I believe that this sudden jump is legitimate, because in reality I think that things in the crypto ecosystem are not going as bad as the market seemed to be indicating. However, I am not so optimistic to think that an aggressive bullish trend has started, and we should be ready to see new ATH soon. Rather, I think that this jump was a readjustment in the face of very undervalued prices, and possibly the market will stabilize again for many weeks until the next jump.

I do not like the word "God", however it must be admitted that Bitcoin has become The Cryptocurrency par excellence, becoming the paradigm of what a cryptocurrency is, at least in the popular imagination. It is true that over the course of time perhaps some of its limitations have been revealed, and altcoins with the potential to overcome them have emerged, however for many years to come the bitcoin will remain the indispensable reference framework in a market as changing as this.

Of course, the technological model implemented by cryptocurrency developers is here to stay, and nothing and no one can intervene in the advance of cryptology and blockchain to improve many of the processes where digital technology and data protection are involved. What apparently came to an end was the interest of many newbies and fools to become multimillionaires with great ease through the speculation in the crypto market.

Precisely this week I was able to watch a case related to the issue live, and with the listing of the ERC20 token from WPP Energy through the Digifinex exchange. Although during the previous ICO it came to be quoted at around $0.10, at the time of going to market its price was quoted at $0.05 (the previous days had been trading for around $0.015 in forkdelta) but few minutes later collapsed to a terrible $ 0.0001 for a brief time. Now it has recovered a bit and is around $0.01, very far from the expectations of investors.

Of course, it is logical that for many cryptos the bear market does not exist because they are newly created currencies and did not have to go through the catastrophic landslide from the end of 2017 until these days, because for old altcoins that came to lose more than 90% of their price during the crisis looks almost impossible to recover one day. But those that have been born in recent times have all the advantages to grow once they have been born in a more stable market and with more conscious and selective investors.

No doubt we must be attentive to innovation, but maybe I think we are approaching the issue in the wrong way. Not only is it about finding projects (alts) that use the blockchain to develop apps, but I think we should even start to approach projects that develop technologies beyond the blockchain.

In my opinion, the blockchain has been a revolutionary invention, but it is only a first step towards something that now we can not even imagine but that an unknown innovator is already beginning to develop. We should also start looking at the horizon so that we do not jump too late, as happened to many with bitcoin.

Actually I have not come to perceive an exceptionally different movement of the market in general, I do not even perceive that the ether is moving outside the margins that have been observed in recent months. It is true that our anxiety to observe an upward market is great, but this should not lead us to see false signals where there are none, because this could lead us to make erroneous and hasty decisions.

In fact, I think we should start to discard extreme volatility scenarios in which the price could move in one direction or another up to 50% in a matter of hours. In my opinion over the past few months the market, and especially the bitcoin has been consolidated in such a way that it could well behave quite similarly to fiat currencies, in which a 1% slip is usually already taken as high volatility.

Therefore, while it is true that in this uncertain market nothing is written, a catastrophic scenario below $1,000 seems as unlikely as a quick return to the $20,000 mark.

To be honest I have been a little discouraged after the big market crash and throughout 2018 I was quite far from the market. However, I still keep some amount of bitcoin and ether in case of an eventual pump. Out of these two big ones, I've been interested in Binance coin and the classic Doge, which seems to be waiting for a long life.

Undoubtedly participating in bounties has stopped being profitable for several months, in the same way that the entire sector seems to have entered into a deep crisis that makes foreseeable the disappearance of the ICOs as they have existed up to now; therefore, it is advisable to remain vigilant to observe what direction this business is heading once the bubble seems to have exploded and the euphoria for the ICOs seems to be a thing of the past.

Yo estoy totalmente de acuerdo con la diversificación, y concuerdo conque dejar dinero en una cuenta de ahorro bancaria no es más que una pérdida de capital por el efecto inflacionario. Y más aún en un país como México, donde la devaluación actual está en el orden del 5% anual, pero una absurda decisión del gobierno actual podría llevar al país a esquemas de hiperinflación similares a Venezuela. Por lo tanto, creo que manejar algunos ahorros en dólares o euros, más una cantidad importante en criptomonedas se ha convertido en mi opción favorita, aunque mientras tanto, cuando tengo algún sobrante de efectivo lo estoy invirtiendo en una cuenta de inversión que me ofrece el 16% anual, y en el sistema de Ahorro para el retiro que actualmente paga algo así como un 6%. Muy poco, pero al menos me protege de las pérdidas reales que implicaría no hacer nada con el dinero.

Sin duda alguna nuestro foro en español tiene la ventaja de que al ser muy pocos los participantes frecuentes, la información que suele compartirse es casi siempre relevante y bien intencionada, lo cual es de gran beneficio para quienes estamos en búsqueda de orientación en nuestros inicios. Mientras tanto, yo solo estoy usando Electrum aunque reconozco que estoy cometiendo el pecadillo de guardar pequeñas cantidades de bitcoin en exchanges como bitso o poloniex.

Como he leído algunos posts arriba, es cierto que para la obtención de méritos se requiere bastante actitud, un buen acervo de conocimientos relacionados con el tema a tratar y ocasionalmente, porque no decirlo, se requiere una buena dosis de suerte para que el comentario sea leído por la persona adecuada en el momento adecuado, lo cual no es nada fácil en un foro donde miles de nuevos posts se publican cada día, y nadie tiene el tiempo para revisarlos todos, por más que tenga toda la buena voluntad para premiar los posts más valiosos del foro.

Por lo tanto, creo que para nuevos usuarios como este servidor ya no debería resultar atractivo suscribirse a este foro cuando se tiene por búsqueda principal la obtención de criptos a través de campañas; este beneficio es hoy patrimonio casi exclusivo de quienes tuvieron la fortuna de ser parte del foro con suficiente anticipación a los cambios, sin embargo siempre es recomendable para los interesados en este tema echar un vistazo de vez en cuando para estar al tanto de las novedades en el criptouniverso.

Pensando en esta posibilidad, tan real como lo implica vivir en un país donde la muerte parece rondar a la vuelta de cada esquina, he dispuesto en un sobre sellado dirigido a un hermano mío que tiene cierto interés por el tema, no mis claves privadas en sí, sino las instrucciones para acceder a esta información. Y de hecho, esta carta no la tiene mi hermano sino una tercera persona que desconoce su contenido y todo lo relacionado con las criptomonedas, pero tiene la información de contacto de mi hermano para proceder a su entrega una vez que se llegase a enterar de mi fallecimiento.

In reality, those elements that you consider proper to a religion are no more than properties common to all human beings, when they cling to the fact that things can be better in adverse times.

There is a natural tendency in humans to cling to hope and become a defender of their positions, even if reality shows that things go in an opposite direction, and this also applies to many bitcoiners.

It is always positive to keep the hope that things can improve, but the nature of the markets is like this: continuous lateral movements that tend to turn into bulltraps for the overly optimistic, so it is always advisable to remain cautious in the face of these sudden moves of the market, especially when there do not seem to be suitable conditions to support them.

Basta ver los desastrosos "rendimientos" que han generado la gran mayoría de las ICOs (si no es que todas, cuando no han ya desaparecido) que surgieron desde el 2017 para darnos cuenta que aquello que prometía ser el negocio más redituable de la historia se ha convertido para muchos en la inversión más desastrosa de todos los tiempos.

No estoy seguro de que en realidad se pueda hacer algo por las ICOs, porque la naturaleza de la economía digital siempre se prestará a la incertidumbre y la posibilidad de fraudes. Yo, que inicie en los asuntos de los negocios online desde las modestas PTCs más de una década atrás, bien puedo dar cuenta de ello.

Por lo tanto, creo que las ICOs han dejado de ser una opción de negocios o de financiamiento conveniente, y quizá en no mucho tiempo veamos emerger alguna nueva alternativa que, a su vez, sea nuevamente aprovechada por defraudadores porque esa es la naturaleza humana.

Gracias por la información, pues he estado buscando algunos sitios para invertir algo en bitcoin, pero para ser honesto los casinos no aparecían entre mis primeras opciones, aunque viéndolo bien, tratándose de dinero virtual prácticamente cualquier movimiento conlleva un cierto grado de riesgo. Será cierto que también hay algo así como bancos "virtuales" que ofrecen buenos rendimientos por invertir tus bitcoins? Dada la naturaleza especulativa del mercado, para mi un buen rendimiento en criptomonedas no debería ser menor al 40% anual.