Personally I don't think regulations would harm bitcoin in the long run given that people also need to find some sort of legal assurance if in case they decided to dive in the world of cryptocurrencies. Short-term, bears would make a fuss out of it to make it look like regulations spelt the doom for cryptocurrencies when in fact, it will actually do more good than harm. Long term, you'll see developments in services since consumer protection would probably be in place, helping consumers out if in case a 'hack' takes place. Price-wise, this isn't much of a concern unless regulations placed are unfair and don't help the consumers in any way.

On my understanding, when you say 'decentralized system', you are referring to anything that runs P2P without any central authority mandating it, and bitcoin is a perfect example of that definition. The production of the coins are carried out by groups of miners all over the world and no authority ordered them to do so, they simply started hashing right away. Using it however is a different thing. You cannot say 'decentralized' or  'centralized' on usage since people have their own choice whether or not to use their coins in a single event, service or product, so your view on a fully-decentralized system is somewhat wrong.

Up until now, I can't grasp the fact that a lot of people still see bitcoin and ICOs as the same entities when in fact, ICOs only use the shadow of bitcoin's success to advertise their (scammy) offerings to the public. If in case the crackdown for ICOs continues, I doubt bitcoin will be affected too much. It might get involved in a day or two since both belongs to the crypto market, but afterwards it would recover and simply shake everything off as what bitcoin used to do with these sort of things.

Many ICOs try to replicate successful ones and end up being scammy if expectations weren't met. ICOs would be put to end soon. Other cryptos might be affected but it will only be for a short while.

There are tons of traders who do this and tons of platforms wherein this is very evident. As what franky pointed out, if a user can match what is indicated on his/her buy/sell order, he/she can do it as long as he/she likes since you can cancel trades anytime and no one is restricting you to do that. Idk what kind of investigation will the US do, but I'm pretty sure they'd scour all through the user's trading history and do some extensive scanning. They would find something, that's sure, though I don't know what kind of crime would the perpetrators commit (if there's any) since spooking is really a vague (and somehow accepted) trick in trading.

If you believe investing in bitcoin is like throwing money in the garbage, then better not touch it or go near it and just stay in the sidelines. One must first assess his/her financial capabilities before throwing money into an investment he/she isn't sure if it will be profitable or not. Most of the time, people think it's stupid to invest in cryptocurrencies is because they lose their initial investment due to poor research and lack of basic understanding on how the market works. if only these newbies invested time and not just money on crypto, they wouldn't be leaving a negative remark but rather learn from their mistakes.

You can't time the market and no one can exactly predict what's gonna happen within the next few weeks/months. While you're at it, I suggest buying when there have been some declines in the price and try to average your buys in order for you to have a good position in the market. In that way your funds will be ready in the next few months if the price indeed starts to get wacky and crazy. As for me, anything below $8000 or $7000 is a solid buy, considering that we haven't been below $6000 even if the bears are pushing so hard.

I wouldn't wonder if they are already in the market controlling it at will whenever they like and wanted to, but this is yet another conspiracy theory IMO. Anyone can enter and leave the market freely without making any noise--unless they wanted attention or let others know that they are in--so there's a possibility that deep pockets in Wall Street and the Rotschilds are already invested and involved with the trading actions happening in the market. As for the previous rise, I would say that it's pure FOMO which lead us to $19500, and partly the Gox trustee's fault why it burst so fast since he just downed thousands of bitcoins in an exchange in one go. Manipulation has always been in private and public markets alike. Some of it are just too subtle to notice but others are obvious, just like the fancy spikes without any clear reason in bitcoin and other cryptos.

I've heard all the countless insults, name calling and belittling made by my friends to bitcoin when its price is below $1000. Normally, these people would mock me stating that I should divert my energy and time into somewhere else that could be of help to me or for us. When the news broke about bitcoin crossing $1000, these same people started to get curious, while I still try to stock all the coins I can get while it's cheap. Right now, these dudes are still trying to get in and familiarize with the bitcoin and crypto-ecosystem. What was once a scam and a shady piece of computer code became riches and gold to them that they want to have. Most people look at the face value of things and judge right away, and the same people would regret it when it's too late. Good thing I still kept my first few bitcoins since 2014 and sold when it feels like the price is gonna burst.

For all we know, institutional investors and deep pockets are already meddling with bitcoin after the first ATH. Methinks that they might be the main reason why we managed to cross the then psychological barrier of $10k which, to many is quite impossible to cross, let alone achieve. Also, it would be quite unusual for big money to ignore a booming and ripe-for-the-picking investment which is bitcoin. They might be around every now and then, especially when they hype the hell out of the coin and have already had a good position in the market, only to leave once they dumped everything into the hopefuls' sorry faces.

Most newbies in the cryptocurrency world often get baited by these sort of programs that lead them to think that it's easy to acquire money with crypto. Turns out, they are the ones being tricked into giving their personal details because ICO/airdrop operators could sell these into advertising companies that net them a good sum of money or worse, be used in nefarious activities such as identity spoofing and credit card fraud which is the norms nowadays. I suggest people to stop supporting such kind of schemes and just work their way up to gather a sizable and decent amount of crypto to play with.

Supply and demand is the major reason on the fluctuating prices of bitcoin, though I'm pretty certain it isn't exclusive to that. You also need to take into account the recent news surrounding the crypto ecosystem alongside other foreign events that may affect crypto in general. Traders' sentiment towards the market (well technically this still falls under demand) also affects the daily ups and downs of the price. If traders think that the market is in for a slump, they'd sell, price lowers; if traders think the price will go for a run, traders buy, price increases.

You also need to consider the business that are established within a certain country's soil are obliged to pay taxes to the government and isn't exclusive to the working individuals/citizens of the society. The taxes of the citizens contribute to a large portion of a country's budget but it isn't the only source wherein the government get its funds from.


Wrong. Places like the US tax their citizens who engage in crypto-related activities, so as some countries in the EU. If ever a country has 80% of its citizens engaging in crypto trades, I know for a fact that before it goes widespread, the government would already have imposed tax rules regarding that so no one would ever use crypto as a safe haven to launder money and a means to evade tax.


I hope so, but on the way things are right now, it seems quite improbable for the said scenario to happen even in the coming 10 years to happen. People only use bitcoin to amass more fiat whether we like it or not. They just use bitcoin as a stepping stone for fiat riches and nothing else, so with it, they'd probably ditch bitcoin after they've milked it well enough.

That's actually true seeing that the recent busts related to crypto investments are bosses of the NewG scams and other similar ponzi schemes. The people who fell victim in these scams are the ones who were lazy enough to blindly trust large sums of money on other people without doing background checks and checking sources. Most people nowadays are looking for quick and easy money, which, at most times lead them towards something that will take their money away instead of profiting. With the cryptomarket gaining a lot of attention due to the gains it offers, many scammers use the term in order to lure people who look for the same opportunity but don't know how to start.  If only people would take time to read before spending money on such, I don't think there would be people who'd fall for such tricks.

Every bitcoin that has been used in any transaction would carry a 'taint' with them, so no matter where theae bitcoins land, they'd always carry this 'taint' that somehow makes the coin movement traceable. In order to obfuscate the trail, some people use mixers most of the time in order to mix their coins and receive fresh ones. Anyway, going back, no one will ever know or bother to know where the money comes from. Besides, if the money came from some nefarious activity, the owner couldn't claim it as it's not the present owner's fault if the original owner of the money lost it during a theft. I'd accept tainted payments any day since it is still regarded as money. They can't do shit about it once it lands in your pocket legally.

Korean and Chinese exchanges are notoriously known for manipulating trade volumes to make it look like a huge activity is present in an exchange/certain coin. Also, I wouldn't even bother if bitcoin falls on such rankings. Do note that it still is the number one coin when it comes to market cap and as such, it will always have the traders willing to play with it.

AFAIK the RBI only released a memo stating that all banks under their regulations wouldn't be able to entertain trades made to and from crypto exchanges, so there's no outright ban regarding that. If the majority of the countries around the world start to accept bitcoin to meddle with their local banks, I think India would somehow gain an idea on how to use such an opportunity to their advantage. Right now, they don't see that allowing these type of trades make money, and potentially create some jobs if a foreign investor decides to establish his/her own exchange on the Indian soil. I guess we'll have to wait for things to develop but in the mean time, it seems that they aren't interested in playing ball with crypto exchanges.

Since there are no copyright or patent filed/created for bitcoin, anyone can make their own versions of it without facing some legal troubles, and that's the beauty and ugliness of an open-source project (well, at the least, you get better versions, lol). At this age and time, I don't think people would easily be fooled by shady advertising tactics, and looking at how these other 'bitcoins' were advertised, they don't stand a chance unless they go super deceptive mode and use bitcoin's price for their altcoins to lure people into buying it. Idk if that would warrant a legal action or not but it's fraud and deception nonetheless.

While I somehow agree to the said idea, we can't just simply demand a business to start rewarding us just for using their service.

If you deposit your money into a crypto exchange, you already know so well that you'll be using your funds not for safekeeping, but for trading. Banks offer some form of interest because they use the money you deposited for other ventures, and the ridiculuously small interest rate is like a simple 'thank you' from the bank for agreeing to lend your money to them. That's the risk that you're talking about. In the case of crypto exchange, you're gonna try to make some profit using your funds on a privately-funded platform. They aren't gonna use your funds in anything but they are gonna charge you something for every successfil trades you make since you are using their platform.

With regards to the hacks, I'm pretty sure most exchanges are secured to the teeth and are properly registered in the government, so nowadays, there's a slim chance that these exchanges would be 'hacked' by their own operators, so that risk, somehow, is eliminated, though that doesn't mean I'll blindly trust an exchange and keep all my funds there, lol.

Seeing how things went south yet we still manage to hold, I can say that bitcoin really is tough. With loads of selloff that happened within a span of two months and we still haven't crossed below $6000, it just means that it could be the absolute bottom of this run. I'm pretty confident that we might test new highs within the next couple of weeks or once Q3 started, though I don't see bitcoin crossing the $20k mark this year but it's always a possibility.

Most people who came in late in the game only regard bitcoin as a means to get rich quickly and those who complain about the low prices without understanding the economic state of bitcoin. Bitcoin might possess the characteristics of a balloon but it's not that easy to inflate it once it gets deflated. There needs to be a period wherein all the gains would be redeemed or 'corrected' before it goes crazy all over again. If only these people direct their attention towardsa higher bottom, they wouldn't bother much about the ATH.