That sounds quite ambiguous! You have not been able to convince anyone to adopt Bitcoin or you think people are generally uninterested in Bitcoin? What is fact, is that Bitcoin is breaking more borders today than it did yesterday, because many more people are now beginning to see the comparative advantage of Bitcoin relative to the ever devaluing fiat currencies. At that, unending adoption across the globe is a sure thing because people have already had it up to their neck with the government money.

I agree with everything you stated above except that of Bitcoin being a political statement! As a matter of fact, Bitcoin has absolutely nothing to do with politics except in the area of reactions and expectations from proponents of Bitcoin in an election. Majority of politicians are likely not going to say much good about Bitcoin, because it simply works against their manipulative tendencies, which unfortunately is their ace with fiat currencies.

Speaking in terms of safety, there is no guarantee yet that the price of Bitcoin would remain on the increase. As with every other financial asset out there, price do reverse from time to time and with the speculative nature of Bitcoin, one cannot not say for sure how far price can go the other way, before reversing.

What is safe is always to diversify your investment and keep tabs with fundamentals in the ecosystem, 3 - 5 years of HODL is no guarantee still, because price could drop in the 5th year after advancing in the previous years!

With the possibility of being own bank and room for micro payments, Bitcoin presents a very conducive environment to easily generate and top funds to any savings, one is committed to, be it for the kids or future projects, thus providing  some formidable launching pad. One can't help but struggle with bank charges, interest rates, inflation and of course stacks of money every time, to be able to do same with other investment vehicles.

If a kid ends that way, it is simply their parents failure because they, the parents are the kids first role models and mentors.
You being the one that brought them into the world owe them the responsibility of laying  good and solid foundations, from which they would anchor and build in the future. Just do your bit satisfactorily and have faith in them, some may not make it, but certainly not as bad without any good foundation.

Unfortunately there is no child without parents, even those at the charity homes, so to reduce number of kids in charity homes, parents should be more responsible and not to go chasing money all day, all night!

We know the projection for Bitcoin is very mouth watering and all actually wish it to go to the moon, but what is your basis for asserting, it would reach $5000 within a month time and never below $2590? What could you be seeing that others are not seeing or it is mere speculation following the trend of Bitcoin in recent times?

That is from the form of payment perspective, but how about its attribute as a store of value? Bitcoin as at today is fast closing in on $3000, which is quite impressive and can be some palliative to cushion the trouble of having to pay high transaction fees. So Bitcoin cannot be said to be useless as many more people are being made rich these days by reason of Bitcoin unprecedented performance.

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Indeed banks are stealth in nature and they so easily add all manners of fees and many of them remain hidden until you make time to scrutinize your bank statement. They are only ready to favor established businesses, startups are usually shown piles of papers and conditions that spells tall order.

By size of buy orders, I suppose you are referring to the exchange's daily volume of trade. It has got to be significant to be able to attract abd accommodate more transactions, which ultimately provides the necessary liquidity for seamless buyiing and selling.. In the absence of some significant liquidity, taking a trading position might culminate to a loss

Well said! To those who are yet to really catch on, Bitcoin is a revolution, a game changer and leveler. Africa has had a sordid past, yes! No thanks to past leaders/rulers and colonial masters that till date aid them in looting and milking their countries dry. That is the past! The present is that we now have Bitcoin and cryptocurrency world, God bless Satoshi Nakamoto!

With Bitcoin and most cryptocurrencies, the governments are no longer center staged and no one of them can stop it, though they may want to try. This is a veritable turning point in life, especially those left behind. No doubt many might think otherwise just like the days until Ferdinand Magellan confounded flat world believers by circumnavigating the earth. It is never a hopeless situation unless one is looking with other people's eyes.

Some talks here about some countries being too poor and all that is simply diversionary as any problem identified and given the right attention soon get solved. If we get the poorest man from Zimbabwe for instance, who might well be just a victim of circumstance, educate and empower him on Bitcoin for instance - what it is, how to earn it and all that, the rest of his life would seize to have much to do with the worthlessness of his local currency but instead become hinged on the U.S. Dollar or Euro. I personally do not know the exact conversion rate of BTC/NGN, but I can tell what BTC/USD, EUR/USD, GBP/USD , etc are by the minute.
 
That brings us to what should be done - my take is, first step education and empowerment, outright profit making ventures, should come much later. I am fine tuning my very own strategy, starting with my country, but for Greater Africa, I would be in for a synergy.

For price to drop that low that now millionaires would become poor would take a lot of massive sell-off and it is a wonder what would prompt such a sell-off. The event of 2013 is not as easy to replicate in 2017, because the capitalization and stake holders of Bitcoin have greatly increased making the market not as easy to influence by anyone or few persons.

One thing worthy of note is the fact that the millionaires being celebrated today, back then took the risk of holding those coins, which has paid off these days. Many more millionaires are sure going to be made, while some people even bitcoiners would remain stuck in struggling to get by, because fear will never let them see risk as a prelude to success.

I think the whole idea of op is not to tie down some Bitcoin for 10 or more years. But rather a move to take advantage of the impressive price surge in the price of Bitcoin as some fund left in some Bitcoin wallet for a year or two can double or even triple and can then be withdrawn  and transferred to mutual funds for instance.

In the spirit of HODL, won't hurt to deposit some into your Poloniex lending account and keep collecting some interest while the moon expedition is on. One good thing is that you can end and pull out your funds without much ado when you want to and worse situation here is if Poloniex goes the way of other exchanges like Mt.Gox, Cryptsy etc, other than that, it is a win-win situation, especially if one is not too greedy.

Bitcoin is actually a revolution from the debt ridden monetary system, a game changer for the teeming unbanked and left behind population, a leveler and equal opportunity provider. Many here could attest that until Bitcoin showed up, remittance of earning online was a tall order and often times eaten up by outrageous fees and hostile conditions.

I am also mindful of what fees I end up paying for the transactions I make and it depends on how quick I may want them confirmed, Sometimes I go with the fastest, some other times I settle for the lowest fees, but never encountered delay beyond couple of hours.

For a long while I have not been using my blockchain wallet, because on one day I calculated what fees I had had to pay all the while I used them, I was astound by the figure that stared at me, Xapo then became my main wallet.

Actually what price you end up buying Bitcoin matters, because you never can tell how far it may reverse or for how long it may remain below before it retests or surpass your buying price. The rule of the thump is always to buy low and sell high and buying at just any price would never allow that to be accomplished.

It actually becomes easier and a walkover when you are equipped with the right knowledge and skills, because knowledge dymystifies mysteries, but until then a lot of things are not all said and done. Essentially the first thing first, get some good grounding in whatever you set out to do and every other thing would starts to fall into place. Finally, be reminded that quitter never win.

No you drifted there! Almost all the governments would prefer their local currency, because if affords them the room to call the shots. Bitcoin however is such a sensation that cannot be ignored or waved away, so helplessly the governments are embracing it with gloves. If anything, the governments are much more interested in blockchain technology, so they could come up with some coins they could readily manipulate as usual.

Truth is, you can always easily take a horse to the stream, but getting it to drink is a matter for another day! Openly declared hatred is not same thing as ignorance, the former is rather a decision reached after some supposed good enough knowledge of a matter, so education isn't really their problem. Incidentally, we gave a number of them even here, they dont like Bitcoin and yet they are promoting Bitcoin based campaigns - who is fooling who?