it cant just be a scam after 7 years. only way bitcoin will disappear is if people stop using it. and thats not going to happen instantly. we would see the price drive all the way down to 0 before it dies. plenty of time to cash out.

i dont think it made it worse. Halfing strengthened the price imo. Before halfing, the bitfinex hack would have probably decimated the btc price. but we're still strong at ~$590.

ok lets say we have a small market of 10 people. lets assume its balanced so theres 5 people selling btc and theres 5people buying btc. but if the 5 people start selling more than what the 5 can buy, theres a surplus of bitcoins. so what do the 5 people do? they lower their prices so their bitcoins get bought first. and the market will keep forcing a low price, untill there are more buy offers than sell offers. at that point people will put up buy offers for  higher price so they get the first buy.

people are about to withdraw their coins from bitfinex (or atleast whats left of their coins) and are planning on cashing out of bitcoin. also the fact that the hacker may not have sold the bitcoins and is planning on selling soon can cause price drops.

I like the idea of finding another thing to keep you busy instead of gambling, but I dont think trading with bitcoins would help. I suggest doing something other than bitcoin that keeps your mind off of the btc aspect. because in trading youll always be infront of btc and be wondering " Would'nt I make way more btc if i just played a game of blackjack?".

think about it, if there was a loophole to somehow always win at casinos. then the casino wouldnt be making much money. and after they notice that they arent making enough money they would find the loophole.

make a paper wallet and throw all your bitcoins into it. and make sure u cant access it by giving it to a family member to hold or something. and to cope with no bitcoins, just pretend you lost them all in gambling and now you dont have anything.

Honestly can't wait for the mobile version to come out. Also being on firefox the main betcoin page still doesnt load for me, but the secondary pages do just like chrome.

I really like poker from betcoin. mainly because it involves skill with a little bit of blind luck. im not in favor of games that are 100% blind luck. I also enjoy playing blackjack but I would much rather play poker.

its because once someone wins really big at a gamble, they start to think that they're always going to end up winning big. That rush you get when you win big gets you addicted to gambling. thats why i never win 

i get that also if i try to access https://www.betcoin.ag. but https://www.betcoin.ag/poker seems to work for me, so give that a try  

well today i read about this new exchange liqui.io that uses the trading fees to pay users interest rate if they keep money on the exchange. i suggest u keep a low amount though to be safe.

what doesnt make sense to me is why he would be going through all this trouble to scam a fraction of 1 btc if he has already proved he owns 1000+btc. usually i say things like if its too good to be true then it probably is. But this case has me stumped.

I would love to get an address 

Prefix: 1Teemus
Public Key: 044ECBE934680AD5FD1FA0362D06C852ACA00C7AAA9965A1271E1A928F48D33F7CEA7685BE603B3 5EFD2A65B4BCA72A1FBE8F02937BF7B953F660CF86060A5857C

really appreciate it

its probably all the people going on the site to sell their coins lol. i was trying to do the same but site is offline.

You can buy pretty much anything with bitcoin these days. me personally, i like to save up my bitcoins. i dont really spend much of my coins, 90% of my coins are in a paper wallet.

it depends on what you want to invest in lol. bitcoin to me is more of like a relatively short term investment whereas gold is a long term investment.
the gold prices stay extremely stable compared to bitcoin. so if you are not a risk taker you would choose gold.
me personally would choose bitcoin because the price just crashed a bit over the last couple of days and i expect it to go back up.

i think of ethereum as like free advertising for cryptocurrencies. If it brings people to try out cryptocurrencies like eth and etc,maybe they will also give bitcoin a shot. I dont see it as a threat.

Dang, 50% doesnt seem high to you?. half of your assets tied up in a currency as volatile as bitcoin is pretty risky. personally i only keep around 15% in btc.

in some ways yes it is better than banks. but what banks give you is a specific worth of your assets like for example say you have exactly $1000 usd in your bank account, but with bitcoin that net worth changes alot depending on the exchange rate.