Terrorism is out of the question here. But I don't know what the religion of the boy is, and as I have suspected, the kid has difficulty integrating with the schools and have issues with some of this fellow students. But the important thing to notice here is, how the hell the boy have so many weapons in his arsenal and just walking around school premises with it? France has a very strict law on guns and needed permits to get one. So I think the need to review their law and investigate more on how the kid get his gun. Good thing that no one died, but the next time maybe they would not be so lucky.

I agree he is one of the hardest puncher in MMA, he already put a lot of his opponents to sleep with his punch. But DC took a huge overhand right in the last fight and kept on keepin’ on. He has tasted Rumble's punch, but didn't fold. Although I believe that punch didn't land 100% on DC chin to make a damage. My point is DC has a solid chin, unless he is hit my a solid punch, he will keep on coming. With his age, I think he has a good stamina and can stay a full 5 rounds, I don't know about Rumble though, he usually gasses out. So I'm still picking DC to win.

Could This Be The End For Bitcoin Unlimited?

BTC & BTU

In the midst of a heated discussion on the scalability and future of Bitcoin, a group of 20 Bitcoin exchanges, including major eastern and western ones, have announced that should a hard fork occur, they will list BTC (Bitcoin Core) and BTU (Bitcoin Unlimited) as two separate currencies.

This decision, backed by BitFinex, BitStamp, Kraken, BTCC, BTCChina, ShapeShift, BitSquare, QuadrigaCX, and other exchanges, was announced in a joint statement.

This announcement reads:

Since it appears likely we may see a hardfork initiated by the Bitcoin Unlimited project, we have decided to designate the Bitcoin Unlimited fork as BTU (or XBU). The Bitcoin Core implementation will continue to trade as BTC (or XBT) and all exchanges will process deposits and withdrawals in BTC even if the BTU chain has more hashing power.


Full Read Here: http://bitcoinist.com/end-bitcoin-unlimited/

Santander UK Terminates Bank Accounts of Bitcoin Exchange Bittylicious’ Users

Bitcoin exchange Bittylicious has received notice from U.K. bank Santander stating that it will be terminating bank accounts of users transacting with the exchange; however, it fails to explain the reasons for doing so.

Bittylicious took to Twitter to break the news saying:

@Santanderuk are now closing down accounts of anyone that sends to #BTC exchanges. The anti-competitive UK banking system must be broken up.


According to a letter from Santander, it said:

Under the terms and conditions of the account we can withdraw banking facilities by giving you notice in writing and, in line with our company policy, we don’t give further information about how we’ve made our decision.


It adds that users have two months to find ‘alternative banking services.’

Full Read Here: https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/santander-uk-suspends-bank-accounts-of-bitcoin-exchange-bittylicious-users/

Bitcoin is always or sometimes a subject of discussion on other social media site but once I heard in public. It was in Starbucks were 2 yuppies around 20-25 years of age, were discussing about it the "virtual currency" as what they called it. I didn't try break into a conversation or discussion especially to express my opinion. Was was against it saying it is used for illegal activities, but the other one is for the bitcoin and he said that he will invest in bitcoin because he saw it as a good investment platform. I'm guessing this guy is also into forex thing locally that's why he is keen on investing on it.

Well if you can play it will altcoin and so can play it wit bitcoin. I don't know a gambling site that support solitaire as game and bitcoin as payment. For one solitaire is not as popular as dice game so not many gambling site offer it. But why solitaire if I may ask? I just play it when I want to past some time and I easily got bored from playing. So I'm really interested in playing solitaire with bets, but would rather just as past time to get over boredom.

EU Parliament approves call to free De Lima

MANILA, Philippines – The European Parliament adopted the call of a group of lawmakers to immediately free detained Philippine Senator Leila de Lima, the fiercest critic of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.

In a resolution on Thursday, March 16, the European Parliament said it "calls for the immediate release of Senator Leila M. De Lima, and for her to be provided with adequate security whilst in detention."

European lawmakers also urged Philippine authorities "to ensure a fair trial, recalling the right to the presumption of innocence, to drop all politically motivated charges against her, and to end any further acts of harassment against her."


Read Here: http://www.rappler.com/nation/164428-eu-parliament-resolution-release-leila-de-lima


Even EU is now against President Duterte. LOL  What's your thoughts?

Maybe $3000 is possible but not because of  the "BU disaster". I agree with you it doesn't make sense.  ETF decision is a non factor already and we have proved it. $3000 is achievable for me because I think the positive effect of the ETF decision is that bitcoin has open doors for a lot of speculators and investors and maybe looking at bitcoin market as a good portfolio to put investment with. So a lot of cash will flow to bitcoin ecosystem, so maybe at the year end, we are knocking at the door with $2000-$3000 in sight.

Etherum already overtakes bitcoin momentarily, trading at volume totalled $424.9 million USD, while bitcoin’s was still at $383.7 million.  Here's the link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1830698.0.

Although is only briefly that ETH overtakes bitcoin, it only shows that it can be done at we all should not overlook at it. ETF rejection has little effect on the price of bitcoin. I think that the scalability issue is the issue I see that has really a lasting effect on the price of bitcoin. As a have said before, is so disappointing seeing this holdback the future of bitcoin. So much politics about a simple solution that would have help the bitcoin market to really take off in the next years to come.

This is probably true but it really depend on the teenager and hist parents. I think parents should involved kids or teenager on the families financial goals. It doesn't mean that their children will stop want they are enjoying. At least they should be more accountable for the money being spent. So in this sense, if the children know how to budget allowances, then you can inject bitcoin in to your discussion and can explain the benefits and satisfaction of earning their own money through bitcoin and this will lead to their financial freedoms from their parents.

Ether trading overtakes Bitcoin


Trading in Ethereum’s digital currency, Ether (ETH), briefly surpassed bitcoin for the first time on Thursday afternoon. The trading preceded an eight percent price drop in Bitcoin, plunging from $1,222 down to $1,132 before recovering to $1,180 in the afternoon.

Ether has been trading at record highs over the past week. The “fuel” for Ethereum is up 23% today alone. On Thursday morning, around 9 AM Eastern Standard Time, the 24 hour trading volume totalled $424.9 million USD, while bitcoin’s was still at $383.7 million. Bitcoin’s trading volume has historically dwarfed Ethereum, and the “honeybadger” of crypto quickly regained it’s position.

Full Read Here: https://bravenewcoin.com/news/ether-trading-overtakes-bitcoin/

Bitcoin’s Scaling Debate is Devolving Into an All-Out Twitter War

The bitcoin world has been in something of a furore over an attack that, on Tuesday, took down most of the nodes running Bitcoin Unlimited – a controversial alternative version of the cryptocurrency's code.

Though the exact details of the attack aren't clear, here's what we know: After a couple of bitcoin users posted the link to details of a bug exploit that could allow anyone to remotely crash Bitcoin Unlimited nodes, an unknown attacker used the method to take down over two-thirds of the devices.

A 'hot fix' was released later that day, and by Wednesday, most nodes had popped back up.

The news comes a just couple of days after Bitmain's AntPool announced that it would switch its mining pool to the alternative bitcoin software, bringing miner support one step closer to the 75% hashing power threshold needed to activate Bitcoin Unlimited's rules.

Unsurprisingly, the event made a strong impression on the community, and both supporters and critics alike have been vocal in expressing their reactions to the event.

Full Read Here: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoins-scaling-debate-devolving-twitter-war/

Its actually a good game and its not based on luck, you have to have skills in order to win. Heck, even a 3 pairs can win if you know how to put your cards in a winning way. My friends are playing this every night because its also friendly game. Last time I played with it,  I won big but it was like 6 months ago. I can even play it here every night with friends but I'm too busy right now. And its not boring as you claimed it to be, you can't even know that you already playing this game for the last couple of hours because its fun and you can double your money if you beat the banker with good hands.

I'm not able to go to casino so I haven't anything significant to report to you guys. But the above post caught my attention. Maybe a lot of us are superstitious but are just hiding or ignoring it. I like the "Never keep in your pocket the money that you are winning if the game is not yet over." I also have that in my mind. To put a little spin in it. "I don't keep in my wallet"  but only in my pocket. I keep the money I won in my pocket even if the game is not over yet. But only in my left pocket. Why left? because I'm a lefty myself so its my winning hand. 

I've been saying this all along. Emotions is really the worst enemy of a gambler or a trader for a extend. It's hard to control them specially if you are a amateur trader. And since being a trader means that you have to continually make decisions that can cost or make you money, and even result in major losses, And also if you are Over-excitement, it can also significantly influence your decision-making process. Being too euphoric or excited can be dangerous because you might analyze risk wrong or are too casual about potential losses.
 

The story of Islam starts with the prophet Muhammad. However, Islam rose in a certain historical and geographical context. We all know that prophet Mohammed has led a raid against a Meccan caravan. And he conquered almost half of western Arabia and southern Palentine thorugh a dozen separate invasions and bloody conquest. So  this conquest was in part "Holy Wars" already. Even after his death, they lauched Islam into 1,500 years of continual imperialist, colonialist, bloody conquest and subjugation of others through invasion and war, a role Islam continues to this very day. So historically, Islam has been waging war since its inception.

Exactly Assuming a increased demand, the Bitcoin price gradually increases over the long-term. And when the usage of bitcoin is increasing, like being adopted by a lot of people globally, bitcoin price raise as well. Like what happened to the ETF decision, a lot of investors/speculators went on board with bitcoin increasing the demand that why we see a ATH price on bitcoin. So  demand (and supply) for bitcoin is driven also by investors’ speculative
behaviour. So bitcoin prices is more stable right now and the price will increase in the future if there is more demand.

Neither SegWit Nor Bitcoin Unlimited Can Solve Bitcoin’s Scalability Problems: Experts

Despite all the exploits of Bitcoin especially in recent months, which has seen its price conquer new highs and its user base increase significantly, one major problem that has persisted upon the cryptocurrency is congestion.

The issue of congestion within the Bitcoin community has persisted for some time now. The debate on how best to resolve this issue has seen the community split majorly into two factions, a scenario which can be judged as proof that the power truly lies with the people in the decentralized democratic environment of Bitcoin.

Emiel Sebastiaan van der Hoek, Blockchain Researcher, says:

“The community is split for good reason. Neither solution will solve scalability issues and transaction fee issues of Bitcoin in my honest opinion.”

Full Read Here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/neither-segwit-nor-bitcoin-unlimited-can-solve-bitcoins-scalability-problems-experts

How Are Bitcoin Exchanges Capable of Faking Trading Volume?

Generating a lot of fake transactions as an exchange sounds like an easy feat, but that is not necessarily the case. To be more precise, it depends on how these platforms would go about doing such a thing. In most cases, people look at the bitcoin trading volume to determine whether or not they should buy or sell cryptocurrency. If exchanges successfully skew the numbers, there is a lot of volatility to be found in the bitcoin market. 

So far, three possible ways to fake exchange volume have been uncovered. The first option is by just releasing a fake number of bitcoin transactions taking place in the past 24 hours. This is by far the easiest way to trick people into thinking there is a lot of bitcoin trading action going on, even though that is far from the case. Since most Chinese exchanges release their transaction numbers 24 hours later, it is very easy to fake volume after all.


Full Read Here: http://thebitcoinnews.com/how-are-bitcoin-exchanges-capable-of-faking-trading-volume/

I think $1500-$2000 is possible at the end of this year. We are already past the hype on the ETF approval and no effect to the price as well. On the contrary, in put bitcoin in the notice to many speculators and probably thinking investment on bitcoin. So is safe to say that the future is really looking very good for bitcoin and hope to get $2000 or more at the end of the year. And 2017 will potentially the biggest year in bitcoin history if ever.