Still early to tell dude. Its just above $14K last time I checked coinmarketcap. Looks like just a small pump. However, it could be another consolidation leading up to another bull run. Let's see how it goes if it crosses $15K in the next few days, I think we are in for another rally, however, if it continues to move around the $13K-$14K then this looks like a small pump. Investors just constantly moving their funds around from bitcoin to altcoin ecosystem.


LOL. Let's just be realistic here. I say let's target $20K. This has been a big barrier to break, if we ever surpass it up to the end of the month, then it will open up a lot of possibilities in the future.

Its for you own safety and I doubt that the exchanges will share its database to another party. Well there's are exchanges that don't require you to submit your ID, like Binance for example.

I don't think that they will share you ID from third party because it won't bring any benefits on their end.


I don't think that I can get to withdraw even 1 bitcoin so Binance is a safe play for me to trade, although lately they seems to be laggy. As for the decentralized exchange, yes it has advantage and disadvantage specially the lack of customer support.

With the massive number of people joining the crypto sphere, hackers and online criminals are really targeting us. MEW already put up a lot of advisory on their website on how not to get hack. However, they are still users complaining that they MEW wallet has been compromised. If they just followed every steps, I don't think that a hack can be possible.

The first thing to check before entering your private key is the website itself. Better bookmark it, so that it can prevent you from typing it directly, which 5 out of 10 you will get it wrong. And don't just click anything you see interesting in the Internet. Chances are, you are going to be phished. Its really up to us on how not to be hacked, its our own responsibility.

Its still up, and I don't think they have made the decision to turn it back to crypto. So there's a lot of FUD surrounding their decision. Last time I heard, there was a petition among locals to the South Korean government not to ban bitcoin. Although we can't deny that something is going on with the South Korean trading exchanges. They are almost at a premium price. That's why government is likely looking at that issue and the decision hinges on what they are going to find out.

We have this seen this before. When China suddenly suspends its trading platform around March and investigate if there's serious manipulation behind. I just hope that South Korea government though doesn't follow the footsteps of its neighbor and suddenly shutdown everything related to cryptocurrency. We are going to be affected by it for sure.

That's why bitcoin is really turning to be just another investment platform. At the beginning no one would thought that the price could go as high as $20K? And when the big whales and big boys join the market, suddenly the rules has changed. It now becomes a store of wealth.

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But for us casual investors who have small amounts stash in our wallet, I believed that its better to hold for long term and not sell our coins. Because we are small and we want to really earn a huge financial profit. We can only see this happening if we will just hold and save some, but at the same time have a extra coin that we are going for trading purposes only and do not touch the coins that are for the long haul.

He is involving himself to another project that's why he sold all his Litecoin and he even confirmed that its not a big chunk of Litecoin. He is moving to another project that will conflict with Litecoin, another reason for his departure. Although its really hard not to speculate that the price of Litecoin will go down when he exited, which is what we are seeing right now.

I also bought Litecoin around $40, I just had a hunched that its going to be pump but I have also exited at the top price and didn't bother to invest on it again because of the Lee departure.

But yeah, its really very fast based on my experience, it bitcoin could be like that, the price of it could be beyond $20K but today. Anyways, let's see how it goes for Litecoin. it has huge potential, its just a matter of time again before it will be pump and push the price to new all time highs.

There are a lot of supporters of BCH not only South Korea. Its just the trading platform their is conducive to pump and pump coins like we have seen lately in Ripple. That's why coinmarketcap delisted South Korean trading platform to it's global average price. South Korean exchanges listed almost all coins at a premium price.


Of course it will not resolved everything in an instant. I'm sure that if its deployed, so much questions needs to be answered. But it will at least a good direction to begin with. A lot of stakes is already in the line if we can't find a solution to the every growing issues of high fees and slow confirmation.

No, we, casual traders are relevant as big whales, small or big traders have a way to contribute to the booming of cryptocurrency. So think that we are immaterial as far as trading volumes is concern.


This is also what I'm thinking. Litecoin had it's day. But Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple are now the dominant trading coins. Maybe they are just freeing up their engine to accommodate those big 3 right now. Although Litecoin is still at high price, its values keeps going down. Just my assumption. Maybe we can here what's the reason behind in the coming days.

No one for sure when to know what the top price not just of Ethereum but just like other coins. The best thing to do is to look and read news about Ethereum. Bitcoin is going down, and for sure those who are dumping it and moving to Ethereum. That's a good sign for me. However, when you see that there's a lot of FUD surrounding Ethereum, better be prepared to sell it because FUD scares people away.

I still have some Ethereum as well and I was quite surprise that I have like gain 1/3 of my initial invesments. And there another wallet that I have that have dust amounts, like .08 ETH that has gain value overtime as well.

But I would advise to just really hold on it long term. Ethereum is shaping to be the best coins for me so far, not unless bitcoin solves its scalability issues, Ethereum will always a good coin to invest long term.

If this is true then Microsoft is really pushing bitcoin to gain mainstream. Them stops accepting bitcoin just a few days ago took the market to another dip, although its says that is only temporary. Maybe this is want they are doing behind, working with provider, which I have to agree that it will be Bitpay.

Steam as I have said that volatility and the high cost of transaction was the main reason behind shutting down it acceptance of bitcoin. But if they would do the same route as Microsoft (trying to give a service provider), I'm sure that they will start accepting bitcoin in the future.

Yes, the stop bitcoin as payment because of the same reason that everyone here is bitching about, high cost of fees and very slow confirmations. I can't imagine any companies now accepting bitcoin because of that issues. Even Steam, who have been an advent supporter of bitcoin stop its support because its not viable business wise.

However, as I understand it, Microsoft decision is only temporary. However, if the dramatic increase in the fees to process a transaction can't be answered, there will be a lot of business that will driven to make the same move as Steam and Microsoft.

I'm not aware though if they would open its doors for altcoins such as Litecoin or any other coins in general.

Of course, we have seen this before in bitcoin market, around the first two weeks of Dec. last year to be precise. So its somewhat very scary because we all know what's gonna happen next, there will be a serious dump causing the price of Ethereum to plummet. I'm not saying that you should sell right now, but you need to be vigilant and watch how the market will move in the next couple of day. I myself have already profited and I'm still holding some stash (< 1 ETH) that's why I'm watching a close eye on it.

But we need to understand that ICO's are mostly Ethereum and ERC20 token which is based on Ethereum as well. That's why the price keeps going up. But I don't like the idea that the price surge is due to the ICO's. There are a lot of companies looking at Ethereum smart contracts.

Just be watchful guys and you don't want to be trap when it goes down. Just my .2BTC.

1 million dollar is nothing for those big whales, they have tons of money to begin with and I'm sure that if even bitcoin didn't get to over $50K by the end of the year, they wouldn't budge a bit. But it we are going to pegged the price of bitcoin to lets say $10K, it would be x5 and it looks like its possible to be met within this year.


Yes, that's why I said that its really hittable. 2017 shows us how bitcoin to it, I know that its not safe to assume, but if you look at how bitcoin suddenly reaches all-time-highs last year, you will think that it will be easy for bitcoin to go to $50K or more this year. Maybe it can surpass it mid-year, when everyone started to renewed their interest on bitcoin and push its price to levels who never think is possible is short amount of time. Let's wait and see.

If I'm not mistaken, last year, bitcoin was also stagnate around this time, but then again we can't compare last year to today's market because times have change then. I started to think that the price would start to pick up and the price are expected to rise when we touch $17K earlier this week, unfortunately it went sideways then down as of the moment.

So its really hard to predict how the market will goes, although it still dominates more than 30% of the market, there's couple of coins that are also rising very quick like Ethereum and Ripple. So for bitcoin to really remain as the top crypto's we need new sets of investors to flock and pour more money into the market. But the question is when? At least one positive news like Lightning Network implementation, as this presents the long awaited solution to the high fees and slow confirmation that we are facing right now.

What the hell did you do that? Ethereum has been mooning lately and I don't know what the future of ADA is but its really a bad moved on our part. I have been lucky to get into Ethereum when it was below $500 although at that time the price is too steep but I take my chances and now its above $1K.

What did you find in ADA that would make you to decide to shift to it? Maybe you can share your thoughts so that we can see where you are coming from regarding your decision.


Its risky indeed, but I wanted to understand why the OP did it though. Maybe its a bad's decision on his end, but then again he see's something in ADA what we don't know. For know let's give me a slack.


Exactly, it has still more room to grow this coming year. I'm holding on it for at least 6 months and see where it goes. I thought that the initial jump is purely a pump but when it hits all-time-high and surpassing 4 digit mark this year, its really hard to ignore and I'm happy was able to get in before it surges up until this moment.

Did you download the official Dash Wallet? If yes, it would need to sync and you have to download the entire Dash blockchain because its uses Dash masternodes.

I think you should have used the Dash Electrum Wallet. Similar to bitcoin Electrum wallet, its lightweight and easy to used and you don't need to download the full masternodes and setup is an instant just like its wallet counterpart in bitcoin.

Dash has a mobile wallet apps as well, much convenient if you are travelling although you need to be careful to backup everything because the keys are stored on the device.

And then there's a third party wallet like:

• Exodus

- Which I personally used.

• Jaxx

Isn't he claimed that his twitter account has been hacked?  McAfee Warns of Advanced Hacking After Twitter Account Hijacking. So I don't know if we should believed everything from his twitter account if what he claims is true. I was also surprised to find out him making those bold predictions on a certain coin.

And it looks like he is now what we called manipulator as well. Previously, he only called bitcoin and his very bullish predictions on it. And even bet that he's gonna eat his disk on public if bitcoin didn't reach $500K in 3 years!. I haven't been following his tweets though, but it looks like he(hackers) has swayed a lot of investors on his favors, making millions in short amount of time.

So just be careful guys, watch every tweets coming from that account. You don't want to be trap as well if you follow every tweets as to what coins everyone should get in right now.

Good question. Here's a link for the [XRP] Ripple Speculation. You can find a lot of good posters in there and what they think would the price will be.

Personally, they just started with less than a dollar last year and started to climb as high as $3.50 and now sits as the second top coins in terms of marketcap. And they continue to have a breakout year this 2018. But there's a lot of questions regarding its actual used because for now it is setup to work as a centralized coin. And gears toward banking system or financial system usage.

However, people are really looking for bitcoin alternatives because of the current scaling issue. So Ripple might one of the options that's why investors keeps pouring money on it.

I don't have any idea how or what would be the price of Ripple at the end of the year though. If you are a investors of course you want it to grow, but I'm skeptics about its current price, seems to be overvalued to me.

Was really quite surprise that there's a vulnerability discovered on Electrum, I immediately moved my funds out as I was using a old version of Electrum. Luckily when I opened my wallet earlier, my funds is still intact but I can't moved it. I just shut it down immediately and just go online again after a few hours and successfully transferred my funds then.

This is to be expected though, usually once a vulnerability is found or exploits, it will spread like wildfires because everyone was in for the MONEY. Let's see how it goes though, I already moved everything but I haven't upgraded to the latest version. Thinking of moving to GreenAddress unless Electrum devs can tell the public that everything is fix already.

Edit: Vulnerabilities have been fixed already.

Newspapers? You still reading newspapers up to now? Its already outdated, we have Internet. LOL.  

Maybe what you mean Whitepaper? Of course, from my experience this is the first thing that you need to read. You must understand what the project is all about, like it is a unique project? Who are the teams behind? What are their roadmap? How much is the token is? Whitepaper should answer this kind of question. Another tip is always stays on the forum and see other people's evaluation of the ICO that you wanted to invest. Because there a lot of experienced investors or Legendary members like Gleb Gamow.

Just used Google my friend, you will find a lot of websites that talks about any incoming ICO and there review on it. I doubt anyone will spoon feed you with all the information. Its better you do your homework as well.