That's more like it! Our much cherished decentralization and anonymity has its own faults and there is really not much to do to scam coins from being churned out, but if we stop being gullible and impulsive,we would be able to spot and trash such coins without any cost to us. In this digital age, virtually all the information we seek are clicks away only most of us seem to have phobia for reading.

You don't seem to realize that almost all the exchanges that got hacked, involved an insider. At the end of the day, a site might mean so well, but you never can tell of that one rotten egg. So never turn an exchange to a bank and leave only enough amount for your trading, which of course, should be an amount no more than what we can afford to loss.

You would be sending many newbies to their terminal leave and frustration with your suggestion above, because anyone new to trading, would hardly understand or afford the luxury of waiting indefinitely for profit to come. Also to encourage them that every price is a good buy, is unfortunate. Just how cool do you think anyone that perhaps bought Bitcoin at $19,000 be feeling at the moment, with price at $7500?

Some of the tokens I have had are only traded here at Hitbtc and that should be a plus for Hitbtc, because most people would have ended up with tokens that worth next to nothing or the exchanges that would take them up might end up being one that can hardly earn people's trust. I like the fact that Hitbtc, separated the trading account from the main account and an account holder can actually accumulate the profits separate from their trading amounts. Also no verification necessary if fiats are involved is a very commendable one, exchange like Bittrex got it wrong there.

There is no financial market, you'll find that price moves indefinitely in anyone direction, rather the net result of the dual between bulls and bears determines which way the market eventually. So bearish market doesn't necessarily mean  absence of bulls, rather it shows that both conditions are vital to maintain the integrity of the market.

People have varied needs and risk appetite, so there is no way to talk them out of selling when they must sell. But we can at least start to mount bullish pressure by mopping the market of the excess supply and before long the price would most likely reverse and evidently it have done as much time and again.

HODL is not particularly suitable for every trader because some are unable to muster the courage necessary to sit tight though price could be nose diving. To such persons, I would say instead of chasing shadows, trying futilely to hinder whales, best to align with their trend and make the most such opportunities offers.

I also do not think that investors got tired of ICOs, but the seemingly trend of asking for KYC, is indeed a spoiler, because one of the main attractions to Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general, is in the possibility of not disclosing one's identity, but governments desperation to be on top of everything Bitcoin, is actually a disincentive to large number of investors.

Since it is a known fact that whales are able to manipulate the market, one might be inclined to say that some people do control the price of Bitcoin. What is fact, is that whales only go the far of jostling the prevailing market price by way of their huge volumes, but like every altered state of equilibrium, the market normalizes sooner or later, which goes to assert that market forces are what determines what price Bitcoin turns up.

Can't agree more! Obviously Bitcoin is the flagship cryptocurrency and even Ether derives its price from it, so even if the price of an altcoin is quoted in Ether, it indirectly goes to depend on the price of Bitcoin. An exception though can be found with Ripple and I suppose that can be explained by the fact that Ripple is not your regular  cryptocurrency and for purpose like above, it was deliberately made to be centralized against the decentralized nature of crypto currencies.

That coming from a renowned investment bank of course made it a feather in the cap of Bitcoin. However, it is sure going to be a mixed grill and puzzle of the half filled cup. Whereas the people would be seeing the cup as half filled, the governments are sure to maintain that the cup is half empty!

This is glorified hyip and they always make it sound mouth water knowing that greedy and gullible people abounds and that's exactly what they mean by this found in their front page:

Anyone who believe their bogus claim, can believe anything, because it goes without saying that there are no business structures/models that can support such claims and people should be aware, they might even go the lengthy of paying the first few multiples and that would be like carrot before donkey.

Big players always have added advantage in every market, so it is not something unusual or peculiar to Bitcoin or cryptocurrency and it is not necessarily bad news to have whales affect the price, because ultimately what they set out to accomplish, is to be able to buy cheap and sell high. At that, an average Bitcoin trader, able to recognize this pattern can also ride on the wings or perhaps fins of the whales.

So many good ideas have had to be hijacked by criminally minded people and ICOs happened to be one of the latest and that explains the banning and strictness of most countries on ICOs and why KYC is fast becoming a criteria to participation.

That's probably a good strategy and a closer look at the traces left by most coins/tokens, confirms your take that price usually fall, soon after it's listed in an exchange and that's on account of rush to sell off by good number of participants. So spotting a good project and marking time until a time as above, can actually be more profitable and safer than buying during ICOs.

This is the 21st century, the digital age and hard work no longer is the tonic for success, but the knowledge and information you have. That is made vividly clear in the fact that this time have seen very young and smart people displacing the old and conservative people that until recent times, lined up the list of the wealthiest people on earth.

That was unmistakenly the whining of a Bitcoin hater, because his argument was premised on nothing substantial other than his illusion that there are many better coins out there. Might be instructive to note that Bitcoin have been here since 2009, fought many battles and yet unshattered. If indeed it were a scam, well before now, one of those obituaries would have nailed it already, but instead it's getting more popular by the day!

Bitcoin futures is a derivative of Bitcoin and most derivatives in the financial markets are not actually exercised, but are traded out before their expiry date. It offers some ways to hedge against market volatility and knowing how volatile Bitcoin can be, high net worth holders of Bitcoin cannot but embrace this instrument.

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It was apparent and a good number of Bitcoin enthusiasts saw that the emergence of Bitcoin futures was going to open the doors for the manipulation of the Bitcoin market, because Bitcoin futures would actually be an instrument to diffuse the positive sentiment of early adopters through their ability to short Bitcoin and since it's deep pockets club, they can readily instigate the dumping of the market and the panic sell off by regular most users, would be their dream come through.

Seeing both Bitcoin and Ether down by 10% on any day, is indeed an invitation to buy as much as one can possibility buy and it won't be long before they turn green again, because those two are the flagship currencies of cryptocurrency market and the huge demand they have earned, usually see to it that they don't stay down for long.