But is not Bitcoin below $3500 a Christmas gift all by itself? Who knows also by the time Santa comes to town if you are a good boy you can even buy BTC at below $3k!

I mean,,, if anyone told me last Christmas that one day I could still go out and spend my yearly bonus to get 0.1 BTC I would have laughed. But you know what? I am planning to do exactly that this year. My salary will come in early. USD is a bit strong on my local currency but I can get almost $350. I will buy 0.1 BTC.

Endless bounties? You must not be paying attention to what is going on around the forum. YES, bounty programs are still being launched. But pay attention to payout time.

Bounties keep extending and ICOs keep being postponed,,, second, those that pay out pay 1% of what is promised or even worse, tokens that never get listed. Third, projects just disappear, ICO fails, so bounty abandoned.

Bounties dying in 2018 if you did not realize yet.

Bitcoin may also fall from recession. People lose money in all the stocks and real estate and see savings going down, so they may not buy Bitcoin at all. On the other hand if Bitcoin somehow recovers or gains ground in 2019, it will appear even more attractive than all the stock markets. So you never know. If pensioners buy Bitcoin plus millennials buying Bitcoin, all that demand could push prices up even more so than so called whale investors.

Potential to gain more profits? Equal if not more potential to gain more losses,,, if you keep thinking as a speculator and trader.

Every new floor in 2018 was told to us as the best time to buy the dip, but then even until last week we kept seeing new lows,,, so okay yes for guys like me holding until 2020 every floor was a good buy. But if guys like you just want quick profits? There is no dip to buy, just new floors.

ICOs,,, they were incredible this year, and they were terrible in the same year. Can you imagine the world biggest ICOs all raised so much money this year and also in 2018 we saw everything just come to sudden stops?

I am sure things will recover for everyone just as the crypto market will recover. People and money are the same. They are new ones coming every year, and when the old news is forgotten people will resume investments as before.

This is the problem that nobody except a few altcoins has solved,,, which is to provide true value to businesses and users. Bitcoin has done that indisputably. Monero as well it solved the privacy needs and therefore continues to be a good currency. Ethereum solved the dapp need, but then we realized that not everybody can make dapps that are useful or provide value.

Great ideas do not equal great value. Sometimes, people do not want to move from old way of doing things until they find it extremely worthwhile. Killer apps?

I guess the forum ads means they are starting their aggressive marketing and they do have funds,,, so maybe we are seeing a new player enter the space. Good for all of us! Higher house edge with extra bonuses is something a bit difficult to manage in my experience however. For example at freebitcoin they have a very high house edge of 5% and even with free rewards and bonuses, I kept busting there faster than on other sites. I will try for an account here in a few weeks. Not sure about deposit at the moment with BTC so low.

Sounds quite reasonable that Kin will jump in price,,, but I do not think there is x10 anymore not even with Coinbase listing. Remember that even if it becomes 2 satoshi, this is a 100% jump in price, which Coinbase listings have never done before. Kin itself will probably be quite popular and there could be a huge userbase, but I would take caution against buying it up a lot. They are always airdropping it also and with forums now giving out the tokens with Kin integration,,, this could further dilute the price.

Hey guys, do not forget to put in your predictions for the last week of Group Stage football. I have sort of given up on Premier League pool,,, too far behind and I realize I do not know the teams well there to make good scores,,, but this one I still have hope. It is much closer and a big scoreboost can push us up high in the position.

My prediction for surprise upset is Red Star Belgrade win or draw against PSG, and Monaco Win at home. City also already qualified for top, so does United, so maybe even they could lose.

This is what I keep telling people. Last year, they were so proud to tell everybody how they diversified and made so much profit daily trading, weekly trading, with almost every buy turning into double digit profits. But that was the bull market so any strategy almost was profitable.

Diversification into altcoins was a good idea, but not to diversify everything into crypto. Crypto can be ONE diversification path. But investing in 5 or 50 altcoins does not make you safer, as you can see now,,, everything in crypto is related.

This place looks impressive, something really different from my experience,,, anybody tried depositing and withdrawal successfully yet? I have zero experience with CSGO and all that but I have heard of gamedom. I would not mind to test out the games, from the screenshots these are quite familiar casino games. Rakeback is always interesting if we wager a lot though. But why not get some of the 3 million plus players to also come and be active on this forum?

Strategy in investment is easy to say,,, harder to do. People all thought they were making smart decisions to enter crypto but the market made them all panic and lose their vision.

For me when I invested seriously in 2017, I still did not sell for profit (except for speculation) because I knew my strategy was to hold for several years. This was the lesson I saw from those who started in 2013/2014.

Let us see if 2020 proves me right.

It has been an okay week for me,,, I honestly do not know how to get better scores. Got a exact ones with 1-0 but lose out on many because of last goals and lucky goals. Do not forget to make Everton pick tonight!

Yes to slaman, I bet on football but if you see my predictions you know I lose money. I can win on spurs games but the odds are not really good so I have to win 2 times to make 1 losing bet equal. And if you see, they are in this pattern of win 2 or 3 times and lose 1. So frustrating!

$30 ETH? That would make a lot of people cry so much!

But on the bright side, when you guys entered in 2017, did you ever think you would be able to own even 1 Ether? In my country, minimum salary per month is after expenses rent food transport, maybe a single person can save about $100 max. Did we ever imagine we could own 1 ETH? at $30 3 ETH? I would use that opportunity definitely, and save up for future.

People are finally realizing that traditional technical analysis does not work. They all thought they were geniuses when they bought almost any coin last year, and made easy peasy 10x or 100x,,, and guys like me, I even just bought a few coins and flipped them twice even three times for x2 profits, I thought I was a genius.

Then this year, I used those profits to buy at what was supposed to be bargains. I bought again two even 3 more times as prices got lower. So now, I end up with many cheap coins that got even cheaper.

End result: total dollar value now is not even break even, but below initial dollar investment. But for me this is OK. 30% losses or so from start bankroll in super bear market is GOOD. Now if only things can recover by 2020 I will be fine.

I have never tried ETHlance but I would also be interested to learn if anyone has any luck there. I tried before registering accounts at similar crypto freelancer websites like XBTlance but not a very good experience. My rates were not higher than others in general but people always seemed to go for the really cheap options,,, it made me wonder how people can make money because the hours put in to those jobs are so high and payment so low. I guess machine or AI assisted jobs are very popular?

To be fair, some states are only just now beginning to understand crypto. And when all you can find and search for online about crypto is scams and profits and make money, then of course most people unfamiliar might see it as a threat to the people.

Ask the authorities in my country,,, they are not unfriendly to crypto but they recently announced (the central bank) that they are getting so many calls a week from citizens asking if this Bitcoin investment is fake or not.

Crypto is getting a bad name from scammers, and people have lost money investing in scams (not crypto).

Well actually, depending on your rank and the quality of your posting, you can definitely do some signature campaigns on this forum to earn 1 BTC but this also depends on price of BTC,,, I think many people earned full bitcoins in the past, and my highest-campaign was earning about 0.01 per week and this when Bitcoin price was not even 10k yet. I earned at least 20 weeks if I recall so that was 0.2 BTC.

And now look at BTC price, if it goes to 4k, then you need only to find a campaign that pays about $80 a week, which many do if you see the list available. Not impossible at all. Many campaigns pay that amount for Legendary.

Work peanuts,,, earn peanuts.

The thing about crypto is that it generally moves in the exactly opposite direction of what everybody or the majority thinks it will do. In the case especially with Bitcoin,,, it goes into a bull run when almost everyone says it will die. And it will keep falling when everybody thinks it will recover or go into bull runs.

So from my view,,, still too many positive and bullish predictions,,, meaning we are still headed down. When everyone has given up, this is when Bitcoin will rise. Then this will pull the crypto market up.

Hard to imagine people thought this was possible in 2018 when even $50 looks like what it will end up to be by New Year eve,,, a mere 1% of the target. Does this mean people were unrealistic when they were thinking this? But people said $10k Bitcoin was even more unrealistic and yet it happened and stayed for many months too.

What is reality in crypto? Hard to judge,,, easy to imagine. Litecoin still has a long way to go though so do not worry.