the 4 digits is definitely gone for good unless something very bad and unexpected happens! otherwise the more we stay above $10k the stronger it gets, it has always been like this. not to mention that we are on an uptrend that has been going on strongly and so far no strong trend has ever changed direction for no reason which makes less than 4 digits that much less unlikely.

well when we have something that goes up as big as 2000% in value in one year obviously that attracts the wrong crowd who rush in for that unimaginable amount of profit in such a short period of time. and after a while we end up with a community that is filled with this type of people.
but the good news is that this thanks to bitcoin's volatility and their lack of understanding, they don't stick around for long. as we can see a great number of them are already gone because of 2018 drops.
it is not a bad thing, it is the natural order of things.

yeah, he crawled out of the speculation board into the main board for advertising. what i am curious about is whether anybody have ever bothered paying him any money. it is not just that selling this kind of services like this doesn't interest anybody but also because he is dead wrong about all his speculations and so far topics that i have seen from him where he was guessing a price has been way off the mark!

that is kind of an obvious statement though!
it is not day 1 of bitcoin existence, it has been 10 years and for the past 10 years price has been going up a lot faster than anything else, 25-30x is our normal days in bitcoin bull market. statements like this would have been valuable if they came out in early years not after 10 years of big rises they start stating the obvious history and the trajectory that bitcoin is already on.

we may not be sure about a lot of things when it comes to bitcoin and its future but we all know one thing with absolute confidence and that is the fact that even in bitcoin world a rise without a correction of this size is impossible.
bitcoin market may have traces of manipulation i it still, but it is a very healthy market and in a healthy market we always see corrections during rises. corrections that have to happen and they happen along the  way to the top. you can look at 2017 rise from $1000 to $20000 that was filled with at least 50 different corrections.

actually you misunderstood the article because it is intentionally written in a vague language! what they seized wasn't regular miners or even a mining company. what they seized were thieves who were stealing electricity and putting a lot of pressure on the network which is illegal anywhere in the world.
as for trading bitcoin, i don't think there is any law against it yet. they are just scaring people at this point.
in fact the literal translation of the news is this: "there is no law against bitcoin but trading it is illegal" LOL

yes it is and it is also considered a scam no matter what.
the reason why it is a pyramid scheme and is a scam is simply because of its design. if you start thinking realistically about a pyramid scheme you can see why it is a scam pretty clearly. in this scheme you first throw yourself in a ditch and in order to get out of that ditch you have to pull others down where you are so that you could put your feet on their head and pull yourself out.
the bigger the ditch the more people need to be fooled and the fuller the ditch.

people who are guessing high prices but in a date after 2020 halving are guessing it based on previous  two performances that we had at the similar time after the halvings. each time starting with a huge drop that reverses upwards and has a big rise before the halving but doesn't reach the previous ATH and then rise to set a new ATH in the following year.

so if that is to be repeated $100k in 2021 seems legit.
but i also think as we move forward these cycles will become shorter and happen faster as the adoption speed is not a lot faster than before.

this sounds nice but it mostly looks like they focused on the decor of their place, and without actually accepting bitcoin it is not much of a "bitcoin cafe" in my opinion, it is just a regular one with a lot of altcoin icons in the background of the shop.

you also mentioned "promotion", i don't think it is doing that either because bitcoin is already banned in Bangladesh so it wouldn't matter even if people were exposed to this, they still aren't going to buy bitcoin.

you just proved that you didn't read OP and you don't understand what bitcoin is and why it was made. your whole argument is cicling around the price and the "FIAT PROFIT" that you can earn from it.

but bitcoin is not about that, bitcoin is about cutting the middle man like banks and take their power away and transfer it back to people. at any time you want, at any price you want you can dump your fiat and gain this advantage and for that, it will never be too late.

they always come out here and become super active when their altcoin has been dumped a lot and they were trying to start the pumping operation to recover some of their money and empty the newbies' pockets one more time.

that's mostly superstition though. every year people say the same thing but each of them use different months. it doesn't stop there either, they go as far as days too. for instance a common one is "bitcoin drops on weekends"! the reason why every person says a different thing is simply because there is no such patterns
anyways, the only thing that matters is that we are  one the rise. and every day the charts look more like the pre launch days such as 2012, 2015 and 2017.

what most people forget is that whenever someone keeps publicly giving investment advice they are not doing it out of the goodness of their heart. they have a benefit in what they are saying and that benefit isn't something that is going to come to them in 2 years as they encourage others, it will be that day and week.

such war would be so unpredictable and may not turn out as you think. these tensions are between Iran and US right now but if a war breaks out it will suck the whole middle east and US into war first and then will suck Europe into the war too. at such a large scale i don't think people would be looking for high risk investments such as bitcoin.

i think there are a number of us who wish to do something like this but the only problem with this kind of plan is that the world is not yet ready for it! we talk about spending bitcoin but unfortunately there aren't enough places that are accepting bitcoin payments, in some countries it is even harder to find such places not to mention that for instance the hotel that accepts bitcoin may not be to your liking.


the exact opposite is actually true!
for example imagine you take $1000 worth of bitcoin for your travel and then bitcoin becomes bullish and your $1000 is not worth $1500. how does that make anything "difficult"?

with that logic nothing in the world should ever have any value. literary everything should fall down to zero because they have all gone up at some point!!!

the only thing your statement is true for is altcoins that go up due to "manipulation". in other words the correct statement is this: "what goes up to a fake price will always come down".
that is why altcoins always get dumped back down to their first price and keep going lower while bitcoin keeps rising each year and has gone from 0 to >$10000 and have stayed there

yes i will sell in an instant simply because we don't live in a hypothetical world and you would have no way of enforcing your rule in the real world and a rule without the enforcing power is hot air.
i would take the $25k per coin money and buy bitcoin at $11k with a big profit

i would avoid using "peer to peer file sharing" as an example because it is going to only mislead people who want to understand bitcoin and the blockchain technology that it uses.
most methods of file sharing isn't completely decentralized or even peer to peer. for instance in many cases like MegaUpload and sites like that, you reply on a centralized database. or even in Bittorrent you are still using trackers and also sites that have the torrent hashes which introduce centralization.
none of it exists in bitcoin.

trust is the only challenge that i have ever faced and that is only because whenever i sell bitcoin, i do it off the exchanges and since peer to peer trades are hard and require trusting the other party, it has proven to be challenging for me. although it has never been hard enough to make me want to look for any other ways and after a while you always find connections to do things easier.

Craig wasn't even around in early years to even interact over the internet with the anonymous "account" called satoshi let alone know the identity of the person in real life. not to mention that he is a nobody and there is no reason for him to even know it since he wasn't even aware of bitcoin before he began scamming people.