This interest rate you don`t have in the bank. To take roughly 1800 $ and for two months and seven days to give back 2400 $??? Loan sharks don`t take so big interest, please check again is he your friend  for real. To me this looks like he wish to make a big profit on you.
Don`t take that bitcoins, its very hard to make 4 btc from 3 btc, and cause its not your money, you need to have on mind that you can easily loose that money somewhere, somehow, what you going to do after that?
Its better for you and take credit from then, with that money buy bitcoins and if you make something you will give back to bank. Interest rate is lower, and for sure bank will give you more then two months and seven days.

I don`t know, and I don`t care! I gamble everyday, I spent coins that I earn here on forum and other sites. I don`t invest my own money, I`m playing to make some good money with what I have from here.
I have a good year I can say, bitcoin helped me a lot, especially some good prizes that I got with gambling. I earned more then I lost, and reason why I have luck I think is that I don`t have a feeling that I play with real money, I`m ready to risk amount that I have and sometimes I have luck, sometimes I lose, what I wanted to say is that is a thing about gambling, more relaxed you are higher chance is for winning. Cool head is very important in gambling.

This is very nice amount, 100 btc is more then 60 000 $ every day. In a year they will be millionaires. I thought they earn a lot, but this is a lot in
my opinion. This is some serious business, with this amount maybe they even earn more then some casinos. How much coins casinos earn per day
or month. This is interesting topic, there is a thread about living with earning from bitcoins, well this boys that work for poloniex for sure can live
from bitcoins.

This is a big thing, now its NY, tomorrow LA, next year all US. US is modern country, they are first in technology, and cause of that this do not surprise me. Its will be a good example for other countries that plan to recognize bitcoin as official currency.
Franky1 have a logic, yes they will try to limit transactions, tax it maybe, or who knows how they will try to control it. But that is their job, when someone lose coins, everyone advice that man to go to police, well for some kind of protection everyone needs to pay.
We will see now how will NY handle bitcoin, and how government plan to track all bitcoin users. We will also see how the government will categorize bitcoin.

Many times asked question and many times same answer from, in my opinion betcoin.ag and fortunejack are best places for playing poker with bitcoins. I played on nitrogen for some time, but I didn`t like design, for my taste betcoin.ag is the best about this things.
I like this two places cause there you can always find some good tournament, or active players on cash games. That is a good thing that in every part of the day you can find some micro buy in tournament, and have fun while you play poker. Its not always about risking big amounts.

Most of people here, including me earn some money trough signature campaigns. I also think that with participating in signature campaings someone can save some nice amount from payments. I agree that investing in some sites that promise fast profit is bad idea, in the end most people lose their money. But how to grow amount from here is mystery for many of us here, cause we wish to make some serious amount with bitcoins. I chose gambling and for me that is much better idea then trading, or investing in some suspicious site.
I think for growing bitcoins is good to buy it from time to time, but that is for people who have fiat for that.

I don`t have PayPal and I think I will never have it. For me bitcoin is enough for me, and I earn bitcoins not dollars. For me that is just one more service for fiat, how to easily transfer your money or pay something on internet. In my country PayPal is not so popular and you can`t do much with it, with bitcoins most people didn`t even heard.
I`m concentrated on bitcoins, and my wish to have more things to do with bitcoins one day. That is possible in my opinion, and I people will forget about PayPal one day.

We can say price is stable. This is what I call stable price, I remember there was days where difference between high and low was more then 20 dollars.
TODAY'S OPEN $608.53
TODAY'S HIGH $608.72
TODAY'S LOW  $606.31
This is a good thing for bitcoin economy, from time to time bitcoin need to show its stable and strong, that will attract more people to invest in it, and people will have more trust to put their money in this new currency.

As I see boys had some fun. What a group, this made me smile from the morning. Maybe they are selling it on dark web, and this was just promotion of what they have to offer.
Paxful is really not so big exchanger, if they worked on dark web, they probably use it just for that exchange before buying, or mixing coins.
I heard that many cases are solved with help of Facebook, people post there everything. What a stupid world, they should smoke weed, use cocaine and have a nice time, why people have desire to show to everyone what are they doing.

Only one easy way to get bitcoins, faucets! You fins couple good ones and click everyday. No risk, no worries, only bad side is speed. Faucets ask for a lot of time, depending from wich you choose you need to check it regularly and verify that you are not a robot.
There is no other easy way to get bitcoin, if you have money you can buy it and that's it. Every other way is work like any other in real life. With more knowledge you can work and you can get paid for that. Selling things for btc is also an option if you have something for selling.

You are your own bank, do you wish to take interest from yourself? On this example is easy to see how banks are similar to ponzi schemes. How much interest rate would be normal for you to accept to put your bitcoons somewhere? How can you be sure in that bank, is there any law for such bank to operate?
I think bitcoin is something you keep in your cold storage and wait price to rise, I think that is safest and most secure place for your bitcoins, everything else is possible scam, people will just take your money if you believe in some kind of bitcoin bank.

Of course they are not right, I also use that faucet, freebitco.in. Not so regular, but I collect it almost a month and I have a bit more then 0.3 mbtc. I have reward points, and tickets for lottery. I think lottery is only reason I play that. I hope one day I can win some nice amount there, and in meanwhile I collecting coins, and when I make something above 1 mbtc I will try to gamble it. Its nice that for every 6 k satoshis they give reward points, and lottery tickets. I think that is the biggest reason why we are going there. Everyone think that one day lottery will be theirs, and on their page first couple prizes for lottery are more then awesome in my opinion.

I need to work 3 months for one bitcoin, and maybe even more cause I have credits and I receive always less. I don't have other way to buy some things for house without credit.
Modern slavery, we are chasing for money everyday, but richer get richer, we have less and less, it's situation in my country, and in many other countries situation is the same.
I don't even think about buying bitcoins, for me now price is too expensive. I need to save half year to be able to buy, and in that time to not spent nothing on a side. For me that is impossible.

People will complain on anything just to get some attention, but such big service as PayPal is probably have many users, and problems are part of every business, they have workers for solving that problems. I also don`t think they will lock accounts with no reason, that can harm their business, there is no logic in that.
Its internet service, and everyone here knows how many scammers there is on internet. I`m not surprised with stories like this one, people generally have problems with banks and fiat money. Like someone said, exchange you money into bitcoin and enjoy my friend.

Miracles can happen in bitcoin world, I don't wish to say this is too high price for bitcoin, but one day this can happen in my opinion. Each year goods are more expensive, inflation is rising, and for future experts say things are be just more and more expensive.
For me price rise is unavoidable in future, question is how high price can go, and maybe price will never stop to rise. When ever cost of mining go up, price will follow, in economy everything is works like that.

People should know that for trading skills and knowledge is necessary. Without its very hard, market is moving all the time and to follow that someone need to know this is done.
For gambling we don't need knowledge, for some game we need to have skills, but everything is easy to learn.
I'm a gambler, and that is what I like to do. With trading I didn't have success, and I think its very hard to make money with trading. With gambling is easier and more interesting.

I don't know what can make price drop so much, its almost half of the price now. What kind of bad news can hit bitcoin so much?
We saw how bitfinex hack, and losing millions of dollars in bitcoins make price drop for 200 $, but price is recovering very fast in my opinion. What doesn't kill you, make you stronger, same thing is with bitcoins. Now we are going up, and I doubt we will ever seen under 500 $ again.

Blockchain fee is 10 000 satoshis, and for that amount confirmation time is pretty fast. In beginning I thought is too much, but its reasonable. We help miners, and for that amount confirmation is faster then without fees.
Its less then 10 cents, lets be real what can you do with that money? I think this is a good way for work, people who take that money will have wish to be even better in the future. Every work deserve to be paid, so I`m ok with any fees as long as its reasonable price.

I recommend you betcoin.ag, cause I gamble there almost all the time. You can find link in my signature, so its not so hard to find it. They have official thread on this forum. They have many games, you will find something that you like for sure. You deposit money there, and you can play poker, sports book, casino games on one place. That is something I like, same is with fortune jack, they just don`t have sports book.
I play poker almost everyday, so I like casinos with poker rooms, thats why this two sites are on my list. You can try it, and maybe you will like it as I do, I wish you good luck my friend. I hope you will make some money.

Very close voting, I can't imagine why someone think that China controlling bitcoin network. I don't think that China have biggest mining power, especially when I see there is many people in US, Brazil, and Europe who mining. Market like market, US is have strongest one, and China is not better then them.
I don't think China is control bitcoin, with so many coins that Chinese have they can move market and price a bit, but its far from control. They are just one bigger part in all this, but majority is outside for sure.