I looked on the web site and checked the news but there's not much news about it.

Anyone know what's happening?

Thanks

I can see quite a few announcements and yet the price has not been going positive this last few months.

To those who think the price will rise, are you expecting something to happen in the near future and if so what do you think will move the price up?

I have only been following bitcoin for a few months.  But I would love to think that the price will increase in the next 3-6 months in anticipation of the halving and as a result of an increased awareness of the coin in less developed countries and in some other countries like China. I'd be happy with $300 by Christmas but at this time I don't think anyone really knows what will happen.

A long time ago I bought a house in Canada.  During the previous 12 month the average price was stable and had barely move a dollar. The sales agent told me tomorrow the price will go up $2000.

Hard for me to believe but anyway I signed the papers and bought the house.  One of the things that pushed me to make the purchase was that my girlfriend was at the time crying after I initially told her I don't believe the price will go up and let's wait another week.

 That week I saw in the papers some mention that the house prices had moved up.  People read the papers and started to buy.  In the weeks that followed there were more and more and more reports about price going up and guess what happened ... prices went up.

A year later the same house was being sold for TWICE the price by the builder.

What's my point here.  Well if people think prices will go up then you can bet they do go up !

So what do you "think" will happen to the price of bitcoin ?

By the way I had quite a few friends at that time who wanted to buy but they put in offers after me.  Those guys had the offers rejected so weeks later they tried again and rejected.  It's been a long time but I think the friends never did end up buying.  They were just too late.

It's been over a month now.  Do any of you out there feel the situation with regards to buy and hold has changed at all. Have the risks increased or decreased.

Do those two have caps on the number of coins? Without a cap or some limitations like bitcoin has then is it not the case that developers can go on printing money (mining coins) at whatever rate they want forever. 

I understand there are 600 other coins and that banks might be involved in trying to put in place there own mechanisms based on the blockchain but now that bitcoin has become as big as it has is there even a 10% chance that anything could replace bitcoin in the next few years.

Just looking for some general stats.  I would be interested to find out if any users here are following any statistics.  Links would be much appreciated.

I've reported a few of these.  Seems someone has multiple logins and is trying to flood the forum with negative news. Hopefully others can report to admins so we can keep the forum clean.

Just looking for some opinions.  I know I can make 0.5% on my cash in the bank so I'm thinking to put a small percentage into buy and hold of bitcoins. 

What do people think of this as an investment holding for 6 months, 1 year or 5 years?

I wonder if someone can explain to me.  I've been reading so much recently about the block size and what it should or not be but in all this time I have not seen anything coming from the Bitcoin Foundation.

So what are they here for, how are the funded, what do they do and why do they exist?

I am just wondering as I don't see that exchange listed here.  Previously I had the idea that Circle was quite popular:

http://www.worldcoinindex.com/exchange

I am very new to bitcoin but not so new to open source software.  Would really appreciate if someone could give some estimates as to how many people are these days in working on bitcoin? For other open source projects I think this has been pretty simple to track but not sure about bitcoin?  For example is bitcoin on github or something similar?

There's a thread listing a lot of companies that have failed. 

This leads me to wonder what company out there can you trust?

Also what bitcoin exchanges do you feel would be safe for US or Europeans to use for the purchase and storage of bitcoins?

Circle seems good but I notice it does not have some features that coinabase has. For example the ability to make automatic purchases daily / weekly and also it will not allow me to make a purchase in dollars.  I can only purchase in units of bitcoin.

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm thinking in particular about the miners.  So what would be the consequences if bitcoin lost even more value and went down to $200 or even $100

Anyone care to estimate what percentage of core developers are for this move and what percentage are against this move?

Just from what I read it would appear that many people consider Mike and Gavin are forking bitcoin not for the benefit of bitcoin but for their own personal benefit. All this leads me to wonder how Mike and Gavin will benefit from the XT fork. Would love to hear some of the experts here give their opinions because up until now I have really not heard anyone supporting the fork.

I'm looking to purchase more bitcoins but recently I have seen the price heading down.  Now I am trying to decide if it would be best to purchase now or to hold off 4-6 weeks.  

Would be interested to hear some "guesses" as to where the price will go over these next 4-6 weeks?