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No one knows for sure, but bitcoin may be the future currency.
- Bitcoin itself as a protocol will evolve. Many people forget the simple fact that it is a protocol first and the money part just happens to be the first app written over it. Think of it like the Netscape browser written for (predominantly) HTTP. It was good at its time, but then other browsers took the mantle and Netscape was dethroned.
- The same analogy could apply to bitcoins (the money). It could be dethroned and for all we know Dogecoin or Litecoin could prevail.
- The Buying process of Bitcoins will have to be made much more simpler than it is at present. All indications point that the process will get more streamlined, so buying bitcoins will be an easy task.
- In most countries (US included), companies that trade Bitcoins onto the local currency would be regulated. More exchange companies will mushroom.
Acceptance.
- Until and unless Buyers keep pressing / asking Merchant to accept Bitcoins, merchants will be oblivious to the demand. If you walk into a store and ask if they accept Bitcoins and they answer No, this is the expected answer. Repeat this scenario with 10 other Buyers asking the same and the Merchant will think differently. They just might start looking at Bitcoin acceptance.
- Much of the developed world where payment systems that enable instantaneous person-to-person payment are not available, would love to adopt Bitcoin. The barriers are the regulators and the almost near vacuum of local Bitcoin exchanges. Look at India - no exchange in India. Same can be said of Pakistan, Bangladesh, GCC, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand (though there are a few players in Thailand who are selling Bitcoins), North Africa, etc. There is a very large population that simply does not have access to buying bitcoins. Since they cannot buy it - they cannot trade with it. This will be changing in the coming months/years.
Volatility will minimize.
- I won't say it will disappear, the public at large is too sensitive to everything the media spews out relating to Bitcoins.
- Arbitrage will almost be negligible.
- You will see the movement pickup speed with a few authoritative anchor users accepting Bitcoins. (See this excellent article by our resident Payments Maestro Brian Roemmele - Starbucks To Accept Bitcoin In 2014. by Brian Roemmele on Accepting Payments).
- As more and more larger corporations start offering Bitcoin as a payment alternative, many companies waiting in the shadows will jump onto the bandwagon. This chain-reaction trigger is very important for Bitcoin to survive. Many are waiting for the trigger.
- Acceptance of Bitcoin as an alt. currency in developing countries would be very important (as opposed to outright banning it). I however, have my reservations on this. The regulators in the developing have a very myopic vision when it comes to alternative currencies. Such obtuse undertaking will kill Bitcoin (in a legal manner) in the developing world.
- The market capitalization indicates in some manner that the currency is now too big to collapse (not that it cannot happen), by a measure of its own self, it will most likely survive.
- Snap Payments with Bitcoins for Websites, Freelancers, etc. would be enabled. This means, very quickly accepting $25 in Bitcoins, which are in turn converted to Euros and available in your pre-paid Debit Card (all by inserting some simple code on your website to accept the payment). Think BitPay or Coinbase on steroids, globally.
- Currency Brokers will be trading and dealing with Bitcoins more regularly.
- Bitcoin exchanges in the West (perhaps US, or UK) will prosper and take over in volume (provided international clients are allowed to hop in and trade).
- Incorporation of Bitcoin payments within Social Media would be the norm. You would definitely see native or plug-in based activity around Bitcoin. Think Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
- Apps not related to money, but related to the open-ledger system of the Bitcoin protocol will start emerging. I'm absolutely lost when it comes to giving such examples, but I am sure, someone out there is thinking of a kick-ass way of using the Bitcoin protocol and building a non-payment app on top of it.
- Currencies based on the Bitcoin protocol or modified protocol, will start seeing a market themselves for specific purposes. It could very well be that Litecoin might dominate the Remittance market, or changing Linden Dollars to Litecoin. Or Mastercoin is used on boards like Warrior Forum or Digital Point (the Affiliate Marketing Ecosystem) or Peercoin is what is most accepted and traded in South Asia or South America. Such patterns and/or segmentation may very well emerge.
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ICOs are in big trouble now, another wave will come next year. Sad a few great projects went under because of the bitcoin fork speculation.
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I am deeply invested in Ethereum, main reason is that additional updates (major ones) are coming to Ethereum network in the near future, allowing for the currency to have much more diverse functions and utilization. Thus, in the long run it will prove to be more valuable.
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IMO, ICOs that last over 1 year are just a new way of doing an ICO and should be only replicated by companies that are agile and can show continuous development updates. However, financing a company purely from ICO money is something that eventually could be disastrous for the business if the business model has not been tested without any money.
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I don't think being on exchanges is the major reason for a coin to be judged as more valuable, the value should come from the network and users, not from Venture Capital whales manipulating the price.
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Lately altcoins have suffered, but i still believe there are some hidden gems. Our project has had a slow start, but the next couple of days some big whales will join and the minimum success threshold would be reached. Look up https://ico.crowdholding.com/ |
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November 20th, 14:00 UTC
Ends on December 31th
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TOKEN SALE TERMS This crowdfunding event starts on November 20th, 14:00 UTC and will end on December 31st 12:00 UTC, unless a hard cap of 44, 000 ETH is reached before that.  Once the pre-sale event has ended, tokens would be immediately transferrable. The tokens are build on the ERC20 standard. Token prices:EDU tokens will be sold on two rounds - pre-sale and token sale. The six weeks pre-sale starts with the price of 1 ETH = 1,350 EDU. It ends when an amount of 2.6 million tokens is reached. The second part of the pre-sale will consist of 2.2 million tokens at the price of 1 ETH = 1,200 EDU. In H1 2018 with the stable alpha version release of OSUni platform, the Second Token sale round starts. 
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The Crowdholding platform connects companies with consumers and investors so that the supplier (the company) can co-create their business with the market demander (consumers and investors)--the individuals who will potentially consume the good or service the business provides. Not only will market demanders be co-creators of businesses, they will be paid by businesses seeking assistance to give their own insights to the company. The process of a business asking for input on a matter, and consumers providing their insights, verifies whether the business is in good standing with consumers and can indicate the success a good or service will experience once it is available to the public.  Check the whole article here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crowdholding-co-creating-companies-to-success |
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Check the whole article here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/crowdholding-co-creating-companies-to-successThe Crowdholding platform connects companies with consumers and investors so that the supplier (the company) can co-create their business with the market demander (consumers and investors)--the individuals who will potentially consume the good or service the business provides. Not only will market demanders be co-creators of businesses, they will be paid by businesses seeking assistance to give their own insights to the company. The process of a business asking for input on a matter, and consumers providing their insights, verifies whether the business is in good standing with consumers and can indicate the success a good or service will experience once it is available to the public. |
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It can become a large currency and then it will get regulated, which turns it into the same currency we have now but digital.
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I would rely on btc to get rich just because of too much speculation. if you buy and save it long-term, you're exposing yourself.
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it's good i bought in 2012...also stands for another number  |
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i believe governments wouldn't allow it
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perhaps not in the near future, but at some point it will bloop |
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区块链本身就适合金融业。个人感觉该技术适合用户较多，个人信息量较小，且容易标准化的产业。比如，各种票，电影票，机票以及火车票都可以用区块链技术管理。这样可以更容易转移和销售，并且不容易丢失。
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