I have a XAPO wallet and have got a debit card attached to it. When I use my debit card, it exchanges the exact amount of bitcoin to fiat and that's all. Merchants accept it because it's VISA and they don't know what is happening behind the scenes (and tjey don't care, even if they know, their business is with VISA, not XAPO).
I have tried only POS purchase but others said that you can withdraw money from ATM as well.
Maybe this can be a temporary solution until merchants start to accept bitcoin directly in the future.

yep, sounds easy but last Presidential elections the current Vice President is not the peoples choice and behind on surveys, but when election results we're out, he became the Vice President. This only shows surveys conducted before elections are not really reliable because probably they we're paid to condition the mind of people of who to vote. Anyway as the saying goes, it ain't over till the fat lady sings 

If you don't know your friend is borrowing money for gambling then one can lend money to him without collateral 50$ but if he/she don't return back then next time they even can't talk to you so they last one friend for $50. So if one lending large money to any one including friend then it is advised to get a collateral instead fighting each other later.

About the electricity i think the cheapest price should be in China.
They mostly generate the electricity from hydroelectric power (from water).
And most of mining hardware are produced there, so it would be cheaper to operate there and buying lots of Antminer S7.

Traders talaga sila pero mga big whales at wala ng sugal sa ginagawa nila Chief kasi sila ang nagkokontrol. Maramihan sila magpump at magdump. Ganito yan sila rin ang bumibili at nagbebenta ng coins hehe. Malakihang volume ang mangyayari na kayang yumanig sa market hehe. Pero di ko pa naman masyado nakikita yan kasi kagaya ng sabi ko kanina may kinalaman sa halving kaya maraming nabili ng coins.

When i said i don't mine it means in the present time.
It doesn't mean that i didn't mined in the past, i am here to read and if something is interesting then i would immediately invest.
Mining is profitable if the electricity cost is cheap or free, you have a good budget and have a mining farm.
Both of these 2 types of miners are good, but people should be patient before investing and should wait for the reviews.

Personally i will not buy any of these 2, because i don't do mining.
About which one to choose i think for now the Antminer S7.
If you are looking to purchase the Avalon 6 then i think to wait and see the reviews what people think about it.

Naglalaro na lang yata mga yanmga Chief hehe. Sobrang tagal na nila hawak mga bitcoin nila. Di sila naghihintay ng mataas na price sa tingin ko. I think manipulators are here to balance the bitcoin market siguro. Kasi kung naghihintay sila di na para ipriority pa nila yan sa dami ng real life resources nila.

They aren't scamming most of the time. However, the payouts are so low that it equates the the transaction fees most of the time. Hence, most would have a minimum withdrawal which can take sometime to hit.

And this is HUGE for miners I was profitable at 230.... so I was not hurting to bad during then.  Bring it up to 300 a coin... and I'm doing and feeling pretty good right now.

Mining is far from dead.   I think it's a pretty good period for it during this change.

Maliit pa na transaction yan. Member siguro ng manipulators yan hehehe. Matagal na sa kanya bitcoin niya pinaiikot niya lang thru trades.

Chief Hex puwede ba malaman iyong transaction id nito? Kalkalin natin iyong loob.

What 4 month RoI?

 Nothing currently on the market will RoI at ALL unless (1) you have very cheap electric, OR (2) Bitcoin price keeps going up as fast or almost as fast as difficulty.

 Given the economic woes in China, I'm actually starting to think (2) might happen for a while.....

To ban faucets from bitcoin, you need to ban all PTC sites from the internet and that really does not make sense.

mas madami pa din yung nag pump kaya tumaas yung price kesa sa mga nag dump kya mas mdami pa din yung mag naghohold ng bitcoins as of now kasi alam nila na tataas pa yan

may nakita nga ako sa blockchain na transaction 100k bitcoins

Sino dto mga tga bulacan??

Sa totoo lang di ko alam kung matutuwa ako or hindi sa price kasi bago lang eh. Sana tumagal siya sa ganyang price para masabing kaya natin maghold sa price na yan. Marami nagdump ng coins diyan for sure.

Yes mga Chief maraming exchanges dito sa Pilipinas pero preferred ko pa rin ang coins.ph. Malaking company na ito at matatag na sa serbisyo tapos cute pa mga staff na babae hihi. Sana makilala ko sila in person .

i see bitcoin is the revolution of black market and terorrist. i hope someone stop abusing bitcoin.

This is the proof of thought I have had in the back of my head too lately.

People complain signature campaigns pay too low or faucets are giving too little, they forget that 5 years ago when people were getting 1 btc faucets it was still worth nothing to what it is today. It's like people forget about the future and only think of the next couple of months. Imagine if bitcoin keeps adoption at the same rate it is now, with an accelerating rate in humans coming into the world and becoming adults, there are just more and more people going to be interested in cryptocurrencies. Even if bitcoin won't be the leading coin out there, I am sure many will have high values later like different fiat currencies do too.

Well usually most of us dont search for the op but the thread ,if we see a thread moving 2 pages daily means there is some interest at it.And well replying here will give an idea to the new members that find this forum and wanna know their income,soo its like a support to know.But well what is the point to them to make a new post and reply once with their accounts just to get activity? Or new post to count signature?

It was viable when faucets paid 0.05-0.1mBTC per claim. The transaction fees was around there and it takes a few claims to cashout. However, with the rising transaction fees and price, the payouts were significantly reduced. There is much more time required to gain BTC to even get a payout.