That was a terrible error friend.
Good luck to your hustle.

In what context?
Is it in price or value or as a store of wealth, etc?
It is no more news that in terms of price, bitcoin has more than doubled gold.

A typical example to back up my opinion in this discourse is a natural happening: the case of a hothouse. Artificial warmth there make seed to sprout almost spontaneously. Exposing such unnatural growths to natural weather conditions such as winds (even slight ones) could easily collapse the plants.

In contrast, think of a seed that will have to unconditionally surmount all challenges pose by nature to grow and become a tree...

I will like to explore bitcoin as an extensive means of online exchange (buy and sell medium). However, now, the circumstances and user preferability is such that users favour trading. Is just how it is.

This is really interesting. Kudos for the effort man. 

A question plaguing the minds of crypto enthusiasts and investors!
I think it is still early to give a definite answer, and that it really depends on the success of cryptocurrency in general with regard to its acceptance and adoptability. And this changes are revolutionary, subject to many years of transition. Many people with knowledge of how blockchain utilises cryptocurrency and operate are even subconsciously opinionated about a future possibility of a paradigm adjustment in e-commerce, e-transactions, etc, to accommodate blockchain. Whether this accommodation will be whole or in part is purely subject to education and a mass willingness to accept blockchain.
One should also not forget that blockchain, good willed as it is, poses a serious treat to the further existence of large, powerful multinational financial organisations, and it won't be uncommon nor surprising to see a fierce opposition to this "something with the audacity to threaten an overhaul of the status quo and to establish a new order". Everyone knows what happens with revolutions. Or, history will educate us more on that.

Dejected and cheated, enraged and revengeful. But also sober, full of longing for a better tomorrow.

It is highly unlikely now as, by my evaluations, no other coin has the "experience" to overtake bitcoin's dominance. That probability may likely exist in future, many many years from now.

think greed is. The craze for "easy"
 money" in that country became feverish, and now people deal with cryptocurrency with negligence to government's financial regulations. This spurred a ban on the use of crypto.

It is really sad and unfortunate that this country is suffering for standing up for what it believes in. Truly, the time has come for us to ditch the so called dollar. It is the cause of all these undue punishments many countries are forcefully subjected to. Enough of all these nonsense.

This is hilarious but really cool. For Japan, there is no reneging on bitcoin's acceptance and integration into national economic life. The country is setting the pace and establishing exceptional frontiers in bitcoin's acceptability and usage.

I am comfortable with imToken.

I will like to hold as much as 1000 bitcoins or more.

Yes, "the future is for the cryptocurrency".
This means that cryptocurrency could still rebound to even higher price limits than the $17000 entry point you bought in.
Just relax and keep holding your bitcoins. You can distract your mind from the feeling of regret and loss by doing bounty tasks or airdrops and accumulating other coins for you never know how the future may be.
Try hard not to sell your coins because it is when you do so that you truly lose.
Good luck.

We all hope your optimism becomes realism by 2020. Every crypto investor wants for themselves what you are hoping for. Good luck to your hustle.

You have written well, and the simple reason why bitcoin "so special" is because it is a goldmine for those who saw the future coming.

The reason for HODL is: come what may, in at most 5 years time, 1 No BS will equal $1. That will mean serious cash    

You asked a question, then you answered it in the same sentence.
You already know what you have to do. Just quietly go ahead and do it Bro.

'If its too good to be true, then it is probably a scam'.
Surely, you must have heard words as such...

Everyone wants a bull run but I keep wondering how it's going to happen. A bull run can come when there are interested investors or buyers, and with the current bearish trend undergone by most coins now, investors could be scared off from investing and buyers may decide to hold aloof.
Bitcoin strongly dictates price movements of pretty all trading coins but again, with the current uncertainty trailing the market, it may be much of an assumption to believe in a repetition of last year's December bull run.