Sometimes I see rules for staring "good" ICO and one of all paragraph - deanon of creators. But exist countries, in which crypticurrency has been banned and creators have a chance go to jail to 5+ years (examle, Ukraine (if project have a anonymous coin transfer/stablecoins)). If I dont write about myself, I am a scammer (thinked users of bitcointalk). If I write - Im will a convict. What to do?

at this time we know that the Blockchain is being discussed in large countries. and some time ago the Chinese president was welcome on Blockchain. But what about Bitcoin? there is still a lot of controversy going on. Even the US (SEC) is still rejecting the given bitcoin proposal. while we know. Bitcoin is the first carrier of Blockchain technology for general use. is it because of the basic bitcoin that has an anonymous background? so it is difficult to be accepted by the state. could bitcoin be separated someday? I mean Blockchain will be positively welcomed in the world. while Bitcoin will remain controversial.
share your opinions.

if you say dead maybe yes, because many ico are scammed and unprofitable for everything including investing and hunting for free tokens in some ico campaigns, but in fact Ico is always present every day, it's just that many of them are fraudulent projects, maybe IEO has overcome the problem project fraud and more profitable for investment.

It is true that bitcoin is not truly anonymous and that everything you do is on the blockchain and available for everyone to see but there are some issues with that theory, first of all under the current system the only ones than can see those transactions are the banks so now one power they had over anyone else is gone and I am sure they do not like that, another problem is that you need to first link a person to an address and unless you do that you only know what happened but not who did it.

I can't say that bitcoin will never going to be extinct or to die because everything has an end, but for sure i believe that bitcoin will live for a long years because there are a huge possibility that everyone in the world will adopt bitcoin and it will continue to increase it's price in the future.

I am doing market research for a potential project.
If there was a website you could go to daily where you would earn anywhere from 1 cent - 10 cents worth of bitcoin just for clicking a button, would you do it?
No strings attached, no deposit required. You go to the website, push a button and 5 cents is deposited into your wallet. Would you go every day and do it, or is it not worth your time?

Ok guys so I have 500 CAD left to invest in altcoins, I decided to invest 3000 CAD in bitcoin and leave it like that. So for that 500 CAD (377 USD), please tell me if this makes sense. (I want to own a broad portfolio of multiple coins that have good odds for the future). All amounts are in USD for a total of $370. I'm open to suggestions.

50    Ethereum
50   Ripple
50   Binance Coin
30   Litecoin
20   Enjin
10   Iota
30   Cardano
20   Stellar Lumens
10   VeChain Thor
10   Pundi X
10   Basic Attention Token
10   Ontology
10   Zilliqua
30   Monero
?   Eos
10   Tron
?   Zcash
10   Icon
?   Chainlink
any other ?
10   Dash

There was also the sayings of the many people in which because of the announcement of President Xi to the Chinese community that they will adapt the process of blockchain technology to be able to make their own digital currency that may help them to manage and transact a good and transparent transaction to the people of cryptocurrency through the help of their new digital currency.

Currently, crypto is NOT taxed in korea. If they do this, it most likely WILL be taxed in korea.

Please everyone, for the sake of me, let’s all sign a petition to stop the Korean government from doing this to ME and everyone like me. This will not raise trading volumes on korean exchanges and will only hurt those invested in crypto in korea.

Damn you Korean government! Damn you all to hell....!    Source: http://www.thebchain.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=5981

As you know IEO trend is growing but i feel IEO is profitable only for those who invested in token sale but who have purchased altcoin after launched they suffer loss majority of the investors ,as the BTT and some other altcoin examples of IEO.

This picture is reminiscent of sadness and regret.
If you didn't sell it then, its value is now 9,100 $. And you had a 1400% profit but we can't bring that memory back and we will never see it again because it will only give us the regretful and sad memories.
We may have the opportunity to be wealthy today if we do not sell our bitcoins, but we do not know enough in those days and we need money for our daily needs so maybe it is not time for us to get rich. But now that we know it we are not going to waste this chance to buy more bitcoin because someday this event will happen again and it will make us happy.

Bitcoin, the OG cryptocurrency, turns 11 on 31 October. Over the past decade (and a bit), Bitcoin has inspired the advent of an entirely new industry based on the concept of decentralization. For its most fierce supporters, Bitcoin signals salvation – a way of beating the centralized financial systems and garnering freedom.

A lot has happened over the last 11 years, so let’s break things down year by year and take a look at the rise of this incredible technology.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4g1XFU8Gto

2008

On 31 October 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto released a whitepaper titled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System. The paper detailed modes of using a peer-to-peer network (a blockchain), to form a cryptocurrency that functioned outside of the boundaries of a central bank or authority. The paper was largely in response to the financial crisis that had occurred earlier in the same year, a recession which rocked the global financial markets.

2009

3 January 2009 saw the formation of the Bitcoin blockchain, when Satoshi Nakamoto mined the genesis block of Bitcoin (block 0), which had a reward of 50 BTC. The following text was embedded in the coinbase of this block:

“The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”

Many people believe that this text refers to a headline that was published in The Times on 3 January 2009. It’s believed to act both as a timestamp of the genesis date, and a comment on the instability that was caused by fractional-reserve banking and, therefore, the global recession.

SourceForge hosted the first open source Bitcoin client, which was released on 9 January 2009.

On 12 January 2009, Hal Finney (one of Bitcoin’s earliest supporters) received 10 BTC from Satoshi Nakamoto in the world’s first Bitcoin transaction.

2010

A major vulnerability in the protocol of the Bitcoin network was spotted on 6 August 2010. Transactions were not being properly verified before they were included in the blockchain, allowing users to essentially bypass the network’s supply restrictions of 21 million and create an infinite number of Bitcoins. 

This vulnerability came to a head when a hacker generated 184 billion Bitcoins, which they then sent to 2 addresses on the network. This was spotted within a number of hours, and the transaction was erased from the transaction log after the bug was fixed.

2011

The Electronic Frontier Foundation began accepting BTC in January 2011, but shut down the program in June 2011 when concerns around the lack of legal precedent for new currency systems emerged. The EFF resumed accepting Bitcoin in May 2013.

June 2011 also saw whistle-blowing site WikiLeaks begin accepting BTC, as a way for supporters to make anonymous donations.

2012

September 2012 signalled the launch of the Bitcoin Foundation, which was intended to “accelerate the global growth of Bitcoin through standardization, protection, and promotion of the open source protocol”.

In October 2012, it was reported by BitPay that more than 1000 merchants had started accepting Bitcoin as a payment processing service. In November, WordPress joined them.

2013

In April 2013, Mt. Gox and BitInstant reported processing delays due to insufficient capacity. This resulted in the Bitcoin exchange rate dropping from $266 to $76 to $160 in the space of only 6 hours.

In October 2013, roughly 26,000 BTC were seized from the website Silk Road by the FBI during the arrest of its alleged owner, Ross William Ulbricht. 29 October saw two companies, Robocoin and Bitcoiniacs, launch the world’s first Bitcoin ATM in Vancouver, Canada.

2014

Early February saw Mt Gox, one of the largest Bitcoin exchanges at the time, suspend withdrawals citing technical issues. By the end of the month it had filed for bankruptcy protection, during reports that 850,000 BTC had been stolen during a hack of the exchange.

In June 2014, Bitcoin’s hashrate exceeded 100,000 tera hashes per second for the first time.

Microsoft began accepting Bitcoin for Xbox and Windows software purchases in December 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfiiF1zHWU4

2015

Less than a year after the Mt. Gox fiasco, UK-based exchange Bitstamp declared that they would go offline to investigate a hack which resulted in roughly 19,000 BTC being stolen from their hot wallet. They remained offline for several days, before coming back with increased security measures.

February 2015 saw the number of merchants accepting Bitcoin exceed a whopping 100,000.

2016

In January 2016, Bitcoin’s hash rate exceeded 1,000,000 tera hashes per second. March 2016 saw the Cabinet of Japan recognize digital assets like Bitcoin as having a similar function to fiat currency, and Bidorbuy, South Africa’s largest online marketplace, launched Bitcoin payments for buyers and sellers.

From March 2015 to September 2016, the number of Bitcoin ATMs doubled over the course of only 18 months. The 2016 halvening, saw miner’s reward for validating transactions halve, and heralded the arrival of 2017’s epic and record-breaking bull run.

2017

2017 was quite the year for Bitcoin. It continued gaining legitimacy among lawmakers and financial companies, with Japan and Russia both passing laws that legitimized cryptocurrencies existence in the mainstream. Bitcoin also underwent a hard fork on 1 August, splitting in Bitcoin (BTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

2017 saw the culmination of a historic Bitcoin bull run, when Bitcoin’s price reached an all time high of $20,089 USD, according to CoinMarketCap. 

2018

On 22 January 2018, South Korea introduced regulations requiring Bitcoin traders to disclose their identities, effectively implementing a ban on anonymous Bitcoin trading. 2018 was a bit of a rough year for Bitcoin , and cryptocurrencies in general, as the market plunged from the great highs of December 2017.


2019

So here we are today: Bitcoin has made a solid recovery from it’s dismal 2018, and many analysts expect a bull run in the near future. Bitcoin has connected people and communities in a way that no technology has before. Bitcoin is the pioneer behind blockchain, that is helping build a more decentralized and fairer future. Ultimately, Bitcoin is a tool for freedom – and it’s not going anywhere. Happy Birthday Bitcoin – you’ve been good to us!

https://www.etoro.com/blog/market-insights/happy-birthday-bitcoin/

You have tried so hard investing in different ICO and IEO without any success, you have lost at every investment you made, it is time to take a break. You have participated in hundreds of bounty campaigns without anything to show for it, it is time to take a break. You have been a bounty manager for years now buy every campaign that you have managed has ended up a scam or shit, it is time for you to take a break. Though some may advise you to try harder but i put it to you take a break, you cannot live all your life trying harder. Maybe you need to enjoy the forum for some times making necessary research and reading through every quality post to learn necessary things. You can also try your hands on other things. Get things straight, no matter how hard we try, we cannot all succeed in the crypto sphere. As an investor, stop loss. As a bountyhunter save your time for something reasonable. As a bounty manager, i know your integrity is important to you.
        
          Take a break!

Anything ever come of this?

I sure as hell would not keep my bitcoin in a bank, but I would be interested to know if anyone is using Citi's service.  People are so used to using banks to keep their cash in that I bet there would be even a little demand for something like this, tho most bitcoiners should know better than to hand over their coins to someone else for safekeeping.  I don't think Citi would scam anyone, but there goes all your anonymity if you let them hold your coins.

That's certainly true, and I'm not sure how the bank would make money from this unless they got into the crypto lending business. 

Podcast Topic: Wes Carlson and Omar have an informal discussion on varies topics including the following highlights:

- New people discovering Bitcoin - fear and greed
- How to not get caught up in the day to day Bitcoin price movements
- Congressman claims the US has no capacity to Kill Bitcoin!
- A world denominated in Bitcoin

Recorded: 19 July 2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMp5MijuZw&feature=youtu.be

Even though it will be regulated, the reputation that the people will handling it isn't worth the trust of the entire world. More of, in privacy issues, we need to consider that providing our overall privacy will put us in danger though in return, we will have a regulated crypto. For me, not much supporters will utilize the libra when it will be launched, except for people who really trust facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, I hope these people should do some research first and be aware of the issues that facebook has.

after the regulation regarding bitcoin, or cryptocurrency is prohibited in my country for use as money, of course I have never used it for commercial. other than that, right now I also agree with you, that I'm better off holding the bitcoin that I have for savings compared to using it because I see bitcoin as an investment tool that is quite interesting right now. sometimes I think of selling something in real life to produce bitcoin, it's just that it's prohibited.

What ever the age of the bitcoin I hope more birthdays to come to bitcoin or they still here for more decades. But we are happy necause bitcoim already 1 deacde and counting and the price still increasing and for the previous price we sae the price changes from low value to high price from less user population from millions of user now of the bitcoin and counting too.

As you know IEO trend is growing but i feel IEO is profitable only for those who invested in token sale but who have purchased altcoin after launched they suffer loss majority of the investors ,as the BTT and some other altcoin examples of IEO.