HODL is the best option now for all my altcoins. I will keep Hodling till the bearish market is over. Everyone was thinking that bull run will start toward the end of the year, instead, there is a consistent reduction in price. Let keep hodling next year will get better for everyone.
I want to know what you feel, is there still hope for the remaining 18 days before the year end?

This is one of the most challenging years in the world of cryptocurrency since the onset of its existence, but it has proved itself for not a profit-making year rather for investment time in the world of cryptocurrency. This is the best time ever to invest in cryptocurrency. We have been experiencing bearish time since the beginning of the year and this is still ongoing. The best alternative in bearish time is to do long-term investment. The wise ones always invest in this time while the foolish ones back out from the market. Bullish time will soon take over from the bearish time. Then, the wise ones will take over the market.

 There are so many ways you can invest at this bearish time; the first one is to look for good projects that have great potential to be successful and invest in them either by buying their ICO or through the bounty campaign. Secondly, you can look for good coins or tokens that are already thriving in the market before the bearish and invest in them.
 
 I will like to know your take from this post

As a beginner that just have little knowledge about Bitcoin, where to buy bitcoin and start invest is the major challenge. You might have different sources through a google search, but the genuinity of those sources is another thing you need to think about most especially if we a huge amount of fiat currency to start our investing. If you can get it right by buying bitcoin as your first cryptocurrency through your fiat currency, all other cryptocurrencies of your choice will become very easy for you to invest in through the help of exchanges.

I am writing this article to help the newbies that are just coming into the crypto world where they can easily and safely buy their first bitcoin with their fiat currency without being scam. Local Bitcoin(https://localbitcoins.com) is one of the best platforms that can help you out as a beginner. The beauty of this platform is that you can buy and sell or send to any exchanges to start trading it with other cryptocurrencies. The platform is designed to use all locations across the world. If your resident is the UK or US, you will use your local currency or fiat currency to buy the bitcoin of your choice.
 
HOW TO BUY BITCOIN WITH LOCAL BITCOIN
Stage 1. Registration
Register your free account with the https://localbitcoins.com and confirm your account by clicking a that will be sent to your email

Stage 2. National ID Submission
You will need to submit a national Id for confirmation before you can be authorised to use the account for any transaction.

Stage 3. Searching for advertisements
After the confirmation of your account, are you now set to buy your first bitcoin. Search for advertisements through the main page to get the amount you want to buy in your currency. Thereafter, you will be directed to choose a method yours from the drop-down list. In a situation where you are not that to sure of a payment method, you will have to choose "All online offers" as a payment method and it will display a list of bitcoin traders from your location.  

Stage 4. Select an advertisement
You can now choose one trader with a good reputation score with a high volume of trades from the list displayed. A response time will be displayed and the maximum time of all responses shouldn't be more than 90 minutes, else it will be cancelled.

Stage 5. Making Payment to the seller
After selecting the buy button the, the responses time will start counting and you will have to pay the seller before the response finish.

Stage 6. submission of evidence of payment
You will have to submit evident of payment through the chat box to the seller and stop the responses time.
and Immediately your account will be credited with your bitcoin after the seller confirmation.
This transaction can be completed within 5 to 10 minutes if you are doing fiat currency transfer with your local bank.

For me, I will not advise anybody to always follow the TrollBox to chosen a coin or token to trade on at any point in time when a suggestion is raised to trade on a particular coin because of a price rise. So many pumping companies or traders use it to do pump and dump and at the end, you will fall victim. It has happened to me when I was still a learner. A coin was suggested in the TrollBox and I invested on the coin that day to trade on and before I knew,  the coin went down in price. The implication of this is that you will have to wait for a longer time before you can sell which you were not planning to do initially. This will made you get stuck in the market if you don't want to lose money.

Sometimes, If you are smart enough you can be a winner for that day. It is not always, the risk is very high in following TrollBox in trading. This is common in hitbtc exchange.

I will like to to know your experience if you have been following TrollBox during trading.

 

I start my posting from the bounty selection of this forum after about 10 months of registration and ever since then no merit was given to me on all my posts. In my quest to know the reason, I find out that there are no quality posts in there to give merit to someone. My question now, why do the forum still allow the section to exist? I can we scrap it from the forum since it doesn't give rewards to any post? I am very inquisitive to know why merits are not been given and the section still allowed to exist.

Since I have ventured into crypto business, I have not seen any lending coin or token that have lasted for more than a year. They are the riskiest coin or token to trade on or invest in. I have lost a reasonable among of money trading and investing in them. In one way or the other, they have affected the blockchain technology advancement. I have made up my mind not to invest in them any more. I will rather trade on good coin or token that is already doing well or promising coins that are doing.
The reason a lot of persons used to fall victim is that they want to make a fast money. Honestly, that was my intention and in the long run, I was hurt by losing a lot of money. This has really hurt some persons and they have made up their mind not to invest into the crypto projects or trade on anyone. This has affected mass adoption too.
My suggestion is that if there is a way to abolish Lending coin or token by SEC, that will be great. You can share your experience here and what you feel about this.

The activities in the bounty section should be cancel because it has no major effect in the forum. There is a lot of spam in there. I have been there for a while now. The activities don't prove your real self. I have changed to other sections of the forum to enable start getting the desirable merit I want.
Some people are there just because of the bounty program and not having the forum in mind.

I know it's advisable to buy low and sell your coin at a higher price. What I don't understand is that when you sell high, do you suppose to buy so that your profit will not depreciate when the price is going low? I need an expert to clarify me, Thanks.