Are you ladies talking about US dollars here or what?  We need to be comparing apples to apples.

Bitcoin attracts a lot of wage slaves--and that's an amazing thing.  I like that I'm using the same currency as a rebel from Russia who hates his system of government.  That's how revolution starts.  And I'm serious about that.

I used to be a pharmacist, but the drugs took over and it wasn't supposed to work out that way.  Now I make about 4 times less than what I made in pharmacy but I'm cool with that for now.  I'm not starving, but I'm not rolling around in a Mercedes with a cigar like a boss or anything.

Hello Malek!  Welcome to bitcointalk.  I suggest you read the rules until you do understand them, and then maybe you can request a loan such that said request is not a time-waster.  You won't get anything out of anyone here without collateral, because we're essentially jaded, and some might say extremely paranoid.  Depends on who you ask.  People like to create accounts and look for word combinations that will hit the jackpot in the lending section.  Rarely does it work. 

So like I said, welcome.

Yeah, the market doesn't wait long to react to news.  I'm not a firm believer in efficient markets, but I am certainly not a believer in learning-disabled markets.  If it was going to have any effect, it would have already.

I can't figure out (in my pea-brain) why anyone would make an ETF out of bitcoin.  Why not just buy bitcoin?  Then again, derivatives exist for everything, right?  I'm just ignorant.

I don't trust links, so I won't click on yours--no offense.

What is the advantage of buying postage anonymously with bitcoin, if you don't mind my asking.  You can mail something pretty anonymously by buying postage with cash and sticking it in a mailbox (for the US anyway).  Just curious.  But it is nice to see bitcoin being used.

Oh hell no.  I am not a 20-something dude living rent-free with some sugar momma who can afford to put even 51% of my hard-earned dough into cryptocurrency.  Don't get me wrong.  I believe in bitcoin and I do own some, but I'm realistic.  It could be financial suicide to be cubes-deep.  But for the money I have left over, I'm currently buying bitcoin and holding.

So you're saying I shouldn't buy Dash??  But I like the coin, I really do.

Alas, I agree with much that you wrote.  The overwhelming majority of altcoins serve no purpose other than to make the developers rich, and most don't take much to develop at all.  They're for fucking gamblers, and 99.999999999999999% of people in this community have that mentality and should attend Gamblers Anonymous meetings regularly.  Christ, there are people here who gamble away money that should be going into formula for their baby, which they shouldn't have had in the first place.  That's altcoins in a nutshell.

I agree with the last part of what you wrote, that the bull is ready to run.  I don't think this is or even should be an effect of the upcoming halving.  This is a market consisting of tons of people who've known about it for a long time.  Why should the price spike?

Seems like all the bears got run over by the bulls on this forum as of late.  They certainly have gone silent.  And if you think cryptobulltardbangers are bad, you should listen to the precious metal permabulls. They resemble a home for TBI patients,  and I mean no offense to that population.   But it's crazy.

OP, how are the prisons in your country?   Take that into account when deciding on whether to do illegal shit.  If you're going to end up with a big black rattlesnake up your ass, with the video up on dailymotion...well, is that worth it?  Any cuntry that would ban bitcoin likely wants such pleasures for its citizens.

We're all potential legendary members here.  The only certainty is that OP is an account-selling scunt who would be better off trying to sell baseball bats masquerading as sex toys from the comfort of his dirt floor hovel.  Which no doubt has bugs in it.  This stuff pisses me off to no end.

Did you see how the US stock market crashed for 2 days because of it...and then rebounded even higher?  I wouldn't trust any market movements based on political news.  Same with bitcoin although we've also got the halving and a bunch of other things going on.

OP, practice your English.  But your attempted murder of it was what attracted me to this thread in the first place,  so mission accomplished I guess.

OP be smoking crack-type substances--last chance to buy under a million?  I don't think so, my friend.  You would be able to buy a house with signature campaign earnings.  That's just wacky.  I suppose it could happen, but I think we'd be weeping for failed economies all over the globe.

But I do agree that it's a decent time to buy.  We're in a good bull market right now.

So how old is this guy who went on that rant?  Sounds like either a pissed-off teenager or a very pissed-off drunken altcoin pumper.  You just have to love the contentious and juvenile nature of the altcoin scene. Doesn't sound like this crap should affect DASH in any way.  It's already in the dumper, having lost something like 45% of its value in the last month.  Yikes.

And yet another way of saying it is that everyone on the planet who would ever want doge can have it eventually.  And another:  it'll eventually inflate itself into complete worthlessness.  But I still have a soft spot in my heart for doge.  Don't know why; it isn't rational.

Lol, buy some DOGE with it.  It's the best thing that could possibly come out of a Mt. Gox settlement.  That name still makes my f-ing skin crawl, kinda like Cryptsy. 

Lol.  I have no strong feelings regarding waves, but I know there was a lot of hype and there are tons of people who believe in it.  So I think if you bought right now and just held onto it for a year (like OP suggests), you could probably make some decent coin.  And by coin, I mean bitcoin, because that's the only one that isn't totally shitty.

Oh my dear god, if I had that amount of money there's no way in hell I'd be trading altcoins.  For one thing, the markets are generally too thin to do any trading with size.  And the other thing, most importantly, volatility is waaaay too high for me.  You can easily lose 90% of your stake within seconds if the coin is shitty enough--and most of them are.

Trading stocks, bonds, pork bellies, and shitcoins is super risky.  Even experienced traders have trouble making a living at it.  Try it OP, get back to us.

I guess campaign managers take that sort of thing into account when accepting or denying people for the sig campaigns.  Selling accounts is just such a shitty practice.  There's nothing good that comes of it.  People either buy an account and try to scam immediately or they join a sig campaign and spam the hell out of the forum.  And OP's account isn't worth all that much I'm sure.

Oh there are plenty of people who do exactly that.  It's why much of this forum is completely shitty.  Luckily the mods are pretty good and nuke shitposters damn quick.  But I want to see the proof here.

I think it's possible, especially if there is one created by the big banks.  On the other hand I think if bitcoin fails, there's not going to be much that's better that's going to come along.  It really is entrenched.  When people think of crypto, they think of bitcoin.