Learning bitcoin economics is seeming entertaining to you ? Highly ridiculous. I guess you have misused the term 'entertaining' instead of 'interesting'. Anyway, if people keep finding bitcoin useful/entertaining/interesting, that must be very good for ensuring good future for it.

Easy to move? I guess but now its pretty costly to move! But the best thing to me about bictoin is that the price is rising right now so I hope that I might strike it rich if the price rises higher again. We will see though. Another good thing is that you can buy gift cards with it so you end up being able to buy whatever you wanted to buy and are not limited because its digital currency.

Yeah of course anything can happen but is it likely? I don’t think so. Bitcoin is doing really well and it seems to me that basically every other altcoins value is affected by bitcoin. If bitcoin crashed no one would have faith in crypto currency it would look bad for every coin. So, I don’t really see bitcoin being replaced anytime soon anyway. But again you never know it could happen.

This must be an awesome post for a change! That’s fascinating! I just checked one of the addresses and there is around 26 grand in that one address so they must have quite a lot by now. I wonder though what mixer would ever accept that much money and it would sure take a long time for the money to be laundered. Of course you also would have to do it with multiple launderers so I don’t know what their plan is.

I believe only poloniex is the versatile provider here. It covers altcoin trading+lending+margin trading.

Bittrex has margin trading but no lending facility. Margin trading is available only to top verified account holders.

Kraken, cex.io, huobi are having margin trading for fiat based trading. Yet no lending possible.

Bitfinex is another leader but in bitcoin trading. They offer both lending and margin trading.

(I guess this topic leads to a useful service discussion topic of listing out exchanges and it's services in margin trading/lending.)

There are significant pros from using bot for our trading regardless of what are the cons you have mentioned. When I am unable to analyse the market round-the-clock, I am just engaging a bot to monitor the market movements and from that analyses, I manually finding more effective trading calls.

I mean to say I am mixing both trading bot and manual trading for better results. I'm getting good results as of now but still I'm not finding any best trading bot.

There is nothing wrong to laugh out of it. If you are a good observer and a continuous leaner then you might find any good things to learn for a perfect life from frustrating gambling losses. It is all about psychological game. You must be mentally prepared to face losses in gambling which must be a very big pratcie in real life scenario.

Not repeating same mistakes in gambling would be the very big lesson I have learned personally from gambling. Learning opportunities are everywhere, it is up to you how effectively you are availing them.

If we are not caring about the legit of a gambling site then we might lose our bankroll in more quicker time than what we are experiencing right now. So, carefully choosing legit and fair gambling houses is more important for any gambler. I personally had experienced with scam sites which is more frustrating, so to avoid such frustrating moments, I spend lot of time for studying about the houses before making any big bankroll with them.  

Mining ? Oh Jesus, it will be profitable only in industry level. You might have misguided by recent huge prices of bitcoins. Still those difficulties will never let you find a block. Probably selective altcoin mining may fetch profits, still cannot be consistent unless you are willing to reinvest your profits. But overall I am not ready to call bitcoin mining as a safest and fastest way of finding bitcoins.

The purpose of this types of discussion is people always want to ensure how quick they could become rich when considerable amount of people will be adopting bitcoins. It is really a great improvement what bitcoin has achieved since 2014.

I believe higher prices will make people adopt bitcoin in more quicker pace. The chances for those 80% of people to be turning as bitcoin adopters is more as higher prices for bitcoin might convince them easily.

I am not ready to agree that everything is being pumped to be a bubble. A bubble could be identified and classified when its market is not backing up with enough volume. When there are many/enough people to contribute to continue an up surge, I believe that scenario should not be termed as bubble.

A bubble will find a crash whereas a valid appreciations may find some corrections. This could be another way of identifying a bubble.

Banning bitcoin means they will not permit any bitcoin related exchanges/ bitcoin accepting merchants so they cannot advertise publicly they are registered in the same country so that they can link bank accounts to their business directly. In simple words : banning bitcoin for government will not be possible until bitcoin related activities are within bitcoins not not needing any fiat conversion.

Regulating bitcoin is possible by regulating bitcoin related start ups. Bitcoin users need to submit KYC while availing those regulated service providers. This way total bitcoin community might comes under regulations.

Can't your fiat money be stolen ? Or your investments in stocks/bonds are coming with zero risk for your money ? Bitcoin is just another type of investment so it also comes with all usual risks typically an investment will be having.

100% drop is only possible with lost bitcoins, value will never drop that much. But, honestly compared to any other investment types like bank deposits/real estate opportunities, I believe bitcoin investment is good as it is fetching high returns in quick times and hence I am ready to bear the risks it is having.

Using altcoins for paying and get paid is the solution I am also into it, but it must be temporary, finally I too need to go back to bitcoins for cashing out. When cash out, I need to pay around $5 worth of bitcoins for network fee which is really not a affordable amount for me. I already started losing profits due to this big head ache.

Xapo wallets also started to charge users for sending out transactions so it is really hard time for the people who are depending on bitcoins for daily transactions. I wish scalability issue to be solved immediately so that we can prevent unconfirmed transactions to hit another record of 300k or 400k.

To by pass ransomware, you need to connect your harddisk into another computer so that you can back up all your important files (wallet files/saved password/seeds). After back up, formatting the hard disk and re-installing new OS might save you from paying for ransomware. But it may need 3 to 5 hours of work and you must need another desktop for back up.

I already have facing such experiences in 2014 and in 2015 and hence I will not get panic. I will simply move all my bitcoins into cold storage and I will focus on earning more bitcoins. When bitcoin prices were trading below $300 I had many faucets which were paying more than 1000 satoshi (now it worths ~2 cents) and I believe here new campaign will come with opportunities to earn weekly 0.1 bitcoins too.

So, no need to worry about price crashes of bitcoin, it must be treated as another buying opportunities.

Not necessary but it will be more beneficial if bitcoin getting advertised on television. Like you have mentioned it will need big amount of money to be spent for this promotion, I just wonder who will afford that for the entire bitcoin community, Mr. Satoshi. Yes, if he is active till today, he might be coming with this kind of idea to make bitcoin adoption more quicker.

But bitcoin is already being covered by media for many reasons and one of them must be its new ATHs.

Yes, the influences of gambling house into sports betting is low as their income is somewhat fixed whereas with other types of games, they will be having variable income chances hence their influences will be more. This may be the reason I do find sports betting is profitable similar to player vs player games.

But sports betting has some inevitable risks like match fixing and unpredictable performances of players. Still gamblers here are sharing sports betting is more profitable to them. This simply shows which has more risks.

There will be no surprise of calling gambling as "dead investment" because gambling is never intended for investment purposes. If you are having this kind of mindset in your beginning days itself, you may gain possible solutions to escape from gambling dangers. People who are not realizing this fact, might get struck with gambling as they are treating gambling as their investment opportunities.

For anyone it would be just a news, but only for the person who had undergone those pains and frustrations must have the reason why he could not control himself when he first lost some 1 bitcoins.

When losing one bitcoin, that would seem as a very big amount and all emotions will induce that gambler to recover that one lost bitcoin as nearly as possible. When chasing down to recover that, he might have faced another one or two bitcoins loss and this way that problem recursively mounding to a very big problem which might cost up to 12 bitcoins also.

But only out of those fluctuations you will be getting chances to make profits. If there is no fluctuations, there will be no opportunities for traders. All the times you do not need to find a right coin, just sticking with few established coins will be more than enough for consistent performances.

Identifying the major price movements (not the short term fluctuations) and entering at right time are the challenges in front of every trader, but these are possible only when we are intensively monitoring market movements.