bitcoin is decentralized which means you don't need a website owner to make a bitcoin address for you and give it to you!

you download a bitcoin wallet https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet and make a bitcoin address and give that address (public key) to the sender to pay you bitcoin.

and if the only thing the sender sees is your bitcoin address that you just made, he can not know who you are.

but if you announce to the world who you are and if you sell those coins, your identity becomes known.

https://bitcoin.org/en/you-need-to-know#anonymous

i am not even going to click on that link because i will never read anything from cointelegraph, it is all crap click baits with poorly written articles and sometimes even they hype and altcoin to get pumped and they get paid.

and it is interesting when i see these news sites only talk about moon and becoming rich, etc when price has already risen and they are sure it is not going to go down.

this article would have been worthy of reading if it was posted in the beginning of 2016 or even in 2015 when price was low and everywhere was full of FUD.

bitcoin is not restricted to one country and it is not traded in only one country, so there is not much effect based on the date (being end of the year or whatever) because in many other countries there is still a couple of months till their end of the year.

for example Chinese new year is in 28th of January and similar thing with different dates is true about other countries.

smart people invest in both and only uninformed or those with very little amount of money invest in one of these.

the experienced investors always suggest that when you are investing your money you should diversify. but if you have a very small amount, then choose one and stick with that one. and that is what most people are doing.

just start swarming the big services with email requests asking them to add bitcoin payment. for example starting asking Amazon and ebay to accept bitcoin, or any other big examples like these two.
then when they start receiving requests like this every day, they will add it eventually. how do you think steam finally gave in and accepted bitcoin after 5-6 years?
then the adoption will also follow.

in coins like this, nobody is ever waiting to buy them because they are bad coins that will fall more and more everyday. if you check the charts and see the market history you can see how many coins are being dumped on the market every day and those who buy at this price become bag holders until they get lucky and there is pump so they can get out.

they get 2 billion dollars daily traded volume on each of these exchanges what else do you want. even if we say a big part of it is fake volume then it is still a very huge volume to make profit from

besides the rest of the altcoins are either shit with no volume or they have a big volume but that volume is controlled by the preminers.

you may be right based on what age you are calling children!
but generally speaking the children these days are so much into things like bitcoin, and anything that is new and technology related and they will learn more about the technical aspect of it than anybody else can.
and it is the older people who are only caring about bitcoin being money and a way to make money for them.

in 2017 price will continue rising, there is no reason for not rising. everything looks good and there are more good news to come. and price has not risen crazy so i don't see any reason why it should fall either.


better say we recently saw a nice rise to wrap up this year with a very good experience and maximize the profit of 2016.


bag-holders? seriously
i think you have mistaken bitcoin with one of those random things you see on the altcoin board.


it is always a good investment to buy bitcoin as long as price is not 5 digits.

haha, i hope not.
but actually Trump has been giving so much fuck about bitcoin. have you looked at who he picked for his team? they are all supporters of bitcoin.

what blockchain.info does is that they encrypt the wallet file (that plain text that you said) with a pretty good encryption technique called AES-256-CBC and does the encryption inside your browser and then saves the encrypted file on their cloud. so even if the hacker hacks blockchain.info he will get the encrypted version and has to decypher it first. and if your password was decent enough he can not do anything.

https://blockchain.info/wallet/how-it-works

there are two major problems with ETC:
1) it is an altcoin that is being pump and dumped, which means like any other coin it is going to die after it exhausts its pump cycles.

2) it is ETC! we all know that it is the fork, and we also know and have witnessed manipulators dump massive amounts whenever ETC wants to make a upward movement, killing the pump in its infancy.

ethereum's pumps have always been good to all of us, you just have to find that bottom which is very hard sometimes, and then buy and wait for the pump to come and sell on top.
i have done it so many times that i lost count, i owe many of my bitcoins to eth profits.


who? what?, can you elaborate?

i do not agree.
it is obvious that losing is a part of trading since we can neither control nor predict the price. but how you lose money is important and what you do about it.

some people are making random trades and some are profitable and some are not, then they consider themselves traders.

but a real trader makes each trade count and out of many successful trades one of them turns out bad and then in that one bad trade they pull out and then even turn that one into a profitable trade too by buying at the bottom again.

younger generation have always been more interested in newer technologies than the oldies. they have always been the ones adopting them the first and then they become popular and it is the same with bitcoin.
these kids are loving bitcoin now and with proper education and guidance they can grow up to be pioneers in crypto currency world.

many people think earning bitcoin should be different than earning money just because bitcoin has a different name than money (USD and so on).

but in fact it is all the same, with absolutely no difference. you can earn bitcoin the same way you can earn money. and the fact that some people can not earn any bitcoin is either the first thing i said or they are incapable of earning money in real life too. otherwise anybody who can earn money can earn bitcoin too.
they just have to use the same methods but ask for bitcoin in return.

the "rally" is strong still. and what you see now is called correction. and correction is a part and parcel of any rise. whenever there is a rise like from $770 to $970 there must be some correction meaning price coming down due to traders selling their coins for profit.

nothing is sucking either price has already gone up enough to be happy with a big profit.

in the future bitcoin will be used more as a currency but it will never replace "money" or fiat as we know it. because that would mean replacing the centralized, government controlled fiat which is not possible at all.

it was never dead to come back to life. a dead coin has its value dropped but if you look at the price history Litecoin has been in the $3 range for a very long time with little fluctuations.

and also it will continue rising, because so far each time bitcoin rises, litecoin follows in its footsteps with a short timeframe window.

in the past few weeks each time i open my favorite exchange i see ETH has dropped about 5 to 10% and it happens almost everyday!

most of it is because of bitcoin price rise and investors pulling out their money but also it is only a small percentage drop because the manipulators are putting up huge buy walls which sometimes go as big as 700BTC but even they can not stop the drop!