Bitcoin in general was conceived primarily as a payment system, although this function has already not been fully implemented because of its slow transactions. So bitcoin is closer to currency by nature. However, under the classical concept of currency, the whole of the crypto currency is not at all, because when this concept was drafted, nobody could assume the existence of digital money. However, it does not matter. When bitcoin and other crypto currency are universally recognized, the concept of currency will be rewritten taking into account the existence of the crypto currency. With this in mind, bitcoin is not just a financial asset, but must be recognized as an international currency.

2018 clearly will not be the year of the fall of bitcoin. He still has a lot of potential energy to go up in his price and I think, given his rampant temper, he will take advantage of his chance throughout this year repeatedly. If the network of lightning or SegWit is introduced in the bitcoin, or other tools that eliminate the existing shortcomings of bitcoin, it will not lose its popularity and will grow freely in price. At the same time, as we have already seen, too large and a sharp rise in the price of bitcoin can cause a lot of negative consequences, including the protective measures of different states against bitcoin.

Bitcoin is going through hard times now. Now it really is not in the best shape and does not fully perform its main function of the payment facility. But let's hope that everything changes soon. Bitcoin developers are still deciding what is best to use for bitcoin to eliminate its shortcomings. Although, to be honest, it has long been possible to do so. I'm still inclined to think that it would be better to introduce a network of lightning.

Ripple is a very useful coin for the banking sector of the economy, so it will always have its value and will not depreciate. However, investing in it is also a challenge because it is completely centralized and manageable. They will want it, raise it in price, they will want it - they will put it down. Therefore everyone has the right to choose the way to financial success.

To sell your house, it practically means never to return to it. It is unlikely that buyers will agree to sell it to you even at a higher price. In addition, you need to be absolutely sure that for some time bitcoin will rise significantly in price. Given the shortcomings of bitcoin, which accumulated in him and that because of them he began to lose confidence and his popularity, I would not risk so much.

Bitcoin should not be afraid, but always be aware of the possible risks of investing in it. I mean that if bitcoin rises too much in price, at the same time, the risk of its rapid depreciation increases, as it grows in value due to increased demand for it and has nothing to do with increasing its intrinsic value. When bitcoin reaches its highest point, the demand for it will drop sharply and at the same time it will sharply fall in price. Then it will be important not to be in the last cars.

While there is no reason to lower the price of bitcoins to $ 1,800. True, this can happen before the end of the year, if bitcoin ceases to improve and eliminate its shortcomings and, if at the same time there are still some events that will also affect bitcoin in the direction of its reduction in price. If the shortcomings of bitcoin are eliminated, then by the end of this year, he may well reach a rate of 35,000 - 40,000 dollars.

Since after its fall to ten thousand dollars bitcoin has risen today, according to CoinMarketCap data up to 11 722 dollars, it was time just to buy bitcoin. It is necessary to make sure that it will no longer fall in price and then make a purchase. If bitcoin recently deliberately crashed in the price, it means that in the near future it will definitely grow in price, and this growth will be significant.

Today bitcoin has already started to grow in price. If yesterday bitcoin had a value of about ten thousand dollars. today, according to CoinMarketCap, its price is already 11,774 dollars. Given this, I no longer think that it will drop as predicted earlier, up to 6000 - 8000 dollars. Perhaps, he will still fluctuate within 10,000 dollars, but no more.
       Especially nice. that after bitcoin up in the price began to grow and altkoins, including ethereum again stepped over a thousand dollars.

Now I will not be surprised if bitcoin falls below 8000 dollars. In general, for the crypto currency, this will be very good. Just will not be excessive speculative speculative demand for bitcoin, it will not swell as a bubble and create a threat for themselves and others for crypto currency. Investments will be more or less evenly distributed among different coins and in general this will contribute to the development of the Crypto-currency. Therefore, there is no thin without good.

It does not seem to be worrying. Indeed, the rate of bitcoin, and behind it and the majority of crypto-currencies, has been falling steadily lately. Today, the bitcoin rate is 11,192 dollars, and it seems that this is not the limit in its decline. Previously, it was predicted that its price would go down to $ 10,000. It goes to that. It is possible that it will temporarily fall even lower. Some of the nervous will sell their bitcoins, and perhaps even leave the world of crypto-currencies. This happens periodically and this must be treated philosophically.
     It seems that now they are deliberately dropping the rate of bitcoin. Apparently, someone decided to skimp well before raising his rate. So while you need to have patience and wait for another surge in prices.

Previously, it was predicted that the cost of bitcoin could fall to $ 10,000. Somehow it was not very believed, however, the price of bitcoin has recently continued to fall and today, according to CoinMarketCap, it is 11,192 dollars. This is a record low price for the last time. In addition, someone deliberately plays to lower the bitcoin rate, including already repeatedly expressed the idea that the bitcoin development team ignores the possibility of correcting the shortcomings of bitcoin in order for its price to fall. Assuming that this is all done deliberately, then soon we expect a sharp rise in the cost of bitcoin. Just now there is an opportunity to buy it

There is another problem here. As the project and the ICO team do not study, but there is no certainty that the chosen project will be successful and after a certain time the tokens purchased or received as a result of joining the campaign will increase in value. After all, a significant part of the tokens released to the market depreciates and never rise in price again. That's why some are rushing to immediately sell the received tokens while they have not yet depreciated.

This is a very bad trend. If I see in a campaign of generosity that when I join the signature campaign I need to disclose some of my personal information to them, I'm bypassing such a campaign. However, most campaigns begin to demand their personal data only after the signature campaign ends, when it is necessary to pay the generosity and, thus, put bounty hunters in a desperate situation. This is a kind of deception on the part of these campaigns, because in the conditions of the signature they do not write this. No matter how well-intentioned it may be, the deception is a deception and this is not good. Moreover, it is obvious that they require additional data after the work done in the hope that some people will not want to demand payment, presenting their data and, thus, they will pay less for the tokens they issue to participants in the signature campaign. Because in the end they are after all vseravno whether a person has one account or several, if only the agreed work he performed in the required volume, qualitatively and on time.

Now in the world of crypto currency every day
 millions and tens of millions of people are drawn into it. The crypto currency has attracted the attention of the governments of almost all states that make their decisions with respect to the crypto currency. All this has a contradictory effect on its growth and therefore its movement is more and more difficult to predict.
     At the same time, the last growth of ethereum and other altcoins, in my opinion, is caused just by the drop in the price of bitcoin and its unsolvable problems with slowness and high transaction costs. That is, bitcoin in general falls in price, albeit with waves, and altcoyins are growing because the popularity of bitcoin is falling and more and more investors prefer to invest in altcoyins. So far everything is logical.

Altkoins are much more useful than bitcoin. Bitcoin was created as a common universal means of payment, while altcoins, which appeared as a result of the ICO. were created for work in some narrow sphere of our life and in this sphere are very useful. I think that this year will be the year of altcoyins, especially in the second half of the year, when bitcoin should be suspended in price.

The biggest drawbacks of bitcoin are obvious, this is the low bandwidth of bitcoin in conducting transactions, so now they are hundreds of thousands hanging for a few days, as well as a large amount of commission fees for conducting transactions. The average cost of commission fees for transactions bitcoin now goes up to $ 40. It's no good.

In the near future, all states will be forced to consider the issue of taxation from profits in the crypto currency. This question is not so difficult for the state. as some people think. Simply oblige all exchanges, exchangers to identify their customers and transfer data to the tax authorities, or charge and attention of the tax will be made automatically with each transaction, when the crypto currency will be exchanged for fiat. Here, you do not even need to identify the persons who carry out such operations. Also, the population will be obliged to voluntarily indicate their income in the crypto-currency under the fear of criminal liability for tax evasion and people will do it themselves.

At this time, the question of whether bitcoin will survive depends on whether the defects of bitcoin are corrected with respect to the slowness and high cost of its transactions. If these shortcomings are not eliminated, bitcoin may lose its place as the leader of the crypto currency and its continued existence will be problematic. Bitcoin is unlikely to invest their money only because of his name. Investors need a functional crypto currency.

As expected, the news about the forthcoming ban on crypto currency in South Korea was not entirely reliable and did not reflect the views of the entire government of this country.
     I especially liked that 600,000 inhabitants of this country wrote a petition for several days with a demand not to prohibit the crypto currency and dismiss the Minister of Justice, who expressed his negative opinion on this matter.