It really is like gambling isn't it? Predict up or down, high or low, you have half the chances to get it right and no consequence for guessing wrong unless you pit your money where you predict.

But with you on this... Eth facing same pitfalls as btc and its resilience is remarkable. To me this makes me more confident. Would bitcoin have survived similar issues in its infancy?

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Am checking out the site as a freelancer. My experience in general: tough market for a writer capable of high-end writing.

1. Competing with very cheap content that passes generic plagiarism/uniqueness. It's the age of quantity SEO over quality.
2. Clients actually prefer cheap content over unique content.

I'll test out this site and see if this holds true for a bitcoin freelancer platform!

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Hey there, I know of a good place where you can buy physical gold with bitcoin - which I only discovered recently. They have several locations including in Europe as I understand but maybe you can check it out for yourself. Verification is quite simple in my experience, they only need a valid ID document. I found no trouble and they're quite quick. PM me, no referral link don't worry=)

I wonder if we have a language issue here as drugs don't necessarily mean only illicit substance drugs... Perhaps OP needs to clarify what was originally meant. I replied earlier but on understanding that he meant pharmaceutical type drugs.

There's one good drug (medicines) company in India that I use to buy prescription meds online. India manufactures a lot of generic drugs for reputable companies and the ones I buy for heart disease are about 3% of cost in some countries. They are even cheaper than most other fancy online stores as they give discounts when you pay in bitcoin.

I personally that's part of the whole problem with the dilution of some of the original ideas of bitcoin. It's understandable if it's about exchanging crypto to fiat since that taint is necessary... but if you really need to verify to merely open a wallet or buy some bitcoin? Look around and use other wallets, friend. Plenty of good ones that don't ever need verification. Then go do some work that pays in bitcoin so you never need to buy with fiat ever.

I think we always need to give people like you a pat on the back. It's difficult enough to convince a friend to open a wallet, much less convince a business person to look into his business using bitcoin. Forget for a moment that even if the company accepts btc, it may only be to eventually exchange it back to fiat.

Just spreading the awareness to clients will encourage adoption.

I've done so a few times but I don't think it really counts as these are just friends I introduce to bitcoin, and I help them open a new wallet and send them a little dust there and then, so they can see it get into the blockchain and get confirmed.

It's a fun experience but I would really like to exchange btc with a stranger in person!

The reason this sounds similar to gambling philosophy is simply because a lot of the "trading" really is gambling, and your brokers are the house. The house edge is the spread. At least crypto-based gambling attempt provably fair transparency. Do you even know for sure your trades are triggered or closed fairly?

You're missing the point I guess. If Paypal ToS already deems bitcoin sales as illegal then any transaction is illegal. Not only is the buyer not protected, you risk funds being frozen.

Paypal is not my favourite at all.

Pretty sure I wrote in this thread but for some reason I couldn't find them but anyway I wrote that I have long quoted alternative payment methods in my invoices, including bitcoin. Never had a sniff except for paypal until on Monday.

A client asked if I could take bitcoin but at 90% of current rate... not sure if I should accept.

Interesting side aspect to what I could already read everywhere... but when you say "hard coded and cannot ever be changed" do you mean theoretically? What is "hard coded" as opposed to... "soft code"?

As I understand, yes, the blockchain in theory cannot be changed but this is not to say it is impossible.

I have tried to read up why, but I assume this is partly because it would require a re-writing for all the nodes and consensus to do so. Am I correct?

If, I am, would a consensus to change block genesis in theory reverse the fact of "cannot ever be changed"?

What happened to the good old days when the traditional banking and finance people were dissing bitcoin because of its anonymity that allows terrorists, jihadists and the mafia to launder their billions?

Forgive the assumption, but haven't all trading bots been identified as scams? Be it forex, futures or cryptocurrency, trading implies active decision-making and reaction from markets to economic and political developments.

I suppose I do see a use for a bot that could be primed to trigger trades right before key events but that's really just manual setting of orders.

All this talk of ICOs and alts primed for pump makes me wonder if 2017 really is going to be the end of worthless pump and dump coins and their blatant ICO schemes. If all the failures especially during the course of the year has not sounded the death knell, then I don't know what will.

Gentleman, start your speculating!

Theoretically it should be possible at least in one scenario, where a certain significant amount of coins is confirmed to have been lost or irrevocably taken out of the market. This would mean more scarcity for the coin and if, there were enough demand, it is not inconceivable for the price to go up as a result of limited supply.

Correct. While paper bitcoin really is easily implemented as a mere physical documentation of the ledger or blockchain asset, a transaction still has not taken place with the handing over of paper bitcoin.

Unless private keys are somehow transferred along with the paper money there is no way to ensure the bitcoin on paper can't also be spent first neither can counterfeiting be prevented or checked without electronic access.

A couple of sites also provide bitcoin payments for shopping done on amazon. in fact with a small discount on dollar value. Not sure how they can make money that way but if more 3rd party services like these crop up aoon we won't need to wait for merchants to accept bitcoin anymore.