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The old year ends. In the new year everything can be done better. At least theoretically  :D

What are your good intentions regarding Bitcoin in 2017?

heres some idea's what people can do this year

1) hardware wallets need a revamp. they need to function without needing to download browser add-ons or connecting to websites or things like electrum.
EG have software self contained
EG a fitbit/smartwatch with NFC to make payment just by swiping a retailers touchpad (and yes its possible (https://i.imgur.com/ukSut56.png), just not done yet)

2) nodes and wallets need more diversity. so far knots, blockchain.info, bitcoinj, greenaddress, core are all under the same 'ownership'

3) PEOPLE need to realise bitcoin is code. it has no voice to promote itself and no arms and legs to defend itself, PEOPLE need to get involved instead of sitting on their hands waiting for bitcoin to do something.
EG if you want retailers in your area to accept bitcoin. go speak to them yourself
EG if you want to make bitcoin more popular. learn about bitcoin then set up some meetups/conferences

4) bitcoin jobs. look for a product/service you think will be useful to sell. then look for suppliers/employee's/dropshippers and then start selling them for bitcoin.

5) exchanges should start requesting a public key and use the bitID concept for logins instead of passwords, and also use the public key to form multisigs to hold funds, instead of giving customers easy to fake mysql balances. thus mitigating hacker/insider embezzling risks

I will try to use hardware wallet to store bitcoin rather than trusting web wallets which i am currently using, i will try not to store much bitcoin in any of the trading platform and also i will try not to gamble much in next year.

My intention is to continue to build my blog about bitcoin and make it a nice place to find information for the bitcoin community. I want to continue on expanding my knowledge on the area that involves the cryptocurrency world and the blockchain (I know is only a layer in the bitcoin ;)).

Furthermore, I plan to buy a Trezor as soon I will reach 300CDN in bitcoin value.

I will build a bitcoin community in the area where I live. I believe the greater the bitcoin users it will assist in the development and improvement of bitcoin in the world. I want begin everything all over.

My intention is to try to send requests to new ecommerce websites to recommend them to use bitcoin payments in my country as there are many Indians who are aware of this currency as it has already come in papers and news channels. If one accepts this currency, others also would be tempted to use it.

More on Bitcoin awareness starting on the local community and hopefully word of mouth to reach more people, Most people mentality everything that involves money on the internet is a scam. changing the perception about bitcoins will be a good start.

best advice.
start small.
dont hire big spaces out like a open space building for a year. start small like do a local meetup at a easy to find cafe /bar that is common place and doesnt require deposits or reservations.. like a small random one off social event. just to gauge/see how demand/popularity

then if lots are turning up and while talking you see there is demand for a regular large location to be needed then do it.

some people start at a bar where say 10 people turn up. then those people go and find a few others and the following week you book a night at a bar with a stage/(karaoke/mic night) area that can cope with 100, and you make it into a mini conference with speakers talking on stage. then you expand from there

if you already know of 100+ people locally that will want to turn up then skip the meetup and instead book a night at a place that has a stage and enough standing seating area, and then charge a small entrance fee to cover your costs for the night.
try not to get greedy with the entrance fee, unless it starts becoming a big event with lots of guest speakers and things happening

I like franky's list. I'll just second that one.  :)

Well, i would say:
1. More adoption, growing in steady rate or explode
2. More infrastructure developed, startups, bitcoin websites and services
3. More technical advances like in 2016 in bitcoin technical side.

Thats it :) that would be great 2017 year.

If personal issues is counted than my good intention for my Bitcoin is to hold it and later on convert it to Fiat when Bitcoin's price is up. Bitcoin earning is now part of my life as it really help me have an extra boost in my financial situation. It really helped me have savings without even bothering my real money. Later on the money will be use in Investing in the stock market. I am still young and I am hoping that my money will be big later on.

For bitcoin in 2017 I wish more adoption, more promotion in media, more quality infrastructure and more equality with fiat money, less connections to illegal stuff. Personaly I wish I would collect as much bitcoin as I can and that the price will continue to rise

My prediction and wish for 2017 year is:
The price of Bitcoin will rise exponentially following the increasing number of investments in it.
Many new crypto currencies will appear with the hope to repeat the success of bitcoin.
And many new places as shops and other firms will start to accept bitcoin.

Mine is to introduce Bitcoin to more people has possible, and I hope the Scaling problem will have a lasting solution in 2017

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My main intention for 2017 will be to gradually buy more BTC on a rough dollar-cost-averaging basis.  If BTC price continues to go up sharply, I will likely spend some BTC on gold.  But, I jumped the gun on that (bought gold when BTC was ~$500), so I will take my time on spending anymore BTC for gold.

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I really like some of franky1's list, especially making hardware wallets better.

https://i.imgur.com/ukSut56.png

advantages
no software touches the device
private keys remain hidden
the device is wearable (new fashion craze=popular)
making a tx is as simple as shaking your wrist
no need to understand the mechanics of bitcoin to use it

yes that is a good idea, i also have the same intention, i myself want to hold my bitcoin even in 2017 and try to buy more and more, because i am hopeful that even in 2017 the price of bitcoin will go to some more high price.

what more?

get as many of them I can get

I'm not a bitcoin developer or entrepreneuror anything

I want to get my first whole bitcoin and I will be really happy.  ;D
I hope other clever people come up with faster and easier ways to create transactions for bitcoin though.

I hope there will be more people who use bitcoin in legal ways than those who use it in illegal ways, so people will not think that bitcoin users are criminal anymore. probably it will make higher adoption, and it will be more mainstream and higher price. I hope.

today is the end of this  happy year because at this year i neet a lot of new bitcoiners who actully understands what bitcoin is and care it just as same as faint/major currency. i see the price is almost touching $1000 so normally i am gonna make a lot of bitcoins this year. no matter fron where or how hard i should work but i am gonna make it

Bitcoin is a good portfolio so I'm thinking of adding more bitcoin to my investment portfolios,2017 could be another big year for Bitcoin and everybody are hoping for another great year for bitcoin,I will introduce Bitcoin to my friends who are looking for new investment.

I will start saving my satoshi this 2017. Instead of a small portion I will allocate 50% of my earnings to savings. I want to save at least 1 btc and that is my target this 2017 to have at least 1 or 2 bitcoins saved in my wallet. I will just keep it there for 5 to 10 years so if after that period and the price is very high I can fulfill my dream of building my own house.

I wish in 2017 there'll be more bitcoin adoption, more bitcoin promotion, more bitcoin services. It will be great if we can use bitcoin in every places.
And for personally, I wish I could earn much much bitcoin for my future investment. And bitcoin will keeps growing in terms of development and price.

Is there really a need to do that at this point of Bitcoin's evolution? Those days where each user held hands and banded together under the ideals of libertarianism is gone. Bitcoin is a fully functional currency now thanks to the dark markets. Having good intentions or not will not really make a difference.

Well, I intend to develop my offline business on the store and the rest, and I will accept bitcoin as a means of payment. Besides, I also will try to put the logo bitcoin is no strategic places. I aim to make them know more about bitcoin, and it would be very exciting.

I will buy some bitcoins ,if the price does down.

This is the only good thing that i can go bitcoin.

I`m not a developer,i`m just a bitcoin user.

Mine is to increase my BTC portfolio significantly and be more disciplined with my trade and investment

I could somehow say that bitcoins price will surely rise up on next year but i cant still able to purchase some of it even on this moment which price is considered high already for me.In this upcoming 2017 i would focus on earning more bitcoin so that even i cant buy them atleast i could able to earn them by just doin hard work and also i would spread the word about bitcoin on my place soo that adoption will somehow progress even on smaller ways.

I want to start to spread good and positive news about bitcoin and I will introduce bitcoin more intense to my cousin and all of my friends, I want to decrease bitcoin negative reputation, and I will encourage more people to used bitcoin more often, and for myself I will try harder to increase my earning in bitcoin and decreasing my gambling activity

Besides the huge number of ICO in the altcoins I believe that bitcoin will be better in the next year and I would expect more bitcoin jobs and more people and company using/implementing bitcoin as their payment method, the block size may change but this is still questionable.

Saving. Saving. Saving. For that reason I've created created a vanity address and nothing will get out of that address. It's now time that I start putting some money in cold-wallets !

Besides trying to spread bitcoin word among my family and friends, I will also try to gather as many as I can ;D
I will also try to understand basic of bitcoin and bitcoin mining for I want to take this up for living.
Last but not least,I will spend as much time here on this forum as I can

Im just gonna keep all of my btc and search for something profitable. I know something good will happen at the first quarter of 2017.
I also want to learn trading techniques. Maybe forex or altcoin trading. Happy new year guys! Cheers!

My good intentions are to spend all my earned BTC on weed on the darkweb.

My good intention regarding bitcoins, I want give donation for developers of bitcoins and bitcointalk also, i think it is good for growing of bitcoins and this forum, if my target get profit from trading altcoins been successful.
But it is still my plan in 2017 and i hope I can do it.

I think that bitcoin reputation is a common problem, many people still think that it is only used for illegal activities.
I dont want to see that community suffers for the lack of knowledge. This is not OK for us: bitcoin users, so we should encourage people to look into real bitcoin mechanics, and society.

No change at all, I will just going to keep on collecting bitcoins as if that I always fail to collect and make my own because of some unexpected events that are passing to my life. And also I guess this is the right time to introduce my relatives to bitcoin, first my mom and dad, next would be my 2 siblings and as well as my close cousins.

Just great, will you send some to me? Where are you from? Send me some pm where you are planning to buy this, who knows maybe I try that also. Jah bless!

My intention with bitcoin ia the same as last year in the same time, I don't wish to change anything when I'm doing alright. Signature campaigns, gambling with that money, especially poker. It would be smart if I start to put some bitcoins on a side, I just talk about it but I didn't start yet, it's much more interesting to gamble.

wich certainly to be better than the previous year, with the rise in bitcoin I think to save little bitcoin every month to be used 10 years later

Indeed, bitcoin has been always been tied to hacking and using money on illegal actions , because it has been used by the wrong hands and that gave it a bad reputation, so I hope in 2017 people know what actually bitcoin is, and start using it for the right purpose so that way it becomes more popular .

I hope it will really happen,why using it on illegal?It seems that your just wasting your hardwork and put it in illegal.As for me .I will introduce it to individual who are finding their luck of earning,those who are jobless and ready to lend a job to help their family.Still,mostly aspires to earned to have a good future and importantly to earned to sustain in everyday living.

My new year's resolution for Bitcoin this year is to use my ledger wallet more instead of my online wallet. I somehow still have more Bitcoin in coinbase compared to my ledger wallet. I also want to save more Bitcoin instead of impulse buying like I usually do.

A bit confused with the meaning of "intention regrading Bitcoin". Anyway,

As for me, I have an idea about running a Bitcoin forums that pay users in a fair and more transparent way back in 2015 already. I only started working on it in late December 2016 and it took me about a week to get the initial requirements done. It was opened to the public on the second of January this year.

My new year resolution is to make TheBitZone (http://www.thebitzone.com/) a popular Bitcoin forums. Our focus is not on the development side of Bitcoin. Instead, we discuss about the uses of Bitcoin - because that's where Bitcoin is heading to. :).

I will try to use hardware wallet and papper wallet for store bitcoin rather than trusting web wallets which i am currently using.

My good intention regarding in Bitcoin, I want to earn many bitcoin and help my parents in their expenses. why? because they cant provide many money that we need, so I will help them to sustain our expenses. And if I have many bitcoin left after i helped my parents, I will stock it and wait to pump the price of bitcoin.

I will focus on acquiring bitcoins as well as exploring some ways to get better returns on investments. I will also spend my bitcoins for recharging my mobile, dth as well as internet (that’s the only option for me to spend at this moment). I am also looking forward to enter in lending business and try it.

I have to be more productive regarding on what I earned,still continue to work hard to earn more so that i can invest it.If its value are continuing to be good this year then it will be a great help for me and other individual who already experiencing its good service.Still,I must say bitcoin have a good value and continue to high its value this year.

So how are you going to "earn many Bitcoin"? Your intention is good but you did not specific how you are going to "execute" this and make it happen.

This 2017 maybe I'm gonna save more than I spent when It comes to bitcoin it was just sad to say that I hold almost 2btc during the days when bitcoin is near $200 I cash it out maybe for the price of $280 I don't expect that it will go as high at it is now so that my plan for my bitcoin to hold it until it reached $2000 I don't think that it is impossible to hit this year !

The good days are coming for traders and bitcoin holders because by the end of 2017 bitcoin would reach rate of about two fold of the current rate and. Here in my country government is researching on button and may give green signal to bitcoin.

Since 2017 has a great start for bitcoin, The price just get past to $1K hopefully it get past $1000 this 2017 not just for a few days but for months and maybe for years .

To be honest, I still haven't understand the technical stuffs of bitcoin and I am planning to do it even if its just little by little this 2017
and to have some different way of earning aside from this forum and trading .

Lastly, This maybe is just a hope but someday I want to reduce people getting scammed in bitcoin related things especially from those who says a very convenient things which is obviously not true .

What do you mean by my good intentions about bitcoin this year? Do you mean if what are my plans involving bitcoin this year? Well, I planned to keep adding investments on some sites that I really trust and keep on saving some bitcoin to sell when it's value increases!

I want to continue what I've started here in this forum and the other things that I'm doing to earn a living to have my own money so that I will not ask money to my parents anymore. I'm also saving bitcoin because I'm trying to buy my own place for me to ready for my future. It would be better if we are thinking practically nowadays because it is really hard to live without money and starve to death, that is why, I'm going to keep on working hard for me to save enough money for my own good and to help my family also. :)

I do believe that it is going to be a really good year for bitcoin, there is so much development going on that will start to show this year.  i believe the price will be double what it is now by Jan 2018.  :o

Even though Bitcoin took us through some roller coaster ride a few weeks ago and still remains unpredictable I have positive intentions for its prospects this year, I forsee it crossing the $1500 mark this year as more people are getting involved by the day and the corresponding consistent difficulty rate in mining I have no doubt we'll cross that line this year.

Lol. Intentions will not make changes in price or adoption. If we make bitcoin familiar to the other people around the world means if they have a fine view and good intention about bitcoin means it helpful bitcoin communities.

If there will be projects that can come up with regular guys like me which can help with bitcoin society then I will. But this days it is hard to find something like that. They want geniuses when it comes to this projects and those who are not will be put just on the side.
We people are made for good intentions whether you like it or not. It is just bad choices that makes it harder.

My intentions regarding Bitcoin in 2017 is to more about in trading, because I wanna be a an expert trader here in any exchange platform So I can earn as much as I can here in everyday trading.

my intention regarding bitcoin in 2017 is i want to earn much more bitcoin than last years so i can withdraw much of money in this years and i can buy something that i want. i want to be a good trader, having a good time to make analysis and prediction for the market.

to date I have not thought of great things to bitcoin. I just want to focus in the hold, or keep bitcoin I get. perhaps, when the bitcoin prices rise, I will think about the steps I should take. but, I probably would take steps to make bitcoin just become a lot more like an investment or trading.

My intentions regarding Bitcoin this year is to save more BTC, save 20% of all my BTC earnings this year. because the way the price is growing I don't want to regret not saving in future, $5000 is in sight

pretty much interesting. Tho this type of technology isn't really safe in our place tsk. It will be stolen from your for days only that is how bad the situation is tho i like it there is no difference in our phone anyways.

To become a professional trader you have to learn a lot of special literature about it. On ly in the case that you have born with the talent of good trader  ;)

100% agree, it's really not safe to use addons and bullshit like that.

Have a small USB size wallet or a smartwatch, with a little display interface, hopefully not 8 bit, but something with normal resolutions.



But if people dont care? Monopolies dont just go away by their own. People dont care about diversity, until the services they use are trustworthy.



This is very annoying. People just want bitcoin to grow by itself, by doing nothing to promote.

Everyone should create themselves some media channels on YOutube and elsewhere ,and start blogging about bitcoin.

Or promote it locally in your small town or village.




This will not be achieved in 2017, need a lot more work on this, and people are scared of govenrment bans, so until governments come clean on bitcoin, this will not happen.



I am not sure an ID system is wise from privacy standpoint, but yes making exchanges transparent is very necessary.

We are tired of fake chinese pump and dumps, and market manipulation with fractional reserves. We need a clean exchange with no fake volume, and a limit on margin trading.

This is not my priority right now i learn in trading but i am not staying in one place because anytime soon trading site can be hack or down or bitcoin be crash due to lots of problem about blockchain.. so i am in marketing affiliate and promoting and investing my money to start PPC advertisement and get some leads and emails.. that can gives me money.. everytime i withdraw i just convert the others and save the other for future..

My good intentions regarding bitcoin in 2017 is to promote the edge of it, together with their good features,. The more I refer it to my friend is more adding in the community too. Also I will encourage some of my friends which are capable to invest in bitcoin or in the altcoins too.

Its just a concept though, they could add like layers of security 2fa,  passwords and passphrases to the device before you can gain access to the wallet. I like it maybe satoshilabs can make this one happen.

well maybe for me I am gonna start to be part of a cloud mining service the capital will be high but I know in a long run I'm gonna earn more than I spent I just have to properly choose what service provider I will join , I want to try also the hardware mining but that price of electricity here in our country is too high that I may no get the profit I want.

Bitcoin will continue to grow higher and higher than the past years. On account of this sure there will be lot of new users as well adopters. Trying to make use of this situation I've been gradually increasing my trade limits to earn the good profit through trading as it looks to be the right year.

yeaaa true , to anticipate there will be a lot of newcomer that can leading to demand increased.
we are as bitcoin enthusiast should have a plan to make a bigger investment.
i believe after the skyrocketed price few weeks ago , bitcoin become more popular out there , let's see in the next months.