I would like to start a discussion about the future of Bitcoin.
The following is my prognosis
The future of Bitcoin
After vears of trying to break the blockchain technology that runs Bitcoin, the bankers and governements finally realized that because blockchiain was a public ledger that kept all transaction and that this ledger could not be hacked or falsified; Bitcoin could not be stopped or blocked. Like email, and i-porn, it used the internet highway and without destroying the internet and its highways of communication, the blockchain technology could not be blocked.

The banks and governments decided on another plan called “f you can`t beat them, join them”. They decided that their only chance was to buy up all the Bitcoins. They started small and encouraged Bitcoin`s price to drop by demanding regulation, not realizing that the blockchain is just a public ledger that can not be regulated. The threat of regulation caused the price of Bitcoin to drop, and when the banks and government thought that the price of Bitcoin would not go any lower, they started to buy up Bitcoins. When people realized that the banks and governments were buying up the Bitcoins, the price of Bitcoins soared in an avalanche. This made banks and governments very rich. 

Bitcoin became to be used as electronic money that could not be falsified or tampered with and that could be used as electronic cash replacing coins and notes. The banks and governments started to encourage the use of Bitcoin and replaced their coins and notes with Bitcoins. Then they replaced their plastic credit cards with chips that were implanted and that allowed money transactions to be made much faster and conveniently than with Bitcoin. They made their own centralized and regulated version of Bitcoin and called it i-coin.

After i-coin became convincingly more appealing than Bitcoin, i-coin became widely accepted. Bitcoin became outdated and old fashioned and the price of Bitcoin started to drop. Then there came a time where the only ones that were using Bitcoins were the ones that were afraid of the chip implants, and those that were afraid of the corrupt banks.
Then the corrupt criminals got on the Bitcoin bandwagon, and Bitcoins started to be outlawed in many countries. The decentralized Bitcoin miners - the keepers of the public ledger - became scarcer and scarcer and were overtaken by centralized criminal miners.

Bitcoin became what it started out as-. electronic cash for buying illegal goods. Eventually, the criminals took it over to use as their own black cash for trading one illegal good for another. This caused a boom in illegal goods, and made the criminals very wealthy.

The link to the video is below
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48ccZ27wfQ&list=UU9rOAPUfZe3KEja0vvFpe_A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u48ccZ27wfQ&list=UU9rOAPUfZe3KEja0vvFpe_A

I like to gamble just for fun once in a while when I would like to get some entertainment by betting on my favorite team to win. I am a fan of soccer and I mostly do sportsbetting wagers here and there predominantly over the weekend when I am off work and have time to actually watch the games. Now that the Euro 2016 has commenced I am very active betting small amounts every day. I am not seeking to make a profit all the time but any money for free beer or a trip to the cinema every weekend is appreciated 

You can argue about this all day long. But I think you need both skills and luck. The question should be - are you better with raw luck or with extreme understanding of the trading strategies?
And how high your luck factor should be? Do you need 50-50 skill and luck or that ratio should be different?
 

TL;DR seems bad right now, maybe take a break. You'll likely get re-interested.

I also joined up around 2013, and I fell off from the forum twice during that time and now. I entirely understand where you're coming from.

Back when Bitcoin popped to $1k/piece, I was immensely interested in it. I came on this forum soon after I started learning about Bitcoin, and then worked for ~$230 in Bitcoin back when it was $700-$900 each. Then the crash to $200 came around, I bailed and bought PMs at $550.

I stopped here for about a year and a half, no signature campaign, nothing. Interest in Bitcoin was destroyed.

Come back summer last year, try getting back into the signature campaigns, but this forum was dead, so I gave up. No new threads or new content to discuss. There was no way to be interested in the forum and actually want to do anything, since a new reply would happen once in a dozen minutes.

Leave, come back a month and a half ago, find forums alive, having a good time.



In short, it'll seem lame right now, but you'll probably be re-interested in some period of time. Just find a new aspect to learn about.

I have been told that don't accept payments via paypal, is that right?
Because when buyer will have his bitcoins then he can claim back money from paypal by saying that i haven't received desired product.

There is a possibility because bitcoin is not controlled by the government, its decentralization features likely to attract more people plus they can easily track their disbursements and receipts looking at the public ledger. It US will go cashless this will gives us good option.

I use to buy a little every month when the price was low, right now it looks as if it might go down a bit further so currently I am not buying but if and when the price goes down I have the funds ready to get in.