Japan is going wild with Bitcoin, much more to come guaranteed. They will save billions of Yen only by using Bitcoin, it will give there stagnated economy a little boost.

Nobody ever made respectable or insane amounts of money betting on the overdog. Same goes for Bitcoin. I've been on the ride since 300 and I'm still hanging on, and if anything just ignore the FUD and watch the price every now and then. Just know that one piece of information and a whale seeing it can cause price to dump and traders anguish. One reason to just buy and HODL and not trad, not saying trading isn't good for Bitcoin but I personally stopped a while ago.

As for 1000, I'm convinced we could possibly hit near that if something goes amiss. It won't be the end of the world but an annoyance in Bitcoin's journey to the moon.

The price of bitcoin right now is 1689 US dollars according to preev and if the rise continues, we will soon see and break the 2000 dollar mark and it might be the new all time high before bitcoin goes back and stabilize to a price where it really should be now. If the block issue is solved I guess we would see 2000$ sooner. Well the sooner the better and the sooner bitcoin goes up to 2000 dollar the better profit holders will get.

I have been into forex trading for a long time and know from experience that market speculation is a norm but I would like to have you view on bitcoin trading and what affects the price movement?

It was probably from what i heard massive spam attack when one address were sending money to itself over and over again.
It wasn't confirmed so he doesnt lost money on transaction fees but it created fake volume probably.

You can check if this volume will last for more weeks to come it will tell the truth.

everyone is talking about "activating" segwit.

sorry but please READ the documentation.
activating it is meaningless.. its about USING segwit keypairs to achieve the (half baked gesture) promoted hopes segwit may achieve.

so maybe its best to let segwit run on litecoin and then see if all the (half baked gestures) do reach the HOPES segwit once was promising, but now reworded as 'expecting' or 'stepping stones' towards X.

which can only be done by seeing how many move funds to segwit kys and how the mempool bloat gets affected by people rushing to move funds across and the network benefit/issues it may cause.

then before doing any mandatory implementation or any pow kiling threats for bitcoin. you blockstreamists can actually see if segwit actually fulfils the (cough cough) promises.

if not.. the blockstream better decide to rewrite their code to be a proper 1 merkle 4mb single block with real features, and not just try pushing the cludgy 2merkle soft half baked version in mandatorily. wasting everyones time for an opportunity that could have been used better

Japan being now BTC legal, I wonder, I just wonder if the Japan Postal Bank might diversify a fraction of their  2T holdings into BTC to seek some better returns than zero.

In order to double your postion at the time you buy back, it means that the price will have to go down with like 50%, and exactly that is something I don't see become reality. That's not a correction anymore, but a massive crash. Also, as you stated, the price will need to come down in order to buy back. If you sell too soon, you'll risk falling behind as the price will likely move up further. Buying back isn't as easy as it may seem. If you time it wrong, you'll end up in a big disappointment. In that regard, for the average person it's better to just keep holding.

They lost banking access for US Dollar transfers. With dollars trapped within their exchange, the only way people holding those dollars could retrieve their funds was by buying bitcoins with them and then sending the bitcoins to another exchange. But people would only sell their bitcoins for dollars at a premium if they couldn't do anything with the dollars, so the price rose artificially within Bitfinex compared to the rest of the market. People are basically gambling over whether those dollars will ever be retrievable and if so, when?

Mostly rumors like David Dierking's writing about a supposed Ethereum ETF reaching market earlier than any BTC ETF might make it, and names inside the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance like Microsoft, JPMorgan Chase, Intel, Accenture, UBS and Thomson Reuters.
Use case: speculative investment. Oh, and a new ATH

You guys have no idea of what FOMO  actually looks like in a TA.

Maybe go back to playing wow in moms basement instead of sprouting this nonsense.

Yes, There are many prediction that the bitcoin will reach the 2000$ this year so I think it will be possible because this month have a very large progress regarding to it's price and I think if the bitcoin will reach 2000$ this year that is better and then I will dump my coin because in my prediction after that there will be dumping of the price.

Bitcoin is still a tiny dot. If you look at how much potential growth it can realize in the coming years, then at some point you'll think back and regret not having bought more at current prices.

Bitcoin will continue to break through each round $K mark. It's impossible for the price to remain at these levels for too long if you take the growing demand into consideration.

That's exactly why I will keep hodling the far majority of my coins for many many more years. It really doesn't make any sense for me to cash out at current prices. It will be extremely dumb to do so.

It basically means that they're going to get a third party to independently review the accuracy of their balance sheets.  That would improve confidence in Bitfinex as it would help investors to believe that they're actually solvent since the hack.  With improved confidence, people do arbitrage with the people withdrawing Bitcoin from there to reflect the amount of confidence in the exchange, which can bring the price down to reasonable levels.

It works but you may have mistaken either one then that may lead to disaster. Instead of trying to catch the extremes, trading in middle would be the right strategy for survival. I mean to say do not wait for buying at dip and also do not wait for tops to book profits. Choose the coins which will not have chances to be dipped then all other good things will happen over time.

Honestly profitable trading will be possible with any coin hence finding right coin is not that big significant one but when we are buying and when we are selling is really matters and for this we need accurate predictions. When accurate predictions are not possible, choosing coins carefully will work as a best strategy.

Not "popping", more likely bouncing back from it's Fibonacci Retracementlevel 50% located at 1257 USD. Timsescale last 42 days, which is ... the universal answer.

ETH kinda belongs into the Altcoin section. And I changed my mind on it. The technology frontier is over there.

FOMO shouldn't just be viewed as desperate and sudden thing.  Some investors (especially in Japan where some are more tech-savvy) are starting to realise that Bitcoin has a big future, as an asset or a currency or for wider applications or really anything else, and they're flowing in knowing that this will be a low price in a few years' time.

We don't know when we'll next see a bear market, and by the time we do it'll probably happen when the price has reached much, much higher and this current price seems low.

Definitely think it will dip sub 1k again.  We are in a massive bubble.  It might take a while, but I see it going below 1k in the next three years.  Would be nice if it just kept climbing forever, but that isn't realistic, and BTC has had hard crashes in the past.  History loves to repeat itself, but it will hopefully once again bounce back stronger.