I think we are all here for bitcoin now and we will not back down against the billionaire hedge funds this time. People are awaken about the price manipulations and we are not getting baited again, we are going to wait until they can run out of funds and just keep pushing it harder. People will keep on buying bitcoin at this cheap prices. Instead of thinking "bitcoin is going to die" people started to think "I should get some more when its cheaper" which makes bitcoins future really bright.

Of course there is a chance of rise in price of BTC. You know it, I know it, we all know that bitcoin will go up, it will be higher than this amount for sure. 100% bet on it. However we have no clue when it will be. Will it go down to 2k-4k range first? Will it go to 50k tomorrow? Will it be 6k for months to follow? We have no idea, but one thing we are %100 sure is that it will go up one day or another.

Yes, bitcoins and altcoins are behaving in very typical way which was not observed in the past as per my view. When bitcoin was rising, altcoins were falling and when bitcoin was falling again altcoins also falling. This results in bitcoin dominance to be really high and we know that can't stay that way for too long.

It will eventually drop (not bitcoin, the dominance) as long as bitcoin stays high the bitcoin dominance will drop because the money coming in will go back to altcoins and the price of those coins are not bad in dollar value right now they are just losing value against a bitcoin that is going up, in the end they will go up in bitcoin value as well which means they will gain value in dollar compared to now as well.

It has the first mover advantage to begin with. That is more than you can ever know. Ethereum is now gaining public acknowledgement however when bitcoin first came out and news never even heard of eth and etc people were talking about what the price of bitcoin will be on news and economy shows, which means bitcoin was known by the public and the financial sectors in a longer period of time. You have to consider this and judge two coins on that, ethereum hasn't paved the path bitcoin has gone.

Then bitcoin has thousands of sons and daughters, lol ? The prime differences I like to mention, supply limitation. Etherium does not have any cap on its total supply. It is gaining popularity due too its capability of providing easy platform for tokens but already many coins are having that capability hence etherium is not unique whereas when bitcoin was introduced it is am unique way of payment system.

In next four months probably enough time for achieving previous ATH and something around that (which may be higher or lower than previous ATH) but expecting ten fold from current levels sound really unrealistic.

By January 2015 bitcoin hit ~$180 levels (due to mtgox bankrupt) and by November 2017, it hit $19k+ levels. If you calculate in approximate it was 100 fold growth but took ~3 years of time. Bitcoin hit $1800 levels by February or March of 2017 (if I remember right) which was a 10 fold growth. It took 2 years of time. But that is the real and sustaining growth.

It means we need at least 12 to 24 months time for prices to get tenfold jump. But here we need to notice, calculations are taken from bottom levels to peak/ATH and not ATH to ATH. (Because previous ATH was ~last quarter of 2013).

Definitely bitcoin will have better price than what OP have seen like $15k levels (I assume he has missed to see bitcoin prices when it was trading above $19k). When bitcoin will be having better prices, what actually matter is, how many coins we are holding. People who have mined in early days have sold when bitcoin reached $10/$50/$100/$200/$1000 levels and now regretting. I mean, bitcoin will reach one million USD one day, but now many of bitcoins we are going to have at that time ?

It is not even about bitcoin being the main currency of the world, it is about bitcoin actually being used by the few of us here as a currency. In as much as that is not in play, the market will still always end up being driven by speculations and manipulations, and the result of what we are having now is what we will have to keep dealing with over and over again even in coming years. I believe as time goes on, things would change but we surely are not there yet.

Well, we all sure know that but most of the time, except we want to be deceiving ourselves, if we are to look at the level of those losing, it is bad anyway. For someone who got very lucky, won very big and was able to go do something very tangible and reasonable with the winning, more like an investment rather than gambling it all back again, then that is a person I would rather classify as a smart gambler.

If we are to generalize it, situations like this are hard to find, since most are losing and some who even win a lot, ends up addicted and still waste it all away.

Most commonly, the only people who always tend to get the good effect irrespective of whether they are winning or losing, are those who have never expected to get the winnings from gambling but only do it because they just want to have some fun, and anything outside that always turn out negative.

That is the main part of the game. Either you win or you lose and most times you are losing anyway unless you get so lucky. Losing is not even a problem as long as you have been able to wrap your mind around that before even making any attempt to do so; it only becomes a problem for those who are really trying by all means to want to win at all cost. They get so fixated with that mindset that they end up leading themselves to the ditch unknowingly.

The meaning of success from gambling must be differing among gamblers as I am a gambler and I am finding myself as a successful gambler even I am not making any returns from my gambling in last 5 years. But, I stay young and refreshed even my work schedule is sucking. Yes, I am successful with gambling in the case of using it as a stress burster.

Bitcoin showed some upward movement last week but now again trading below $7000 levels. By considering these, I am really scared to have big exceptions for this year end. Instead of waiting for big prices by year end, I am focusing on making use of fluctuations. Uptrend and then downtrend again.

Yes, this bitcoins volatility is both good and bad. As soon as something bad happens people quickly get panicked and sell everything they have which causes more people to get scared and it causes the price to drop even more and we go into a cycle where we keep on dropping until there is a huge support from someone and we stay and not go even lower. Bitcoin people needs to realize not all slight drop in price is the death of bitcoin.

Mostly because of FUD and people who are not patient. People want to see something from bitcoin, they get in on what they believe is a "dip" but when bitcoin doesn't move at all they end up getting bored of nothing happening and they leave. When they leave price goes lower and so that causes more people to leave and when they leave the price goes even lower. The only reason why bitcoin is not going higher is people not being patient. If we can see a slight going up like $8.5k or even a bit higher than we can see it going even bigger to $10k. All we need is a sudden spike like 10% or so and we can see 100% with that fuel.

I would never invest in a coin for 10 million dollars, I wouldn't even invest all in cryptocurrency.
I would try to invest into tens of different stuff as much as I can and never put all into just one thing, not coin not stock not business nothing, I would diversify mad and I would find business' buildings, cryptocurrencies (not just bitcoin and ethereum) and mainly stocks and bank savings account for some of it as well just to keep it safe.

If you want to put all of your money into one thing that means you are not good with your money and it suits someone else that knows what they are doing so good riddance mate. In some sense, bitcoin must be a good choice for those people who are depending on others for their decisions.

Ethereum is not an altcoin with low cap. Nano seems like it has been getting cheaper and cheaper everyday, so I can suggest nano, xvg has been dropping like its hot, ada has been another one that I can suggest, xsn is not looking too shabby neither.

Any of these coins can go down another %50 or go up, we will never know but all of these coins have been droping in price for a waaay too long time and I don't know how further down can it go and I kinda start to trust a coin that goes down a lot more, the lower it goes the higher I trust it, since it can go down only so much. When people are leaving the coin, I feel like its my time to grab some more.

For the year of 2018 and its crypto trend, I too must agree green markets seems temporary.
Still, I found this thread hilarious Look at all these people who think anything in crypto can go to zero if they are legit.

Look at the market, it is as down as it gets, this is basically a triple dip for altcoins, first bitcoin fell down so it followed, than bitcoin went down again and altcoins followed once again, then bitcoin went up but altcoin value against bitcoin went down once again, right now as soon as bitcoin goes up a decent amount and stays there altcoins will follow insanely, hell it may go up even if bitcoin goes down because of the valuation against bitcoin.

Put up taxes and regulations on government laws. If you do that people will put up their profits and capital gains on paper and they will pay for it, hell I would love it if I could pay taxes because at least I wouldn't have to hide my profits and be scared and hope government doesn't find out. This lawless way is the worst because we do not know what will happen. If there was a law at least I would know what to do.

After the law states then we can just earn money whatever way we want just like dollar or fiat currency of your nation and then we can pay taxes on it and will not have to worry about it. Regulation may help bitcoin to spread out in short term basis. In long term perspective, we do not need any regulation nor governance for bitcoin to survive.

I am afraid I have done this one one with waves, when it fell I kept buying more and more and more and now I am left with very little amount. I have followed all the bad things here I have not also used a stop and I have not created a plan for it (although I had a plan for when it went up but I did not had a plan for when it dropped) and of course I couldn't follow a plan that I did not had, I wasn't greedy.

I was just trying to make a decent return but I also liked waves itself and not just got in for money reasons, which comes to the last one, I was emotional about the coin because I supported it, I was basically a "shill" of waves because I really liked the coin itself and didn't consider it as a "trade" but more like investment.

It gets harder and harder when it goes longer, its not about the dips that makes me really sick but its the timing of it, if it went down quickly but corrected harder than I would be fine however when it goes on for months like this (it has been what 6 months since we had a good bull run?) I get sick and keep having harder time to find the will to continue.

I have been a full on crypto person for over 4 years now, I have not worked for a regular job for over 5 years yet now with this 6 months of break from a decent run I have started to realize I do need a regular job to have a base to work, thankfully this bitcoin run of my life helped me a lot to improve myself however it will not be enough and will have to return. Basically I am fine with drops but I am not fine with long term bear market.

I am not sure if anyone is wise enough to know what they are doing to do multi sports parlays, I mean if you know your sport in basketball you bet on NBA games, you can't at the same time gamble on soccer or esports or what not. I mean you can, you are allowed to and if you know two sports that well enough to put up your money out there then all the kudos to you mate. I only know basketball a bit and even than I get bad results all the time because in the end this is sports and anything can happen with the results that is unexpected.

I am aware of nitrogensports and sportsbet.io are the best websites that allows multi sports parlays, those two combined can offer you hundreds of games everyday which should be really enough for any gambler who wants to maximize their chances through sports parlays.

I believe Ben Simmons who is teammates with Embiid has a bigger potential to be a MVP one day. He can score (even tho he lacks shooting) semi-decently and if he learns how to score properly than that part is done, he can rebound very well at his age, he will only get better, he has amazing passing, he is not a "playmaker" but a passer, just like how stockton was the best playmaker we have ever seen but magic was the best passer, ben simmons is more like magic rather than stockton in that regards. He can block thanks to his height and athleticism.

So, basically he is a younger lebron-ish guy, of course no one can be even remotely as good as lebron at that age and probably ever but the style is similar. He can reach to double double or even triple double averages if he works for in the next 10 years which can earn him an MVP.

I do not think anyone believe its a bubble aside from some people who have no economics knowledge and just talk on a FUD sense because they lost on getting in on early. Those people who call bitcoin a bubble also are the same people who keep saying "I wish I invested back when it was $100" or so. I have been in bitcoin world for over 5 years now and ever since I started I have seen many people calling bitcoin bubble and every time they call it a bubble bitcoin rebounds back and breaks the ATH levels. So not worry and just carry on.

The term bubble is being used with the sense of "something is growing big without proper reason for its growth". If something is growing along with proper back-up, that is the actual growth which is just the opposite of bubble. Internet has proved its worth over time hence it is not a bubble.

It all depends on what you call a crisis, are we going towards another financial crisis like 2008 ?
I doubt that, the financial world is a lot safer these days because they know that there will always be a crisis and they are smarter today than they were in 2008 because for the first time in history they got bailed out by the teeth of their profits and they really screwed up insanely so they can't really give out another problem like that.

They really needed this long bull run in order to fix everything but one more big crash and they will not have any money left to continue what they are doing right now, financial business' really want to make money for themselves before anyone else and another crash will destroy them so they will not risk their own pocket for the sake of making more money, they rather keep making decent money than risk their money.

Depends on how you want to run with it. If you want a legit business you can't have a business with no licenses, however there are billions of websites in the world that has no licenses or even pays taxes, they work like that until they get caught which actually hurts even more than actually starting out legit.

Now this is just for regular websites that makes money on adsense or whatever, you are here telling us that you want to create a casino for crypto and you do not want to have a license, now those types of websites exists as well however they do not make any sense what so ever considering you are dealing with other peoples money and there is provably fair everywhere, you might as well get a license too so you can be an actual legit website.