it is hard to tell but all i can say is that if it were really a dead cat  bounce and price were supposed to go lower, then it would have never came above $10k because it was a major resistance which is now a big support line and it would take a lot to go back below it now.

ps: i can't choose any of the 3 options in the poll because i say the first on is not going to happen. but also the second won't either. there is a better chance that we keep seeing this same slow creep upwards instead of shooting up to something like $30k. and it may even last a couple of months or a good part of 2018 even.

this was removed from bitcoin last year. some miners may still honor the priority thing if they choose to but it no longer matters how old your transactions are. they may have  1 confirmation or 500,000 and still be treated the same.

in fact this will be removed in next version of Electrum (v 3.1).

it is impossible to say which one is "preferred" because it depends on a lot of things. your question may be clear but the answer is hard.

for example if each of those txs belong to a different key, spending the 3BTC means only using 1 key. but spending 1+2 means using 2 keys. this may have privacy concerns as it links 2 of your addresses together.

another thing that comes to mind is that spending 1 tx (3BTC) will give you a smaller transaction so you have to pay a smaller fee. this is not much of a concern now but at times where fees are high it may be. (more inputs will give you a bigger transaction).

there is a case where you can pay it without creating a "change". for example if you have a transaction output of 3.00001000BTC and want to make a 3BTC payment. you simply spend this tx and pay 3BTC and the rest (1000 satoshi) goes to miners as fee. compared to using 5.00001000BTC output and paying 3BTC + 1000 satoshi fee + 2BTC change (leftover) the first one is preferable.

well $6000 in my opinion wasn't exactly the bottom because it didn't last long. it was more like a short term push down where price reached a very low level and it actually went to $5k range too. i consider $8k more of the bottom. so you can't really say price has doubled now.

additionally $11k is simply coming back to normal levels after the "push down". because nothing about that drop below $10k was normal. so we are now only $1000 or 10% above the major buy support.

it is funny that everyone is repeating this same wrong news but nobody has yet said how is it that this "idividual" is anonymous but the news knows that it is an individual and also knows that he/she has bought bitcoin! LOL
it is kind of contradictory!

didn't Facebook just ban any kind of cryoptocurrency related advertisement on their platform?!!! and it was any cryptocurrency, i could have understood the banning of ICO related ads since they are already scam but the news was general!


Facebook is earning money because it is centralized. if they make it decentralized it is like shooting themselves in the foot and putting an end to their control and money making.
of course you can always make something centralized and call it decentralized just like the way many altcoins do!

it didn't jump that much in one year. it jumped that much in only a couple of months. and the bulk of the pump took place in less than a month when every other altcion was also getting pumped.

i usually don't like saying what coin, so all i can say is that if you are looking for "ripple effect" or whatever you want to call it, then look for that same pattern meaning the same pumping signals that the coin was giving before it was pumped. and then invest in them for the same small amount of time not a long term 1 year thing!

Russia is one of those countries that probably will not legalize bitcoin for many years because there are so many conflict of opinions among them apparently!
one day i hear some of them say bitcoin should be legalized and some time later someone else says it should be illegalized!


i don't think you know what "correction" means.

most people are just speaking out of their asses when it comes to speculating about bitcoin future, you shouldn't even be reading what these people say, let alone paying any attention to it.

the fact is bitcoin is rising. from time to time it has some drops and some downtime but every time this happens, there are the same group of people who keep saying bitcoin will continue to fall! the reason i believe is that they want to buy it at lower price so they spread FUD.

not that many altcoins are good these days. the market is too wild in my opinion with bitcoin drop a lot of money was withdrawan out of the altcoin market.
right now i only see DigixDAO since it has been getting pumped today but it is a little late despite the pump still ongoing.

i don't know about these "experts" but a dip doesn't just happen out of nowhere and without any reasons! for example the recent dip from $20k down to $6kish was because of the bubble then because of the fear of the bubble and all the FUD about bans,... but that is over now! it can't go on every day.

bitcoin will still work the same whether some country like Bangladesh bans bitcoin or some other country like Japan adopts bitcoin. none of these will change anything about how bitcoin works.

however the only thing that it will change is the adoption rate which will become faster when a country adopts bitcoin like what happened in Japan. now there are lots of shops accepting bitcoin payments over there and have increased their revenue thanks to this and the fact that there are no taxes on bitcoin payments there.

that is just your opinion.

anything has value for its utilities. Gold has value not because it is physical but because it has usages. same as anything else.
bitcoin is a decentralized currency and that is its usage and what's giving it value.

isn't it already too obvious?
the name is the definition already! altcoins, alternative coins or in other words alternative coins to bitcoin. anything that is not bit coin is called altcoins.

they are all based on the same technologies more or less. i'd say about 85% to 90% of them are useless junk or pure copycats which shouldn't even be alive. and the rest are interesting ideas that has remained "ideas" so far without any real world applications yet.

at least bitcoin is an actual currency that people actually use. even if it is on a small scale now.

have you ever thought that it is possible that what you hear online is not exactly what "people" think and more like what they advertise publicly?

for example when the price is falling and traders have switched strategy from buying to shorting, they obviously want the price to drop more so they can make more profit. many will start talking about doomsday so that maybe the price goes lower and they make a little bit more profit.
the opposite is true about rises.
how effective this bullshit is, i have no clue but this is what's happening!

well it depends on why they sold and when they sold. selling and losing money is not always bad. you may be selling because of stop loss to prevent an even bigger loss and then buy back at the bottom to get your initial amount back and also cover the loss and finally make your profit back.

if they did that they they did good! but if they didn't they have to start doing that to become more successful in their investment journey.

before this recovery to back above $10k it was not possible to say how long the recovery and the follow up rise could take because for all we knew it could take a couple of more months of down trend and FUD.

but with this current price rise and with price going back to a very important price level (above a major support) it shows that despite all the drama that we had recently the demand has not gone anywhere yet.
so yes we can expect the rally to begin soon and consequently we will see $20k too and it is not a new price, it was the previous ATH so it won't be as hard.

there are even worse exchanges with much more problems out there than this small exchange that nobody even knows about or uses!

there is currently cryptopia which people are reporting some issues with their deposit/withdrawals and some coin issues.
there is the big exchange called bittrex which has been scamming their users for months now.
there is the biggest exchange poloniex which is anything but user friendly and they don't give a shit about their customers.
there is Yobit which has a large volume but it is the shadiest exchange that ever existed.

and lots more.
the problem is we are stuck with bad exchanges all around so we are forced to choose bad instead of worse.

he probably got scared or maybe someone gave him a friendly warning so he started looking for an exit strategy to keep face while getting out of it, so he made that dumb claim that his Twitter account was hacked.

as you may know market manipulation (which is basically what he was doing) is a very illegal thing to do in a lot of different jurisdictions.

something that nobody mentioned is that adding fiat means adding regulations and lots of them. it also means they have to deal with banks for fiat deposit and withdrawals and as a result deal with lots of fraud. not all exchanges want to do that. and not all traders are willing to give up their personal information that easily.