Because they have to comply with legal laws and all that crap, but it's useless and pointless since anyone of any age can download Core wallet and start sending and receiving payments without no authorization of anyone, so they are trying to stop something that's unstoppable by design, let them waste their time while we improve the software.

This is great news. I wonder when we can see this in the main bloomberg (english edition) so we get a lot of exposure. They sometimes invite people to talk about Bitcoin but seeing it live making a demonstration doing that is always way more attractive than whatever a Bitcoin enthusiast can explain about it.

Paypal is already that token, Bitcoin is not competing to be a payment system, Bitcoin is competing as a currency, that's why it's not direct competition.

Also once we have Lightning Network operative we will be able to compete at those levels of transaction, until then that is as stupid as Bitcoin Classic.

I would try to get that 1 BTC, but if you lose, you take your 0.1 BTC loss and go home and don't play for an entire month. During this month you must work to regain that 0.1 BTC and hopefully make more BTC than that, then try again. That's what I do, limit my playing as much as possible to never lose more money than I can afford to lose.

The main risk is an attacker doesn't need to physically own a local file to try to bruteforce your password. This is why im too paranoid to not use anything that doesn't require a local file that you own, software wise thats why Bitcoin Core is the best I can think, and for cold storage a paper wallet. Im just too paranoid to trust brain wallets.

The dollar is systematically already dead, it's just surviving on mere network effect and imposition and monopoly of a goverment that will ruin your life if you aren't using dollar, so what do we do? We just wait for the system to finally collapse so real sustainable alternatives like Bitcoin can shine and reach trillions and trillions dollars of a marketcap because everyone will be looking for alternatives, and Bitcoin is THE alternative.

The best way for me has been to put the money where the big alt projects are, and just wait for a mega pump that would at least double my BTC. I have had success with XMR, ETH and now MAID will pump to all time highs during the next weeks so measly profits awaits us.

Lightning Network is the only way to make Bitcoin scale. Making blocksize go from 1mb to 2mb solves absolutely nothing. You seem a bit confused about this and sound new, I recommend you do some reading on this before jumping on conclusions that may look like the right thing to do at first but then later on you realize it wasn't.

But the amounts are not cumulative, so you can slowly take your BTC out of an exchange like Poloniex using a fake name (since they only require your name and you can put a fake one) and then every month you get your BTC or whatever out without no one realizing. And if they start being cunts you can always go to another exchange that will not spy on your wealth.

If the hospital used a decentralized way to store data instead of storing all data in the same place, they would not be facing said problems. You can thank Bitcoin to teach you the lesson of decentralization sooner than later.

Sometimes people think that when someone wins a lot of money in gambling they think they have some sort of elaborate strategy about it, but at the need the day it's just all luck. I have hit some really lucky strike in the casino and people thought I was using some sort of scheme but I was just having consistent luck through the night somehow.

I have my wallet.dat file copied over several hard disk and a couple of USB flash drives, for now that's all, I have considered moving all my main funds to a paper wallet but im actually scared that i would end up lossing the paper and not being able to find it, or someone stealing it or something (even tho I would hide it at home). Im too paranoid to move my funds from Bitcoin Core at this point so I will be making backups every X months to new usb flash drives, I think its impossible that I lose all of my backups at once so I will always have one to make new ones.

Yeah, for some reason most people fail to realize that it's way easier to scale for the current payment processors because they are centralized, so what do uninformed people say? let's just make the blocksize huge or whatever other cheap workaround to compete against VISA.

How about we are patient and wait for LN. LN is our hope to scale globally while remaining decentralized, so show your support and stop looking for alternatives to that unless your alternative is better and doesn't centralize the blockchain.

Most people that are complaining about stuff like this go out and have no problem paying with credit cards with have 180 days of confirmation, bunch of idiots complaining as always.
Lightning Network will will allow for VISA level of volume transactions with several order of magnitude safer. Bitcoin with LN will kill every single competitor.

Blockchain.info, and about any online wallet that is decent will have 2FA. I would never use an online wallet for any amount of BTC that I was scared to lose tho, the rest you should put it on Core or paper wallets. But anything hosted on a browser should have 2FA.

Again this must be a hoax/troll act to get traffic, this guy is going to turn his career into a professional troll, just like that guy that says "here in my garage" (Tai Lopez). Those guys will use whatever they can to get more fame and therefore more ad revenue, that's their business.

This seems like yet another troll act (this guy is just a walking troll act it seems to be honest).

""My parents are going to kill me, my mom warned me about dealing with these kinds of people.  I lost $45 million the day I got arrested... I make about $15 million a month. How am I going to pay Drake now?"

And what about Sitoshi? This has to be a joke, just more antics to get more money, that's all.

Im also not comfortable talking about Bitcoin because talking about alternatives to normal money is too cutting edge and you are always portrayed a s weirdo, but over time slowly it will become mainstream by itself. Also lets not forget that even if it never becomes super mainstream, it does not mean it cannot reach a trillion marketcap just as gold (who the hells owns gold or talks about owning gold with their family and friend.. no one).

The worst thing about people are the FUDsters that criticize it for fake reasons. The blockstream hate for example, it's pretty frustrating since they are the guys contributing the most to scale it worldwide, but I will not give up and in the end it will be demonstrated that Bitcoin was able to scale and do all the cool things we dream about now.

I always use the same strategy: Retreat when you are comfortable with your gains. As soon as you get some gains, just leave whatever you are playing and start doing something else, because no matter what technique you use, you eventually screw up, including Martingale which is proven to be no that effective.