Any trades yet?

... you have zero evidence for this shameful lie. You are just a propaganda shill for stupidly repeating it, calling it a "fact" makes you a prime AH.

Bitcoin is used no more, but probably less to "commit crime" than fiat currencies as a percentage of total bitcoin usage. In terms of total overall usage, cash USD by many orders of magnitude has the largest volume in criminal activity.

... joke's on them when you know they actually would be better off going with bitcoin but are so stupid they still treat it like a joke.

Long way to go ... "then they laugh at you"

At some point in the near future bitcoin will begin it's next run, basing off the ~$250 mark (interestingly very close to previous ATH before last bubble ~$266 and even closer when viewed in total market cap not price.)

When it begins bitcoin will double in value in a relatively short time frame, say 6-8 weeks to $500. Then it will top off and base some more maybe months to a year (halving) ... OR it will continue to run in a new mania, doubling again to $1000 in a shorter time frame, say 3-4 weeks, at which point the new mania will be fully-blown, it will double again in 2 weeks to 2000 and then to 4-6000 range in a week and then 8-12,000 in a matter of days, before popping and collapsing ... but not below 1200 again.

bitcoin doesn't stop, only in the affected area. Physical cash and gold (or ticket out) are all good small position diversifications.

... well you got to wonder about the Judge for sure, and probably higher ups too. Having money in a seizable bank account makes little sense at this point given the wanton disregard of rule of law all about the place.

Disruptive technologies begin by servicing niche market cases that incumbents serve poorly or not all. As the new ways take root, become stronger, better adapted and more familiar, then they start encroach on existing markets, eventually overwhelming them with better services, efficiency and economies of scale. Expect the peripheral economies and niche markets inside the large countries, to lead the way with real bitcoin economic activity. Bitcoin speculative activity however could well be concentrated in the large centers since these are basically just speculative hubs now after 4 decades of fiat financialisation of the real economy led by central banks driven on by predatory multinational banking mega-corporations.

trolls are probably crooked federal agents on crack ... the only dump they'll be getting is laundered cash in their cayman accounts.

could be any number of wall st. driven upside surprises at this point ... total minefield for over-leveraged shorts, one wrong step here could be fatal.

Seems the atmosphere has become quite expectant, due any day now?

... not to mention that they totally hacked the NZ law enforcement, justice and political systems to impose the will of the recording industries. Formally one of the least corrupt countries in the world in these respects now defiled permanently.

More regulation for the legacy payments and banking means more epic failures and unknowable wealth destroying outcomes for them ... go all in bitcoin.

The reason being, federation functionaries could be the lightning transaction routing hubs incentivised through fees ... so yes a fed peg fork for a lightning network.

A leading candidate for testing the soft-fork on a sidechain perhaps.

... should have used the blockchain for clearing and settlement ...??

no, the AI will keep you in a continually doped and attention-distracted state such that your reality would appear to be that you are living a nirvana-like existence when in reality you are an undernourished peasant slave doing little more than working, eating, sleeping ...

edit: wait, the State is an AI?

mmm, I know but it bears some watching, the reactions are always informative and the lulz are worth it.

You're welcome cowpoke Earthling. 

... you need to do some more homework instead of demonstrating your ignorance in something outside your field?

Hint: the extreme, and comparatively "unusual" press., temp. history of asteroids (orbiting a star in a vacuum) means indeed they sometimes have pure deposits (i.e. read come and pick me up pure) plat. group metals and other metals in quantities quite uncommon in the Earth's crust, everything else has boiled or sublimated away. What were you expecting Hawaiian volcanic loam? Or Texan alluvial plains? Sheesh. Troll 101.

and an armada of robotic mining craft returning from the asteroid belt laden with precious metals .... sometimes the future is closer than is imaginable when the theoretical ground shifts ... other times it is father away when engineering is more difficult than imagined too.