This price increase due to the Chinese and the coming halving will definitely push the price to some decent levels, but I am very skeptical that it would rise to 3 figures. For every action there is a counter action and a force pushing back. We
for instance see a increase in shills, when the price increase. People read this bullshit in the media and the price goes down. Words and rumors, hurt the price. ^hmmmmm^

There were some fake stress testing being done a while ago, but in my opinion that were only people trying to force the issue of the block size increase. Yes, it did spark some discussion, but it did not bring the house down. People just increased their fees and it resolved most of the issues. Segwit and a hard fork will solve this in the future. ^heh^

If some government or a group of companies can manage to grab hold of the majority of the nodes and then gain consensus on a competing Bip that was suggested. Examples XT or Classic or some other harmful suggestion that could make changes to the Core principles of Bitcoin. ^hmmmmm^

I also cannot see the transaction, which is weird. Could it already have been rejected? In any way, how much were the fees you paid with this transaction? I always send a little bit more than the minimum required fee, to guarantee a quick confirmation. Good luck, I hope it gets rejected. ^hmmmmm^

Bitcoin that did not go through a mixer is not Halal, but once you pushed it through these mixer services, it is totally cleaned and you can be sure that it is not Haram. ^joking^ My friend, do you wash your money before you use it daily? Bitcoin is simply a technology and has nothing to do with religion. ^smile^

You cannot compare a centralized currency like L*b*rt* Reserve that can be targeted by governments and also stopped by them, with Bitcoin that is totally decentralized. The Blockchain will not be brought down, because it's running on 1000's of computers all over the world. < Like a p2p network >

Well, people are saying this is due to some capital flight going on in China at the moment, so this will reflect a bigger volume on the Chinese exchanges, IF this was true. I do not have any details on this, but it's the rumor going around now. The Dragon has farted, and the Bitcoin world is on fire ^smile^

Yes it is, but it is better than no income. Most of these people are unemployed and receive zero income. If they can pool together and create a referral network, it would turn into something much bigger and possibly passive income in the future.

My kids started this at school and quickly built up a referral network of 500 kids on 5 faucets, doing this daily. They stopped solving Capthas and now get passive income from this, when the other kids use the faucets. This was a very successful project for them.   

Their deposits and withdraws are near instant and their promos are not blocked with rollover requirements. I have won some of these lucky draws and had no problem withdrawing the money. They are getting stiff competition from Roger Ver's casino, because they host most of the same games and features. Competition is good for us.

Have you signed up yet? ^smile^

Do not underestimate Andreas Antonopoulos 's technical knowledge. Just read his books and look at his CV to see how much knowledge he has. Andreas Antonopoulos is one of the best ambassadors for Bitcoin, if you look at the way he interacted with the Canadian senate. He should not be a politician, because they will not be able to keep up with him.

His views might be a bit over the top sometimes, bordering on extremist and much to liberal for the average person on the street. You have to be very open minded to deal with this jackal. ^smile^

The moment where I can match my current investment into my retirement funds, I would be satisfied that I would be secure enough to survive inflation in the future. That is a significant amount, but a good goal, if Bitcoin can just break through into the mainstream environment.

I would retire like a king, if this happens. ^smile^

Click bait title? - I did not once see them making any reference to Bitcoin or the Blockchain or any form of decentralized network. They are talking about a virtual wallet system on a centralized service? Right. PayPal and all these legacy payment systems wants to attack Bitcoin on the patent front, because they have the money to back up the fight. If they get the patent on virtual wallets, all other Alt coins will suffer too. 

Exactly, the more attention we give to this, positive or negative will give it traction and free publicity. The only good thing is, we can debunk the myths and hype that are built around it. Ether is just another ALT coin gunning for the top position and we should treat it like that.

This whole thread should be moved to the Alt coin section. ^hmmmmm^

It's just a hypothetical statement and a conversation starter for this situation, when it happens in the future. There are a lot of people, who are going to dump, once the halving event push the price to higher levels. They might just say this in a year or two from now, when the price hits $5000 or $10 000.

So just think about that, when you dump everything at a slightly higher price, than what it currently is. < Say $1000 >

For many years they manipulated the fiat currencies to benefit their economy and in the process they created a even bigger gap between the first world countries and the third world countries. They printed money from thin air and offered it as debt to these countries, pushing them even further into debt.

This situation will only get worse with negative interest rates being offered. You cannot give a dead horse water to drink. ^hmmmm^

There are different levels of trust, namely :

- You trust them to make all games provably fair < If they cannot provide proof, they are rigged >
- You trust that they will pay out your winnings and not run away.
- You trust that they are regulated by a legitimate organization.
- You trust that they have the jackpots they claim they have.
- You trust that the investment you made with them are not rigged by the house
- You trust that the affiliate network pay what it is supposed to pay.

It depends on which of these things you are talking about, and on what level you are participating at these casinos.

Even if Satoshi come out and publicly announced that it was a scam, people still did not knowingly participate in the scam. They used a tool that was provided to them to shift value and to trade with other people. Satoshi might go to jail, if he admitted that he participated in something illegal. He had to gain some economic advantage from this, for them to convict him of a crime.

No country in the world will arrest people for using a technology that were used for every day trade, if they had no regulations or laws against it. ^smile^

You will need the price to grow a little bit bigger than that, for that to happen soon. Even if we reach that stage, it will still not be a problem. The developers can just divide it a bit more, by adding another 0 ^smile^ 0.000000001 - Well this is in theory, but I do not know if people will reach consensus about that. ^hmmmm^

It's programmable money, so options are available if things goes wrong. ^smile^

Why would you call Ethereum a money laundering operation? Do you think people are moving illegal money through Eth and then converting it back to fiat? I hope you have some proof of this statement, because this might turn against you, if you cannot supply proof.

I think it is a pump n dump scheme, but we will need to wait until it plays out to the end, before we will know if this is true. The excessive hype created around it, makes me uneasy about the whole thing. 

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