I was thinking that Russia is more interested in Blockchain technology than in crypto-currencies.
Currently Russia is working on legalization of the status of Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies. Russia is in the process of legitimizing crypto-currency, developing legal framework that will regulate transactions using crypto-currency. I just hope they will not follow the Chinese experience about crypto-currency regulation and will not close exchangers and ICO projects.

Planned date of deployment of updates Byzantium for Ethereum postponed for a week.
Hardfork Byzantium - the first part of Metropolis updates for Ethereum - now needs to happen at block 437.000.000 or about 17th October, according to current network metrics. The original expected launch date was 9th October, under the condition that no any complications during testing.
The postponement was made at the suggestion of Vitalik Buterin who said, during the main discussion of developers, that the platform needs to have a margin of safety relative to the previous fork.

Too many greedy people who's the only wish is to become a millionare and that's destroy bitcoin. I invested a little in some altcoins just to see how it's going to behave itself. I don't plan to become rich with bitcoin, I would be happy if I would have such source of work and money for long. Bitcoin had already gave me a lot, I just don't want to this be over with banning of bitcoin or it's pop.

China is a big player on Bitcoin's market definitely, but I don't think Bitcoin will disappear even in the case if such big country will ban Bitcoin at all. Currently they making their steps about Bitcoin's regulation and it's not the end for Bitcoin in China, I believe soon we will see all pluses of such decision.

Decentralization is doubtless the most important and unique side of bitcoin. The most thing I love about bitcoin is that I don't need to pay taxes from this profit, which is actually not so little already. The government and different structures are taking from my salary around 40% monthly! I actually work on the government, meanwhile the services that they give to me are not so good as it could be. But with bitcoin I get everything that I earned and that's just great.

Of course you should. I have noticed the tend that than less bitcoins to stay (for now it's mined over 15 millions of coins) than higher price for it. So when the time will come when all coins are going to be mined the price should be unbelievably high and that's the point of your trading.

The speed of bitcoin's price growing is rising in arifmetic progression  so I think after the period of drop and dark news from China bitcoin will come back firstly at 4000$ and fast at 5000$. I suppose to see 6000-7000$ this year already, cause of the speed of bitcoins spreading over the world and it's price growing is just a phenomenal!

I also think it's around 2-3 mln bitcoin had been lost. Bitcoin is exist for 8 years already and different situations are happening with people, I suppose the bitcoin's loose is happening every day. People forget their pass words, loose paper wallets or just die. The number of lost bitcoin is growing day by day. I'm just wander how can we discover those coins and put them back in use?

That's right. The national crypto-currency should to cost the same as national fiat on the worlds market, so what is going to be the point of it? Online banking and payment already exist, so, by my opinion there is no need for creating of national crypto-currency, it's just not going to be popular.

I think exactly this top news of today has moved bitcoin to rise up to 3800$. I saw this news during the day in many threads. I think it's break for Amazon. I hope another giants of internet shopping such as Aliexpress and eBay will fallow this example, cause of I buy on them, but never on Amazon due to high prices for delivery in my country (Serbia).

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Well, I suppose it is still cause of Ghina and bad news from their side. People are still panic about that and continue to sell their founds. Just look on the net how much threads about Bitcoin's end!? I know it is all the game of speculators, but not everybody know that, so they are selling being under the pressure. I also expected that after huge bitcoin investment of JP Morgan last Friday the price is going to continue to climb to 5000$ point.

10000$ is target for the next year. 2000$ is pretty possible to happen this year after some more fresh news from China about bitcoin and new banning. China is one of the biggest participant on the market of crypto-currencies and all those news that we got from there in recent days just shaked all of us and bitcoins prices.   

Haha never heared anything like that before! For sure it was Maveodi (organizator of the biggest ponzi pyramid in Russia). I'm kidding  I am a supporter of the theory that under name of Satoshi Nakomoto is hiding a group of programmers who created bitcoin.

Free society awakes in me association with Sadom & Hamora, or if the talk is about tax free society - communism or a village of old years where people changed goods that they produced to get products or services they needed. Whatever it would be, I support enthusiasts and I would like to see better from a side how this country is going to work.

China didn't ban bitcoin actually, they banned ICOs (which about new coins and tokens), they banned exchangers, but mining by which China is on the first position in the world, they didn't touch, yet. The Chinese government sum ply trying to regulate bitcoin, it's a big and rich country and we may only guess how much money were washed out through digital currencies. I suppose we don't need to worry about other countries' decidion in this point, cause of now they gonna look on China and their economy after this banning and if it go down, I doubt that countries with weak economy will ban bitcoin as well, they better will follow Australian and Japanese examples, but not Chinese.

Due to inflation you will have aproximately the same amount of money as today, and in the case of different politic situations even less. Investing in bitcoin would not just double your money but increase it in five or even ten times (by prognoses). Honestly I don't have such iron balls to manage something like that with my money  I still regret I didn'tinvested in bitcoin when it costed 1000$$ in the beginning of the year, I had 20000 Euro to buy a house, now I would have 100000$! What a loose!

I think you will not find such people you are looking for here on the forum, cause of they must be so rich already that they don't care about other ways for making bitcoin which are represented here, such as signature campaigns and other jobs, so, they can just follow bitcoin news, which are easy to be found on the internet on every possible language.

WAVES coin is really on talk whole the year, so much expectations! Even I have bought some coins, I hope to get at least x10 from this investment, but the price is raising too slow
In my list of top perspective coins are Litecoin, Etherum, Monero, ZCash and Bitcoin Cash. I invested in any of it by little from my big win on gambling and I hope this money will not just disappear.