The funniest of all, is that even the director of the Bitcoin foundation is criticizing the hard fork SegWit2x, expected in later November. He his raising doubts, related to the need and the benefits after the fork. Like a lot of developers from the Bitcoin Core defend, that the fork, is just a way of creating a bigger size blocks in the code base of the digital currency.

I´m Bitcoin supporter and enthusiastic. But at the same time, i try always to keep an open mind, about the position of Bitcoin in the rest of the world.

A gigantic negative point of the Bitcoin blockchain technology is the amount of electricity used to validate one transaction. A recent study made by the Dutch bank ING, conclude that the electric power used in a transaction is enough to power up one house for a month period. A solution for this has to be found ASAP. For this kind of reasons, people can just "Hate" the technology    

Ainda não estando definida a data de lançamento, não nos podemos esquecer de Tezos (esperado entre Novembro e Dezembro). Com a sua própria, inovadora, blockchain e com possibilidade de POS, com ROI aproximado de 5% ao ano (calculos não oficiais, mas revelados na thread deles). Eu pessoalmente vou fazer parte dele.

Temos também o Heat (moeda secundária não muito famosa), que á quase meio ano atrás tinha um ROI bastante alto através do seu sistema POS.

From the moment that the Bitcoin volume, of trading exchanges, overruled the Kosdaq volume, there was no other option than taxate the crypto-currency. The way to set, the method of taxation is still in discussion by the South Korean government. Possibly they will adopt Japan methods or even study what are countries are doing related to that and come with a beter improved solution for the problem. 

Yes, ironically, the United States hunt to the wikileaks founder Jullian Assange had a positive economical turnover, for him. After the denial, from the United States, to Wikileaks establish any financial relation in the country, made that wikileaks had all there funds invested on Bitcoin until today. So that just made the market capital of the company to grow a long with Bitcoin since 2010.... Thx USA.  

Yes, sounds like it is official. The Kremlin has approved their one crypto-currency. The CryptoRuble will be a non-mineable altcoin, but it will be based on Blockchain technology. The idea of the Russian government, certainly, is to impulsionate the online market business, but being independent from foreigners
markets and exchanges. Is also a way of controlling the digital coin and avoid fraud and money laundering.   

The Metropolis hard fork came, happened and most people were not even aware of is happening. With low propaganda  surrounding this announcement. This was the fifth fork, established on the Ethereum Network, bringing new performances to the platform. This fork is planed since 2015, by the Ethereum core developer team, and it was divided in 2 fases Byzantium e Constantinopla. The date for the 2º fase is not yet planned.

At this moment the daily volume of bitcoin is massive. It is almost every new day a new historical higher for Btc volumes. The alt-coins are not so behind. The volume of alt-coins trading, in general, is between 3-4 billion dollars, daily... And just growing. When Btc push it up, the Alts are just following. This change is being exponential since the beginning of the year. So in my personal opinion, there is no Bitcoin vs Alts.... Both of them are growing together...

Yes after attacking (trying to) the integrate and value of Bitcoin, Putin and the Russian government are creating new laws to be able to taxate miners. The mining paradise in Russia has it days counted. A new decreet was released, that miners need to reveal there mining profit earnings, in there annual income. Also new technics of miners detection, in be inforced on, for example, tracing high level of energy consumption. 

Like a lot people predicted, the Btc price would jump/spring to higher levels until the end of the year. Because of new Forks or old Forks, what will be the impact in these, related to the alt-coins??
What we have seen in the last couple of days is the price of a lot of alt-coins being crushed (Eth, Xmr, Iota, etc...), and the smal sister of Btc (Litecoin) getting stronger and taking a new position. 

The Crypto start-ups are even becoming stronger and complex on personal hiring. It has been a boom, on personal hiring for the new Blochchain projects. According to the AngelList the funding of companies in this area have grown exponential in the last 3 years. To follow this grown and to prepare them self, for a potencial SEC intervention, there is a need of strong solid and very legally informed companies.

News from Russia related to Ethereum mining, with a brand new innovation. A heater that will also mine Eth. From the Comino Company, a russian startup created a high tech solution to fight the economics recession that is happening now in Russia. A miner product, that release heat to the surrounding and can mine a value of approximately $300 per month.

Yes it is very curious indeed the position of China in regulate the crypto-currencies, creating a state digital currency. It sounds also a bit "fascist", not allowing other currencies, but supporting and creating there regulated currency. Beside China don´t recognize Bitcoin as a legal coin, the country has an very clear picture that there could be an alternative for it, if it would be created and regulated by the chinese goverment.

yes we cann´t deny that the South Korean market have a big impact on the Btc market capital. The biggest Bitcoin community of South Korea as released an official statement making critics against, the other parties, that have supported de New York treatment of the saclibility of the Btc network, resulting on the SegWit2x hard fork. Not just the South korean community are against that, also the main Bitcoin Core Developers are "anti" SegWit2x.   

The Market value of bitcoin reached the $96,7 Billions. It has become more valued than some main Market Caps companies and banks of the world. The volatility of cripto-coins doesn´t allow us to say, yet, that Bitcoin is definitely bigger (or more value) than the companies/banks, that were refereed. Therefore a small crash on the price of Btc, would make immediately the value of the Market cap lower.

Mining Bitcoin is actually ruled by ASCIs, controlled mainly by Bitfury, Bitmain and Canaan. That´s because, the proof-of-work algoritme used on Btc is a simple SHA256, that doesn´t require a lot of RAM memory and more focus on mathematics calculations. On other hand Equihash (the new algoritme, implemented on BTG) is a lot more complex and requires a higher level of memory RAM. So we conclude with this, that BTG as some advantages to BTC, doe to an a lot more efficient algoritme.

I suspect BitcoinGold will put up a fight to Classic Bitcoin.

The main goal of BitcoinGold (BTG) is to become a beter reserve of value. The best way, choose to achive this, is to centralize the Btc mining, changing the (proof-of-wor) algoritme. To reach that, there is a need of an hard fork, implement the new BTG algoritme. Equihash was the one choose for this, doe to his strong ASICs resistance. Equihash is also the algoritme used on the alt-coin Zcash.     

Ark foi uma das maiores surpresas deste ano (quase de sempre). O início da sua TEC, com gigantes ofertas de bonus de 130% ou mais, eram muito aliciantes, mas ao mesmo tempo um pouco duvidosas. Eu acho que isso levou muitas pessoas estarem cépticas em relação ao projecto, mesmo que a sua tech fosse inovadora. Eu até que participei no Ico, mas abandonei o barco (Arca) muito cedo. Mas dá para ver que Ark veio para ficar.