this "cycle" or any other trends like this has never been valid so far. people keep coming up with them but they still fail to live up to the expectation. for example you say "winter is ... global correction" but you seem to have forgotten that last year price was rising super fast during winter!

and the summer thing is always true about altcoins because they say during summer kids don't have school and are investing like sheep in pump groups.

true but also it is not news that majority of countries have already adopted bitcoin one way or another. either as a currency or a commodity or something else. but they have adopted and legalized bitcoin.
even in countries that the news spreads FUD about such as China they have legalized bitcoin already.

i disagree. bitcoin doesn't have to do either of these two things!
the banking system is a useful system that despite what people say, they are still cheerfully using it and they will continue using it even if bitcoin were to become huge.
and as for money laundering i have to say as long as there are much easier and more efficient ways of doing it, only idiots will use bitcoin for that purpose.

nothing about ethereum is smooth. haha.
the network is clogged too often, the blockchain is too huge you can never run a full node, the transactions become slow and super expensive if a big ICO starts happening and almost every month someone hacks it and steals millions of dollars worth of ether and other tokens.
... so i hope bitcoin is never "smooth" as ethereum ever

they can use blockchain technology like anybody else but as soon as they start thinking in terms of "it belongs to us" then they are effectively making it centralized and doing that will put an end to what THEY create.

the blockchain technology in form of a currency becomes successful when it is used by something like bitcoin in a decentralized way not the old centralized way that we are trying to get rid of.

here is what i understand from this token!

you have cash like anyone else does and want to use this. you first have to buy bitcoin (or possibly some other altcoin like ether) to then buy this token on an exchange. then you have to go to their centralized platform to purchase gift cards for those vendors then go to those vendors like Amazon and use the gift card to buy stuff!

so here is the question. why the hell would i pay transaction fees, and trading fees to buy this token just to get a gift card? why should't i just use the bitcoin i bought to buy a gift card and use that? i can even get a discount when i buy gift cards with bitcoin. not to mention that a lot of places (and possibly even Amazon in the near future) are accepting bitcoin payments directly!

just because some people don't pay their taxes when trading bitcoin and cryptocurrencies that doesn't mean bitcoin is affecting the economy of the whole country! these same people would never pay their taxes when they do other things so the economy didn't change because of them.

the usage of litecoin as a currency has been surprisingly good and it has been actually growing. this gives it a good potential in the long run to rise in price and stay up after the rise.

there is also the fact that bitcoin price is rising and it is known that whenever bitcoin rises LTC is one of the rare coins that follows bitcoin up when the rest of them fall.

if you are holding any of your altcoins more than 2 months then you need a very long time to ever be close to recovery. you are already in 70-90% loss

you said it yourself! bitcoin is bullish so that is what i hold!

by not using it! MEW is a web wallet and will always put you at risk when you use it. there is an option to download the source code for it and use it in offline mode but it is a lot of work and you'll still need to use an online machine to broadcast the transactions.

well it is hard to take the words of this guy seriously when all he has been saying so far about bitcoin was that it is going to "end badly"; but so far bitcoin only got stronger and stronger. in fact it was even adopted by multiple countries as a real currency and now millions of merchants are accepting it.

the price is not rising based on faith or whatever else you want to call it. it is rising based on this usability of bitcoin as a currency and the demand for that.

if they were actually giving them "fish" then it could have been a good thing and we could close our eyes on it but they are not even doing that. they are giving bad advice and making the situation in the altcoin market even worse and fill the pockets of the whale pumpers that reside in the market.

it is not just about the limited supply. 21 million on its own is meaningless. if it was any other way then all these forks of bitcoin which also have 21 million and lots of other altcoins that have near the same number should have been worth a lot too!

what is important is the combination of this limited supply with the growing demand. it is always supply AND demand not supply alone. and the increasing demand is what's increasing the price.

in order to participate in the ICO you need to give up your privacy not after the token was released so there is no longer any tracing when the token itself is used.
he is not accepting it because he knows it is shit!

nothing!
this one is a joke and even if it were serious it is still small. the biggest one was the ransomware which did nothing to bitcoin price!

there is absolutely no correlation between the stock and crypto markets whatsoever and there has never been any.

but for the past 4 months some people have been trying to say there is a direct relation between the two markets so hard. and i still don't know why!

it is impossible to know the end which is why i always set a profit percentage that satisfies me. i varies from coin to coin and it depends on the trend itself. sometimes the pumps are too strong so you can expect even 100% profit from them. but i try to also not get too greedy. reaching a balance is the key.

also after some times trading and watching the market (the charts) you can see some signs like drop in volume and speed of the rise, double tops and resistance that can't be broken anymore and stuff like that.
trading in my opinion is all about having that experience and that can only be gained by spending a lot of time watching the charts.

i am very interested in this actually but i don't think it is going to be possible. i would to actually see a decentralized platform that is working peer to peer without any centralized authority, no accounts, no middle man, no coin, no token, only data and every data is being stored on the blockchain in a decentralized manner.

unfortunately so far i only keep seeing tokens being created with the promise of a decentralized facebook but they create a centralized facebook-like platform and only get some money to do it.

"facebook on blockchain" should mean you don't use any coin/token to get there. it should mean you don't visit a website in your browser that is registered by a centralized group/person to get there. it means you open it in a decentralized way like how you share files with torrent.
that is why i think it is not possible because it has the potential of getting too big in a very short time.

since i have had that problem in the early days of my trading journey i can tell you that the reason for losing money after you buy something is that you are always buying that thing too late. the reason for that can be different. usually it is because when some altcoin is pumped that altcoin will start being advertised a lot and that leads some beginners to believe that altcoin really has some potential so they buy it not knowing they are buying into a bubble and after the pumping phase ended. and surely enough after that phase will cone the next phase called the dumping.

the solution is simply to
... stop listening to the hype
... start looking at the charts
... learn what a pump and dump looks like.

then you just buy before the pump ends and never invest in a coin that you see is being talked about on the internet a lot. for example if you opened bitcointalk and saw 10 topics about an altcoin that weren't there before then you stay away from that altcoin.

first of all nobody can prevent anyone from holding a decentralized cryptocurrency such as bitcoin so there is not really much they can do about it. the employee's finances are also their own business.

secondly a reporter doesn't have to hold something to be able to write an article about it. but they do have to have enough information in that field to write something. and these two shouldn't be confused. for example they can write an article about oil and all that crap in middle east but they don't have to HODL oil or live in middle east. but they do have to have knowledge about it.
unfortunately i sometimes find out that majority of journalists have zero information about bitcoin but they insist on analyzing it.

this has been happening from day 1 that bitcoin came out as an open source project. they have been forking bitcoin source code to create altcoins then that grow bigger and bigger until today where everyone forks everything that exists and creates their own.

you can this a "security hole"?!!!! why?

unless you are talking about a useless shitcoin that nobody even cares about, your concern is weird!
as a developer you first have the copy of the code on your own machine with some backups which you code for and develope then push to GitHub not the other way around.
of course when you create a copycat shitcoin you never store it anywhere the editing can be done on Github and who cares if that edit caused some bugs! it is a shitcoin anyways.

the current rise is strong enough to go above $11k but first it needs to break the $10k resistance. for the time being the ATH is at $9700ish and even though a huge dump followed it but price never went below $9200 and that is a good sign.

if price breaks $10k in the following days you can be sure that it will shoot up to $11k afterwards for the sheer amount of FOMO that will come soon.