I think that nobody should be mad about poloniex delisting all these coins, In my opinion it is a very wise move from their side.
All these altcoins could have done, was to plant a seed of uncertainity at poloniex. It is because you cannot have a trusted cryptocurrency exchange, where you have an ability of trading with the assets that are probably going to expire sooner than in 3 next months.

Also, that is not any kind of a scam from their side. The volume has been lowered very significantly after the poloniex have left the markets: bear in mind that this particular exchange has the biggest part in bitcoin trading volume. That is a very important factor, which pretty much had a big influence on those alts.

In my opinion the very important thing about bitcoin that concerns the goverments, is that it is very hard to collect taxes from bitcoin users.
The only way to do that, is when the citizens of specified country are going to declare their profits made on the cryptocurrencies. But that may not be a good idea for authorities, im sure that many people will not say anything about that: because the bitcoin provides the anonymousness, you are not going to be tracked on blockchain probably.

But the funds that you want to sell, are pretty much something illegal because you haven't payed a tax. If the IRS will find out, they are going to sentence you with a punishment, and this is a really bad system in my opinion. The goverments need to find out something better than this.

That is right, I cannot understand why so many people say that the end justifies the means.
This phrase is very stupid, it does not look like that. We cannot lose our moral laws just because we are having some desires, to become rich, powerful or anything else.

My perspective is that in every case we can do anything we want, unless it is not harmful in anyway for society. But corruption is something illegal and bad, because you may avoid the punishment just because you can afford that: which is not right with other people, who has got sentenced for the same thing.
About corruption, I have heard that also Russia has this problem. Im afraid that it is a common issue in a less developed countries.

That is the exact reason why I never dream about getting rich. It doesnt matter for me if it would make me rich with bitcoin, or anything else because I know it is not going to happen.
You cannot expect having great returns and prosperity just because you know something about BTC and overall, about cryptocurrencies. You need to do something with that, to use this knowledge for earning purposes.

Same like you cannot earn money without any amount for investing purposes. The only way in which you can obtain BTC not by buying it, is just using your abilities for this desire: do posts on forum while having signature campaining, look for freelancer jobs or just get payed for coding.

Yes, but it does not mean that bank cannot accept bitcoin. They do not have to necessarily control some asset, to have a stock of it and lend it to other people.
If banks in every countries would apply possible bank bitcoin loans, that would be a great opportunity for every kind of investors and people willing to start they own, small business.

However im afraid that is not possible. Banks are way too afraid of bitcoin to implement it in a such way, because there is basically no way to control the bitcoin, except using the market.
It requires a big amount of money which bank has, but still the market capitalization is really high which may be a roadblock for such a manipulaton.

In my opinion, there is no chance to see any kind of bank accepting bitcoin.

That is actually a really accurate, cryptocurrencies have became so popular that pretty much every single coin has some volume. People are just investing blindly in some xxx coins, without taking any look at their specifics, team standing behind it or technical solutions.

It seems pretty funny for me, because you need to spend the money to buy any coin, even the cheapest one. It means that a big part of people are willing to invest their hardly-earned money just for some hope, that they will get into such a big rise as we have seen on bitcoin. People in this world (the crypto one) are way too greedy, this is why so many shit alts are being created. Because people are just willing to invest in them no matter what, so basically every single shit/scam/dead coin gets at least some of the marketshare. But still, BTC will remain on top of the whole hierarchy.

Do you really think that bitcoin is something extremely easy to obtain, without any money invested or effort spent?
Guess not, you are totally not right if you really have something like that in your brain.
In my opinion, 3 bitcoins before 2018 is a really big amount of money to collect through 7 months. After all, with the current price of bitcoin it is 3900-4000$.
Many people are not able to save such an amount of money through the year, and you are talking that a year is too long for reaching a decent sum like that!

Indeed, the US was pretty much first in this trend. That was basically the place where cryptocurrencies were born, and also the place when anyone has started using them.
But it does not necessary mean that main user base is at US, for bitcoin and usually for trusted, popular altcoins, they are distributed the same in every place on the planet.

Most of the people will probably agree with me, with saying that all cryptocurrencies need decentralization, because we cannot let anyone to control them. If it will be able, then in my opinion there will be no difference between fiat and this kind of coin: after all, only market laws such as demand and supply should have control on it.

Can i ask you, how do you "invest" in trading?
I assume that means you will deposit money to some broker, which will allow you to trade bitcoins, or just onto some trusted cryptocurrency exchange to use these funds as a bankroll.
But you could also mean that you are willing to invest this money into trading education, and to be honest that does not sounds like a good idea.

You may get knowledge and skills, but not for cash: you need to spend a lot of effort to learn many important lessons in trading, money will not do that job. But in fact, there are people who can teach you trading for money, but be very careful in accepting such an offer. It is very important to find a correct, legit person who is really good when it comes to trading.

I cannot grasp the idea why so many people are suggesting investing in altcoins, in the moment when they are released.
First of all, this is not so easy to find a good coin, which might have a potential just before its launch. You can indeed might find many nice, cheap coins but still most of them are made for the pump and dump game.
Without a really good knowledge about cryptocurrencies and their mechanics, you are not really able to judge if the specific coin is going to adopt to the market, or rather is going to be dumped by people to just bail-out of the bad investments.

I just prefer to do investments in any other kind, they are much easier and they dont contain such a big risk like alt trading does.

Why do you think that nothing is going to change in 2017, when it comes to bitcoin?
I dont agree that we can compare 2016 to 2017, some of the events that have already occured had a really big influence on the cryptocurrency market, and so far many signs are really positive for this year.

Bitcoin has broken 1330$ price, which is something amazing! I really think that 2017 might be a year of bitcoin, if indeed the miners will find a correct solution for the problem of high miner fees and transactions getting confirmed in an hours.

If actually they will make up some compromise, then Im sure that 2017 will be a year of bitcoin: there is no doubt that after such an event (e.g SegWit implementation) BTC would go above 2000$ per unit.

That actually doesnt really matter how many addresses we use a day, if the current Earth population is somewhere around 9 billion people.
The reason is extremely easy, because there are just too many possibilities of a different bitcoin address, to run out of them.

In fact, there is a bigger chance that there is some guy who wins superball every single time in a year, and gets strucked with lightining at every time his heart beats.
That comparision seems insanely ridiculous, but it can show you why it is pretty much impossible to not have any free address: there are simply waaaay to many possibilities to use them all.
Also, the chance to get someones else address while generating is almost 0 too.

That was a really big issue some time ago, because bitcoin was mostly used for illegal activities.
When it was not known so well, and when it was actually cheap, BTC was really hard to spend in a regular online shop with legit things: the stores simply didnt know about bitcoin yet.

Back in those times, illegal activities was the big part of the BTC volume, but it has changed. People now are using it for a good purposes mostly, but tainted bitcoins are still present in the network.

Just find a reasonable mixer service, and deposit them there. If you will let them go through it, im sure that will fix your issue.
You should always check if your payments do not contain tainted bitcoins.

I have found out that actually many people are registering some different domains, just to sell them with profit later.
After all, good domain is always something that companies need, if the name of it is actually attractive for people.
Things like that are actually great for bitcoin, because I know someguys who in the moment of hearing about cryptocurrencies, have started to create different domains which can be sold right now for a really decent price. And you dont have anything interesting at a domain, it is just for sale: but groups and companies sometimes really need some specified address, so they will simply buy it.

Anyway, such a domain will never attract people for you I think, looks too much as a scam-site.

It is never too late for something like that, you can always have a chance to get into cryptocurrency world, and start collecting the funds out in bitcoins and other altcoins.

If you would like to hear my advice, I can recommend you just using a simple way to get more and more bitcoins stacked:
Just simply make up a reasonable goal for you, which would determine how much money you are going to spend on bitcoins daily/weekly/monthly.
Let's say you are going to spend 100$ every week for a bitcoin, no matter what the price is. Believe me, after several years you will have a really big sum stashed in BTC.

That is why I cannot understand all the people in this thread who keeps believing that starting a loaning service is something extremely risky, and also that you need an insane amount of cash.
Remember, this is a total bullshit.

All you need to earn interest on loans without any risk, is designing a correct strategy and technique, to recover the money you have lend even when the customers is not going to pay anything.
You need to take collateral every time: no collateral-no loan, simple is that. You may choose only trusted users, and always use escrow for all your loans.
With even more security measures, you will be covered from risk.

I haven't even heard about any other forum where you can get at least some bitcoins for just doing post or replies on it.
But we cannot forget that this is not the most important thing we have on bitcointalk.org, this is just a small addition. We can basically discuss anything related to cryptocurrencies subjects over here, we also have off-topic so there is a place for everything except scams obviously.

There is also another very important function of forum, it is a place where the traders of different goods meet with their customers. Both sides can use escrow services, mixer services or anything else they want.
The offer is just between the sections of bitcointalk.org

To be honest, I was really skeptical about bitcoin price reaching 1500 USD level in this half of year, but it looks like I was mistaken.
Currently, I can see the price of 1320$ on bitcoin average. I have seen slightly more than 1200$ yesterday, and I still was more like "1500$? at the end of the year!".
In my opinion, the 1300$ area was really important for BTC because it was looking like a strong resistance area, but now it is broken.
I think that this won't be a big step to just go on 1500$ in next 2-3 days, I really expect that to happen.

Wow, that is a sad story indeed. Im very sorry for you, but you panicked during the big dump what is not so strange when the price went down so hard.
I remember this events, so many people were bailing out of this asset, but I need to admit that it has really looked like the final end of the bitcoin cryptocurrency.
You could have found whinings that people are losing money on it literally everywhere in the internet on the websites related to crypto news or BTC, but as we can see it has survived, and is becoming even stronger than lately.

I really wonder if there is going to happen some situation like that, but in my opinion way too many people rely on bitcoin to see such a big price decrease.

Yes, but the price of bitcoin does not have to increase significantly so fast, there are many situations in which actually the BTC/USD rate is going down a lot or just cannot get through some important resistance.
For example, we had such a situation in this month.
The price was stable for a long time somewhere between 1150$ and 1200$, we have had a strong resistance at +1300$ area, but as we can see it has already went through that level.

You need to remember that all investment has some risk involved, you cannot invest your money in such a way, to not have any risk of losing at least the part of them, that is the biggest problem.