Not really, there are bad and good people everywhere on the surface of the earth! With what everyone can already see in terms of commitments and investments, it goes without saying that Qtum developers are here to make great impacts in the industry after the order of Satoshi Nakamoto.

@ Qtum, nice update there, want to suggest, the Crowd sale should cut across major exchanges and not just the Chinese exchanges, Qtum is already a global thing!

No they do not! Bitcoin is decentralized, so no one has the full capacity to dictate its price. Whatever any bitcoiner does like hoarding,pumping,dumping,etc, only goes to offset the market demand and supply of the coin and which is sooner than later reflected in the price.

Paypal has been playing the "almighty" for far too long! They dictate what part of the world to use their services, whose account gets frozen under flimsy excuses and many businesses have had to close down on account of that and they have been answerable to no one. The emergence of Bitcoin, which is truly a global payment system is such a great relief to the unbanked and neglected sojourners on planet earth.

In the first place, paypal is no match to Bitcoin and if they were to have started same time, Paypal would have been history by now. All the ride it had on the wings of ebay was because desirable was nowhere to be found, so available became desirable. However, Bitcoin have handed us the power to our own banks and transact with just anyone in the globe without anyone else to approve, look down on you or the size of your pocket. The straw left for Paypal to hold on to is the provision to reverse a transaction, but that is also a double edged sword and in little or no time just as water finds its way, the massive drift from Paypal to Bitcoin would become obvious.

Am afraid that is not really what is meant by Bitcoin being the future of money! What that simple means is that Bitcoin would become a model for future money and most other forms of payment would recognize it as one and take a cue from it. The authorities are well aware of that and the main reason they are trying to undo Bitcoin, is because they are without doubt that Bitcoin have what it takes to relegate their local currencies to the background, if not the museums!

Yes this is a good example of how passive income can be generated - getting your money to work for you. However it is not entirely without hard work, raising the money to invest in some businesses, no doubt could not have come without some hard work. The thing with generating passive income this way is that what income one gets is directly proportional to amount invested. Nevertheless, even they come in pennies, they do add up overtime.

The thing to effectively resolve all that is to get the cost of production cheaper and I don't see the possibility of that. China parades cheap labour as well as cheaper electricity and then a devalued Yuan, all that culminates in  making their exports quite attractive. Besides the best way to make indigenous companies more efficient is not by protecting them from external competitors, but by getting them to be more competitive.

Risk and money management is indeed what makes the difference in trading and these only comes through consistent learning and practice. Loss is a common occurrence in trading and majority of traders are caught in the web of chasing their losses, but experienced traders would rather settle down to position sizing than to throw their good money over bad money. For those traders with no plan or strategies at all, ultimate loss is the fate that awaits them.

Furthermore, trading would entail moving and lodging the 12 BTC in an exchange site and personally I have witnessed two exchanges going under with people's deposits and news of hacking, of exchanges is seemingly commonplace these days. So aside the risk of losing to trades not going a trader's way, there is also the risk of an exchange disappearing with the 12 BTC. However the coins could be safely held in some wallets until the price meets the expectation of the holder.

Well the only change to expect is an increase in the size of the debt this time, four years because the so called civilization was built on a web of credit and that will never be fully settled. It is not something that is peculiar to America, but rather a global myriad of money creation out of thin air. To the community and the cryptoworld at large, that should be good news as that is actually one of the ills Bitcoin came to address in the first place. Much more persons are going to lose faith in their local currencies and come running to embrace Bitcoin and some altcoins and that would further boost the value of Bitcoin.

One more thing is to evaluate the financial commitments the developers are putting forward:
1. are they running a signature campaign, bounties,etc
2. are they willing to pay for the campaign with Bitcoin, which shows seriousness, but offering to pay with their own coin that is still in the making is a red flag;
3. no escrows means something is not straight somewhere;
4. changing terms middle stream  or not sticking to it, is a sign of ineptitude and lack of organization to manage the project;
5. open source code is a plus
6. putting all your eggs in one basket isn't good enough even if you are a hen.

Indeed the blockchain technology is the answer to "trust and security" that have been very evasive but so much needed in ever facet of human endeavor. Bitcoin and its technology - blockchain is a masterpiece and worthy of celebration, but the banks and governments are opportunists and only after what they perceive as the juicy part.

They like the transparency, trust and cost effectiveness that blockchain technology brings, but they dislike Bitcoin and instead wants to tweak the same technology to develop an altcoin, that would provide for them the control that Bitcoin denied them of. At any rate and whatever they do, Bitcoin is here to stay and a copy could hardly be better than the original.

Yes the law of demand and supply is actually behind the rise in the price of Bitcoin. Total supply of Bitcoin has an upper bound of 21 million coins and that is already too little for the entire globe. Then as much more people from different countries are getting pissed off with their local currencies and Bitcoin obviously offers better and unprecedented options, the demand for it keeps soaring and so its value. As a matter of fact, the projection is that as more and more people come to adopt Bitcoin, the demand would increase even further and that is sure to make Bitcoin much more valuable.

There is a marked difference between earning an income and earning passive income. In the case of the signature campaign here, it belongs to earning an income and not passive, because you don't get to earn a dime unless you have made some posts and satisfy other conditions. If you are required to make a minimum of 15 posts in a week and you ended up with just 14, you get paid nothing at all, as the income you get paid is tied to the work you did satisfactorily.

It is good to know you are interested in learning to trade in the first place, but from what I can perceive, you seem to be rushing it and I will suggest you slow down a bit and straighten some dark shades to be better equipped to handle either the forex or cryptocurrency markets. A place like Here is more or less what you need to take you in the hand and get you up and running from preschool to graduation and the best news is that it is all free!

That is right, sticking to a trading plan is one such ways to put a check on emotions, but by saying a trading plan, it doesn't mean just about anything goes as sticking to a strategy or trading plan that is a sure loser, would only exasperate a trader's already battered emotions.

Another way to check emotions in trading is by deploying a bot tailor built to trade some strategies a trader is conversant with. Most traders have dashed their trading expeditions for using generic bots, they knew next to nothing, what it does or how it goes about trading. Before you surrender you trading account to a machine without any form of emotions, you may want to be sure you do not hand over total control to them.

Many people here are already beclouded by their desperation to make money off of the community that seem not to realize that the community wants them to be well versed in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, so they can always find their ground instead of these groping in the dark that a number of members are posting about Bitcoin without an iota of commitment. Let's stop behaving like mercenaries and play out own bit to sustain the community and Bitcoin, which binds us all.

Blockchain technology is no doubt the foundation for the future of money and that explains the attraction from almost every field of endeavor - the big banks and government agencies inclusive. We know the governments are not at home with Bitcoin as is, because it robs them of the control they cherish to death. Adapting the blockchain to bid their wishes is something to be expected, but the fact remains that Bitcoin have opened people's eyes to the modern slavery the governments subject people through their worthless piece of papers, we call money, at any rate, they will only succeed in taking the horse to the stream, but drinking from it, would be a matter for another day.

There really is no risk free way to make even a dime out there and living itself is enough risk! When it comes to investing and especially online investments, the rule of the thumb is always to never invest whatever you cannot afford to lose, because that chance to lose it all is ever present. We do due diligence to filter out prospects that are less risky and lending at exchanges as Poloniex is one such businesses. The only instance a lender can lose, is if the site is hacked or if the site becomes insolvent, other than those two, it is a win, win situation for lenders. The system automates the process and it is structured in such a way that defaulting is made impossible.

One of the beauties of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies at large is that they have made micro-transactions very possible, so anyone can start right away to test how this way of making passive income works even with pennies than having to save the rest of one's life to come up with capital. So go try it for yourself!

I had a transaction yesterday with the normal fee, I have been paying all the time but it took over 12 hours to come through, which wasn't funny. On making some inquiry, got to discover the network was overloaded and the advice was to include higher fees. Now for over 30 minutes, I placed another transaction with 0.0005 BTC fee and still no confirmation. This is certainly not a healthy development for Bitcoin and it can create the room for another coin to take center stage, if not quickly and properly addressed.

I agree with every point you made except that your take that money is the root of all evil doesn't quite agree with the message of your post! Money of any kind is good, money is a servant and goes wherever it is sent. Any evil that gets in between, if you check again, emanates from humans. The heart of man is exceedingly treacherous, let's keep Bitcoin and even the fiats out of this, we are our problem!