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.

I agree, there are really a lot of coins coming into the market that turns out to be shitcoins and just for pump and dump and then eventually lost in oblivion and ended up being de-listed by most trading platform.


And some of them turns into scam coins as well. That's why those who are legit are somewhat affected when a coins turn out to be a scam. And its really hard to filtered out which ICO will turn out to be a scam until its too late for all of us.


That's why China bans ICO in the first place. It really turns out to be circus out there because many ICO's are popping out with new unique technology to offer. Just a copy-cat of those who have existed before, however, people still invest on them and lost their funds. And China step in and decided that its time to ban and stop them for screwing and milking other people's money.

I have to say that I agree with you. The really best time to buy ripple when its really under a dollars but then BOOM!!, it suddenly rose drastically that we wouldn't thought that its possible to get more than $3 today. And some say that it can overtook Bitcoin. LOL. That pushing too much. We should be enjoying what Ripple bring us today because of the sudden pump.

As for buying, last 2 days it was on a dip even going below $3 so I hope you guys where able to get it and stash more. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to buy though, I just glance at the price and never had the chance. I just advise people to not really buy it at top price because I have seen a lot of altcoins that has been pump so hard but eventually dip. So those who have bought it at a high price is now trap.

What you have tried to picture can really happen. There will be one day a bitcoin killer. However, I don't know how long will it take for another coin to overtake bitcoin its terms of its price or even its dominance its terms of marketcap. Ethereum last year around May-June tried and says that they will do it. But they succeed. Now, looks like XRP is also making a move of its own and challenging bitcoin. Let's see how it goes though, its too early to tell but for me, it can't overtook bitcoin, there's too much as stake. No one would like to see a coin that is said to be centralized and used it banking system to rule crypto's.

If there's a coin that can really topple bitcoin, its could be a new coin that hasn't been in the circulation yet. Its not yet born, so I don't think bitcoin can be stop in the next 10-20 years.

Bitcoin is trading at almost $17K a pop, and the past couple of days, it look likes its holding it ground after being on a bearish and sideways trend last month specially before Christmas. And we have heave a sign of relief after seeing it moving upward. I thought that we are consolidating before marching for another bull run. But it didn't happen, so I guess we need to wait and have patience.

I didn't dump my coins when the price get to bottom $12K-$13K, I have patience and the best option is just to hodl on it. I must say that I'm also a loyal bitcoiner, however, I learn how to trade in the altcoins specially before their all become this boomed. So I guess I'm lucky and have profited from the altcoins pump-and-dump. And really learn how to diversify my portfolio and took advantage of every opportunity to earn if bitcoin is down.

How can you be so sure that the price of bitcoin would drop? Aside for the high fees and slow confirmation, what do you think of others factors that will sway away investors in pouring their cash to the ecosystem?

We are still in the support levels isn't it? In my view, this should be the correct price of bitcoin around $13k-$15k. What we have seen in December is lots of irrational buyers who are buying at top price of $18k-$19k because of all the bitcoin future contracts offering from financial institutions.

However, since the market corrected itself and somewhat the price "stabilizes", I do think of only one attribute that can really push the price of bitcoin, Lightning Network. Let's see how it goes, no timeline from dev yet but I have read that the test is successful.

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Sounds like another player in Mortal Kombat? LOL.


In my view, $16K is another barrier that we need to overcome now, everytime we reach that price, lots of dump followed immediately, I guess investors really do think that its the been time to dump their coins. However, the dumping opens up another perfect opportunity for others to buy bitcoin once more. So its gonna be a tug of war, up until the end of the year. 2018 will usher a big boost on bitcoin, specially that there's a looming fork + Lightning Network.

Let's see, for me getting $10K is already good to close out the year, moving to $13k-$16K will be a added bonus. And I'm excited what 2018 could bring to the table I'm one of those who thinks that this is another crazy year for all of us.

Let put things in perspective first:

1. 2017 is a breakthrough year for bitcoin and crypto's. Beginning of the year, no one knows what crypto is. The only thing we hear from media is all negatives. Bitcoin is used by criminals to buy drugs etc.. etc..

2. Sept 2017, China break away after years of being the lead. Bankers attacks, bashes bitcoin and calling it a bubble.

3. Institutional investors came into the picture, offering bitcoin future contracts.

4. Bitcoin prices grows to astronomical level. Almost touching $20K from $700 beginning of 2017.

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So 2017 is a big leap towards crypto gaining popularity. So I have no doubt that its only beginning. 2018 will be huge, people talking about crypto's, lots of them what to buy, altcoins having a renewed interest from big companies such as Microsoft, IBM and other sectors are well. What I'm saying is that the trend will continue in 2018. There might be challenges and bumps along the road, but it can be overcome leading to flourishing and another successful year.

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Agreed. Its a fair assessment that I have noticed as well. It looks like they have waited until the last difficulty adjustment before making their moved. And then social media went frenzy over it. You will find a lot specially in the twitter sphere. Even CNBC is clearly on the payroll. So clearly its another well planned attack again.

They are really targeting newbie traders here. Inexperience traders who will buy anything they think they profit, but in the end they are the real loses here.

The price of BCH went as high as 70%. The picture clearly shows its a manipulation. I hope newbie traders will have the common sense to get out while they can, instead of being trap in the next few days when all of this crumbles once more.

Spot on mate. All this points to the Jihan Wu/Roger Ver faces all over this attack. And damn, many fall for this trap because the price is suddenly pump to a point that its unbelievable. But I'm sorry, I'm not one of them. I won't fall because we already knew who is behind this manipulation. But I like the timing though, They are really doing everything on their part so really disrupt and create a lot of negativity around bitcoin.

I don't know if they are scared of Lightning Network, but one things for sure. They will do anything at any cost, including shills, paid media articles even CNBC is on into it:

https://twitter.com/CNBCFastMoney/status/943313327249330177

And this artificial pump will end up soon. Just watch and all the jokes and meme's will explode in the next couple of days. I'm betting on that.