these aren't strange, these are online fiat wallet thingies just like PayPal. you just haven't heard of them. i am using PefectMoney and it is somewhat similar to others but with less adoption!

and BTC price in $ is higher on yobit because nobody trades there!

the best way is to access their API, if they offer it like Poloniex and get the data to analyze yourself. but this site has the information you are looking for.
you can sort it based on the exchange and/or coin you want.
https://data.bitcoinity.org/

coinmarketcap does't have this

that is just explaining why bitfinex price is high though. and i have no idea where @Kemarit brought the $1400 from that he says "it is so close" even on bitfinex price is $1330-50
here is to hoping bitfinex fixes the issue faster

and this rise i believe is mainly the normal rise that were supposed to happen. if you think about it. we were talking about $1300 not long ago, right before the BU SPLIT FUD!

what do you mean "BTC is too expensive"? nobody is forcing you to buy 100BTC or a whole 1 bitcoin. you can buy as much as you can and as small as the place you buy at, allows you.
and to go into altcoins you need to have at least some trading experience, they won't magically give you profit.

if you are trying to hide while using bitcoin and charging back paypal, let me tell you right now that is not going to work because nobody will trust you online enough to give you bitcoin (which doesn't have charge back) against your paypal (which can easily be charged back).

also it is against Paypal's ToS to use their services to buy a digital currency (aka bitcoin) and they will close your account and take your money, specially if you charge it back and the other party files a complaint with Papal, informing them of what you did.

hmm. interesting that i remember his last comment before disappearing said something about him being right and price never dropping again. i distinctly remember that he advised that 0.01035BTC is a good entry point. and as he said this and then disappeared, price tanked hard down to 0.0083BTC! i just hope nobody entered at the "good enter price" he suggested because although that is still profit but it is missing out on a nice big dip.
and that could have led to some stop loss sells leading to big losses!

i think a couple of bitcoin exchanges had a demo account that you could use with something like 1000BTC in it to test things. go check out Kraken i think they had that.

but in my opinion you don't really need fake/demo account in crypto trading world. the minimum amount required to trade is very small. for example many sites have a minimum of 0.0001-0.0005BTC and that is less than a dollar.
things here are nothing like Forex or Stocks market. you can start with a tiny amount of money and learn things that way.
and remember with real money you gain real experience.

it is impossible to say
we can only say that it can not happen within a short time like a week or a month!
also we can say that it will happen eventually.

but about when, we need to see how things shape out to be like first. there is always a rise, and with the new adoption every day and with news like Japan, the process surely speeds up.
but also at the same time there are FUD like the recent one about split, or incidents like an exchange getting hacked. these things may not be a killing blow but they surely slow things down.

the bearwhale pockets has a bottom too, it is not endless.
and after multiple days of dumping you either get bored or reach the end of your plans and need to start doing something different since now everybody sees the price difference between bitSTAMP and other places.

having your eggs in a basket that doesn't break your eggs is better than putting a couple of them on hot air balloons that are going to burst at any moment.
you say 25% i say either don't or if you do, remember to enter only at the bottom and dump the altcoins as soon as they rise. the dumps are as real as the pumps.

stop looking at marketcap, it is completely useless.
instead look at how bitcoin is being adopted and how that is growing day by day. for now the biggest news of these days is Japan and how they have fully adopted bitcoin as a legal currency and they are already on their way to becoming a bitcoin haven!
and soon more countries will follow.

if i didn't already know about bitfinex's current situation, this rise would have been a great one. i mean $1318 $1326 now

but right now i don't know whether to be happy or anxious!

i wish there was a fast forward button to 6 months to see the $2000 without all the bullshit in the middle

many traders are gamblers, they are gambling on this situation and i think it is safe to say with good odds too. they sell their coins at a higher price and keep the profit on the exchange and buy back when all this is done and back to normal.
i say good odds because it is the bank that is messing with them and bitfinex is allowing withdrawals of crypto.

i think this is partly because of a wrong way of thinking about being "open source". many think that automatically means safe. and since projects like this only attract greedy and uneducated people who don't understand the code, nobody goes through the code and things like this go un-noticed until somebody finally does and everything crumbles.

i believe you are mistaking bitcoin wallets with bitcoin accounts who call themselves wallets.

a bitcoin wallet is what you control, you generate they private keys and you keep them safe and you spend from it. in short everything is done by you.
these wallet examples are bitcoin-core, Armory, Electrum, Multibit,...
you can keep your bitcoin in these for as long as you want and nobody can touch it for the foreseeable future.

a bitcoin account that mistakenly called a bitcoin wallet is just an account you create with a third party like an exchange or a site. and THEY control everything including your private keys and your money.
examples are Coinbase, Xapo and all the exchanges.

when people say don't leave your money/bitcoin in the wallet they mean the later (the accounts) because they can scam you and run away or block your account because you broke their ToS for example if you gamble with bitcoin that you have in coinbase account.

i don't know if you read the replies here but i have never heard anybody call what altcoins give as "dividends" there are some POS coins that have something called staking (stacking?) reward which they pay you for running the wallet (keeping it open) and having some balance in it which is a flawed system in my opinion since it is like they want to increase the amount of dump to kill the price and you can see all these coins have low prices.

that is easier said that done.
and these 2 are already two big issues dramas in bitcoin community and when they end another one will start just like always!

we are all interested to see SegWit on litecoin, particularly because it is copy of bitcoin!
but it seems like we have to wait a long wait! 2 days ago someone (they say it was Wu) directed a big amount of hashrate against SegWit on litecoin and killed the 80% down to 71%!

of course it is. when you have deep pockets supporting it, the pockets deep enough to put multiple huge buy walls as big as 5000BTC to prevent the crash, that means you are here to stay with millions of dollars funding the manipulations.

you shouldn't have trusted an altcoin which calls itself USDT and doesn't even promise you the equal price or even possibility of exchanging it to back to fiat! (read their TOS)

and yeah sadly this is what happens when you mix bitcoin with centralization of banks and exchanges.

on fully agree on bitcoin since it is a legit investment with a future. but on the other two, meh i can't sleep well if i know my money is in an altcoin specially if that altcoin is eth or ltc but mostly ether at this point.
for all we know in a month eth is forked 2 more times and someone in China has dumped ltc back to 0.004 like last time

lol, as if he isn't rich enough already. he made a code, then got free coins, millions of it. then in during the first pump to $14 he dumped about a couple of million dollars worth of this coin which he got for creating a very buggy platform and a poorly designed wallet.