not over yet though, we don't know, if the bull run occurs next year then we might see the price of those shitcoins comes alive and have value then that's the time you can dump them.

Currently the price surges with a 7% pump. We might see another $4K-$4.2K pump again prior to New Year. I guess that's the top price we could see at the end of the year so I guess we're still doing good.

Let's await 2019 and see what it can bring to us. Nevertheless, I feel very optimistic that 2019 will be different, I'm expecting a lot of positive news that may affect the market positively.

Lol. First, it is unlikely that we will see Bitcoin having a ETF. I doubt that SEC will approve it next year, the market is still prone to manipulation so that's a big problem for SEC.

And as far as Facebook, no way will Mark Z. promote bitcoin or other crypto for that matter. He might have his own crypto coins and take advantage of blockchain technology.

Definitely a new year usher positive thoughts so we might as well expect some changes coming 2019. We can't predict, but I'm sure everyone is hoping for the betterment next year so personally I'm also would like to be optimistic that the whole crypto market will bounce back and me way see reversals for the rest of 2019-2020.

We really need to remain very optimistic next year and do hope that the we can see a change for the better. 2018 really made everyone think of its strategy and make some adjustments and be flexible otherwise you're going to lose in this market.

Of course, we can't predict what 2019 can bring but there's a strong chance that the bear market is already on its tail end and we can expect the  bulls taking control next year, crossing my fingers.

Right, it's an easy concept but we really can't say if we hit the lowest price yet or not. We know that market is very unpredictable and no one can guarantee that their predictions is always a hit. Right now bitcoin continue to rise to more than $4200 and I don't think that everyone is expecting that sudden increase.