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At that why the price is continuing to stay stable and on modest upward trajectory

Yep. Or so it was just until recently; but now they're trying to wrap bitcoin in isis wrapping papper, and sell it as a anonymous payment option used by terrorists..
Can't wait to see how many fools will fall for it..

I have the same feeling about it, well as everybody know there is some news from some "sectors" that want to link bitcoin with crimes, terrorism etc etc, but in general i can see more positive news that bad news about bitcoin.

What i notice is that most of those good news about bitcoin come from people who some time ago would not have been interested, but now they are interested,  thats very very positive.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi

How very true. We're currently in the "fight" part i believe.  ::)

That's correct. You can see that clearly in the latest example, Bitcoin being blamed for terrorist funding while evidence suggests the contrary (only 1-3% of funds, and report from UK treasury). EU wanting to "crack down" (whatever this exactly means) on Bitcoin. This would only harm them in the long run. We are 1 major event away from a possible chain of positive events that would lead to the ultimate success of Bitcoin (far beyond what it has achieved so far).

Attacks where probably carried out just to discredit bitcoin and they failed miserably

they let whole car loads full of dudes fly through border check points

full of guns and automatic weapons,

Instead Bitcoin has just gotten stronger so the Fed has decided its time for Endgame

bring in the rate rises then once they have all the  assets usher in Crypto

Chinas Trillions in US bonds are going to become worthless in the  process too

Im 100% with you my friend, im just a little bit scared about what will be "their plans" dont know if you understand me, the question is: will they dance with us? i doubt it, let's see if we are strong together when the "decisive time" comes ;)

But for now as you said i agree with you, we are on the "fight" part of this history.

Of course they are on our side

First they have to sack hundreds of thousands of bank workers

Plus raise the rates to cause the next reset

And at the end of the day they still maintain printing power

Alongside the extremely advantagous uses of coin

You're looking at it from some logical point of view, but politics and financial systems have little to do with logic or sanity.
People who can draw their own concludions will understand what bitcoin really is, but majority of people are sheeps that think what news are feeding them - so i'm pretty sure that bumpy ride is ahead of us.

the price is stable like it was when we were at 230, now who is running "the carousel" decied that we need a boost in the value and artificially fixed it to the new bottom, with a pump

yes recent good news perhpas helped a bit but this increase seems very well constructed.....

Artificially created or not, it's here, and that's what matters. It wouldn't be possible to hold this as bottom if there were no people backing it up, all we needed was for someone
to break the ice of higher prices. imho, this is just beginning of a much higher uptrend , that is - if we don't get into legal battles or further illicit associations.

I hope so! I was honestly worried about this ISIS crap that they have launched at us but until now, it seems that this has no effect on the price.

We did prove these news as fake and EU hasn't released any official statement so let's be patient a bit more to make sure that this won't tumble us down!

In the meantime, I do like very much our new floor of $300!

A little here, a little there. Bit by bit. Even when you talk someone about Bitcoin and he ignores you, you are leaving him with something to think about. They will think twice when they heard about it again, and perhaps be curious and try.

No word goes wasted. This is a long distance race.

Positive attention? Have I missed something here ??? Respect ::)
They have been attacking bitcoin left and right in the news ever since the Paris attacks and tying it terrorism.
Wake up man  >:(

i got the impression that Bitcoin has gotten really under fire over that last nine days since the Paris attacks. i hope this will not damage Bitcoin for a long time.

For the last two years usage of bitcoin has not changed. Usd transaction volume is stays about the same:
https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume-usd?showDataPoints=false&show_header=true&daysAverageString=7&timespan=all&scale=1&address=
 When a killer usecase will be found, we'll get the growth.

Definitely. More and more people are learning about Bitcoin and it is really starting to make its mark in society. As the price stabilises and more places start to accept Bitcoin, it will gain even more respect and more people will start using it. This will make the demand of Bitcoin higher and make the price continue to steadily rise.

Yes, I do like it too. I'd say that it looks like the floor is even around $320 now and this is so fking great!

And btw I don't think the news about Bitcoin used by terrorists or drug dealers might affect the price of bitcoin in a bad way. What makes the price to go down is the news like about MtGox's collapse.

Well, it seems like terrorism is currently used as an excuse to crack down on crypto. Gotta say I find it positive that the value of Bitcoin remains stable despite of this, indicating that crypto as a whole might already be too significant to be wiped out by governments without drastic measures. Price has 'established' itself slightly over $300, see if it can hold its position and perhaps increase again over time.

in 2013 i was worried about these kind of news. today i dont give a fuck. bitcoin has done a good job so far and will stay here no matter what.

It also helps that banks are getting progressively worse.  It used to be the case that people would argue that if you get scammed and lose your bitcoins, there's no recourse, so it's better to trust a bank.  But, increasingly, that's no longer the case and banks are looking to shift the blame onto their customers for fraud, so you don't get your money back (http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/nov/21/safe-internet-banking-cyber-security-online).

It is good for bitcoin's health in long range.
Some people think it is not a big deal because it does not affect prices but this attention will bring stabilization.

Stable before the storm coming out. Like in the last month.

Bitcoin price is stable at $230 in the last month. And then storm coming at the end of the month.

No one can predict bitcoin price actually.

If EU really push through anti-bitcoin regulations that mean they are dumber that they look.
That crisis is existing because they are unable to manage their own countries and not because of significant influence of bitcoin as main source of money for terrorists.

Bitcoin is stronger than ever and stable and survive anything at this moment.It has reached the level where it has to go just ahead towards brighter and safer future.I am not worried about it and sure about more positive and healthier future.

Bitcoin is more transparent than cash payment. All the government should promote its use to fight terrorism. When a employer pay you the bitcoin, from that point on, all your transaction is traceable. The government will know to whom you pay with the bitcoin. If they are in doubt, they can ask you.

Times now is not simple. The financial sector globally is under tremendous pressure. So bitcoin may become a safe haven in the coming storm.

this stable price is just commonly happen when the btc price is increased or decreased,like before,i dont see many news that give positive attention to bitcoin

The price is stable because the 24h trading volume is low. When people start trading more, it will fluctuate more.

Bitcoin can be traceable if every person has one official wallet and uses it for payments. If government wants to control it, it can regulate in the law that you have to use one wallet only and you should let them know your public key to register it to you personally. After this bitcoin can become traceable but not centrally controlled.

The price is rising so something positive is in the media/news about it.
I think it will stay stable this time since it is slowly climbing now and not jumping up to fast.

Yes I agree and this can be felt in the air lately! People are out of ammunition about the same old arguments that we are ponzi, dark market currency and that we won't last too long.

Yet, we are still here and making enormous progress. Also people and analysts have started noticing our technical and technological aspects and they are getting very surprised by what can we offer to the world.

Everyone are getting very intrigued and we are about to blow their minds with this tech!

The ponzi argument has mostly died and now we are fighting other silly things like funding terrorists and drugs.  The internet still faces some small critique its not going to stop soon.

Bitcoin is making progress day by day even when it seems to be stable at $300

It seems to be going up a bit slowly but surely. Really happy to see some change after a week or 2 a stable $300.

So that's why the transaction speed is slower. Too much transactions to handle :D

Good but is yet to early to name as stable bitcoin. Stable will be if will continue in this level of price for at least two-three months. Even more. Was stable before for ten month and this stability made possible the increase. If it will be otherwise the increase will not be noted at all. With its volatility (now I have desire to tell ex-volatility) the increase will be one of the common pump and dump seen before this year.

It is a surprise for me to see and read that is speaking and written not only for the prediction about the future of price in 27 December or at 34 February but even for the stability of bitcoin which is really a quality between the most important ones (if not the most important) for the moment and even for the future of it as a currency. Without this quality have no meaning to be named currency because no one will have trust on it as a money. Good thread and good to see it.

In my view the fight has only started and it's going to be much worst, when these "private" Blockchains starts competing directly with the "public" Blockchains. We need to have

more unity in our ranks, when we take on these fights. We have the advantage of having a tested and secure technology, backed by loads of hashing power. The only positive

attention we have achieved are that we are surviving this long, with attacks and accusations and shilling coming from all sides.  ;)

If banks start lossing traction Bitcoin wins it in return. Even if banks ignore Bitcoin and remain indiferent, it doesn't matter, Bitcoin keeps improving daily. There is literally nothing that can stop it at this point, banks don't even enter the equation.

I don't think that banks are out from this competition already. In my country intrabank transactions were cleared overnight only for few years time before. After they changed the system and bank transfers have beeb issued on electronic banking systems were done in max. 4 hours. Now in the news I can see that they are planning to implement the quicker system with max. 2 hours timeframe (under final testing). After it, they are thinking on a solution similar to BTC with instant transactions. So it's not over already with the banks I guess

It seems that they won't do anything after all. I mean no news yet, no statement of any kind. More and more it's quite obvious that they weren't talking much about Bitcoin when they have announced cracking down!

On the other side we are growing nicely and these fake news haven't influenced us at all price wise!

yes I was about to say this... I come to this thread to highlight this, that he was right until some negative FUD because of recent attacks.

I'm trying to think it over from technical point of view.
If someone say that BTC is anonymous, it can be true, because no one has it's name attached to his public key.
But if you want to use BTC system, you have to use some electronical device as BTC is not an offline currency like bank notes and coins. If you have to use an electronical device to install your wallet on it, the device has an uniqe address (MAC). If you use a phone, the carrier can search for that phone's MAC in the network so you can be found sooner or later. If you use a PC, it's even easier because it's not moving from it's position. So if someone thinks that BTC is ideal for the dark market, it's not.
Of course everything is possible, but before BTC has been invented, the dark side had already put together it's financial system, so they hardly need BTC to do the financial part for them.
But this is just my opinion, everything can be proven (and the opposite as well) if needed of course

Maybe all this attention will allow us to beat the previous all time high, but I doubt it.

Please be sure to give some links to this? Bitcoin is constantly being ridiculed so I don't really believe you. Not to say that I wouldn't want it to be praised, but just to say the delusional mindsets should stop. Be realistic. If you don't embrace that there's problems that need to be fixed, you can't fix them. Ever.

Did I miss something? How are the Paris terrorists connected to bitcoin?

Don't bother that user,if you see his previous comments ,he is sheer signature spammer and is kicked out of his current campaign.No way the terrorists are connected to bitcoins,its just a myth floating around for days.Even though they're there is no way it will stop the worldwide recognition of bitcoins.

It always has, you know? We are fine where we are, but things could progress just a little bit more.