Always explain your thoughts in while being OP, it gives clearer
picture what do you want to say in the first place. If you can express
yourself then people can explain you in better ways too. :-)

Well, from the title I will say that digital currency or crypto's
really, can never disturb the national economy as long it was
completely different circle from what we are having currently. The
transactions, circulating money in the bitcoin or crypto world is
coming from the national wealth or economy and it also gets back to it
because money s exchanged for money and that way everything is
balanced properly. You an say that it would have disturbed the
country's economy if the money was sent to crypto and it never came
back in the global circulation. I am pretty sure that nothing like
that can happen in first place. :-)

Stability and alt coin has got no relation really. Instead of this
what we can ask is, which coins are worth investing for the long term
who has the unidirectional growth. This might read as very complex
statement but its not really. The stability of the crypto currency
would be when it is growing though it is getting disturbed with lots
ups and downs at different times. But this is very nature of crypto
currency and it changes according to investors investment really. So
as far as I know following are the coins which are showing continuous
growth in their prices and market cap off course.
The top three list of mine contain ETH, IOTA and XRP. Then I always
suggest the all new coin like SCL for the futuristic investment
followed by the NEM coin the next hot project ready to pop. :-)

I think whatever correction was supposed to be there is already done
and there is no more correction here. The price that you are seeing in
todays market is the real one and it may go upwards after the listing
from New York exchangers which is supposed to be tomorrow by the way.
So just keep your fingers crossed and imagine that you are seating on
the pile of BTC ~ 25K or something. That is just possible in first
place because well 19K is possible today without any more question
about bitcoin.

So to be honest the current rate of BTC is real investment and that
there is nothing new about it.

Indeed bitcoin has been into my life since one year and I'm thinking
of living my job as well but again such question arises for me about
the future of bitcoin. However I have done lot of research on this
topic and I am sure that Bitcoin won't stop or it can't stop anytime
in the future due to its demand, popularity, and new ways of
application. All these and interest of many countries in making them
as official taxed asset is getting us closer to the official crypto
currency world. These are the external forces which may not disturb
bitcoin existence at all, they are in reality very supportive for it.
So I hope my assumptions are motivating for you as I'm also in the
same line as you are. :-)

I think its not good time to wait for the dips to come in alts or bitcoin because it may not come as early as you would think and it could also happen that coins will pump hard this time. I would suggest you invest in following coins and they are on my list too:

Waves : Yes, as they always said waves is the next Ethereum and it is acting like that way. So you can freely invest into it and hope for the best return as the ETH is given to those who invested into it when ETH was ~ $5-10

ETH : Yeah surely, this coin has taken some serious jumps into its development and I'm sure Mr. Vitalik is very sure about his goal and achievements in the next month of new year! Expect 1000 USD reach by next month very easily! :-)

LTC : Somehow this coin was very crucified earlier for its behaviour but now it has proven its own acceptance and I believe that it will go spike a lot next year. Better keep an eye on this one and keep investing slowly into it. :-)

@Doctor_strange you really studying every coin and strategy day by day. I have seen many posts of you regarding different coins and their past and future. Well you going good with your strategy and I’m also learning from that so thanks for that one.

Well, considering NEO there is only one coin that I see can follow the same path and that’s XEM. This is cheap and cost almost same as NEO from April last year. So one up from my side for this one. The second choice would be XRP but it’s centralised so not sure.

Everyone knows very well that when the bitcoin goes down to earth its the time when we buy most of the bitcoin and then hope that it will burst to new high rates. Now you see here, bitcoin can go down to the 6000 USD but no today or tomorrow unless and until half of the investors take out their investors in one shot. The reason is simple, we have already reached the prices of more than 18K and the market cap is more than 300 B now which means the hard cap is not possible to break at this point.  Its obvious thing really, the buy low and sell high strategy always works and it will take very less time for people to get into bitcoin if that really happen. There are already many people who are in line to see the miracle of bitcoin falling back to lower rates like you depicting and then go back to war it is today. But thats really impossible to happen now.

The crypto to fiat currency has been dream of every crypto lover because they just want it to be used as normal currency without any hassle of the government ban and stressing out one.

However as long as there comes no volatility in the crypto currency market until then it is impossible to get it converted to fiat use. I mean just look at the fiat currency that we see now a days, its stable, under control of regulatory bodies and they have the fixed set of values. This makes the everyday trade very easy and this is why we have fixed prices for the products an services and we can manage the taxes accordingly.

But just tell me how would you manage the same thing with bitcoin. You can’t have same value in everyday feed, I mean how banking system would work where there are versatile type of transaction are going on and that will be chaotic if we have unable currency lie bitcoin. So it still have lot of time to get accepted as fiat currency.

The fees are naturally very high and there is no use of crying about it. These people will never get it down as long as there is sufficient development over the block chain. Its not the fault of coinbase or any other wallet as whatever is been taken is just network fees from you. In some of the wallet, and mostly the wallet for which we can hold the private keys, we can get the fees cut down to smaller one but that will ultimately get us to slower transaction. This transaction could be as slow as more than 25 blocks and in terms of time it could take a whole day or two to confirm it. So for now we only have option of paying such high fees and we can't do anything about it.

For sure it is not worth investing into BCH because that coin has no pride itself and it can be dumped at anytime. Plus its too costly to invest into coin like that and could be costlier affair if you buy and loose in the future.

The rest of the two coins are just perfect horses of this crypto race and the ripple is like perfectly grown and handled horse which can make you win this race. My 60% stakes would be on Ripple for its great steady growth in the long term. It will take time for its growth but it will surely make you rich and blessed. The ETH, well no question about it but the only thing that is taken care about this coin is, its not that stable as Ripple is really and so for long term you may wanna go 60% for ripple and 40% for the ETH. 

According to me it will take at least 4-5 different alt coin to reach that much goal very quickly. I mean if you really want to invest 10K worth USD into coin then do it in to versatile coins and increase your odds of hitting that million dollar dream. The importance of getting different coins invested is straight forward, here you will invest into coins like the one you listed and along with them coin like XRP, XEM etc which are really cheap at this stage. Buying coins cheap gives you advantage of spiking high with even though there is little movement in the price of the coin. Just imagine last week XRP was around 25 cents and now it is over 80 cents. The tardy movement can not be seen anywhere but into this specific coin, same applied to XEM also. So its better to have uniform mixture of coins to invest.

A million dollar for a bitcoin is far fetched with current rate of growth. I mean it could be possible if more and more population start using it in the reality and if government permits the traditional banking system attached with crypto currency. This is because there is still more than 3/4th of the population who do not believe in the bitcoin and they think that its just bubble because it is rising too much high these days. Bitcoin this way will not get into hearts or minds of true investors as long as they are proven so with entities like regulatory bodies or may be the financial institute on which they trust most. Nonetheless this will take time and implementation of the bitcoin into real world is yet not possible and the forks which we see are not doing anything about it. So hopefully we will reach million may be in couple of years but by the end of 2018 seems to be too much for the market.

I have read this kind of awareness post whenever the bitcoin use to spike like crazy. Now a days however, people are now more aware about the situation and they know what really profits them in the first place. I think there is no way around people are going to panic sell unless they don’t know the reality and trick behind the use of bitcoin.

Anyway, the prices are also very high and this time its not just couple of thousand dollars but its freaking 18K price which people are watching since long and they will never panic sell after seeing their own profits with this rate. They will want more jumps now and they have already started feeling that. Long live our bitcoin and hope to see it grow all upto 20K before Christmas. :-)

I really think that bitcoin is safe with or without internet. As long as you have access to your private keys then nobody can really touch your wallet which also comes with 2FA protection. In todays world everyone carries mobile banking application and they are also secured enough and we are using them daily basis. Then I don’t think there should be any question risen for the security of bitcoin for whom the very first principle was to open up the secured trisection portal and which we have it.

To be frank, there is problem with security only if we humans are carless about it. If keep our phones without password or do not take proper safety measures then how do you think that it will keep up the security and safety of your wallet. The first security steps starts from us not from he app itself. I think the complex measures that has given us today are sufficient to keep everything locked away.

Another great news from the Japan. This country is really taking everything seriously about the crypto world. I mean what are the chances of country getting the crypto currency registered as official currency of their country, then add up more mining rigs and exchangers and also moreover give away the OTC trading legally.

This all and now they are officially giving away the salaries for their employees which makes everything just prefect. :-) This is all due to proper planning and execution of the same. Without this nothing would have been possible. Other countries are not taking things seriously. They think bitcoin as the first enemy of their national economy and that why they fear of having it. But Japan is going in the right direction.

This kind of speculation drives me crazy but I don’t think bitcoin will go down. The market is too much wide spread now to make it unstable and go down. But if any case it happened then I think people will start moving the attending towards more centarslied currencies like Ripple. The reason is they will at least be sure that centralisation process will keep them safer for long terms and there invest would be in good hands. Trying to invest into other decentralised currency would be then obnoxious really as everyone will loose money over the bitcoin and it will create fear some situation in mind that “now decentralised currency won’t work”. Whatever it is the scenario would be really bad to see with our eyes and mind.

Whatever response I put down here, I'm 90% sure that you will get suggestion on similar coins only because I think most of the crypto lovers know these coins very well.
If you are coming as investors with long term waiting potential then you can choose,
1) BTC : The perfect choice for the newbie as it is secure and upto the mark when considered for long term growth.
2) ETH : Basically second most traded coin the crypto world with high market capitalism in the alt coin. Already spiked 2.5X of its base value and prodited million but still hope for many new comers.
3) Ripple : This is my one of the good investment ever I made, because it is now started moving upwards. The coin is centralised and related to real life project so higher chances of getting spiked.
4) Social Coin : This coin is still in the development stage but I'm mentioning it here due to its high throughput during the ICO sale.
5) NEM : The best choice with super low value but growing fast in the market cap. It was no 10 two days ago and now is at 8 number for its market cap.

Yeah its true, and I have started believing in it a lot now days. Once bitcoin was very deserted coin, not much people were there who believed in it and thats why the investment was very slow and almost nobody believed it back then. The reverse of it is happening today, the popularity is increasing like crazy now a days and we are on the surge of reaching that moon which we thought we already reached back in 2016 or start of the 2017. We were wrong anyway but now the reality is up front. The demand is going up exponential and thus it will bring the bitcoin to a value which we will never be able to imagine.  But lets hope this really happens as we can all benefit from it. :-)

Wow that is really crazy stuff to here. That make sense why my pocket is empty even when I'm investing more than what I afford to loose into crypto land. Lol.
Seriously 1% people owing that much wealth is too much to imagine and what are they doing with that much money nobody knows. This is complete imbalance of our healthy economy and this is also one of the reason to to create the volatility in the financial market. I beige these are the people to whom we call as whales of crypto investment as they can actually make these market capitalism and related stuff move!

It doesn't matter anyway, because there is saying called as "rich gets richer, poor gets poorer" and your post explains the thing completely here why this is so. If they start off their investment with big money then obviously they will end up earning big while poor won't even see the dreams of getting there. Everything is mixture of inequality.

Bro, if that happened then it will lower the prices of the bitcoin because we will have 6% more coin in the circulation than the previous circulator. Which means though we are having bigger demand but on top of that we will have bigger supply pool so there is no rise in the prices. This is because our formula high demand low supply = $$$ won't work here. :-) It is juts reversed when Mr. Satoshi dumped his bitcoin into the circulation. But lets not this doesn't happen really.

For skyrocketing the prices of bitcoin you ask Satoshi to put big amounts of fiat into it . Lolz. Then it would be possible to spike the rates.