i agree with the idea but your subject sucks badly. because it is kinda implying that you make more money as in fiat with holding cryptocurrency. but if you really believe that cryptocurrencies are the future and have that much potential then you should have only said hodl them for the future to be rich with crypto.

you can keep on expecting and waste your time because there is no reason at the moment for price to go that low. there are lots of buy support and also what most people don't realize is that traders and market makers don't care about the drama. they are only trading bitcoin and want to buy cheap coins from you to make even more profit when you buy it back from them with higher price.

the risk alone is not important and it is not the factor you should look at. for example in a dice game you can easily change the risk to a lower amount to win 98% of the time for example.
instead you should look at risk versus reward. if you are taking a small risk but taking a decent reward then it is a good thing. for example if you had 98% chance of win and could make a 100% profit then it was good. but when you can make a small amount with high chance it is worthless.

not really. there are losers obviously in trading and there are winners but it is not really a 1:1 thing. it can be very different proportions.
for example you can buy at $1020 and sell to somone else at $1040 and that someone else sells at $1060 can you tell anyone is a loser here? no. everyone wins. trading is not just buy low and sell high to win or buy high and sell low to lose.

and yes there is no reason for earth not turning supernova and anhialates all of us in a second.
so do we need to consider that possibility too?

this is what i wanted to say too.

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and why does everyone speaks as if a fork is about to happen. well let me break your bubbles, it is not going to happen. it is the same 1 pool that switched and it is the same percentage hashrate and it will continue being the same hashrate %
and their number of nodes is not going to go any higher either.

then what about all those information that you hand out to IRS (or equivalant in your country) which is in full details.
forr example while trading bitcoin in US, the IRS sees it as a capital gain and you need to report all the transactions with full record whether it was trading or it was spending. they have been calling it "capital asset" since 2014

maybe Chinese government is a little bit extreme but surely the news sites are making it out to be 20 times bigger than it is. and i don't get what is up with the terms like "extreme ...verification"!!

when you want to trade stocks, you write out all your life story and how you got your money to the last cent and hand it over with a smile on your face to the government. but when it comes to bitcoin everyone is so weird about doing practically the same thing! as if the money you buy bitcoin with is different from the money you buy stocks or anything else with!!!

the "supposed cause" was large scale FUD so yes you are right we are always under attack from FUDsters but FUD has a short lifetime, it can not last forever.
and the reason for FUD or at least the way FUD is used is the price goes down so that those market makers can buy cheap coins before it goes back up. it has always been like this.

if true, price would have been already above $1500 and not slowly accumulting towards $1100 with a hard time.
this is just a normal come back of those who sold, buying back in with more money at their disposal.

what you don't realize is that market doesn't care about bullshit. and since there is not hardfork on the way in the near future there is no reason for panic selling or panic buying at all.

i agree but it is always like this, there is small portion of a country accepting bitcoin and people go nuts. although i have to say it is good to see a new adoption, and a real usage for bitcoin in the real world despite all this drama that is circling in the bitcoin community.

i have always heard that there were no limit for block size. so i am very interested to know where you brought your 32 MB from. can you provide a reference for what you said?

but i know that Satoshi set the limit of 1 MB because there were fear of spam attack that can fill the blocks up fast and with useless transactions and waste space. so the limit is there to prevent flood!

p.s. why did you post this question in Economics board?!

gold has no beauty! it is a rough yellow metal.
it is shaped into a beautiful thing.

and gold takes its price from its usefulness and limited supply. it is used as a jwelery, it is used because of its conductivity in electrical stuff which need that, it is also used in many other parts of science like the cancer pills transmiting the drug to the cells. and a lot more.

bitcoin is the same too, it takes the value from usefulness and limited supply. you can use it as investment or transferring money either just a simple money transfer to someone you know or small purchases with it.

in my experience the risk that gambling has you can't find that in anywhere else. and it really doesn't matter what type of gambling we are talking about. people usually fool themselves with "skill-based" gambling and think they can beat the odds and get lucky. but in the end the risk is still there but it is masked away and they don't see it.

on the other hand the risk of trading is also always there but i always find it ridiculous to compare that risk with the risk of gambling!

these days, with all the fights and bullshit FUD the only group that is being affected is the regular users and newcomers. they see the drop, they see the bullshit and lies which is flying around everywhere and they will run away. and then in a month or couple when things go away and back to normal you hear people ask why bitcoin is not yet adopted!

well if BU or any other different thing forks with a small portion of the hashrate and separates itself from the network that way, yes that 51% is something to worry about and they would deserve to be under attack if they do that.

but if it forks with majority, which is what i understand the aim is, there will be no 51% attack because the remaining hashrate that is not accepting BU or any other proposal is not going to be big enough.

all the altcoins can be much better investments than bitcoin only if you are comparing them short term otherwise nothing can beat bitcoin in the long term.
the altcoins get pumped easily and that is why they are profitable like this. you should only get in early and get out fast and early too if you want to remain a winner in altcoin trading.

someone who only has $25 to invest, surely has no idea about what trading is, and certainly can not trade altcoins with their huge volatility and the fact that they are not predictable AT ALL.
in that case suggesting to get into trading is not really a good idea. unless he has more money but the $25 is the amount that he is willing to invest. something like 2% of his whole money!

i get 1 satoshi yearly from my signature campaign.

did that fix the issue of child-like nonstop-spamming in this board and other boards from all you and ather people's alt accounts? or did that help you grow up and think and behave like an adult

i say the price is going to be fluctuating even more in this week until the whales can fill their bags with bitcoin with very cheap prices preferably under $1000

you know that all those 200BTC batches that were dumped on $1200+ should be bought back now so that you can make profit.