A great source for this, is http://www.coindesk.com/ for me this is the best site of news, they always post news about bitcoin, regulations and altcoins, for example, there i read the news about ripple and banks, or when there was the eth fork called etc, Is important to follow the new if you want to make your own predictions.

Other great source is this forum, here lot of information about bitcoin and alts roll all time, you just have to search in the right sections 

I  ́m not sure i would say Steem is “promising”, but, for sure, its increased the last year is interesting... from less than a dollar to more than 20, And, yeah, there are several
others, like eth who is already hitting the moon.

If you have all the year to hold no matter what wave you ride, all of them will go up and down at some month, just think about how much profit you want, get the coins and when you hit that profit sell.

BTC is the most famous, people socially believes in what other people believe, so... I think BTC is going to be the leader for the next years. A lot of newbies wants to come into the  Cryptoworld, and society believes in BTC. If everyone believes in something, would you chose differently?? I don’t think so.

I believe Ripple, is going to rise up, as another altcoins will do. But BTC is going to conserve the crown for a while.

I think bitcoin is becoming money, because you can use it as a coin (selling and buying stuff), but its price is always changing, so no, its not a coin (yet). Its value is working more like bonuses, where the real price of the stuff is just based in speculation. In the other hand, I think BTC is an active, a bonus, in a process to become money. But what is money? Historically, money is something with a value because there are not much, you can hold it, transform it, and trade with it, that's the reason because, for instance, salt was treated as coin for a long time in history.

The other kind of “historical money” was bartering, trading with stuff of use. But when coin appear in history, they were made by gold or silver or another material humanity decided to consider of value. So... is BTC money??? I think in a historical moment as the one we are living today, tech, is the new gold. There is a limited number of BTC in the world, it has value, you can trade with it... so, yeah!! BTC is becoming money. Just becoming... for now.

But it doesn't mean it's just money, yes it is money because it works like money, but bitcoin is a code, is a step in the evolution, is a block chain, is freedom, and is lot of things more... Not just money. 

Last year I used to talk about Crypto and most of the people around me just used to say nothing. By now, there all are asking me how to invest in BTC or altcoins, so, yes, cyptoworld is definitely growing up as it is being known for more and more persons everyday. People wants money, and last year many people become rich thanks to BTC, being press talking about that the hole year... I think common participation will be still growing in the future, of course.

Shocked, for sure!!! The past year was exciting about BTC!! I dint expect to see bitcoin reaching 20 grand never in my life. Well, I supposed now we are ready for anything, but last year, oh, yes, I was truly shocked!!

And i know bitcoin will have more surprises for us this year, that's a fact, so, lets keep following the market and see how nuts this thing can go.

This is the central question, which remain permanent in the brains of all. Should I invest in Bitcoin, even when it has became too much expensive?
Well, last few month we all have seen how the BTC is growing with no control at all. Experts didn’t expect that big increase last year, when they
spoke about a maximum rise of 2.000 dollar by July.

If we pay attention at the last year news, people was really surprised about the increment in the price of bitcoin. It was so expensive!! 1000 dollar!! I am sure of, by that time, tons of people stopped buying BTC, for they surely though that It was not going to continue rising, and also that, by that time, it was too much expensive. Now, bitcoin has show all us that anything can be expected. It is a hole new market, a hole new concept and everything is just speculation, but also it is the most important crypto right now...

i ́ve lost a lot of times, and right now i think the best way to earn some cryptocurrencies is earning them by the internet itself, and not to buy them with my own cash. This way the lost doesn't feel that bad, I think my mentally after losing is just to remake my strategy. Or pray for better luck, that's all 

Well thats certainly a good question, because as some governments are forbidding the use of BTC in their territory, others are increasing that. In the other hand, last december the potential list of financial system threats was launched by the US Government where, to our surprise, Bitcoin was barely mentioned, evenwhen a lot of big people in the world of economy has manifest, the same year, their concern about the cryptocurrencies, as Jamie Dimon, who last November was expressing how he thought cryptocurrencies where going to collapse.

The US Government just spoke few of crypto, based on low impact: there are not many people using the Btc and the global impact in the economy system is lower than 1 billion, so, for now, they think they don’t need to be concern at all. But will the new report be the same? I don’t think

so: everyday thousands of people begin using crypto. Next year, probably, the impact in global economy will be very, very different, and within it,
maybe they will make some different choices.

Maybe! Who nows? But the expert speculations is talking about BTC reaching the 50,000 dollar this new year. Truth is that there are several postures, for instance, Most of the russian cryptocurrencies experts expressed their optimism, as Stelana Ianova, vice-president on Prime Capital, who thinks Bitcoin is going to continue rising and will touch the 50,000 dollar during the year. Even more optimist was Yuri Pripachkin, president of the Russian Association of Cryptocoin and Blockchain (RAKIB), who is convinced that Bitcoin is going to reach the 100,000. Others, as Mansur Huseínov, director of the Found of Investment “Cryptolife” consider that it is possible for Bitcoin to fall the 10,000, but also will rise again, reaching the amount of 35-50,000 dollar.

Some other experts are talking about the end of BTC, because they think this is just a speculation bubble...

For this year i will keep my eyes in the next coins:

1.-Bitcoin
2.-Bitcoin Cash
3.-ETH
4.-Clam
5.-Litecoin
6.-Doge
7.-Monero
8.-Ripple
9.-Burst

I think bitcoin is the main one we should look at, because if his price change, then all other altcoins get affected.

I will keep my eyes in Clam and Burst because i like the exotic way they got mined, and the other ones just to find the right wave to ride on the markets.

Hello Tom.

I just take a look to your site, and great coins list you have there. I like the trending feature, always good to see what coins are on the bump.

The only thing i don't like is the links of the cryptocurrency:

http://www.coinliker.com/cryptocurrency/ethbet-yK0U

Why this links have those random chars at end? could be better for users if they can just write the coin name on the link and instant access to the information like:

http://www.coinliker.com/cryptocurrency/doge

And other think you are missing is the contact information, i would add contact and donations to the site, but is just an idea.

Great work and thanks for share it.

If you just want to store your bitcoins i recommend to use a paper wallet, this is the old school way and i like it because we can say it's free.

The idea about a paper wallet is the next.

1.-Generate a new addy
2.-Send bitcoin to this new addy
3.-Save the private key somewhere

To generate the new addy  you can use programs like vanitygen, please do it in your computer and NOT from online services, send bitcoins to that new addy and save the private key somewhere, just be creative, you can save it on a tex file, then put it on a zip folder with password. Or you can print it and save it with your important files at home. what ever you do, just remember, if you lose that private key, you will lose the money.

And what about recover the btc in the future? that's easy, just need to import the private key to a wallet (bitcoin core, electrum, blockchain.info...) and you will be able to spend that money again.
 

Hello romajs, from the question; Does the amount of BTC you are sending not matter for the price of the fee?

The amount of BTC is irrelevant for the fees, what really mater is the number of inputs and outputs, that's what really gives the size to a transaction.

As you can see on https://estimatefee.com/ the size of your transaction is  ~2890 bytes , and they are estimating a value of 419 satoshis/byte, but other sites like https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ say 540 satoshis/byte. So to calculate the fees, you have to multiply the transaction size * recommended satoshis/byte. This way your transaction should confirm in the next block.

But we know ~156.21 USD is an insane amount to pay just for fees, so i have two recommendations for you:

1.-Ignore the inputs with low amounts.
Use bitcoin core to build a raw transaction choosing only the inputs with big amounts. While less inputs, then you have a smaller transaction, that means less fees.

2.-Use a low fee and wait until it confirm.
This option could take a long time (days), because as we can see now there are 170000 unconfirmed transaction. https://blockchain.info/es/unconfirmed-transactions

I have long time with localbitcoin, the problem is now they charge fees for deposit and withdraw...

If you see the image, for my next deposit i have to pay 0.0011


https://s9.postimg.org/eegtjuuhb/fees.png

those fees are crazy just for a deposit, since they have this new rule they will lose lot of customers.

I'm searching another good exchanger with low fees to migrate, if any one know about one, please let me know 

The best exchanger for me is poloniex, i had try with other ones, but i always end back in polo. And i like it for the next reasons.

Security: User should have access to his mail for any transaction, they give the option for 2fa, and it have not a bad feedback about hacking history.
Time: They don't hold users coins, when you make a withdraw they process it fast.
Limits: Without a verify account, users can withdraw $2k/day, that isn't bad at all.

I like the exchangers who let you feel you are holding the money. sites like bittrex can be a bad experience.

By the way, if shapeshift jut had a nice fees and not a nuts one, would be the number one for me.

We can see how bitcoin was adopted for the deep web after the first years... bitcoins gives them the way to make transactions without a man in the middle, and was sold as it was anonymous (but lot of people get tracked now days...). This was what gives life to bitcoin or his first real market.

For sure there still lot of illegal transactions with bitcoin. Even political campaigns accept bitcoin donations. But now is more for other uses than for criminals. I read some where criminals like other coins now days, coins like monero, who gives more privacy to the transactions as we can see in this txid: https://chainradar.com/xmr/transaction/993e4d8a7b49aae467a10fd947b1b7f09a42ebde632415ad847867a5cefdb860 (Amount=0, fees=0) this mean the real value us hiding.

Well, as we can see in the poloniex graph, we can say it's on the recover:


https://s9.postimg.org/6fy1zkttb/ripple.png

Ripple had a nice bump some months ago, but then it crash hard. we should remember who was behind the past bump, and the answer is Banks. They spend tons of money buying this alt coin, and this was because they see ripple as the cheap ethereum, in other words, a cheap way to make smart contracts.

but here, the question is why they are sky rocketing? try to guess who is behind this the bump... maybe banks (again)

Then is a bad idea, don take it personal but remember this words... Printing money doesn't fix the problem about money printed. That's why 1 dollar never will be more than 1oz gold.

I think each of us have a good idea for new coins, and thanks for share yours, but be careful when you post a great idea here, some one could take it and develop it before you.

By the way, Frozen coin is a great name, good luck with the project.   

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