There's too many newbies on board yet. The hate for bitcoin must be real, we need to see all the casuals that entered in the last FOMO season out, because these guys aren't thinking rationally, they don't understand the fundamentals and they don't therefore understand the inherent value of bitcoin.

Of course bitcoin is insanely tiny compared to what it is and where it should be. I mean Jeff Bezos' fortune is bigger than bitcoin, how stupid one would need to be to not see how insanely undervalued bitcoin is? very, and these are exactly the type of people we need to see dumping. Once they are all out we'll go for a new all time high as the smart people that see these facts are waiting for that to happen to enter the market.

Let's see :
1. Bitcointalk dominated by spammer and outdated to most cryptocurrency forum/community website. Bitcoin price crash after reach $20K and merit introduction made few spammer left.
2. Coinmarketcap have bad reputation since they accept advertising coins/ICOs many times which are scam/ponzi such as Bitconnect and there's rumor they intentionally manipulate market cap/volume for minor altcoin

So no wonder both website traffic went down, but there's almost no correlation between traffic of those website and Bitcoin price/value. Bticoin's technology, adaption, legality and ease to use/obtain it are more relevant.

It's strange why ETH still costs so little, maybe the rich uncles are very noble, because from my point of view ETH will cost about $ 3000 but then it's a matter of time and probably luck because we can only guess.

No I don't think they are worth it, they're referred to as micro-earnings for a reason. I guess if you honestly have nothing else to do it's something but doesn't seem worth the effort.

 I wasn't around when faucets were big. IIRC they were meant to be a way to help push adoption and bring people to bitcoin in a risk free way. It was a beginners tool, you earned free BTC and could then practice sending transactions, creating wallets. Any that still exist now I would expect to be sending out very small amounts for the same purpose as the originals, remember it's essentially a charity for knowledge.

The few I have seen now though I think are usually geared as a promotion for a website, or casino. So they come with their own agendas.

The crypto market is profit driven. The loyalty is directly proportional to the potential profit a coin can generate. So bitcoin is no exception here. I am a long time holder of bitcoin. I didn't sell off my holdings when the price was at 21k. I am not ready to sell of my holdings today as well. Because I belive there is potential.

The moment I stop believing that the potential is not anymore present in bitcoin. I will loose my interest in holding and sell of my reserve. So when someone says they are loyal to bitcoin not because of the potential profit but for the technology, I laugh silently. Till the time potential for profit is there, people will love even the technology. The moment all potential is gone, people will not think twice before dumping it. That's how the world crypto economy works.

It is all right if you arrived a little late for as long as you can still join comfortably. I also came a bit late but I still made a considerable profit from Bitcoin. The train still has a lot of space available. Everyone can still hop on at this point and become richer in the years to come. I think you should not exert much effort in looking for the next big thing. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Waves, etc. may be big from our perspective right now but they are getting bigger and bigger still.

He didn't say 1000%, which is 11 times growth, he said 1000 times growth, which is 99900% increase. He's right here, we won't see 6 milllion dollar price for Bitcoin, maybe our grand-grand kids will. But the part about “real applications of real economic activity”, is a bit more tricky - coins outside of Bitcoin, ETH, LTC, DOGE have very little actual users, even all these flashy coins that claim to be Ethereum killers barely have any users. But at the same time, most Ethereum users are just people trying to get rich quick with ICO's. So, Bitcoin is unsurprisingly the coin that fits his words the best, especially with Lightning Network being a very real thing already.

i and the majority have not lost confidence in the market
2016: >300
2017: >900
2018: >5,800
proves market confidence so far
right now the community is not at a loss of confidence. or a growth of fear.. the community is at a 'no innovative, excitement happening' period (nothing to hype)


where the fear is/reduced confidence will be, is in the utility of bitcoin dropping

this can affect things as a snowball effect in the future, which can effect the speculative volatility of the market price. if bitcoin has no utility, then even with scarcity. people wont want it. and so there wont be as much push. in the end the only market movers will be the miners, which if they decide to move a few rigs over to other coins. hashrates wont rise and the remaining miners can get more rewards regularly, thus reducing their costs and increasing their rewards meaning they can sell for less.

so its important that bitcoin NETWORK (not side services/networks, not drama, not emotion) but bitcoins blockchain re-innovates otherwise the hype of bitcoin being "the greatest" dies. which then snowballs.

Hah!

So it is another bowling pin down!

This is almost like a fun game for the SEC.

And there I was thinking they are seriously considering CBOE xD

Now, AFAIK, this is just to play with the market and test investor confidence.

Take your tour and vacation now, the market hasn't been so good for ETH holders.

But before taking your vacation, have you ever bought ETH under $200? if you haven't done it you better start buying it. Don't forget about bitcoin as its down by -4.05% today and that's a good buy as well. Most of the crypto's are down now and they became cheaper.

it is funny how you say this and then immediately contradict it in your screenshot! the fact is coins like ethereum that are getting pump and dumps (not bull and bear market) are only good for short term trading and not much else.
for instance your chart is a very good indicator of that. in that big dip after the big dump the market is in shock of the big drop, for example when price got dumped from $1500 to $1000 and the newbies would rush to buy it thinking they got it cheap. buying in that dip and dumping it fast (short term trading) can  give you a good profit, but buying in that dip and holding (long term) means losing a lot of money as it has another dump from $1000 to $800 for instance and then lower and lower....

and this has been the case for all ETH history. specifically this year. people like you have made the mistake of saying "it is time to buy" and then they got  dumped on and lost another 20% of their investment because they bought in the bubble.

and how did you come up with that number? just guessed a random one


i had to double check my eyes to make sure you posted this TODAY!
these days those type of people who worry about a price drop are no longer with us. the "weak hands" have been flushed out of the market, at least most of them anyways. not to mention that price has not been going down for a couple of months now. so i don't know where you are looking to "see" many people worried!

the only thing that there is right now, is people getting uneasy about why bitcoin is not shooting up like they think it is supposed to. and also another fear of ETF but that fear has been shrinking each time SEC rejected a new one in the past couple of months.

Who are these users? Not many people took part in Bitcoin's early days, where the gains (up to now) are so impressive. And I think most people from the earlier stages also sold most of their coins early. I sure made the mistake of selling too early -- years ago -- and most people I've talked to have made the same mistake.


The ledger is public and transparent. On the current trajectory, bandwidth and storage requirements are unlikely to make running a node inaccessible for most people. Price-wise, early adopters are always better off. But in terms of usability, I think the combination of Lightning and other protocols with the infinite divisibility of BTC will keep Bitcoin accessible. Late adopters just won't be able to afford much of it.

I think it's very difficult to find an altcoin that gives instant benefits, I would like to suggest you to try ontology and Tron, I'm sure this altcoin is right for you, if you want to invest in altcoins that are under $ 0.002 I advise you to buy peepcoin, HTML and Kin, with a total of $ 110 you can buy the altcoin in large quantities.