haha, price started rising again and everyone became "experts" in predicting bitcoin price. literary every bitcoin related news outlet out there are publishing optimistic speculations about how price is going to be such and such high-prices next phase. i wonder where were all these "expert" speculators when price was at the bottom and we were saying it is time to accumulate and price is going to the moon soon? by then all the same news outlets were publishing pessimistic price speculations talking about how price is going to fall to $1000 soon most of them from the same people!

Very sad. Why have you downloaded that altcoin wallet and what's the name. There's nothing left to do from your side. I request you to create a scam accusation to protect other users.
This is a shit stupid forum. Users have to submit lots of personal data in order to create an account.

That was exactly my point. But since the media prefer to publish articles on this kind of subject, people only remember that. On top of that, how many researches have been published to finally say that the percentage of BTC transactions related to illegal activities is very low?

just for the drug industry

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_drug_trade

The theory of Gavin Andresen being part of the psyOPs operation to pass Craig Steven Wright as Satoshi Nakamoto in order to brainwash the masses into supporting their forks is very valid. Gavin Andresen started doing a 180 on his views after the CIA visit and Satoshi disappeared after his CIA visit... connect the dots.

Gavin and Craig are partners in bitcoin-crime.

However, cyber security engineer Dr. Matthew Edman provided written testimony to the court on Monday that Wright’s email evidence is bogus. The email’s digital signature, says Edman, demonstrates that it was produced in early 2014—not 2012 as Wright claims.

The problem? Kleiman died in 2013.

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China’s state planner wants to ban bitcoin mining, according to a draft list of industrial activities the agency is seeking to stop in a sign of growing government pressure on the cryptocurrency sector.
A small toy figure is seen on representations of the Bitcoin virtual currency in this illustration picture, December 26, 2017. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

China is the world’s largest market for computer hardware designed to mine bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, even though such activities previously fell under a regulatory grey area.

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said on Monday it was seeking public opinions on a revised list of industries it wants to encourage, restrict or eliminate. The list was first published in 2011.

The draft for a revised list added cryptocurrency mining, including that of bitcoin, to over 450 activities the NDRC said should be phased out as they did not adhere to relevant laws and regulations, were unsafe, wasted resources or polluted the environment.

It did not stipulate a target date or plan for how to eliminate bitcoin mining, meaning that such activities should be phased out immediately, the document said. The public has until May 7 to comment on the draft.

State-owned newspaper Securities Times said on Tuesday that the draft list “distinctly reflects the attitude of the country’s industrial policy” towards the cryptocurrency industry.

Last week, the price of bitcoin soared nearly 20 percent in its best day since the height of the 2017 bubble, and breaking $5,000 for the first time since mid-November, though analysts and traders admitted that they were puzzled by the surge.

On Tuesday, bitcoin was trading at $5,190.

The cryptocurrency sector has been under heavy scrutiny in China since 2017, when regulators started to ban initial coin offerings and shut local cryptocurrency trading exchanges.

China also began to limit cryptocurrency mining, forcing many firms - among them some of the world’s largest - to find bases elsewhere.

Chinese companies are also among the biggest manufacturers of bitcoin mining gear, and last year three filed for initial public offerings in Hong Kong, looking to raise billions of dollars.

However, the two largest, Bitmain Technologies, the world’s largest manufacturer of bitcoin mining gear, and Canaan Inc, have since let their applications lapse.

People familiar with the deals said that Hong Kong regulators had many questions about the companies’ business models and prospects.

According to Canaan’s IPO prospectus filed last year, sales of blockchain hardware primarily for crypto currency mining in China were worth 8.7 billion yuan ($1.30 billion) in 2017, 45 percent of global sales by value.

The prospectus forecasts that sales in China would rise to 35.6 billion yuan by 2020.

 Is that enough to get a whole wheat on rye at your local deli?

I just calculated the net worth of all those who've posted in this thread: 3.14159265 BTC.

in february there was a massive collapse in visitors on coinmarket cap (-15% now only 55 million viewers per month)

and Bitcointalk (-26.44%)

https://www.similarweb.com/website/bitcointalk.org#overview

now only 6.28 M people visit bitcointalk per month, another massive loss last month, last month alone almost half the amount of people left as there are currently still in.

this is usually a good indication for the success chances of bitcoin

regards

Jesus! The media yet again! "By Dec. 31. 2020", is not an exact date. Let's all be clear again: I predicted Bitcoin would reach $1,000,000 before the end of 2020. That is not saying it will hit that price on that date.

We all know you can have the best digital security but none of that matters if you get caught by some criminals and they decide to torture you for information (private keys)

If you don't mind answering what kind of precautions are you taking to prevent this? Dummy wallets?  Alarm systems that notify police? Not telling anyone you own btc?

Socialism is like a mouse trap, it works because the mouse does not understand why cheese is free