While checking around, I came across some write-up of how long this bear market have been and we also get to know that this bear market is the longest.

I found out this: https://www.ccn.com/the-crypto-bear-market-wont-last/amp recently.

So what's your own opinion and say about how soon will the bear market be over?

ICOs are becoming so bad publicity for the crypto scene that no one wants to join anymore If you ask me. Not to mention that people who are joining are coming for the wrong reasons, they want the quick profit without even studying the technology and that doesn't help us in the long term.

Crypto keeps on the bearish pattern no matter what, if there is a hodler right here from 2017 until now, you should be appreciated and get an achievement because you are doing the right thing as a hodler! Being a hodler means you supporting the coin, didn't you?

Happy activities for all of you, I want to ask questions and also discuss about investors this year.
1. What is the main reason for investors to leave the cryptocurrency business to date?
2. Will there be a repeat of the trust, making investors interested again?
Let's discuss it. Thank you for your attention and time.

I see that BTC and ETH are two coins that have the highest capitalization in Coinmarketcap.
But I don't know why Bitcoin is still up and ETH always maintains current prices.
Why did that happen? And now, I have to invest in Bitcoin or Ethereum?
thank you

It is true that prices cannot be predicted accurately. bulshit with those who give predictions without a basis and also only people who want to get advice

Not all of new cryptocurrencies are valuable so we should only pick some new cryptocurrencies when making investment. Most of the new altcoins nowadays are not promising and worthless. We will only lose money by investing in that altcoins.

This year I didn't get that much profits only thing I did was holding my investments , I hope all my patience will pay off next year and there will be bull market and I make more profits   

many investors are in same hope only ?? I would like to know what you guys think about next year,

We need to avoid day trading itself. Yes for crypto markets and its volatility, day trading is not at all suitable for any trader.
Unlike most other markets, crypto market is having a specialized way of easy money making method which must be long-term holding. When we are having easiest and assured way of money making with the cryptos then why should risk in day trading.

There will be no compulsion to close the open position within a day in crypto market then why should we consider about day trading whereas position based trading or long-term holding based  trading is fetching almost 99% times getting us profits.

The only requirement for position based trading is, we must trade only highly reputed crypto coins. For day trading, you may choose any coin and at the same there will be guarantee for making profits.

Coins should always be considered in a safe storage, there are lot of wallets and platform that could be used to hold coins, both of this  has good side and bad. Where will you choose to store or hold your coins, in a close source wallet (exchanges) or an open source wallet like electrum and Hodler wallet?

   

There is no magic in trading, you must always remember that if you experience to be lose in trading, it is understood you made a wrong move when you do trade in the market. In short, its traders fault. Its not true that if you are loosing in trading its not your fault, that's ridiculous actually. If you are you know the right things in doing trade in the actual platform for sure you won't encounter lose.

Hacked Customer Data From World Leading Cryptocurrency Exchanges For Sale On The Dark Web?

https://www.ccn.com/hacked-customer-data-from-world-leading-cryptocurrency-exchanges-for-sale-on-the-dark-web/

"On a darknet market called “Dread,” a vendor going by “ExploitDOT” is attempting to sell user data from the know-your-customer (KYC) data top cryptocurrency exchanges ask for, required by most jurisdictions.

According to data shared with CCN, the hacker has an ad that has been online since July 2018, in which he claims to have hacked documents used in KYC checks – including identity cards and drivers’ licenses – from users of top exchanges like Bittrex, Poloniex, Bitfinex, and Binance.

The data is seemingly for sale for $10 per 100 documents or more, with discounts applying for those who buy in bulk, all the way up to $1 per 1,000 for an order of over 25,000. CCN was able to independently verify the ad on the dark web, which is still online. No links to it will be added to avoid promoting the service."



A few days ago, this also made news :

https://www.techspot.com/news/78317-leaked-database-exposes-87gb-emails-passwords.html

What do you use cryptocurrencies most often for? If you thought about what cryptocurrency you use the most and what your favorite/most often use case is for it, what would it be? Obviously if it's private and you don't wish to share that's fine, I'm just curious to see what's being used and where people go most often for purchases, maybe pick up some new websites to visit for stuff I haven't found yet, or just share some places with other users who don't know many places to spend at.

What would the websites be, or physical places you visit for your purchases? Anybody offer discounts for cryptocurrencies or anything special? Like, what is the drive that gets you to get and use cryptocurrency for a purchase over a credit card. Special things you can only buy with crypto's or special discounts or anything, or just for the ease of transferring funds mostly?


----Edit---- Adding an edit here, thank you everyone thats posting.
***To all those that mentioned they make purchases for various things, would you care to share actual websites you visit? Sharing the names/links. The purpose of my post was to get people discussing about where they transact and to make a recommendation of where they do like to visit so that other users can see new places where they can transact where they've never known they could before. Which, if you look in this thread you can see there are quite a few people posting in just this thread alone  that don't really know anywhere at all that they can go to transact with their cryptocurrency's.  So to all who mentioned what they like to make purchases on, could you make direct recommendations of what those sites are that you like to visit?****

 That was the purpose here, I gave one of my recommendations with Gyft  website.  So all of us to know where we can transact with our cryptocurrency's, let's help out those in this thread and that may read this thread find places where they can actually make purchases and utilize their cryptocurrency.

As mentioned crypto payments were getting integrated with large scale businesses. This starts from even small shops located on rural part of the nation. Right now these stores weren't generating big revenue through bitcoin acceptance. Slowly this will change with more and more revenue being generated through crypto services.

I will stick to holding bitcoins, still have few worthless alts that I'm hoping to sell at some point.
Obviously will gather more btc as the price is attractive. For a moment I was thinking on buying in to grin as its shows some serious hype for the moment. Changed my mind though as following hype movements isn't in my nature.
Probably will regret later but it's not about the money as much as about adoption.
Maybe we as a community should focus exactly on that? The adoption rate.
Spreading good and valuable information through the merchants environment around us, should help a little.