I believe that right now, bitcoin is in a bubble. That does not mean that i don't think that bitcoin will not go up in the future, or not be successful in the long run. Quite the opposite actually, but in the short term it's definitely a bubble.

The 2013 bubble ended with bitcoin crashing to around $200, and lost nearly 90% of its peak value. However 4 years after that here we are, at 20x that peak price. But you still call that 2013 rally a bubble, because it was just too much money in too little time.

I think this rally will end with a crash, but bitcoin will recover and in the long term, we've still got a long way to go and potentially the current value could even be undervalued. But you can definitely buy in lower than right now imo.

There are a few bitcoin voip services that you can download on your phone, however i don't think that any of those accept voicemail. You can either go with the guy above you(dutchcoins) or you could just buy an anonymous SIM from europe that has the same features. Though you do need to physically switch the SIM cards around your phone, and also i'd assume would be a lot more costly.

You need to be more specific regarding what you want.

If you only want voicemail and SMS, with a small degree of privacy, then get your friends to buy you a SIM even. Simple as that. If you want more privacy as i said get an actual anonymous sim from one of the european issuers.

I have to agree with you, i've stocked up some BTC over the past day or so because the price has simply dropped so much. It almost seems too good to be true but i guess it's understandable why bitcoin is dropping right now.

Right now, i believe that BTC is already in the fomo stage. The same people who invests in BTC obviously have interest in alts as well, and right now certain alts are in the fomo stage as well, and is outperforming bitcoin. Therefore they feel inclined to dump their BTC for alts.

I do not believe the BTC rally to be over yet, and with that in mind, buying right now and cashing out at around $30k could prove to be a profitable trade to make with relatively low risk(by that, i mean more than 50% that it will happen).

Do your own due diligence though, as always.

Doubt that will be a good idea. Worst case scenario BTC will go back to $15k and then go back probably.

Right now people are buying into BCH for whatever reason. Mainly fomo because they've seen how high BCH has rallied in the past and they're afraid that they're going to miss that train to the top, so nobody is cashing out yet.

Of course as a fork of bitcoin(even though it's more of an alt), whatever BCH does, BTC usually does the opposite.

I doubt this BCH rally will carry on much longer, and i doubt that this BTC slump will be sustained much longer either. This price level under $17k in a bullish market like this just won't sustain. If you look at the dip when we initially broke $10k, that adjustment seems to be similar to the current one. I'm going long at the moment.

I'm actually surprised at bitcoin not breaking the $20k level which i think it will by the end of this year anyways. I would have definitely expected that push to be the final push before the price level settles at $20k or higher.

But still, can't complain about another all time high and i can say that i have cashed out a bit before the high was hit as well. Block #500k is a cool milestone for bitcoin as well, it has definitely stood the test of time now and nobody can accuse it as "new, unreliable technology" anymore.

After this current dip, it should rebound right back to $20k and then a new rally will be initiated.

Did you even bother reading the thread? He wants someone to refinance sweeet's outstanding loan with him, it has nothing to do with him offering services for money or whatever and if he was that desperate for money he would definitely have tried that as well.

So the investor of this loan essentially takes on the risk that Sweeet will default but also gets the reward if he repays.

Your suggestion also means that it's not even a loan. It's just offering a service...

Tell you what. I had the same issue with verification, i entered every detail correctly and it says no match for public records. I swear bittrex doesn't even have any public records of anyone outside of the USA to be honest.

All you can do is to really wait and as the other guy said you're not alone in this. This is a very common thing these days with bittrex and you shouldn't be freaking out.

Next time, get verified before you deposit any funds so that if in the worst case scenario you can still just hang onto your funds and avoid using an exchange.

I'm not sure what the others did here. It seems like that they are targeting certain users, aka selectively scamming people or delaying, since personally i have not experienced any issues yet with liqui but others are screaming scam every single day.

If they are ignoring your support request then there is nothing you can do really, unless you take legal action which will take a long time, cost a lot of money and in the end might not even pay off because you're in a different country.

Maybe reach out to them on social media? Usually exchanges are a lot more responsive on social media since everyone can see whats happening.

Please attach some screenshots and proof than what you have provided. Because these messages can be written by anyone and though i trust that you're not making stuff up, if you can provide proof in the right format then people can go around to tag the guy a lot quicker.

I'm sorry for your loss, but seems like a classic confidence scam. Should have never sent first to that guy. At least you've learned your lesson now with $50, some people have to pay a much heavier price for it.

Also the token that you're buying doesn't look that good anyways, seems like a pump and dump coin to me  

Bitcoin has already dropped below 50% in terms of dominance before. So it's really not a surprise if it does again. No idea when it will happen though, it's really entirely up to the movements of altcoins and bitcoin and that case change really fast.

Personally though, i believe that bitcoin dominance is actually going to go up a lot in the future. I don't see a reason why it can't be above 80% regularly as it has for many years, until the huge alt bubble came and basically every altcoin was going up.

Since bitcoin is bullish, and when bitcoin goes up alts usually go down, i expect the dominance level to stay the same level or even increase in the next few weeks.

Unfortunately, I don't think that you are able to dispute a friends and family transaction as goods not as described or something. You can only disput ethe transaction as hacked and you probably don't have evidence for that.

But why would you trust a newbie that has no trust on the forum with $60 of your own? you just never send money first to anyone who does not have reputation, and a high rank. Period.

His self moderated thread was another alarm bell, since that way he is able to delete any negative comments from his thread at his will. Someone should tag him asap to avoid further scams.

Your theory makes no sense.

When the bubble bursts it's either because of some catastrophic failure such as a hack of an exchange or just people selling because they fear the rallies being over and that triggers a snowball effect meaning that more people are forced into dumping their coin.

Bittrex being a shit exchange does not mean that the bubble will burst. It isn't even the leading exchange right now.

People will just move away from bittrex if they don't get the level of service they expect. Simple as that.

For sure, people are worried about bitcoin not being able to break $20k but that's just absurd. Pretty sure that we actually broke it already on some exchanges that historically have traded bitcoin at a premium anyways, not a big deal for me.

This retracement is not logical or rational, basically everyone knows that BTC is going to continue to go up from here to at least $25000+

Time to buy the dip, yet again. I mean i don't mind, give me the opportunity to buy the dip like rigth now and i'll take it anyday. Pretty much easy $1k on your bitcoin straightaway, within a week the same people that dumped right now will be buying their asses off.

For me it's

1) Binance
2) Bitfinex
3) Bittrex

These are the ones that i actually have used and the others i honestly do not have any experience with. Yobit/cryptopia/etc. should be out of the question. Their spreads are high and support is unresponsive as hell. For a newbie that's the stuff of nightmares.

Bittrex has issues as well, but as long as you get verified before you deposit anything you should be okay.

Bitfinex after hte hack actually has stepped up their game and made it super friendly for new traders, but you do need lots of money to even enter with their small deposit and withdrawal limits.

No idea what after waiver means.

But did you attach a debit card/credit card that is linked to a US bank account? If thats true then they probably still are counting you as a debit/credit card customer and charging you with the fees(3.99%). Or, it could just be that the fee schedule is outdated and now everything is just charged at a flat 3.99%. I don't know because i haven't used coinbase since June, because their support is trash.

You could probably get a response from support, if they do reply to you. So try opening a ticket or something.

It's indeed scary how many scammers are out there trying to scam money from you. Especially with bitcoin as a payment method since it is completely irreversible unlike traditional payment methods like credit cards or paypal which you can reverse in case something goes wrong.

As i said, genesis mining is not a scam, but rather just a really bad investment decision to make.

Cloud mining is a whole grey area anyways. Nobody knows if a company's fully legit. The people that actually make the most money is the people who use their affiliate link and their followers to their benefit, and earn from affiliate earnings(that usually leads to people investing losing btc).

What site is your funds located at that has a minimum withdrawal of 0.01 BTC? If it's some random cloud mining site just like the one that you are investing in(which is do not recommend), then there is a very small chance that they are actually going to pay you.

First, cryptomining.farm is most likely not a legit operation. Look at their site. You see free GH/s being offered. 15 year contracts? Sounds super sketch to me.

Offer something legit as a collateral, or otherwise, expect to get denied since the funds are not going to be used for anything good anyways, and the only thing lender has rightn ow is your word. Your account isn't worth anything, without rep.

Nope. I think the price ceiling for this year is probably around $25k. $30k is just way too crazy to actually happen in my opinion. Obviously i could be proven wrong, but i would not bet my own money on this event happening if i were you.

Even though we have seen 50% rises in short amounst of time, we only have less than 2 weeks time in the month of December. There is simply not enough time for bitcoin to break through $20k, and then $30k, when we've broken $10k just very recently.

It could happen in 2018, perhaps even in January. That's for sure.

The increase wasn't actually that much. The only reason why you see around a 35% rise is because the correction took bitcoin price down from around $18000 apiece to around $13000 apiece, so really the rise from the $18000 level to now was only around $1500 per coin.

Not that much in crypto standards, that means there could potentially be more pumps.

Personally by the end of december 1) we could easily see a $20k level. 2) we'll probably see around a $3000 per coin growth as least, making price in the range of $21k-23k. Not sure what exactly the pricing will be though, that's obviously extremely hard to predict.

Genesis is probably not a ponzi scheme but i doubt that they are backed with 100% hashing power anyways. Also even if they were doing what i call "full reserve mining", their track record of producing profits is just not very good. I'm pretty sure though that their mining farm/operation has been confirmed by some guy on youtube that visited it, though i don't know if that many miners backs up the  whole amount of contracts.

Many people get their mining contracts terminated before they even make a ROI.

So yeah, do your own diligence as always. And of course, avoid the obvious phishing sites like the site you got in OP.