I didn't enrolled to any crypto trading education so I can't vouch for anything being offered right now. There are a lot of though, but my concern is that are you going to get your money's worth?

Besides, those serious traders who's making serious money here won't simply give up their 'trading secrets', and chances are those that are offering courses either free or premium is just basic to mid levels. If I can suggest, just get your hands dirty out there, go register to any reputable exchanges and see how it goes. Of course you might lose some money, but I'm sure that experience is the best teacher, just saying.

Is this person has a official Bitcointalk forum account? Why did you blindly trust him without escrow though? Its a huge amount involved so that alone is enough to raise a red flag. Anyways, you can move this post to Scam Accusations board and provide additional info i.e screenshots of conversation, anything that will proved that indeed this guy is a scammer.

First, this is merit begging.

Second, If you really wanted to help the community then you can look for scam ICO and post it here in this thread, Scam Accusations.

On second thoughts, I just checked your profile so it seems you are here for the bounty so I don't think you are sincere with your offer. And those 1 merit won't come to you. Sorry buddy.

I beg to disagree. If there's more manipulation that ever before we would have to see massive price fluctuations, on the contrary what we're witnessing is the price somewhat very stable in the last 5 months or so, so clearly manipulation is out of the picture.

Of course holding at this point is viable options because only few knows how to handle short or day trading because of the risk involved.

Regarding the madness of last year, I don't see it happening though, as what you have said, investors are more on the wait and see attitude so they're very reluctant to pour their cash at this point.

I think they are aiming for the grand slam this year. They could have gotten it, if not for James and Irving derailing like a couple of years ago. Those superstars really know who to step out if needed and let the others take the spotlight, it could be Durant, Curry and Thompson. And the funny thing, we seldom see those 3 getting off-night. Its either 1 or 2 of them will click in a given night and if we are lucky enough to see those 3 getting big numbers specially in important games.

Where did you get the data that investors are not rising? Anyways, its a gamble for exchanges but in the long run they are going to win. Besides competition are very tough in this niche, so its just a matter of time before trading platform cease to exist.

How many exchanges do we have right now? 200 or maybe 300? And how many traders do we have? couple of millions? So trading platform is not saturated and a lot of room to grow.

No. I wouldn't say that we are ready, not yet. Decentralized coins is still in its infancy and governments around the world won't simply accept it because its beyond their control. We have seen countries now taking a hard line stance because they're afraid of the negative impact in can bring to them so it simply won't happened in the next 5 or even 10 years. There's almost who will go against it and fully support it so I guess we're just going to be fine.

Well the last few years, this forum was overrun by spammers and Theymos made a lot of changes to curb or control them because this forum should be not be treated as mean to earn money to feed their family. If you are here for the right reasons then you wouldn't be concern with merit but to learn all about cryptos.


As I have said, majority of members here are bounty hunter and since there's a new guideline to get at least 1 merit to be able to join bounties, spambies finding it hard to earn that 1 merit to be able to continue making money out of this community.

I do believe that it can go and reach $1k if ever a bull run ensures. It will also means that ICO will flourish again and there will be more projects popping in that means more money flowing in the ecosystem. Although there's competition right now with the EOS platform, Ethereum still enjoys the support of investors and most ICO's still prefer their smart contacts and ERC-20, so the future still looks good in my opinion.

I urged you to look at the following thread: List of Decentralized/Centralized Exchanges. It listed the best exchanges out there. If I were you, I would try to used those exchanges and see how it fits your goals and need. You will get a lot of different responses here so its better if you yourself will decide which platforms you're comfortable with.

The problem with that argument is that time has change and even though historically bitcoin surges before the end of the year, for me 2018 is quite different from previous years because investors has become smarter and FOMO is already a thing of the past. And even if we have positive news coming like the Bakkt offerings, but we will have to see how everything goes. So just don't put high hopes for another all-time-high is what I'm saying and be prepared so that you won't be disappointed at the end of the year.

Regardless, I do believed that Pacquiao vs Mayweather 2 will happen next year. As reported already in this thread, it will be Pacquiao vs Broner and if Manny wins that fight, he will take on Floyd. As far as Floyd fighting Khabib, I don't think it will generate interest in the public and Khabib is not that a big star as compare to Conor so the money is not enough for Floyd to pursue that fight.

Yeah, back in the days me and my mate who at that time staying in one flat and during weekends we have this sort of party. We're all playing PS and each has its own character, lol, we will invent and call our on moves, we will be having a winner-take-all bets. Most of the time the winner will have to treat us though, probably some beers or late dinner, damn, those were the days.

I'm not buying at this moment. Why? Because altcoins are very volatile and I don't have much time to spend to watch and track the price anyways and to be brutally honest, I don't trust new coins coming out in the market. If they're not a scam coins, they're just useless or totally garbage. I just accumulate bitcoins and used it if possible.

As far as I know, Shapeshift has a solid reputation but they're requiring KYC now.

https://bitcoinist.com/shapeshift-ends-anonymity-with-announcement-of-mandatory-kyc-data-collection/

Changelly has been trusted by the community as well. Here's there official thread here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1435275.0

ChangeNOW? There's a scam accusations against them,

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4647308.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4619534.0

So far I enjoyed Changelly as compared to Shapeshift, but its still up to you if you wanted to use those exchanges as the risk is high specially if it involves huge amount of coins.

Bitcoin's bleeding has already stop and you would have noticed that the price is already stabilizing in the last 4 to 5 months already. Yes, its down, but unlike altcoins market who have suffered worst, even ethereum went to almost 90% down. Regarding BCH, its altcoin so what do you expect? Even Bitmain has to make an IPO just to keep the price above and Roger Ver planning to have its own crypto exchange and using BCH as the main trading pair. They really have to make some adjustments otherwise they will also be swept by the current down trend.

Aww. If this is true then India is really taking a hard line stance against crypto so I wouldn't be surprised if they really put a total ban. However, I do think that by now, bitcoin is totally unstoppable and that people will take the risk and will try to circumvent government restrictions. We have seen China doing similar things, but it didn't stop Chinese from engaging underground or p2p crypto transactions so India's moved won't deter this growing technology.

If we are going to look at history, well can are still the bear cycle, comparable to 2015. But I like what I'm seeing as the price seems to be on the $6k range so probably investors could be just waiting out in the wings before entering again. Probably we are at the tail end of this bearish trend and 2019 might be the year of another massive bull run. Let's see how it pans out.

I guess countries accepting crypto has something to do with politics as well? I've noticed that countries in the free world or government that's liberal or democratic has the tendency to embrace crypto more than totalitarians nations. As much as Philippines politics is dirty, but I guess they're really heed to the call of their population that's why the country chooses to adopt or regulate because of the positive things in can bring to the people and the government (tax) as well.

There's are better smartphones out there, and as far as storing your crypto's in phones, I would rather purchase trezor and nano to truly separates everything. Even though its touted having a secure enclave, its still a smartphone and always connected online so there's still a big risk, just saying.