You should be patient at this moment or you can significantly loose your initial. At this current situation, you better hold your BTC, it is not a wise decision when you sell it under 15k once you already bought it at ATH, you can cut-loss when it will be between 15k -> 17k though I do believe you still hold if it reached that target.

What do you mean? This is not 2009, there are a lot of OTC options out there you can use your USD to buy Bitcoin

Since there is margin option we are hard to see the volatility of BTC price the same as before 2017, the volatility we sometimes see now is because some ponzi projects from China, especially Plus Token cash out their BTC and then exchanges like Binance pump the price again, basically, we are in very boring stage of cryptocurrency market

IEO may be good if you only want quick cash, but I dont think IEO will be good for as a long-term investment since both exchanges and projects just want to create FOMO at the beginning, if one of them change their mind and do not rent Market Maker (this case already happened with Perlin project) the project price will fall at the first time. Instead of investing in IEO, I suggest you should DYOR on already-on-market projects to find the best fit for you as the current price is quite reasonable to accumulate for the next bull run.

Why are you seem so sure about your prediction? at least please provide us your TA otherwise it is like spreading FUD. I do not think ETH can go to that low with their upcoming upgrade unless BTC price go worse. If ETH go to that price, I wont hesitate to go ALL IN

very probably though noone knows about the future. However, as long as ponzi scam projects from China continues to sell off their BTC, it is really hard for us to see the growth of BTC. In my opinion, I also think $5k is the bottom of BTC price, and the whole market will have a massive growth in 2020-2022 the same as what we witnessed from 2015-2017

I did quite the same, however, I do not add Bitcoin, only I accumulate some altcoins which I see it potential in long-term. My criteria for them is coin with low market cap, great team, real use-cases and haven't been on Binance yet. I strongly believe that after the bullrun of BTC (after its halving period) that's the time for these hidden gems to do 100x or even higher.

It is really difficult for an altcoin to pump without the help of bitcoin, most of crypto investors also use altcoins to accumulate more bitcoin. However, I also see some altcoins significantly pump without the effectiveness of the price of bitcoin i.e: EGT , they pumped ~ 200x as I remembered, but I think that just pump and dump strategy from their devs. In overall, I dont think altcoin price can be increased as long as bitcoin is still in its downtrend

Noone knows what will happen next with Bitcoin price, however, if we look at more wider picture, we can see that in the coming years, the price of Bitcoin may significantly increase due to the demand and the influence of many factors such as increasing attractiveness to investors, competing with the market capitalization of gold. Another noteworthy factor is the expected World's economic crisis when everyone lost their faith on their government and their national monetary system. In my own opinion, I do believe that there will be another bullrun of the whole market (not only Bitcoin) and it will be much bigger than the previous one.

I'm more interested in how China develop blockchain technology since they are the biggest country may have impact on the price of crypto market. If they release their own cryptocurrency, US may accept the launch of Libra soon to confront, those events plus bitcoin halving will create the biggest massive bull run of crypto market ever.

I do not think China will accept Bitcoin as a currency, they will develop their own cryptocurrency to give government more control on it instead. By the way, we have to admit that crypto and blockchain really has a bright future in this country. And with all of what is happening in China, I do believe in the future of crypto market (it will soon booming again)

Since you said that the market is now more matured, I do think that the next bull run of this market will be bigger than ever. Why? Because other than the mature of investors, the tech side of this space is now more matured as well, no surprise that more and more traditional big companies want to enter this field. Besides, I also see that some excellent blockchain projects appear since 2017 with dedicated team and innovative idea, not only-whitepaper projects anymore. The strong projects always know what they need to do at this sensitive time which is building, this is not the time to only talk about token price, and when everybody realize the real potential and the mature of this technology, that is the time the BIGGEST FOMO will comes.

I dont think introduce cryptocurrency through Brave browser is a effective way because you have to introduce the difference between token and native coin if you go deeper. I think it's better to introduce crypto by talking about BTC and Ethereum first (why/how it was created, what is it benefits..etc..) as these 2 cryptocurrencies represent the whole picture of this market. I myself know about this field through an introduction about Bitcoin of my friend.

It is really hard to predict, especially in this market. Reason for the last bull run is because most of investors did not have much knowledge about cryptocurrency and they did not want to miss the train while the price of all coins just kept increasing. Now they are more mature, I do not think they will repeat the same mistake as in 2017. However, who knows what will happen tomorrow in this space 

No, this will NEVER happen! noone will give you free money unless they want to get something from you, you will get nothing when sending ETH to them. I thought this kind of activity disappeared long time ago? Never trust this kid-cheating!

You should not ask for suggestion in investment, especially in crypto market where most of the projects is only for "pump&dump" purpose. Besides, you better forget about IEO/ICO since it is only a short-term trend, IEO is dead recently , ICO was dead for a long time. Instead of finding advise, you should learn more about potential coins no matter it is from ICO, IEO or old coins and HOLD through this bad period. I think this time is also the best time to accumulate coins that have big potential in the future since all of them seemingly are at the bottom.

Such an interesting picture that covers everything about blockchain space at this moment. I'm pretty sure that 90-99% so called crypto enthusiasts do not know what blockchain is. Most of them participate this space hoping for quick profit. That is also the reason why we are now still in this deep-freeze winter situation.

This bounty has something shadow. According to my research, they already got bounty thread in 2018 and still not distributed reward. Proof is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4044551
We all should be careful and DYOR before joining any bounties or we will waste our time and effort.

This is the first time I heard about long-term trading as trading word always refers to short term in my opinion. If you mention about I think the word "Hold" makes more sense. Investment , especially in crypto market is extremely risky because of its low liquidity, therefore, I usually choose good project I think to hold for a long-term. In addition, I do believe that holding is more profitable than trading.