Into the next years some altcoins will show what they had camed for, i dont believe ethereum, litecoin are really the coins with potencial to get close at bitcoin value at all, neither replace it, we need something better, wich i believe is already live and working, just waiting for people to notice them. Bitcoin can loose the market cap most worth currencie but the biggest value for sure will keep with it.

Whales are players wich has milions in hands, i would say bitcoin whales are those people wich hold something like 300-500 bitcoins, sure there are other kind of whales into others coins, but the level is quite different, i would say im a whale into a coin wich has a tiny market cap. There is a rumour that whales are together into some groups, wich does choose and influence the crypto market all weeks.

If hard forks will start to happening into altcoins it will became a mess, sure there are some coins wich can get improved, but printing more coins, will affect the main currencie, and who knows even replacing it. I did see the hard forks at bitcoin as an extra way to make easy money without risks, but those had centralised and benefict the big holders of bitcoin.

Thats clear decentralized exchanges will became the future and the place to allow us to keep trading altcoins without need to worry about the rules that the country does wanna to force all of us to follow. I do see a lot potencial into Dex of waves since its system does reward almost all transactions we do made their with all supporters, i havent see yet any coin with such amazing incentive as reward supporters and traders, soon all realize what waves can do for crypto world.

I  do believe bitcoin will be worthing atleast 30k-40k dollars at the end of 2018, but well my list is the follow:

ETH= 2000-3000 dollars
Ltc= 400-700 dollars
Dash=3400-5000 dollars
Monero= 1400 dollars
Iota= 80 dollars
Waves= 300-500 dollars

Into the end of 2018 it will be good to see wich coins will still around, because a lot projects and coins will get abandoned and will be forget, and the best thing is anything can help, this year bitcoin raised a lot and no one were expecting such.

I do believe bitcoin has growed already enought for this year, if it will be able to keep above 11 000 dollars, it will an amazing year, unlike altcoins wich are facing some problems against bitcoin. By the next year im pretty sure those value will be achieved since Nasdaq will make a huge impact into the demand wich we have in hands even with the new coins being mined wont be enought.

Since bitcoin is a volatil currencie people does sell them to try to make and earn more money, thats normal nowadays, bitcoin last week went into 11000 dollars and had returned to 9000 dollars soo its a great opportunity to make easy money. Besides that some people does exchange their bitcoins into local currencie soo they use the money they earn to improve their life.

Since you can keep buying always a fraction of bitcoin, soo i would stay with bitcoin, since at the moment the most altcoins are lost into their value since bitcoin went to 11000 dollars and returned again to 10000 dollars, and went into lower 9000 dollars, some altcoins will survive, but lets look at ltc it were 0,02btc sometime ago, bitcoin price went up and it had lost more then those value already. As many others altcoins wich had lost a big part of their value due to bitcoin.

I doubt something would happen, it would be a surprise to see dollars being replaced by another currencie, but since people would adapt those and using it the same way we do with dollar, some use for store of value, sure in the begining it would make a huge impact over the price, but well there is euro as well  that is more easy to trade. Most people would adapt to the changes, even with those meaning another player taking the main role into bitcoin transactions.

Each person has a different goal, a lot early adopters wich had hold for the last 7 years had sold their coins at 10k dollars for sure, but knowing the most does wanna to get rich with bitcoin they wont let their opportunity to run away, if they have to wait more 7 years or even 15 year a lot people have faith that bitcoin will be the easy way to get rich. Im tempted to sell a part of mine coins, but i do believe 2020 with bitcoin halving we will reach another milestone, and well my hope is to sell some coins at 50000 dollars.

I had started to trade with 0,05 bitcoins when the value of bitcoin were around 500 dollars, soo 25 dollars, there isnt a minimum ammount to try, usually should be limited to how much you afford to loose, i have started with those and well i had been able to keep growing my capital for trading, but i dont like to play with a big ammount of coins, because the risk as well reward does grows too much and can stay out of my control, making me earn or loose a big ammount.

Ico had slow down a bit if we compare with the last 2 months, wich had almost all days a new Ico coming, now the focus seems to be the bitcoin hardfork, i had thinked with the last one being canceled there wont be any more bitcoin forks, but i read outside there are more bitcoin forks planned, and well the issue is those forks does bring more power to people wich has a lot btc volume, soo they will alway benefict, thats why altcoins has an important role, until people realize we are feeding sharks.

You should keep a part to invest, soo lets say if i were you i would keep the 10 bitcoins and i would go play with 2 bitcoin, sure its 18000 dollars, but hey soo far you had lucky to join into the best moment into some altcoins wich bringed you good returns, even with bitcoin up sooner or later altcoins will need to readjust their value, soo i would make those stay safe with the coins and invest a tiny part nothing else, since you realized you bought at 1900dollars and is around 5 times your investment soo hodl.

This should be related to just one single question wich is how much you can afford to loose, because you can invest 1000 dollars and if you loose it will make you became problems at you financial management, soo you can start with 0,01 -0,10 btc, the huge diference is the results wich may take more or less, as the coins you invest as well the market interest into those coin.

The big problem of the most of us is we do join into the middle of the pump without knowing or expecting it to last a few more days or hours, and well we are able to get out with profit, but we usually take the risk and pay to see what will happen, the most common cenario is we invest the coin drop a bit and we remain with it, some days later we believe another altcoin will get pumped or is being pumped and we sell at loss the coin, then some days later the coin we had is pumped and we had just loosed money believing we were into the opportunity to recover. I had traced some traded i had made and those had happen to me, nowadays im a bit more secure if i do invest i wont sell into a loss, unless its a shitty coin, something i dont invest my money at. My advice is to always search for the coin stability and follow bitcoin value and how the coin handled into the period of 3-6 months atleast, and always choose a coin wich has liquidity soo you can sell at loss anytime.

No, volatility keeps happens into the top 200-300 altcoins, wich has some decent volume, if you are dreaming with the telegram pump groups, well forget, bitcoin is worthing too much to you risk into those, crypto is shaking from 5-40% into a single day, soo if for you isnt enought well i dont know what to say. In the past we had see 200-500% into some coins, those pumps looks like wont return soo soon, unless is a shitty coin wich cost 1 satoshi, at that way is easy to get such, but its a trap to newbies and new investors.

Who would loose all his free time to dedicate to each coin, token and shitty coin or new project popping all days, this kind of work would need a group to keep tracing all coins, but whats the purpose to notify or inform people about another shitty coin or scam project when there is nothing new to bring to crypto. I believe coinmarket is just a place of reference we do visit to see how the market is into those day, and well not all coins really worth an investement.

Arbitrage trading would be amazing with for a coin wich hasnt a fee associated to the trading, and as i know even if the coin does allow you to moove any volume for free, the exchanges will take their fee, but since its 0,2% in the most of them, it would be for sure an amazing thing, but then we do have the delays that each transaction takes, then the confirmation required to get the deposit as well cashouts. If there is a crypto wich can be transfered instant and without fees the only thing it will need is exchanges support soo all will be able to make money with those. Soo far op is doing well into his tradings, but well since bitcoin went up it had becamed harder to predict wich coin will readjust its value up, because when bitcoin goes up almost all altcoins follow the reverse trend.

As i know this ban at bitcoin is just a rumor, sometime ago some well know big mining companies had warned about those, but all China did were legalize exchanges and any service, company related to bitcoin, i dont know if they had already released those, but be sure that China still in the game, they cant ignore something as bitcoin after felt the power of it. But well if they arent official into, it doesnt matter, since there are a lot home miners from their due to low cost of energy, soo i doubt they can stop crypto world with such beneficts.

2018 will be an amazing year to crypto suporters and believers, i wouldnt say we are pioners since most of us has found and joined crypto this year, but sure bitcoin and altcoins has a huge potencial to be discovered and used and who knows 2018 bitcoin will be legalized into more countries or achieve mainstream. Market is getting pretty and good for all, crypto world a place to earn money.