a lot of users were trading on bittrex but since they turned into a shady exchange while scamming their users, a lot of them stopped using that place and migrated to other exchanges. the biggest one was Binance and Poloniex.

it is true that China doesn't have any effect on bitcoin. and i even believe that China never had that much effect on bitcoin anyways. the only thing that does have an effect is the NEWS and it doesn't matter from where it comes. it just happens that most of the time this NEWS comes from China and it is always FUD and effective so you have to keep an eye on it.

i prefer neither of these things you are talking about.

instead i want a bitcoin that is adopted by people who understand it and don't busy themselves with silly notions which are waste of their time such as market cap, low or high price,....
if you start getting more familiar with bitcoin you will also stop asking these silly questions and know that low price is not possible anymore.

if "I" say that I am Bill Gates, will you believe me or will you ask for a poof?

the same thing is true when some asshole scammer claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. we ask him for proof. and since not only he failed to provide the proof but also evaded every request in a shady way, that means he is NOT satoshi and does not own the coins that he claims to own. he is indeed a scammer who might have bought bitcoin at some point or stolen some from some poor soul.

i am curous to know whether Yobit.net is going to support this fork or not, they have not said anything about it so far and i have some small amount of bitcoin there, i want to know whether to deposit more or withdraw that amount based on the answer here?
thanks.

i have no idea what the bold part means.
but i don't think decentralized cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin can kill the centralized fiat. fiat as we know it may change form and become a cryptocurrency but the "cash" or paper money will always exist and be used the same way that fiat turned into digital form with debit cards, credit cards and internet banking but cash still exists.

the easiest sign of an upcoming big dip is a big rise!

for example if you look at the charts you can see that every time there is a rise, it is followed by a big drop immediately after it. for example price goes up 100% then it drops 30%. this is also known as a correction which happens to be big in bitcoin since the rises are too fast and too big.

since bitcoin will soon have smart contracts for free then if these shitty ICOs are the real threat to them then bitcoin will be a much bigger threat to them. specially since there will be no fees for smart contracts using RSK on bitcoin!

additionally i disagree that it will shrink their future. you say they earn money from forex dealings,... then there is nothing stopping them from entering bitcoin markets and make the same fees there....

i actually think it is not a bad idea.
and it is not just bitcoin, it starts with bitcoin but also such classes should cover the blockchain technology. and it doesn't have to a semester or a full on course. it can be one of those 1 day workshops on bitcoin and the technology to introduce and educate them about this new technology which is becoming more and more popular every day.

it feels like ever since Venezuela released their useless centralized ICO coin and apparently have the potential of making a lot of money from idiots, every other country like them, are trying to get involved with cryptocurrencies!
once i thought it is only lazy scammer individuals that copy paste the projects but now it seems like every country is doing it...

there is a good chance we will see a little drop right after this is ended but it will probably be a bear trap before the next wave of rise starts. although it is pretty hard to predict altcoins but i am going to keep an eye out for such patterns and jump in at the bottom of it if possible.

this is awesome to see some countries exist that are taking this whole cryptocurrency thing very seriously and are not just playing around of it thinking if they ignore it then it will go away! just like what some big countries are doing right now.

and guess which countries are going to be the leading ones in this field in a couple of years from now?
soon the meaning of "developed countries" can also change.

just because some altcoins are on top of some arbitrary list it doesn't mean they are also good investments. it just means that particular list is sorted in a way that it lists them on top of it.

i can make a list based on alphabetic order, volume, number of exchanges, number of coins in circulation, number of tweets, transaction volume,... and each of these have a new coin on top 3 but none of these will be a good investment.

there are gems hidden away at the bottom of these lists that are giving HUGE profit to people who stop limiting themselves to TOPX coins.

they most probably banned cryptocurrency related advertisement on their platform because they wanted to eliminate the "competition" of shitcoins with their centralized shitcoin which they will probably create in the near future and push on to all their users on their crappy platform.

the good side of it is that they will introduce the technology to a lot of people and then they will see the better options such as bitcoin through their crappy option. so in the end bitcoin is the winner of it

this has always been a bit strange to me that there usually are these "big things" you can buy with bitcoin. like real estate for example! that is a lot of money and if someone has that much bitcoin they usually are not willing to give that much up at this price specially. if price was $100k maybe but not at $10k.
or maybe some people with a large sum of bitcoin may do that but there aren't that many people with a lot of bitcoin in their wallets.

IOTA is a good coin to invest in but $1000 may be a little bit too much to invest in it, specially right now that the market is not at its best shape and the prices are dropping all around it.
if you really think it can go up in the long run and be worth a lot more than its current price then do it, otherwise i would suggest waiting more for the bottom and then investing in it then to enjoy the recovery or possibly follow up pump.

it depends on a lot of things.
mainly, what coin?
bitcoin is the only thing that i consider worthy of long term investment and long term in that context is 1 year or more. it can be 10 years too.
but altcoins i do not trust as long term. for them any long term is 1 month tops, nothing more.

also it depends on the strategy that you are using.
as a trader, long term hold means nothing. and in altcoin market if you hold, you lose. but if you trade daily and stay in each altcoin for a short time of their pump then you make a lot of profit.

unfortunately that is not something that you could predict at this point. everything pointed towards end of the "pullback" and start of a nice solid rise but out of nowhere price started dropping again. it may continue like this through the weekend and reverse upwards on Monday.
probably some whales trying to test the bottom and buy some more cheap coins before the shoot up.

this is a strange news and the source of it is a blog post so it is hard to talk about its validity! it is hard to believe that UK and US government agencies websites have a altcoin mining script running on it without them knowing it already! and some random dude figures it out!

these scripts are not really something advanced and complicated. it is easy to detect and we are not talking about some low security website here with newbie admins.

that is something that will never in a million years going to happen and your question has no answer even if we try. people are saying some stuff but none of it makes any sense in my opinion.

and you are all forgetting the first thing: extremely huge supply of ETH compared to bitcoin. and also no cap. these two alone will ensure that ETH will never grow more than a certain level.