Depends on the things the hard fork brings.

I mean ethereum is having a new hard fork and the consensus is that proof of stake is much better than proof of work for everyone except miners, since ethereum had gpu mining the products that people used (graphic cards) could just point towards something else and that wouldn't be a big problem for them neither. Hence that hard fork was seen great by everyone.

However, bitcoin cash for example was a bad coin that people mocked and really found hilarious that it even exists and it went to do a new hard fork which ended up with 2 new coins both of whom owned by people who have a ton of bitcoins that eventually resulted with them selling their coins to fuel the war and all of us lost, that hard fork costed crypto economy billions of dollars lost in value.

Hence, that was bad. What I am trying to say is that hard forks are not naturally good or bad, it all depends on the hard fork.

Altcoins are having both big advantages and big risk levels. But considering to avoid unnecessary risk, many people including myself not showing interest to invest in altcoins.

I believe that will not be a very big mistake of life time because bitcoin is performing well to get good returns for my capital. I am still holding regardless of what other people are suggesting here and there. I believe into bitcoin and its potential and moreover into its bright future hence I am happy with my holding.

Choosing the best projects is always a risk-free way of maximizing our profits. But, I do not know why people are looking for new projects and then losing their capital. Some new projects are good for quick and maximum returns but we need to consider the risk involved with those new project so that we must avoid them.

I'm always looking to invest only into bitcoin and few other major coins. This way I am eliminating most of the risks involved in usual crypto investments.

Yes, the diversification in larger scale will lead to another level of problems. I never look for investing up to 80 different assets.

I do not know what are the plans people are having to manage all the 80 coins effectively. This is our hard earned money and not just simple work to go for something blindly. Moreover by choosing the top 80 coins, there will be no guarantee for the risk is completely eliminated.

I think staking is not really improving ethereum that much.

We are all hoping for the price to jump as soon as fork happens but we are forgetting that people react earlier instead of waiting that much. Remember the bitcoincash fork ? The price went up like 50% in one day probably 2 weeks before the fork happened because people wanted to be part of that group that got free money from it. Look at it now, its really not exactly the same and some people lost good amount of money there.

Same will happen to ethereum, if people want to have stakes there and make money, they probably either already bought it (the sudden increase on ethereum prices of late can prove that) or they will get some before the fork happens. They will not wait for the fork to happen and react afterwards.

I think I will start moving back to altcoins, I was focusing too much on bitcoin and ethereum for the past 4-5 months now because I was afraid of losing my money on another NANO type of deal but right now I feel like bull is about around the corner and I would like to position myself to a place where I can clearly profit when the bull comes, this way I will be capable of just gather a bunch of good low marketcap coins and bull will take them higher.

When the bear comes it is scary to be on any coin but at least bitcoin makes me feel a lot safer, it can drop a whole lot (20 to 3) but for some reason there are coins out there that lost like %95 and even more so I feel like bitcoin is safer during bear times. Now that I think bull is coming its time to get out of the safe zone and risk a bit of money.

You sound interesting but it is not easier how it seems. No one will be knowing when to enter bitcoins and when to leave bitcoins. That must be the biggest challenge in front of every bitcoiner, otherwise they would not have been doing same thing again and again as they might have done that to have hundreds of bitcoin is already and right now must be into some gambling houses or in yacht for enjoying their vacations.

We are still under $4000 then today also must be a very good day to buy bitcoins more. But, do not target for short term that might get you trapped in one or another round of doing so.

I think the bull will eventually come but I doubt it will be that quickly. For us to have a 20+ thousand dollar bitcoin at around march or April we would have to increase about seven folds in just couple months and I know bitcoin has done that before but it is quite impossible right now without the volume.

If we could somehow find a way to get people more interested in bitcoin and increase our 2 billion dollar daily volume into like 20 billion daily volume than we could talk about a huge increase in price, until that day we are not going anywhere anytime soon. However the possibility that bitcoin price slowly going up like in 2 years until 2020 may would be the best case for us, that way price will not be 3-4 thousand dollars anymore but it won't be 20 thousand all at once neither, it would get there in 1.5 years which is best for us since it would make not dropping lower easier.

Facebook IS losing a lot of attention however they are lucky that they grabbed whatsapp and instagram at the right prices. As far as I remember they IPO'd facebook at around 100 billion dollars in value, think about it, a social media platform that worth 100 billion dollars makes no sense at all, it is like buying a 100 billion dollar car, it will eventually lose value so why spend so much money on it ?

They bought whatsapp which basically doesn't lose value as long as people keep talking online with each other so I assume whatsapp will be relevant for long long years until a rival could dethrone them. Instagram is still great on social media level but like I said about facebook, that will slowly fadeaway and a new one will come eventually.

Facebooks crypto move would only be interesting so we could see if they could revival facebook by using crypto as a system to attract young people again.

Anything may possible. Even the short term impact will be in negative, we can expect more investors rushing to bitcoins which may bring positive things later on.

That will not be true. If economic crisis will be arising then we can expect institution funds will be moving out of stocks and bonds and may go to gold and cryptos kind of alternative mode of investments.

Yes, definitely not practical as this process needs 44k people which is multiple times bigger than my  residing society.

After leaving the number of required people, I just imagine at what level it will be feasible. Anything like wearable bands in hands which will be doing the actual mining by consuming the body heat and based on pulse rates then it will be possible to be implemented in real life.

Still hiring that many people and convincing them by paying some shares to them will be a very big task. If we pay them from the 1 bitcoins which is to be mined from their body heat, I'm not sure how much profit will be left out. Honestly, interesting things are not practically working as we are expecting. That must be the catch from God for balancing everything in this world.

There will be plenty of chances for world economy to enter into another round of recession after 2008. World economic always needs some new industrial innovations so that new jobs and new level of productions will be carried out so that it will be finding its continuous growth otherwise we may enter into the recession time to time.

This time, I believe I will not need to worry about losing my job or inflation in my country (due to any possible recession). Because I'm having some bitcoin saving and I believe that will be more than enough to overcome for time being like finding another way of income generations. In 2008, I lost my job due to recession triggered lay off.

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Some off-topic yer you may find interesting : I'm always thinking why is MR.Satoshi has developed bitcoin systems in 2009. Probably he must have suffered something in the recession by the year 2008. To have some solution, he must have invented bitcoin .

You said all. OP is just misguiding investors as no trader will be consistent at any market. Trading is not that easier for making sure-shot profits.  OP is explaining his system just like depositing money into bank for interest gaining. Because, only with banks we can make use of the compound interest more effectively. But for the case of trading if you go for re-using your profits for your trading as part of capital again and again then there will be plenty of chances you will lose all of your capital which is consisting of your so-far-profits too. It means your multiple days efforts will go in vain in just in one day.

I just agree that compound interest is as marvelous as anything else but when the system is not capable enough then what is the use of just calculating in papers.

We have seen some examples of this before, a global crash is so big that crypto is usually not affected, usually not in a good way but not in a bad way as well. The volume constantly drops and the price usually stays afloat at whatever price it is and yes sometimes goes up and down but that happens right now too so nothing new and the world continues to recover itself.

Crypto doesn't get a major change in their prices or even the interest because people are focusing more into their day to day lifes instead of focusing on future profits, global crash doesn't mean "oh I can make so much more money now" or something for people, those are just investors.

Regular people focus on how to pay the gas bill or phone bill or the next meal instead of thinking about the investment chances.

I guess you are forgetting completely about technical analysis which involves lot of trading tools and strategies. Yes, you can predict the direction of market using technical tools even if you are unable to predict the exact price levels. But, OP here is stating about predicting an upcoming movement in small exchanges based on bitstamp and other major exchanges. It may be possible in some occasions and cannot be sure it will work for all 100% of times. Just like any other strategies.

Predicting the direction of a market is involved lots of criteria and factors. When everything will be meeting and satisfied then there will be chances for accurate predictions. But we cannot be sure that each and every parameter will be met all the times so that we can be sure about accurate prediction.

I would say not to be judgmental before you test it but also if you are starting out new I would advice to go with the huge ones first. I mean binance and bitfinex and all those exchanges are number one for a reason and there is no point of selecting something else.

If the said exchange provides you with something that is better than binance than they would have been known already and since they are not known more than other exchanges that tells me they are not offering anything superior to the already existing great exchanges. I am not saying they are scammers or not, I don't know if you will be scammed or not, I have never worked with them nor I have any insider information but one thing I know for sure is that binance will not scam you and you can always opt for them instead.

Not just cryptos, all the markets and investment opportunities are unpredictable hence you need to prepare yourself to approach accordingly. Yes, the basic principle of effect investment and asset management is, investing only what you can afford to lose. If you are following this principle then you will never worry about the unpredictable nature of markets. You can simply hold them as long as you may need your money back. When you are planning to get back your money, if your researchers were good then you will be in profits.

Here we must note, if we have invested only with highly reputed and actual project-based coins then we will never worry about the current downfall of crypto markets. Because, we can be sure about bouncing back of those coins at any time. But, some coins will never bounce back as its projects will not be having any further development.

I have been part of a couple airdrops before and there are couple of reasons to join into something like that.

First of all if you have done something to earn a right to join the airdrop instead of just one of those airdrops where everyone gets some than you definitely deserved to be paid, that is a big reason, some airdrops require you to do something and even if its just following on twitter or some silly stuff like that or not than you still deserve it (twitter was a bad example I think since they can't really check to give out airdrops) however if it requires nothing than simply you can just both show your support to the project and get paid at the same time, you don't have to sell it right away and more than likely you can't sell right away but you can keep it for future profits, there is one coin I still keep and not sold and it has increased over 100% since I got in.

It appears to be that way. The problem with the word "bottom" in economy is that you will never know if you bottomed out. You will know you did not bottomed out by prices going even lower, if something is 3100 and it goes lower to 2800 than you can say 3100 was not the bottom.

But, looking at 3100 and than not going any lower you will ask was that the bottom and will never know until it goes lower, if it doesn't its just common sense that it won't go any lower, just like we know it won't go lower than 100 dollars for example. I believe 3100 was around the place where we bottomed out but there was a lot of talks of 2800 being the bottom so I was fully expecting that to be honest, I even  sold my coins at 4200 to expect a bottom at 2800 to rebuy but it hasn't seen that.

Why do we need bitcoin to be recognized by governments and banks ? Exchange's false volume is that much big problem for all the bitcoin adapters ? I don't think so. Next time, try to give some exact reason why governments and banks should recognize bitcoins, lol. Forks with confusing names ? Who are care about the shitcoins ?

Moreover we need to consider that bitcoin has already survived for 10 years without any major support from them. It will start dominating governments and banks in next to 10 years, it means it will replace banks but governments will be simply watching the progress of bitcoins as they cannot do anything about it.

Even fluctuations is not also a problem for bitcoins right now. The current lower prices are very big opportunity for those who heard about bitcoins started observing it when it was trading around $20k. People who had already done enough due diligence might be getting ready to enter right now. Then how we can call this volatility a problem ?