Yes, bitcoin can be used as currency and as investment. When we think of gold it is perfectly an asset that is valued with its global demand and years of history. There is nothing a replacement for gold, some users have stated bitcoin as digital gold which is not the reality. Bitcoin evolved as a transaction support system while gold is a physical asset and this way there is no need of replacement.

Even if such bill gets implemented people will continue to use bitcoin through one way or the other. In India the politicians are highly corrupt and very few are educated. If they've know about the possible ways of laundering through bitcoin soon they'll start corruption fund transfers through bitcoin. Within India the bills can be delayed for years. Now too there is more hearings taking place for months. When the judge himself satisfied he'll give the conclusion on the bill. Until then there is nothing to fear of cryptocurrency ban in India.

Yes, Satoshi is a single person and the proof can be found in our forum. He has got his own account and has made lots of discussions related to the development. More and more controversies were there related to his identity. Among them the name Satoshi is given a terminology Sa - Samsung and Toshi - Toshiba. Likewise he is related with more firms, let Satoshi be a single person or a network. The innovation is truly a needy thing for the growing world.

It is hard to set such limitations on participation. Hundreds of players were listed for the auction, from those each team choose the player they need. This means those selected list of people for auction were taken after lots of filtering through state games. Apart from this political influence will get its Quota.

Being highly populated it is very hard to find the one who is good and give him the opportunity to play. Somehow through these state level leagues more young faces has got little recognition, and few have got added to the auction list for IPL. As large owners spend money, it doesn't mean they won't expect return out of the same. It is pure business, so they won't leave good players for the second session play of the year.

Now one of the most popular face of Indian cricket team Ganguly is getting honored to be the BCCI head. Let's wait and see what initiative he takes forward to give chance to young players.

Every country will be having its amendment related to each and everything. Following that will be the faith of the casino business owners, mostly they'll go for further hearing or appeals.

If there is no success only way is to shift the business to countries that provide support for the registered usage of gambling. You could find most gambling websites gets registered on countries where gambling is not banned or opposed by the government.

Some casino owners prefer to move into some other business. One such happened with directbet, they are the leader in the gambling with cryptocurrency acceptance. At some point they suddenly closed their service notifying they're shifting to new business and the business isn't disclosed.

The market of bitcoin is neither bullish nor bearish. This trend continues with no big move, upon which it is difficult to predict the real market situation for the upcoming days. More chances for a downtrend is being felt as there is fluctuation and no growth. Maybe for a bigger price push on halving there is chance for a drop to sub $5000 by the starting of the year. If that happens further ends up with big price pumping by halving. These were all predictions based on the prevailing market.

Bitcoin is independent of the stocks market moves, when there is more and more adoption around the globe the market reactions will change. 2008 is a worst year for the entire economy around the globe, but that got recovered with the gradual growth and different economic developments taken forward. Stocks has now experiencing some recovery compared to the previous months where it was expected to crash big than 2008.

There is lot of misunderstanding about the technology as well as with the term bitcoin. The technology gave way to the existence of bitcoin and the same can serve independently with the banking firms without cryptocurrency. The technology gets integrated with the banking services. Through this effectiveness and the efficiency of the system can be increased with reduction of flaws.

Blockchain technology gives the transparency, which increases the trust. When the same is used on banking services automatically people will trust banks more than the present, because these days there is no transparency with banking services and customers were kept within control as the funds of them were in the hands of banks.

The manipulation of the gold market gets limited as the distribution is even as stated. When we talk about bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies, there is large scale accumulation of bitcoin in limited accounts. This makes the Market easily manipulative. This will gets slowed down when the usage continues with the years of its survival.

Once gold too had the similarity, but with its years and years of usage now there is even distribution. And when we think of the dinar dirham or other currencies they have their own backing asset. Most being gold, and when it comes to their own stable coin they've chosen gold to have a fair distribution of value than just tokenising.

When you have luck, even if you don't play the game well you'll be winning. This is the truth of luck, when you are playing depending upon the skills you've gathered it is a must to have some luck. Because to study the scripts of each and every gambling site is a hard thing. We can make calculations and play, but the luck is the one that gets us with the winning on the amount risked.

There are people who consider it to be a profession. From my experience as a gambler it is hard to be a professional gambler, you need to have patience, patience, patience. If you have that somehow you can earn, if not at least you can get rid of the losses.

Chances for bitcoin to reach $20000 before 2020 is very small. This is all because of the prevailing market situation, even now it can move forward and reach $20000 same as that happened in the past. Comparing with the past charts it doesn't have the right momentum for such a hard push to reach the $20000 price.

Often whales manipulate the market, but this is much of a buying time. Large volume holders make use of it buying as much possible, keeping in mind the growth predicted for the halving 2020. Market change takes place in no time, yet this time over the falling months there is more chances for sustained growth than large scale growth.

This year IEO made a big attraction. Same as that it got to be a big success with most of the IEO launched turning successful. Further as the days pass there began to come IEO that aren't more effective. This is due to the lack of promotion of the project. IEO is just a way to grab investment, and when something new reaches the market it'll loss its importance.

Talking about the future of IEO, there is more success awaiting. This means, most of the projects highly depend upon the market trend. If there is bullish trend in the market the IEO gets more chances to get the calculated investment and happens opposite if the trend differs.

When the price of bitcoin can reach $14000 all of the sudden from $5000 in a much shorter time period, there is also possibility for bitcoin to fall to $5000 in no time. As the price fall below $8000 there is more predictions of bitcoin reaching low. To the expectation there happened upward price move. This has made the price touch $8600.

There are people who are looking for $5000, and this is an expectation based on the upcoming halving which is scheduled for the year 2020. During previous halving the price fell and once again got pumped close to the days of halving.

Same as the first test match things were happening. In the thread discussion came across a statement Umesh Yadav's addition to the team will help India big. The initial wickets taken by him has helped the team to be more strong and collapse the middle order. India has its opening partnership good, and this has made the team score reach 600. As in the statement South Africa's innings is much much depending on the Middle order as the performance of openers is not to the necessity of the team to fight back for a win.

Chinese government fear it as a reason for the prevailing economic condition in the market. From different statistical data China stands stronger than USA at present, we talk from the outer view and don't know what is the reality. Maybe China is suffering some hard time pushing themselves strong in the market. This could've caused Chinese government to pressure up alipay to close all payments that are associated with cryptocurrency related activities.

Very few matches can be predicted perfectly, because the odds will be having huge difference between the two teams. However we try hard to collect data, and select the odds it won't be a win. This is the reality with sports betting and other forms of gambling. To be profitable with sports betting it is good to go with the low odds suggested by the gambling website.

With sports betting, I prefer live betting because the match scenario changes every minute. According to the situation we can place the bet selecting the odds. This will increase the chance of winning than just placing the bets before the game begins.

Most users of the forum are of the same kind. They don't have much of technical knowledge about bitcoin, it can be of the programs, algorithms as well as the way mining of bitcoin takes place. Just thinking of the profiting, and without any knowledge about mining more people have invested into mining and has experienced big loss.

Bitcoin is much known for trading and for investing. This has made people learn about its market analysis much more than its technical aspects. We've got lot of threads and technical articles that gives clear information on how bitcoin works.

The previous mass adoption of bitcoin took place with Japan. After the same there is not much of such a level of adoption, there is more global adoption taking place in a random manner. After Japan no countries came forward and revealed official statement on adoption. There is increasing adoption, and the same is taking place here and there. It requires time, and the userbase it has reached without any form of advertising in such a short time period is really a big achievement. This will boost up the usage, at times there will be lacking of the same due to the market situations.

World economy is now facing the worst of all time. Here the grown nations as well as the developing nations were not an exception. There are countries that have gone economically down due to lack of management and corruption. For the same they haven't moved to cryptocurrencies.
Zimbabwe and Venezuela people have begun to use cryptocurrencies higher than the past, but there is nothing like the progress of cryptocurrency is growing much high eliminating the usage of fiat. Zimbabwe suffered economic collapse years back and experts gave suggestion for bitcoin adoption which might help in the recovery within certain number of years, and that hasn't encouraged much big level of usage, growth, acceptance as Op mentioned.

There are remote locations that doesn't have electricity, but these days through the advancement it is possible as solar energy can be produced even from very low sunlight.
As mobile operators have developed inbuilt wallets, we can enrich the security so that even if smartphones were stolen or taken by someone else they can't make use of it.
More firms were trying hard to give cryptocurrencies physical appearance. This is hard, and paper wallet is the only way it can be viewed physically. Some form of offline transactions were made, but at some point it needs connectivity to register to the block.
This is not at all a problem, people found difficult to use phones. Now everyone who haven't gone for school uses it better than a techie. So, being illetrate is not a big issue with cryptocurrency.
People moved from physical cash to card payments, and this gets effective when governments promote it and encourage using card/other forms of digital transactions for all the needs. One such promotion is taking place through out Japan.