I'm from India as well, but I can't confirm I heard this anywhere. Can you please reveal the source?
Btw, while there's still a lot of confusion over the acceptance of Bitcoins by Indian government, i.e.; whether they will be legalizing and regulating it or not is the major question here. In their point of view, mining takes a lot of electricity and Bitcoin's nature being liquid, doesn't really guarantee any specified earnings over the input being put into it, whether it be the purchase of miners or electricity consumption.

What you are witnessing currently can't be compared to what you saw in early 2014 when it crashed from $1100 to $250 in no time after the pump was injected.
Things have now changed a lot because we didn't see it breaking back hard (in other words, crash) suddenly but there were reasons this time for its rise as well as fall too. It'll rise but we need to stay focused on the problems that are rising too with its adoption, else do you think it will really keep up with the demands of the market?

Are you sure that leaving your coins in an online wallet without holding your private key a better idea?
I don't even use Blockchain's online wallet nowadays as they don't allow multiple addresses to be sent at once (when you send to more than one recipient), as well, for privacy reasons, they change the address with new and the "change" remains in the old one (which can be used again in future but you don't hold your private key). I think Electrum needs to be used with care (if anyone's suggesting OP with electrum, please ask them to download the upgraded version 3.0.5 to forgo the bugs).

Try to find a developer who can help you merge pharmaceutical business in blockchain.
My idea would be to come up with my own tokens and reward each and every individual with some rebates over their spendings they would do with my tokens whether online (through pharmaceutical sites) or offline (hospitals and/or clinics). For that, you need to collaborate with a lot of people and make them understand the whole concept you have in your mind, then ask them whether they would be ready to support your project by accepting your tokens at their place? This will surely get you a lot of exposure. Don't forget to implement proper buyback schemes to keep your customers remain with you forever.

I personally don't know why people think of Bitcoin as a currency as Satoshi never clarified it if they want it to be used like that, what they told us they want Bitcoins to be used as a digital token, a mode of payment that could help others transfer values much quicker than how we have been doing earlier. We need Bitcoins currently because it could be used as an investment asset as well as a major denomination for altcoins to evaluate them.

The reason for rise includes:
- Sudden spike in the number of investors who came in watching others investing in it due to the surge that was taking place slowly already.
- Media boost that helped Bitcoin go mainstream.
- From $1k to $20k, it surged to more than 2000%.

Now, let's talk about decline:
- Think of it as a correction because there can't remain positivity all the time, and so does negativity.
- Don't take it as a drop after the price spike, take it as a dip from the ATH, it didn't even go down 50% after rising 2000%.

- High value of Bitcoins made it less affordable for companies as they need to pay high fee each time they pay (I believe there will be some campaigns with better pay structure and 2 weeks period for payments to save on fee)
- Companies choose ICOs over Bitcoins as they gather investments from users and pay through it, kinda give and take.
- I think we will soon be seeing some ETH or XRP signature campaigns instead of Bitcoins, because not only do these two have less fee, but the confirmations are really faster compared to Bitcoins atm.

How can you and me decide whether they are spamming? It's moderators' job and they're doing it well. Trashing? The guy asked to teach them regarding signature campaigns, did they literally ask that they want to join one? NO.


I know you're a good person and can understand that everyone's thinking is different on each case.


Yes we do, but can you seriously justify whether the OP's only intention was to join signature campaigns and post for it only? They're at Member level, they can easily get a chance in any bounty campaign if their intention is just to spam the shit over forum. Taking my intention into consideration, I told it as an example, as well, you can also check my posts to see whether I post for money or to help out everyone here, and talking what's truth. Not taking anyone's side, but truth's side.

Going rude is not an option, helping and sharing is.
My question to you: Did you actually share or make them learn something?
My answer for you: Yes. You actually shared "hatred" and made them learn how to behave with everyone over here.
According to you, it's people like "us" who can make this a piece of shit or a place where they may really know anything about Bitcoins.
When you admitted OP may be a spammer's account, don't you think the forum itself is filled with so many "spam" threads where same questions have been asked 100s of times? This is what I said earlier already, so for them (a newbie or an actual learner) to learn becomes more and more fragile. If their intention was to spam, wouldn't they just join an ICO's bounty campaign and do it? Why are they doing it for free while you and me, we both are getting paid for all our posts?

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Bottom Line: If you are unable to do good for others, at least never do bad to them (a saying).

Different people are speculating in different ways, but I think that if we want a healthy future for Bitcoins,it should remain stable at some point for some time, maybe 6 months and grow with stability. Because going higher too quick will only make others call it a bubble and we don't want such a great technology to get criticized for that part. I think it'll remain conscious between $15-25k and stabilize near last year's ATH - 20k.

I've had encountered many situations where my luck favored me very badly. I always used to gamble on soccer matches with odds more than 5 - 8 per bet and my bets were used to be BTC0.01 per match. I mostly go for over/under bets and last minute bets have always made me awesome gains. Like I remember, a match was there between Liverpool and Chelsea, both were 2 - 2 and I made a bet at 87th minute over Liverpool to win the match with odds of 8.5, I don't know how but they managed to make a goal in 92nd minute, 1 minute before the game ended. This made me win 0.085 in one shot. I still remember those days as I've now stopped doing it.  

Seriously, I've no hard feelings. Though, it's not about spoon-feeding but as they are relatively new, we should keep our behavior very calm to them. You must be remembering of the old days when you joined the forum? Same was my case and everyone here. They've the right to ask, so we may guide them whether through replying to them or asking them to check themselves. But, BEHAVE.


You're one of the best people on the forum that I personally admire. But, I want to interrupt here by saying that sometimes, forum's search function goes nuts which is why I believe that what OP asked can be considered reasonable. And one more thing, stickies aren't the updated versions completely (not saying they're worthless, but uneasy for them to get everything under one roof) and there are many threads with same queries answered more than 100s of times, but it's not easy for a newbie to find which one to follow.

There's no strategy that could work for long time as once it's caught (gets observed already by the house once you start using it, that's where the foul play takes place and they start adjusting the numbers for future bets that makes us lose). As well, most sites are rigged probably so the probability of winning with our mathematics will always remain comparatively low to house's win. Best is when we see winning, we should stop at some point and get back another day as you can't eat everything at a go.

There are issues going on with TRX deposits as they claimed that they're facing problems crediting end user accounts who sent TRX through direct contracts. Now, to what I feel, they should be given the required time they're asking for - 24 hours. They literally wrote it over the exchange that they're experiencing issues with ETH and ETH token deposits and they will have everything resolved in 24 hours. I was even worried about my withdrawal as I thought that just like others, I'm scammed too. But they've sent it. The only problem here is, they send a big batch of payments with a small fee which is somewhat shady. The worst part - they never answer anything over chat. And take more than 24 - 48 hours to reply through email support too. They are not scam ATM, but likely to be in future if this will continue to be their constant behavior.

In simple words, there's something we call as "reputation" here. Build it up, try to be very punctual in your service whether it's a trade or if you manage something like an escrow, campaign manager, etc. One important thing to be remembered, never ask anybody to give you "trust", let them do it at their own concern if they like your work. Just keep up the good work, and green trust will eventually occur in your profile. Though, normal trust ratings and trust from DT members differ a lot, you must be knowing the difference already, do you?

There are a few things you should know before trying to get enrolled in a campaign:
- Always try to be constructive and where you can answer in a sentence which seems enough and meaningful, no need to make a whole paragraph for the same.
- Follow the rules over the forum to remain a good user.
- Try to improve your English skills as that's the only language signature camp managers mostly focus upon (exceptions could be made if they allow local posts).


Did you come out of your mother's womb with complete knowledge of crypto? Are you Satoshi? Stop being such a ridiculous person and try to be helpful, that's what we all are here for.

Just for my own concern, want to know whether anyone here has still tried to withdraw anything over hitbtc and received it yet? I've asked for a withdrawal yesterday and it's more than 24 hours and no updates as of yet. Should this be a matter of worry? I see them being active 24/7 "ban-hammering anyone, they feel, shouldn't post anything."

EDIT: Guys, I can finally see the funds sent from their wallet, but the fee was less due to which it's unconfirmed for hours.

It's not just limited to you, but there are many users who are complaining, few regarding deposits, many regarding withdrawals. TRX looks to have gained a lot there due to the limited number of coins being sold at each level and for that, they might have gone "maintenance mode" just like bittrex, but by being quiet on what's going on there, they're proving themselves to be guilty. Mods ban people without thinking, based on their convenience so as to stop others "spamming the chat by complaining there" (according to them).

There are a few shady things that I encountered on their exchange while trying to trade there:
- Deposits of tokens that Rose in value already or are still rising, fresh example of which is TRX (Tron) take longer time to show or for few, they don't even show up (possible manipulation of the market through their exchange to keep the flow go on by showing others how they could make more on hitbtc than any other exchange, and then, scam the users by running away - a possiblity).
- Some tokens can only be bought or sold with a fixed number, i.e.; you need to, and can buy exactly 1000 coins (in multiples of 1000) for selected tokens and some coins are traded in limited decimals.

Can't there be anything implemented to only gather data that's needed to keep the records, and the remaining data be removed "just like segwit transactions" in order to have even that MEGABLOCK not that mega in size or that any code adjustments be made to get such MEGABLOCKS validated without much ado and waiting period be cut down less for them?

Guess you are not seeing the big picture there. There remain many transactions, a lot. And even with less fees, the number is so big that the accumulated fees on total number will also be very high. Why would they choose not to take such transactions in a MEGABLOCK when they are already being rewarded for their work with newly generated coins? Doesn't this count as greed?