Hey so you're saying that your friends who purchased bitcoins at it's peak, sold it off as prices were falling and incurred losses?. Those kind of sellers are called panic sellers, and you should not make a decision based on their sales. If you're not aware let me make you understand there was no actual loss, the loss was only on paper and they had to hodl it and once prices rebounded then they could sell for profits.

While gold is considered to be a safe heaven, I don't feel it's return can sustain ones expenses these days. I feel gold has lost it's shine, as the demand for it also has fallen all across the globe. I feel people now are ready to take more risks, for higher returns and are looking for risky ventures to earn and sustain for itself. Hence I feel people will opt for cryptos over gold, as they'll get more returns with cryptos.

Hey Boxxob guess I'll take my words back about the leader true to his name, he's opened up an huge lead and it looks difficult if not impossible to dethrone him. As for the remaining spots I feel all are up for the grabs including the second spot, and I believe we shall see some more changes as it nears to it's end. It's pertinent to note that there're only few days remaining for this competition to end, so I feel people should enter and take their spots before it's to late.

Hey Bitcoins was not created to solve poverty, rather it was created as a decentralised store value as Satoshi was frustrated with the existing payment system prevailing back then. I would say yes and no to it becoming a way to become a millionaire, e.g. if you see Rapper 50 cents earned millions by investing in bitcoins back then. However many even lost their money when they brought at 20k and sold for losses, bitcoins can make you rich or poor but it depends on how you use it.

I don't get it what's there to be surprised, this is the season finale and excitement and tensions are running high. There're only three months now for GOT to premier, and I have yet to pick on that one character who'll survive till the end. I believe most of them will be bumped off, and Tyrion, Sansa and Jon should survive others I feel won't make it till the end, but I'm excited to see will Jon or Jamie kill the night king?.

Hey these are the phases that each person goes when he has bitcoins, many of us have been there made rash decisions only to regret them later. In my personal opinion if you have bitcoins then you should simply hodl them for the long term, irrespective of the short term fluctuations. In case you wish to buy, then always buy on the dips and average it out so you'll get good profits going ahead.

I don't understand what you meant by prices are down because of the content of this forum, I do hope you understand that Bitcointalk doesn't influence prices we merely discuss events and prices here. The reason the prices are because of constant selling, and lack of positive news for bitcoins. Also one major reason is the lack of demand for it from institutional investors which is hurting it, but I feel 2019 shall be better.

Hey welcome here before you begin investing in bitcoins, I would suggest you to learn a lot about bitcoins as you have zero knowledge of what it is. If you're looking for an exchange then you can check coinbase in my experience that's good, but i would advise you not to store your coins in an exchange as they're risky. I would recommend you to use Electrum, but only download it from it's official site and only update it from their site only.

Hey this is really sad news I feel it has to be an insider hand, there's no way they'll be able to pull this off without the knowledge from the casino itself. There's a popular saying 'the house always wins', one way or another you never win and it's proven again. After playing in online casinos I feel safer as my identity is kept a secret, all the money I withdraw is from bitcoins which no one can know where I'll keep so yes I feel safer playing in an online casino rather than in a land based casino.

I'll agree the race for the fourth spot has just caught pace, had Manchester United yet been under Mourinho I'm sure all three matches would have ended in defeat. There're three people responsible for Manchester United revival Ole Solskjaer, Mike Phelan and Paul Pogba these three have united to lift the club up. I feel if Tottenham also suffers losses along with Chelsea it'll get really interesting.

Zverev has really started to play to his full potential, and I feel that makes Germany favourites to win it, I feel he can single handedly win it for them. What I'm starting to like about Zverev is he refuses to give into pressure, and doesn't loose focus irrespective of the opponent. Also it's pertinent to note that Federer seems to have found some momentum, as many including me had written his chances of him winning for his country.

Whenever a hard fork is coming there's always expectations that prices will hike, but let's not forget not all forks may have a positive effect. I have often said it and I'll say it again, do not fall for famous people predictions as cryptos are volatile. While I'm not sure how much effect fork will have, there is a positive news regarding it's adoption which has grown, and which I believe will be a factor in price hike going ahead.

Hey yes we're seeing small but positive movements in bitcoins prices, it seems people are finally buying in dips. I feel it'll take a while to fully see the impact of people's buying, and if there's major surge in the buying volumes we may see greater upward movements. Also with January events lined up i.e. Nasdaq Bitcoins Futures launch and possibly launch of Bakkt we should see good movements in prices.

I don't think anyone had any doubts in their minds that Juventus wouldn't end up as champions, and at current pace it's a matter of few more matches before they're declared champions. I believe Ronaldo only strengthened an already strong Juventus, but winning this league is easy if they don't win champions league their season won't be counted as a success. It's also sad to see so many racist chants against players, I hope fans will stop these kind of chants going ahead.

While I agree that Champions League rules give an unfair advantage to the big clubs, I believe it's an opportunity for the small clubs to step up and gain more experience against the big clubs. Also there have been calls to scrap the champions league exit and entry rule into Europa League, but I don't see it happening as clubs and the leagues will loose out on revenue. I don't think Chelsea would do it especially for a cup like Europa, many top teams don't really prioritise it. They only will try winning it if they will be finishing outside top four in their league, and wish to have direct entry in champions league by winning the Europa cup.

Hey if you're not aware then let me remind you bitcoins security features make it unhackable, no one can hack your bitcoins but the same can't be said about exchanges or places where you store them. If you will remember in the past so many exchanges have claimed they were hacked, and they decided to shut down and people lost their coins but it's always an insider hand in the hacking. Let's take the latest electrum wallet phishing case where updates were send inside the wallet, and many gullible investors lost their coins as the wallet was hacked not bitcoins.

Hey there's a reason these are called alts, one should not invest in them without understanding the risks involved. I'm not sure which coins you're currently holding, but if you're holding popular alts like bitcoins cash, ripple, and Ethereum then I would advise you to hodl them. I would also advise you to shun the ico market, as most of them are scam, sec is working on a guidelines for Ico's but those guidelines will take quite a while.

Hey I would answer yes and at the same time i would say no, it's an exchange and they often get hacked and people loose money. It doesn't matter how strong your pin is you do not have your seed or private key to move your coins, and that's something I'm personally not comfortable with. Also if coinbase decides to lock your account you loose access to your coins, I would suggest you to avoid exchanges and use a wallet which gives you your seed and private key.

As the year 2018 is finally coming to end, and the so called experts and analysts are out giving their take on 2019 prices let's revind back and see some of the outrageous predictions of 2018.

1)Thomas Lee first predicted prices would touch 25k, later in the year he adjusted it to 13k and now he's not interested in making any more predictions lol.

2) Second on my list is John McAfee who tweeted bitcoins shall touch 1 million by 2020, which definitely won't be happening.

3) Third and last for now is Tyler Winklevos who predicted bitcoins prices to reach 1 Lakh dollars, and as we discuss we're no where close to even his predictions.

There're many others who predicted different numbers, but my point is simple no one can predict Bitcoins prices and buying solely on such predictions is suicidal.

 If you intend to buy bitcoins, I recommend you to do your own research, buy for the technology for it's features not based on people words hopefully you'll now make more informed choices going ahead.

There's so much daily drama regarding the entry and exit into bitcoins that many investors have stopped paying attention to such calls, also since when do you listen to a bear trader to make profits?. I would suggest all to make a decision based on whether they have the funds to buy and hodl for long term, irrespective of the short term fluctuations, or sell only if there's an emergency. I feel investors are wise these days, and they can take smart decisions but in my personal opinion the bear trader opinion is horribly wrong.