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http://www.ahametals.com/5-bitcoin-trends-emerged-2014/ (http://www.ahametals.com/5-bitcoin-trends-emerged-2014/)

This is pretty interesting. It is amazing that bitcoin is more popular than the original internet in terms of VC investment!

Can't really compare internet with bitcoin as you can own bitcoin and can't own internet.

I think it means internet protocol vs bitcoin protocol. You dont really own either

You can own bitcoin access as well as internet access. Not the whole thing of course

Maybe I am a wonk but I like the emphasis on transparency part the best. There is really no room for shenanigans if we demand transparency from those we do business with. I will not use an exchange that doesn't do external audits. That doesn't remove all of the danger, but it helps tremendously. 

I'm very excited about bitcoin 2.0 and the next years of bitcoin. I think we have finally arrived.

The future is bright.

What bitcoin 2.0? You mean alt coin?

I'm just excited for when Bitcoin actually becomes 1.0 instead of 0.9 =)

Well...the next version will be 0.10, not 1.0...

https://bitcoinfoundation.org/2014/07/07/floating-fees/

I'm patient!

I'm so used to bad news I read trends as threats

Read the article.

What does a warming regulatory environment mean?

That regulators are warming up to the idea.

Yeah, but dont forget that the can cool down just as fast.
Those regulations are coming in just the right time if you ask me, allowing speculators a bit less uncertinty of their investments,
so that mt.gox never happens again.

Haha. Tell that to the NSA.

Very cool article...

I was not really aware that Dish is accepting bitcoin until this....Maybe just maybe I would think about getting Dish if the storms....


I am hoping by the end of the year here it bumps back up to over $1000 dollars and a lot of retail companies start getting interested...would be great to go to the store and just pay with Bitcoins...

Bitcoin price soaring everyday by almost 1%.. Its not far that the price will reach $1,000 dollar by the end of the year..

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Nice article keanbosch, thanks for posting it!

The regulations are trying to stop another version of MtGox from happening again.

Generally investment does not slow down at a rapid pace unless there is some kind of shock to the economy or a shock to the sector that is being invested in.

information gets around much quicker these days than the early days of the internet... perhaps because of the help from the internet itself.

Very good sign, the following few years should see the soar of bitcoin

Hmm...It might be soaring for you, but the last 2 weeks for everyone else it has gone down roughly $30 dollars since 2 weeks ago..

Big retailers accepting BTC. It remains to be seen whether they do that because they actually like bitcoin or want it to succeed, or they just want to hitch a ride on the media-bandwagon

Bitcoin will be great in the future.
Not sure about the other Alts though.

I have a few critiques regarding this article.

I don't think merchant adoption will hit 100k businesses by December 2014; the plateauing tail at the end of the graph says otherwise to me, but at least 60-70k seems reasonable to me. And I would like to see the investment trend stacked up against the pre-".com" bubble (i.e. 1997-1998) rather than 1995; in my eyes, bitcoin is not in its infancy anymore so it needs a more comparable fit to get a stronger feel for "historical" baseline growth.

Nonetheless, I agree with the general spirit of this article; the future for bitcoin is much brighter (in a not-so-crazy fervor sort of way) than it has ever been.