I have used a number of exchanges and never came across any that asks for source of coin before honoring my orders, so it is either OP is having something to hide or the association of the coins with Mtgox raised a red flag. I fault the op choice of words, they sound like half truth to me.

I suppose you deposited though a wallet, it history should be a pointer to the source if that is really how it got to Mtgox in the first place.

Cryptsy should also make that list because it is the latest dead end exchange site that happened in the cryptocurrency world and dampened people's confidence in cryptocurrencies. One beaten, twice shy, so for me I hold account with a number of exchange sites and I only stop there whenever I have business to do with them and trade with only amounts I can afford to lose.

Are those images really showing Head and Shoulder formations or Butterfly? If you say it is head and shoulder, mind pointing out which is the head and where the two shoulders at? Looks to me, you are mixing them up, though any trader that is conversant with pattern formations would agree both can be very profitable trading set ups, if spotted quite early and enough patience to baby-sit the formation, till the picture becomes clearer and "entry point" is triggered.

I don't quite agree with you, no volatility does not equal to no trade, the right thing should be no volatility, no profit and that means the market is stagnant. A stagnant market would hardly attract speculators nor investors attention, because a market like that holds little or no interest for them.

 The up and down movement of price is a natural sequence of things - up and down, short and tall, white and black, man and woman, etc and it all emanates from the forces of demand and supply, whichever that outweighs the other, determines the prevailing market condition. Basic Economics dictates that, when demand exceed supply, prices goes up and goes down, when supply exceed demand.

Not all said and done! If I notice an upsurge in price, I will not immediately sell off, my first point of action would be to ascertain, the (fundamentals) forces behind the upsurge and the technical analysis would explain better if that force is spent, like hitting a strong resistance or psychological level, then I may consider selling for USD to buy back when a strong support is hit. I may settle to buy cryptos that are in sync with bitcoin to sell them later, when their price mush have appreciated too.

Nothing says people are not making a living off of trading the cryptocurrencies or fiats. Everything boils down to a trader's knowledge, experience and scale of trading. If you are a versed trader and with good enough trading capital, then managing your funds through informed market decisions would surely leave you with more winnings than losses. There is no way to not lose from time to time, but your knowledge and experience would steer one safe form chaos.

Why is the price of bitcoin rising in the first place? Because it has some attributes that makes people have faith in it and regardless of what the authorities think. Those attributes, like peer to peer transactions are fundamental and as such, would continue to propel the speculative and investment nature of bitcoin and that already is an edge over gold. That aside, gold already is having so much romance with the fiats, that the manipulative tendency of the authorities over fiats is sure to also play out with gold.

I think you meant to say if bitcoin is declared illegal across the globe, which is most unlikely, use of bitcoin would recede further into the dark web, strengthening anonymity and creating artificial scarcity. By that time, the governments would have lost it, because the scarcity would plummet the price of bitcoin, so much more people would be all out to go after it just like another gold rush.

A closer look at how the governments is handing bitcoin, indicates they are cautious, signalling they must have weighed these consequences and inclining to experiment with their own versions of bitcoin.

What you are saying invariably is that, all you know about bitcoin is that it begins and ends with earning of some extra income from the internet and that is rather unfortunate.

You need to see and understand bitcoin for the revelation and revolution that it is. If you have been following the trend, the technology upon which bitcoin was built is fast finding expression in so many issues challenging the society. Like the issue of trust, same technology is being adapted to create trust systems, which is badly needed in every facet of life, especially in poor countries where corruption has been the major clog in their wheel of progress.

They are interested in the technology behind bitcoin and not bitcoin itself because the decentralized nature of bitcoin means bad business for them, so now they are looking at how the technology can be twisted so that it would be business as usual.

The revelation bitcoin opened our eyes  to about banks, isn't something they can easily sweep under the carpet, they have been milking us dry all the while, but with bitcoin, we now have a voice to say enough is enough!

You couldn't have said it any better! Those governments are simply chasing shadow by at one hand admitting their undying love for the blockchain technology, while at the other hand, pretend/deny the relevance of bitcoin and wish it dead. But bitcoin is here to stay, you and I know why they would rather the last is heard of bitcoin.

Whereas bitcoin was invented as a digital currency and exists purely as a mathematical object, it nevertheless is a real money. It is revolutionary and have more appeal than what other so called real money are having to offer. It is secure, can be divided into much more smaller units, transactions are nearly instantaneously since central banks and its agents - card companies are by-passed, resulting in very low transactions costs. How best can a real money get?

China and Russia sometime ago were clamping down on bitcoin whereas the U.S. kept sanctioning and promoting it. The turn around in acceptance and increased volume of trade in recent times cannot be discounted from the U.S. position in global financial markets and interest in technology, which is what has brought bitcoin thus far. Imagine what would have been the fact of bitcoin if the U.S. joined the bandwagon to abort it - thank goodness they did not!

Though nothing is impossible, but things like the entire government of various countries of the world, taking one stand is certainly not one of those things or have a thing like that happened before now? While some may see nothing wrong with declaring bitcoin illegal, some others certainly would not.

Already that is the scenario presently playing out across the globe and it is evident that the ones that called bitcoin illegal obviously said so in error and are fast withdrawing their words. I am compelled to ask, how exactly can something that is global, decentralized and unregulated be established as illegal?

This kind of replacement without any doubt is what the authorities have been nursing, but how disappointed they all would be at the end of the day. The wide spread acceptance of bitcoin was not for the fun of it, but hinges on the fact that bitcoin is a revolution that arrested the  financial colonialism people have been subjected to overtime and which is what the authorities are fighting tooth and nail to reinstate, but the people are wiser now.

Technology is evolving, so we might someday come into another coin that could replace bitcoin, but it cannot be anything built outside the foundation already in place in bitcoin, especially the ability for transactions to stay decentralized or it never would make it pass bitcoin.

Going down memory lane, it has always been like that, government are tax masters, they can hardly support anything that holds nothing for them. That explains their indifference to bitcoin and their earnest desire to come up with their own version of bitcoin, which without any doubt, would be more of a Trojan Horse. 

You never help someone by giving them bread, instead teach them to bake and you have empowered them for life as well as taken lots of burden off your shoulders.

At any rate, the op is not all about the dishing of handouts to poor countries, but rather a question, seeking to know how bitcoin and the blockchain technology can be of help to poor countries. To that, bitcoin can be of help to poor countries in many ways than one, given its unprecedented attributes. Take its very low cost of transaction for instance, from the government outlook, it can effective beat down the cost of revenue collection and which would translate to lower cost in price of goods and services and extra funds for infrastructural development.

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The guilty are simply afraid and would they ever stop throwing tantrums at bitcoin? All their sugar-coated words about their own version of blockchain is nothing but smoke screens to recolonize us, but it is a pity they arrived late, we know better now. The banks are agents of the government and their whimpering  is understandable, no one should take them serious though, it has been their selfish interest all the while.