it's impossible for cryptocurrency with "decentralized system" , because people will trying to scam after sending money, but maybe in future we will find new technology, new cryptocurrency use this system.

there are 3 kinds of bitcoin cloud mining :
1. high paying running ponzi scheme ( you can find cloud mining where take ROI in 3month)
2. high paying running real mining (  the diff so high, this day no cloud mining at this kind)
3. "reasonable paying" running real mining ( you can choose hashnest, genesis mining and other trusted service wit ROI 1year or more )

Most justice systems today require identification as a precondition to participation. In 10 years of legal practice, I’ve never had a client ask why ID is required. We simply accept, without question, that in order to get justice we must disclose identity. But what if that’s not true? Can we uncouple identity and justice?

Bitcoin, open blockchains, and smart contracts ignore national identity and jurisdiction by default. Yet both of these are standard requirements to participate in traditional court processes. As I see it, this leaves us with three broad options:

    Ignore the problem, leaving a legal hot-potato scenario (see theDAO);

    Implement identity and jurisdiction layers on top of these technologies;

    Invent new online dispute resolution (ODR) layers that can provide access to efficient, effective dispute resolution without requiring ID by default. I’m spending my time working on the third option — Seeking Justice: No ID Required.


http://bravenewcoin.com/news/seeking-justice-no-id-required/

it's depending about What would you do with your bitcoin, if you want to bying something use bitcoin, i think you not afford with price, because you will send your bitcoin to pay what did you buy, but for investment you must waiting lower price to get more profit.

bitcoin is only "POW" system not a POS, so people can't growing his bitcoin with holding his coin, so people will searching way to grow it, for growing your money you must ready to bad situation and risk of that's way.

Bitcoin payments-processing startup Bitnet Technologies Ltd. is in the process of selling its intellectual-property assets to Rakuten Inc., according to a memo related to the deal seen by The Wall Street Journal. The potential deal hasn’t been completed.

John McDonnell, chief executive and co-founder of Bitnet, declined to comment. Rakuten representatives declined to comment.

Rakuten, a publicly traded Japanese e-commerce company, had earlier invested in San Francisco-based Bitnet, a startup that helps retailers accept digital currency bitcoin as payment. Some of Rakuten’s retail sites had also used Bitnet to handle bitcoin as payment.

Rakuten is considering using Bitnet’s assets to continue testing and developing blockchain, which is the record-keeping technology underpinning bitcoin payments, the memo said.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/japans-rakuten-in-talks-to-buy-assets-of-bitcoin-startup-bitnet-1468615758

Im still believe in fiat, because im still use it, and for me fiat is still have value.
people who doubt fiat, he must not accept fiat as payment processor.

both of them is good for investment if you buy at perfect time , when the price fail.
in other case for people who don't know bitcoin, i think gold is the perfect way to invest

better you save some for future reference, for me 500btc is very high , hope i reach it, buy a jet and im be richman B-)

anyway with 500btc maybe in future you are the 10th richest in forbes ?

Within hours of online marketplace OpenBazaar's launch earlier this year, it was host to its first stores offering illegal merchandise.

But, it turns out that early precedent was not a harbinger of things to come at the distributed e-commerce platform, supported by VC-backed software startup OB1, which boasts investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. The next phase of the open-source, distributed market, dubbed OpenBazaar 2.0, will be aimed at meeting mainstream demand.

From a new user interface making it easier for large companies to sell at scale, to a native bitcoin wallet aimed at simplifying the buying process, the new features are designed to reach the widest audience possible and expected to be rolled out over the coming months.

One of the more than 300 vendors online at any given moment is Sam Patterson, who in addition to helping manage the upgrades made by various members of the open-source community, runs OB1's own shop that sells a range of OpenBazaar swag.

Patterson estimates that of 7,000 items for sale at any given time, only about 200 are "illicit" and that global adoption is picking up pace.

http://www.coindesk.com/openbazaar-2-0-bitcoin-free-market-ebay-global/

A committee of Vogogo’s board of directors has explored alternatives including the sale of all or parts of the existing business, in addition to recapitalization and financing alternatives. The board concluded selling the risk platform and discontinuing the payment processing business are the best courses of action.

The committee will monetize certain residual assets, primarily the Electronic Money Institution (EMI) authorization that United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority granted.

Vogogo has sold certain assets to a private risk management and consulting services firm, including the risk platform known as the Vogogo Risk and Rules Engine. It will no longer seek to sell its stand-alone risk services as part of its business offering. Certain third parties affiliated with the purchaser will terminate their rights to certain post-closing payments of up to $3 million, payable in cash or common shares, based on Vogogo achieving certain performance thresholds.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-services-vogogo-closing-payment-processing/

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law a new bill that expands the Money Transmitters Act to include virtual currency. The law defines virtual currency as a "medium of exchange," but not as currency, according to a report by Econo Times.

The legislation, H.B. 289, defines virtual currency as, "A digital representation of value that can be digitally traded and functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value but only to the extent defined as stored value under G.S. 53-208.42(19), but does not have legal tender status as recognized by the United States Government."

Bitcoin advocates have mixed opinions on the new regulation. Jerry, Brito, director of Coin Center, said, "While aspects of SB 680 may provide direction for some players in the space, it falls way short of broad clarity necessary for continued innovation for the entire ecosystem."

However, Perianne Boring, president of the Chamber of Digital Commerce, said the bill represented a "big step forward" and that it "adds more clarity than any other state by a long shot."

http://www.mobilepaymentstoday.com/news/north-carolina-passes-bitcoin-bill/

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory signed House Bill 289 into law, thereby expanding the state’s Money Transmitters Act to include activities related to bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

Introduced last year, the bill defines virtual currency as:

“A digital representation of value that can be digitally traded and functions as a medium of exchange, a unit of account, or a store of value but only to the extent defined as stored value under G.S. 53-208.42(19), but does not have legal tender status as recognized by the United States Government”.

In an online post, Jerry Brito, director of non-profit advocacy group Coin Center, last month shared his views on how to improve the North Carolina’s digital currency bill.

“While aspects of SB 680 may provide direction for some players in the space, it falls way short of broad clarity necessary for continued innovation for the entire ecosystem”, he wrote.

http://www.econotimes.com/North-Carolina-Bitcoin-Bill-becomes-law-232712

i will keep holding it , maybe i will buying new hardware to mining other crypto currency   
now my age 25years , i think if i have more money to retirement ay, i will use it for fun

i think we can use bitcoin and other online earning as sidejob, because we can't make it as permanent job, we can't predict or calculate our "passive salary" each month, thats why im not use bitcoin as my main job.

If you are "the bitcoin pizza man" im sure now you can buying multiple house 
sometimes i feel very stupid, why im not know bitcoin in first time, why im not mining bitcoin in first time with GPU . if i do it, now im the richman.

i think the price will be dump again, before or after pump, the price will be dump.
this is how the pumper collect more bitcoin, make panic sell and panic buy, then the weakhand will lost his money.

The company works with bitcoin exchanges and payment processes and provides key evidence to law enforcement agencies in both Europe and the United States for investigations that involve bitcoin transactions.

IWF claims to have identified more than 68,000 URLs containing child sexual abuse images although it’s not clear how they have identified individual bitcoin addresses.

“Over the past few years, we have seen an increasing amount of Bitcoin activity connected to purchasing child sexual abuse material online,” IWF Chief Executive Officer Susie Hargreaves said in a statement. “Our new partnership with Elliptic is imperative to helping us tackle this criminal use of Bitcoin.”

“We have a profound respect for the critical and difficult work that IWF undertakes,” Elliptic Chief Executive Officer and Founder Dr. James Smith added. “We are proud to take a leadership role in combating Bitcoin’s use to facilitate these terrible crimes. In a world’s first, Elliptic’s clients can now automatically monitor all transactions for any connection to proceeds of child sex abuse.”

http://siliconangle.com/blog/2016/07/06/bitcoin-surveillance-startup-elliptic-signs-deal-with-iwf-to-track-child-porn-buyers/

maybe in future we don't need fiat anymoer, we can use bitcoin as main currecy in the world, so we can buying anything with bitcoin payment processor, but im not sure people inlandvillage can be accept bitcoin

i think news of bitcoin, give some fundamental too. not only about supply and demand.
in fact some big news like mike hearn, sathosi nakamoto, ceo bitcoin fundation etc. can make price rise and fail .

and im sure each step make bitcoin growing more and more