If you already have a job and then earnestly looking for ways to make money online, it means two things:

1. the job is not paying enough to meet your needs

2. it is not late to upgrade your knowledge or start learning something new.

That would leave you with much more fund for purchase of  bitcoin and to throw around.

Yes, Trump does not need to touch bitcoin  directly, but whatsoever action or inaction he takes concerning the economy would be immediately felt on bitcoin. If he makes real his campaign promises to make America great again, that would translate to a stronger dollar. With a stronger dollar, investors would have no choice than to throw their weight behind the dollar and bitcoin, most likely would get lesser attention, but if Trump failed to live up to his billing on the economy, bitcoin would be a major winner.

Looks like you have not been looking aright, because Satoshi's invention, blockchain is revolutionary. It has brought us to a frontier for trust and security like none before it and that cuts across every facet of life and not just a money thing. A lot of sectors are currently looking in on how to adopt this discovery, including the banks. People might be divided about bitcoin, but many more do agree on blockchain.

Satoshi's blockchain is life changing and is deserving of a Noble Prize award. Only problem is that he went under after coming up with such an amazing discovery, though that can be understood from the point of view of the government over bitcoin. I think if he had not gone under, the authorities  would have compelled him to abort bitcoin, because it does not speak their mind.

That summarizes it, Paypal was made for ebay, so anyone wanting to do business on ebay needed  to own a Paypal account, that was how the millions of clients came about. Now that bitcoin  is here and breaking borders, it present a threat to Paypal, so it is not something they are willing to consider in a rush though they are mindful of the potential bitcoin holds for ebay.

Not having the ability for chargebacks with bitcoin, is not a major issue, because a well structured escrow is well able to take care of that.

That's right, the transparency of blockchain technology is a very strong point for bitcoin and people have really been yearning for this change  and not knowing even what to do until bitcoin showed up and the increasing number of user base is a clear indication of acceptability. Worries about its future price is unfounded because bitcoin has got intrinsic values that are strong enough to keep it attractive to traders and speculators alike and for that we can expect the price would rather appreciate than otherwise.

Yes one of the conditions for the bailout of Ford and General Motors by the Obama government was premised on renewable alternative energy, so the quest to play down on oil is quite real and strong. I don't know where the idea that price of oil would rise is coming from, because ever since America - which was the largest importer of oil discovered shale oil, demand for oil have fallen drastically, which is a major factor behind the drop in the price of oil.

Then again is the lifting of the ban slammed on Iran, the market simply has gotten flooded with more supplies, I don't see where the increase in price would be coming from!

I think there is no competition in the first place, bitcoin is in a whole world of its own. The USD and Euro you mentioned are currencies tied down to particular countries, though with some global appeal, but bitcoin is strictly a global currency, with the capability of surviving many odds holding most fiat currencies at the jugular.

We will not forget that the price of bitcoin started right from cents and eventually climbed to the hundreds of dollars we currently have. On the average, the price of bitcoin has been quite impressive. One indeed, would be missing the point by failing to see it is not for nothing that the price of an asset would go up and stabilize there! If it were for the fun of it all or even some mistakes, the price would have corrected by now, retracing and erasing all previous gains, but see for yourself and answer the question, why and how?

Gold no doubt is one of the best assets to invest on, but that it does not drop its price is totally out of touch with reality, because ecious metal not too long ago, the precious metal encountered massive sell-off, after ECB President Mario Draghi suggested Cyprus should sell its excess gold reserves to help fund the country’s bailout and presently when market was waiting for clues whether fed would raise interest rates this year.

In times of uncertainty, investors are known to unload their positions and situations like that are the enabling environment bitcoin thrives in. So we can say bitcoin, is a much preferable investment when global finances are deep in uncertainties.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/gold-falls-sharply-copper-hit-after-china-data-2013-04-15

There are a number of reasons why the authorities are having sleepless nights over bitcoin and some other cryptocurrencies and the tax issue is one of them. The main reason, however is that bitcoin came and opened our eyes that government and their agents, have been enslaving us financially. The worse is that bitcoin also provides the way to shut government out of our transactions.

That power to monitor and control people's finances means so much to the government and losing it, is not something they are prepared to come to terms with, so attempts by government and its agents to snuff out live from bitcoin is something to expect, however there getting away with it is a matter for another day.

That is right, no one knows it all and no knowledge is waste! Keeping an ear on what others have to say isn't bad in any financial market as long as one is already well versed and ahead to be able to sieve the wheat from so many chaffs. Bitcoin is a speculative asset and panic sell off is one of the regular features one should expect here. What is good about situations like this, is that it can alert discerning traders of good opportunities for mopping up the excesses in the market.

Minimum amounts required to trade in forex market may not necessarily be huge, as that is subject to the broker one is using and a number of brokers, Agea for instance accepts trades that are even less than $1. All the same, I think the better way to see it, is that trading with small budgets either in forex or cryptocurrency, doesn't bring out the best in trading as it invariably leads to over trading, boredom and eventually loss. With reasonable trading capital, knowledge and experience, it becomes easier for any trader to make good profit off the market, forex or cryptos.

I think you have a point there, sudden outburst like that are meant to tag a dog a bad name, just so it would be hung. He could not have ventured into a bitcoin company without doing due diligence or was it for the fun of it? So it is questionable why the sudden turn? At any rate, what gives any currency value is people's willingness to accept it as means of payment and since bitcoin is already having such a huge community, I doubt the absent of one person would in any way mean end of the road for bitcoin.

Gambling is for entertainment, if you go there with a mind to make money, you stand a great chance of being disappointed. Aside house edge, a gambling site also has things like huge bankroll and player's emotions working for them, as such most players end up always dashing/handing over their hard earned money to casinos.

Spending little time only at a casino might be something, but I don't think it is something to lean on, also care should be taken, some casinos out there are rigged to rip off players.

When you place the cart before the horse, you will no doubt have some movement too, only it won't be the movement you desired. Same way the price of bitcoin would be hard to plummet to $10,000 or so, when only few people are interested in it. Investors are like butterfly, they follow the flowers. Liquidity is a major determinant of what knowledgeable investors would see firsthand, before they are willing to commit their money as they understand that liquidity is a function of mass adoption.

I think this development is an immediate response to the tragedy that MtGox turned out and stands a good chance of giving people some confidence again about exchange companies in Japan. An insurance company no doubt have to go through some investigations as a necessary process to ascertain the cause of loss and the appropriate indemnification.

Is that really a case of no liquidity or scarcity? I think much more Indians are losing faith in the Rupee as a result of not understanding what direction the government is headed with the currency thus creating a huge demand for a currency outside the control of their government and our dear bitcoin, comes handy there.

Wiring money out of India still walks the corridors of the authorities and so it is nothing changed from what used to be. This development in India is a pointer to what to expect in the future, as more and more people finally discover in bitcoin, what the fiat currencies have denied them.

The future is always a factor of the past, so to have a glimpse of what the future of money would be like, we only have to look at the trend of money presently. We can see that the fiat currencies from one country to another are failing in their numbers and most government are lost what to do. A number of them have taken to printing more note with reckless abandon and festering their countries with inflation, while some have helped themselves to people's deposits.

In the light of all that, much more people are now taking to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, given especially that it is decentralized and the authorities have no way of manipulating it. That aside, security, very low cost of transaction and reliability is a strong point, why lot more people are turning to bitcoin.

Anonymous is one thing and pseudonymous is entirely something else and far from what bitcoin is. We know bitcoin is less than a decade with us, if the noise is that cryptocurrencies facilitate illegal activities, someone tell me, what currency was behind illegal activities two or three decades ago or is illegal activities some word that just came up few years back?

20 BTC as of date is very close to $15000. With that much at my disposal for trading, there really won't be a need to still give room for those sure to never succeed approaches, instead I would throw my weight behind buying and holding bitcoin, which have been proven to work. I would introduce a little extra tweaking to make it more resilient like splitting the money into say six equal parts and implement a grid strategy on it and count on the fact, that the volatility of the market would ensure the market does not go on indefinitely in any one direction.

Forex, I must say is the one with huge volatility! In fact, currencies like GBP/JPY and EUR/JPY could move over 400 pips in one single day. The difference between the behavior of the two trades you suggested above lies on the forex trade being a margin trade, so the leverage ends up multiplying your winning or loss and that is the reason, leverage is often referred to as a double edged sword.