I see 3 factors: brand, innovation, luck. Good dev team counts too. So it's 4.

If the brand is good the coin will have good community (or suckers, bagholders, ...)
If there's innovation, the coin has a chance to be the 1st in a niche. Copycats don't usually get very succesful.
And there's a luck factor. You need good dev team and few problems.

Bitcoin can be only one. All the rest are altcoins.
The approch Mike had - to leave - was not good neither for Bitcoin, neither for him (imho).

I understand that this involves much more politics than a dev would like, but leaving is usually not the best way to fight for your views.

I'd say stay and make your point of view stong and loudly heard. But whether that will be the direction taken or not, stay.

I agree. Try to learn to love the ride.

Indeed. Banning IPs makes no sense since a lot of ppl use proxies - for real or for bots.
And banning wallets just makes the owners change the wallets more often.
So I am curious what you can actually do excepting the use of good captcha sites.

The ad tells that you give 700 - 70k / dip. I got 100. Not nice.
I will check in a couple of times, though if the withdraw limit is so big, no chance to reach it without attending to a lot of promotions.

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Will this bonus go to my account or to my wallet? I hope for the wallet.

The only better way I can see for this is Lending. But it will eat up quite some of your time. On the other hand, there's even a chance to make a living off that.

As a rule: if there's hardware miner for something, you better not mine with computer.
CPU mining is worthless.
Laptop mining is the best way to burn your laptop fast. The GPU will heat up and break.


Doge is Litecoin-like. Same algorithm (called scrypt). For those there was built hardware miner, making the mining with computer worthless.
Dash has an algorithm called X11. For that you may have a chance if you have a (actually the more the better) very good and very new video card.

You have to be, however, very careful, because there's still a good chance you'll pay more for electricity than you'd pay cash for the coins.
This is a world where you'll have to research a lot and learn a lot. There's no "best option" just like that.
If you indeed want to mine altcoins (not bitcoin) you should ask in the thread of the coin you want to mine.

Also, I want to make sure you understand: you'll earn pennies/day.
Doing some work for bitcoin or buying bitcoin with your money earned.. like any money, can be a much easier way to actually own cryptocurrency.

Afaik they ask such questions only over certain amount of money. And 5BTC is not such a huge amount.
Worst case you do this in 2 dumps, to make sure you stay under 2k$

If the check is 100% automated, the length of the post, the subforum where's the post and maybe even a check if it was quoted is possible (since it means it was useful and triggered a discussion) and could count.

If the check is made (partly or completely) by human, ... "the beauty in the eye of the beholder" - your post may need to be indeed helpful, not repeating, not very short and so on.

I'm not worried. I was just telling that the time span to reach 200k is not infinite and depends on too many factors.
Let's be just moderately optimistic 

The best miner depends on what cryptocoin you want to mine.
So let's start: do you want to buy a hardware miner (ASIC), for Bitcoin-like coins or for Litecoin-like coins, do you want to mine with your GPU or CPU?

The profitability depends on how much you invest in the hardware, on the price you pay for electricity and on market, which fluctuates.

All in all, you have to give more data for better answers.

Technology is not the only thing to take into account when investing in this.
A lot of whales with a lot of money to invest are old and don't trust technology.
Technology can be great but it can also fail. Bitcoin is made and maintained by developers, which are human: a mistake is always possible.
Big names work on quantum computer as we talk. If that comes to reality, the SHA-256 Bitcoin relies on will be cracked easily and Bitcoin will become worthless.

Don't take me wrong, I also wish BTC rise a lot. But let's get more pragmatic on this, mkay?

First of all, Bitcoin is - commercially - a high risk speculative asset. It's price rose to 1200$, fell to 250$ and now it's 400$. So you can't predict if tomorrow your asset will worth the same, double, half or nothing.
So I'd say it's not safe for all your assets. [1]

Then, Bitcoin is not 100% anonymous. Unlike some altcoins, in Bitcoin world people can see the content of the purse and some will be able to link that purse to you. [2]



Now, there are mixers, there are exchanges where you can mix through anonymous coins, you can keep a big number of wallets. You can buy on the street or from ATMs. All this may make point [2] harder, but it will cost you time and money. Still, point [1] is ... up to you if you consider it a problem or not.

It depends on how many people will want to have Bitcoin, how much Bitcoin will they want (and put in cold storage). If the numbers get big, the price has to rise accordingly. The sky can be the limit.

There are voices that even tell that one day the point will be moved 'to the right' to make it look more affordable.

Buy / earn Bitcoin and alts and don't sell. Someday they will be big enough to help me fulfill some of my dreams.
The only flaw in my plan is that I accumulate too slow.

If ever Bitcoin will reach 1 Million $, then I'm set.
But I have to accumulate more and make plans for more realistic prices

Bit-X, Xapo and e-coin cards are just 3 that come into my mind.
Nowadays Bitcoin debit cards start to get into normality, they are not a "wishful future" anymore.

You'll have to compare the fees though.

I received the due payment and the bonus.
Thank you Marco!

They just wanted to get some more buyers with this trick, they never believed in Bitcoin.
Microsoft has a long history of not adopting the most obvious new and promising technology, so I'm not worried.

I've got message that I should receive the money, but the tx id looks wrong and I didn't receive anything.

Poloniex mostly.
But if you have big bucks, don't keep them all in one place.

I have a number of alts and it crossed my mind a good couple of times to sell most of them.

However, XMR, DOGE and HVC I like too much to sell, even if that may make me lose money....