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Title: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: p2pbucks on July 27, 2014, 01:52:04 AM
I guess There will be a city fully support crypto currency industry in a not far future.

The definition of city of crypto :
I. Any decentralized crypto currency is legal tender and tax free, let the free market decide which crypto will be the mainstream  
II. Crypto companies have rights to keep customers profile secret  
III. Gov guarantee will not interfere crypto currency industry


Obviously , New york isn't suit for that title.
I have some candidates :

1. Tokyo , though mtgox is in Tokyo but it seems japan still is very tolerant to crypto .

2. Hong kong , HK gov think there's no need to regulate Bitcoin if it does not pose a threat to the financial stability of HK .

3. Singapore ,  Bitcoin transactions may be treated as a barter exchange if it is used as a payment method for real goods and services in Singapore/

4. Los angles , California gov  have signed a bill legalizing Bitcoin , but not sure about the future .

5. Copenhagen , the Denmark top tax authority declared that personal profits and losses from Bitcoin trading would not be taxed

6.  Toronto , Toronto has many Bitcoin ATMs and lots of merchant stores accept Bitcoin  ( williamj2543 )

7. Offshore tax free country  , offshore countries will always be the heaven of crypto

So ..any thoughts ?

 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Legal_status_of_bitcoin.png/1200px-Legal_status_of_bitcoin.png
Ref : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Bitcoins_by_country


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: williamj2543 on July 27, 2014, 01:53:22 AM
Toronto, Canada anyone? We have a ton of stores, and we have lots of bitcoin atms. Vancouver may also be good, but Toronto is a bigger city.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Chronikka on July 27, 2014, 01:58:29 AM
I don't know about Singapore or Hong Kong. As Bitcoin grows it will increasingly pose a threat to fiat. I would expect the governments there to be less accommodating in the future.

Tokyo is interesting because they thrive in the technology sector. Bitcoin will bring a lot of new, lucrative business to the city.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: deepestfear on July 27, 2014, 03:18:05 AM
I have a sense New York will eventually find a way to be that


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: banque on July 27, 2014, 03:28:26 AM
Amsterdam

Legal Drugs
Legal Hos



Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: SomethingElse on July 27, 2014, 03:31:14 AM
Boston because of the MIT initiative


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: banque on July 27, 2014, 03:32:13 AM
Toronto, Canada anyone? We have a ton of stores, and we have lots of bitcoin atms. Vancouver may also be good, but Toronto is a bigger city.

hey can you start a thread about ATMS and btc

how they work

we got www.btcATM.biz and some others

so we're researching how to monetize the assets

if they got enough atm's there maybe we find a canuck company to join

btcATM.biz/com/net/org

those the top 4 terms for a tld for international biz

.ca is canada good for your country that's it
.us good usa
.co.uk UK
.eu europe
.tld for any country limited to that country

com/net/org/biz

those the big four for international biz





Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: chennan on July 27, 2014, 03:32:33 AM
Difficult to say right now! Every single gov is monitoring the financial market. If they find anything suspicious related BTC, they will be definitely tracking the BTC transaction and get the suspect's profile from any related BTC company.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: coinmaster222 on July 27, 2014, 03:33:49 AM
I have a sense New York will eventually find a way to be that

Their law makers disagree. Marihuana seems more likely to have it's center there once it's legalized.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Sindelar1938 on July 27, 2014, 04:32:27 AM
Berlin, London, Singapore, New York are all credible and likely candidates


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Chef Ramsay on July 27, 2014, 04:41:47 AM
Berlin, London, Singapore, New York are all credible and likely candidates
It's tough to narrow down one location as the likely hub when all of these are great choices, so I'd say you're gonna have hot pockets in many of these metropolises and they'll keep expanding from there. I'd really like to see Africa become one of these as a whole considering there's so many there that need to be banked and lifted up.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: mkc on July 27, 2014, 05:21:12 AM
I vote for HK. because it is closer to where mining machine are made also itself is btc friendsly


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: madken7777 on July 27, 2014, 05:38:13 AM
Hong Kong as it is easy to open a bank account there.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: mercistheman on July 27, 2014, 05:58:00 AM
It may be too early to answer this but it's safe to say that the cities that seriously roll out the carpet for BTC will have a jump start over the others... millions of new revenue.. not including benefits of upstart companies willing to sink capital into the local economy... forward thinking legislators will be early adapters and reap the benefits.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: redHeadBlunder on July 27, 2014, 06:08:35 AM
There will be none.

The decentralized nature of bitcoin will prevent any one place from being the center of bitcoin related transactions.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Possum577 on July 27, 2014, 06:42:17 AM
I'm surprised Silicon Valley or San Francisco weren't on your list. You should replace LA with SF.

Isn't LA still fighting technology with record companies, TV networks, and Hollywood?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: deepestfear on July 27, 2014, 08:06:05 AM
Come to think of it London, Singapore, Hong Kong and Berlin will also be influential


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: seriouscoin on July 27, 2014, 08:19:21 AM
Detroit,

Bitcoin community can buy out the damn city and start our own.


There are tons of house listing for $500 .



Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: franky1 on July 27, 2014, 08:25:09 AM
there will be no center.

keep it decentralized guys where every town is bitcoin friendly, why are people so obsessed with making bitcoin concentration camps.. it truly bewilders me

seems most would rather sit in basements and then run to a concentration camp, rather than write a letter or mail to their local politician to become bitcoin friendly..


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: BtcGains on July 27, 2014, 08:28:43 AM
California and Tokyo high contenders
Tier 1 countries always have the advantage reason being I chose California


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: arbitrage001 on July 27, 2014, 08:43:17 AM
Moscow. Putin should support bitcoin to by pass USD.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: DrG on July 27, 2014, 11:21:21 AM
I have a sense New York will eventually find a way to be that


Please.  NY is so anti BTC that now BTC Guild may shut down due to the possibility of their overreaching regulation getting passed.  After all can't have capital fleeing from Wall Street crooks  :D


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: banque on July 27, 2014, 11:39:22 AM
London has more billionaires than any city

But I still say Amsterdam

Legal dope and legal hos

Eventually though BTC will be centered out of CAYMAN ISLANDS

It's where mega wealth is stored today

Some major domain name players there now

Even Mitt Romney has his minor amount of millionaires stored there

The narco money is there

Lots of tech dough there

Only country left I believe with no extradition to USA

So Cayman Islands not a city but a country will be downtown btc soon

I've seen a few projects recently all purposing BTC BANKS chartered out of CI

So a CI bank will soon be how you buy and sell btc and an exchange and a credit card and whatever

CI is coming to btc soon


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Welsh on July 27, 2014, 11:43:26 AM
I don't think many people understand what the philosophy of Bitcoin is, it's Decentralized meaning there should be no center of Bitcoin and Bitcoin should be used in many different countries and cities. Stop trying to make Bitcoin something which it isn't.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Daniel91 on July 27, 2014, 11:46:51 AM
I guess There will be a city fully support crypto currency industry in a not far future.

The definition of city of crypto :
I. Any decentralized crypto currency is legal tender and tax free, let the free market decide which crypto will be the mainstream  
II. Crypto companies have rights to keep customers profile secret  
III. Gov guarantee will not interfere crypto currency industry


Obviously , New york isn't suit for that title.
I have some candidates :

1. Tokyo , though mtgox is in Tokyo but it seems japan still is very tolerant to crypto .

2. Hong kong , HK gov think there's no need to regulate Bitcoin if it does not pose a threat to the financial stability of HK .

3. Singapore ,  Bitcoin transactions may be treated as a barter exchange if it is used as a payment method for real goods and services in Singapore/

4. Los angles , California gov  have signed a bill legalizing Bitcoin , but not sure about the future .

5. Copenhagen , the Denmark top tax authority declared that personal profits and losses from Bitcoin trading would not be taxed

6.  Toronto , Toronto has many Bitcoin ATMs and lots of merchant stores accept Bitcoin  ( williamj2543 )

7. Offshore tax free country  , offshore countries will always be the heaven of crypto

So ..any thoughts ?

 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Legal_status_of_bitcoin.png/1200px-Legal_status_of_bitcoin.png
Ref : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_Bitcoins_by_country

Very good list of possible candidates :)
Personally, because already so many financial institutes like World Bank or other- UN, are already located in USA, i would like to see future center of crypto currency  outside of USA, maybe Japan or Denmark.
Still, I'm not sure that this will ever happen because of the nature of Bitcoin, with decentralization as main characteristic but we will see soon, i guess :)


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Thekool1s on July 27, 2014, 11:56:37 AM
singapore i think


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: joshraban76 on July 27, 2014, 12:29:30 PM
I don't think BTC will ever have a center. At least it shouldn't to keep it decentralized.  The greater the bitcoin adoption the more governments will be interested in centralization and regulation.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: BtcGains on July 27, 2014, 12:54:34 PM
singapore i think

Why ... Any reasons?
I don't think Singapore has a big dent in Bitcoin at the moment, though, I could be wrong as I'm basing my opinions on recent even geographical.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: hamiltino on July 27, 2014, 01:12:38 PM
New York


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: SunBin on July 27, 2014, 01:13:08 PM
singapore i think

Why ... Any reasons?
I don't think Singapore has a big dent in Bitcoin at the moment, though, I could be wrong as I'm basing my opinions on recent even geographical.

ITBIT is located in Singapore. And it is being regulated by MAS (Singapore Central bank). There is no fear ITBIT will turn Gox.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on July 27, 2014, 01:14:02 PM
singapore i think

Why ... Any reasons?
I don't think Singapore has a big dent in Bitcoin at the moment, though, I could be wrong as I'm basing my opinions on recent even geographical.

Singapor or Hong Kong because they are open to new ideas and new businesses


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: sonoIO on July 27, 2014, 01:32:01 PM
Barcelona


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: gentlemand on July 27, 2014, 01:44:11 PM
Any technology or finance system naturally attracts people to hubs. It's easier to do business and propagate new ideas.

I wouldn't discount offshore places like Jersey. They're already established as financial centres and are that much more nimble. We maybe surprised at where does become one of Bitcoin's engine rooms.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: franky1 on July 27, 2014, 02:46:45 PM
Any technology or finance system naturally attracts people to hubs. It's easier to do business and propagate new ideas.

I wouldn't discount offshore places like Jersey. They're already established as financial centres and are that much more nimble. We maybe surprised at where does become one of Bitcoin's engine rooms.

hubs i agree with, multiple hubs, where there are manufacturing hubs in asia, innovation hubs near MIT, investment hubs in jersey, and community hubs across the planet. but i still find it bewildering that people want there to be one exclusive concentration camp rather than getting the world to be bitcoin friendly


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Malin Keshar on July 27, 2014, 02:47:55 PM
Swiss maybe? They are stable country and have a history with banking stuff


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: galbros on July 27, 2014, 03:49:44 PM
It can't be New York, they are captured by the present system, as the new regulations made clear.

In many ways it could be a relatively unknown city or a "rogue" state.  Bitcoin needs its Switzerland or Tortuga....  :o)


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Baitty on July 27, 2014, 04:21:26 PM
Even though Bitcoin is decentralized I think if we did have a center it would probably be london they are friendly to Bitcoin and are already a economic center.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: gentlemand on July 27, 2014, 04:48:36 PM
Even though Bitcoin is decentralized I think if we did have a center it would probably be london they are friendly to Bitcoin and are already a economic center.

The conventional banks in the UK are most definitely not friendly though. I think London's going to be left far, far behind unless a few of them do come around.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Bitcoinpro on July 27, 2014, 05:54:02 PM
OP are you trying to suggest that a node run out of this so called cypto city could classify the city as running the node

that controls crypto


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Baitty on July 27, 2014, 05:56:02 PM
I really don't know how this would work though there can't be a single node which is classified as a center or are you suggesting that the center has thousands of nodes run 24/7 to be classified as the center of Bitcoin.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Sophokles on July 27, 2014, 08:50:49 PM
Berlin.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Yakamoto on July 27, 2014, 08:55:16 PM
Berlin.

I'm thinking Berlin will rank pretty high up, but it will be either Berlin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, or Toronto. Canada is still pretty free when it comes to Bitcoin, it's just no unlicensed online casinos (Which is common practise anyways) and exchanges have to register to prevent money laundering, like every other currency exchange.

Businesses are pretty much free to do as they please, as long as there aren't illegal items for sale.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: walletla on July 28, 2014, 04:45:39 AM
Nodes can distributed all around the world , what we need is a crypto heaven place which bitcoin can be treated as legal tender


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: bbit on July 28, 2014, 04:53:12 AM
Los Angeles is my dark horse.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: r3animation on July 28, 2014, 04:56:52 AM
Usual 3. New York (eventually), Singapore and Switzerland as they're financial hubs.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: applesRyummy on July 28, 2014, 05:36:28 AM
I think Vancouver Canada May become the capital of bitcoin as it had a lot of bitcoin activity and has the first bitcoin ATM.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: allthingsluxury on July 28, 2014, 05:38:36 AM
Good question. Only time will tell.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: williamj2543 on July 29, 2014, 02:32:28 AM
This thread is kind of ironic, because bitcoin is supposed to be DE-centralized, when your asking what will be the center. There will never be a 'center of bitcoin' but there could be cities that happen to support bitcoin more than others.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: misterbowls on July 29, 2014, 04:10:19 AM


Seems like you would need some sort of small town that is like an art community.  One of those places people move because it is cheap and other like minded folk end up there.  Then you might have widespread adoption.  Are there any famous libertarian small towns in the US like this ?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: iTRADEbtc on July 29, 2014, 04:13:21 AM
This thread is kind of ironic, because bitcoin is supposed to be DE-centralized, when your asking what will be the center. There will never be a 'center of bitcoin' but there could be cities that happen to support bitcoin more than others.
I think the OP is referring to a place where a higher then otherwise percentage of commerce takes place. I would say that today Vancouver BC is the center of bitcoin commerce.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Swordsoffreedom on July 29, 2014, 04:14:50 AM
I think Vancouver can still hold a spot in this contentious heat
But more or less it will be decentralized but the leader for now will be one of these :)

Kind of hard to say what city will be the center in 1 year and in 5 years


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Initscri on July 29, 2014, 05:09:22 AM
I think many cities will hold "heat" with regards to Bitcoin. I don't believe there will be a legitimate or even self-proclaimed center of crypto currency as I believe (and hope) cities will create a sort-of competition for the adoption of Bitcoin.

I more or less think Bitcoin is going to grow on a massive scale globally that all cities (even with different adoption rates) will be considered "centres". The margins will be so close, I don't know if there will be that much of a difference.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Jace on July 29, 2014, 07:05:12 AM
I'd like to make a case for Arnhem (Netherlands) being the #1 Bitcoin capital of the world :)

After we organized Arnhem Bitcoincity (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=619465.0) 2 months ago, more businesses have joined (all sorts of businesses: bars, restaurants, cleaning companies, car dealers, ice cream shops, ICT consultancy & development companies, etc) and I doubt there is any city in the world where you can pay at more different places with Bitcoin than Arnhem.



Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: TaunSew on July 29, 2014, 08:32:28 AM
Unless coinmap is out of date - Arnherm is far from a high acceptance rate.  The city is the highest per capita merchants to population for Bitcoin is probably Vancouver.

Here comes the disclaimer - practically no one useful accepts Bitcoin out there.  I don't go to tattoo parlors, don't drink tea, don't buy hemp seeds or luxury vehicles and yet that describes 98% of Bitcoin merchants.  No one useful like a grocery or a decent restaurant (that isn't an ethnic restaurant) seems to accept Bitcoin yet.   

The reality of Bitcoin, much like back in 2011, is its' only utility seems to be is buying drugs and weapons online and I don't do that either.  Maybe the one difference now is that we can use Bitcoin on Overstock and Newegg and I admit that's a positive change but unless they offer a 3% discount it offers no advantage over using credit.


Here comes the disclaimer #2 - there's still practically no merchants for Bitcoin yet.

Crypto Currencies are still what $11 billion capitalization?  Still a long way to go when considering the dot.com bubble in the late 1990s was $7 trillion.






Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Avius32 on July 29, 2014, 09:04:43 AM
Don't know, bitcoin is used in so many different country, the only way we could determinate this by finding out in which country bitcoin or other crypto currency is used the most, where it is used the most I would call It crypto currency city or country..


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: GhanaGamboy on July 29, 2014, 09:18:26 AM
Definitively offshore tax free countries will benefit from adopting crypto currencies, but tax heaven places have bad taste in countries with high debts as something illegal/evil :D


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: deepestfear on July 29, 2014, 09:58:09 AM
I am hoping that Buenos Aires will end up being a major crypto player
I just love BA and would love not to need fiat at all when there


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: cryptomr on July 29, 2014, 12:55:26 PM
Amsterdam, best crypto community here in Holland!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: tsoPANos on July 29, 2014, 12:59:33 PM
Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Nicosia(Cyprus) and the best crypto cities imo.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Whitehouse on July 29, 2014, 01:03:01 PM
Why does bitcoin even need a city? I think that's what's great about it. It's decentralised worldwide currency and it exists anywhere and everywhere and doesnt need a hub or a physical location.

Amsterdam, best crypto community here in Holland!

Amsterdam is a cool city. I hear there's quite a lot of activity there. Can you spend bitcoins at any of the cannabis shops yet?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: izanagi narukami on July 29, 2014, 04:23:28 PM
Amsterdam is a good city that capable maintance economical challenge.
Bitcoin is another challenge that can be lure by their professional economists i think  :)


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: ensurance982 on July 29, 2014, 04:28:54 PM
A couple of weeks ago I'd have said New York City, but if they really are enforcing those laws they're currently working on, it may hinder Bitcoins development a lot. :-/


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Rum152 on July 29, 2014, 04:43:46 PM
A couple of weeks ago I'd have said New York City, but if they really are enforcing those laws they're currently working on, it may hinder Bitcoins development a lot. :-/
I don't think New York City would ever become the bitcoin center of the world. They are already the center of fiat based investments.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: jbreher on July 29, 2014, 08:24:46 PM
Maybe the one difference now is that we can use Bitcoin on Overstock and Newegg and I admit that's a positive change but unless they offer a 3% discount it offers no advantage over using credit.

Isn't 10% a bigger discount than 3%?

http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-3631/index.html (http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-3631/index.html)

For posterity:

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


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: ducatitalia on July 29, 2014, 09:24:46 PM
Eventually, planet Earth...but starting small, and I may have missed it here, but is it possible that no one mentioned San Francisco...?!  Silicon Valley makes up 46% of all VC going into Bitcoin infrastructure at the moment...rest of the world 54%.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Swordsoffreedom on July 29, 2014, 09:28:16 PM
Maybe the one difference now is that we can use Bitcoin on Overstock and Newegg and I admit that's a positive change but unless they offer a 3% discount it offers no advantage over using credit.

Isn't 10% a bigger discount than 3%?

http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-3631/index.html (http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-3631/index.html)

For posterity:

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

Nice I didn't notice that newegg gives a 10% discount on Bitcoin purchases and that its an active campaign
If I need to do some shopping will know where to look thanks.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: TheCloser on July 29, 2014, 09:39:01 PM
My bet is San Francisco.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: TaunSew on July 29, 2014, 10:04:20 PM
Maybe the one difference now is that we can use Bitcoin on Overstock and Newegg and I admit that's a positive change but unless they offer a 3% discount it offers no advantage over using credit.

Isn't 10% a bigger discount than 3%?

http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-3631/index.html (http://promotions.newegg.com/nepro/14-3631/index.html)

For posterity:

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

Nice I didn't notice that newegg gives a 10% discount on Bitcoin purchases and that its an active campaign
If I need to do some shopping will know where to look thanks.

That's not 3% discount.  That's only $10 off if you spend more than $100.  It's not much of a discount if your buying a whole computer or laptop off Newegg.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: elasticband on July 29, 2014, 10:04:43 PM
Amsterdam or the Hauge


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: jjc326 on July 29, 2014, 10:06:34 PM
Eventually, planet Earth...but starting small, and I may have missed it here, but is it possible that no one mentioned San Francisco...?!  Silicon Valley makes up 46% of all VC going into Bitcoin infrastructure at the moment...rest of the world 54%.

I'd definitely think it would be San Fran more than LA.  LA thinks it's too cool and has other things to do than BTC.  I would think it would be a more liberal city in the US that would take the lead in BTC.  Yes LA said ok it was legal but they don't even have authority to do that I don't think - money would be regulated at the federal level.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: jbreher on July 29, 2014, 10:21:15 PM
That's not 3% discount.  That's only $10 off if you spend more than $100.  It's not much of a discount if your buying a whole computer or laptop off Newegg.

Hate to break it to you, but you are absolutely, categorically, incorrect:

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


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: bigasic on July 29, 2014, 10:26:45 PM
Honestly, Toronto has a really good start. San Francisco is a good choice in the future. But I think Toronto is the front runner right now.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: baxto on July 29, 2014, 11:53:34 PM
Can't believe no one has mentioned Seattle. Such a liberal city, Surrounded by many high tech industries.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: west420 on July 30, 2014, 12:50:10 AM
Can't believe no one has mentioned Seattle. Such a liberal city, Surrounded by many high tech industries.

its in the US
The US is actually one of the friendlier countries towards bitcoin.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: williamj2543 on July 30, 2014, 12:51:58 AM
Can't believe no one has mentioned Seattle. Such a liberal city, Surrounded by many high tech industries.

its in the US
The US is actually one of the friendlier countries towards bitcoin.
From what I've heard, Canada is nicer right? Toronto is a very large city that could potentially be good as a center, but again, bitcoin is DEcentralized, not centralized, meaning there can't be a definitive "center" for bitcoin. US has the income laws right? Bitcoins are taxed now aren't they?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: ensurance982 on July 30, 2014, 12:30:51 PM
A couple of weeks ago I'd have said New York City, but if they really are enforcing those laws they're currently working on, it may hinder Bitcoins development a lot. :-/
I don't think New York City would ever become the bitcoin center of the world. They are already the center of fiat based investments.

Yeah, but both of them are about money in general. And why wouldn't a center of finance absorb another financial instrument as well?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: The Bitcoin Co-op on July 30, 2014, 12:55:08 PM
If you mean a city in which the administrative authorities use Bitcoin predominantly and support its adoption, then it's going to be some small city-state, likely a tax haven.

Vancouver's a pretty good hub of cryptocurrency activity, though, especially per capita. We have plenty of ATMs of at least 4 different models and dozens of brick and mortars in a small geographic area. I can get groceries, a bicycle, a haircut, Indian food, Chinese, Italian, German or Polish cuisine, marijuana paraphernalia, computers, games... etc. We have at least 2 Meet Ups a week, and large ones at least once a month. A major technical school and Simon Frasier University are getting on board, and we've got 2 (coming on 4) online exchanges based here. The list goes on


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: yayayo on July 30, 2014, 02:02:07 PM
There will be none.

The decentralized nature of bitcoin will prevent any one place from being the center of bitcoin related transactions.

That is the ideal case.

If you mean a city in which the administrative authorities use Bitcoin predominantly and support its adoption, then it's going to be some small city-state, likely a tax haven.

That is the alternative case if most governments employ bitcoin-hostile regulations such as NYC.

Of course I hope that there will be no center and that CCs will flow freely around the entire globe.

ya.ya.yo!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: jbreher on August 04, 2014, 04:15:19 PM
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/07/29/the_social_laboratory_singapore_surveillance_state

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by U.S. standards, Singapore's privacy laws are virtually nonexistent, and it's possible that the government collected private communications, financial data, public transportation records, and medical information without any court approval or private consent -

"By U.S. standards"!? Riiiight.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: FUR11 on August 04, 2014, 08:49:23 PM
It will be Amsterdam! They've got the Bitcoin Boulevard! Even if it is not working out perfectly as of now, people will soon realize how great Bitcoin is and push it forward. The Netherlands have always been a very open minded and progressive country, as well! I'm sure they will embrace Bitcoin!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: counter on August 04, 2014, 08:57:40 PM
I can't say for sure but in my opinion the best candidate is California for so many reasons.  Most importantly being the need it bad.  They could set the standard sort of like Colorado did with Cannabis but way better.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: FUR11 on August 04, 2014, 09:00:39 PM
I can't say for sure but in my opinion the best candidate is California for so many reasons.  Most importantly being the need it bad.  They could set the standard sort of like Colorado did with Cannabis but way better.

Hmmmm California is a nice guess, as well. They've got Silicon Vallye and all the technology start-ups right there. Also, they are pretty forward-thinking and open minded as well. You may be right!!! San Francisco comes to your mind!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Initscri on August 04, 2014, 10:28:58 PM
I can't say for sure but in my opinion the best candidate is California for so many reasons.  Most importantly being the need it bad.  They could set the standard sort of like Colorado did with Cannabis but way better.

They had a rocky start: http://time.com/2942212/california-bitcoin-legalize/

But it's always a possibility. Although, I have to say... Even though California has a good chance, I'm kind of tired of seeing so many companies move or being based in California. I kind of wish companies would start spreading out more and moving to areas other than silicon valley.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Mobius on August 04, 2014, 11:30:08 PM
I can't say for sure but in my opinion the best candidate is California for so many reasons.  Most importantly being the need it bad.  They could set the standard sort of like Colorado did with Cannabis but way better.

Hmmmm California is a nice guess, as well. They've got Silicon Vallye and all the technology start-ups right there. Also, they are pretty forward-thinking and open minded as well. You may be right!!! San Francisco comes to your mind!
CA is notorious for having high taxes and heavy regulation. Tech companies can tollerate this however Bitcoin users generally are very much opposed to both taxes and regulation. I would doubt that any city in CA will ever be any kind of Bitcoin "center"


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Beliathon on August 05, 2014, 12:02:18 PM
Which city will be the center of crypto currency?

Here, I have circled it for you on the map. This city will be the center of crypto currency:

https://i.imgur.com/FvUE4Zp.png


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: DreadIsBack on August 07, 2014, 07:40:15 AM
Copenhagen for sure


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Mayuyu48 on August 07, 2014, 08:15:22 AM
Toronto is good for bitcoin ;D
but for bitcoin center, i don't think bitcoin need 1 city as center since it's decentralized
how about bitcoin city, like many merchant in the city accept bitcoin, many bitcoin atms and many people there use bitcoin as daily payment


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: fonzie on August 07, 2014, 08:32:00 AM
Islamabad


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: movelikejagger on August 07, 2014, 09:41:47 AM
Too stupid idea
It's the same if the dollar have its own center...but it has - Washington cause here is FRS
But bitcoin is decentralized system...it shouldn't has any center priori


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: ejinte on August 07, 2014, 09:55:46 AM
Since bitcoin is decentralized there should be no center of it!!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: DoubleBEE on August 07, 2014, 11:22:45 AM
Since bitcoin is decentralized there should be no center of it!!
I think the author means city as a symbol of bitcoin...to my mind Tokyo is the best variant


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: fonzie on August 07, 2014, 11:26:35 AM
Residence of Mark Karpeles!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on August 09, 2014, 11:45:28 AM
Maybe London, they attracted the financial sector, they could do the same with crypto currencies :

http://www.cnbc.com/id/101897995

http://www.cityam.com/blog/1401882571/bitcoin-britain-could-london-become-capital-cryptocurrencies


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Bizzaran on August 10, 2014, 11:48:49 AM
Currently all cities in Switzerland fulfill that. If you buy Bitcoin e.g. through a broker they have to ask you many questions and run your name against a recent copy of a DB but you remain anonymous if all checks are fine. At least this is what I recall from talking to Niklas fro Bitcoins Suisse AG.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: MakeBelieve on August 10, 2014, 12:33:38 PM
If it's going to be anyone its going to be London but hopefully it won't be any city and Bitcoin will remain decentralized from having a center of Bitcoin.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Mobius on August 10, 2014, 05:27:46 PM
Which city will be the center of crypto currency?

Here, I have circled it for you on the map. This city will be the center of crypto currency:

https://i.imgur.com/FvUE4Zp.png
This is not a single city lol. I agree with the above post that says it will likely be a city in the netherlands. They have a small amount of regulation and low tax rates.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: HarmonLi on August 10, 2014, 05:30:00 PM
I think it will be Beijing. Yeah, the Chinese banned Bitcoin, but there are still a lot of people there with pretty big amounts of BTC in their wallets. Also all those mining companies like ASICMiner are doing their business there. And because of that the Chinese government will change their mind!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: acs267 on August 10, 2014, 05:32:18 PM
Every major city.

There you go. That's the easiest answer to predict. I'm not guessing one city will just be the 'center', however, oh well.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Bagatell on August 10, 2014, 06:49:26 PM

Freeside

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/16/Spacecolony1.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Neill_cylinder)


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: herebittybittybitty on August 10, 2014, 07:02:25 PM
No way NYC -- honestly, I say no way in the USA, we love control way too much. Having anything out of arm's reach drives the powers-that-be crazy.

I say it's gotta be western/northern Europe -- open-minded and the people there usually can speak English. :D


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: edmlbox on August 10, 2014, 07:20:18 PM
Los Angeles


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: counter on August 17, 2014, 08:49:03 AM
I can think of numerous places where it should be the center and I can think of many places that could be.  But I think Cali takes the cake they have all the different industries that could benefit from it and I'd think Texas would be a good place for it also.  Sucks I can't add New York to that list...


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Denis_Diderot on August 17, 2014, 10:33:41 PM
It may be London or New York


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: MarisaFea on August 17, 2014, 11:07:39 PM
I'm pretty sure London is on the verge of being the center of Bitcoin...who would of thought?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: moriartybitcoin on August 18, 2014, 02:34:33 AM
Definitely NOT New York City .. maybe San Fran but most likely somewhere like Mali


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: mercistheman on August 18, 2014, 02:46:24 AM
Los Angeles
Haven't heard much from Cali since Brown endorsed BTC... what's going on lately?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Picasso7 on August 18, 2014, 02:46:59 AM
Honolulu


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: wordman267645 on August 20, 2014, 11:10:20 AM
Too difficult to choose, but i vote for Hong kong and Toronto..


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: C64_4EVA on August 20, 2014, 11:53:00 AM
My guess is Hong Kong due to favourable regulations. Certainly not any US or European city.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: C64_4EVA on August 20, 2014, 11:55:09 AM
Too difficult to choose, but i vote for Hong kong and Toronto..

While Toronto is certainly more Bitcoin friendly than US cities, they are extremely tax hungry and are basically in bed with the US so I don't see them becoming a Bitcoin center. Etherium was based out of there but they took off to Switzerland I believe.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: kleeii on August 24, 2014, 11:59:00 PM
I think Vancouver Canada May become the capital of bitcoin as it had a lot of bitcoin activity and has the first bitcoin ATM.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Death on August 25, 2014, 03:23:17 AM
Saigon, gotta start bribing when the bribing is cheap.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on August 29, 2014, 03:27:30 PM
Saigon, gotta start bribing when the bribing is cheap.

There will probably be a few different big hubs for Bitcoin where the legislation is favorable and adoption is big; maybe in the US but more probably in the free world : in Asia


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: BitcoinBadger on August 29, 2014, 04:02:54 PM
Probably Toronto because its promoting Bitcoin so much with lots of ATMs.

I don't think Tokyo will welcome BTC.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: wasserman99 on August 29, 2014, 04:17:16 PM
Every major city.

There you go. That's the easiest answer to predict. I'm not guessing one city will just be the 'center', however, oh well.
I agree somewhat. I don't think we will see "centers" like we do with fiat financial centers. The reason why we see financial centers with fiat is because of banks, and many banks converge in a particular city to conduct a lot of business. Since there are no banks with bitcoin this is unlikely to happen.

Now some places will see a greater level of bitcoin related commerce then other places, but not to the effect that we will see a "center" of bitcoin commerce.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: giveBTCpls on August 29, 2014, 04:51:40 PM
Amsterdam for the liberty, Detroit for the big opportunity.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: MightyBTC on August 29, 2014, 06:05:08 PM
After Mtgox hacking incidence, I am doubtful if Japan will welcome BTC anymore..it might weaken their currency.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: HomerS on August 29, 2014, 10:36:29 PM
A couple of weeks ago I'd have said Detroit, but if they really are enforcing those laws they're currently working on, it may hinder Bitcoins development a lot. :-/ It could be Boston.
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fe%2Fee%2FLegal_status_of_bitcoin.png%2F1200px-Legal_status_of_bitcoin.png&t=543&c=ixOqTZrIXKkNDw


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: HungryLaunch on August 30, 2014, 01:16:57 AM
I think Vancouver Canada May become the capital of bitcoin as it had a lot of bitcoin activity and has the first bitcoin ATM.

London is the financial center so it could be some city in england like cantebury


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: iCrypt on August 30, 2014, 01:57:06 AM
NY, NY!!!!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: nextblast on August 30, 2014, 01:06:52 PM
Should be some city in europe.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Wealthy on August 30, 2014, 01:31:37 PM
I think Tokyo has crypto in their eyes again...even after Mtgox incidence...so I go for Tokyo.

Only my thought ^^


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: CreamyPie on August 30, 2014, 05:29:35 PM
Los Angeles and Toronto are my guesses. Most probably Toronto as they are promoting BTC a lot.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Appleanimal on August 30, 2014, 11:25:37 PM
Melbourne


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: The Bitcoin Co-op on August 31, 2014, 01:57:09 AM
Los Angeles and Toronto are my guesses. Most probably Toronto as they are promoting BTC a lot.
Toronto has less Bitcoin merchants than smaller Canadian cities like Vancouver and Edmonton.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: LitecoinBoss on September 05, 2014, 12:40:56 PM
Canada has always been the forefront of bitcoin.. :) Always have been..


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: JetLi on September 05, 2014, 12:47:35 PM
A center for decentralized crypto's can only be weird imaginations.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: iCrypt on September 05, 2014, 01:33:56 PM
The center of cryptocurrency is here on this forum. We don't need a physical headquarter just like we don't need a physical bitcoin.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on September 06, 2014, 11:42:08 AM
Canada has always been the forefront of bitcoin.. :) Always have been..

Multiple centers for Bitcoin may be the future but one or two places will probably be more active because they will have more friendly regulation


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: claimore on September 06, 2014, 02:35:43 PM
Japan, or probably some european city.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Mightycoin on September 06, 2014, 06:22:09 PM
I think toronto canada.Canada has the liberty on bitcoin and even employees are demanding to get paid off in Bitcoin


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Bigbear8 on September 06, 2014, 06:22:42 PM
I'd definitely think it would be San Fran more than LA.  LA thinks it's too cool and has other things to do than BTC.  I would think it would be a more liberal city in the US that would take the lead in BTC.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: homm88 on September 06, 2014, 06:40:36 PM
Don't think about a single city! Let's think about a whole country. Maybe we can buy a third world country and replace it as Crypto City.  8)


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: rokkyroad on September 06, 2014, 06:46:07 PM
I think Vancouver is in the lead. 30 new btms.

Canucks opting for receiving wages in btc in the news recently.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: dankkk on September 06, 2014, 06:46:58 PM
A couple of weeks ago I'd have said Detroit, but if they really are enforcing those laws they're currently working on, it may hinder Bitcoins development a lot. :-/ It could be Boston.
https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fe%2Fee%2FLegal_status_of_bitcoin.png%2F1200px-Legal_status_of_bitcoin.png&t=543&c=ixOqTZrIXKkNDw
I would highly doubt that Detroit will ever be the center of anything ever again. It is simply too poorly run of a city. Even when the auto industry was booming and most cars were being built in Detroit, it was still notorious for it's horrible crime problem.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: SF-Man on September 08, 2014, 06:02:30 AM
Don't think about a single city! Let's think about a whole country. Maybe we can buy a third world country and replace it as Crypto City.  8)

What third world country can you suggest?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Bitzkrieg on September 08, 2014, 11:39:41 AM
If people from NYC accepts btc, then NYC is the best city to be the center of btc


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: JetLi on September 08, 2014, 11:47:31 AM
More realistic: what planet will be center of cryptocurrencies -> earth.

http://www.caseclosedteam.com/images/caseclosed2.gif


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Muhammed Zakir on September 08, 2014, 12:43:21 PM
New York OR China might become the centre of BTC. ::) Both are being crowded by BTC users. ;D

  ~~MZ~~


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: DaveSaldana123 on September 09, 2014, 04:58:17 AM
Don't think about a single city! Let's think about a whole country. Maybe we can buy a third world country and replace it as Crypto City.  8)

What third world country can you suggest?

Philippines need some new owner. Corruption is rampant.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: The Bitcoin Co-op on September 09, 2014, 06:21:41 AM
Don't think about a single city! Let's think about a whole country. Maybe we can buy a third world country and replace it as Crypto City.  8)

What third world country can you suggest?

Philippines need some new owner. Corruption is rampant.
There's a lot of people in the Phillipines, though; that might be expensive. We should pick a smaller third world country.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: SueGiant on September 09, 2014, 02:40:25 PM
London should be the center. If US doesnt want to take part of this then its London.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Sohie13 on September 09, 2014, 02:46:24 PM
As i know usa use bitcoin the most so maybe newyork?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: RICHBOSS on September 17, 2014, 12:24:16 PM
Don't think about a single city! Let's think about a whole country. Maybe we can buy a third world country and replace it as Crypto City.  8)

What third world country can you suggest?

Philippines need some new owner. Corruption is rampant.
There's a lot of people in the Phillipines, though; that might be expensive. We should pick a smaller third world country.

Like what are you thinking? Hmmmm.. smaller countries/island is far richer compared to Philippines.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: CryptoCarmen on September 17, 2014, 01:20:27 PM
There cant be center of decentralized currency. There will be regional centers, they are already emerging,  that will lead that will inform and educate of crypto coins. Butwill be no real center.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: LitcoinCollector on September 17, 2014, 01:31:00 PM
Perhaps Moscow


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: liteboozer on September 18, 2014, 08:20:52 AM
Montreal is the best city to represent bitcoin


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on September 25, 2014, 02:05:51 PM
Montreal is the best city to represent bitcoin

Montreal, London, Honk Kong or an other city we didn't think about that will emerge because of nice regulation that truly respects freedom


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: bornil267645 on September 25, 2014, 02:10:55 PM
Los Angeles...


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Coinapult on September 25, 2014, 02:55:44 PM
London has the largest Bitcoin Meetup Group in the world. Bigger than California, NYC and Israel.

Isle of Man and Jersey are currently battling it out to attract Bitcoin companies to their shores. They are crown dependencies very near to the UK mainland and officials from both governments (Peter Greenhill, IOM/ Philip Ozouf, Jersey) have visited Westminster officials to attempt to carve out regulatory exceptions for Bitcoin. The game is on!

Then, there is The Bit Drop project that is taking place on Pi Day where Bitcoin will be distributed to residents of Dominica via SMS with full government consent.

It's interesting times!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: BayAreaCoins on September 25, 2014, 11:22:29 PM
I'm surprised Silicon Valley or San Francisco weren't on your list. You should replace LA with SF.

Isn't LA still fighting technology with record companies, TV networks, and Hollywood?


no joke


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: 9kv on September 25, 2014, 11:25:02 PM
Cleveland,
we own the first Bitcoin Boulevard, and we are resilient and welcoming to change.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on September 28, 2014, 09:04:08 PM
Los Angeles...

LA is great but California has huge taxes and huge regulation, not really an heaven for innovation; except it is apparently since a lot of start ups are based there


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Jace on October 10, 2014, 03:03:01 PM
As mentioned earlier, Arnhem (The Netherlands) really surpasses Amsterdam, Berlin, Vancouver or other cities in terms of Bitcoin-accepting merchant density:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/112707/bitcoin-city-arnhem-becomes-densest-concentration-of-btc-merchants-in-the-world

And I'm not talking webshops here, as they aren't really city or location specific, but actual, real, brick and mortar businesses.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: doubleredrolex on October 12, 2014, 10:40:16 AM
I always thought Las Vegas would be the first place to widely accept BTC just about everywhere. I think businesses are crazy not to accept it. Especially with companies like bitpay around now.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on October 12, 2014, 10:52:23 AM
Montreal and Asian cities come back more often than others


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: coinmaster222 on November 21, 2014, 11:44:41 AM
Where most of the big data centres are just now and out of reach of the Feds, Moscow


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on November 21, 2014, 09:06:31 PM
Where most of the big data centres are just now and out of reach of the Feds, Moscow

But you would not out of reach of the Russian government.

Did you mean 1/Where most of the big data centres are just now and out of reach of the Feds and 2/Moscow or did you implied that most of the big DC are in Moscow? The latter is not true.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: The Bitcoin Co-op on November 21, 2014, 10:21:57 PM
No city under Putin's thumb will ever be the center of cryptocurrency.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on November 21, 2014, 11:05:52 PM
No city under Putin's thumb will ever be the center of cryptocurrency.

Russia is a counter power of the USA which is goo but there are not into fighting for less regulation and more freedom in all aspects of life!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Monica80 on November 21, 2014, 11:12:03 PM
Detroit,

Bitcoin community can buy out the damn city and start our own.


There are tons of house listing for $500 .



I like the idea...

Imagine buying whole skyscrapers... Turn them around. Startups don't mind a little cleanup and a little unfinished interiors.. heck those are in style now.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: abercrombie on November 22, 2014, 02:17:44 AM
I'm surprised Silicon Valley or San Francisco weren't on your list. You should replace LA with SF.

Isn't LA still fighting technology with record companies, TV networks, and Hollywood?


I agree with such.  The Bitcoin trade barely has a pulse in Southern California.   It's relatively lively in Northern California.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: El Emperador on November 22, 2014, 12:09:14 PM
I think it nicely could be an New Zealand city like Wellington or Auckland... or a Japanese one  :D


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: kingkedi on November 22, 2014, 12:23:39 PM
i love the freedom providing countries which are green


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Febo on November 22, 2014, 11:27:29 PM
Thee will be no center. But there already are regional centers of bitcoin education. Maybe all you listed there are and will be one.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: NapoleonBonaparte on November 23, 2014, 02:55:07 PM
New York, when they finally legalized it.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: coinmaster222 on November 23, 2014, 04:41:51 PM
Most of the big data centers are in Moscow,I know I have been round one


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: JetLi on November 26, 2014, 02:59:22 PM
decentralized assets don't have a center, logic huh.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: picolo on November 26, 2014, 06:45:42 PM
Most of the big data centers are in Moscow,I know I have been round one

More than 50%? I don't think so.

You have never been to Northern Europe or California.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: jyakulis on November 26, 2014, 06:51:55 PM
Based on that one thread of the parliament discussion, I'm thinking London tbh. No other governments are having the kind of serious discussion necessary to make the changes that are needed right now. It certainly isn't happening in the US. I mean you had a few congressmen standing up as outcasts for how many years raising the red flag and that was it and they are largely ostracized.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: TheLoser on November 26, 2014, 08:02:32 PM
San Francisco or San Jose?


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: anshar on November 26, 2014, 08:27:40 PM
New York, once people overcome the regulations then it will boom easily. It is already a pretty big Business District.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Flashman on November 26, 2014, 08:44:09 PM
Detroit.... while we can buy it cheap!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: God27 on November 26, 2014, 08:47:17 PM
This is the easiest question all day.

Luxembourg will be the center of it all!


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: Piston Honda on November 26, 2014, 09:02:07 PM
Tokyo will for sure grow quickly re. a center of crypto i think.

Amsterdam has very high potential though.

A few other Euro cities I think will have a chance to be #1

New York I think will slow down given the news lately, but still be good.

Also, Toronto/Vancouver seems to be quite accepting of btc also.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: fatguyyyyy on November 27, 2014, 12:57:25 AM
Berlin be my guess


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: bornil267645 on November 27, 2014, 04:31:37 AM
just read a news the other day that Amsterdam is going to be the center of cryptocurrency.


Title: Re: Which city will be the center of crypto currency
Post by: michaeladair on November 27, 2014, 04:33:33 AM
The internet will always be the center of crypto currency, without the internet crypto will be dead. So I believe that cryptocurrency will never fully reside within just one place as its epicenter.