The problem is that we are not supposed to repeat the referendum every two weeks. The people had a chance to vote on the EU membership of the United Kingdom, and the overwhelming majority voted to leave. If they want, they can have another referendum after 5 years or 10 years. But definitely not another one in the next 1-2 years.

Check the charts. The prices are close to $13,500 per coin, after rising by more than 30% during the last two hours. Now tell me one thing. If the prices can rise by 30% in just two hours, can you really rule out them rising by another 50% next week? Right now predicting the future Bitcoin price is just impossible. Can go down by 50%, or it can go up by 50%.

Yeah... I have noticed the same and I am glued to Bitcoinwisdom site for the last 2 hours. In Coinbase, the prices went up from $10,401 per coin to $13,381 in less than 120 minutes. It is insane. Surely some whales are manipulating the prices. But don't ask me whether the prices are going to stabilize at this levels or not. Honestly, I don't know.

How can we even consider Bitcoin as a form of currency? In my opinion, it is just an investment asset which cannot be used as a currency due to its extremely high transaction fee and huge delays in getting confirmations. Right now, the minimum fee required for instant confirmation has risen to 970 Satoshis / Byte (according to Bitcoinfees.earn.com), which means that you may pay up to $130 as fee for a single transaction.

Look at the volumes. Those who had purchased their coins at less than 10K per coin have sold their coins and vacated the scene. Now those who remains are long term investors and loyal early adopters. And the prices have climbed by around 25% during the last 1-2 hours, which indicates a small recovery in the exchange rates. So I am optimistic.

Spot on. If you check the history of Islam, it is clear. There is not a single region in the world, where Islam was spread through peaceful means. Everywhere it was spread through the use of genocides and warfare. And almost comically, they call it the religion of peace. The modus operandi is continuing even now, across the globe.

International sanction can be a major reason, but it is widely ignored by everyone. It's effect was very visible in Iraq, where children were starving from the lack of milk and food after the UN imposed sanctions during the 1990s (after the Iraqis invaded Kuwait). Before the sanctions, Iraq was one of the richest nations in the middle east region.

If there is a military confrontation between North Korea and the United States, then in all probability Russia and China are going to remain at least nominally neutral. They will never send their soldiers to die as cannon fodder in Korea. However, we can expect North Koreans receiving military trainers and equipment from these nations.

The next major spike may occur after 6-7 months, when NASDAQ will list the Bitcoin futures. Until then, the prices are either going to remain at $15K-16K levels, or going to slide further. I would advice you to wait for a few more days, so that the trend is clear. As long as the scaling issue persists, the price is not going to climb upwards.

The definition of this "provocative act" can be quite tricky. For example, in stone age nations such as Afghanistan, if a few strands of the hair is visible outside the burqa, then it is considered as a "provocation". The same will be claimed, if the women are "exposing" their arms or ankles. Even the female voice may be considered as provocative.

Nice to have people like you here in the forum. 

Do you know that during the past, the maximum change in temperature was like 0.0001 degrees Celsius per year? Right now the temperature change is happening at 200 or 300 times faster than that rate. And still you have the balls to claim that there is no human induced climate change? Still you believe that global warming is a myth?

Are you talking about the Scarborough Shoal? I would say that it lies within the marine boundaries of Philippines. The Chinese must admit this and claiming Filipino territories as their own. How long they are going to bully their neighbors? They tried to do the same to the USSR in 1969. And in return the Soviets wrecked their rectum.

Agreed. Buddhism was evolved as an answer to the constant warfare during the 500-1000 BC in India. Buddhists believe in Ahimsa (non-violence), although I am not sure how practical is that. But I would like to point out one thing. Meditation was invented by the Hindus, before being incorporated in to the Buddhist practices by the monks.

You need to analyze why the businesses are not being set up in your country. The same situation prevails here, in India. Here the red tape, bureaucracy, and corruption are the main reasons why the businessmen are afraid to set up their ventures. So they migrate to safer destinations such as the middle east and invest their money on projects there.

WTF?

For your kind information, Buddhism has nothing to do with Islam. For heaven's sake, Buddhism is at least 1,000 years older than Islam (Islam was invented sometime around 700 AD, while Buddhism was invented in 600 BC). And historical evidence suggests that Buddhism is an off-shoot of Hinduism (the oldest religion in the world). Lord Buddha himself was born as a Hindu.

It is not necessary, but those who feel weak and need faith can believe in the existence of god. But if you are strong-minded, then you will do much better without the harmful influence of religion. After all, a lot of the religious clergy tend to be perverts (at least here in India). I have heard reports about bishops molesting choirboys and imams molesting madrassa students.

It is not a saying, but a very famous quote made by Bill Gates. And he was spot on. Even the poor people have thousands of options to get out of poverty. If they work hard, then nothing in the world can stop them from becoming successful with their life. And we have dozens of examples around us. A few are Howard Schultz (Starbucks), Oprah Winfrey and Francois Pinault.

Being a women, I have to say that women and men are not equal. There are a lot of differences. For example, the men are good in sports such as athletics, football, boxing, wrestling.etc and in coding, programming, politics.etc. On the other hand, the women are good in certain skills such as medicine, cooking, fashion design, and literature.

Eating dog meat is not animal cruelty, as long as the animal is not tortured before its death. Even in India, there are certain ethnic groups in Central India and North-east who regularly consume dog meat. We tolerate them, because they have been doing that for many thousands of years and now eating dog meat has become a part of the tradition.

Electric cars are very expensive right now and the components needed for the battery (such as Lithium and Cobalt) are in very short supply. So it may be better to give priority to bio-fuels rather than investing money and effort in to electric-run vehicles. Personally, I would prefer nuclear-powered vehicles, but I don't think that anyone else here will support that proposal.