I don't think this is because of halving. Halving will probably influence the price but not yet and not in so extensive way that this might have really significant impact and not on long term. That is my opinion.
I think that price will continue to fluctuate and the values will be kept in.current range, somwhere between 7000$ and 8000$.

It's not the worst, we've seen worse situations in the world economy but it isn't good, that is for sure.
Unft, there are always countries in the world where war is going on and therefor they can't recover their economies for decades.
If you refer to.Iran US relations I hope we are still far from war because that might have consequences for whole world.
Im situation like that, cryptocurrencies might be solution and help for individuals but they can't help whole countries.

I think Satoshi was a visionaire otherwise he wouldn't create Bitcoin but if he had idea about quantum computing it's hard to say. To me sounds more possible that Nikola Tesla had such.idea and vision, he was really ahead of his time and predicted some inovations that happened almost century after his time.

I can't beleive that everyone thinks how whales are guilty for everything and every.time when price isn't favourable whales are to blame.
I definetely wouldn't agree with that and I think it's irony that everyone claims Bitcoin is independent and on the other hand that is manipulated by individuals or groups of individuals.

I'm not convinced that will happen. Few days ago some thought Bitcoin might reach much more than 10000$ even this month but the price pulled back again and now it's seems that is moving back and forth.
It's much more likely that price will continue to fluctuate in current price range but it will not touch 10000$ this month.

Nothing unusual is happening, just common volatility process.
At first everyone was so thrilled about price rise expecting 10000$ or more even this week. But people always forget that price can easily pull back and that there is no guarantee for continuous growth.
Anyway, I expect for price to go back and forth in the next period of time and I don't think that we will see some major changes, probably it will stay somwhere in the range between 7000$ and 8000$.

I would like to go to more such events but unfortunately I don't have enough opportunities and there are not many such events in my country, at least not at high quality level. It's also important who is organizing it and who are the speakers but such events, especialy if they are international, could be very useful for getting new information, learning something and making new contacts so my suggestion to everyone is to participate.

I expect further growth and development of cryptocurrencies. Also, implementation of blockchain technologies into almost all areas, business and industries. However, despite further progress I don't think that 2020 will be revolutionary year for Bitcoin, nothing so dramatic will happen.

Of course that war should be avoided on all means not just because of possible weakining of economies but that might be the trigger for next world war and that might be the end of the world we know it.
Dollar will not get in worse position then it is now and I don't think that any currency will replace it, especialy not cryptocurrencies. However, I think that Euro is very good, stable and reliable fiat currency, maybe even better then dollar.

It's hard to keep the balance between full time job and trading. It's always that other one that distracts you and if you are not commited fully you will not have good results in neither of them. So if you don't have intention to quit your daily job or get fired it's better that you choose type of trading that is not so demanding on.a daily basis.
I agree that long term trading could be solution but you will also need to count on lower profit.

Very optimistic. It's funny how apetites grow every time when price starts to rise. If someone asked two or three weeks ago no one wouldn't even mention 9000$ or 10000$ as a possibility. And we also need to have in mind that the price might pull back so there is no guarantee for continuous growth.

Exactly, that was the reason. I would only add that motive was probably disappointment with traditional financial and payment systems and Satoshi wanted to offer something new and different, some alternative and people recognized and accepted that. For all these reasons cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin can only grow and develope further.

Actualy it's not funny, that is how Bitcoin is functioning. Price can change very quickly and sometimes that surprises us because we are not prepared.
However, I wouldn't draw conclusions too early about recent price pump. It's yet to see if this is just temporary price pump or some growth that will last longer period of tiime and bring us some significant positive price change.

Another speculation about Satoshi's identity. Of course without any solid evidence. I reallly don't understand why are people so eager to reveal identity like that would change anything for them or for Bitcoin. That really gets boring and all these theories about Satoshi that appear all the time are ridiculous.

What happened? Volatility, conditions on the market. Did you really think that the price will go only one way, up? That is not sustainable and sooner or later price must fall, the question is only how much.
When investing you always need to have volatility in your mind, counting on risk and possibility that you will suffer loss. When Bitcoin is involved don't always be too optimistic and once you see howard trend don't forget that sooner or later you will see downtrend also.

That is hard to tell for sure. So far Bitcoin has proved that it doesn't necessary behave according to some patterns so it's not very clever to compare with situation in 2016.
To my opinion we might see some price rise before halving but that will probably be temporary and it will not last for a longer period of time. Also I don't expect to see some huge price jump.

I'm not sure how relevant this prefiction is. We have to many fake Bitcoin experts and fake Bitcoin news so sometimes it's better to ignore them.
10000$ isn't impossible although from current position it seems not so easy to achieve but I don't think that will happen so soon. It might happen that we will not see that price within the first three months of this year.

I don't think it was ever easy, maybe just the opportunities were better.
Making any kind of profit isn't easy and doesn't come without efforts. It's very important to set realistic goals according to your possibilities and capabilities and to have enough patience. Success and profit don't come over night.
Skilled and experienced traders stil can make very nice profit but that takes constant dedication to the market.

Exactly, war with Iran might be trigger for world war. I hope none of these will happen
And I don't see connection between war in Iran and possible Bitcoin price rise. I don't know what kind of analisys came to that. In general people give to much influence to politics regarding cryptocurrencies than it actually has in real life.

Maybe I wouldn't use the expression.that is not good as a currency but there are certainly some obstacles that affect its performance as currency
Some of them are volatility, limited number of coins and lack of regulation and legal background.
But Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are still developing and in the future some better solution might be found.