Of course it's not pushing the price. How can some one seriously expect that from an exchange that has just started and only serve US custommers at this point. I know the Winklevoss twins were very loud with everything related to their exchange, but it needs time. Give it at least a few months to settle and then start publishing these kind of articles.

He's just asking for a list of Bitcoin exchanges per country. OP; this link might answer your question. Click on each country to see the exchanges there. http://bitcoinx.io/country-index/

That's realistic. People expect everything from Bitcoin. Bitcoin always does the opposite of what people think. Let's hope for a slow rise throughout the years. That's much better.

No one knows exactly what caused the price to go up. There hasn't been much interesting news that might give the Bitcoin price a certain direction. Don't worry about China, worry about when you're too late with buying.

Funny that people get so excited and think it will get above $300 just because the price is going up. Reaching $300 is a level too high at the moment. I wonder when traders will start to take profits.

It's a sad fact that the total amount of (reachable)nodes have been going down for quite some months. I am happy to contribute with my full node and will surely continue doing so. It's a temporary solution bumping the minimum fee to 0.00005BTC per KB, but I would prefer to see this restriction being aimed at transactions below 0.001BTC. And everything above this can be sent without a fee if the person so wish.

Most people are waiting for other to do everything needed to put Bitcoin in a better daylight. But we as community can also do something. Readings, meetings, etc. All this can help making the average Joe's aware of what the benefits are compared to current fiat currencies. I have introduced Bitcoin to several people and they like the idea, the only let down for them is the high volatility.

I don't think it will reach $300 this month as the price went up already this week. It can't go up all the time. I'm sure a dump will follow tomorrow or the day after that.

Here in my country there are several places where you can spend your coins, but the total amount is still way too low. You can buy fastfood with Bitcoin, buy beer in a pub, rent a bike with Bitcoin. That's it about it. I am more interested in seeing a supermarket nearby willing to accept Bitcoin.

Not really. It's more pathetic. I always consider Chinese exchanges volumes 10x lower than what they are. If they have a 24 hour volume of 500,000BTC I simply count it as 50,000BTC volume.

It looks easy, but in fact it isn't. If a whale don't want to let it break through the $260 level, then we most likely fall back or even go sub $250 again.

That's assuming when every one is holding. People who say they are holding mostly just hold for a month or two. That's not really what I consider holding. Holding to me is keeping the coins untouched in my wallet for at least a few years.

In 99% of the time it's purely ignorance. I've seen a lot people like this talking nonsense about Bitcoin like they are an expert or something, while in fact they are less than a rookie. Just skip these articles as they have no value at all.

100KBTC is enough to cause a deep flash crash. Especially on Chinese exchanges as their orderbooks are filled with a lot non existing buy orders. I personally would sell them on several large exchanges over a few weeks period, so I don't hurt the price that much.

Everything is possible, but I think we've seen enough rise for this month already. It will probably bounce between $230-$259 for the comming weeks. Can't see enough buy support to break through the $260 for now.

Don't think we'll see the fees going up after the halving. The low fee thing is one of the selling points of Bitcoin. Beside that, I don't think that many miners will shut down their hardware. It purely depends on what the price is by that time. If it goes up to at least $350 then the difficulty might stay the same.

It's better to see an exchange show its real volume rather than turning 100btc real volume into 2000btc fake volume like Chinese exchanges do. People here nowadays are too spoiled. Holding Bitcoin is considered boring, while in fact it is not. People compare volumes to fake Chinese volumes, while in fact they are 10-20 times less than what they show. Face the reality and you'll be fine.

Porn and gambling are industries perfectly ready to fully work with Bitcoin. What about purchasing digital products such as servers, domains, etc. It gives you the freedom you want, and the option to buy these things without connecting it to your personal information.

Blockchain.info only gives a rough estimate on when your transaction might get its first confirmation. Better to not look at their useless information. You can only wait and hope it will get included today. You can also set a standard minimum fee to be included in your client. This way you mostly get your transaction confirmed within a few blocks.

I think the death of money will probably never happen as there are parts of the world seriously depending on the current fiat currencies. I fully believe and trust in Bitcoin and will continue to support it throughout the upcomming years. The blockchain technology is a great piece of technology that can seriously change the financial world, but as always with technology, things do get replaced by better alternatives quite often. I only hope that the open source nature of Bitcoin will be used wisely to make it future proof and not let it fall behind.