It's a great thing to be a member of this forum, I almost invested $250 worth of zcash just last week on genesis, but decided to put it on hold, thankfully I found this thread. Never doubted that site before seeing this.

If a government says bitcoin is illegal then there is definitely a secret agenda behind it, the most obvious reason will be, is that they are just afraid to lose control of the money system in their country, and it can result to losing control of its own people.

I think keeping bitcoin alone is already an investment, you don't have to do anything, just keep on saving it and it will make the money on its own until the time when you think the price is right for you to sell it and make the profit.

I agree, because the best teacher will always be experience. You won't know the value of something until you lose it thus teaching you how to avoid it next time.

I would go with bitcoin on this one, simply because it is hard to transfer, carry or safekeep an actual goldbar unlike a digital currency like bitcoin although the probability of it being hacked is always there but if you make the necessary precaution to avoid it then it would be just fine.

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I always wanted to stop gambling but the urge and greed in me always prevails, but I did quit before when online gambling was not yet a thing because I was fed up on going to casinos and other gambling places and of course the biggest reason was losing a ton of money so I stopped for awhile then I got back at it again when I found out how I can gamble online which is unfortunate, but at least I do try to limit myself now and just gamble very small amounts of money using mostly bitcoin just to satisfy my urge and I'm pretty ok with that.

The most probable thing I can see for governments to keep hold of bitcoin being used  is to diminish its usefulness, meaning governments will try to sanction companies that conduct transactions using bitcoin thus indirectly affecting the whole bitcoin ecosystem because if people can no longer use it the way they use fiat then the demand will surely suffer.

I'm just pointing out that in trading you can still lose money, but I didn't say it's 100% the same that's why I also said the advantages of trading against gambling.

Just tell him the history behind it and how it doesn't differ on other fiat currencies, either it is used legally or illegally plus tell him the benefits of using it like the convenience and lower transaction fees compared to other payment methods as well as tell him it's a good investment.

It would still be popular mainly because of the anonymity and fast transactions it gives to the users, and relative to other payment methods like paypal, credit cards etc., it has way lower fees than those.

Not long ago maybe a month, I had 2 transactions that were confirmed after more than 24 hrs, it was when most of the low transaction fees were being bypassed or something and the gambling site I was trying to withdraw from paid a very small txn fees, so it got stuck for a long time.

I have been scammed for quite a lot of times when I was still a newbie in bitcoin because of my enthusiasm about it and wanted to double my bitcoin as fast as possible, I ended up joining a lot of HYIP in short amount of time and then they all disappeared in an instance, then I tried to join lending sites like btcjam but it ended up the same cause almost all of the borrowers I funded defaulted their loans. But at least now I have the experience to see what is a scam and what is not.

Most central banks are independent of the country's government, the chairman and board of directors  are usually consist of bankers who came from the private sector like Goldman Sachs, Citi group etc.

Trading is like gambling, you win some, you lose some but at least when trading you have a slight advantage than in gambling, meaning you have news and articles to look and read in order to make the right decisions on whether a price is going up or down, so if you're just persistent on doing that, you have the higher probability of earning in the long run on trading.

Oh thanks for that sir, I kinda think it was still ok to edit it since it's not yet denied or confirmed, anyways I'll keep it noted. Thanks for the advise, have a nice day sir.

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I still think it's very hard to ban bitcoin or any crypto currency in general but governments can still try to diminish its usage though thus affecting its usefulness for the people.

As scammers are proliferating everywhere it is really hard to give trust to anyone to handle your money and it's more harder here to create a group like that but I think there are legit hedge fund companies online but I don't think they offer bitcoin deposits because of anonymity.