There is no doubt that the potential is there and from the current development, even with the Lite pay; it is just about time that things would possibly change for the best. Nevertheless, I am not of the opinion that due to the fact that something happened in the past in a particular manner means it would happen again in the future in the same manner. It might!

But, the fact remains that no one knows and it could just end up being a lucky guess but would not want to bank on it. Probably, 2019 will be a good year for crypto, but time will tell.

I really do not know the market talking about growth and bullish trend that he is referring to. This is still the bear's market and people are failing to realize that.

It is not about creating FUD, it is just something that is simple and plain. The demand so far sucks, and this is because of the mindset people have over just getting rich overnight, and with less concern of the major benefit they stand to gain in making use of it for transactions, and hence, has increased the speculative nature of the market.

As far as I can see, this market is not done with the downtrend, and there could still be lower lows to come.

Emotion control is normal when you are starting first, but it should be something that would disappear eventually as long as you keep learning and practicing. The only reason why emotions will keep coming forever is if you are not learning and you keep repeating the same set of mistakes over and over again while expecting different results. It is not gamble, it is trading and you require great deal of knowledge to be able to do things right if you want to make the best of it.

Holder of what ? Most people here do call themselves as long term holders still they are holding some random coins which must be having very less chances for getting bumped. Probably another common mistake .

Trying to lose your deposit? Was that meant to be a joke? If you want to trade, you should never even bring about the quick aspect into the scenario because it does not work that way. Rushing to start trading without being patient enough to have the proper knowledge it takes to be able to trade the market effectively is one of the reasons why so many people who want to start trading fail and end up losing a lot of their capital.

Learn the basics, get a strategy that suits you from all that you have learned, and then practice this strategy until you perfect it before even starting to make any move on the real market, Learning from experience is best when you are simply trading with no real money and you are either paper trading or demo trading.

Still, there is no point learning from experience first without learning from the books as you will get confused and frustrated so fast. You need to be able to learn all that is important to learn about analysis, the use of indicators and every other part to trading when it comes to money management, before even making any solid move at all.

Apparently I am doing FIRE, well doing it a wee bit early though .
I have stopped working around 2017 January or so, ever since than I have not worked for anyone ever again and I have been supplementing my income with some freelance work but aside from that I have saved some money aside and trying to not touch that as much as possible.

I already own my home and I only need the small amounts for the grocery store costs and that is about it. Firing does sound great because you do not work for other people and have less stress and always doing whatever you want but know that you will have to live a lot more modest life than sometimes you are comfortable with, there are times I do yearn for more money.

One thing I still believe is that not everyone will have access to it due to some limitations most especially when it comes to technology for some underdeveloped worlds. Sure, it has the capability of enriching early adopters over time which I believe could at least bring about some creation of jobs, funds for other investments and so on and so forth.

Moreover, I do not think crypto on its own will solve all the problems as there would still be some limitations and from some of the examples we have seen so far most especially with Venezuela, we sure know the angle the governments are going with crypto, which does not look like a way of solving socio economic problem.

I think odds are. One of the big reasons why onehash is as big as it is, because they do not arrange the odds, you bet against the other people about sportsbook and who will win, of course it makes the odds volatile and changing constantly and sometimes it means you can lower odds on some games but in the long run there are some games where you know the winning team and get x2 of the odds compared to other places.

Aside from odds the parlay is a good option, I do not want to bet on just one single match and want to bet on couple matches together for a bigger win if I can, that option is missing in some places so that is a big plus as well.

There is actually no single strategy that is not risky at any point in time and if what someone wants to be concentrating on is the provabial fair path, then, they should watch out when the system would be ready to hit them huge no matter their strategy.

I have never seen anyone with a strategy that has not eventually come out to tell you how the lost it all eventually relying on such strategy.

Just like Fatanut pretty much placed it, on a long losing streak, you are going to be losing more than you are winning and in this case you are sacrificing so much for so little, which is what I see gambling as. There are so much great ways to make money in life for someone who is smart; gambling should never be one of them.

Thinking out of the box !
That is absolutely one way to go if you really want to make the best from this space right now.

It is not about just owning a bitcoin casino, it is about drawing the attention of gamblers to your platform and we all know attentions is hardly hard to draw and you must be ready to come up with something totally unique from what others have been doing, and be ready to do it right so no one will end up playing a fast one on you to beat you to it.

Loyalty is something that is hard to gain, and if you want to draw people out from where they are already comfortable, you have to do something out of the ordinary.

It is, and it will always be an integral part of marketing campaign for most projects.

So far, it has been known as the cheapest way of pushing the idea and the product out there to potential investors and we have known how it has really helped in the success of so many project.

Quality of bounty dropping is practically based on people who are just joining everything they see and forgetting that this is a decentralize space and there will always be scams, so in that case, it is better you pick a project that is worth your time, no matter how little they are.

It is normal for some to always look for a reason why the market is down but in the real case of things, market is down because traders and people are selling more than buying, and I do not think we should be looking for more explanations than that. USDT is a centralized currency that is backed by fiat of USD equivalence. Printing more out is just a way to compensate the demand and since according to the team, it is backed by real funds, then I see no reason why that would be an issue for any market.

Yeah, that is the problem here. Market goes down and people are wondering why the market is going down and even if they end up finding irrelevant things which could have been a coincidence but in reality, cannot affect the market, then, they just say it anyway. I see nothing here that depicts what the OP is saying to be right. The market just wants to go down, so deal with it and focus on the things that matters.

It is normal to always see adoption pretty fast.
Internet, Artificial Intelligence and so many other technologies have been in existence for quite a while now but the technology is still being adopted gradually after so many years and nothing rapid.

Infact, I am surprised that bitcoin has been able to attain this stage at this early period which I still believe is just starting anyway, but as time goes on, we will get to see if deflation ends up becoming a problem or not, but for now, except for the fact that it would encourage HODLing than it being utilized as a currency, I really do not see much problem with it.

Jackasses indeed I must say. It is just appalling that the same set of people that are put there in the first place to make the world a better place are the same set of people trying to frustrate the efforts of making the world a better place for their own selfish reasons.

I do not expect anything backed by the government not to be controlled anyway and since according to the OP, what brought about this is the first place is India creating their own rupee backed cryptocurrency and having a central bank for digital currencies which the latter is the most absurd thing I have ever heard. This shows set of vision-less leaders with no iota of doing something tangible for the benefit of others than themselves.

I think we are giving too much power to USA, I mean sec is just about one country and the ETF is also about one country, these are all USA dealings and for some reason no matter what we do crytpo gets interested in what the USA is going to do and the price is moving according to USA inside deals.

I mean it was the same way on 2008 as well because when the house mortgages were leveraged by the banks there were countries that collapsed economically. I mean why would a whole huge country goes into economical crisis just because some bank in USA leveraged mortgages ?

Well the biggest reason is that people want that american money and when they couldn't this is what happens.

I really do not see any reason any one can give on why they think the maximum price would be exactly how it is, because they have none and no one knows what the future holds and I am sure the OP actually stated that. Bitcoin will hit the maximum price it is going to hit whenever it feels like and that would totally be based on how people and users perceive it in the long run.

Based on what the OP said on what he thinks, that only would be totally bent on fiat failing and then the only available option is to utilize bitcoin. Probably by then a satoshi might be equivalent to a dollar, who knows?

Asides from the fact that it is hard, it is impossible to predict exactly how the market will turn out.

It is indeed a guess work and the only thing applicable in this sense is that you are using some tools to assume the movement of the market and then betting on it which in most cases, you are also having at the back of your mind, that things may not actually go as planned and this is where the stop loss comes to play.

No one, no matter how professional can know how market is bound to end up but we can only make use of the knowledge we have to do the best we can.

I also had the same issue for a whole day but while using desktop, I was able to compete verification pretty fast months ago. It may not even be the platform with which you are using to access and upload the documents and it could be anything.

Support on the other hand is a bit bad so you may not get quality response, all you have to do in this case is to keep trying and make sure you cross check what you are uploading.

I guess in my own case, I changed my document from driver’s license to International Passport and it got accepted. Not sure if it was the desktop or the change of document that aided the verification, but what is important is to get it accepted.

I have always defended the fact that we can not know what bitcoin can do and we can't predict what the bitcoin price would be in an hour let alone what it will be in the next 4 months but truth be told I think $100k is an insanely high amount to achieve.

I mean $100k would make the bitcoin about 2 trillion dollars and the whole market is not 2 trillion right now and the volume is just 12 billions, for that to happen there needs to be 100+ billion invested in crypto all of a sudden and that is more money than most countries gdp so I doubt there will be investments at that size even with couple of whales getting into it, maybe not even if ETF started working.

One thing about a market is that it will still have its own fluctuations even at that $100k and the same way some of us are buying now when compared to the value some bought even as at 2010, is also the same way people who are just stepping into the market will start looking forward to buying by then even though what most people will now be looking for by then could be some undervalued market instead but as far as this market is already being utilized as a currency and a general means of payment on a large scale, people will still buy even at $1m at least what they can afford to buy.

I kinda incline to agree with warren buffet because of two main reasons.

First of all he is a value investors so when he invests into something he neeeds to calculate how much the stock worth in value and how much is the price so he could invest directly considering the price and value and if the price is lower than the value he grabs his check book and writes a big fat check to buy some of that companies stock, secondly he is really old and his way of investing has worked for him for decades now which means he doesn't need to check the new investing methods for people that are 50 years younger than him.

Students buy crypto and they are 20 year olds, warren is 80+ years old, that is 4 times the life difference so why would warren go into something that is new tech? So I agree that "bitcoin is not investing" but I agree that "bitcoin is not investing FOR HIM".