This is evolving and its being used currently I had read about a guy who travelled across two to three countries without enough cash but bitcoin in his wallet which came back and create a thread on that even on the forum. Bitcoin is evolving and spreading its tentacles across various sector of the economy where money is being spent.

However, everything has not been completed yet, as there are still a lot of ground to be covered what is needed is the modalities to make that happen without flouting the rule of migration between countries.

That is a very good restitution to make but you are actually not the only one involved because if you look well enough even in this section of the forum, you will see several people claiming such. Its basically some amount of cleanup that happen occasionally so this is not going to be the end of such. You need to brace it could be people like you that caused it or it could be someone else, just that everybody who posted in that thread, gets their posts reduced.

This your analysis is very correct and I can relate with it as at the time I just came into bitcoin during the below $1000 era I claim several satoshis from freebitco.in  but I got frustrated because of the amount of satoshis pegged at maximum of $200 equivalent then. If I could look back and value the amount then in today's price, I surely made something worthwhile and same thing will happen to those who stick to it and wait till the future time when it would worth more than today's value.

In addition to that I want to suggest if there is a way to perform a form of walk through test for newbies immediately they are registered which will directly take them to certain threads that have been created by reputable members of the forum to serve as a way to answer most of their questions. Threads such as

1. How is activity calculated,
2. How do I rank up
3. How is trust system managed
4. Basic rules of the forum etc.

At the end of it there will be some acceptance to have read and agreed to it and if you are not clear, you can only post into that same thread and until you click affirmation before you move to the main forum. With that newbies will then be held responsible for asking questions they could have been provided answers to.

The forks will keep coming and the success of it will depend on how acceptable it is to the community of users. The people who have promoted the forks believes they meant well but that is surely from their own point of view and not any thing related to the point of the generality.

A case study is the massive publicity that surrounds BCH and few months down the line we are its yet to live up to expectation which is largely due to the community. The market is gradually getting bigger than individuals and group of individuals and that's what will happen to the several other forks that will come thereafter.

Guy, you must have really had them to have made them committed to this extent. That being said, in my opinion, I think they have a point to have insisted that you send the coins first to them before further transacting with you. Why? Because looking at the precedence of the transaction you have had with them, its you sending first before they send you back your equivalent btc but in this case you are doing a form of reversal.

Its obvious they are trying hard to honor the word but I you do what they are asking for then you can have more ground to accuse and even get them tagged as well.

Factors that surround the movement of the price of bitcoin in both directions goes beyond the singular factor investors losing confidence or some new entrants coming into the game. Over simplifying it will make such narrow conclusion. Other reasons that could cause the issue mostly is based on and because the market is so volatile which means the trust is easily gained so also easily lost and its not necessarily new participants but market players who trade based on the trust in the market at a particular time.

I had use it once but because I was not even getting the benefit of it. It was because I wanted to access a site to benefit from it but I couldnt eventually. TOR has been so efficient in keeping identity anonymous and because gambling is not illegal in my country of residence, I really dont have the need to continue its use.

Avoiding movement being traced as a result of using btc will mean more to what using BTC for just normal purposes. Over here there is no law to say you cant use BTC and for that, I dont see anyone tracking my activities. I dont commit fraud neither do I engage in hacking activities.

Why will i bother myself only someone who was not involved during the time of the last fork or was not paying attention when it happened will be perturbed with situations such as this. The basic thing you need to do is very simple

1. Keep your bitcoin in a secure wallet that you have the key.

2. Wallet providers and exchange sites that will support the new coin will release their statements in due time.

3. The forum will also come up with ways to go about it.

Just relax and let the situation takes care of itself. When its time you wont labour much to get the right information.

It will be wrong or living in fantasy to think government regulation will not come. Its not possible because it and government does not like its influence to be reduce which is what will be interpreted as the objective of bitcoin. But our consolation is that bitcoin cannot be stopped.

The regulation to me, would go a long way to sanitize the system of some individuals that are not supposed to be here and whose actions propelled the regulation in the first place. However, it will not come without a cost which means a lot of core developers and believers will have to abandon bitcoin with the understanding that bitcoin has been hijacked.

Either way, I believe strongly that element of regulation will mean alot by boosting the confidence of corporate bodies in bitcoin.

Aside from the quality of posts which is largely based on individual managers decisions, there are still several things participant do which makes it difficult to track. An example is someone who alternates signature campaign and because the paying time is different, managers managing large number of followers to be monitoring them couple with several campaigns, wont do that until pay day and the culprit will get away with it as only few has been caught.

What I suggest is to PM the managers with your service, tell them the advantages of using it and suggest to manage it for them by giving report on a weekly basis while they focus on the quality, you focus on compliance and I am sure a lot of them will want to look into it.

However, there is need for your service to capture evidence when the infraction took place for argumentative purpose when it arises.

It actually took me a while to identify the difference in the two options you posted. If the DDOS attack is too much and there is no way around it without compromising the privacy of users, then I dont see anything wrong in migrating completely to Tor. Anybody who even value privacy to have been convinced on going through with mixing services, should also be aware of Tor and even more convenient in using it by default.

I think at this point, emphasis should be placed more on the Tor version of the site if the normal is becoming unavailable for use at the right time.

Instead of you to respond to the various to what has been labelled against you, you resorted to name calling. Even if the account is not sold, I don't expect that you believe someone would want to fill that loan of yours by sending you a PM.

There are ways to ask for loans and everything should be in the open which is something you already know after all. Couple with your red trust, I doubt if anyone would be willing to loan you money even if you had done the right thing. All the best is getting a newbie to fall for something like in other to get your loan filled.

Majority of bank profit does not come from fees rather they come from interest by charging as much as 35% over here though before granting loans to people. Fees constitute part of their revenue but not a large percentage.

Bitcoin will affect the fees no doubt about it but at the same time, you should not be weary of the fees that is being charged when we try to convert and withdraw fiat which means the fees they might be loosing as a result of blockchain is being compensated in another area which might not be equal but commensurate enough to keep them floating.

Also, with the continued dominance of bitcoin bank still turns out profit because revenue is not only what brings profit but reduction of cost which a lot of them are harnessing to the fullest.

Cheapest way to buy bitcoin is to buy from individuals within your reach because if it were to be an exchange a member on the forum, you can only open scam accusation and get the individual tagged if there is merit in your argument aside that there is nothing much to be done.

If its going to be from exchange sites, they have their reputation at stake so they probably wont scam you. But individuals one needs to be more careful in this era where people no longer care about means the moment money is involved.

Its on the amount of capital and the complexity of the business involved as well coupled with the country of residence. In my country, with a 5btc, one can start a viable online business without having to break a bank for it but wanting to set up a manufacturing establishment with lot of work force, will surely need more than a 5btc.

Carry out your feasibility study with relevant details and analysis, and be sure with the amount you will be needing to set up but beyond that the cashflow needs should be properly analysed because that sometimes could be more than the initial capital.

I hope you have seen eventually because its either going to be that you are scammed, or you are looking to scam someone. Instead of looking to buy below  market value, the market itself has created an avenue for one to buy more even at low price with the various price volatility that is being witnessed in the last couple of days which I feel any serious individual should have taken advantage of.

For Op and any other person looking to buy below market value, just have it at the back of your mind that to make that possible, someone somewhere, is getting robbed of that coins.

Opportunities abounds and when you miss one, another one will surely show up but the concern is that because of our inability to know what the future will hold, we are not decisive in taking decision.

When the price crash, we tend to wait further if the crash will be sustained rather than seizing the moment to act, eventually when that happens, the feeble hearted individual will still be scared ''what if I buy now and it crashed further?'' but for me, I have learnt my lessons over the months that I have been involved that you dont have to be a money bag to make high returns in trading.

Imagine someone who bought when the price was below $4000 and now its above, it simply means he has make a nice and decent return, just by merely acting in the right time.

If there is any trading secret, I would want to know about it but the fact is even the expert themselves are dont win all the time and aside the big bag holders and those who have access to privilege information, most of them to see themselves as experts as they make trades based on their own analysis and nothing else.

The best teacher to being a mini-expert is through experience. Those who we are all looking up to didnt get there in a day neither were they born with but with constant pushing and learning, they got there which I feel its something anybody can achieve.

If you are bothered by that, I guess a lot of things are really going to bother you the more because by the time you hold several stocks and everything seems to be taking a reverse trend, what do you do?

Everyone into trading will face one dilemma or the other and even me, I am facing one currently so what I did is what I am going to advise and that is, since you have a set price in mind, just make the open the order and forget about it if you looking at the price bitcoin to decide, it might not work that way every time. If price should rise even in the middle of the night, your order will be fulfilled.