Unfortunately, this talks prove that we are ready to see different perspectives and tackle about what need to be done as a community. What is quite unhealthy in such discussions of ideas is that people tend to go personal about it, not even thinking of what's good and will benefit all. On the XT-Core debate, I see some people close-mindedly defend their ideas without opening up on some solutions which are plausible too. That's where the drama begins: close-minded people not accepting any other ideas to be freely discussed upon.

Meh. Tried using Chromium, Mozilla, Opera, and Google Chrome but still the problem persists. Maybe it has something to do with my connection's communication with bitcointalk's server. Tried also flushing my DNS cache and still the problem is there. If it can be fixed, great, but if not, I have no choice but to browse with some delays and other issues.

Agreed. If there would be no sufficient demand to trigger a price increase, then there would be no price increase at all.

Also, 250 is quite doable, though we are sitting at around $238-$240 price range for days now, and it's quite nice to be staying just here.

Weird, most online services I know often list the mode of payment in which their customers could avail. Maybe their team haven't updated the FAQ and the site yet. It sucks to send them a message and ask whether they'll be using another service to accommodate bitcoin transactions in their system.

Centralization of mining could be a threat in bitcoin as a whole (51% attack and such).


Even if miners keep track of what's the latest technology in mining is, if a large entity controls 51% of the network hashrate, those technology would be useless.


Nope, price alone is subjective. What threatens bitcoin much is regulation, laws and people not using bitcoin as it should be.

Agreed, but recently, the advancement on creating faster and efficient chip had declined and the expected advancement of microprocessors every 2 years have turned into 2 1/2 years, as stated by Intel. (see Moore's Law), so creating faster chips with efficient power is somehow slowed.

It appears that this bold text is looming and is drawing near. If in case this happened, time to find something to store value on! Bitcoin is a good candidate, same with precious metals, but the latter seems to be hard to use as a currency, given its finite and very limited supply.

Not all of it. Even bothered to look at this?

Honestly, there is some money to be made in cloud mining platforms, especially those with integrated exchanges that lets you sell your shares and buy from other users. I made some pretty good bitcoins on cex.io back on its heyday, and I never actually relied on the bits passively flowing on my account but rather buying and selling GH/s in great prices.

Isn't it listed on their FAQ or any blog posts? If they announce a new method of payment, it would be nice to know whether they will be accepting bitcoins as is or they would be using other intermediary service platforms to accept it.

These are also some of the concerns of merchants as to whether they should accept bitcoin as a form of payment or not. But this year, bitcoin seemed to be more stable compared to 2014. That's great news for us.


Same with bitcoin, most people here bought or works for bitcoin and hodl in hopes of price increase.

4 weeks, by mining and gambling with dogecoins. I traded those dogecoins when it was worth 134 satoshis/dogecoin (that was the time for the Jamaican bobsled team, I guess). After I sold my dogecoin holdings, I quit on mining with my laptop and just used it to run a bitcoin node. And as of now, with my current signature campaign, I can actually earn a whole bitcoin in just under 3 weeks, if I become active enough and just spend my whole day in this forum.

There are some things you can do that can give you passive earnings with bitcoin:

1. Create your own faucet.
2. Invest your money in a bankroll on gambling sites.
3. Invest in a legitimate a cloud mining service that offers its users to trade their shares. Use your shares and trade it once it appreciates in value.
4. Buy and hold bitcoins.

Most multi-signature wallet addresses only require two out of three private keys in order to spend the balance in it.


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What kind of sorcery did you use to state such a prediction in 5 years? Are you the modern-day Nostradamus?

Not a pessimist, but realistically it is difficult to even achieve or cross $300 at this point in time. Too much drama that have happened a few weeks back; the market sentiment is negative. I'm rather happy on a slow and gradual rise than a massive spike in price.

We were quite lucky to achieve $300 this year, but I doubt that we can surpass that range. Anyhow, the trend seems to go up from here, albeit a rather slow rise.

100k usd?

There are only two reasons I could think of that could make this thing possible: hyperinflation of USD or a super pump on bitcoin's prices. It can be achieved naturally, only if people would give attention to bitcoin and pour money to it. Also, if more and more businesses establish their service around bitcoin, that would also boost the price upwards.

Additional to what I've already mentioned, I'm currently studying the algorithm in which bitcoin is based on. Also, Merkle trees and ECC is a difficult thing to understand, especially if you don't have a basic knowledge on cryptography. But these things shouldn't be a concern to the average user--most of these terms involve users with a developer skill or has the knowledge to understand such things.

Basically this one. Most of the time, I'm being brought to a half-loaded page.

EDIT: It's not even half.

I also experienced the same thing back then--pages take too long to load so I should reload the page to load it smoothly. In some cases, I will load a page with either a half-loaded page or, or a basic HTML webpage without the CSS elements. It's kinda annoying, though, but as long as it is still accessible, I'd be glad to visit this site more often. Also, may I know where the new server is located? Oh and by the way, is there a .onion website for bitcointalk?

Just wondering, what if the boobs are photoshopped in some way? I mean, in the current times, most photos can be smoothly photoshopped if you know what you're doing. What if OP change the service to real-time signing of boobs in front of the camera? That would be nice.