I have always gambled with only bitcoin and doge coin anyway. I really do not know why I have decided to choose doge coin, simply maybe because I know it is a lot to play around with and sometimes can actually fluctuate enough to worth something in the long term or whatever. For bitcoin however, it is bitcoin, and I am sure virtually any one will be in on bitcoin first before even considering gambling with any other currency. With crypto-games though, I have once tried Monero as well.

Just because something has happened consecutively a number of times and consistently, they just assumed the same pattern will keep repeating itself. I always even consider such things a trap and what could even lead more to panic selling if whales decide to start dumping on the market.

Like you said, it is always important never to get caught up with stuffs like this and rather stick with the trend and I guess the recent incident already proved the importance of not relying on past events in the market to judge the future.

Basically we never use the past to judge any possibility of recent events. The 6th has been mentioned already several times and has been the talk of the news and when everyone is heading in the same direction, which is when you should be careful. The trend is the only thing that can give us exactly what is going to be happening as we forge ahead and so far we have gone past the 6th day with no much show yet, but let's see, we still have a lot of time in our hands to decide what next.

Well, in the long term everyone is obviously bullish and believes that we would end up seeing a great rise, but from where we are presently and right now, I would not be too relaxed expecting hope to do his thing.

Like you already asked, there is absolutely no basis to the OP's prediction and everything is based on his own underlying assumptions which to me are just B.S. The market still looks bearish until further notice and only when the coast actually do look like there is a chance for great optimism before we even start imagining $50k by 2018 which totally is unrealistic.

People these days are always in a hurry. Always in a hurry to make quick bucks, always in a hurry to want to get rich all of a sudden without having to persevere or at least risk some moment for it. This is the reason why we have a lot of weak hands in the market and in their mind if bitcoin is moving up, it will never come down again and it will just keep mooning, and if it is coming down, then they spell out doomsdays.

These guys should wake up as this is not a get rich quick scheme and patience and believe in what one is holding is the only thing that can make anyone go ahead with their daily activities and come back in few years’ time to see how rich they are.

Well, keep having that spirit as it is good to be optimistic anyway.
It does not sound like something that is not achievable anyway as there is a lot that should be expected could happen in any case when it comes to moment like this for bitcoin.

We have had a huge downtrend, there is still the feeling we are not done yet, while looking at the technical on the charts and hopefully we will get to see how things end up turning out in coming days but end of 2018 I believe as well should get to that point.

That is a must and I do not expect anyone to actually go outside this rule. The market is very volatile and most especially the altcoin market which makes it a market one need to be careful before investing so much in. Asides this, knowing the potential of a coin or token based on knowledge and not by assumption is always the thing that helps anyone hold it no matter the current market situation. It is not everyone that can trade, and as long as you cannot, better to hold, buy some more at dips and look forward to the long term. That is all that matters.

I believe that alts are always a good way to get some pretty good profit, but at the same time, they are also a good way to be losing so much in the market if care is not taken. A lot of them if not all, moves based on how bitcoin market moves and they only do well during bitcoin consolidation which I always try as much as possible to take into perspective before making any market decision.

It is obvious he does not have any exchange experience but at least he could have used exchange reviews to get the best out on Google as crypto compare do have a good user review of exchanges on their platform. However, I am sure you are giving him suggestions based on what he has mentioned, but I will really avoid HitBTC too same as Cryptopia that you mentioned.

I am not conversant with the rest and assuredly they are not widely used which brings me to the question why use any of those ones, when you can at least use the trusted ones with high volume. Binance is the best bet so far.

We cannot apparently expect the government to keep quiet while everyone just keep getting busy doing whatever they like all in the name of decentralization without at least some form of regulation which mostly affects the exchanges and to me is a good thing to see this happen as this would bring more maturity to the space, help with growth as we see smart moneys kicking in and that is really what matters, growth! Whoever does have a problem with that is not ready to be an investor in the general sense.

Risky ?
Anyone who even invests in it is actually insane and must be very high on some cheap weed. These are jokes and not some coins anyone want to be found with.

I can bet it that the same people who own the coins are the ones manipulating the price of their own coin, by using their different accounts on the exchange since they are shitty exchanges anyway, to set a price and then buy it back at that price. They have nothing to lose, and only the fools who just trade or invest in anything are the ones who will get screwed.

Maybe by good in the amount that is going to be paid, no one surely knows but you would not care the amount you get paid eventually if you believe in the long term of the project you are participating in its bounty. However, for the idea of looking for legit bounties, you may just need to take out some of your time, to check if the project would actually be worth investing in if you are to put real life money into it, and by now, I do not think I need to start explaining all that is needed to be done in that regards.

I guess the whole forum can actually help one achieve that, but really altcoin discussion in a way also helps when it comes to that. Nevertheless, the main reason why I have come to fall in love with altcoin discussion is that you get to view ideas about certain coins. Some may be rubbish and some may be good ideas, but it is a forum and both sides should always be expected.

The market is huge and altcoin is part of it, with a lot of them popping up every day, so having a thread for discussion is sure necessary. Moreover, this is a large world when it comes to cryptocurrency and you would not want to limit yourself to a particular section of the forum, so I believe that it is highly important for discussion in that area.

I have always told myself after all the past incidents in the market for a long time now is that anything is possible and as long as we are in a decentralized market, any value can be attained at any point in time. A lot may feel it is going to be hard, but of course, if ETH were to fall to $30, it would not happen overnight as that would be some long consistent thing with fluctuations up and down in between.

It does not sound like something that could happen in reality though, since that would be a long way down, but I always have at the back of my mind that as long as it is crypto, nothing is impossible.

Who wants to balance it ?
It is high time we started understanding one fact and this is the fact that bitcoin is decentralized and not some centralized entity.
Yeah, we may be seeing some trade manipulations once in a while, but that is normal for a decentralized market where some people actually have a huge position.

In the case of a pretty huge mass adoption, then this should usher in some pretty huge growth and over time some bit of stability as we will get not to see pretty sharp movements anymore within a few periods like we have it now.

I do not even see any reason why someone who is holding long should be checking twice a day. Before I started trading, I only check my portfolio once in a week and that is even if I remembered.

Since I have been investing even before cryptocurrency, I have always learned never to get greedy and invest something that would keep giving you palpitation every time, but invest what you would not care about and focus on the long term since that is the essence. It was when I saw the opportunity that comes from the volatility that I purposely decided to learn how to trade and at least with that, depending on your style of trading, it becomes an obligation to check the chart but not as a result of panic.

In fact, it seems that the craziness that cryptocurrency has brought into gambling has increased over the years that online cryptocurrency gambling platforms started.

Now, it is easy for anyone, no matter their age to easily access any gambling platform, do their thing without being tracked and get paid without any issue and this has made this industry to boom as we see even the previous ones now trying to tap into it, as we keep getting to see some ICOs related to that effect lately. I am sure it has increased the number of gamblers hugely.

Good for you that you at least consider gambling as fun and you simply are not a regular gambler. Not being a regular gambler or taking it as fun actually still does not guarantee not being addicted, the control of the mind to never lose that focus or to take over those impulses are the things that actually counts. Gambling generally comes with this thing that plays in your head most of the time, to just go on, and it is left for you to stop the voice from playing. Happened to me in my few months of gambling and I just had to work it out with my mind, soul, body and everything to quickly opt out from those thoughts.

Well, that is apparently what some people actually do not understand. It is a lottery with a lot of users and just 10 out of millions are going to be getting the prize weekly. Yes, I have always wished that one day I am going to be winning and then the end of the week comes and there we go again, seeing another week pass me by.

It is one of those things, but at least while reading through the thread now, it has cleared my doubt as I have seen real persons win and that is pretty awesome. Can imagine what I would feel like waking up the next Monday morning to an email of me winning that lottery. Please, someone should tell me to wake up from my dream.

Gambling in the real world even comes with more fun depending on where you are gambling anyway. However, gambling as a whole without caution is actually a huge problem because the impulses generally are always there and it takes a lot of principle and energy to control them. Mine almost got out of hand, but I had to retrace back and see how much I have missed it all and then immediately cancelled my gambling activity which is the only way you can get out of it.

I purposely fashioned my mind to detest gambling in every way and I am glad it worked most especially when I started doing some businesses and making a lot from it to live a better life which apparently gambling can never give.

Pretty much a very huge expectation. I am not sure bitcoin is even done with the long term correction yet and so far, we are in the middle of a wedge pattern that may go either ways but most times it always end up bearish and the tendency of a fast move downwards is always there.

All these are based on what we think and the future will definitely do its own thing when the time comes, but too early to be predicting a huge value and I am sure though that bitcoin will still give some push before the end of the year, but $50k like you said is too much expectation.

It will even take someone who is not an experienced trader or someone who simply does not know what manipulation looks like to come up with the saying that the market is not manipulated. I believe it is glaring enough for any regular trader and you are very right. The chart alone is even enough proof if anyone is looking for any.

I also agree with you on the fact that, bitcoin is simply a very small market for institutions to play with, most especially since it is decentralized anyway, which totally makes it even easier for them to achieve.