Start your own casino or control yourself and manage your money. Both of them CAN be profitable if you're careful enough. You can make a lot of money out of a gambling website if you are making a secure one. Hackers will always target your website to steal funds, so you need to be extremely cautious about that option because you never know when you're on the target list. Controlling yourself and managing your money is harder because most of the time we're greedy and it is hard to do anything about that.

Bitcoin in banks = anonymity 0%.

This is exactly what they want: CONTROL. Over anything they possibly can. If they could control how much you eat and drink per day, they're more than happy to do so. Having a wallet linked to your bank account would mean your name linked to your wallet... So anytime you'd do a transaction, everyone would know who sent it and to who exactly. And I'm not even going to mention a word about the taxes we would see for using Bitcoin.

If nobody would invest in it and we all would just buy 1BTC and held it there, it would die the next second. In order to increase the price, we need to use it. We have to show that we're interested in it, and the price will increase. Investing in anything can be a bad idea, not just Bitcoin. It's all about the luck you've got. You can turn your small investment into hundreds of thousands if that's what you deserved.

Well, that's exactly what they want to happen: more immigrants in Europe. It's a plan that has been thought well for a long time. Otherwise, why everything looks like a coincidence to this? I mean come on, almost all the news we've seen recently are only reasons for them to keep coming in a higher and higher number hoping for better. I don't like alcohol but it shouldn't be banned. There are Christians in Irak too, not just Muslims..... This isn't going to end too well.

People don't. Governments do. I'm surprised they didn't do anything until now about Bitcoin pretty much anywhere in the world, and let Bitcoin become a semi-big thing. If they'll let us continue, in two years we will become a huge community and they won't be able to do anything about us anymore. People want to take control over themselves, not to be controlled by others.

Not only that we all would become anonymous and evade taxes, but also poor countries will not be able to do anything because they don't have electricity or Internet. If the governments would agree with us, anonymity wouldn't be a problem right now but they don't like it. Bitcoin will never replace the money, maybe a government-created cryptocurrency that can be tracked only by them..

That's great. Having more investments is better because if one fails, you have the other backups. Congrats for thinking about them. I'm relying on gold and Bitcoin only. I prefer gold though because it's real, it exists in a psyhical form and it's rare. Therefore, it would exist even after an apocalypse and could be used. Getting rich isn't easy. Nobody got rich the easy way unless they came from a rich family. It's everyone's dream but it's not that easy to be done.

I have thought about this too, but it is a mistake if you want to be anonymous on Bitcoin because as soon as you finish the transaction on an exchange website, you're going to automatically enter the banks' database and anyone can look upon you. So if you wish to remain anonymous, you better find the closest Bitcoin ATM and exchange your Bitcoin to cash. Then, you can deposit it in your PayPal or anywhere else you want. This lets you stay anonymous.

Regarding your question, there aren't many exchange websites offering BTC to PayPal and you should be careful about them. You can write a thread on this forum at Marketplace and other users may be interested, or look for other websites like localbitcoins that accept PayPal.

I have to say that Sports betting might have a higher chance of getting you addicted to it if you like sports and if you play it at least once. In sports, luck isn't controlling the bets. Your knowledge about the respective sports and teams matters too, even though it's in a smaller percentage.

No, the quantity cannot go down because that would mean our wallets being shrunk down. The price can, so can the popularity of it. Quantity will ONLY go up. If it stands still, we will know it's the end of Bitcoin.

You shouldn't rely on trading, gambling or any other 'job' that involves luck at all. Start your own business and you'll be fine, but both trading and gambling are known for loss after a long run except if you're a billionaire that hears about any news before anyone else.

I heard we've already passed 11 million users. More users = higher price, and if it becomes popular then we're going to see a lot of stores accepting it. Of course governments want control though so I have no idea how would they control that though.

I think we've all been through this, and we know how bad it is to be addicted to.. Anything. Any addiction has its pros and cons, but the worst thing that can happen to a gambling addict is simply becoming homeless. Yes, you can become homeless in seconds if you don't know what you're doing.

Both reasons are based on the same idea. It's obviously not true because otherwise we'd all be rich here and have a luxury life. This idea is not being implemented by anyone but the gamblers themselves in their own mind. Casinos sound like a fun, easy way to win a lot of money. It can be fun if you can control yourself and you play JUST for it, but as soon as you want profit you'll never have fun and you'll also lose.

Either an international service like Uber that ONLY uses Bitcoin or creating a physical, real Bitcoin casino where you can deposit in real life and play on some machines with a control system (where you can choose a wager limit for the day so you won't spend more). Both could have a very high potential and could become big in short time.

I heard about Bitcoin in 2013 when the price rose up to +$1000. Never heard of it before that day, but I wish I did. I'm wondering now if the same thing is going to happen the next year, which would be awesome for all of us.

I would stop storing it for two reasons: if I knew the price wouldn't rise anymore and if I had something useful to spend it on in my country. There aren't many things to do with Bitcoin here. I have already bought what was necessary and I don't mind spending it on random things now. I want to wait for the next year to see if we will have any price increase, and that'll be the time I'll take a decision.

They should use Bitcoin because it's anonymous, secure and fast. Although the confirmation is needed, there have been found ways to 'escape' from them. For example, Xbox is using a system that just asks you to pay the Bitcoins and automatically gives you the games or codes. Probably most of us have been through moments in which we wanted to be completely anonymous when paying for something.

Mine didn't really change much because Bitcoin isn't really known by many in my country. I don't have where to spend it in my city, only online on some products but still. Maybe I'd feel a difference if I could pay with Bitcoin at restaurants or different shops I have been to.

It's not really just in our dreams. Bitcoin used to seem impossible to reach $1 in the first years. Then it seemed impossible to reach $10, and then $100 and then $1000. Now it seems impossible for the price to reach $10k, but in my honest opinion.. With the recent halving, it's not impossible at all.