The price has been stuck between two trends for too long, there are traders who are depending on the price movements to make money and earn a living which means they need to see bitcoin move up and down all the time.

Now, that for months we have been moving between the same prices even at higher rate of 3.2 thousand dollars and 4.2 thousand dollars they were capable of making money, however now that people are not willing to sell bitcoin for too long they have realized that the price must go up in order to keep that up and down motion or even just up motion to make money for those traders which includes all the whales. What we have seen in the past 48 hours has been the reflection of sellers not willing to sell too low and traders who want to see some movements.

I still can't believe it happened so quickly. I was waiting until may to really see bitcoin to go up but it happened way before I expected.

I am sure this must mean just great things about bitcoin, now that it is higher and broke the 5000 resistance even if we go back down it won't be too hard to go back up this time around because the resistance is already broken once. From now on time will tell what will happen but I am sure it will be just too easy for us to go higher and higher.

I am expecting a 8+ thousand dollar finish for this year. Probably closer to 10 thousand dollars, which means when we are getting closer to halving at 2020 than it will just go break that all time high. We are just one year away from it I can feel it, in one years time we will see the ATH price broken.

Good timing with the name, so you saw april fools everywhere and you suddenly realized "wait a minute, some ICO's are so bad that they could literally be considered an april fools"? . That is really hilarious. I have seen some "joke" coins to be honest, https://uetoken.com look at this for example, dude literally created a joke token and told people "you are giving me money and that is it" and people literally gave him 50 thousand dollars for it, they didn't get anything back it was just pure fun and named "useless ethereum token" and people still funded him.

So yeah, if you talk about these type of joke tokens they do exists and I find them amazingly fun to check, people who gave these guys money knew what they were doing, they didn't expected these coins to get high one day they literally just chucked and throw away their money to him so I see no problem with it.

Are you looking for something that would give money like dividends or are you looking to just let it increase. The problem with the stake and masternode coins is that the money that is produced from there could be used for selling, so even if you have insane amount of dash, that's enough to just wait out for the price increase and whatever you make meanwhile can be sold in order to fuel your income needs maybe.

This the reason, why those coins have harder time going higher. However if you invest into things like bitcoin as you can see you can make money from it. That is why it is important to select which type of investment you want, that you can earn when it goes up or one you can earn constantly, one will give you money all the time but not make you rich over night ever and the other can just stay same forever but has a chance to go off like today.

People have been getting hyped for smallest changes and getting sad about the smallest drops so we need to figure out a way to reach out to people who think bitcoin cares about couple hundred dollar changes because it doesn't.

The moment we can make people realize about the "resistance" levels and where they are than we can actually make a difference. When bitcoin goes to $4200 or so people are hyped about the increase but they do not push it a bit forward, they just go "aw it went back down again" well it did because you didn't push it hard enough.

If we can somehow manage to break that resistance we can actually go as high as $5700 without any challenge on our path but we never really get together and break that 4200 barrier anywhere. If we can get together all of us bull seekers and use our money to break that $4200 even in one exchange the arbitrage bot traders will take care of the other places anyway.

I do agree with most of the historic parts of the discussion and certainly the "elites" are not even the elites anymore.

Back in the day elites were people who had strong families that are known because the lands were not really covered big and if you had a strong family in any country you reside you would be basically having your own huge lands where people live and you were not even king, say you are in ottoman empire in the biggest time of their era and there was a king on top of everything but you had a huge land in antioch and everyone knew who you were and you basically just rented the city to people and collected the cash, that was "elites" back in the day.

Moreover, in today's world the elites are hiding, they are not doing stuff with general public, they do what they do behind closed doors, they do not want or need fame at all. I don't think they "lost" control just yet, they are just hiding right now.

Whales are just part of every ecosystem and hence manipulations are also happening everywhere and we the small players need to sail on their directions in order to survive otherwise staying away from active markets is recommended. We are all assuming that whales may lose their power over the time but the bitter truth is, group of people who are managing institutional funds may remain as an big manipulator forever and their impact may not find an end. This is the reason, I am saying that whales are just part of system and we must need to get practiced to live among them.

Some whales (either natural or formed) will always be there and will manipulate the market directions but how we make use of those manipulation is alone accountable and definitely not the existence of whales nor their act of manipulations.

As bitcoin falls into the category of alternate investment vehicles, like gold, bitcoin also will remain undisturbed by governments and federal banks forever which may be the enough reason why bitcoin price will fly when people will lose their faith on their government and primary investment vehicles. An economy crisis will happen when money flow is getting affected then people look for securing their saving into alternate opportunities and with 10 years of successful run, I believe bitcoin may satisfy people with its decentralized characteristics.

As per few economists that another global economic crisis may not possible in near future but a slow down may happen as new innovations are lacking to keep money flow intact. Due to negative populations in many developed countries, such slow down is expected and manageable hence bitcoin may not get any chances to prove its strength in near future and may grow on its own ways and pace.

I think learning by trading is a good option. I mean you can't just read stuff and expect to be a good trader, of course if you read other successful people you will start 1-0 ahead of the person who just goes into trading without knowing anything but just reading wouldn't be enough for you. A trader is literally someone who trades and without trading you can't really become a trader, so in order to be good you first need to start trading and seeing how it all works from inside.

I have known about the technical stuff for years but my real trading started after the 2017 peak because when it started to go low I realized this is my chance, bitcoin is low once again and we know it can reach to $20k because it already did and it could do it again so it felt like a safe zone where I can trade and know that one day if I fail and lose money I could recoup it when bitcoin went up again.

Without really having a "plan" in anything in life how do you really plan to be successful anyway ?

I mean you need to have a plan on how you trade and you can perfect it, it doesn't really have to be a good plan. Have a plan that sucks and even loses you money, than find what made you lose money than fix a bit of it, maybe it still won't be good at all but than you find the next mistake, maybe sometimes what you think you "fixed" is just changing a mistake with another mistake.

Nonetheless, if you continue improving your plan and system constantly and tweaking the trading plan the best way possible than in the end after a while you will be good. Think of it like practice, you may not lift too much weight today if you start, you may even injure yourself and have a setback but in the end if you consistently keep at it one day you will be lifting huge weights.

I really like watching the trends, it always shows you the ropes and what the max and min prices are in any coin. Smaller coins (and even big ones like ethereum) could change a lot but when it comes to bitcoin it is harder to make it move a lot, you can make ethereum go 50% higher with just one news like "there is a new hard fork coming" but when it comes to bitcoin you see the price going up to a point and stopping there and same applies to going down a bit and stopping.

So, you get the feeling of where it can go in both directions, after you got that feeling of it you start to use that to your advantage, you start to just go with that and start to buy at the low end of the trend and than sell at the high end of it. There is always the risk it could go lower or higher but you hope you got the trends down to a point where you are mostly correct on your trades.

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It doesn't even ask our name in our country, its just a "card" that is sold in stores and you can just pay and get a card and open an account and that is it basically. So, you can literally use it anywhere you want without even giving your first name let alone verification. I don't know if it depending on the country but those cards that we buy does allow us a lot of freedom on paying stuff.

We even buy those cards with codes on it and just give it to some websites we want to purchase stuff and that way we do not even have a skrill account at all, just giving the code works well enough. I know its not common and at this day and age of digital world having an account and doing all the verification and than using is easier than going outside and find a store that sells it but its still a way for kids under age of 18 and people who want their privacy an option to use.

It is good too see both the startup world getting even bigger, I know the startup world has been on the rise for years now but I feel like rich people (angel investors and people like Ashton Kutcher and drake) giving a bit to the people who want to build something is eliminating the horrible banking requirements (this way nobody needs to take money from banks as a loan and than have to repay, you just give a part of your company without really having any debt at all so you as owner may not earn as much but the company rises) and what this also puts on top of it is the esports betting.

We have been aware for the fact that esports have been on the rise but it has been on the rise for the people who know whats what but ask any elderly 70 year old guy and he has no idea how big it is because mainstream doesn't really share it, you can watch NFL from 150+ countries on tv but when it comes to esports finals in any game there is barevely any TV coverage and its mostly twitch. These type of investments into esports will only make it bigger.

Not all of them, first of all I bet on NBA a lot and they are aired on times I sleep so most of the time when I bet on NBA games I watch the highlights next day when I wake up so I do not really know the results during the game but when I wake up and check the bet slip.

Moreover, sometimes I bet on soccer and when I bet on it and its a good game I do watch it, not all of them and sometimes some of them collide together so I can't watch them at the same time so I pick the most entertaining looking one.

After all, when I bet on MMA and UFC I watch all of that, its just one fight and it is super fun to watch when you have something riding on it, to make the difference clear I have not watched a single UFC fight in my life that I didn't bet on, the only fights I have ever watched was the games I wagered, that much difference it makes.

I am in love with the no crystal ball . That's amazing and that /s is a proof of reddit here which I will always love.

I think there is a potential of that move but anyone in bitcoin world knows that bitcoin doesn't really react the way you want and charts suggest most of the time, you can always find a way to build a chart that shows bitcoin going down or going up so its not really a proof of it going up next week.

Don't get me wrong it could totally go up and maybe we will hit 5k+ finally (which I would be super hyped about) but it could also not drop under 3850 and than just not go up neither, spend the whole next week between 3900-4100 prices and maybe even a whole another month there.

Bitcoin is very risky to trade just because of this, you can invest into bitcoin but if you want to trade bitcoin know that it could do anything at any moment.

We need to break this resistance once and for all. I am sick of this 4200 barrier and not being able to break it, I don't know if someone is forcing us to stay here, I don't know if anytime we reach those levels the price suddenly stops because some rich people start selling or maybe it is just buyers not being big enough to break the resistance is the simple reasoning for it but whatever the reason is I really want to get rid of it.

I am fine with even 4500 which is not really that higher than what we are here but that would mean we are finally done with that horrible 4200. Without breaking that the next possible move is going to 4200 and coming back down and repeating the same process over and over again until we break either down or up. This same price trends are becoming very very boring.

I personally think the reverse should be the case because the last I checked, litecoin is just a fork of bitcoin with less features because bitcoin already has what litecoin have and people will always choose to make use of bitcoin instead of litecoins for their transaction because of the trust bitcoin have already built for itself, this is the main reason why I don't think the growth in litecoin will affect the growth in bitcoin but I know that the growth in bitcoin will definitely affect the growth in litecoin because it is part of the first coins in existence.

After waves, I do see litecoin is the second coin which made its recovery last month and there will be a scheduled halving for it to be happening this year which may be another reason why litecoin is surging.

I hope this will be a good news since from your post that I am seeing that the bank is going to be involved in this, though if this is a good new for quant then it would also be a good news for the crypto community at some perspective because the truth is that a lot of big people to put more trust on the the blockchain technology through this and this is why once we begin to see bank support the crypto move, we are going to see a lot of big guys coming into the crypto space because it going to give big investors more trust.

Well, I don't think the crypto market will or can ever crash, because the truth is that we have a lot of persons looking for the price of bitcoin to dip to $100 so that they can make purchase of as many bitcoin as possible, this is the reason why the price of bitcoin can never fall to zero since it is so valuable to a lot of persons in the world and it's not just used for a means of payment but also a store of value.

Bitcoin is truly the digital gold of the physical gold we know about and I am 100% sure that crypto is going nowhere, in short the crypto market is going to surpass the regular stock market.