Bottomline is no history could tell when will the market be again at its peak because this market is naturally volatile. Many people in this industry are expecting for a comeback this year. Due to the sudden increase lately, many investors are expecting for a huge increase at the present. But as I have mentioned, no one really knows when will the market price increase and how high will it be every year. We have no choice but to hold and patiently wait rather to sell just because the market price stabilized at a certain point and that there is a tendency for a sudden downfall.

Any form of investment will also generate risk, and that's the fact. Ofcourse putting your fiat on hold will not create risk but will also not generate profit to put it simple. In the first place, it depends to the individual whether to engage in an investment or not. Bitcoin and other cryptos are having volatile market value compared to the majority of the stock market investment. But observe how popular cryptos are whenever there is an upward movement regarding their market value. The logic behind here is that, putting your money in Bitcoin will surely be risky but the higher the risk, the higher the chance to earn profit. But this is not applicable to all of the situations.

Many countries' economy depends to China regarding the export and import of goods as well as trading and services, this gave China the power over other countries so for sure it will not be abandoned as easy as it may sound especially to those countries that benefits from the services China is offering towards other countries and that's reality check.
I do understand your sentiments but you are just being racist. It is never right to generalize. Death? are you serious? If this is regarding with this pandemic, how sure are you that they are not also affected by this? Lives are lost, and that is enough to explain. No one is really sure of that this pandemic is intended to make other countries suffer except their government, themselves. It is said that this virus was originated by their "habits/tradition/beliefs" but keep in mind that if something is related to culture, it cannot be easily determine as something wrong just because it contradicts the "norm". I am not a Chinese, and I am not protecting them, I am just being fair. What if something devastating towards other countries, originated from yours? How would you feel if ever the majority of the globe will condemn you for being in that nation even if you did not cause that in the first place? Now think again.

I'd say through investment. People may engage to mining, bounty participation, trading and the likes but the easiest way I think for a person to get into cryptos is to simply invest into it. But ofcourse reading about it, atleast the fundamentals or keyterms, is more advisable. Then if he would want to dig for more, interactions with people industry is the second step, I guess.
Good one. But cryptos i cluding Bitcoin will more likely be heard on things related to profit such that investing into it will give "assured" profit. It is not really easy money but that's more likely how cryptos will be introduced to someone nowadays due to news. This forum is a good thing but not all people are aware of this site.

Not only Bitcoin but also, to other cryptos. I've never heard of ETH 2.0 but the thing we are sure of, is lack of assurance that such thing will boost the price of ethereum and other cryptos because of the situation we are into.
Correction is more likely to happen when the price increase became too fast such that the price from $9k become $15k within a month. In this case I think a correction would occur and probably, the price will be back again to $10k in this instance.

Use Bitcoin for what? online services and payment of goods? Not all the time. In many countries, Bitcoin is restricted to be used so that already promotes inconvenience unlike any mobile games. Using Bitcoin or investing into it can be done using phone or pc but I cannot guarantee in countries or areas wherein crytpos are not supported by the governments. So I think that would be definite boundary.

Well those countries have their own reason why they are not adapting the previleges or convenience cryptos. It might be because of their market value and market volatility. People do benefit from the advantages of cryptos regarding the convenience cryptos are giving to its users.

Now that hype is getting stronger, and Bitcoin is getting more popular, people are having more confident to invezy in cryptos in particular with Bitcoin. More communities R
are supporting the hype of this trend.

Well ethereum, in terms of popularity, is believed to be next to bitcoin in every exchanger. Not because of its market value but to its popularity and community of users. There are many coins in this market having highet market value compared to ethereum but how I wonder why it is still considered to be next to the best.

I've been here in this industry for years already but to every projects that I engaged myself, more often, ethereum is related to their projects such as the mode of investing into those projects are based on the price of Ethereum. Also, the moment wherein Bitcoin reached its ATH, Ethereum is always next to its name. There are even comparisons abd speculations how would Ethereum get pass to Bitcoin but that's another story.    

Transactions are restricted. In many countries, Bitcoin and other cryptos are not yet accepted as a mode of payment. There are still countries wherein cryptos are not yet legal and not yet supported. The main use of crypos at this moment is still related to investment purposes. No matter how people in this industry wanted to use cryptos for daily purposes, they cannot do a thing because of the legality of Bitcoin and cryptos. And we cannot blame them because they would be deprived from using cryptos as a traditional digital currencies. And reality check, there will be more years to come for cryptos to be used in daily services.

The sales of your business, in short, will be turned into Bitcoin investment. The question is, are you willing to put all of your sales in an investment? We are talking about bitcoin, so how your profit would be at risk the moment a payment recieved in the form of crypto. But given the circumstances this market is having, anx if the problem is the pricing, I'd suggest having a fixed price (fiat based; e. g. $5k amount of it) to promote fairness because the price of Bitcoin moves up and down and other people will hesitate to invest if it would be a fixed amount, when the market price of Bitcoin is high.

I think it will already have a hard time reaching the $20k mark this year. I do not expect that much given the problem we are facing at this moment which affects majority of the economies around the globe. This I think is enough to tell that the market value of cryptos will not consistently increase, especially, at ease just because the price suddenly grew. If we are not having problems at this moment, I would probably believe at this moment, that the ATH will again be reached. Trading is indeed hard and is not something an investor or individual will lear in a single glance. It is a more active kind of investment which will require you to have or to be updated with regards to the market value of cryptos from time to time which would be quite of a hassle if you are not into it.

Biggest restriction is its adaptation. Majority of the countries, still, are not into cryptos as a digital currency, to be used in services and transactions. There are indeed advantages of it but countries wherein Bitcoin and other cryptos are not supported, are concerned with its price volatility. If it would be a medium of transactions, its value sbould be consistent in order to promote equality. Just think of it; if the price still is not stable, those businesses which would accept cryptos as payment will be at risk from doing so. They will be at risk of partially losing profit. Given that no one knows when will an uprise movement occur, the money would be "sleeping" instead of being a continuous amount to boost the business itself.

To be honest, that is hard to determine. The price indeed increased in the past few weeks. Bitcoin's market value as an example have broke the resistance at $12k likewise with the alts. But since there are still four months to go, there are many things that might happen which can either be good to the market prices or not. Way back 2017, the bullrun started in the late month of September if I'm not mistaken so maybe it is just to early to conclude. The answer is simple. There is a possibility for the price to be bullish once again this year and there is also a possibility that it won't; we just don't know.
This simply explains how unpredictable the market is. Economies are facing problems and still the market price of cryptos still managed to go up. So yes, no one really knows how will this market behavior end for this year.

But given this market is lacking consistency, making a prediction will not be a help. It is one's freedom to share his thoughts and speculations but I just cannot see the essence of doing so because the market is inconsistent, a pattern may be formed but that doesn't give assurance of what could happen next. We should expect the unexpected because that is how this market behave. A market price could go up continuously but could also fall down in an instant. Same thing when the market price is falling, the other way around could take place.

There is a huge difference. Bitcoin and Gold are both used as an investment nowadays but their main functions are different in the first place. Gold is being used before as a raw material, trading of goods and nowadays, investment or store of value. Bitcoin on the other hand is a digital currncy created to promote cashless transactions. But given that it is not widely accepted as a digital currency, most of the people took advantage of its volatile market value which is through investments. So these two are used as a store of value. But the difference is their market value volatility. The price of Bitcoin and other cryptos are having volatile market value, meaning, its price moves a lot. The price of gold also moves but is less volatile. Gold is also supported in many countries across the globe which makes a gap away from Bitcoin and other cryptos as means of investment.

Which one is more profitable? It would be bitcoin but is also having bigger risk. In every investment, risk is present. Since Bitcoin has a volatile market price, its market value will move a lot that would generate bigger profit BUT the chance of losing, everytime its price is falling, would also be bigger than other investments.

Before learning or studying something, one should have a goal. If he's into investing into it, then he should read articles about Bitcoin investments. What I am trying to point out is that, if a person is really in a rush then he should have specificity of what he wants to do. There's no need to know about other cryptos and other complex terminologies if he is just into Bitcoin investment. Then if he would be seeking for more, that would be the time to look around this industry. There is indeed no shortcut on learning something but a more efficient way which would still yield you to your goal is acceptable.

Digital money has its advantages and so is physical cash. Digital currencies are the new innovation but are still under the progress of development. As long as issues regarding this cashless system is not yet resolved, cashless society would remain sketchy. At this moment, there are already services which are preferred to be cashless because transactions promote convenience but not all the time. There are delays and also, the fees are mostly high in general. I do not specifically refer to cryptos because it is not yet accepted to most of the countries. There are many digital currencies which exist at this moment, and most of those currencies are regulated by governments or are centralised. If digital currencies will be the future, the question now is 'which is which' - referring to that currency which will be more supportef someday.

Well, it is because some people are afraid to gamble. Those who buys when the price of crypto is increasing, are those who cannot afford investing and waiting for years. There do tend to wait for the movement before investing to something because in such way, the direction will lessen the risk. But ofcourse, the profit will still be bigger if you invested at the "bottom" but these people are more concerned of lesser risk than bigger profit, which I think is not wrong. We just have our own ways in order to come up with profit in this industry.

For sure that won't happen soon. Bitcoin still is not accepted as a mode of payment to many countries, and if you are living to those countries, then you have no choice but to use Bitcoin as an investment. Indeed Bitcoin and other cryptos has advantages regarding convenience on every transactions but we just cannot help thr fact that it is still in progress of development.
 Well, more likely, Bitcoin will be accepted to markets as a mode of payment, once its market price stabilize. It is more likely to happen because majority of the businesses cannot afford adding up risks. Think of it, if they would accept an amount of Bitcoin as a payment, then it happened that the price of Bitcoin is still volatile, the business will be at risk of "losing" money unless they would hold it, which will not be sustainable to majority of businesses.

Different concept, centralized, and having unlimited coin supply I think, are enough to say it won't have a chance over Bitcoin. Well, indeed ripple has a large community but  Bitcoin for sure has a larger one. It is centralized, although it is not a negative thing but there is a chance for mafket manipulation which is a downside to some investors. Given that they can create their coin or to continuously supply the market, demand will not be high for sure and that would be a conflict to its price, ofcourse, for the investors. Investors would more likely engage to a more volatile investment because risk is equivalent with profit. Higher risk, higher profit. These, I think is what makes Bitcoin more popular and dominant to this industry.