You know, I've given some thought to this question in the past.  There was a time when I was extremely obsessed with the stock market and had to have a ticker in front of me wherever I was.  It created problems at work.  I didn't lose a lot of money by any means, but it was an obsession.  And I did indeed think of trading as gambling, and it really is.  And you can get strung out on it just like the poor folks in the casinos who lose everything. 

I still very much like the stock market and check my stocks daily--and bitcoin--but I'm not a really active trader and it's nowhere near as bad as it used to be.  I do think of all trading as gambling, though.  It's risky and addictive.

The vast, vast majority of altcoins are total garbage and should not exist.  I don't know the reasons behind the resurgence, aside from blind greed, but I strongly suspect most of them are headed toward zero.  Except for the top ones:  Dash, Doge, LTC, ETH, and a couple of others that have good support.

Dumbass, that's not the way things work here.  Why don't you just be a productive member instead of trying to build false trust.  All you're going to do is ruin your account by asking for a reputation loan with no collateral.

Try 777, which is in my avatar and signature, that's my recommendation, and you've already got tons of tips from the rest of the gamblers who've posted here.  Bitcoin draws gamblers like bees to honey, and there are just so many sites to choose from.  Even Yobit, the exchange, has dice on it.  It's crazy.

Just be careful, though I'm sure you've gambled before.  It's damn easy to lose your stake.

I'm totally a buy-and-hold type of guy in the stock market,  and I was always told that frequent trading will quickly lead to losses if you're not a pro.  So it is with bitcoin, I'm just holding.  Trading to me is like playing the slot machines at a casino.  You'll lose it all if you keep playing.

I don't think most.people on this forum, and especially on the gambling section of this forum, are going to turn it into a profitable exercise.  The only way I think you possibly could is if you knew how to count cards, cheated, or were damn good at poker. All the other ways are scams.

Of course it's gambling.  You're betting money in a game, and any game that you can find in a casino is gambling.   

I assume that religions that prohibit gambling include poker as a subset of that, though I've not talked to god lately.

Yes, but historically (I think) people have turned to other stable currencies.  Bitcoin is not a stable currency.  If the Argentinian currency crashes, you'll see tons of US dollar coins being used to buy goods and services.  Nobody except computer nerds and doomsday preppers is going to be running to bitcoin when the US dollar crashes.  Gold & silver will be excellent things to own, but most people wouldn't even think of bitcoin, and if they knew how consistently volatile it is, they'd laugh if you suggested it.

Right.  There are over 200 countries in the world--there just isn't nearly enough to go around at the current price.  And if individuals like granny & grampa don't give two shits about bitcoin, what would whole governments want with it?  Most countries don't even know how or if they're going to regulate it, much less start "hoarding it" like...whatever.  Might happen, but probably not.

OP just a friendly suggestion: Use some punctuation.   I know you know what it is, and I know you have the necessary symbols on your keyboard.   It makes for much smoother reading.   

As to the topic.   Yeah, it's the same old thing.  Report shitposts when you find them and clean your own house.

Saaaaaaaaaaay what?  I don't think I've paid a bill at any physical location since I was a child 30 years ago doing it for my parents.  I didn't realize that was still done anywhere in the world, and I mean no offense.  But yeah if you could use bitcoin to get past crap like that it'd be golden.  Unfortunately if the Philippines is still doing business like that I don't think you're going to be able to pay any bill with bitcoin anytime soon.  Could be wrong.

Is this actually done anywhere?

Why would it care?  Why would any world news affect the price of bitcoin?  Bitcoin isn't a safe-haven asset.  Look at the price today compared to two months ago--we went from 420 to over 700 very quickly, and that isn't safe.  It could easily have gone the other way.  Besides, everyone knows what gold is and have a good idea that it's a place to park money in turbulent times.  Not a hell of a lot of people know or care about bitcoin.  And most of the ones who do are smoking cigarettes in the dark.

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Heaven forbid you should stick around the forum and get to know what it's all about first.  Do it the right way, don't be a gonnorhea-infected nutsack and buy an account.  Guaranteed you'll get booted out for shitposting and then you'll come a-crying in meta asking how you can get unbanned.  Just be patient and build up your rep. 

The biggest problem?  Most altcoins have absolutely no reason to exist and are destined to end up in the yobit graveyard.   Most people aren't going to use bitcoin, much less trumpcoin.  That's how I see it.

Most people in the U.S. can't do simple math--of course you could teach a whole course on bitcoin.  Doesn't surprise me at all and yes,  this is very cool.  Wish someone would do it in the states.

No one spends gold or comic books, but people still buy and sell those things.  People use both as investments and the buying and selling of each is what moves their prices.  Make sense?

Unfuckingbelievable.  In what country is this considered good income?  It's bad if a sig campaign can feed you and your family, or scamming 300k satoshis.  Try harder next time,  dickhole.

Like, this is the most basic question in all of trading--and if anyone really knew the answer it'd probably be illegal.

Dude, you can't know.  No one knows.  There's no way to know unless you're an enormous whale, and then you can splash the price around all you want.  Certain shitcoins work like that, but bitcoin is way too big now.

Dear sir, you are a man after my own heart.

No kids, no grandkids.  My goal is to leave everything I own to the drug treatment facility at which I work, stocks, cash, bitcoin, everything that can be sold.  It's a nonprofit that is desperately in need of an endowment--or some sort of alternate funding. 

As it stands, not a lot of people know about bitcoin.  Some of my coworkers do but it never comes up in conversation and no one I know actually uses it for anything.  I'm the only live human being I know who uses it.