The fees are really terrible and the long time you will have to wait to even get the transactions confirmed even with the huge fees is even becoming infuriating but I am sure that this is something that may pass soon on the introduction of the LN as long as nothing hinders it again and I really do not know why it is taking a long time though to get this implemented if so far seems like the best solution we have.

Honestly, it is really funny how some of the investors think and trust me mate, they will keep coming and as long as we keep seeing those who see bitcoin as an asset that would just keep rising without falling, we will keep having these fraction of people who will always panic and be ready to utter any rubbish that comes out of their mouth.

I do believe you that long term investments are profitable ones but also other risk of losing money is equal in that situation if you are  investing your money in any ponzi scheme or else the fear of bitcoins price decreasing always remains constant. If you want to have good profits in holding coins than probably you will need a huge patience as patience is the key of success in holding bitcoins. Do not panic and keep on watching the price fluctuations for long term investments.

The ease is great and normally this is a currency that does not select or separate anyone and everyone have an equal chance. Some levels of society will definitely be segregated one way or the other and they are the ones with some limitations and no information about the crypto world. Nevertheless, this is something that would gradually change over time as we keep moving on.

Yeah, and with the way bitcoin is going, reasonable countries will only end up finding a way to at least tap from the benefit bitcoin brings rather than looking at it as a threat. Most countries will end up legalizing it openly or silently and find a way to tax the users of bitcoin probably via exchanges and I believe this would affect the country positively. Take a look at Japan and how their GDP grew in a short while, while legalizing bitcoin.

Exactly, if you do not have some of the analysis to pull it through, looking at the charts alone will never solve the issue. In fact, without knowledge, how would one even know what to look for in a chart ?

A lot of people usually gamble their way into trading and they end up losing the little they should have been able to make good use of and increase with learning. Learning is the only thing that can solve our problem.

There is a lot to learn that makes it hard for anyone to tell you exactly what to do here, but one good thing about the whole thing is that there are lot of resources online that you can make use of to get the very best of trading knowledge and unless you do that, you will just end up losing so much at the end than what you are going to gain eventually.

Right now, I see bitcoin recovering and trying to test the previous top very soon. These times are always good time to usually buy bitcoin as they are in the correction phase and with that you can make a lot of cash on them when they get pumped back. I always tell people, keep what you are holding. When you see a dip, pick your fiat and buy some and get some profit on them if you wish.

It really seems like a good idea but I would not advise going all out into fiat. Sure, a lot of them may still reduce a whole lot, but no one knows if this would be the case, but looking at the trend for years now, most of these alts usually take some fall while entering the new year, but I guess we just have to wait and see how they all turn out eventually, but it is good to take some rest anyway.

Taking rest will be depending on how you really want to see them. Yes, a lot of them has really attained a huge ATH and the best way it looks now, is to take some of the free money and wait to buy back at dips as most of them would be experiencing some huge corrections anyway, but no one really knows, so i t might be good not to rush into taking the quick way out and just look out for trends so you do not go selling cheaper.

You can just go through any exchange.
It is listed on bittrex, so you may want to get registered there and then load up some bitcoin into the exchange and then get XRP. It is as simple as that. I am not a great fan of XRP anyway but for profit, I would not say I did not get some as I saw this coming, so it is all good. However, for holding sake, XRP is not just my style as I am so tired of centralization.

Yeah, at least for now, we have gone to test one of the previous resistance and doing a sideways movement for now until we probably see another break out, so for now, we may have to see this for a while before we know the next level we are headed.

Those who were lucky enough to buy at a very good price will count themselves lucky enough very soon and those who are wishing it would test the previous support may just not be very lucky anymore.

Yeah, these guys are usually looking at the bigger picture and the last thing they would want to do is to cause a huge scare in the market by dumping their coins all at once. Just like you have said, they would prefer to just go out bit by bit without it having any serious impact on the market and that is if they really want to do that anytime soon anyway.

Still, I doubt OP's concern will ever affect the price. That is a guy who I am sure is not really bothered about cashing out anytime soon and even if he really wants to do, he would not just go out all at once. To him, the amount he has thrown in should be more like a trial and error kind of thing, and with some of these big guys really being a part of the community; you should even expect better days ahead for bitcoin.

Yeah, and a lot of those alts are really doing hugely well right now as we keep seeing a lot of them increasing hugely right now in value than we can imagine.
No one can say for sure how long this is going to be before bitcoin start again, but due to the last year forks and all, a lot happened that really caused a huge bloodbath for the alts and we hope we do not see a repetition of that anytime soon.

Not just you bro, which was the main reason I stopped gambling anyway. It is easy to say you can have fun and just count everything as well as losses as part of the game. However, once all you do is to keep losing, there is no soothsayer that would really need to tell you to stop unless you just want to keep losing the more which was what I noticed in my own case.

Yeah, and that is the big mistake a lot of people always end up making and then discover that they have lost both the big win as well as their own funds at the end of it all. There is even something about most of these sites; they tend to make you feel too comfortable until your level of comfort will end up making you to keep going until you see yourself losing a lot.

The thought some people usually have when they gamble is that they are just going to get lucky overnight and end up winning a lot of money with either some game because it is provably fair and assume some strategies will just keep working for them to keep earning something tangible every time.

Although, those little amounts are not even worth gambling and it is better to not even gamble at all as far as I am concerned or probably just spend some few dollars trying your luck on jackpots.

Your probability and mathematical skills can only work a little bit or give you an edge somehow, but there is just no way you would not have to depend mostly on luck because that is the only way you can win so much but even at that, if you do not give yourself some brains, you will still end up losing all anyway.

The truth is that the house cannot be beaten and if everyone could have, we would all have been rich by now doing nothing but auto playing.

I am so much looking at how the fall of ripple may be like. Ethereum is by far super and no one should be deceived by the ripple pump or the jumping to second place due to the increase in market cap. This is a controlled environment and that is something I really would not place much value on anyway. So for someone who wants to invest in ripple, you may as well just decide to hold some USDs instead.

If they are really looking at the long term thing, then ripple should be the last of the coins you want to put in your portfolio. For the short term profit though, that is really not bad. However, either short or long, Ethereum will always be a better choice for me when it comes to investment than ripple. Ripple is a centralized coin and I really do not classify it as a cryptocurrency.

Fiat is just the best way. There is no other cryptocurrency you can trade with except USD/USDT as the case may be in most exchanges. This is the only way you can hold a currency that would not fluctuate if that is what the OP is really looking for. I have been trading mostly USDT pairs and some BTC pairs and I have noticed to be making a lot trading USDT pairs anyway but it all depends on everyone.

No one can really know anything. It is an unpredictable world and one definite thing is that there is a lot of uncertainty, fluctuations and some of these coins really end up getting soaked with BTC rising up, but looking at last year, we can see that most of those coins are not where they used to be as they have really increased in value a lot and that is one way to get to know how well things can still be for alts. Look at ETH, DASH, LTC and the likes and the level of percentage at which they have increased.

There is no way we should never expect a rush as some people nowadays are busy looking for the easy way out and that is a bad thing.

On the other hand, there is also a good side to it, as I have seen a lot of people who did rush but eventually got to understand how the whole crypto system works. We cannot discard the fact that some people are too lazy to study, but as long as they feel things are going to be right in the long run, they will surely keep coming.

The price of bitcoin coming back up is something that is bound to happen anyway. The whales are always the main dudes in the market and it has shown that the level at which they really have much power to get the value dropped to presently be the base we have. Right now is the best time to really get the best value from bitcoin as within the next few months, some of them will resume back after the long break.

We may just have to assume that a lot of people cashed out for the festive period or possibly state the fact that the huge correction was really needed and expected to bring back sanity into the market. I thought it could even be worse than this, but it seems the market is still quite strong and a lot of people and investors despite the huge dip in price still decided to hold anyway.

Oh! I am sure this would be the case. Bitcoin is in the limelight and we all know what news like that is really going to cause for huge adoption. Taking off as far as I am concerned is guaranteed and for those who switched from Ethereum and vouching for Ripple because the market cap is increasing, I am sure they will finally get their questions of ripple taking over answered. Of all coins, ripple? That makes me laugh.