Unless it's an innovation that has a HIGH potential, there's no reason to invest in a new business. You should analyze first, and then invest if it all looks 100% good. Even if it looks great as an investment and even if it's the safest one you've done, never hold your money in just a place. I learned this from my father and it has a good logic.

You can't just find which investment is the best and go with all your funds. As I said, you have to analyze before taking any step. Any investment has the risk of failure, and although it might be even 1% or less, it's still possible to happen and you can never know if it will or not. Look at the billionaires - they're always buying stocks for many companies, not just one. If they knew one company has no risk of failure, they would put all their money in just a stock.

Taking these steps without any analysis and simply from your prediction is exactly like gambling.

OP, can you please leave me a PM with the link to this topic? I'm not home at the moment, but in a few hours I will get home and try to help you.

From what I can see, the info you sent is 100% not a Dash address, it's too long to be one. So it's either what claycoins said (that you actually had Dashcoin instead of Dash), or you're actually giving us the view key or the private key to your account.

Leave me a PM with the thread link and I will try to help, maybe you'll get the funds back.

For shopping I would certainly use Bitcoin over fiat and the main reason is anonymity. There are two big problems at the moment: unconfirmed transactions and the small number of people using Bitcoin. What I'm wondering is how are these shops accepting Bitcoin making profit if a catastrophe like Bitfinex happens and there's suddenly a price freefall of +$300? Shops that have been accepting Bitcoin years ago might have had profit over time because of the increasing price, but a quick fall of it would create problems for the owners, wouldn't it?

My opinion is that terrorism is nothing but a plan to create disaster and hate in the world. Whether we're Muslims, Christians or part of any other religion, we still believe there's a God that exists and I think religion is just a weapon of mass destruction. There's no point in fighting over a belief - everyone is free to believe whatever they want to. But I think we should just believe that there is a creator and that's all. The Bible has been edited probably thousands of times and not to mention all the translations which are possibly even inaccurate in many languages. The thing is, there's something hidden somewhere because all the VERY old Bibles that are found are taken away from us, the public. These attacks are probably planned by the multi billionaires to create chaos in the world so they can cover all the things they're doing while we're looking at the attacks. It's just my opinion though.

Terrorists are from any religion. Most of them are probably not even part of a belief, because they just want to destroy which is against the Creator's will.

The problem is that nobody knows when they can just sell all and drive the price back to what it was months ago, or maybe even under that amount.

There are many investors at the moment coming in and buying as much as they can. In case this happens and turns out for Dash to be an actual scam, it would be a disaster for a lot of people. We have to be very careful about it.. I have seen tweets from important people saying that were saying a dump is incoming, it's not about if but when.

Coinbase is asking you for personal data and I don't agree with that. Blockchain should be the most used one, as it was the first result I could see back in 2013 when I heard about BTC for the first time and there are over 10 million wallets registered there if I remember that correctly. Web wallets like Blockchain or Coinbase should only be used for funds that you don't want to save but to use.

Interesting, I didn't think about exploiting vulnerabilities and I didn't even know this coin had the name "Darkcoin" before Dash. But are you sure that a coin reaching a price similar to Bitcoin being taken down wouldn't result in something really bad for both of them and possibly even other cryptocurrencies too..?

Hmm, hackers could scare away both Bitcoin and Altcoin investors, so I don't know how good such an idea would be. As you have probably seen in the past, for example last year with the Bitfinex hack, many people are getting scared away because this is what happens. You wouldn't trust it anymore either for a moment and you will have to decide whether it's better to hold or quickly sell. And with the Dash rising up against Bitcoin, there will probably also be a big community rising with it. It would be interesting and scary at the same time to see a "war" between the Bitcoin and Dash on the markets...

You see, the problem is that many people that are interested in cryptocurrencies don't actually know which one of the +750 coins would be the coins that are legit and which got a potential to rise. I saw Dash in last December when I put some money in Bitcoin, but I did not and still don't trust Altcoins more than I trust BTC so I preferred not to make the investment. Out of the many hundreds of coins out there, who knows which one will be the best? Investing in them means risking, and not all of us can afford the risk so many times.

I somehow feel nostalgic at the moment because I remember reading these kinds of threads about Bitcoin, but I was reading them in 2013 when it was already too late. Now I see similar threads but about Dash, which makes me wonder whether the same thing will happen to it or not I wonder what would happen to Bitcoin if Dash gets past its price.

Insane, I wanted to buy one Dash just yesterday but I decided not to and now I kind of regret it. However, I am a little bit worried about the price going up in such a short time. Bitcoin had a similar skyrocketting price in Dec 2013 and then it fell to half the price. This can happen right now again, which would be VERY bad for the investors but a golden opportunity for us, those that are late at the party like we were at the Bitcoin one. That's all I'm scared of. Otherwise, I would certainly go and buy some right now if I was sure it won't fall too soon.

Welcome to Bitcoin and to the forum. You can't earn money from doing nothing but sitting on a chair and enjoying your life. There's no way you can earn money for nothing in exchange, remember! All of these, or most of them are scams that will rip money off you and thousands of others, so the creators will become rich that way. Scams are probably the only "ways" you can "earn" your living but I would never do that to anyone. Be very careful because you never know when someone wants your bad! Here most of us share just good things with one another but there is also a small percentage of scammers and people with a bad will..

There won't be a ceasing of money. People will keep mining but will only earn from fees. The fees don't really need to increase... By the time all the Bitcoins will be mined there will be many, MANY more people using it which means there will be a lot of fees paid. So we won't need higher fees as soon as there will be probably over twenty times more transactions than there are at the moment.

Let them try to do it.. I'm pretty sure many people will rise against them. Why? Because today we have 0 intimacy. Nowhere! Everywhere we go there are cameras, microphones or sensors. You can't do anything without being monitored. Even Zuckerberg had to tape his laptop camera. He knows what he's doing, and I was called a paranoid years ago when I did that. These days will come when they'll try to regulate Bitcoin too, and it won't work. I'm pretty sure about it.

It can be used for both short and long term investments. Bitcoin is here to help us get rid of the slavery we're supposed to live with.. The guy or group who invented it is a genius one. We always think of different laws and stuff we can change in our countries to get rid of slavery but such a simple and yet amazing idea can change everything. Now all we need to do is keep these elites away from our freedom..

I don't think Bitcoin was meant to be used in institutions but in situations where your anonymity is the one that matters the most. The ETF rejection was better in my opinion because otherwise steps would be taken until well have the least anonymity possible. I prefer not having to deal years later with the government that wants to know where is all my Bitcoin money and to impose taxes on it.

The aftermath can be seen by looking at the altcoins. They're rising in price very fast, which makes me want to invest in a few of them some dozens of bucks. At the same time I am pretty worried because this could be a bubble that could burst. Remember Bitcoin's 2013 rally? This might be a move made by people scared of this decision because they have no idea where the Bitcoin price will be driven. You know, when you're scared you don't really make the best decisions so you do the first thing that comes up in your mind. People are changing from Bitcoin to altcoins, either partially or totally.

They can do nothing about it. We can dig a hole in the ground and put some USB sticks or paper wallets in there containing the biggest part of our funds, and they can still not do anything about it. Unlike gold which can be easily found in the ground with the necessary equipment, there's no way to take our money if it's stored in an online, virtual currency they cannot touch or grab. Doing that would probably get the price way lower because people will start becoming afraid of investing in it.

I wanted to secure my main account as much as I could.... And one day I secured it so much that I actually lost my access to it. Half a BTC is still sitting there and will probably continue to forever.

Always write your password on at least 3 different places. For example, the same password on 3 papers stored in 3 different places. If you lost one, you'll recover your funds with the second. If you lose your second one too, you'll get your third one back. The third one should also be stored in a different location rather than your home! If your home ever gets burnt, you'll still have access to your money! These are extremely rare situations but... Who knows which one of us can be the victim of such a scenario!

Thanks for the checklist, I bookmarked it so if I ever want to invest in a project I'll ask myself all these questions first. We usually miss a few of these and it might be a critical step before we put our money in there. But as soon as we're able to answer all of them, we can decide whether it is worth the investment or not.

I'm not sure if lending might actually be illegal as soon as there are laws regarding the declaration of profit in such cases.. I think that the best investment would actually be holding money for now. The price gets higher as more people are seeking less control over them and better security. I'm in this scenario and I'm not sure right now: invest in Bitcoin only or in altcoins too? I don't trust them that much but $0.1 or $1 invested in a new Altcoin that has potential would hurt my pocket.