it has nothing to do with bitcoin block halving.
and also please avoid calling these sites with the name of "mining" because they are not a mining service but a ponzi scheme.

this means they don't turn into scam, they are scam from the start. and also the reason why they don't last long these days is the fact that people are more aware of their scam and don't fall for it. so they can't find any investor so they end their scam operation.

i am not surprised.
once again cointelegraph fails to publish yet another reliable news. it seems like they just type something in with least amount of time spent on making their articles and the more click baitable the article (not particularly this one) the better.

the first thing you should do is to learn why price goes up and down and also learn how to find the best price to buy and then sell at.

this is the most important step and the most common step that most new traders skip and end up gambling with their money in an altcoin market while pumpers become richer and richer while taking their money.

actually this is wrong because price matter and it matters a lot specially when you are mining it. because even with the cheapest electricity you are still spending money for mining that coin. mostly your initial investment for the equipment and the electricity cost.

so for example of some coin is worth 1000 satoshi you can not mine it and make any profit but if it is worth 0.01BTC then you may have a chance.

check out that site (i think it was called) coinwarz and you can get the gist of what i mean.

rise alone is not the reason people are talking about even higher prices. if you think it is optimism to say bitcoin price will be $1000+ then it shows that you don't know anything about why price even goes up in the first place.

you are interpreting what i said in a wrong way. the way that i am saying you should stay away from!!!

yeah i agree that you can make a lot of profit from bitcoin the price is going up and all that trading on the side.

but i say when you explain bitcoin to someone you should explain it as a currency and talk about benefits of bitcoin as it was intended to be aka a currency. all the talk about earning bitcoin and profiting from holding bitcoin is useless when you want to introduce bitcoin to someone who has never heard about bitcoin before.

things like this has been happening for a very long time. there are a certain kind of people that will wait for a very low price, maybe not exactly $100 but they wait for a huge drop to buy and the funny thing is that when a drop like what they have in mind happens, they start to panic and think it will go down more so they don't buy. and then after price started to recover they don't buy again because it is higher than what they had in mind and they missed the chance.
these people will always wait and only watch from sidelines regretting every moment of their lives.

this has always been the goal and it is not new. price has been moving up for a long time, moving towards a much higher price and all those little drops and once or twice bigger drops were like bumps on the road caused by all the drama and FUD trying to damage bitcoin but it never is successful and bitcoin will continue up.


this has nothing to do with bitcoin and shows nothing about bitcoin price. i am still surprised to see that ridiculous price for zcash though!

in my opinion it really doesn't matter who you are trying to explain bitcoin to. whether it is a teenager or an adult, a female or a male. you should always stick to the facts when explaining about bitcoin to someone else.

for example i have seen many people say bitcoin will make you rich and all that speculation stuff, this is a very bad idea to introduce bitcoin like this.

this is an strange thing that has happened to your account because usually when you get hacked they withdraw your money and be done with it.

although if Bter uses Email verification for withdrawal that would be explainable since they needed an alternative way of emptying your account.

but also i think the only other possible explanation is that you had an API key that was compromised and the only way the hacker could withdraw was to use those keys to do trades.

also i should add that Bter is not such a trustworthy place after the huge hack of 7700BTC

all i know is that when you invest in bitcoin you can be sure that your money is in a safe place as long as you have a safe wallet (for example  a paper wallet) and you can be sure that bitcoin price will go up and even if it starts falling tomorrow the price will be higher lets say a year from now.

you don't have to be unsuccessful with bitcoin to start having a passive income. you just do it whenever you can do it. and the ways people choose will always be different but the important thing is if you think that is a good way and you are making profit then don't let anything stop you.
in my opinion selling Tshirts is not good enough for me.

bitcoin has already touched that price and it is now above $700 and if this can continue i am sure that $710 at least will be the new bottom price that can not be broken.

but for now the only sure thing is that you can say goodbye to $600 as we can never see it again.

first of all why do you want to classify it? bitcoin is open and decentralized so there is no need for classifying it just like everything else that government controls.

besides why not all of the above?
you can use bitcoin as all of them, a currency an investment , commodity ,... and that is actually the beauty of bitcoin and why it is growing so much these days.

so your question is about the "API Response" of an exchange service. now it is a different story.

for that you have to consult the API documentation of that particular service that you are using for more information and making sure.

but from what i see here https://www.btcc.com/apidocs/spot-exchange-market-data-rest-api#ticker :
{"ticker":{"high":"4949.67","low":"4734.74","buy":"4869.43","sell":"4870.28",
"last":"4869.44","vol":"3715566.31290000","date":1477820421,
"vwap":"4837.89","prev_close":"4898","open":"4898"}}

ticker is the price of the orderbook (buy and sell) plus the last/history of price like highest/lowest price

p.s. https://www.btcc.com/apidocs

that is right but that is called exceptions and we all know that exceptions don't make a rule. besides it has already been proven than a huge hack like the bitfinex hack can not even keep the price down longer than a very short time.


i don't know if you are joking or is it a mistake.
you see buy support on an orderbook not on the transaction charts and certainly not on the chart for number of transactions per block!!!

lol, you are making the same mistake again. and again and again.
this is the same as thousands of other altcoins before it and also thousands of other altcoins that will come after this.

none of them had anything to say and it is unlikely that we can see anything good out of altcoin market unless the altcoin developers start thinking about other things than money.

there is no such thing called bitcoin "tick" and the word tick on its own has a different meaning.

what you saw is probably called bitcoin price ticker. and ticker means something like a price watch where it updates the price for users to see in real time on every tick (time intervals).

and if you want something similar either use a live exchange service to see the live price or use trusted sites like http://www.preev.com/ or coindesk's price ticker. don't click on any random link you find on google search.

i say no way.
first of all who in his right mind is going to throw away a hard drive which has 30,000 bitcoins on it and this is recent which means it was worth 21 million dollars.
i don't know about other people but i will burn my hard drive which has my private keys before throwing it out if it had 21 million dollars on it.

besides someone who owns 30,000 bitcoin also knows better about how to protect it by keeping a back up!

edit:
i was laughing so hard i did not see the last part.
also reading hilariousandco comment it is 100% scam

you are not alone, i have never heard about any of those two exchanges that OP is "recommending" either. i have even checked coinmarketcap for the list of the exchanges and "paymium" is not even listed there "the rock trading" is number 30 and it doesn't seem to be having any volume apart from btc/eur and that much volume is only because bitcoin is rising!!