Will 2019 take us to Moon or Mars?

[Kakmakr]

Looking back at 2017 and 2018, one thing became clear and that is the never die attitude of the true Bitcoin investor/user. We are as stubborn and tough as a Honey Badger and we fight to the bitter end.

Ask yourself if any other disruptive technology like Bitcoin would have survived this long, bearing in mind that we are being attacked and challenged from all sides. <Governments and Banks and competitor coins>  

We took these challenges like scaling and we ran with it and our developers came up with a novel solution <Lightning Network> and now we are getting back up and running with that.

Let's wake the Honey Badger within us and continue the fight to Bitcoin to Mars!  

[traderethereum]

I think bitcoin is very strong compared to the other technology. Bitcoin is unique because bitcoin has the secret power to moves and solve every challenge that might comes. But bitcoin needs more support from us, and if we can give the support, bitcoin will be stronger than now, and I think it can defeat anything and bitcoin will reach the glory in the future.

Bitcoin will grow fast and will take more people to the inside of cryptocurrency, and we do not deny because right now, the growing of cryptocurrency user is on good progress and it can affect more growth in the future.

[Kakmakr]

I think bitcoin is very strong compared to the other technology. Bitcoin is unique because bitcoin has the secret power to moves and solve every challenge that might comes. But bitcoin needs more support from us, and if we can give the support, bitcoin will be stronger than now, and I think it can defeat anything and bitcoin will reach the glory in the future.

Bitcoin will grow fast and will take more people to the inside of cryptocurrency, and we do not deny because right now, the growing of cryptocurrency user is on good progress and it can affect more growth in the future.

Yes, people should once again realize that the driving force to reach the Moon or even Mars is not going to come from anything external <like the SEC decisions> but rather from hard work and dedication from the community. We should build new Bitcoin applications to feed the demand for bitcoins and we should spread adoption by doing the hard groundwork.

A lot of people are sitting and waiting for external forces to take us to the Moon and most of these entities can cause a lot of damage, if we rely solely on them.

Let's change our perception and our drive and focus on our own efforts for 2019. 

[fiomcorka]

It is too early to think about reaching moon or anything beyond that. I believe just being positive in this whole year will be more than enough for most people here. I'm not sure about other people but I am fully frustrated after experiencing a year-long downmarket, now I must need at least sideways movement for some days before getting into rising market. No one will hate ATHs but it must happen on its own practical way not just due to being pumped. If anything like reaching moon happens this year, that must be another pump and may fall in the next month itself drastically. I am not sure, how many people want to experience that once again.

[Juggy777]

Looking back at 2017 and 2018, one thing became clear and that is the never die attitude of the true Bitcoin investor/user. We are as stubborn and tough as a Honey Badger and we fight to the bitter end.

Ask yourself if any other disruptive technology like Bitcoin would have survived this long, bearing in mind that we are being attacked and challenged from all sides. <Governments and Banks and competitor coins>  

We took these challenges like scaling and we ran with it and our developers came up with a novel solution <Lightning Network> and now we are getting back up and running with that.

Let's wake the Honey Badger within us and continue the fight to Bitcoin to Mars!  

Hey it's true no technology has survived such brutal attacks, especially from the governments, mainstream media and bankers who have continuously tried to write it off as a bubble waiting to explode. I feel the key for bitcoins survival was people's faith in technology, rather than it's prices which keeps on fluctuating. I'm optimistic we shall see some rally going ahead in 2019, but it's too soon to compare it to the one we saw in 2017 end.

[lutfi-hasan]

I personally would rather not open the Bitcoin market for this year, I will reopen the Bitcoin market in 2020, because I am very worried that this year's prices can decline again, so it is better not to see this year. In order not to think too much about the market continuously

[dothebeats]

We would probably see some unmanned exploration to Mars first before we see another bull run. Though institutional investors have already expressed their interest on bitcoin for 2019, I still don't see the market being crazy similar to what 2017 conditions were. On the fundamentals, we are still holding strong even though a lot of things really hurt in 2018. I expect more development in the ecosystem and in the code, but not much in price as most traders are still not feeling it for bitcoin and we probably haven't hit the bottom yet.

[Peashooter]

I think bitcoin is very strong compared to the other technology. Bitcoin is unique because bitcoin has the secret power to moves and solve every challenge that might comes. But bitcoin needs more support from us, and if we can give the support, bitcoin will be stronger than now, and I think it can defeat anything and bitcoin will reach the glory in the future.

Bitcoin will grow fast and will take more people to the inside of cryptocurrency, and we do not deny because right now, the growing of cryptocurrency user is on good progress and it can affect more growth in the future.

If we want to see bitcoin will go to the moon again we need to support it so it will overcome the bear market. We do not know if this year 2019 will take us to the moon again just like what happen in the of 2017 which you can see the rapid growing of the price of cryptocurrencies especially bitcoin.

[TVTVI]

I think bitcoin is very strong compared to the other technology. Bitcoin is unique because bitcoin has the secret power to moves and solve every challenge that might comes. But bitcoin needs more support from us, and if we can give the support, bitcoin will be stronger than now, and I think it can defeat anything and bitcoin will reach the glory in the future.

Bitcoin will grow fast and will take more people to the inside of cryptocurrency, and we do not deny because right now, the growing of cryptocurrency user is on good progress and it can affect more growth in the future.

Just need our community to be united. I think nothing is impossible. Remember before 2018, the market took us to the moon once without any organization investing in it, no SEC or ETF. Why are we aiming at big goals so hastily, then disappointing and now Bitcoin is waiting for a decision from the SEC to raise prices. I think we need not wait for this, it will automatically come.

[Lucius]

I do not see how this year could be special for BTC, we are in bear market and most predictions say that we will stay like this for some time - probably until next halving, and this is some year and a half away from today.

In terms of Moon/Mars, I think BTC is already reached Moon at some point, maybe for some people even today - considering fact that in last 7 years price is up 82 000% maybe we can say that for some people BTC is already reached Mars. So maybe is time to start thinking about Titan or something beyond that

Before LN we get SegWit, and it help with transaction speed and fees, but it is still not tested in a situation of 2017 events when we need to pay up to 20$ to send some BTC. LN is here, but it is still in beta, and it will take time to become something what will be used by regular users on daily basis.

[bravehearth0319]

Looking back at 2017 and 2018, one thing became clear and that is the never die attitude of the true Bitcoin investor/user. We are as stubborn and tough as a Honey Badger and we fight to the bitter end.

Ask yourself if any other disruptive technology like Bitcoin would have survived this long, bearing in mind that we are being attacked and challenged from all sides. <Governments and Banks and competitor coins>  

We took these challenges like scaling and we ran with it and our developers came up with a novel solution <Lightning Network> and now we are getting back up and running with that.

Let's wake the Honey Badger within us and continue the fight to Bitcoin to Mars!  

Bitcoin is unbelievable things in terms of blockchain technology, that's the truth. We may have facing circumstances for a long period of time form 2018 up to the present and yet still we still do hope for the good things that will happen in the market in the future. That's why long term holders still holding into bull run of course.

[justspare]

I think it will just take us to atmosphere for time being. I doubt it will go up that much, I am sure it will have a much better year than 2018, we have lost about 80% of our value in 2018 and in 2019 we will not have that, even if we close the year at 2k per bitcoin (which I hope never happens) that is technically "better than 2018" by comparison.

Hence, whatever happens this year I am sure it will be better than 2018. For now my guess is 5k+ for the year averages sounds nice, we can go above 6-7 thousand dollars but if we take the yearly averages and it is above 5 thousand dollars I will be happy about it.

Let's wait and see these bakkt and sec things so if they happen and we are still not above 5 thousand dollars than bull will have trouble since even with that price stands still but if the price goes up after that than we will be fine.

[Lumi3004]

I think it's almost gone in January 2019, Bitcoin hasn't revealed its true identity, whether this year is good or bad for Bitcoin, it's clear to see how it works for 2019, whether bitcoin will go to the end, or go to earth again. wait for the D day.

[milewilda]

Let's wake the Honey Badger within us and continue the fight to Bitcoin to Mars!  

Can we make it to Pluto? lol

Inspite of all the problems being faced by us crypto users, we are still here stood strong and there might some already gave up but most of us still strive to fight for the future no matter what.
After all these years we are still alive and kicking.We do see ups and downs but there are people still have doubts and continuous criticisms.

[KnightElite]

Looking back at 2017 and 2018, one thing became clear and that is the never die attitude of the true Bitcoin investor/user. We are as stubborn and tough as a Honey Badger and we fight to the bitter end.

Ask yourself if any other disruptive technology like Bitcoin would have survived this long, bearing in mind that we are being attacked and challenged from all sides. <Governments and Banks and competitor coins>  

We took these challenges like scaling and we ran with it and our developers came up with a novel solution <Lightning Network> and now we are getting back up and running with that.

Let's wake the Honey Badger within us and continue the fight to Bitcoin to Mars!  

The market will not fall because it has a strong support from the community. We can help the bitcoin to go in the moon if we will keep patronizing it. Even the price of the bitcoin is going down, we keep holding our bitcoins because we have a lot of patience to wait the right time to sell it. 

[Dikarama7]

It is still difficult to reach the month in this year, the market is still too weak to increase that high, in 2019 it is still in the recovery phase and to reach the probable month in 2020.

[@prashant]

We will see spiked in price but not that much that people are expecting,if we go with chart analysis then this year we are not seeing bull run after can't say that absolutely as whales can do anything they want but this year we can see crypto adoption in fast pace as many big major players can enter market and etf if approved then we can see a small bull run.

[1Referee]

Before LN we get SegWit, and it help with transaction speed and fees, but it is still not tested in a situation of 2017 events when we need to pay up to 20$ to send some BTC. LN is here, but it is still in beta, and it will take time to become something what will be used by regular users on daily basis.

2017 was a bit of an exaggeration, where it wasn't just more transactions taking place inflating the fees, but the BCash fork contributed to most of it. Miners moving back and forth insane amounts of hashrate significantly slowed down Bitcoin's block times, which we have seen slow down to over 17 minutes per block instead of the 10 minutes it usually hovers around. If that wasn't enough, their spam attack made the situation only worse.

I'm certain that under 'normal' circumstances the hype usage of 2017 would still cause the fees to increase, but it wouldn't be even remotely as bad as it actually was. Did you notice that now these idiots have forked off we haven't seen one single spam attack of serious nature? I'm glad that they have their own toy to play with right now. Best thing that ever happened to Bitcoin.

[stompix]

In terms of Moon/Mars, I think BTC is already reached Moon at some point,

Seconding part of Lucius's post here, we might have already got to the moon in December 2017 but right now we're clearly going back to Earth to refuel.

I'm really bad at predicting stuff but I don't see any spike matching the last one happening this year and not so much next one, so unless something really big happens (and in my opinion, Bakkt is not big) we are doomed on dancing with the bears for a time.
And to be honest, I'm not that keen on living through a big thing that might cause something like 2008 once more.

We would probably see some unmanned exploration to Mars first before we see another bull run.

Hmm, we've already passed that point and the next one is coming in early 2020, that's a more positive than negative prediction  

[Willitivity]

From your post, one thing is worth nothing, the never die attitude of Bitcoin investors and also the ability to have survived so many downs and serious attacks from the outside world, it takes grear strength to overcome all those. As for where we are going this year, Bitcoin is yet to show a reversal and uptrend, therefore it's still a fluid situation.