Thanks for the warning, we are all aware that eventually, correction will happen. Corrections is just normal in any market and crypto's is no exception. It needs to adjust itself for it's overvaluation. Lately, we see the price goes to another level and sometimes it's really hard to understand why people are still buying at this rate, because sooner or later, it will go down and those who bought it at the top (highest price), will be trap.

I'm prepared and ready. And you are not the first one to really give us this fair warning. Although I hope that you have really a good intention for giving the community a fair warning. Because other's may see this as just another way of creating FUD around which we don't like because it causes panic specially to newbies.

We will cash out, but most of us, will still keep the money back to the ecosystem and will be buying it at a lower price when the correction happens. I cannot think of any investment right now that can give you back the amount of financial win that bitcoin or crypto's can give you. So why invest in others instruments?

OK. So this is one of the positive news that push Ripple to suddenly have a good jump in prices. To be honest, I was shocked to see Ripple on the #3 stop on coinmarketcap, astonishing 79% increased. Never seen any coins that quickly pump like that, except for shitcoins who will all know are just there for the all knowing pump-dump scheme.

Asian market is really the prime movers of crypto's. And it looks like they really making good decisions and selecting coins that has the potential to improved banks business model and to make like easier not only for them as well as their customers.

Its not all pump-dump now for the top coins, there's rationale behind all of the price increase today. Of course investors will still ride the waves to take profit whenever they can, but at least the prices is not artificially growing and not misleading the public on why the price is boosting and going to the moon.

I don't think that he is a stock market giant as Warren Buffett though. Speaking of Warren, did you just know that Crypto world is already worth more than his Berkshire? Amazing run.

It's possible. We don't know what made him talk about bitcoin specially lately that we have seen him attacking bitcoin. It could be that he want the price to go down deep and then purchase large quantity. Whales really want to create this stuff, by behind those bashes are intentions to buy back bitcoin at a discounted price.

LOL. That will be really funny. I assume he just missed the boat and didn't invest in crypto's. Remember Mark Cuban? He used to be anti-bitcoin but look at him now, he suddenly chance his stance and I'm sure that he already investment in bitcoin. They all said that its a bubble, but they can't really stop it, so they just joined the bandwagon and ride the waves.

From my view, it's gonna be very hard for us to cross $20K at the end of the year. I suppose when all this financial institutions came into picture, I noticed that we have less and decrease volatility. That's why the prices just keeps hovering in the $16K-17K in my opinion. To really push the price to $20K. Investors will really need to flock anew and flood the market with their cash. So I don't know if those financial institutions greatly bring positive effect on us or not.

This has been the price is last couple of days, although it's not going down, its not increasing as well as we expected to cross $20K at the end of the year. Well, CME will have the change now and see it this can push the price even further, but I wouldn't be surprise if they didn't. Looks like to me that the speculation around CME is already price in. I'm very bullish and positive but there's something I really saw when they all join in. Bitcoin price being quite stable is very surprising.

Sorry for your lost mate, but no one can really stop Ethereum going to the right now. I also lost as well when I convert some just a few weeks ago.

I believed so. Being the second top coins it should be valued as closed to $2K by now. But it seems to be having a hard time even breaking 4 digits. But it has a big probability to get it there if this upward trend will keep on. We have never seen Ethereum being push like this and it seems it still has more leg room to reach $1k.

There are a lot of reasons that Ethereum is growing today. One main driver of it is the UBS announcement of Ethereum based initiative.


https://cointelegraph.com/news/ethereum-surges-past-600-on-ubs-announcement-of-ethereum-based-initiative

This is really a big news for Ethereum. This should have happened years back because this coin has more features to offer as compare to bitcoin. But it looks like a lot of companies now has seen what smart contracts and Dapps can really do if they implemented it. So I'm betting that not only bitcoin but altcoins markets will bloom and expand in 2018.

Oh please. myetherwallet has given us enough warnings about phishing attempts. So don't put the blame on MEW because you lost all your tokens. Go 2 steps behind and see how you secure your wallets, Private Keys and Password. So should know better that clicking anything on the web right or opening something on your email with untrusted source is the worse that you can do because of all the phishing going on.

Right, each one of us has the responsibility on protecting our wallet. I also been using it for quite sometime now and I'm very careful opening it. Maybe the OP didn't bookmark it and most likely he type a phishing website. We are all accountable for all of our actions. It's not MEW shortcomings, blame ourselves if we lost because we didn't safe guard our wallets.

You can't really say for certain that is not a trap as people suggested because historically it happens multiple times already. Used common sense, its your discretion to sell or not during dips. No one can force you to do it.

Right. This is an excellent suggestion. Don't sell during panic because you will just lose. Just take it easy and just take a mental note of what is going on. You might regret your decision later when the price improved later. Contrastingly, dips in the best time to get it. A perfect buying point. That's how a successful investors thinks.

Correct. HODL during price correction. Look at in long term and ask yourself if you are willing to take less profit today, or better financial gain in the future. The  choice is pretty obvious.

It really depends where are you looking at. I'm seeing $163xx on my end. Maybe that's why people thinks that the price is going down. Personally, $16K-$17K is steady price isn't it? So no need to panic and sell your bitcoins.

Looking back at this thread after a month makes me laugh about this so called crypto winter. Its only shows that this market is really based on pure speculation and no one can tell with absolute what will happen to the ecosystem. Bearish and Bullish really can't get all along. LOL.

We all know for a fact, that this kind of upward trend is not sustainable long term, minor hiccups could be seen. However, I can't seems to comprehend while people needed to open a thread with all this doomsday prediction about bitcoin. What's their main goal? Create FUD? or just warn ordinary investors like me? 

Crypto winter didn't arrived yet, but when it comes, I'm sure that all of us has plan B for it, because we all know that this market is very volatile than at any day now, it could crash. But if you are well prepared, then nothing to worry about, I suppose.

Of course this market is based on speculation. And don't forgot FOMO as well. LOL. They are real. Demand is growing because everyone really wants to join the hype train. They don't want to miss the opportunity to earn. However, sometimes when you look at it, it's somewhat irrational specially buying at a price of $17K, makes you think that those buyers are really not making the correction decisions.

Now that investment institutional is supporting bitcoin, demand is very high more than ever. CBOE already fired the first shot and soon CME will also join the movement. From my own point of view, this is what really driving this price of bitcoin reaching new levels. And this will carry on up to next year, where Nasdaq turns to offer it bitcoin future contracts. So demands=high price=profits.

There's a 50/50 chance that Bitcoin Cash will overcome bitcoin, it can only happened if people gets tired of the ridiculous fees that we are incurring whenever we do bitcoin transactions. Lest to say, when bitcoin becomes unusable and only being used to store your wealth or hedge against the devaluation of their local currencies.

However, the community and Bitcoin Cash start off with the wrong foot, so its gonna be a big obstacle for Bitcoin hard core to just shift their funds to Bitcoin Cash. So its not gaining traction except for few pump-and-dump specially what we have witnessed back in November.

So its really hard to tell. Unless the scaling issue in Bitcoin will be resolved, like implementing LN as side chains, there might be a day when we all gonna see that Bitcoin Cash has somewhat the same of even have greater value than Bitcoin.

Lol at you guys. Just give him a break, its his opinion anyways.

But seriously, This is one of the funniest thread I have ever seen. Someone advises us to sell because of the big boys. We understand how they works, they manipulate the price from behind and if you are too weak, then you will be lost at the sea. But if you know what you are doing, then you can ride with them.

I hope that anyone who has read didn't fall for the trap. It you sell and cash it out because you want to see and get your profit and reward, that is OK. But if you sell because you believed what the OP is saying, then you are much worse than him.  . And btw, we all see the corrections coming from afar, no need to shout. LOL. Financial institutions have someone make the market less volatile now. And the best part of it, we are not selling as per your advise.

Usually bounties that are paying in tokens will requires your MEW - which supports ERC 20 tokens. But you need to setup and add custom token. Then you need to enter the address of the token contract, token symbol, and number of decimal places. It should be provided by the bounties manager in order to received their tokens.

So once you received it, you can deposit the tokens to a exchange that supports it, again, check the thread or ask the bounty manager for specifics.

As for the price, it really depends on how much funds the project has raised. I want you to read this articles to better understand how does ICO works and how token rewards are calculated although this might not be applicable to all ICO's, but its a good read for those who wants to get a glimpse on ICO.

How Does an ICO work

Its Phisher or Phishing - is the attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details (and money), often for malicious reasons, by disguising as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing

But I like the sites that you provided above, which mimics the original, that's why I bookmark ( https://www.myetherwallet.com/ ) so that I don't need to enter and give those hackers or phisher a chance to stole my ETH or Tokens on my wallet. MEW already provided enough notifications to each user not to get phished. So everyone has to really protect and check everything before opening and putting our private keys.

And its really sad to read someone becoming a victims because we can't do anything once they have stole from you. And we can't really emphasized more that its our responsibility to safeguard and protect our coins not just in MEW but on other cryptocurrency wallet. Due diligence is needed.

I suggest you read Satoshi's White Paper to truly understand why bitcoin is made. And what's its purpose.

https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Satoshi wants a system that you can used or transact without any middleman, without trusted third party That's why bitcoin is P2P (Peer-to-Peer), and non-reversible transaction. So you are your own bank. So bitcoin is not dangerous in a sense, because you don't need third party like banks to be able to pay someone in the other side of the world.

Bitcoin dangerous? Obviously it was designed not to, however, criminals has exploited it features and began to used it on their illegal activities, like drugs and hackers and scammers take advantage of it to steal from unsuspecting victims.

No doubt mate. But the problem now is that a lot of Signature campaigns are very strict. Its either you have a good post before the campaign manager accepts you, or you will be denied because of shitposting. With the increasing price of bitcoin today, a lot of people thinks this forum is a good way for them to earn good money by just shitposting the hell to get their post count. Look at just how threads are being opened by newbies.

Signature campaigns for me is a privilege, think of it as a job, you have to work very hard to earn and perform. Sadly, other see's it as a opportunity to earn quick money that sometimes they try to abuse and shitpost and when the manager and other members report them, their dreams are shattered. This is not what the forum was design, it was put to share knowledge amongst us who are all crypto enthusiast.

This. All we care is to get all this airdrop and then BOOM drop it like its HOT and take the profit to buy more bitcoin. I also don't care what's will all the fork that going on. But if we are all gonna get free coins, then why not? All this so called "variants' of bitcoin will not live that long. We all know that what they really want is to pump it, bring some newbies to it and then dump it hard. And those newcomers are now trap and can't get out without risking a lost. So just be careful and not fall for it.

1:100 are they crazy or what? Is this some kind of advertisement so that a lot of investors would patronize this coins? It they don't have a wallet and the coins can be trade, then its just another token, nothing else. Yeah, all hype but sucks in the end. But let us give them their 5 minutes of fame, that's all what they are asking anyways.

LOL. Kindly look at your source, its a GOLD balls licking website. Of course they will create a lot of FUD surrounding bitcoin. Because bitcoin already surpasses the price of gold. Heck most of the gold investors now are flocking into the bitcoin ecosystem. Stop spreading all this lies in the forum.

We already heard all this conspiracy theory here and so far none has been proven yet. Here, you can find a lot of conspiracies about Satoshi and bitcoin. 

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/9-conspiracy-theories-about-newsweeks-story-on-satoshi-nakam?utm_term=.enEVdq4bRM#.rs4NJRL8My

Oh well, I understand why so many people are really into bitcoin because it's gaining popularity, and if you are popular there's someone out there that will try to destroy you. "you can't please everybody".

Again, another newbie questions that is not clear.

Since you are here in the forum, I would assume that you are referring to signature campaign or bounty program in both bitcoin and altcoin section. As far as knowledge and experience, you just need to joined a campaign and follow the rules to see that you get paid. So it obvious that you are guarantee a profit weekly/month depending on which campaigns you joined. Some of them gives a good payout and even a bonus, while others will be basing based on the raised amount during Pre-ICO, and offer Tokens as payment.

As far as what factors, we can't really tell, if the campaigns reach a large audience, waking the interest of most members here specially if your project is gambling related, or just plain ICO who's target is all crypto lovers. If I may add, I think the best tool to really get the word out regarding your project should also include social media campaigns as well.

First off, welcome to the world of crypto. May I know what you invest in crypto in the first place? I just want to know the reasons so that we can give you the right answer that you are looking for. If you just say that you come in and bought it without doing any homework then why are asking this questions? You should have at least study crypto's and if you did I'm sure that you know the answer to your questions by now.

Are you here thinking that you will get rich quick? If yes, then this is not the perfect place for you, I'm sorry to burst the bubble.

Why would you want to know about blockchain? Blockchain is just the underlying technology behind bitcoin. No need to deal with them unless you are going to be developer. But from the looks of it, you aren't. No need to buy books, all knowledge based is here already. You just have to explore this forum and you will get the answers that you are looking for.

Network is very congested in the last couple of days, because of the recent price surge. This is always the case when bitcoin reaches all-time-high. Many people keeps cashing it out, I think it peak at more than 217K unconfirmed transactions then slowly going down to 170K. And now its down do 104K, more than cut in half that's why our transactions are coming in. Hell, even I got a struck transaction for 3 days as well. Unfortunately, I can't cash it out because I have lost a significant returns. Will wait they the price gets to at least 18K once again.

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Even some campaign payments also have some issues resulting to a lot of participants complaining. But we can't do anything about it for now, not at least if Lighting Network is not yet activated, It's been test I believed, and at least this sidechains will make a significant improvement on the slow tx confirmation. Let's see if they can implement it this year or early 2018 to try to alleviate this network congestion.