I agree. Do not start that "refund procedure " because most likely they'll ask you to enter your password and username and from then things might go really bad.

Unfortunately there are a lot of people nowdays who attempt to make money by cheating others.

I disagree. I can see your point and I understand that you have reasons to think so but if it was a group than at least one of them would reveal himself already to the media. That's the nature of a man in the contemporary world: he can't miss a chance to be famous and popular.  But if it is a one person then maybe he is exception. A whole group can't consist of exceptions.

Not only that. Bitcoin will be a good thing regardless of the appeciation of dollar. IMO it is already much better than dollar but unfortunately not everyone in the wold shares this opinion. But we'll see what happens in the future.

Yeah, you are right in a way, but what about drinking alcohol, playing games, watching TV series endlessly and many other bad habits. I think it's up to you whether it is a bad habit which ruins your life or just fun.

I think Bitcoin is one of the best things ever created by "Western civilization" (Japan, China, Russia are included) ... well let's call it "Modern civilization" I hope it's clear what I mean. And Bitcoin is a harmonious part of it.

So IMO the biggest Bitcoin boogeyman would be the same Boogeyman which is for Modern civilization - the total destruction of it or replacing by something entirely different where Bitcoin along with many other pleasant to us things will have no place at all.

That's very true indeed. And IMO it is better to seek for cheap electricity (or ways to make it cheaper) in developed counties with good infrastructure than to struggle solving various problems arising in undeveloped countries where the electricity is cheap.

Of course there are some exceptions but in general I'd suggest to avoid countries where you risk your life for getting cheaper electricity.

I agree and I even want say more. You may sit for ages waiting untill someone buys for $450 today and waiting someone sells you at $441. All those calculations are good only in theory but in real life you have almost zero chances to make it happen.

So participating in a signature campain is a better option IMO.

I'd just hold them. Investing in cloudmining means losing at least half of the amount, investing in other businesses might mean losing everything... Bitcoins on the other hand is a good investment by itself, the price will rise in the fututre for sure, we can't predict to what extent it will raise but it will rise ok.

Absolutely! Nobody is saying that 100 BTC will be enough to retire at current prices. We are talking about 20-25 years from now when the the price will be much higher. As I said before, I think the price will be around $10k at the time.

That's really one of the lowest prices of electricity in the world. I never thought that in a country like Norway (which is a typical Western country IMO) you can have such prices. You should start mining mate. ) Good luck!

Sorry for you loss mate, but on the other hand as I can see you didn't lost everything in your wallet, just a part of and I assume a small part. So you are lucky not to be a gambling addict who can't stop before he loses everything.

And playing like this you are having $2-3 profit most of the time. Good job btw.

I agree with this. Addiction is a sickness and stating that gambling is wrong just because it ruins the lives of the gambling addicts is like stating that eating is wrong because we can see how bad the life is for the overweight eating addicts.

Gamble with ease, don't get addicted to it, don't expect to make money with it, rather expect losing part of them and you'll be fine.

You are right similar things happen in the beginng of each year (and not only with Bitcoin btw) but something is telling me that this year really will be Bitcoin's Best Year Yet. ) Why not? Let's hope for the best.

For starters we have a good start: $450 insteed of $200 in January 2015.

I would like to join this campaign.

I've dreamed about Bitcoin only once. It was in November 2013 when Bitcoin was around $300. In the dream I had a strange feeling that real price of Bitcoin is $1000 and when I woke up I told my wife that I'm sure that Bitocin will be $1k in the future. I thought that will happen in 10 years or so though. Then, 3 weeks later Bitcoin hits almost $1200 and I'm like "Wow! That was fast!" We all know what happened next.

Gambling without real money is boring and meaningless IMO. I'm not saying you should earn money with gambling, no, but even to just have fun with it you need real money to be involved. But before starting to gamble with your money you should think twice whether anybody around needs something you can buy with that money.

I agree. That's why it's better to have at least 5 or 10 BTC than nothing and maybe that would be enough to retire nicely in 20 years.

My prediction is 10k though, so you'll need around 100 BTC. )

Looks like this is like  true, but nevertheless it's hard to believe. I mean, seriously, 1.3 billion dollars??? Did anyone has ever won hundreds of millions yet? And if yes, how much they really receive? What about taxes? Idk the whole thing looks crazy to me.

And, YES, if the winner decides to buy BTC with that amount of dollars the price might go up 60-80% or even more for some time for sure.

As I said, "20-25%", it is almost 30% right? And considering the fact that the price of Bitcoin sometimes goes up and down 30% or even more without any reasons that would be no big deal.

Fair enough, but on the other hand why give in to panic and start selling your coins when the price goes down a lot? If you have some trust in Bitcoin you know that after a lot of down will be a lot of up, so you should just wait a bit. Never panic guys, there are no objective reasons for the price of Bitcoin to go down a lot.