Even cashing out bitcoin at once will not even work out as the only thing that keeps the price high is the forces of demand and supply which means if everyone should cash out, it will means the supply will be more than demand thereby forcing the price down forcefully so the issue of marketing does not comes in but something drastic will have to push that and not planning or wishful thinking.

For me, I will still prefer trading crypto to other options you have listed there and the reason for that is because of the relative flexibility and even a very platform to actually actualize one dream easily even with the required tools to make that happen. Crypto is still very young and that presents unlimited opportunity to be harness with various projects coming into the mainstream which one can quickly cash into without too much stress to even gather information.

I agree with you but the issue is the exchange site are equally protecting themselves even though they should rather not do that. The reason for my position is that part of what makes an exchange popular is liquidity in that when I want to sell, I should be able to do so within limited time or else I won't trust them but not all this time are buyers at all time are available so they buy before then selling to who ever makes an order. But what will happen to them the moment the price increases at that rate without anybody to buy at the moment and they allow you sell which meas they owe you and if they cannot redeem it, the next is scam accusation thread which might damage their reputation. With that, what they do is just study what happen next before just jumping here and there and we all know the volatility nature of price.

First rule to know is that nothing is certain in bitcoin and even if you buy now, there is no guarantee that you are going to make profit although by buying now might contribute to the pull to push the price higher but that's just contributing to a pool you don't even know the direction in which others in pool are contributing towards. Just buy and put your mind away from it.

In as much as it is a good news to be heard in this time, but I still feel can bitcoin handle all this pressure by the time a lot of people start coming into it. Good the price of bitcoin will increase but what will be the effect on the transaction fees that will come with it or the number of hours that delay will occur in the process of making a transfer between a buyer and seller knowing fully well that once a confirmation does not happen then double spending can occur, won't this open another room for scammers to continue their exploitation of innocent people.

The best short term investment that I have made up to date was just to buy bitcoin at a price in the morning by evening when the price at increased a little to cover my cost and stress, I just sold it off because I was scared the price might go down further and I might blame myself for it. Other short investments have turned to be scam with HYIP promising 24hours return. I was bitten on that part too.

Aside what others have suggested, you also need to be careful of the fees that will be incurred in making that kind of decision. The cost of transferring to the site to buy, then the charges they will deduct from your withdrawal when you buy,  then you consider the charges of transferring after you finish selling in other to move to your origin wallet if one is not careful, all these charges might overshadow the profit or makes it marginal to no longer worth the stress.

That's the blunt truth when the price was below $1000 same people who were pessimists believe it will go to below $500 then I will buy, but bitcoin was ready to shame them by keeping the flag high on the increasing side and unfortunately for them they cannot still buy now because of their view that it will crash or its dead. And to all of us who believed, I say to the moon here we come.

My own first awareness about bitcoin was like several years ago when I was just curious about making money online but was unlucky to just get in the hands of HYIP so part of the currency they always accept is bitcoin and the symbol BTC is always every where on the internet but my laziness to research made me lose a lot which I am still regretting till today. It better to be late to the party than not to be present.

So because they are having issues with maintenance means they are causing market to crash the smae way I tried accessing livecoin website I think yesterday then I got the notification that they are doing maintenance. Are they also causing price to crash, I doubt that. Its normal for site to face downtime and most times is for the greater good considering the fact that they are also losing money during the downtime.

Even if I am one which I am not, you dont expect that I come out loud to say it. The fact is even if anybody comes out to say he is one, people like you and me will still doubt such individuals so our best bet is to just continue to play with the wind based on calculated risks and on day if luck shines on us, and when that happens, it will look as if we had insider information.

Having read the arguments for both and against volatility, it seems there is no end to this discussion but my point of view is that if there is need for the massive break-in bitcoin is waiting for, then there is need for a fairly stability in price. How do we want a big retail store like Amazon, Alibaba, Ebay to cost their goods where today a 25$ commodity could be say 0.015btc and tomorrow that same commodity could now 0.025btc with the complex infrastructure they run then its definitely going to be an herculean task.

Its really good to see a young man getting to that position with so much agility and ability to understand what is obtained currently which is determinant of what is coming in the future. On his support for bitcoin, he might have soft spot for it in his own personal capacity, but when it comes to making decision that will affect the whole country then its beyond one person which is why I wont want to get my hopes high that his emergence as the new elected President will automatically gives bitcoin a soft landing in France.

Guy you need to count your losses and move on. If you didnt lose this unearned income how will someone else make profit and thats how  it is because you also must have made some profit from the time you bought it till now and that person would have been in your shoes considering the increment that must have happen to price since you bought it from him. If you are confident that the price will increase, just get more now then sell later. Its a risk but its worth the shot.

At this point, it does not matter the price at which everyone intended to stop buying because at an increase in that price someone is willing to still buy more. Bitcoin today has expanded beyond the reach of individuals and this is gradually going beyond the reach of countries. Its a free market that even if we on this forum agrees not to buy, there are millions of people outside the forum that are willing to mop up those ones we are refusing and the price still remain the same.

Your fear is same thing as people who have commented including myself because this issue if it continues without any solution in sight, then it might mean a serious calamity for bitcoin. Yours is still fair compared to people who pay high transaction fees and still have to wait several hours for it to confirm this is just my own case. I dont know what will happen if government now start adopting bitcoin and the population multiplied in multiple folds then we need to start waiting for weeks for transaction to get confirmed or even pay transaction fees that is higher than the amount itself.

We are getting there gradually. It seems the silence of most governments will actually create a window to exploit and gradually the penetration will happen by the time they wake up from the business of politciking and world politics there wont be going back on how far bitcoin has gone and the result of that will be they wont have any other option than to just fall in line and give the required support to ensure it gets to the masses of the population.

I really dont have a particular price at which I sell, as most times I have taken the decision to sell, its always based on the prevailing factor of my immediate need. Sometimes, it might be that be that there is an immediate need for cash, other times it might be the need to just have the funds in liquid form then I sell but before that, I tried to ask myself can I forgive myself should this be a wrong decision. But now, any I am able to get, I am waiting to sell at a so high price like say $3000 to buy a car.

Guy you need to know no matter the decision, it comes with its own risk or risks. Just settle your mind but the moment you are not sure of which one to go for, the best option is to keep your coins and that alone could give you reasonable return with little or no risk whatsoever and you equally have control over it.

Thats is the concern with Alts that the moment the developers have made some money, they just abandon the whole project all together without looking back, thinking it will just on its own displace bitcoin like magic even bitcoin on its own did not make it to the mainstram without support from developers at its early stage of growth.