Same thoughts, This is just for marketing promotion for KFC, of course we can't deny that its both beneficially for parties involved. KFC beats McDonalds as the first fast food chain to accepts bitcoin. We heard that McDonalds is looking at this options, but KFC is the first. While more and more people will discover what bitcoin is and may try to but those "finger looking good" chicken. LOL. But I think it will not have a significant effect on the price, maybe in the long run it will when Lightning Network comes into fruition. Let's see how it pans out on the fast food industry and if this is successful I'm sure that competitors will likely go on that direction as well.

That kind of mindset in the beginning will get you nowhere. How many people claims that they are late when bitcoin price went $5,000 last year? And yet bitcoin goes to $19,000 and then settling at today's price. If those people didn't enter the market, they have lost a lot of opportunity to earn a lot of money. So if I where you I will enter the market as soon as I can and realized your profits later. It's never too late, let me tell you. There are good potential profits in the future. You just have to patience and hold on your bitcoin. Try to enter the market and see how it goes for you, let say in about 3-6 months and get back here and tell us if we made the wrong suggestion.

This is welcoming news, initially I thought that Japan will open up 2 exchanges only. However, I'm very wrong, although its not surprising that Japan is really opening local exchanges as the crypto market is really booming and they are leading the pack now. I'm pretty sure that Japanese and the crypto world in general to see exchanges opening in Japanese as we all know that South Korean market is suddenly turning against bitcoin.


They even have a self promotion. LOL. Japanese really know how to market their product. I think this opening will really trigger another bull run because it will open doors to a lot of Japanese traders who is eager to join the bandwagon.

2 days ago, the market went all red. Did you guys bought when everything went down? We don't need to analyze here, just look at the price, if its on red, that is a good buying opportunity. Coins going up and down is part of the market, we don't know when will be the top floor price and what price it will relay hit the bottom. But we can leverage everything, you make tons of money if you keep buying in dips. No need to buy 1 BTC, just bought what your money can go. And the technique here is to try to accumulate as many as you can before bitcoin and other coins started to makes it run again.


There used to be relation between them. When one is down and red, the other market flourish and vice versa. However, times is changing. Both of them can have significant bull markets, and at the same time, bleeding. I guess when more people are getting into the picture, rule can be bend.

I think he was a victim of the EtherDelta hacking/phishing recently. And as what all you guys says, there's no way for him to recover what he has lost. Recently EtherDelta is a pain in the **s, that's why I stay out trading even better the hacking/phishing incident.


Such a nice word of encouragement. Yes, the OP should move forward. Nothing he can do, no need to pray here as the coins have been lost already. Just bury the hatches and look for a bright side this 2018. Altcoins is really pumping lately and I hope the OP has regained some from the altcoin markets. I'm sure he already learn a hard and expensive lessons here.

Yes, that guy has been red flagged here multiple times already. Good for you that you made a research before sending your hard earn bitcoins. There are a lot of members here that was already scammed by that guy. I think he has been reported to South Korean authorities already, but I don't know what happened. But it looks like he is continuing with his acts. I just hope that a lot of newbies will not fall for this guy. He had made tons of money, authorities should really track him and send him to jail. Just beware guys especially for newbies out there.

Sorry, bitcoin transaction is irreversible. So there's no way for you to get it back.

I just check on the website, and here's what I found:

Domain Name: CRYPTOEXCHANG.COM
Registry Domain ID: 2089439687_DOMAIN_COM-VRSN
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.namesilo.com
Registrar URL: http://www.namesilo.com
Updated Date: 2018-01-04T04:06:38Z
Creation Date: 2017-01-12T06:37:42Z

Although it was created 1 year ago it was updated more than 1 week. I'm not really sure what updates this did, but it looks like it, they either they did some UI updates and redesign it, or doing something from behind,(consolidating the bitcoin they got from scam). So I'm sure that this is a scam site. Sorry for you lost mate. Just a advise, just used Google and whois.net to investigate about a certain website, if you found that they are newly created, that's a redflag. And can't find reviews, well it smells scam as well.

Let's see how it goes, but it looks like they are trying to pump the market because bitcoin is on a bearish trend right now. Maybe the author is a investor on bitcoin itself and he is trying to pursued Wall Street people to put money in the market. Though I think Wall Street have already investment tons of money already, and there's no reason to really influence them, they know what their doing. If they are swayed to flock to the ecosystem then good, if not then there's no love lost here. And as I have said, this people are very cunning, and they won't just invest their money without having to get huge profit in return. They can manipulate the price on their favor instantly and then dump it hard. So be careful what we wish for.

Manipulators, Influencers - call with whatever you want, it is the same. Whales are big part of the market, and they can really sway new investors to their favor, sad part is, we can't really stop them from doing this and we either go with the flow or go against them. But we all know that going against them is futile. That's why we need to mitigate the risk of them manipulating the price. If we see that the price is going down, then better hold and buy bitcoin back at cheap prices, and when the price is going up, just be cool don't need to do anything and if you are thinking of selling, better dump it at top price and then re-enter the market again. This is how we should take advantage of bitcoin wild price swing.

What's with this environmental argument about bitcoin lately? Is this the new wave of FUD going around? We have to remember that there are lots of sources that hurt the environment specially companies that consumes large amount of energy. I agree that renewable energy source should be applied here, but don't single out bitcoin as kind of the biggest contributor of environment because the amount of electricity to mine bitcoin. Maybe miners should look for better options like solar panels and other sources, maybe they won't. I think they are really looking at other ways to tap other sources as well, however, I just find it funny though about how bitcoin is impacting the environment. This is the new set of arguments against bitcoin. LOL.

Looks like still all green as per coinmarketcap, EOS gaining ground at 41%, good to see that in the last 2 days, we are heading on a positive direction. But we all know how volatile the market is, the price could swing in either direction. The top 3 coins, (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple) are doing good so far. And still bitcoin dominance at 30%. Usually during weekends, coins are dipping simply because investors are cashing out. However, we are in a new ball park, and what last year shows us, is not applicable in this time. Anyways, I hope that this rally is just the start of a consolidation and a march towards another bull run specially bitcoin market.

As far as predicting how low price of bitcoin will be, no one can really tell. But there are good TA around here maybe if they are going to chime their expertise, we would understand. But from estimation, bitcoin can go as low as $12,500 before we consolidate and test another bull run. How confident are we if China decided to close its mining farm? Of course we are confident because bitcoin its very resilient. It has proven time and again its ability to recovery from such adversity. Just like what you have pointed out, last September, bitcoin went down significantly, because of the China crisis, but just like before, it recovered slowly and beautifully. China closing its bitcoin farm, will put a dent on the price, no doubt, but you don't need to worry but just hold on your bitcoin and it will just be a matter of time being it can rebound, just like before.

Say what again? We should wait to buy when bitcoin is rising? I think you got it wrong. The best time to buy bitcoin or any altcoin is during a dip and then hold on it. And when bitcoin is rising, you should decide if you want to dump it or just hold on it a little longer. If you buy when the price is going up, chances are that you are going to get less profit in your end. That's why we have the golden rule: Buy low, sell high. You got it?


Risk is always there in cryptocurrency. That's why you will hear from those investors who are against bitcoin that they don't want to invest on in because of its volatility. Risk can be mitigated, if you know how to do it. The wild swing really benefit most of us here and I don't think that most of us will just stay away from bitcoin because of risk factor. Losing is another thing, but how you get up is another equation.

This has to be expected, those greedy Chinese should have smell it from afar that the government is really clamping everything that has bitcoin sign all over it. One thing that I'm seeing is that if they are really banning it, the price will be severely affected, just like when they banned ICO and closes their local trading platform. But closing mining farm is different, it will really disrupt the economics of bitcoin. However, there are also news that Japan will get their hands on mining as well. So at least we have another country that will enter the picture. Lately there's news that Bitcoin is looking at Quebec and Switzerland to be their new mining farm. So it ever there's a effect, it should not last long and we may see that bitcoin can slowly recover again.

In my perspective, Investing in ICO is much riskier than trading altcoins, specially today. How many ICO's did we see run off with the investors money? Heck the amount doesn't matter to them. One ICO that stuck in my mind is Confido, even for a measly $300K, then suddenly disappear at the face of the earth. LOL. So we can't reason out that because we believed in that project, we are going to invest it in. We should do careful evaluation on it, but sometimes is not enough. They are really good at hiding their intentions at the very beginning. While trading altcoins, has risk as well, as least you have total control of your funds, you can get out easily and just lose few hundreds, but you have a chance to recover it when the right time comes along. So I must say that investing in ICO is riskier.

Big corporations are still not into bitcoin as far as a know. And those who are into it, are making just a investment and not accepting it as payment or such. We have heard Microsoft lately, stop accepting it, however, they got some kind of payment processor, I assumed Bitpay to handle their bitcoin transactions. I have to agree that bitcoin should be the future, that's why a lot of financial institutions are really interested on it. 2017 show's how bitcoin popularity surges, that's why they can't ignore it and join. However, for the Fortune 500, I haven't heard much noise, and I doubt that they are into bitcoin to exchange to fiat, but just like the rest of us, they see at a investment platform.

I'm not going to take the reasons seriously. Its utterly garbage for me. The reason for the price of bitcoin getting stalled ad of today because of FUD. What has the LOGO something to do with the price? Satoshi has not been in communication years ago already. Bounties? WTF? He is just trolling. I would have agree if the authors say about the cost of transaction is really affecting the price, but the reasons above? Nah.. We have to remember that the market is based on pure speculation. If there is a negative news, verified or not, investors will shy away from flocking to the market. Read all about the South Korean FUD and decide for yourself if the news contributed to the roller coaster ride that we are experiencing.

The point here is that there are people in South Korea that loves crypto and they have something here to say to the government. I'm still confused if whether they are going to make a U-turn just like China did, but South Koreans are a big boost to the ecosystem. But if they did, then we will suffer again as what we have seen when China moves out, but in short term. I think what the government wants is to have control of the situation and the market prices, specially local trading platforms. They should instill strict regulations to at least control of everything and see how it goes. Its the South Korean bitcoin community that will be severely affected by the ban, if the government pursue it. Again we may suffer a slight dent on the price, but it will be temporary only because we still have the full backing of Japan and other friendly bitcoin countries.

From the looks of today situations, getting $50,000 this year will be a big hurdle for the market. As you have mentioned, investors are really scared to pour this cash right now because of the current scalability issues that aren't resolved. Lots are complaining and expressing displeasure, you can see lots of newbies opening thread about it and to be honest we can really blame them. Yes, we are all putting all the weight on Lighting Network to really resolves all the problem. However, its not yet implemented so we might see bearish trend until such time that they are going to roll out LN as sideways. And then with the renewed interest from investors, we might see at some point in time that the price is going to $50,000. I hope that we can do it this year, but I will remain bullish as well and optimistic we can, barring all issues and FUD's.

This wild price swings makes bitcoin what it is. It's not for the roller coaster ride, I think bitcoin will not survived in its early years. And yes, we should learn how to ride it, otherwise you will be lost along the line. Look at how those early adopters are, if they didn't go with the waves specially when the whales started to come in the picture they would not be millionaires by today. They have find a way to make this roller coaster ride on their favor, and I'm sure by now we can also think that way. Like when we see that the price is going down, no need to panic buy to buy. And when the price is really at the top price, dump few bitcoins and try to re enter the market when it goes down again.