Whoever is saying this year is the same as last year, is either blind to see what has been going on to be able to differentiate between a bull's year and the bear's year. Totally, last year was a year of uptrend throughout with the bulls taking full hold of the market, driving the market for as long as they want to and then boom, the dump started happening which led to this year, so they are totally different. However, there is a lot of optimism in the market towards the end of this year, but I would not really be so much in haste until I see a clear signal of an uptrend even if it is in the short term.

Well, we still have some months to wait for and no one absolutely can tell what will happen, but technically, bitcoin is in an indecisive state and whoever wins the fight in this case is where the market will tend towards. So, the question now is, will it be the bulls or the bears? As long as we are able to hold above $5800, then there may still be a chance, but all these will depend on how things happen in coming months if we are going down first or we are going up first.

There goes the shushing! . Really, I see no reason why anyone should be worried or depressed over the state of the market with all that has been said on this forum entirely. The problem is people do not like listening to the truth. You tell them what they should not be doing, but because of greed, they end up doing it anyway.

You tell them what to do and because of fear, they end up not doing it as well. That is the problem with someone without knowledge trying to invest. They never get to make the right decisions. If anyone is not seeing this as an opportunity to buy, then I wonder what they want exactly. When we cannot predict the dips and pumps, I am sure no one could be satisfied with their decisions on buying and selling at right times.

These days, looking at the fact that you may still need some money to be able to do some of the things you need to innovate, it is still very necessary, However, for someone that is highly motivated by the desire to want to create things, bring about an impact to the world and be able to tell himself how much he must have achieved at the end of it all, will always find the drive even during any challenges as it keeps coming irrespective. It is how it is, but we cannot always have everyone thinking the same way, can we ?

As some are there to want to innovate, some are just simply out there for the money.

They must have started recently, back in December it was so expensive and took so long that I think they would have rather used whatever the old method was . I believe we need to improve bitcoin insanely, the blockchain of bitcoin is slow and can't take the load and fame bitcoin is getting.

Right now at this day it looks fine but when those December people finally come back and the transaction count increases by tenfold like it did during December the blockchain couldn't handle all of that and got jammed which caused all kinds of problems for everyone. I think we should improve the blockchain at once before the word about normal day usage of bitcoin gets out so we can actually support that claim.

Well, that depends on how smart the smaller investors are, but as crazy as it sounds, small investors are always the ones who panic easily rather than buying the dips, and then when the market is in a state where it keeps going up, they start buying instead and joining FOMO in the process. The market is highly speculative and there is no doubt about that, which would always make it easy for the manipulators, but it is always better to know that irrespective of these manipulations, the future is still intact and that is what you should be placing your focus on.

Making traders feel uncertainty is the essence at which the manipulation comes into play in the first place. More like trying to scare away the weak hands in the market to dump so they can buy a whole lot lower, or at the same time, trying to instigate FOMO so that some greedy investors who want to get rich overnight will hop into the front of the moving train and then squash their hope.

All is about the whales making profit over emotions in the market and with the crypto market that is decentralized, it just make that seems so easy.

2 trillion dollars is about enough.

It is not insanely unimaginable or something but it is also not too easy to reach. It is right in between, doable but barely. If we reach those levels than bitcoin and all the following coins probably reached their potential and all of them maxed out and if I know crypto right there will even be a drop in price followed by a long bear run before we can rich that again . That would be the first trillion dollar market to drop 50% in marketcap when we reach there.

We are innovators believe it or not, we are the ones who go thru the wall and we bleed yet what follows us will be easier thanks to the path we made.

Still,  I would say 'yes' but I am kind of scared right now to say anything about it. Bitcoin might be ready to jump, it might be ready to drop in price, it might be ready to just stay there like this for years who knows. I am afraid of saying anything about bitcoin, it has been a 10 month bear market so far and I always kept saying "now its time to jump" and every single time I stand corrected and the price just went down.

Whenever it went from $6k to $7k or $6k to $8k all I did was get excited and hyped for the incoming bull run yet each time it dropped again. From now on if I see the price going up I will not hold my breath because I know there is a higher likely chance of bitcoin dropping than increasing.

If only people can realize that nothing lasts for long and there will always a two sides to the coin, then they will understand that this is just a phase and nothing else. As long as you understand that as a person, you will be able to live well with yourself, focus on the future and come back when that time comes to see yourself not being filled with worries. People are focusing so much on the short term that the lose out on the vision of the long term in the whole equation.

Being patience and watching out the market calmly are the things I do suggest everyone when they do hesitate to buy at dips. We must understand that nothing big negatively happening with this market then we can stay positive and calm.

Being stable is not bitcoin's or any crypto's job. They are not here to be stable, they are here to make some statement to governments and financial world. For that, they must have some big value within them and this is the core reason why cryptos are fluctuating and moving slowly toward multi trillion dollar marketcap levels.

When the marketcap reaches its high time picks than the financial firms hear about our names and start to take notice. Look at how no one cares about us right now. Back in December when the bitcoin reached its ATH and all other coins followed it than the financial firms took notice and talked about how bitcoin is bad and all that because they were scared.

Bitcoin is not here to have a stable price for you so you can sleep better at night, if you want that go buy gold. Bitcoin is here to make a statement and that can only be done with marginal swings.

Okay, maybe we will get to see 4 day work week which means there is apparently no need for more than that in the long run anymore, but my own issue here is that, seeing something like this happening, will also lead to some loss of jobs with robots and AI taking over which is the technology I am sure that would really bring about that.

I know this is not something we can avoid and somehow, it is inevitable, but as it is, it is better people started thinking of the skills they can acquire which they believe will always require humans to do. Just looking at it from that angle!

Yes, the only thing we can do most of the time is to always stick to whatever plan or strategy we have and see how the market pans out. This is the reason why as long term investor, the need to know how to manage money while trading or investing in a market is paramount.

With that, even while you are selling, you are still getting to hold some part of the market just in case, and taking advantage of further trends and so on. Personally, when I see a market has reach an overbought stage, has hit a resistance and beginning to stall, then I know there would be no better time to sell than that.

First of all anyone who can achieve such a task would probably do it for themselves and not share it with you.
Anyone who shares strategies with you can't do it themselves. So, take all of the suggestions with a grain of salt.

Secondly we are in a bear market which means there is no chance of us ever being on a bull run for the short period of time to make it a worthwhile effort and change your 200 dollars into 5000 dollars in 30 days unless there is this huge December-like rise in the prices that everyone makes insane amount of money. Taking all of this into consideration, I would say with ease that its not possible in the next 30 days at all.

That may be your choice, but certain people prefer to always take the better risk with great opportunity than just sitting in a position for too long. It may work out well for someone without trading knowledge, but it does not mean it is the best thing to do in terms of making profit. What you are doing trading is to take advantage of the fluctuations. Now, it does not necessarily have to be day trade, as there are better means to achieve that.

This is how the emotion failure while trading may trap you out. Day trading is known for scalping like many small profit making whereas if we understand this then we may avoid unnecessary disappointments very easily.

As time goes on, I want to believe adoption would increase as the technology keeps advancing and we see bitcoin becoming a house hold name in terms of usage as a currency. Yes, for that to happen we need more people/country to adopt bitcoins compared to what we are having and what few countries are doing. Time is the only answer for all of these.

For what it is worth, we all so much believe that the future is meant to be great even if we cannot see it, so looking at 2019 is just best left with 2019 as we will see what becomes of the space as well as bitcoin when that time comes. For now, we are just stuck with the present moment, and hopefully, get to utilize the moment effectively.

It is indeed a very good reminder and as much as we tend to anticipate for things and hope they actually become a reality, what would be eventually, will take place as it wants. It is life, no one can see the future and we are sometimes all just playing a wish game and sometimes getting lucky on those wishes, but luck is not something that do come around every time. Your last statement is absolutely the blunt truth and in as much as we can hope for a better future for bitcoin, that does not mean the worst can still not end up happening.

Everyone sure have a way to invest and what tickles them to invest but the fact remains that in any investment there will always be risk and opportunities, and as long as you cannot tell what the future holds, just do your own best and leave the rest for the future to decide.

There are certainly altcoin/USDT pairs in some exchanges, if not all. At least, I am using Bittrex, Binance and Kucoin and I can definitely say those pairs are available. However, we all know even with all that, the market is still in a way tied to bitcoin which is why we get to see much ALT-BTC pairs than ALT-USDT pairs. Things might change in the long run as more altcoins are being paired with fiat, but for now, it is not like it is not happening at all with the way you painted it.

Yes, as far as I am concerned, most of the reputable exchanges that I know do have Altcoin USDT pairs even though it may not be applicable for every coin in the market but there are substantial amount of good altcoin projects that is being paired to fiat for trading purposes. They may not be as much as btc pair since we know beforehand, everything was basically tied to bitcoin but it is a start and we are going to get to see more of it in the long run which should be able to make most of the alts stand on their own.

Certainly, some people know that, just that some are so adamant and so fond of what they want to believe in that facing the reality becomes a very difficult option for them. It is an easy thing, admit that there is nothing much you are getting from gambling and be ready to live with that, or simply just stay away if you know you cannot live with the idea of losing at all as this is the case where a lot of people usually have problem, and better you are in control from the start, than trying to gain control back at the end.

Is it not even good if you realize where you have gone wrong after losing badly? A lot of people tend to push their luck further, hoping in some way they can still be able to recover what they have lost and then the ability to control that impulse as they keep losing keeps becoming hard and difficult. For someone who is able to quickly get a grasp of them-selves, it is indeed a very good start to being in control over your mistakes and making necessary amendments.

Boosting the economy has been a major challenge for a lot of countries, which apparently includes the Marshall Island in this case.

For a demographics with low access to credit and loans, for the fact that there is a huge inaccessibility to the banks, we already believe that going the digital way could be the solution to some of their problems but not entirely the whole solution as government themselves will have a huge part to play. IMF could have come out with some little bit of their own worries if this eventually gets through, which some are reasonable, but no one can tell at this stage if the potential benefit will be smaller than the repercussions or not.

Well, this on its own can actually be a very good way to start. In a way where certain people who are early adopters are able to get something tangible from the space, their own personal economy will improve and that would bring about some level of opportunities when relating to the aspect of creating jobs themselves. People over time will want to diversify as they would not want to put their eggs in a basket, and as that keeps coming, more jobs will be created and no matter how little it is, at least it adds up to a little bit increase in the economy itself. Many people have been able to utilize the space to their own benefit and have been able to use the space to increase their potential earning.

Now, that is a start and most especially for early adopters, we all know how far that has gone and as long as people will keep getting the need to be a part of the system over time, the more the need for the market value to keep growing and more people getting wealthy. This in essence will help to even create further jobs as people start thinking of other ways outside cryptocurrency with which they can invest and get their money to work for them.

More like an easy way to just discard all the noises in the market within those periods and come back later on when more people are beginning to want to join at even a much higher price and willing to pay anything for it. All the same, it is still always very necessary to play that part well and be ready to do the needful before investing.

By doing the needful, I mean, finding out the best time to invest and get the best at least for bitcoin and I am sure there is nothing much to understand about bitcoin future in the long run as that should be glaring enough to most people. Or on the other way round, just keep buying the dips and focusing more on the future. You can't miss it.