It will be a lot wiser if the exchanger just stay away from price manipulation. After all, they are already earning more than enough money from all the transactions that's happening on their website. If they join the manipulation, they can just lose money. Why risk if you already have a goose hatching golden eggs, right?

If they lose money from doing a gamble in the manipulation (pump and dump), then it will require time for them to get back that amount of money from the exchanger site which is kind of a hassle imo because they could've earned much more instead.

I don't think that I, as a user, matter at all in the bitcoin world. The whole thing can go on without me and you. So is the bitcoin's life. The ones that matter the most are the whales. If they team up and dump the whole market and move to a different coin, then we're all doomed. The only thing we can do is follow the crowd and sell our coins. This is the exact reason why people panic sell. They think that whales are selling and so they also should.

Although we are the most important factor, the users, as an individual we don't matter that much. We matter as a whole.

I think if people are already using bitcoins, merchants will just follow. Imagine if you're the owner and someone asked you if you're accepting bitcoins, and then after a short while somebody asked you again. And then the next day somebody asked you again, you surely will be totally curious about what's bitcoin. If you push a business owner to accept bitcoins because it will "bring more sales and new customers" and there's not that much bitcoin users at the area, he will just be disappointed at you because you forced him and all his efforts are for nothing.

Hmm. ETH is not based on USD, it's based on BTC. So your ETH is worth 5000USD because 1 ETH = 4.5BTC not ETH is worth 4.5BTC because ETH = 5000USD. That's my point the whole time.

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I bet that the "people" you were referring in this are those that already have bitcoins. Any increase in price is celebrated by us but definitely not the people that don't know what bitcoin is. The people that are just about to invest in bitcoins will think that he's too late because the price has already grown. That means that tons of people have already invested and he might not earn as much as the early investors.

The price of bitcoin isn't important that much because of the price increase of altcoins? There's not that much correlation on that unless altcoins are already based on other cryptocurrency. For example, even if ETH becomes 1BTC each, the price of bitcoin will matter because that's your way to cash it out in fiat. At the end of the day, all altcoins still rely on the price of bitcoin because no altcoin can be cashed out directly to fiat. And even when there's an option for altcoins to be cashed out directly to fiat. It will still convert from CoinX >> BTCBTCBTC >> $$$

Bitcoin will always be in the scene.

Like they say, there's two ways to become rich. The first one is to become wealthy and that's how most define "rich" while the second way is to be content with whatever you have. If you've become poor ever since, and suddenly you're able to eat 3 times a day, that's already an abundant life for you. Being "rich" is very subjective since all of us have different roots and different experience in life. What's "rich" and wealthy for you can be just a normal thing to others.

The amount of money a regular guy someone has from a 1st world country is already millions of money to somebody that lives in a 3rd world country.

What are you expecting? When the ETF gets approved, the price of bitcoin will not fluctuate anymore? That it will just steadily increase because investors will come rushing in? I don't think so. Even when there's bitcoin ETF, the price fluctuation will still be the same. Bitcoin will still be volatile and people are still going to play manipulations with bitcoin's price. Bitcoin ETF will help us grow as a community and it will help the price of bitcoin to increase in the long run but it will definitely not erase our capability to make the market move as we want by buying/selling enough.

I strongly disagree. Not everything in this world is controlled by the government. There might be rules and regulations but those are just there to put a limit on our freedom. Yes, most of us are living in a democratic country but when the government said that we're free to do whatever we want, that doesn't mean we can go kill each other and don't face any consequence. The government law is there to maintain peace although sometimes it also creates conflict.

Another thing that I disagree with is "the moment that you violate the law". Uhhmm. How about no? I've said this a million times but here we are again. Tons of people are smoking weed, doing cocaine, injecting stuffs (I don't know what it's called), and none of them get to jail "right at that moment". Most of those drug users have never even caught yet by the police. No one's watching every single move that we do so there's no way that you'll get caught right at the moment the crime has happened.

You don't have to find someone to buy it in a good price. That's just person to person trading and trust me it's really hard to find someone who's not going to scam you and is willing to buy above market price. Some say that they do person to person trading to avoid the fees and some say because they get better deals from it. But buying/selling in an exchanger is much faster since you only have to place your sell order or simply dump the coin.

True. Because it requires more money and bitcoins to manipulate the price. Back then, the price of bitcoin isn't that much yet and the market cap isn't that high so if you invest 1 million dollars in bitcoin, the price will surely sky rocket and you'll have tons of bitcoins as well. Today, 1 million is just a small percentage of the market cap of bitcoins. Although it can pump the market since not all bitcoins are in exchanger, it's still not going to pump as much as it'd pump back then.

[1] It's 24% to be exact. 2% x 12 months = 24%.

[2] There's risk at everything. Even going outside of your house, you're risking yourself of getting hit by the vehicle although the chance is really really low. Same thing as investing in gambling sites or any casino, there's a chance that they will run away your money but the chance will be really low. That's what you're risking together with the risk that the casino can get hacked, get bankrupt, etc.

[3] 40% growth, is it fixed every year? Where did this even come from

It might be the best way to earn bitcoins or money in general to you but it might not be to others. Like, if you're not a gamer of course gaming isn't the best way to make money. I've been playing games since I was a kid although I stopped a few years back because I got busy in school. The way you can make money from playing games is through farming and grinding items. You simply hunt valuable items in the game and then sell them in real life or sell the zeny or in game gold in exchange to fiat/bitcoins.

There's also twitch wherein you can get donations if people like you enough. And there's Youtube wherein you can post your gameplay, reviews, and first impressions about the latest games. It's one of the best ways to earn money although it's really hard to start.

The last time it went to $700-$800 range was with the PBoC thing. It's the Chinese people that got scared and so they sold their coin plus those people that panic sold their coins. You will need some FUD as strong as that to make the price of bitcoin go down at that price again. Today, the hard fork thing made the price of bitcoin go down from $1200 to $1000. I think this ($1000 range) is already a good buy since we will eventually recover from this price decrease.

Bitcoin is not an organization. It's simply a (thousands) block of codes. You don't have to defend bitcoin at all even when let's say the government has banned it. When you do protest, you might just get to jail since the use of bitcoin is already banned and you're obviously still using it since you're protesting about it.

When bitcoin becomes illegal, people will just become low-key about them using it. Just like how people are so low-key when they are doing drugs. They buy and sell drugs but only to people that they trust and nothing else. Although there's still risks since someone can be a snitch anytime.

Just like with jobs in real life, if you are qualified enough, you can just jump onto the next campaign right after the campaign the campaign you're in has ended. For example, if you're in one of Yahoo's campaign. Even if that campaign ends, you can just join another one since you have the experience and you have a good post quality.

In real life, even when the company shuts down, you can simply hand over your resume to the next company and you'll get maybe even a better job with better pay. It's all on your skills and experience, and not on the company that you're working at.

You can actually start by using Google. Or maybe just follow this new thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1833226) To be completely honest, you wouldn't get most of the things you're looking for in this forum. This is not an all in one forum so you're better off searching stuffs on Google. Not only you'll get better results, but you'll also get instant results.

For trading sites, there's C-Cex, Poloniex, WhaleClub, Yobit, etc. Those are the most common ones and the price doesn't have that much difference even when let's say that someone bought tons of ETH on YoBit, it'll only take a few seconds for snipers to sell at that high buy on YoBit or buy at the low price from other trading sites. The fees, of course, doesn't have that much difference as well. Just see what UI and website loading time suits you the best.

I think that's not the best way to allocate your money since you're not going to the mall every single day. 10$ for thing like clothes, that'll require you going outside every single day and then buying a shirt worth 10$ in all.

"A website", funny how people still cannot give out the exact name of the website that they're investing in. 20$ and make it 50$, sounds like nothing but HYIP to me.

And why do you even have to give your money to people you trust. Don't you have the capacity to save and secure the money by yourself? I really think that you should learn more about financial stuffs and allocate the money better.

True. The moderator in the chat box is always online. They always talk to the players and there's always a rain in the chat box. You'd never get bored by just talking to them. And support staff is spot on. You'd see other gambling sites having problems and then end up having a scam accusation in here. You'll never see Bitsler having that. They always solve problems as soon as they saw someone asked for help.

I don't think using a VPN connection is banned at all because they don't care about your IP address at all. So if you're using a VPN connection to connect to the Internet for free (this is very common to most countries), then it should be fine.

Who said that? We can all start using bitcoins but the government will not own bitcoins because of that. For them to own the bitcoin network, they have to buy all the coins in circulation. Otherwise, it'll still be a property of no one. It will continue to be decentralized. The "bitcoin has replaced fiat" means that everybody's using bitcoin instead of fiat. Not bitcoin has become just like what is fiat.

Nevertheless, bitcoin will not replace fiat in the foreseeable future. We might already be all dead by that time. Although we might live long enough to see a world that has tons of merchants accepting bitcoin as payment.

He only replies right after a week ends. If you read the previous replies of Lutpin, all of the enrollments are announced right after sending the payment for the previous round. Anything other than that time, you'll get no reply.