This might not be unconnected with the statement by its CEO about two weeks ago. His opinion was that bitcoin won't see beyond next ten years, so I suppose he is taking a cautious move and putting his money where his mouth is. At any rate, I think the opportunity to convert bitcoin to fiat currencies is still there for anyone to use.

I quite agree wit you ETH was rising rapidly as pumper favorite but the attack twice have taken the win out of its sail and that momentum is no longer there, however it is not a dead coin yet. You can wait it out or perhaps channel the coins to vdice which got some prospect.

A lesson to note from tat is never to buy and old any coin tat is pumped, better to o wit te flow if you must,

If indeed bitcoin has no competitors, what then is giving it the momentum to stay up there? I think some people are actually looking but not seeing. All the fiat currencies out there, all other cryptocurrencies are competing with bitcoin, but because bitcoin is decentralized, that gives it an edge over fiats and being the first cryptocurrency, it cornered the early bird advantage thus making it difficult for other coins to outsmart it in capitalization.

The process of ranking up ones account is actually a learning process that could expose newbies to facts they need for existence and survival in this industry. That is like laying a foundation for the future and the smarter thing to do would be to take ones eyes, albeit temporarily off the money and gather good enough knowledge, which would turn out their roadmaps for growing and nurturing their coins when they eventually start rolling in.

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is just eight years with us and every process as we know, takes some getting used to. So far, most bitcoiners are well aware that an exchange, is never to be confused for a bank. Moreover, there are now history, one can fall back on, to decipher a thing or two about an exchange about to sink and make good one's escape.

Like when an exchange starts to quote rates that are totally out of range from those of other exchanges, that is when to gather all one got and take to one's heels.

I think the first thing would be for the rich countries to use their power and influence in exposing and helping to bring to book all those rulers from the poor countries, that have stacked their stolen wealth overseas. It stands to reason that, the plundering would have been minimal without the corporation of the rich countries. Just like IMF and World Bank, compels and monitor governments of some countries to implement their agreements, these things are possible if they put their legs down.

Leaving the poor countries to their fate and hoping someday, change would come is an illusion and takes the world further back to the stone age. What is the United Nations really all about in the first place - to mediate in wars that could have been avoided? Bitcoin is a pointer to probity and accountability and could check lots of loopholes those rouges use to siphon their country's wealth.

Knowing that the storm over bitcoin is not settled yet and understanding the fact that governments are uncomfortable and out to frustrate bitcoin, it would be ideal to simply go with the flow for now. Holding bitcoin for a very long while might not turn up satisfactorily, because there could be surprises and changes along the way.

We can see that is exactly what is playing out in China and Russia, they toyed with banning of bitcoin, but it turned out the people rather embraced bitcoin the more. Awareness of bitcoin and the technology behind it, is an eye opener on many salient issues and no one comes into the truth and goes back to lies and pretense. One thing is certain, bitcoin is a true global currency and at no time will all the governments of the world come to an accord to ban bitcoin, some will always differ.

Have you ever used a vpn to connect to another vpn and then to another, what ip would you have at the end of the day? I dont think anonymity online is an issue if one is out to achieve it, so banning bitcoin - something free and borderless is simply asking people to put on their thinking caps. Bitcoin represents freedom and no price is big enough.

Would be a better idea as soon as one starts having tons of bitcoin, to warrant those backups, until then I think my coins are good at blockchain and Xapo, though I have been putting my Xapo wallets to greater use, because those fees at blockchain actually adds up overtime to something significant.

For now, bitcoin is the representative of all cryptocurrencies, it is the first, has the highest capitalization and acceptability! Bitcoin have successfully laid the foundation and set standards for the future of money, though there might be a better coin tomorrow, rest assured it will never be any of the coins coming from some banks or country, because that is exactly what bitcoin came to address - freedom from governments and their agents.

You are quite in tune! Bitcoin have taken the centre stage as a safe haven asset for geopolurical risks. The reason Italy referendum didn't seem to affect the financial markets as much as Brexit did, was because a greater findamental event - speech by Mario Draghi - the President of European Central Bank was being awaited. As at yesterday, the news came out that the European Union is going to commence quantitative easing by April,. That saw the Euro taking a deep as against gold, bitcoin, dollar, etc.

Bitcoin is the scape goat there and it's sole crime is that, it shuts the government and it's agents out of it's operations and that is a nightmare for the government and they seem to have ran short of ideas, so they are taking to blackmailing and brute force, but all that is like water on the back of a duck.

The selling point of bitcoin lies on the fact it is not regulated or controlled by the government of any country. Only yesterday, the European Central Bank announced it is about to commence quantitative easing and tapering. The Euro has been taking the heat since that speech by Draghi, because printing money out of thin air, which is government joker, is bad busuness , but we are fortunate, bitcoin is none of that.

This is to confirm that I have received my payment for the 4th week from this campaign, thanks manager and admin of Byteball, hoping the campaign and project would be a huge success.

https://blockchain.info/tx/7d622a18835938986479f1540aeaaa0d3de8e0b753654e6c2d94505d0a9be64a

Yes bitcoin is being used for illegal activities! Can anyone show us any currency that is never used for illegal activities? The truth is that bitcoin just came on board, but those activities have always been with us!

It is okay if you have gone with gambling, but saying that trading is one and same with gambling shows a shallow understanding, no doubt some aspect of trading can rightly be said to be gambling, but trading as a whole cannot be summarily dismissed as gambling.

Of course the best source of bitcoin nowadays is no other than trading. Among other things, this is the only option in the list that hands over control to people involved, other options simply leave people at the mercy of site owners.

Passive income means after the initial work or major work, you need not work again or just a little and the income would keep rolling in. One reason a provider might want to engage others is expansion and since no one has unlimited fund, soliciting for investors won't be a bad idea, everyone is a winner.

The easiest thing certainly won't be for someone to claim he/she is Satoshi Nakamoto, because he/she would be having quite a lot to answer and proves to make and not just to the authorities, but also the academic community. I must add that the authorities cannot be trusted to be happy with him, for exposing their master-slave game plans and might prefer to hide him themselves, so he/she and the community are better off, he/she stays underground.

This would be the exception though! Lot more people from different countries are sick and tied of their national currencies and you know bitcoin is the only international currency that is outside the manipulation of any one government and so provides a reliable alternative or safe haven for people to turn to for safety. That is already the situation in a number of countries and as the awareness and adoption grows, that translates to increase in demand for bitcoin, basic economics would do the rest and over $1000 per BTC won't be a big deal afterall.