It's great to see the growth of Bitcoin in the Phillipinnes. There's many services available that are popular thus in the phillippines there is not much need for using the LocalBitcoins.com service - but if you are interested to see the growth in other countries, this link shows it:

Bitcoin's market cap is currently sitting above $90 Billion.

All the country's central banks and governments have become powerless to stop bitcoin (even despite all big banks for four years training tellers to stop if they hear "bitcoin" to block those transactions ever since 2013 - when will they learn their attempts are futile?)

Effective, True savings vehicle: Bitcoin

Updated main thread with this link - visuals are easier to read for most people

Amazing to see global trade growth on localbitcoins as well (scroll down to see all the individual countries):
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins

example screenshot excerpt:

At what point will the banksters learn?

Did you read the link I provided?

It shows the history of the central bank and Mpesa using coercion and illegal practices to shutdown competition and to subvert bitpesa from spreading.

Educating and counter-action should be taken against the individuals acting in such disregard. Their names should be available easily, these are those serving as the Board of Directors for any of the entities.

Have fun.

Its a bit of an annoying task. I can understand why there wouldn't be many volunteers.

Or all the Chinese in the Chinese thread of this forum?

Bad Actors:
Answer: DCG = DIGITAL CURRENCY GROUP (Barry Silbert, Jeff Garzik, coin base, bitpay, etc) who spread FUD and are trying to infiltrate & eventually shutdown bitcoin.
r/btc reddit thread and the other company-controlled bitcoin website (bitcoin.com). They spread FUD but then spend time accusing of others spreading FUD, LOL. Why do they push hard on altcoins (bitcoin cash, ethereum, FUD?  Why do they push for forks?

Forks creating scamchains are a courtesy brought to you by DCG group of companies led by Barry Silbert with his fellow minion Jeff Garzik and friend Roger Ver. Central banks love to fund their operations so they can get inside the community to circumvent Bitcoin's progress and try to destroy bitcoin.

Luckily their attempts have been marked by continuous failed altcoins...
"Bitcoin Classic" failure
"Bitcoin XT" failure
"Bitcoin Unlimited" failure
"Bitcoin Cash" failure
coming soon..."Bitcoin Segwit2x" (BTC1) failure

Recommend reading post: "Hacks Puppets and Forks - How to destroy Bitcoin"
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1834310.20

hacks (these people may have been well-meaning previously...but people change...):
Mike Hearn : “the "Bitcoin experiment" has "failed." goes on to Ethereum an app coin.
Hearn - Big Bank Bitcoin Bully - https://medium.com/@tradertimm/hearn-big-bank-bitcoin-bully-c61531c082e#.okh9viyze
Craig Wright - desperately claimed to be Satoshi & then flees fraud trying to file a bunch of IP patents! LOL!
Mark Karpeles
Paul Vernon
Josh Garza
Roger Ver
Jeff Garzik (2017 recent; hard forking BTC1 / segwit2x)
"Jeff Garzik wants you to connect to his Bitcoin transaction analytics (spy) company Skry, by default, in the SegWit2x fork. Jeff is a sneaky snake!":https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6n9grc/jeff_garzik_wants_you_to_connect_to_his_bitcoin/
Barry Silbert (and his DCG portfolio of companies-ie Coinbase, Bitpay, sponsoring ilk of Jeff Garzik characters)


Bitcoin has the highest value because of the totality of what it is - if it lacked the features of what it is, then there would be no value.

If it wasn't secure, there would be no value.
If it wasn't immutable, there would be no value.
If it wasn't globally distributed, there would be no value.
If it wasn't so strong, open-source decentralized and unstoppable, there would be no value.
If it wasn't so scarce, there would be no value.
If it was easy to spam transactions, there would be no value
If it didn't have the history of 8+ years (and still no hacker can exploit bitcoin blockchain), there would be no value
If it was exactly like fiat and only did transactions, there would be no value.

Bitcoin has all these together to make the most value and increasing more than any other financial-asset option coming from the fiat central-banking debt-system.


Though it is still very early adoption not even 1% adopted yet (most people everywhere don't know what it is)...
Bitcoin has freed, continuing to free, and tomorrow will still free many people globally from the centrally controlled debt-based fiat system that confiscates your wealth with inflation and tax. Bitcoin is a TRUE savings vehicle. Buying Real Estate, Hospital healthcare, Global traveling, College Education gets cheaper as you hold Bitcoin.

And it has become clear that...
Bitcoin CANNOT be controlled.

Bitcoin cannot be made legal. Governments may still attempt to do so. They can never have such domination on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin cannot be made illegal. Governments may still attempt to do so.

Central banks already control and manipulate Stocks, Real Estate, Gold, Interest Rates. Central banks will never have such domination on Bitcoin.

Bitcoin reached escape velocity 4-years ago in 2013 which means it cannot be stopped - cannot make it illegal or legal - governments/banks do not matter.

On the opposite end of the spectrum the global fiat (US Dollars, Indian Rupees, Chinese Yuan, etc) bubble system broke a couple of decades ago.

Fiat around the world is forced to inflate issuance as its heavily infested, burdened and broken with:
-regulatory burden on fiat banks & system (incredibly costly)
-unemployment & other welfare costs
-inflating fiat to keep stock market rising and to keep house-prices from collapsing
-financing conflicts, bombs, and "aid"
-insurance fraud
-false claims and insurance loss-events
-stabilize regions after natural disasters
-keeping monopolies with internet access centralized and search engine crawlers centralized
-money laundering
-chargebacks
-frivolous legal costs (lawsuits bogging the system down)
-state-sponsored corruption and unofficial corruption (governments and gangs, banks and conartists)
-retirement obligations (debasement in value to keep up with payments from government or other retirement-obligations)
-fake credit (goods being transacted with credit-loss, replaced by inflation of monetary base rather than bringing perpetrators & source to justice)
-using enforcement labor to freeze accounts and assets and take away your money
-costs of auditors and budgetors and accountants to governments and businesses

Bitcoin, systemically, is free from these burdens.

Bitcoin is GLOBALLY held and sought after by people in almost every country - see global trade data by country or see this list:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1853019.0

BLOCKCHAIN without bitcoin = SCAMCHAINS
BLOCKCHAINS without bitcoin ARE SIMPLY PRIVATE DATABASES that every small business has even a coffee shop = NO VALUE, its like fiat currency, small minimal value!

BITCOIN BLOCKHAIN = SECURE IMMUTABLE VALUABLE OPEN-SOURCE DECENTRALIZED FAIR (scarce bitcoin supply). Globally people poured over $70Billion (USD) equivelent value into bitcoin and this will increase with time.

CAN SOMEONE PLEASE STOP BLOWING BUBBLES OF EXTRA FIAT MONEY AROUND THE WORLD? (PLEASE NO MORE USD, EUROS, JAPANESE YENS, INDIAN RUPEES, CHINESE YUAN, MEXICAN PESOS - PLEASE STOP INFLATING AND MAKING BITCOIN SO VALUABLE)...stop this pumping

https://macromon.wordpress.com/2017/04/26/the-chart-that-floats-overvaluation/

What is the best way to protect yourself and your family from fiat currency bubble debt scheme?

How can you stop enslavement to pumping of US Dollars or Indian Rupees or Chinese Yuan or Euros?

Bitcoin seems to be likely the best option to escape from the corrupt system.

Here's a comparison of bitcoin to Real Estate (Houses) vs Bonds vs Stocks vs Gold:

Good you can access it on your phone, but I wonder what sort of access is available from China itself.

The Chinese firewall blocks this bitcointalk.org website as well as VPNs, right? That's why you don't see too many CHinese here.

Maybe. People of Spain marked top 5 peoples in a country engaged in Bitcoin.

=(

Good for you that there is hundreds, thousands of OTHER cryptos that aren't as decentralized as Bitcoin where a center point can be steered for your overall community strategy. Go ahead. =)

Very interesting, you may have a point?  But what if a decentralized platform was made convenient?

And remember, Jamie stated that his daughter has bitcoin. LOL.

Haha. The link clearly marks January 2017. How did you miss this?


LOL. Same for every other asset listed in the world.

All the value of real-estate to be suddenly "withdrawn" in physical cash would be obviously impossible.

All the value of gold to be suddenly "withdrawn" in physical cash would be obviously impossible.

All the value of stocks to be suddenly "withdrawn" in physical cash would be obviously impossible.

All the value of bonds to be suddenly "withdrawn" in physical cash would be obviously impossible.


Cool thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Yes competition is a good thing. Monopolies of money by central banks around the world is a system of slavery.