Forecasts at the end of 2018 are around 55k $. At 100k $ we will wait for a while. I am afraid that the beginning of 2018 may be weak for BTC and may drop below 10k $.

I have very mixed feelings in this matter. I heard a few different tories with good evidence; I have come across such a forecast:

2018
Jan   13211-15199   14205   -3.3%   43.8%
Feb   14205-17631   16478   16.0%   66.8%
Mar   16478-20452   19114   16.0%   93.5%
Apr   16453-19114   17691   -7.4%   79.1%
May   17691-21959   20522   16.0%   108%
Jun   20522-25472   23806   16.0%   141%
Jul   23806-28132   26292   10.4%   166%
Aug   26292-32634   30499   16.0%   209%
Sep   30499-37856   35379   16.0%   258%
Oct   29931-35379   32184   -9.0%   226%
Nov   32184-39946   37333   16.0%   278%
Dec   34706-39930   37318   -0.0%   278%

2019
Jan   37318-46319   43289   16.0%   338%
Feb   42255-48615   45435   5.0%   360%
Mar   45435-56015   52350   15.2%   430%
Apr   51635-59407   55521   6.1%   462%
May   47702-55521   51293   -7.6%   419%
Jun   44097-51293   47416   -7.6%   380%
Jul   47416-58853   55003   16.0%   457%
Aug   55003-68269   63803   16.0%   546%
Sep   63701-73291   68496   7.4%   593%
Oct   60337-69419   64878   -5.3%   557%
Nov   64878-80526   75258   16.0%   662%
Dec   59630-75258   64118   -14.8%   549%

The only thing that pays is to dig an altcoin and replace it with BTC. I'm going to try on this ...

For me, BTC is now helpful in buying things that I do use on a daily basis. I do not have enough BTC to save. At the beginning I wanted to feel the possibility of BTC.

It's better to spend time on campaigns. We have much better ways to collect coins than faucets.

1 BTC is really a lot. A colleague is right. A lot of people who started with cryptocurrency will be in the same situation. 1 ETH is already a lot .

You do not have to hack BTC. There are also other threats to bitcoin and other cryptocurrency owners. For example, at the end of November, an application for tracking cryptocurrency rates called Crypto Monitor appeared in the official Google Play store. It contains malicious software that checks if the application of any of the largest Polish banks is installed on the phone, and then sends fake notifications, captures text messages and generally spies. So if you're interested in cryptocurrencies, they can rob you of real money. Apparently in Poland, the left application attracted a thousand people.

Opening the page, where the first thing that catches the eye is a big picture of the dollar, a bag of money, gold, etc. - know that the hypnosis process is just beginning. (Why are pictures?) Because instead of the big picture they can be smaller, blinking, colorful - the most important to make them look normal, but subconsciously eye-catching. This is the easiest way to gain attention, i.e. the manipulator in this way increases the chance that you will stay on the page longer and you will be more interesting.
The second issue to be considered is the content, sophisticated way of creating sentences, appropriate word formulation. One of the tricks is to create questioning sentences, examples:

"Have you missed the success of Bitcoin?"

"Would you like to earn more?"

"Invest only 50 cents a day and become a financially independent person"

"A new cryptocurrency better than Bitcoin, you want to make money on it?"

Query sentences are very tricky even though they seem normal, so at the moment of reading the question, answers appear automatically in our head - we often do not realize this process, but manipulators are aware of it. In our brain, a delicate impression of conversation with someone is created, which in turn makes the manipulator approach us. All the more so if the answer is written right after the question, the aim of which is to reach the maximum number of people.

"Would you like to earn more? Surely yes, you are worth it! "

An interesting thing to pay attention to in the case of such texts is the use of wordings meaning "us". So the author writes in such a way as if he expressed your thoughts for you - describing "your" shared thoughts.

"Would you like to earn more? Definitely yes, we will do it together "

It is an illusion of a conversation with someone closer than an unknown person with no face, only words we read.
We also consider:

"I will help you earn", "With me you will learn to earn", "I know / I have a program that you can earn" etc.

The above-mentioned examples are so-called text manipulation, works, but there are even better ways.

It is still a good moment. The price next year will be 3-4x higher. You have money, invest.

You can not predict it. The price is still unstable. True, we will know everything after the new year.

According to a study conducted at a British school, more than half of the still active websites available in the dark web contains illegal content. Researchers reviewed over 300,000 pages, of which 5,200 are still updated and alive. Over 2,700 of these have been classified as illegal because of the content or the possibility of obtaining information, goods or services through them that could be used to break the law.

The vast majority of them were bitcoins, the main or only method of payment. The most popular commodity for which we will pay BTC is, of course, drugs. Often much more expensive than obtained independently on the street, but as stated in the report: it is a purchase in white gloves. Interestingly, the research also found offers of hacker groups that, for the equivalent of USD 2,500, promised to break the desired anonymity of the chosen user and provide us with his full personal details.

Initially, the virtual currency seemed just another interesting "invention" of the Internet. This was mainly indicated by very low bitcoin quotations when it debuted on the MtGox stock exchange. It cost only 0.063 dollars a piece. But it lasted for a short time. Bitcoin in some periods was up to 1,400 per cent. Every year. It has also broken into one of the largest and most recognizable virtual currency in the world, which even more powerful financial institutions are increasingly counting on.

Bitcoin is a purely abstract concept. It is basically a string of dozens of characters hiding the encrypted code. This currency can not be touched or physically seen. In a simplified way, it can be said that it is a product of a gigantic mathematical operation, which is performed by a specially designed computer program. This currency has no material form, and yet it can be passed on and paid for services and products.

This is a phenomenon.

The price is shrinking because on a lot of people people bought gifts for BTC. True, the price at the end of the year is record-breaking. Keep it up. I hope that the next year will be better.

That's one thing. The second thing is investors. The more companies you will be willing to invest. Now, by the holiday price has fallen because a lot of people have been selling BTC.

I agree, but that does not mean that it will not be possible in the future. As if wallet offline recorded transactions? Something like checks.

A better term is that it is valuable and not expensive. It is a kind of asset. Like securities. czemy is so much worth? He was the first and thanks to this he has a strong position.

A very helpful list . There is still cryptopay.me. A very nice option.

ETH has a lot of work to do this. The plus is their number. 6x as much as BTC. However, the price of the entire capital is 69kkk $. BTC 228kkk $. This is a huge difference.

In 2011 my friend kicked BTC. He did not know it very much. It was a shame to spend 3k $ on the equipment. Now he is rich and I regret It was not until BTC started to be interested this year, when the price was already quite high.

You can not be sure. According to me, the price will drop to 5k $ after the new year. Now most people sell and do not buy. Therefore, the price will continue to fall.