There was indeed a lot of FUD about how futures trading will completely ruin bitcoin or will completely crash bitcoin when it was to scheduled to start. But it turned out to actually be nothing special and actually boosted bitcoin price a whole lot.

In my opinion, futures trading or not, bitcoin is going to be bitcoin day end. We hold the real bitcoin, they're trading fake bitcoins. Sure it's going to be manipulation, but it shouldn't affect the long term bitcoin growth.

This is why you never listen to FUD, and never listen in fomo market conditions as well. Make up your own decisions.

Obviously, who doesn't regret selling their bitcoin?

But the thing is nobody would have told you with confidence and bet you all their life savings that bitcoin was going to be this high at this current time. So it could have went both ways and it turned out that the holders have been correct.

The rally could ahve ended on $2k if the august 1st events messed up, but it didn't. These were all unpredictable.

Plus, if you had to sell bitcoins for your personal use or an emergency, there was really nothing to avoid it.

Obviously this has not happened yet, even on the Korean exchanges.

Though if the current trend can continue next year then this wouldn't be far away at all. Right now after the correction we stand at $16-17k comfortably with some room upwards still. $20k is within eyesight, and isn't a dream like it was a few years ago.

A lot of people are concerned about the bubble popping before $20k is hit, but in my opinion if the bubble pops next year or this year, $20k will be hit first before the bubble pops.

Just going with the market trend right now, the rebound was very very strong.

Looking at the amount of trade offers on localbitcoins that involves the payment method fo eiher wechat pay, chinese national bank transfer, or alipay, it is clear to me that a lot of people in china has moved to p2p trading.

Also wouldn't be surprising at all if people now had wechat groups that specialise in selling/buying of bitcoin.

Of course, if they have connections they can use the other asian exchanges as well in Japan/Korea. But to my knowledge that is not a big trend. So i would say that majority of volume has simply gone p2p, and china is still with us "invisibly".

If that's the case then it's definitely just misappropriating your money. Probably earning nice interest somewhere in their account as well which really sucks because you could have alerady been starting to use those funds for something else.

But anyways, hopefully they do get back to you. They've made a series of changes to their cloud mining site recently so that means that they aren't just inactive. They are active and well, but they don't seem to be responding.

Hopefully you do get your money back as i said.

Did you store the funds in your VCC or actually just in bitcoin? Because if it is just in bitcoin then there shouldn't be any sort of monthly fees for storing your coins with them, it's completely free and the only fee you have to pay is in case you want to send that coin to someone on-chain, you have to pay the transaction fee for miners.

It's weird that your money just disappeared. Is there any sort of record for what happened?

I've used wirex and i have to say that their fees in terms of converting currencies are not good, but never had a case where my money just disappeared.

A lot of exchanges allow you to change your deposit address and old addresses are still considered to be valid, so it's definitely quite weird that HitBTC would render the previous addresses just useless after a new one is generated, does not make sense at all.

They can still easily access the funds from that old address, since it is under their control still. It's not like they just all of a sudden lost private keys to that particular address after you generated a new deposit address.

If they indeed have not credited your account still, then i would definitely stay clear of these guys. It's not the first time they've got a complaint against them either.

It does seem like that when bitcoin goes on a rally all the other altcoins greatly suffers.

The bull run seems to be temporarily over, though. With prices currently at $13k or under on major exchanges that is a $5k reduction in price compared to the peak of the run up. I'd say that $20k should still be easily achieved by the end of the year, though i'm not sure exactly when it'll happen and it definitely will not happen this week since there is only a day left.

This should prove to just be a temporary pullback before another rally.

Actually there is a site called cryptocoincharts that also allow you to view the available arbitrage opportunities on the market. I do recall checking it out a while ago but i also remember that there was pretty much nothing special about the site.

I would argue that a bot would work much better as arbitrage opportunities are real time and monitoring a page would be extremely hard.

Though even if you use a bot, the profits are quite thin. The max you'll probably get is a 10% edge with a maximum of $500 or so, but the transaction fees alone will take away greatly on that.

Nope, yobit is the only real exchange that also has a faucet inside. Actually it's not supposed to be a faucet but rather just a way for dev to promote their shitcoins. Only once in a while will you see anything substantial in BTC or any major currency, the rest of the times you'll have a bunch of worthless shitcoins being offered.

If you just want suggestions for faucets, then i would definitely go with freebitco.in.

A bunch of gambling sites also has great faucets, such as bitsler. And actually bitsler has a built in exchange system as well so that may interest you, though do not abuse it as it will end up with your account being closed.

Indeed. With cloud mining in general you are essentially speculating on bitcoin price to rise anyways because if not then your maintenance fees will soon outpace the growth of your investment profits and get your contract closed by the company pretty quickly.

Not to mention hash flare has stupidly reduced all contracts from lifetime to 1 year which makes no sense whatsoever.

That's why i tell people who want to invest in cloud mining you're better off just getting some bitcoin, holding it, and profiting from it, or even trading altcoins. At least you have a chance to make a big buck in the end.

Let me ask you the questions that everyone will probably ask:

1. What is the price on these things?
2. How many grams of gold do they contain? Are they made out of .999 or .9999 gold?
3. How much is shipping worldwide?
4. What payment methods do you accept and do you accept escrow?

Looks pretty nice though, but without addressing the questions that i've listed for you above in the OP, i doubt many people will be interested in purchasing one.

You're damn right, and i agree with your points. We're seeing a crash right here right now and it's irrational to assume that a crash equal the size of the last 2013 crash wouldn't happen again. It's just absolutely absurd to think that this bubble will never end either.

However, i have to disagree with you about the long term pricing of bitcoin.

Bitcoin is backed by the people using it. And no matter how good the technology behind altcoins get, it doesn't matter. All we needed in the first place was a decentralized way to pay. We don't need no smart contracts, no decentralized car towing or all that nonsense.

Bitcoin's value will in my opinion be preserved in the long run, however there will be pumps and dumps that will affect value in the short term.

The price has been going down substantially in the last couple of days, so i'm not sure.

If the bear trend continues for a few days and this turned out to be the start of a bear season then 2018 would really be some sort of slaughterhouse for anyone going long with bitcoin. But then at the same time, if it can rebound to around $15k and hold its ground around that mark then obviously bitcoin is able to again, break out potentially to higher heights in 2018.

These last 2 weeks in the year would be incredibly crucial for the forecast going into 2018, because it sets the mood for the year.

This is a sticky situation to be in. I mean if they don't respond to your support tickets then there is really no other way of communicating with them. Even though i would consider hash flare a very dodgy business anyways, are you sure that your bitcoin transaction was sent to the right address?

Because this is one of a kind sort of complaint. Every single complaint against them is about the payouts/degradation of contract, but none of the complaints i've heard up to this point is about the buying of contract not working.

Hopefully you sort this out, but even if you do i have to let you know that there is very little in investing in cloud mining.

First of all, trust is unmoderated.

You can't complain to a moderator about your trust since it is entirely based on opinions. Trust is a subjective thing.

Secondly, Vod has tagged you for posting extremely short posts for no reason at all, mostly in off topic. I think that the label shitposter is definitely suitable for your case here and you deserve this neg.

However, if you change your behavior, then you may ask Vod to remove your rating after a month or two.

You're a founder of an altcoin that is traded on yobit? Probably pump and dump as well.

Anyways... Did they offer any explanation on how you were "overloading" the system? Even if you're doing really small orders, it's still above their limit and they never said anything about not being able to do legal small orders when you signed up, so they really have no basis to ban you.

Even if they do ban you, they should return your money. You'll probably never use their exchange again anyways.

Take this as a lesson, if you are the dev of a coin then listing your coin and trading it on yobit is the worst thing you can do. And you have to pay for it too.

You should probably list all the snapshots that you're looking for in the OP such as clams/BCC/BTG, etc.

This way people won't have to bombard you with thousands of addresses that contain nothing of importance and nobody will accuse you of ripping people off. AFAIK lots of people are saying they're buying old BTC addresses and say that it doesn't need to contain any funds and "any address is fine" but in the end they only want the ones that will make them a profit.

Just a suggestion. You don't have to follow up with it if you don't want to.

You should take some pics with the sim cards. Also some information on the rates concerning the SIM cards(call rates, data charges, etc.) would be extremely helpful as well. Is there a possibility of topping this up through bitcoin or only through credit cards?

Also this can be used internationally in any country right?

10 EUR isn't a bad price to charge for these including shipping, though please, accept escrow. I may be interested in the future if you can provide info that i requested previously.

We're experiencing the pullback right now as we speak.

I doubt it'll last as long as some people think it will, though. I think at absolute worst scenarios it's going to hit what you said, $12k. However support is actually quite strong at the $13-14k marks so i don't think that it's necessarily even going to happen before another pump just takes this thing to $18k+ again and potentially create new all time highs just like the last pump.

But just as others said, it's unpredictable as hell in a bubble. You never know, honestly.