I think the opposite, early or so this year we saw a lot of institutional investors try and enter the market, and they basically pushed Bitcoin dominance pretty high and raised the price of it again.

I doubt institutions are going to have a huge effect on bitcoin, likely just small movements that get covered by the regular market, and they still aren't the biggest whales.

There has actually been a lot of people who have been trying to trade OTC without effecting market prices, as well. Not sure if businesses can do this.

If you trade on Coinbase, it's quite easy and you can literally buy BTC from them, they only update their prices every 5 minutes or so, and when your transaction is getting processed, it's basically set in stone (the price), and they can't change it.

They have huge, huge spreads though (something like 5%) and I would definitely recommend you to look at other options like paxful, which don't require your ID, and have only 1 percent or so via bank transfers (0.9% spread or smth, and then a 0.1% bank transfer, I believe).

There's a lot of ways out of your situation, although they are going to require huge amounts of manpower and work, especially since you have basically wasted your life before 25 years (no offense).

These a lot of ways to learn things with a simple internet connection, I have friends that have learned how to code really well just off youtube and articles - if you think this is something interested, go down that path, as web development is a pretty popular and well paid job, even if you are remote.

That's the only job that I can think off that doesn't involve some form of dodginess unfortunately.

There's always going to be a use for middleman, and it's not just going to end up with people doing everything for themselves. Middlemen are usually used to save time, or when something you want just can't be done (eg, you want to talk to investment bankers).

We aren't going to be able to see automation of every service, although a lot of the industries you are talking about are going to die (eg, taxis).

Also, you forgot a very important middle-man. Payment processors! I don't think they will ever end up outdated, they are too crucial and some businesses don't have the time to make their own payments.

Most crypto-investors, like me and my friends will understand that the market is basically a gamble if you make money or not. I personally wouldn't ever invest in crypto if I had a lot more financial freedom, but so far I just put it off as a hobby and if I end up making profits, I sell and maintain my portfolio at a certain value.

Have the mindset that the money you have in crypto is already gone, and I would invest in crypto if I didn't have investments in more safer, traditional options.

I also share a similar POV, that bitcoin is going to end up maturing into a state where it's going settle between 2 price points (I thought this was going to be 8,000 to 12,000) and then it would just bounce around that price for a while.

Other investments have lasted/been around for several hundred years before they reached their fairly stable state like they are in now. I would assume crypto-currencies to talk around the same year, and we likely won't stabilise around the price ceiling for 30 or so years.

I think it's a specific region block. Where are you guys from? I am still able to access the site, although the "send to your BTC balance" button doesn't work (excepted).

It's fairly well known that Satoshi is a smart fella, so it would be fair to assume that he didn't overly talk to people and reveal to them that he was satoshi, and his life was weird in a way it was like he lead 2 of them.

A regular real life, similar to ours. I would assume he would only tell his family and closest friends about his online ID, and it's going to be impossible to track that past.

And an online life, where he actually never linked to any real life features. All of his work is about BTC and technology, and he never talks about his real life on the forum, or anywhere else.

There's been quite a bunch of new ideas circulating around BTC mining, and there are forks/ideas that will bring BTC to a POS, POW and a lot of other systems all focused on the idea of saving money and keeping energy consumption low. The problems are however:

- It will be a different fork to BTC and will either split BTC into 2 weaker communities or completely be dead on arrival.
- Miners and a lot of investors will never, never touch the new BTC, likely either keep mining the old BTC, or move to other coins (BCASH).
- Waste of time/effort.

Now doesn't that sound cool? A blockchain-based digital vault!

Even though it's pretty obvious this is forced innovation, and the banks are likely only doing this for attention/to please shareholders, it is something interesting to talk and look at.

The idea of moving everything to a single centralised platform, where everyone can see deals that have been made (even private ones) sounds extremly bad for business, and it's neglecting a lot of people who are focused on privacy.

Don't think this will ever get anywhere.

To be honest, if someone has high reputation and can prove they are another person on another site, 1 of 3 things spring to my mind.

-He/he is going to try scam you for a big amount on the other site and pray you can't link it back to LBC and ruin his reputation.
-He/She just wants the avoid the 1% fee that he needs to eat, every time you start a trade with him.
-He/She owns/works with the site.

I'm leaning to the last one due to the experiences you've had with him, and lack of reviews.

Facts. I know a bit of a privacy freak that only accepts payments via XMR, and then uses a mixer/exchange (I forgot which one) to then instantly transfer the amount into BTC, and then he sends it instantly to his cold storage.

I wouldn't be really scared about holding any amount below 10 BTC, especially if it's on a hardware wallet, just keep that safe and you should have no issues with hacks/privacy exploits in the future. If you still want to go through the hassle, mocacinno has a great post for you to follow.

Pretty sure Keplerk or another company announced that there was going to be an option to spend BTC on cigarettes and e-cigarettes earlier this year, kinda sucks that it took them several months to get it implemented, although better late than never.

Not sure if it's the best idea to only let tobacco be bought with BTC, it sort of gives off a bad vibe of BTC (I understand cigarettes aren't illegal, but they aren't good for you either), I think there needs to be a lot more mainstream adoption, where it can be used to buy groceries or electronics before they start seeing any actual numbers.

Let's not be so glum, I think one of the biggest issues when it comes to bitcoin mentality is one of regret. Oh, I can't believe I spent BTC there for something so useless, blah, blah. It's a bad mindset to have, and as someone who loves new tech, I've given up on it and just tried to enjoy life

This time, I used the purse.io addon/app for amazon's black friday deal and bought a bunch of the new black friday specials, with most of them being SSDs, headphones, and a monitor + some small purchases!

Fair, there are definitely quite a lot of mixers out there, and there is no doubt that chipmixer is the most popular/trusted one. But it lacks a lot of other features that other mixers offer (mostly talking about multi-currency mixing, which is when you send in BTC, and then receive ETH back, making transactions literally impossible to track).

That's one of privcoins main features, and it's one of their rises to fame. They've been around bitcointalk for a couple years now, and I've seen people use them fairly well.

I am sure one of privcoins support members will get to you - maybe move this to reputation/scam accusations to get more attention.

Firstly, there is no need to talk about North Korean. The UN has already declared numerous issues against them, and thinking their opinion is valid in the acceptance of crypto-currencies is just frankly stupid. Syria, and especially Iran make sense, as these are pretty powerful middle-eastern countries that will actually have an effect against the acceptance of crypto.

They haven't been very forthcoming with crypto-currencies at all! Iran and Syria have not made any changes in recent years, and whatever you are referencing is incorrect. Although, I still think the world is going to be able to move on with newer technologies, even if Syria and Iran don't agree with this new tech.

Damn, that's a heart-warming subject. From what I've heard, the sport scene in China is extremely difficult and people will need to push themselves harder then ever to be able to be noticed, and there isn't a lot of money on it (except when you are at the very best).

Any idea how much has actually been raised through these QR codes, I reckon it would be very popular if they played games with these jerseys, we could see live action donations, as they are playing!

Let's not all get so happy, keep in mind there is a need for further approval before this bill is going to get passed, and there's a pretty high chance that it ends up getting blocked, the EU isn't the most crypto-friendly bunch.

I am no expert when it comes to economics or bills, but I feel like this isn't focused on banking - instead its more focused on the anti-AML side of things, and this is just going to impose a new ruleset on the banks? Will this even affect regular users?

This is the wrong mindset to have, it's the payment option that is the problem here, not the amount of money. Getting 300 dollars in any currency is going to turn heads, and if the ladies got 10 dollars in fiat, they would have likely just pocketed the money.

Even though this is a pretty small sample size, it's fairly accurate and representative of the scene. Women are statistically less interested in investments, compared to men, and since BTC is usually seen as an investment nowadays, women aren't going to interested in it.

I'm not sure about short term ones where you can lock away your BTC, but there are a lot of options for you to keep BTC away, I think companies like Nexo will offer you monthly rates, where you can't withdraw your money for a month, and you get some nice interest as well.

I get a feeling that this is a possible gambling/spending addiction. If you really do feel like your addicted, you can buy containers that can hold things, and then plop your ledger inside, set the timer for several hours and then be forced to resist.