We don't have to worry about taxes for the cryptocurrency, at least for now. Because most countries do not have regulation about paying taxes if citizens convert bitcoin to fiat currency, unless you live in the US then you have to pay tax for capital gains because IRS said so.
There is plenty of room to avoid bitcoin taxes for Americans such as send bitcoin to your family or friend in Europe to convert bitcoin and then transfer the money through banks or remittance, but no need to avoid taxes obviously, just pay it.

Zuckerberg also announced that he is interested in studying the positive and negative aspects of this technology and will consider how to implement their potential on Facebook.

Consider means nothing, there is too many news reported about a country or a company "consider" to accept or regulate cryptocurrency but nothing implemented so far.
Don't get me wrong, yes it's a good news if Mark Zuckerberg will adopt cryptocurrency in Facebook, but without any real implementation, we can't expect too much of this news.

Where do you live? "Coinify" is an exchange in your country?
a little bit confused as you said: sold via the blockchain application. Coinify is a blockchain application?
if you are using an exchange to convert bitcoin into fiat, there is nothing to do but wait, it will be credited to your bank account.

Depending on how much money you are willing to invest in bitcoin?
For example, if you have $10,000 just divide to buy an ASICs and buy bitcoin.
The easiest way to get profits by holding bitcoin, you will see it growing bigger over time, yes, go ahead and buy bitcoin right now. it won't crash anytime soon.
How about mining? it will be profitable if your electricity cost is less than $0.1 and may takes 6 months to get ROI, but after that, welcome to the profit.

You have submitted all the info for verification since 2 months ago?
Yes, there are thousand similar problems waiting to be solved by Bittrex.
Have you done this?

$15 Million dollars invested in bitcoin since mid-2017 has worth more than hundreds of millions of dollars right now, such a great investment from rich people.
How about average people? Don't even think to sell your bitcoin, more financial firms will come and buy bitcoin. One thing for sure, bitcoin can reach higher price, if you sell it at the current price, then you will regret it later.
But, how if these rich people start to sell off? Bitcoin price will get corrected, it's a normal thing as a speculative object will always fluctuate based on the demand on the global market.

Every coin affect by the market demands, for example; some exchanges didn't list xrp a few weeks ago but after it pumped and reach $1, more exchanges listed xrp but before this happen to xrp market, some news regarding its development and acceptance in businesses and companies makes it happen.
So, two things that really affect the price of a coin are development and acceptance, even bitcoin cash suddenly increases due to bitcoin lose its value.
Why is bitcoin losing its value? Simply because bitcoin development which can't afford scale transactions and investors looking for an alternative coin to test it.

Don't you read what Op said? It's been a month, not just a few days during Christmas

For Op: you may hire a lawyer or just visit their office in San Fransisco, depend on where do you live? and how much it costs, whether it worth for 1700 euros or not.
https://craft.co/kraken
I will post here if find their exact address.
Unfortunately I can't find one.

You may want to read this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4cefqt/is_krakencom_a_scam/

There is a reply from krakenexchange:
krakenexchange • 1y
Apologies for the late reply on this. Please PM me your ticket number and I'll make sure our support team is looking in to this for you.

It's inevitable and become a common thing with all of the exchanges, but some things run differently in the US and in others countries about KYC policy such as Poloniex may require some things:

For people who live in the US, but it will be different for people who live in third world countries as not everyone has social security number, but definitely has an ID.
If you don't want to go through all the process of verification, just move towards another exchange without ID requirements.

I have same reasons with him, have used Bittrex for my first time got into trading, and lately, since bittrex get so many problems, just use binance and it works so well.
But mostly, I use local exchange in my country to trade bitcoin and altcoins, ripple gets so many attentions obviously.
Local exchange in my country is a better exchange compare to most global exchange as it provides a way to deposit and withdraw fiat currency through banks transfer, so easy to do that. Well, people in another country may have same reason with me, such as people in South Korea use BitHumb or people in Japan use bitFlyer.

I'm not a technical or developer but want to ask some questions, hopefully, you don't mind about it, no offense.
- fully for community, what does it mean as this is a non-profit coin? what is the purpose of this coin?
- which community? this forum or for everyone in crypto-world?
I appreciate your efforts, but people use a coin based on its utility, this new coin that you want to create, it requires resources to make it stand and you are willing to provide that. But, how about the value of this coin? Back to my question (what is the purpose of this coin?), if people want to use this coin, it should has a value to become a medium of exchange or something.

$127 service charge per month? which mean around $4.2 per day, it's pretty big.
You keep saying your identity is really easy to find, we will find out about it later.
But, how about some pictures and videos about your colocation place, ASICs or whatever you got in your facility?

One thing that really annoying.
Can I visit the facility?
Unfortunately, we are not giving tours of our facility at this time. We will be doing live streams on a fairly regular basis, so you can follow us on social media for the latest!
People will send their mining hardware but can't visit your place? People will trust you if they can visit your place.

Good job, it's very helpful for most people who never learn about how bitcoin or blockchain works and what makes it powerful, distributed and unhackable due to there is no bitcoin store in our hardisk, smartphone or usb stick. I find it very informative and interesting to watch this video, but it has a pretty long duration, you may divide into 2 parts (7 minutes) to make it more interesting and people curious to watch the next video.

If you buy BTC->ETH->IOTA->BTC again in an exchange, that's called trading not arbitrage anymore as arbitrage is the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset.
Yes, it's profitable even though you trade on an exchange with smaller trading volume, most people do the same thing, some makes profits while others not so lucky.

The war against bitcoin which started by banks already begun. There are a lot of cases where banks cracked down exchanges accounts in bank or freeze bitcoiners accounts such as in this article.
Since bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency and the bank is centralized, it seems like bitcoin is the natural enemy of banks.
The problem is banks do it without legal laws issued by governments, as long as there is no regulation that state bitcoin is illegal, people are free to transact bitcoin or using banks as an intermediary to deposit/withdraw to exchanges.

And when the time comes, people will cash out from ripple and allocate their funds to bitcoin.
But, we don't know when it will happen as xrp seems still has the attraction in the market, maybe like Op said; xrp towards $10.
I have some money invested in xrp as well and planned to cash out at $5 marks if it can increase a little higher, maybe hold it a little longer will be more profitable.

This is a scam site obviously, the same person with 2 accounts tried to deceive newbies here.
Do not ever send bitcoin to an unknown site which claims "to laundry your dirty coins", LoL. I can't stop laugh when reading what Op have written.

There are no experts if we're discussing price in the future, only some analyst who predicted about bitcoin price.
Yes, $500K or $1 Million seems impossible for now as bitcoin still struggle to holds its position above $12K.
But, it ever happens when bitcoin starts this year with the price $980, even myself can't believe if bitcoin could reach $20,000 as I thought the best price maybe around $2K. If you don't want to talk about it, just don't but let others imagine about bitcoin in the future, that's a long way to get in there though.

From now on, every exchanges operator have to be careful in every situation that might lead to such criminals attempt.
It's inevitable since they are known as the personage in big exchanges, operators are the preys for criminals out there.
Pavel is currently in a state of major stress, he has lost $1 Million in bitcoin, whoever experienced the same thing will feel it, how pity he is.
This incident just make the name of bitcoin become worse as people may think; criminals can receive ransomware in for of bitcoin as the easy way to get money.

Yes, the exchange rate of cryptocurrencies is important, especially if you want to trade bitcoin-altcoin.
But, it's better to buy bitcoin at $16K, waiting it rise to $18K and then buy more xrp, you will get more profits at the moment as xrp price seems on bulls run across the global exchanges, maybe can reach $5 in 2018. On the other hand, bitcoin price seems not increase significantly in the last few days but tend to decline. When the time comes, xrp will fall and the funds will be back to bitcoin again.