The big potential of the blockchain technology is now dawning on many companies, institutions and businesses in Italy but there is something lacking and that is the entrepreneurial spirit to explore things and make the usual things great. In short, Italy needs applications of the technology in the marketplace of ideas and adoption. Maybe we should allow some time for the people of these country to adjust and adopt...time will tell if the technology can create dramatic changes in the country.

Buti na lang walang Diploma in Email Studies kung saan ang mag-graduate ay sobra ang galing sa pagpapadala ng mga email at may bonus pa  at iyon ay paaanu naman ito tanggapin. Kakatuwa naman ang paaralan na yan parang nagtuturo lang sa elementarya kung ganun -- eh buti sana kung libre okay lang. While we are already in the age of blockchain and cryptocurrency, many schools are not catching up and our government is not doing about.

Please refrain from posting the same announcement in many sections of this forum. You are just endangering your posts of getting deleted as this is against the rules of the forum. Just once can be enough and it must be located in the correct section of the forum. You posted the same thing here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5145371.msg51140834#msg51140834

I am hoping you can be guided well accordingly as admins are frowning on people spamming here. Either you or somebody else will delete this post and your account restricted. Thank you.

What can be amazing here is that there can still be victims of this already old way of victimizing people. One, they appeal to newbies to the game so that the victim may not be suspecting of the foul play. Second, there is that shameless appeal to greed -- of what the victim supposedly can get if he is participating in the income or earning program. When the victim is playing along well and will deposit any amount of bitcoin to the wallet that can be the last time he can see his funds. Simple but maybe still working. I am seeing so many posted ads of this nature on Facebook groups. Beware. Caveat emptor!

And I think it can be easier for some people to just provide some blood sample so they can be able to withdraw from HitBTC. Frankly speaking, I am not a big fan of this exchange as I am aware that they are hard to deal with judging of how bad is their customer support. Since we now have better exchanges, users of HitBTC should not stick with this platform as there is now no monopoly of this industry. HitBTC can be emerging as the strictest cryptocurrency exchange that ever existed...good luck dealing with them.

Now, I am sure that 10 years may not be enough to silence critics -- big, small, known, unknown, influential and not -- of bitcoin as there are still those who are wishing (or rather predicting maybe) that bitcoin can be zero...soon! An example of old-school critic is Warren Buffet who is a popular and very successful investor but not inclined to believe in the value and future of bitcoin.

Then we have many media influencers and an example of this is another old-school named John Crudele and he is writing a column for NYPost.com. His objection to bitcoin is immortalized in his own words: "Bitcoin will soon be worth zero. But until then criminals will still be able to use it and other digital currency to move money around the world without being caught."

At the end of the day, we live in a democratic space and we welcome diversity of ideas, opinions and convictions so we still appreciate people who are in the opposite side of the picture.

This can be what I am wishing actually so that we can see bitcoin stabilizing at this level or its volatility can play within this parameter before going forward with $10,000 as the goal. So if we give this around 3 months, we are almost in September with that which is nearing the start of the last quarter of the year. Hopefully, bitcoin can see $10,000 before the year ends.

Rentberry is just of so many projects which were hyped up to the heavens and then when the ICO was done the team seemed to be just sleeping in doing their job. The output is nothing compared as they should be based on the WhitePaper and the Roadmap. In other words, the project is only good in the ICO stage and once the reality started and once the light has come in, people realized they are just looking at a hollow picture. Rentberry is one of the many examples why ICO as a crowdfunding platform got a bad rap and is now irreparable as people do not trust any project doing an ICO anymore. Forgive my rants, please.

I am wondering if it is possible that there would be a physical bank operating somewhere that is fully compliant with the banking laws but focusing on cryptocurrency business? I mean a bank that can be providing the usual banking services but all things are tied to bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

The bank should offer bitcoin debit and credit cards and of course will operate bitcoin ATM machines. In the bank you can file a loan with your bitcoin or crypto as the collateral. Maybe even have the facility where you can deposit your bitcoin under the bank's safety platform.

Is this just a dream or is there a possibility that this can happen eventually maybe 10 or 20 years from now? Or maybe in the first place there is no need nor demand for this?

When your economy is not doing well, the inflation is beyond control and the people are demanding for changes...what will you do? Of course, you will print billions and billions of paper money so you have the budget for anything you want and to solve many monetary problems your country is facing today and into the future. Now to make things spiced up and politically correct, you are going to call the printing of more money as "quantitative easing" a term pregnant with many possibilities, opportunities and threats depending on which of the equation you are located.

In an interesting article, the author likened this quantitative easing to an additive drug even more potent than the usual marijuana or cocaine you can buy on the street. And now, politicians and bureaucrat are getting addictive into it as their easy fix to solve myriad of problems.

Further Read: https://news.bitcoin.com/after-trillions-printed-under-qe-politicians-now-say-deficits-dont-matter/

We all know that eventually, printing of more money can result into disaster in the long-run. This is not like a chili pepper hot sauce that can immediately be felt but definitely this is like pawning the very future of the people.

As long as one has downloaded from the real site or source, I think there is nothing to worry about it. Bitdefender is just being cautious and is just doing its assigned job. Many anti-virus are behaving this way since the update can be new to them...maybe just part of the regular security protocol. In other words, not all that can be detected as a virus, smells and looks like a virus can be virus at all. Who knows, they are just there so that Bitdefender will wake up and do its job (ok this can be an overstretch lol).

I just looked at the CoinDeal website and that is when I see that Bitcoin has been back to the $8,000 level again. Anyway, I am looking forward for CoinDeal to enter one of the biggest markets of all time and that is of the USA. Given the kind of reputation and performance that CoinDeal is into, I am sure that this can easily grab a good share of the cryptocurrency trading market. Interestingly, its sponsorship of popular sports event has been a big deal as it resulted into many positive gains. Maybe competitors should look into this strategy. Or better yet hold a different kind of competition here in the forum. Boasting of lower fees, faster support and I guess also an excellent useer-0friendly experience, things can get rosy for this platform in this burgeoning market. So good luck to CoinDeal and may it prosper in the expanding marketplace. Anybody here have anything to say with their good or bad experience with CoinDeal we wanna hear your story.

Thanks a lot for clarifying this issue or concern. Actually, I have been asking and wondering the same question for so long and now I can sense what are the things really going on with bitcoin mining. So even if China will eventually implement a total ban on mining, we will not have a major problem and that things can still be fixed. I am sure that many miners in China right now are already doing something about this situation.

Generally, I find STOs and IEOs to be much better than the dreaded usual ICOs. Everything boils down to the protection of the investing public because if we take care of them then this industry is going to flourish. This can be the best way to filter unscrupulous and scamming projects from getting in and though this is not the guarantee that there will not be scams but at least we can minimize them. The time has really come that there is something we can do to lessen if not eliminate frauds in this potentially lucrative crowdfunding platform. I am hoping that more evolution on this aspect will be emerging. We have to open and decentralize crowdfunding but we also have the utmost responsibility to protect the investors at all cost.

No wonder some are thinking that maybe some people inside Cryptopia can also be involved with the hacking. The least that they can do is to let another exchange or another group take over the operation of Cryptopia so that the business can still be salvaged for good. Maybe (just maybe, anyway) they are hiding something in there and they don't want to be exposed that is there is no transparency here and they don't care much about the opinion of their users...they just decide on their own to the detriment of those who believed on them. Oh, well, Cryptopia is now just another exchange biting the dust.

I am sure the coming halving will have an upward pressure for bitcoin but as you said we should not be expecting too much as things do eventually wind down according to the supply and demand. In terms of providing excitement and buzz, am sure the halving can generate that for bitcoin and sometimes those are just what we need for bitcoin to jump higher. Right now, there is the prevailing positive sentiment and if this can hold until the end of the year things can get rosy as we enter 2020.

Charity as well as development works can be areas that cryptocurrency can revolutionize. Imagine sending a bitcoin to someone in need somewhere thousands of miles away or just supporting a local group involved in housing for the poor, the needy and the homeless. That would truly be inspiring and one of the many stories that can cement the reputation of bitcoin as an agent of change...and of course help that people need.

Of course, it is already given that neither guys will make it to the White House. Against many established names with much bigger machinery and money,  a candidate with limited resources can be facing an uphill battle. But then again, in my opinion some candidates are not there to really win but just use the opportunity and the political platform to send the message to the electorate. And that is what these two guys are doing. Now the next is question: Are they doing disservice to the bitcoin community when after all they are destined to lose?

Welcome back MICRO am sure you miss a lot of things here and now that you are back I am looking forward for more enticing and mesmerizing posts from you. I am just new here actually and I am familiarizing myself with the ins and outs of the Stake.com business. Let's start the exchange of ideas, tips and knowledge.

I agree. In today's very competitive business climate, building your own unique brand and presenting unique propositions to the marketplace can be very imperative. Riding on the fame of other brands can work short-term but will be ineffective in the long run. A unique branding can make a business be easily identified and easy recall is big game especially in online casino business. This can dispel the notion that maybe the platform is just another fly-by-night operation and is not really into the long haul.