Can't believe that just because the market is currently experiencing a downtrend, questions like "is it still worth it" arise. I mean, why? how come? doesn't it really make sense?

Remember the bitcoin price back then? Bitcoin at $5,000 is still way better compare to bitcoin at $1,000. By looking at the bottom price it established nowadays, still way decent compare to previous lows. How come people will just made a conclusion of this downtrend. Clearly all they know is just "moving up" and disregarding all things associated while price is climbing.

If that's the case then putting money on crypto is not suitable for them.

A bitcoin whale is generally a person who holds a huge amount of bitcoins in their wallet. And it those whales let say sold a huge chunk of bitcoin, it could have some effect on the price. I think they also manipulate the price from behind using this method. I also believed that this maybe a individual or a group of persons or even a company. So basically they are market movers because of their influence on the price.



It depends. Once individual can owns 1000 btc and can be called a mini-whale. And also there are dolphins as well. But those group of person who holds around 10000 or more can be definitely called a whaler. And I think early adopters of bitcoin has literally thousands of btc as well so they can categorically can be called as whale as well.

Bitcoin has recovered a bit since yesterday, bounce back after hit $6K. It's not just you, big investors, whales, traders are happy now, they can buy bitcoin at a cheaper price and dump it at the peak again. The cycle will always repeat. Without scale solution that really works to support bitcoin community, it can't go anywhere but stuck at a point. However, if you just want to buy bitcoin in order to make profits by the end of the day, consider current price as a big discount before next bulls run.

if I see bitcoin prices today I think the future of bitcoin is not good, I hesitate to hold the bitcoin I have because the price continues to decline and bitcoin prices this year is very low compared to last year

If you ask me this same question 6 months before then I say yes bitcoin have a great future in the crypto market field. But in this situation giving a perfect speculation is really hard for me. But as a bitcoiner, I still hope bitcoin had a great future.

You think LN will come online in 2018?  ...It would be very nice if so!

ETH @ #1 sounds possible, however every time I hear about crypto on the news radio in the shower in the morning the only currencies they've listed are; BTC, LTC, & XRP
But if ETH can be that popular to be #1 it would be great!

I really wish I was able to make Arcblocks ICO - I missed it by an hour or two 

This is too much now.  For a few hours it was up and up.  And now down down down.  I was hoping for the sake of people who have bought in it would be a good price for them to sell and make a profit in a while.  But no  now down again.  What I think is this.  People have bought and paid money in.  And Then whales have come along and taken the lot.  It's wrong.  

I don't routinely watch news, but I have noticed that CNBC is joining the big unlubricated crypto gangrape by quoting Goldman Sachs, who said most cryptos are going to go to zero and that they have no intrinsic value.   Those things may well be true, but I'm starting to feel the vibe go bearish. 

I'm interested to see if we can rebound from this.  I'm hoping bitcoin itself does--everything else can go gargle a dong for all I care.

Yes we will still have the free market with regulations. When they say about the regulations then they literally mean that it’s use and the way it is exchanged should be regulated. On top of this, they also mean that every transaction should be taxed small or big doesn’t matter. This way they will give it format of fiat only which works almost the same manner but they will also keep it decentralised, the principle on which it works. Obviously if that one taken out then it will never work.

The only benefit i had in 2017 is to have a lot of profit trading Bitcoin to alts and selling them, i had a lot of profit last year especially during December. Now i am just investing my cash out Bitcoins in investing in some business here in my area like computer shop and restaurant. Now while Bitcoin is down i can focus more in my Business.

Price is showing a positive spike!

I think this isn't a gift but a job rather. They benefit also because of our participation, they need us and we need them also. I believe these bounty programs will last as long as we have internet to access it. As we can see, these projects is a form of advertisement, with our cooperation we advertise their product or project. Hence, they can also gain money.

That is quite normal my friend, there will be days of downtrend for ethereum while bitcoin will be going up, that is the nature of crypto. Bitcoin can start to go up tomorrow or in two months, nobody knows. The fact is that it is impossibly to go up all time.

Forget about those people who are talking to you that way. They know nothing about cryptocurrency and they are all talk. They want not only you but majority to get out of it quickly so that they can spread panic and fear to all the holders. And by just lurking to different boards and sections of this forum you can see many posts that are talking that way.

I lose some and win some in trading and yes get disappointed at times but then realized that because I am not that experienced yet then I have to learn my lesson the hard way. There are times that I wanted to give up when I have a major loss but then when I see other successful traders, it gives me hope that someday I will be like them or just half of what they achieved because they also have stories to tell that made them that successful.

I usually predict the price of coin that I will buy from the news development and from the graphs in the coin, from the graphs is very clear how the development of the coin is good or not and very useful or not, it is very helpful for you to determine the price increase coin want you to buy.

the market is down now. Coins are cheap now. Do you think it's time to jump in now, or we can wait for lower price?

i quit my day job as an accountant. so far, crypto has been good to me. lately i've been seeing blood everywhere and it gives me a good deal of a heartache since i am just new in trading. any advice you can give guys? should i just go back to being an accountant or pure crypto or maybe both?

These are typical gamblers and already they have spend a long life in gambling that's why they can't escape from gambling. We can call them they are addicted gamblers. If we play gambling continuously and without manage our money then gambling become for us addiction like a drug addiction, then we can do anything but we can't change our habits.   

Only thing which I can related to maths with gambling is that stringer your maths the calculation in some of the games require would be on your fingertips quickly and thus may have an some sort of edge overs others. Rest it would not matter much as rightly said that by now all the casinos would have to shut down as they would be bankrupt.

Wow thanks for bringing that up and now that I think about it I went in on a token similar to this one without giving it much thought. They were a well established company in real life but no blockchain experience and that was my mistake getting involved like that. Keep up the awesome work we need more heroes like you!

Bitcoin is already famous for its volatility.But not that much like altcoins.Just hold your bitcoins.Very soon,you will reap benefits.Holding bitcoin in long term would be beneficial than short term.