I believe your economic can be fulfilled using bitcoin and buy and holding for long-term.  We have read several stories on how people have investing into bitcoin in the past and have become wealthy through their investments.  If you have the mind to create future's wealth?  now should be the best time to invest in it and makes good money in the future. Bitcoin is going to grow and maybe in some years to come it might be in high demand and it prices skyrocket.

Bitcoin has been trying to break and remain above $4000 but it couldn't and that means bitcoin is not doing well currently because it doesn't used to stay long in a particular place like it happening now.  I foresee a bull run in the second quarter of the year and not this first quarter as something serious has to happen fundamentally before we can see bitcoin moving above $4000 and remain above.

I have seeing this happened several time since December and I believe the market is making a statement and that is the current bearish market is over and the market is some how very weak that it could not push enough for a change of trend directions.  $4,000 has been crossed several times since December last year but it could not be retained as it always hurry back below $4,000. The resistance at $4150 is very strong and that level need to be breaking before we can see bull run.

I have not read bitcoin's whitepaper but from the little understanding I have I think bitcoin was developed to be use as a mode of payment for goods and services? It was for a transactionary purposes and not as the way we are using it now as a way of making profits by buy them and hold or sell Them whenever we think it has appreciated in pricing!
I believe for bitcoin to grow it purposes must be well explain to the populace as they are the one that needs it in transactions and that is why the more people that know about it an it primarily uses of p2p the better bitcoin become.  We must promote it with the aim of bringing more people especially business people to start adopting bitcoin for they business.  Bitcoin should also be stable in pricing because it will be very difficult for retailers and wholesalers business to use it if it is unstable.
Finally I will like to get your opinion on this as this will help the mind of many of us here about this great technologies.

I started trading in 2011 and during those times I could remember a friend that told me about forex trading and he said he had about it on the radio.  I have to travel from my state to another state for the seminar about trading and from there I opened account with north finance brokerage firm.  I could not make any reasonable profits because I do panic then and I was putting my 100% focus in making profits but I lose so much that I have to abandon trading until I find bitcoin in 2016 and since then I have been trading profitabily.

This is great and it is really encouraging to some of us the current cryptocurrencies adopters.  Many stories are out there about how people are creating wealth through cryptocurrencies and this particular one is really great and I cannot lie but desire this asset for my family.  Whatever will make you to live out of the government laws and live peacefully is a welcome development and I pray my investments should also turn out great like this in future and I should be able to have a home of my own!

This is good news and I think this halving is going to bring a turnaround in the current market behavior.  The bearish trend that last this one year has made many new investors got discourage about investing into cryptocurrencies as the desire to invest in 2017 was high because of the bull run we witnessed that year. If the demand for cryptocurrencies is now increasing then we should expect good price in some days and weeks to come.

I don't know how many strategies you have created but I think we should read the comments and the aim of opening a threat before said anything.  I have more than 9 years in trading of both stocks and forex trading before adding cryptocurrencies in 2016. Your gut cannot fail you but no matter how good a strategy has been it has failed and makes you lose money one time.  Most of the professionals follow their gut in trading and that is what makes them to invest at the right time and sell when everyone thought that markets are in good condition.  I will advise us to reduce the risk by invest the amount you can lose.

I have invested in many ico early last year and of a truth I lose in investing into those icos! Some of them are no longer exists,  some did not last more than the icos ' period as the developers and icos owners disappear into tin air.  It is much advisable that you should not louch your projects into the market at this bearish market and if people I will said you should use you personal fund in develop your projects and maybe get your return after it louch in the cryptocurrency exchange market and that if it is doing well.

It is good news that this has happened successfully and I could still remember that it is because of this that ethereum went down in 2018 December when it was postponed.  But now that the hardfork has happened I now believe that in some days and months to come this hardfork is going to push the ethereum price upwards and as such some of the ethereum tokens. 

Bitcoin getting to $1,000,000 in 2020 is possible but I don't think it can happen in that way.  Bitcoin is currently below $4000 and 2020 is just some few months from now.  If we are going to see bitcoin above  $20,000  that was the highest place it ever go to it might not be this year and I think even if about 10 country adopted bitcoin today it will be difficult for it to get to $1,000,000 before end of 2020!

I still believed that 90% of world populace did not hold any coins and about 70% may not have had about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies!  That means few of us are holding bitcoin and others cryptocurrencies and that means if bitcoin goes mainstream there is no way we would not be making 1000x if we can hold for long-term.
The longer we are able to hold the more money we may possibly make from the cryptocurrencies market because the future is super bright.

EOS is one of the coins that is making great wave across the cryptocurrency world and I think investing on it right now will put you among the wise investors this year!  I have bought some units of it in December when it went down seriously and my investment is now in green.  I believe that it is possible for EOS to grow to some were around $50 before end of this year and that means with investments of $300 today you will be talking about thousands of dollars by the end of the year if my prediction come to pass.  Coins like neo,  waves, stratis and dogecoin may do well this year also.

I believe that the whales are playing hard game and that means we can only succeed if we understand what this big guys are doing and invest along the way with them.  Some people are commenting that if you study the buying and selling walls you will understand when the market is about to drop and I believe that is how it supposed to be but the reality is that it is very difficult for us to analyze all the exchange and know what the sellers and buyers are doing.  There are technical tools we can used to analyzed the market  position and what is about to happen in the market and I think developing our knowledge on how to analyze those tools should be the right thing to do.

From what is happening to ethereum and others altcoins we should no that there did not depend on fiat or any of the world currency but there absolutely depends on bitcoin and bitcoin is the driving force behind there price action.  Ethereum hardfork that many believe is going to affect bitcoin and others tokens did not have any infect because bitcoin is not affected.  We should know that if funds are flowing to bitcoin then others coins are going to benefit from it.

In as much as we think the cryptocurrencies market is in bad condition I will advise we should not lose our confident on the market. This market is still new to about 98% of the world populace and many people did not know the benefits of cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology in particular. In future we should expect the holders of cryptocurrencies as the world richest people and that means those that keeps faith and hope now are going to be among the richest people.  It is very important we should understand that some of the coins we are seeing now that are below $10 are going to worth $1000 in some days to come.

Majority of the new listed altcoins are not doing well and most of them may die and therefore I will say op should focus on those coins that have good technology and team and at the same time are well established.  Those coins you have mentioned are really good for investment and that is if op has decided to diversify his portfolio.  The ethereum classic he is currently holding is a good coin and might just need patience in other to turn that into fortune in future.

Maybe we have over rated him of having effect on the cryptocurrencies pricing but I think his statement is not the reason why bitcoin is not doing well now.  He is free to said whatever he thinks are right but I disagree with those statements and I believe that many of us here knows bitcoin has values and it is not a delusion.  Since we know that bitcoin is now contributing to our finance and economic I think those statements are made with something in mind and that is to create FUD.

Whatever you do and you are making money from I don't think we should refer to it as addictions.  I also think that for you to win in games you must have developed your skills in it and that is what gives you that winning and profits and as such it is important that winning in game is not addict nor favoritism but skilkfulness.  However,  in gambling one can be addicted because it is only luck that makes you to succeed.  So many people lose because they did not understand that in gambling it is very difficult to win unlike game and trading.

Ico could have been the best way to raise funds for your projects and in 2017 many people and investors has made good profits investing in projects through icos but in 2018, it seems the ico has been miss used by scam and fraudulent developer.  Many investors here have different story to tell base on what has happened and I in particular has lose money investing into abandon projects.