It will be a fun project but to have a valuation for the token they create for you to workout is just outrageous to imagine and the future of the project was known, you cannot imagine that every project can have valuation but for you to have a real valuation you need to have some utility that can create business on its own and you cannot have valuation from thin air and all of these projects fail because they expect valuation out of thin air and that is not how economy function. 

Future markets can be manipulated and that is not the case with bitcoin market alone it is the same with the rest of the market as well as the investors with huge amount can always manipulate the market.
 
In regulated market if there is an organized manipulation then the authorities will fine them huge amounts and since the bitcoin market is not regulated whales have the freedom to do anything as long as there is no regulation in the market.

Since you started a topic, you need to mention which experts are you talking about, there are many fake experts in the market and if someone has to have a pick on a certain coin you need to have a solid answer on why that is and i did not find any from you, if the market improves all the coins are moving higher and if you think that their development is better than the rest enlighten me.

Which smell are you talking about  .

My take on the situation is that, if you are an early investor then you naturally have these fork coins and i trust bitcoin fork than the rest of the shit coins in the market and that is my take on things, i am not willing to invest in anything but since i am holding bitcoin for a long time i am having these forks and i am glad to hold and if they are able to give me the profit, it is fine and i will happily collect it.

Scammers are always trying to find ways to fool innocent investors and if anyone jump too soon then they will loose their coins, the same happened with bitcoin forks too as there were many scam wallets during that period and once you enter the private key to redeem the coins and if you have kept the original coins then everything is gone for good.

This will be the coin released by him and may be he is advertising about it, there are thousands of coins in the market who are planning to lure new users forcing them to invest in them and thereby expecting gullible users. So never promote them and there are many top coins in the market rather than investing in unknown coins.

Decentralized does not mean anonymity, if you are connecting to a peer you are going to give out your IP details and the advantage of adding blockchain is that it cannot be rewritten or altered and the record will be there forever and if you are living in a country like China or any third world country then you need to worry if they are planning to implement blockchain technology as the government will have complete control over your finance.

I will not dare to sell gold to invest in bitcoin as gold is a standard that is used for centuries as an investment asset and a store of value and right now bitcoin claims to be the digital gold but would you trust a century old physical asset or a virtual asset that is created recently as a store of value. I invested in bitcoin in its early inception and i will be holding that till it reaches its optimum valuation but i am not too confident to convert my other assets to bitcoin for that matter.

When we talk about the entire internet should be down for the entire crypto market to vanish, the ICO market is almost dead and in a few years IEO market will be dead for good and when there is regulation the anonymous coins will be pushed to the dark market as they will not be allowed to trade in the regulated market until they give the cryptographic key to the government to monitor the transactions, so then we will left around with a few chains and in the next ten years we will see only bitcoin ruling the market even if you like it or not  .

This is a true statement as the past performance might not mean that the price would rally the same but after halving the price should rally consider the amount of bitcoin that is getting lower to get in the market after halving and that must have an impact in the price and so is the reason Satoshi planned to with the halving cycle. 

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@OP if the price is able to break the resistance and move over $10k then it is well and good as i will be making a lot of profit considering i was able to invest when the price dumped completely and everyone is waiting for the rally.

It is the base and we need a long way to go to be a global payment.

Volatility is not that bad if you are a good trader and they thrive on the market situation when ever the market moves in either direction rather than a stable market and hence you cannot see it as a negative aspect, whenever the price moves down it will recover and we have seen that a thousand times and then is Internet connect a real issue in 2020, not sure about third world countries but i do not see it as an obstacle considering the amount of mobile internet users in the market globally.

There are two situations for this, either the real team or person behind bitcoin all died so that no one can come up and claim something that is different and verify to the entire world that some who are claiming are just fake pretenders and it is 4 years and no one came up disputing the claims and that shows that the entire team or the person behind the bitcoin project died. When it comes to recognition you can only prove something by showing cryptographic proof and no one is able to show that till now.

It was not truly about showing their strengths, the attack was a really bad idea and it will truly destabilize the entire area and if we are looking for peace and security of our forces, we should let them fight their war rather than risking our soldiers in the battle field as these battles will not end as the war is going on for more than a decade a still there is no clear victory or purpose and trillions of dollars pumped for these war efforts which can be really used for the welfare for the general public.

The tension might be the reason the price rallied and now the tensions are on halt and the gold who was also rising along with the bitcoin price went down considerably.

I really do not mind the market moving higher but i am not expecting to see a rally anytime soon, we have a few more months left for the halving and we need to have a huge investment coming in to see some kind of movement and right now we were not able to break the resistance at $8.4k and it might take a few months before we are able to break that resistance.

To be honest every coin depends on the improvement the developers make and that is the case with bitcoin too, none of the coins can claim that it can be used as a global currency right now because of the scaling issues we had and we really need improvement on that aspect and that been said the alt coin market depend on the bitcoin market valuation and we can expect a trend reversal by the end of this year.

Hope you meant the other way around, there was a huge resistance at $8k levels and so is the reason the market went down after reaching those valuations and the market was not able to sustain those valuations for a long period of time and it looks like we need more time to reach those valuation and maintain those valuations.

It is true that we need a stable coin that can be trusted, most of the coins in the market right now cannot be trusted or not having that much liquidity and i am hoping we will get a trust able stable coin in the future from a bank or something similar and when Libra came up with their version of the coin i was skeptical but then after thinking about it and if they are able to come up with a stable coin then i could trust them than the rest of the stable coins in the market.

Having a hope is good and everyone who is holding an alt is expecting a rally in the market one day or the other and if you are holding a good coin then there will be a time it will go up, there are many dead coins in the market and there is no way that these coins will rejuvenate even if the market rallies but the top coins who are having a valid project will move up once the market starts picking up the upward momentum.

If you think that there is a change in the market regarding the trading trends and everyone is making use of bots and artificial intelligence to get the maximum benefit as a trader you should change too and there is nothing you can stop these advances, so changing with the situation is the best option if you think that bots are dominating the market.

It all depends upon your idea of recovery which means what was your initial investment and hence the term recovery changes with every investor, i am happy with the current market as i invested early. You have to understand that the market recovered from the bottom and you cannot call this a bear situation, the market rallied a lot in the last rally and you cannot consider that as the price to be as it was a bubble and now we are seeing the real price of bitcoin which has stability.