After a month of bullishness the sentiment turned and the bears came back in charge. It is extremely hard to forecast whether we will get a bull run soon or a crypto winter like in 2014, but for the long term I am very certain that it will go up a lot. Since the bear market started in December extremely good news came out but it got totally ignored by the markets. I think it is fair to say that Bitcoin as an asset is much more valuable today than when it was priced at 20k a few months ago.
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Lightning Network will add huge value
In 2017 Bitcoin was not usable to buy coffee, tip someone or pay to read an article. In 2018 Lightning Network is enabling these use cases and in the years to come more features will be rolled out than we can imagine today. Some alt coins can do cheap and (near) instant payments already, but non of them is scalable enough to allow mass adoption while maintaining proper security.
Lightning will take back market share from certain alt coins, add market share through new use cases and enable big players like Amazon or Walmart to accept Bitcoin without clogging up the network. Big players could be waiting until LN is considered safe and usable enough before they come out with an announcement. At the moment pioneers are testing and improving the network, the next phase could be big retailers coming in!
Billionaires are ready to join
When the worse part of the bear market was over the world most powerful people like Soros and the Rockefellers announced that they will start trading cryptocurrencies. The direct effect will be that huge amounts of money will enter the industry and the indirect effect on top of that will be that others will follow.
The Wall Street flood gates are about to open
Goldman Sachs is planning to open a Bitcoin trading desk, this will allow Wall Street investors to get easy access to physical bitcoins. Also the chance that an ETF will be approved is getting bigger every day now BTC becomes a serious asset class and the futures are available already. Considering that every single asset class on earth is heavily overvalued through years of free money and the 2nd longest bull market ever, easy access to an uncorrelated and decentralised asset like BTC on Wall Street could literary open the flood gates.
Countries are hit by (hyper) inflation
More and more countries are not able to control their inflation and people are losing their entire life savings because of failure of their government and banking system. In Venezuela and Zimbabwe hyperinflation is destroying the entire country and Argentina is about to follow. There are many other countries with double digit inflation and this will only get worse because of the global currency war that is raging on. The civilians of these countries will flee to assets like Bitcoin and increase demand.
The US dollar is losing it’s world reserve status
The FED is only able to print so much money out of thin air without being punished because of it’s reserve currency status that brings in constant demand. Since this year many counties have started to avoid the Dollar system, also powerful counties like China and Russia. The fact that the USD is losing ground will only trigger more entities to dump the dollar or stop using it. When the dollar loses it’s reserve currency status money printing on the current scale will cause the value to plummet and people all over the world will flee to an asset like Bitcoin.
Conclusion:
In the short term the Bitcoin price could go lower, but it could skyrocket too, it is very hard to make a prediction. However, in the long term I am very sure that Bitcoin will at least make another huge run. We will not speak about how many percent it went up, but about how many times.
In a world with enormous financial disfunction, decreasing trust in government and and increasing digitalisation it is inevitable that a decentralised, indestructible and censorship resistant digital asset like Bitcoin will flourish. Add to that the limited supply and there is simply no other way to go for the bitcoin price than up.
The long term path of Bitcoin is clear: To the moon!
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I have to say I do believe bitcoin will flourish again soon. However the first 5 months of this year have been a little brutal for people like me, starting out in December 2017. I guess a lot will depend on the adoption or rejection of bitcoin and other crypto's in national laws. I hope my region (the eu) will be kind :)
The future looks bright, but I'm worried about the rising electricity concerns.
Solar energy is very key and cost effective and miners are aware of this dont listen to fake news
Will BTC make it down the long haul? So many other contenders attempting to overcome BTC's weaknesses. Yet it stays on top as king.
Free transfers with many such as Bitshares, Steem, EOS, would seem to make BTC, ETH and others obsolete for commerce. But developers keep focusing on BTC for commerce anyways, in spite of high transfer rates (comparatively speaking). It'll be interesting to see how it plays out. For now, BTC is king. Long live the king.
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Since issued Bitcoin, lot of Altcoins all came out, and there have been some brilliant performance but they are just a flash in the end, because there are too many bubbles, which has caused many people who have invested in virtual currencies to experience great ups and downs. We can analysis the direction of some cryptocurrencies. Do some speculation and analysis to reduce its risk. However, there is no way to make cryptocurrencies stable and profitable.
But it's not a problem for long term investors because these timely ups and downs doesn't matter when you have invested for a long time. For example BTC is currently showing ups and downs in the market but the long term investors will hold it for long enough to benefit them.
All currencies will rise and fall every time. Buying a high price at a low price is a rule of investment.
Before starting to invest in any cryptocurrency read and study about cryptocurrencies. In any case, do not invest more than you are willing to lose.
What's the best plan to profit with Bitcoin and any other cryptocurrencies?
Would you read this post or watch the video at the end because it contains a safe and simple system to diagnose what uniquely will be best for each of us as there's not one exact formula for everyone to use?
The key with making a profit strategy that's personal is to get to know ourselves. I've discovered over years of buying and selling, trading and now holding, making money and losing money, missing out on opportunities that cost more than everything else combined essentially that the best plan for me is something safe and simple, and that is from my own self-knowledge, and I realize that's not the right plan for everyone else.
the exchange rate between two currencies can be regarded as a broad measure of the prices of one country’s goods and services relative to another country. When looking at the Bitcoin ‘exchange rate,’ this category of determinants seems to be inapplicable there is no current native Bitcoin economy with native Bitcoin prices for goods and services.
Although Bitcoins do not possess any real intrinsic value, from a commodity valuation perspective, we can estimate a hypothetical value based on its production costs. Recent estimates regarding the energy involved in mining a single Bitcoin by professional energy-efficient mining rigs put it at about $1,800 when mined in China (where 80% of the currently mined Bitcoins originate).
Cheaper prices get me excited. I hope these bot traders keep sending this bad boy to dirt cheap prices!
This is so true. So many good news coming out about crypto daily. When you're in it for the long term, then this bearish trend won't really have you bothered. Bitcoin is seeing massive adoption by the day. Many things we were not able to use bitcoin for before are now possible and it will only get better.For me, bitcoin is here to stay and will definitely get back up in no time
Bitcoin is unstoppable, it is the decentralized engine, though transactions are public. But untraceable currencies such as Monero are poised to capture a decent part of the market share. Stay thirsty my friends.
yes I am also very sure, in the year end ibi bitcoin will also be the first cripsto money up, hopefully sooner than that.
Stability of Bitcoin is an exciting news for all Bitcoin lovers.Bitcoin gives us, for the first time, a way for one Internet user to transfer a unique piece of digital property to another Internet user, such that the transfer is guaranteed to be safe and secure, everyone knows that the transfer has taken place, and nobody can challenge the legitimacy of the transfer.
What a nice post sir.It will be help us
Well said!
Great post - I have adopted the attitude that my small amount of bitcoin must just be left alone as I feel that long term it will reward me.
Outstanding Post
Trading is a place where the money moves from the impatient to the patient. Just have faith and keep hodling on!
Long term. Don't trade, don't sell. It's almost a guaranteed win to hold cryptos at this point. Resteemed!
So true.... whoever is for the long run HODLer - the small thousands falling by are just irrelevant
Yea i started off as short term investor, but realized longtermers are bigger winners
I always get excited for the price of Bitcoin falling. It's another opportunity to get rich or die trying!!
Sounds good to me!
Couldn't have said it better myself. You saved me the work, I can just resteem!
For the record; I don't consider this a bear run, just the final phase of a pullback. I expect a bounce very shortly.
For anyone new to these environments, don't do what I did and try and trade. The easiest way to profit is to just buy and hold. You may hear news about Bitcoin being in a bubble etcetc... but think of it like this, bitcoin may be in a bubble, but CRYPTO is the FUTURE. There is a lot more to it than bitcoin itself.
Strong belief!!! Long-term holding @michiel
a have a 5 years plan on my crypto. i think is far to see it as the normal stock market meaning. very few do day trading u put some money in ever month for 10+ years. 1 years in cropto is like 20 in the fiat market. so the only different we are the brokers and not the bank. so my tip out ur crypto in to cold wallet and just keep adding on it when u can and forget it a few years then we can tack. if u invested to much..ye then its Ur mistake..
totally agree. All the short term ups and downs are just noise. If you believe in the long term fundamentals, you shouldn't be too worried about how the cryptos are trading against fiat.
Fully on board with the author's assessment. In order to protect your wealth, investing in the right cryptos can help you ride through the storm. Learn to keep an even keel on your emotion and hodl for the long term.
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