I really do not think that anyone is trying to portrait bitcoin in a bad image and wanted to destroy it, if they do the entire market will come down crashing, but the said discovery of photos is not a good news, i have not done any details study or read the said documents to verify their claim, but i do not think these things can put an end to the system.

I wont be using these ATM and i do not think that we need those at the moment, the one thing that would be helpful is having crypto based debit card and it will be more useful than having an ATM, let us forget the charges, why would you use that unless it is difficult for you to purchase online by providing your identity, they must be having limits too, so i would not use it , no matter what at the moment.

Things are really different from what we know from 2013, the market has grown a lot and the talks of regulations is keep the market at bay, anything below $5k is a disaster as i do not want to see the price going below that as it will be really hard for the market to bounce back if the price goes down that much and it will be hard for new investors to invest in it and the miners will be under heavy loss.

Never expect all the speculations will be applicable all the time, last year was a very good year for bitcoin and as already mentioned Japan legalized bitcoin and so is the reason the rally started and there were many factors for the rally including heavy investment from wall street . With regulation talks in the table never expect another rally before we have some clarity about it.

I do not know about a reason to think how bitcoin will be obsolete a few years from now, but by saying that i really do not know what the future looks like, it is a new technology and we will see more changes as years passes and the developers are doing a good job upgrading the software in time and if it continues like this in the future, it will keep on growing.

If you think that paying with debit and credit cards does mean that you are going to be a cashless society then majority of the countries will be like that, as every major shopping centers around the world will accept cards, you need to have the local currency if you are going for local shopping or street shopping where they wont be accepting cards and that is the case around the world too.

I would like to pretend that all the speculations are true and we will see another big rally from bitcoin, but to be realistic it is difficult to see another rally until there is a clarity on what the top governments from around the world are trying to do with the regulation talks of bitcoin and other alt coins, if everything goes well then we might see a big rally again, other than that it is highly unlikely to see this year.

I am not a fan of forking all the time and i never followed all the fork that happened in the past because nothing was that interesting than BCH and i do not think that it will die off like that because it has some followers but the volume might not be as big as bitcoin but it is better than most of the trash coins, Litecoin is an exact copy of bitcoin technicals with a few tweaks like decreased block time and more coins and it became a success.

I wanted to see New Zealand winning this test match after a wonderful bowling performance and i hope the rain wont affect the rest of the match.
Another closely contested match between Australia and South Africa is going on and now Australians are under ball tampering controversy ,things are getting interesting and ABD is still in the crease .

I am not even sure what you are telling here in this thread.

Banks are important in every aspects of finance,even for bitcoin if you are willing to purchase some coins,you need the help of a bank to transfer the money to the exchange an vice versa,the bitcoin era has just began and it will take a really long time to get to the main stream,what ever it may be,the banking sector still moves on just like that in the past.

Lets make things clear there,bitcoin does not need social media for publicity,it has got a lot of publicity by now,the most of the advertisement we see in social media is about alt coins and to attract new users it is the best platform but the problem here is there are also many scammers blending in this mad rush and we need to have some regulations when it comes to these advertisements.

Finally a positive news for the market to move higher from the correction we had last week, i am not sure when the next meeting will be ,but in my opinion we will be seeing regulations down the line,this is a new market and it might need some time to have a rule set ,the main worry is about the scams and how to prevent that in the future,i would like to see how the market will react and how long this green run will continue before another bad news.

First and fore most you have to understand is that you can speculate what ever price you want,the market will move forward in the positive direction when the regulation talks are settled,until then i do not think that we will see another rally that would take the price over all time high,no market will sustain a growth like that we had in bitcoin,the users who are into bitcoin for a long time knew this was going to happen,but never had a clear idea till what price the coin will reach before a correction.

I am not sure how realistic this situation will be,a homeless person using cryptocurrency when he does not have the money to lease a shelter or a job to support his life, on a parody note ,it will be like a wall street investor but homeless  how often do we see these kind of situations,you wanted to think that it is possible that you evolve like that when you invest in cryptocurrency but does not have the basic necessities .

I am not sure how you could come to a conclusion that it was manipulated and so is the reason the price was moving higher to $17K,in my option that  is how the market works ,to be frank i was really surprised to see the rally last year as i never expected this kind of change in the price in a very short period of time and one sad thing is that i had to control my urge to gamble more.

This is not a case just for bitcoin,but every investment out there,including stocks forex etc,if you are planning to hold for the long term the reward would be higher if you have invested in the right stock,if you are having the time to follow the market,then you will get the opportunity to maximize the profit by selling when you feel there is a correction and get back the coins in the dip.

She was defeated clean and she just wanted to make an excuse for her loss,if she is the champion she has to make sure that she is on weight rather than making it hard for her on the final day of weigh ins and blaming the loss for her weight cutting crew,the amount of trash she was speaking before the Rose fight was too much and she fell on her ass.

Anthony Pettis is the greatest disappointment after the introduction of drug testing,he was super invisible fighter before that and now he is just a mere reflection of his past wins but it is a good opportunity for Michael Chiesa to defeat a former champion and improve his rankings.

Is the presidential election over and i am sure he will be winning again,he is a real powerful person in the world and i have not seen any crack head policy from him than the rest of the politicians around the world,i am not sure what his position against cryptocurrency is ,so it is very hard to tell whether it will have an impact right now,if there is any negative news,the price is going to come down,other than that it is fine.

So what you are ultimately trying to tell ,are you shocked on seeing the price of ETH coming down by half in the past weeks or you are telling that you were here from the beginning and so you are holding plenty of coins at a cheap price and you wish to hold for the long term,but i do have a funny thought from your thread here,if you really do not bother about the current market why would you brag about it here,just to inform others you have a big portfolio .

You are talking as if we wont see any correction in the price of bitcoin,the market is volatile for a long time and it will be like that for a long time unless you wont hear any negative news and that is not going to happen to,so if you are good at trading you will make a good amount of money during this market ,entry at around $7k and sell on reaching $12k ,buy back again when there is a correction and repeat.