The hype last year came along with massive speculation and many new promising blockchain projects came to light and people wanted to be in on the ground floor of the next big thing. The hype was mainly due to surging prices and potentially with some bitcoin price manipulation thrown in. most people did not even know even basics of Blockchain, and they had no idea about the projects they were investing in.

Then too many people got burned with the fact that there is a limited use case for most coins and it was just market interest driving up the price. the next cryptocurrency surge will be driven by a series of positive news headlines about any sort of significant blockchain technology and cryptocurrency being embraced by a large entity, a powerful Fortune company, or a large institution such as a national government.

Agree, Nano is entirely reasonable to assume that Nano could have Eth's valuation. In addition to its great tech, top notch DEV team, active enthusiastic community and flourishing ecosystem, Nano is new compared to BTC and even ETH, give Nano time. Other factors influencing it's current price include Bitgrail FUD and how new DAG technology is. DAG needs more time to show what it can do, and the wider community needs more time to see what Nano in particular can do.

To say that Nano future price is limited by it's current price is a blinkered view that doesn't acknowledge these things, doesn't acknowledge the historic price action of top projects, doesn't acknowledge the rapid growth to date of this still-new asset class, doesn't acknowledge how much room to grow this new asset class still has, and doesn't acknowledge it's disruptive potential.

Different cryptocurrencies are designed for different purposes and there are thousands of crypto project in the market. It’s really difficult to choose which coins to include in our portfolio. Most of the people holds top most coins where the market cap of the coins are already in billion dollars. If you want to get good return from them, you have to wait for long time. Some of best top most coins are  Ethereum, Veilcoin, Nano, TRON, Stellar and Ripple.

But if you want looking for huge return and ready to take calculated risk, then you should look for small market cap coins with huge potentials, and when its about picking the best one as per now one can select Quantis Network (QUAN), QLC Chain (QLC), Energi and DAOstack (GEN) and many more.

It’s called a scam by them because it's not something they can physically hold, they don't understand why it's algorithm has value, from a technological standpoint it's blockchain "breakthroughs" only serve to perpetuate itself. They see Bitcoin as a “traditional” system where a company makes them, controls them, and sells them to buyers. also because there's a lot of actual crypto scams that take advantage of bitcoin popularity.

On the other hand, the people deliberately call it fraud, is probably a pretty diverse group though. Some are just straight up trolls, who would troll any community, but is currently getting the most bang for their buck in this sub. Others are bitter and jealous of early adopters like you said. Others are quite clearly opposed to bitcoin because it will negatively affect their industry (think bankers), and others are quite clearly paid to spread negative sentiment around bitcoin. However, It's all good though, those who understand the tech and it's value proposition will have the last laugh.

Buy low, sell high is an over simplification and the reason people fail at it is because they fail to understand basic concepts like this. You're making the assumption that price will reverse and regain lost ground and then go even higher. This is an extremely high risk play. If Bitcoin has been to its all-time high and will never go back up there, then sure, looks like you got screwed. Trading is not about buying low and selling high. It's about risk management. If you want to guarantee profits you short the pops in a down trend and buy the dips in an uptrend.

Most altcoin pairs are versus bitcoin, and besides that, most of them are purely speculative, so most traders use altcoins to maximize their bitcoins reserve. Remember, the only reason you trade altcoins is to get more bitcoins.

However, as Bitcoin is considered the flagship of crypto world, many people tend to hold their assets in Bitcoin rather than any Altcoins. this is quite independent of Bitcoin price, and when Bitcoin goes down, it can mean faith in crypto has decreased, as a result most of Altcoins follow Bitcoin as well since more people begin to cash out. On the other hand a raise in Bitcoin price stimulates people to convert their holdings to Bitcoin for a bull run. anyway I think a stable Bitcoin price after a sudden run bull makes an Alt Season very likely, after 2017 ATH.

I think Ethereum is not a short investment and even if we could somehow accurately know the prices by the Nov 2019, acting on that information would change the outcome. however, I see it as it would hit to $2,500 by 2021 easily as long as Vitalik behind it. I love the Man and his genius is simply unmatchable. I always invest long-term since I am not an active day trader. For short term there are too many factors that could come into play. One of these issues would be further splits in the currency at one of the upcoming hard forks. Personally, I think Ethereum 2.0 is the cryptocurrency with the most potential. I could sure see ETHEREUM gathering some steam soon, due to upgrades and fixes, and the fact that this is not just a coin, you are dealing with more a “platform” for smart contracts, and the ability to note that it houses something different.

You'd never suggest a new trader to watch signals. The basic logic to the scam part is just assessment of their business model; if the signals worked why put the effort into selling them when you already have an easier way to make money.

However, If they are free, I don't care. I might actually join them, because I have nothing to lose since, I can just make my own analysis and evaluate the signal and it gives me things to analyse and know what better traders look for. If they are paid, then alarms are ringed. I am not giving my money away unless the one running the group is a proven profitable trader. Even then, I would still have doubts. What if he suddenly stops? It's not like these things are regulated the same way large companies are. So as long as you know what you are doing and do your own analysis instead of following signals blindly, and if you don't mind what you are paying for, go for it.

It's Super fun if you are into dorking around, but to see returns you have to be comfortably profitable already and be familiar with different strategies. the conditions for profitability are moving targets so bot trading isn't really a 'set it and forget it' type of operation. It's about deploying different bots for different market conditions and being comfortable making adjustments.

I run bots, but also, and more importantly, a run a set of semi-automated tools that aren't quite bots, but make my life MUCH easier. For instance, suppose I want to execute a limit order without paying the taker fee. Like many others, I have a program that will dynamically reprice my order to ensure it's at the top of the book. Just using this has saved me thousands, both in taker fees and being on the good side of the spread. That program is not a bot per se, but is a potentially fundamental part of any bot. Every toolkit starts somewhere.

Honestly, privacy is an individualized thing. If you truly wanted to remain private, you would throw your phone and computer out the window, The fact is millions and billions will continue to use Facebook, but maybe a bit of privacy education would help. You can use Facebook and not also leak your nude pictures online. Everyone has a different threat model, so posting this "uninstall Facebook" stuff everyday doesn't help when it's considered necessary to interact with friends and family. Instead, we should be teaching friends and family how to use certain privacy settings to better protect themselves.

After all i haven't heard of any of my friends or family quitting Facebook. Some never had an account, mostly because their spouse does and they get news through that. Some mostly lurk, don't post much. Haven't heard any of them expressing big concerns about FB privacy. I think that (like me) they assume anything they post will not be private.

I Agree, Indicators have bullish bias and for short time I just spot a bullish opportunity now that can be traded and i see a window for buying with targets at $10,000 and $10,300. but key intraday level is around $9,500. Longs need to break above the 20MA on the weekly chart and then definitive close above the 100MA on the 1D chart. we are sitting between the 100dma and 200dma, and Sitting on really strong historical support too. Obviously, have a strong resistance to go through on 1D chart. If we break through the long term descending resistance we will close above the 100dma. hope you get idea without graph.

People in Japan and Korea are smart, progressive and must see the benefits of using this technology. Japan’s economy and culture have a strong and persistent nature of adopting technology before the west. The average population of Japan is more tech savvy than the average population of America and the West in general.

Obvious reasons for this are that the Japanese government is actively promoting Fintech in an effort to keep Japanese banks competitive, Japanese banks exploring new ways to leverage cyber currencies, various retail outfits trying out payments with cyber currencies, limited regulation of cyber currency exchanges and etc. however the big factor I see is the shift of household investments from foreign exchange to cyber currencies. Many households are trying to leverage bitcoin price fluctuations for capital gains.

Why you are saying 250.000 dollar? he defends $1 million Bitcoin price prediction. So you're saying you believe Bitcoin's market cap will be over 18 trillion dollars, and the Winklevoss brothers will be worth 130 billion dollars by the end of 2020? if your answer is positive you are retired because that's not how markets work, you don't expect the value to keep going up just because it went up previously as McAfee thought. If that's how markets worked you could make a fortune by buying all the stocks that did really well last year but there's a reason hedge funds don't use this strategy, it doesn't work.

Bitcoin casinos have been around for enough time at this point that there really isn’t a question anymore. They are thriving and really giving players what they want and need: the best casino experience combined with ease of use, speed, anonymity and no extra fees.

Remember that in many countries Bitcoin is still seen as being in the Darkside of legal currency and tender, and until it becomes a universally accepted payment method I can't see it making big inroads into the online gaming payment flow. However both gambling and cryptocurrency aren’t expensive toys for rich people, but popular ways to take a rest and gain profit at the same time, and bitcoin casinos are best options because of much handier than common ones.

18 million mined. But probably only about 15 million that are spendable. three millions BTC or thereabouts are lost forever. Most of these losses are from the early days when they weren't worth much, but even now, 3 million bitcoin left divided by 7 billion people who are yet to own any bitcoin, it's equal 0.00042 BTC per person left to go around.

Usually I'm close to a Bitcoin Maximalist and i think there's always enough bitcoin, 21,000,000 is an arbitrary number, the total amount of bitcoin could have been any number so long as it's divisible. If 0.00042 BTC is worth $2,000 then there's more than enough bitcoin, it just requires 1 BTC to be worth $4,760,000 that's all.

Bull Run has already started for Bitcoin only. Bitcoin is already up more than 300 percent this year. Based on the alt coin performance of 2017-2018, I think the next altcoin season will be around the time of the BTC halving next year. What happened last time was that altcoins with good use cases or established profiles ETH, XRP started climbing AFTER Bitcoin hit new all-time highs and right around the halving.

Your best strategy is probably going to be to accumulate BTC for now. As far as Altcoins run is considered, it will be coming when BTC goes to sideways. It is true that some Altcoins will go to dust but some will also do 10–30x once Altcoin dominance starts getting back. However, I'm not saying the big altcoins definitely won't outperform it in 2020, but I'm growing increasingly skeptical.

In my opinion Binance chain is not for smart contracts and its not competing with smart contracts block chains, but it has it's utilities. Here are the 3 most significant uses of Ethereum's smart contracts: issuing tokens for ICOs, issuing tokens for stablecoins and DEX, and none of these use-cases require smart contracts and definitely it depends on definition of smart contract. However, someone correct me if i am wrong.

I've heard many technical arguments for Stellar rising, but it doesn't work when the whole market is in a dip relativity to the last ATH or even last year. I wouldn't put too much thought into this right now but I'm still bullish enough to keep holding. there's a lot of negativity out there, and what seems to be a real conspiracy between financial institutions, governments, and even analysts to continually try to scare people and get people to avoid crypto altogether. i don't agree with those people or institutions at all, but until we see real, meaningful use of crypto as fiat alternative most of the world seems to be pushing back against crypto and continuing to drive it into the dirt.

Everyone indicates different exchange as the best one. There are a lot of things which compose to this definition, whole background, security, contact with community, trading pairs and so on. I chose Yobit, Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, Kucoin, Hitbtc and Coineal. they pretty good and adequate to me, and has all the most important features which require from reliable exchange.

There's a lot of best crypto exchange, but only 1 exchange got shine and beat the top 1, and it's Binance. If you sign up with multiple exchanges, you can set up bots to exploit arbitrage opportunities or price differences between various coins, and link them all together, also you can check your portfolio with CoinTracking.

I am quite skeptical for the whole idea, because I don't know if indeed the world needs Facebook-dominated bank. Libra is not a realization of startup's concept but comes as a fruit from having a base of more then 2 billion users and customers. Where is a monopoly there are no competition and an innovation.

However, we're seeing massive amount of enthusiasm from non-blockchain developers at Libra meetups. The Facebook ecosystem, which includes Messenger and Whatsapp, has over 2 billion users. It's a huge ecosystem, larger than anything in the crypto space. the fight against Libra is like the war on drugs. It’s a losing battle. Libra is probably the marijuana of cryptocurrencies, we’ll see most people use it and some of them move onto harder privacy-focused like Monero, or more enlightening ones like Ethereum or the Basic Attention.