The zerohedge comment section is filled by idiots and old people that still have not understood that if you are not holding any bitcoins in 2016 you are a total and complete moron. They will stick to only metals and they will realize this is a mistake once governments start confiscating metals if you try to move away from your country.

Yeah I didn't mean to bash Kim Dotcom, he gets a lot of hate but I think when it's all said and done he is capable of delivering a good product. He is capable of getting a lot of traffic which is something key, and he is smart enough to hire the right people.

I hope segwit gets activated eventually. Only morons are actively blocking it.

It was clear that he would get unbanned, it is nonsense that he got banned because he posted gavins gmail address which everyone knows what email is and everything he posted is public, but from now on I would always avoid posting any emails since the rules are nonsense, we can't afford people gmax getting banned because we need people that know how bitcoin works to continue posting on public forums.

As far as I remember Kim Dotcom claimed to have a product that would solve a lot of existing problems with bitcoin, and he would deliver a package that included a new megaupload 2.0 that would help bitcoin become mainstream. He claimed give a press release at around december so here we are and I still have not seen anything. Anyone knows what's up with this?

By 2100 Bitcoin will have surpassed gold and all other currencies on the planet, because you cannot compete with the king cryptocurrency in the era of digital technology. With Bitcoin we have an improved, digital gold, and with lighting network we can totally get rid of the annoying scam that the banking system is. We will have massive transaction volume for cheap transactions. This train can not be stopped.

I think she is going to lose it, unless she gets a lucky KO, Nunez is too robust, strong, and an excellent standup fighter, I think Ronda is getting KO'd and she is going to retire that night just like Miesha Tate did after her last 2 KO's. She is never to get over not having that perfect 0 defeats record.

There is people that make a good living by gambling in sort bets. It's not the same as full on gambling, you can really study hard teams and their statistics and try to decide what to do. In the roulette or slots or dice, you cannot research anything contextual beyond pure raw statistics of the amount of times you play.

The only and only way you can achieve such a feat is by the means of bitcoin. All otehr technology will never be able to bank the 4 billion unbnaked people that exist all over the world. Therefore, if he really wants to see this happen, he should start investing in bitcoin and guaranteeing that core + segwit + lighting network roadmap happens.

I think people was expecting different results from austria and italy political elections and this may have caused a dip but who knows. I think we will see further uprise but it will be slow and when it starts accelerating we may go through those dips, but we can't never know, we may see a mega 800 to 3000 pump for all I know.

It will never change unless people are forced to use bitcoin, so we have to wait for situations like india to happen in the developed world. If that never happens, then bitcoin will remain as a better gold as long as developed world usage goes, because people simply dont need it when they have fiat and they can do the same thing without having to go through annoying exchanges.

The idea of increasing the total supply of Bitcoin is a suicidal one. Only people that want to damage bitcoin will support such an outlandish idea. It makes no sense in its very core because bitcoin was designed to be an imitation of gold which is limited. If the supply increases everyone holding loses purchasing power so its pretty stupid and has no positives.

All gambling is a form of investing and all investing is a form of gambling. You are just taking a bet into something going your way in both scenarios. The difference is that in gambling you don't have much control and with investing stocks and so on you have some sort of expectancy in what can happen even tho both require big ass luck.

The entertainment in gambling is the adrenaline high that you get when you make high bets, but since making high bets is only reserved for rich people, it is better to make small doses of adrenaline in smaller gambles and spread across time, so you still keep it fun as compared to playing in demo mode which is pretty stupid unless the game itself can be fun like poker.

This works until it doesn't. A lot of people may think like you, "these suckers don't know once the software upgrades actually take place people will sell". Well it may turn out a lot of people think alike and it actually pumps harder after the software gets updated and you end up missing on further gains. The fact is, predicting dips is hard, but the real hard part is predicting when to buy back and when to sell at what you may consider a peak.

You still not addressed my point here:


which is a very solid premise in as to why it is irrelevant if Bitcoin is or isn't work of the NSA, since the NSA created Tor, and now the NSA is on record privately hating Tor because they cannot control it and we know it thanks to the Snowden leaks, therefore, Bitcoin could end up the same way if the conspiracy of Satoshi = NSA or affiliates, would be real, which I very doubt so. I still think it was a group of Cryptographers, one of them being Adam Back which is credited in the whitepaper

How is it not important even if you have to download it once one? It has to fit on your hard disk, so use your brain. 8MB blocks would mean the average computer user which has a 1TB hdd, wouldn't be able to run a node and since 8MB would get quickly filled again, people would demand more because you make them used to low onchain fees which is a mistake. The result is we end up with datacenters running nodes and no people runs nodes anymore, in other words we are fucked, stuck with a bitcoin run by corporations instead of people on their personal computers as it should be to be able to survive government control. The Blockstream conspiracy shit is so 2015, time to think for once.

The war on cash is on full force. If anyone has kids here, your kids if they are small they will never see physical cash. In 18 years the war on cash will be complete and they will never see cash ever again. The only way out from that mess is bitcoin, too bad all those indians are clueless about bitcoin and are trapped in the government mess, not even gold can save them.

Bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency to survive for more than 7 years in a row, no other crypto will ever have this title on its belt because the only way to achieve that feat is to make a time machine and go back in time and invent it before bitcoin was invented which is impossible, therefore bitcoin will always be the most trusted, the most solid crypto in the planet.

Overall good calls.. for me the uptrend is clear. We have been on the way up since january 2015, where me and some others called an unique opportunity to get in at such low prices (BTC traded as low as 150ish during that crash). Of course and always ruling out potential "hacks" (which btw, over time seem to be less damaging to bitcoin because it absorbs the impact better), the uptrend is still there and there are positive stuff to look forward with the up and coming software upgrades. The problem of mining persists, but I am also positive about us seeing the situation improve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-fUosBOu58

Therefore and given that there's no real competition right now, bitcoin remains the king of crypto and every time someone thinks about putting their wealth into some sort of void outside of the standard options, they will think about bitcoin. As banning carrying gold around becomes the norm and more people get aware on bitcoin, we will see an huge surge in marketcap.

Im also all about getting rich through altcoins during BTC corrections.. problem is, I see less and less "serious altcoins" popping. It seems to me like everything has been tried before, and it has always failed to get any traction. Do you see any ICO worth investing at? Most ICOs end up at lower prices than they sell for. Once it hits the market, instadumps always happen, then it's when you should actually consider buying, in hopes for a post-ICO pump that may or not happen, so it's a total gamble. Even "really serious" coins like ETH can end up in an endless mess and never get anywhere after they peak.

I feel like getting rich with an altcoin requires very precise movements and situations... like the ETH/ETC mess was a good one. Or when new concepts are introduced like back in the day with NXT (I think it was the first POS) or Blackcoin (afaik it was the birth of "hybrid mining" and people got hyped) + all that marketing they invested at, or when there's a big project like MAID that has not gotten any press, then it goes viral, explodes in price, and unfortunately keeps stagnating for ages again.. there's always a big risk of buying something that all it does is stagnate unless you sell it at a moderate price increase (if you get too greedy, you will miss the pump). It sucks since you get way less profits, but it's worse to end up with a bag of useless coins.

Then there's Litecoin and the "silver" psychological factor (which for me is it has the "original altcoin" aura about it too)... you may think right now by looking at the all time graph, it has bottomed and it's a good bet to buy a decent amount for a long term strategy of waiting for a BTC disturbance and hoping for another LTC pump, but you may see it stagnate in slow motion for many more months... and who knows. We have not seen it yet, but we may start seeing "famous" coins getting delisted if they stagnate coupled with no software updates.

I just don't see anything that makes me want to move a single BTC from my wallet. All horses have been already beaten. The smart contracts one, the "anonymous coins" one with the XMR viral news and the ZEC mess, MAID as far as I know still fails to deliver what they promised, then you have ETH with the constant hard forks, the STEEM thing which got pumped by famous crypto people and we all know what happened.. I see no good investment opportunities, not even for pump and dumping with a reason other than pure luck (for example 1Credit whatever that is, just got pumped the fuck out out of nowhere)

I voted yes, not that I know it will happen, I want it to happen, and the chances of happening and not happening are exactly the same... so I might as well vote what I want to happen.


Bitcoin can go up and down 50 dollars in no time, so it's perfectly possible that for whatever reason a pump happens on that day. Sooner or later it will happen, so why not that day?