yeah, a couple of years ago you could turn your pc on and with a decent GPU you could do some solo mining bitcoin and earn a lot of money, because the difficulty was super low and also it was at the same time when the price was only increasing.
i had a friend who did this and i was too lazy to learn how to do it and start doing it.

just buying bitcoin and holding it for a couple of months is the best way of getting rich these days especially if you could buy bitcoin while it was cheap. and also if you want serious money and not hundred satoshi you should start thinking about other ways of earning bitcoin, like trading.

interesting questions and responds. i have to say the only chance i have missed in bitcoin is the chance to mine it back when you could mine bitcoin at home and price was going to the moon. from that time until now i have tried my best not to miss these golden opportunities to get on the train before it leaves.

you are asking the right questions here my friend. as you have already guesses it yourself, they are not legit and most probably a Ponzi scheme behind the scene, especially when you say in 60 seconds!!!

as a rule of thumb when you see a high percent of profit in a short time with no real business or lack of proof it is a scam going on there.

haha, nice bump. i remember seeing this topic back then and thinking to myself this can't be true. and i am glad that i have acted on my thought and bought as much bitcoin as i could back then at $190-$230 range over time

i believe Bitcoin is much better than Gold, because of two big reasons: first is the price that bitcoin has, it is low now and will go way up so we can make a good profit by investing in it. second is the storage issue, while i can store bitcoin on my own the most secure way i can't do the same with Gold.

a web wallet or even Electrum, Multibit,... that are connected to internet is what i call hot wallets. so you should only keep what you want to spend on them. so the "amount" would depend on the person and their expenses, and may differ from one person to another.

it has been said a lot of times already. i agree with this but it is not about the kids working their ass off to earn a living, it is just like playing a game and earning a little from that and learning the process through that.

1) i think this can be effective but it hasn't gone live, it is just a very early stage. so if there is an effect it would be tiny at this point.
2) i totally agree with this, with openBazaar growing there will be a lot of good things happening with bitcoin
3) steam accepting bitcoin is not official, and it came out 1-2 months ago and not yet started.
EDIT: they still don't accept bitcoin but apparently they are officially doing the groundwork. ref: https://redd.it/4fuk6c

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4) with ETH dying slowly, the money is coming back to bitcoin. this is biggest IMO
5) there is always halving effect

it is all about managing your investment and risk management techniques.
if you want to invest a lot of money into bitcoin then you need to watch the price too, which means staying alert always to see if the price goes below your loss level of tolerance, so you can sell before further losses.

besides the chance of profit is a lot more than chance of loss at this point.

everything we do in life need risk taking, and it becomes more special when it comes to investment. if you don't want to take risks then you will never get anywhere.
but the risk you take should be a calculated risk not just gambling with the investment and hope for the best.

you can deposit your money from perfect money into c-cex.com exchanger and then buy bitcoin with it and withdraw, the fee that is showing up for perfect money says 3%

but if this is true then you don't need to do anything that would be so easy and awesome, i have to try it myself:

bitcointalk account is not the only form of collateral, check out the lending section stickies for more information about these things.

but in short you can offer a lot of different things, for example some altcoins like LTC, Dash, ETH, or sometimes you can offer your steam games items or cards,.... as collateral if they are worth some money.

there is 49 pages of other users answering this exact question.

bitcoin is money so there is no easy way to earn it, you have to work for it. and just remember there is not "application" for that and if somebody told you there is be sure that it is going to steal your information.

there is a lot of differences but the biggest one that every simple user can see is the use cases, in other words i can use bitcoin as a currency in a lot of difference places to pay but this is not true about any of the other currencies (altcoins) there is only a handful of use cases for a couple of them and the rest don't even have one.

each year you hear this year is the year of bitcoin but this time i can feel it/ there is still a long way to go to the end of 2016 and i think there is still a lot of room for growing. but if it can live up to my expectation any year after this will be year of bitcoin.

yeah, i agree with this. trading is a very good method of making extra bitcoin/money. and i have always suggested trading to those who are looking for an investment method because with some time and practice you can easily get the hang of trading and make money. especially in altcoin markets where there is a lot more profit waiting.

AFAIK, you need to verify your accounts on the exchangers in order to be able to make a deposit from your bank and exchange bitcoin with fiat. so you will need 10 bank accounts also to verify all those accounts.

doing something this shady might raise a lot more red flags for you, than simply buying it at once.

it is good to see others feeling the same way too. i always prefer a slow and steady rise because it shows a decent growth in the demand for bitcoin while a pump (bubble) is only a fake rise which will fall soon.

and the fall is also a bad publicity for bitcoin, people won't feel safe about buying something that had its price go down, i am talking about those new people that get to know bitcoin for example in $1000 price and only see the price go down.

well, there will always be sudden drops that is how day-traders make a living! but the overall trend is looking to be only rising. and also everything is pointing to this rise, and with the halving getting closer this is what we were all waiting for.