The only people that have put them in retirement thanks to BTC are the first initial whales. Current holders will have to wait at least 10 years, but in im sure in 10 years, by holding 2 figure BTC your portfolio will be big enough to get some real estate and live off rent. That's my plan, so right now it's time to to buy BTC, which means I just can't simply quit my job. If sig campaigns payed higher, then I would consider it.

Now you are on the right path. Just keep hustling for more, put a long term goal of 10 BTC. 2 figures just sounds really nice to own, and a great amount to sit on long term. So forget about daytrading or gambling or anything, my immediate advice would be just hold i, I don't see anything clear investing BTC at, including the "big alts" like ETH, XMR or MAID.

Bullshit. No one knows what happened (well, maybe some of the devs, but I still doubt that). The thing is, Satoshi benefits from remaining an anonymous figure. What he would gain from massive worldwide fame? Nothing but problems. He is at an ideal position. He is totally anonymous, and he has enough money to live for a lifetime, and with a priceless contribution to mankind.

I agree, 100 BTC winning is ridiculous, unless all of the people voting are early adopter whales which I doubt they would even bother voting and saying they have 100 BTC. Most people don't even own 1, and experienced users may be inside the 1-10BTC range at best.

The IP is exposed to the node you connect to, which is extremely important that nodes can keep being ran by a single person, so the more nodes we have spread around the globle the more impossible it is to control Bitcoin. This is why XT is seen as a trojan horse by an attacker with an agenda to centralize Bitcoin (and good hearthed big blockers are missing the point)

I think this guy is doing an AMA right now on roger's website. Maybe someone that is registered could ask him one thing or two to see what he comes up to, apparently he seemed like a pretty legit guy at the begining, until the scam thing.. I don't get why people put their prestige on the line by risking getting caught with scams. Now whenever he tries a new venture, they will accuse him and trust will be low (already saw it's happening).

Same
I told my mom I made some BTC on the internet (besides the one I tend to buy monthly with my wage as dollar cost average method) and I always get the same response: "when are you going to sell some of it? what if it falls?" they never believe in long term, always want to sell it and buy something. I showed her how my BTC went up $150+ since it went from 230 floor to the new 380 floor, holding works.

An excellent point, and since like you said, market doesn't work like this and this is just a rough estimate, we are talking that a single millionaire could feel lucky or fall in love with Bitcoin and spend WAY MORE than 10K. Millionaires move millions daily in investments, 10K is absolutely nothing for them. A lot more will go above this 10K per investment threshold, no doubt about it.

Okay, keep waiting for thats 200 price again. Who cares if you buy at 200 or 400 anyway if you are going to hold for 10 years? It's a waste of time. I'll take that speculating is fun but it just doesn't make sense. If you aren't on Bitcoin for the long run you will get eventually burned and cry in regret.

You will regret selling them at $430-$450. You will always regret not matter what, unless you go long term because that's the only way to not end up feeling like a moron that sold too soon for some filthy dollars. I would just hold specially if it's money you can afford to lose (or if you really need those extra dollars for some reason).

Today is a very special date. The US national debt is reaching it's ceiling. In the past weeks, Congress must decide about raising the ceiling on how much debt the federal government may carry. They must act now. I sense a certain panic that is being controlled, no one seems to be talking about it.
This, coupled with the fact China is trying to keep people's money inside the country, are two big factors that may be pushing more and more fiat inside the Bitcoin ecosystem. Long term buy and hold is the only way out.

I am all for increased Bitcoin privacy. I think we need it to find the fungibility problem. Hopefully they don't take ages to make sidechains a thing and we can see confidential transactions soon. But it seems like nothing can be as anonymous as what Amir was trying to do with Darkwallet but unfortunately it seems the project has been frozen for years now for some reason.

I think it has all the good features of gold, like a limited supply and a big network effect (with tremendous potential to go x1000 times what it is now compared to gold) and has all the features of the 21th century that gold will never have (easy of transportation, worldwide transactions, programmable). Basically is the best form of money we've ever seen.

Really cool to see such an unlikely demographic being exposed to Bitcoin. I have tried to explain my mother how Bitcoin works and I don't think she still gets it tho. It's very hard for older people to understand the concept of electronic money beyond the display on the ATM machines at banks. They can't fathom a stateless currency for some reason.

Well, if I was Chinese and I was a wealthy individual, I have no doubt in my mind that putting all of my Chinese fiat in Bitcoin would remain the best option specially if I was trying to avoid capital controls to get out of the country. Every other alternative is useless compared to Bitcoin. Once this phenomena goes worldwide I expect a massive price with a floor higher than the ATH.

Yeah, I find it funny that they aren't mentioning the halving which is coming pretty soon and may drive the price to the actual moon. I don't think they even understand the concept of limited controlled supply. Btw you can check the video on OP in Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3hS41rp2GU

It depends if you are a long term investor or a short term investor. If your gameplan is buy and hold for 5+ years then yes, it's a safe deal. If you are here to make quick bucks, then the rich of screwing ups is always higher. If I was a daytrader or something more of a short investor, I would hold for the entire november month to see where this is going. Fortunately I don't really care since I go very long term and im not worried about downtrends.

Sometimes something shitty like some dodgy ponzi or some stupid bot can trigger a bull rally, but make no mistake, the technology is still there and insanely undervalued, and as a result of this rally legitimate buys can flock in as people realize they don't own something that will be very valuable in the future.

Well, it's way better than visionaries get the bigger piece of the pie on a fair game rather than people who killed a lot of people and generated money out of thin air to get what they have.
Also make no mistake, the Bitcoin whales will slowly sell because they are human and prone to fear, but they will not dump. This if anything, will help that a bigger amount of hands own Bitcoin gradually.

Bitcoin in my wallet, electricity for my car, and some gold i'll keep around too for the good ol times sakes, but oil will eventally be deprecated. We will likely see very few oil based/consuming autos on our streets in the next 20 years. Battery technology has advanced as has wind and solar tech. Oil will rally from time to time but the game is over. The End