This is a great time to test out your patience and trading strategies, $1700 few minutes ago and now $1699 and if you bought already then stop selling, if any body buying Bitcoin and doesn't sell for a week or so can indeed sell for much higher prices than now. Or I might be completely wrong and price is about to fall back to $1200-1280. I wish price falls down to sub $1300 to have less traffic in the network, less fees and faster confirm time.

We're dead by then, if that happens people like Wu and Satoshi(rather their grandchildren)will become the emperors of the world . unfortunately by that time I predict a new currency replacing Bitcoin but it will exist no matter what.

I'm more comfortable with the prediction of $8000 per coin by the next halving in 2020 and thinking about far in the future then we should start buying land in mars starting from now before they colonize the planet.

And my review on the matter, do you know for every single dollar there needs to be a job done and must be earned? who did what exactly to earn you $75?
At the end if some body is left with a huge loss, are you Ok with it?

In Bitcoin you either buy miner and start mining and it will cost you to do so and people will buy your coins at a market price and they will then in turn spend the coins and earn back what they've spent.

Most people don't care if what they have sold is going to earn the buyer any profit, I buy ETH at $7 and will sell at highest price like $120 and price will go down to $60 now what happens to the people who bought from me for $120? why should I care you say? they knew the risks and this is trading you say?

I know all about that, but that is the difference between you and me, I stay away from such trades because I care for others.

I stay with Bitcoin and wouldn't think about if others going to profit or not because I always recommend to hold for long term and I know Bitcoin was designed to go up in value.

I can't say the same thing about ETH honestly it's price went from $6 to $100 in less than 2 month.

My point however is about the usefulness of blockchain, if you going to try using it to avoid tampering of data which is the whole point of it then you'll need to have a vast network with large hashing power.
Otherwise you'll end up like ethereum, every time dev had a fight with his wife he went forked the blockchain. it only matters if it is deployed in a decentralized way otherwise a private organization with having the control over the system doesn't need the blockchain.
Most of the altcoins are more like a joke of technology because the hashing power is too low that someone like me could potentially change anything deep in the chain.

I can't see why any body bothers to deploy so much required resources to secure a blockchain if they are not profiting by doing so and of course if you don't increase your power all the time you are risking others taking control, bottom line, blockchain is meaningless without hash power and competition and a strong algo.

How much would you pay for an article with 1000 letters? right now some services are paying $15-18 for 1000 characters.

E.G, bitmixer pays 0.0007 for a minimum 75 characters post with current market price if you be fair it's around $18 up to $20 for 1K characters post.
Anything like that you might be paying?

Now everyone thinking what an idiot I was that I didn't buy hundreds or thousands last year in May I could've sell them all now and have more than tripled my money. the beauty of it however is the fact that no body is losing money like people do when invest on shitcoins, every new buyer at any given price is actually getting something useful and can sell to the next person with profit if people really listen and stop selling so cheap at $1780.
@whales, lets build a wall leaning towards $2000 shall we?

Why Muslims, don't you know Islam came after Christianity? you don't go backward compatible in religion, if it was God's intention for people to do this to each other then why bother and create us? not being born is more decent than live and get killed by lunatics.

When some body loses his way and walks in the darkness you think anyone but God can help him?
Qur'an has everything explained you just need to open your heart and mind to understand it all.
Last night I killed a bee until now I have a heavy weight on my mind when I think about it, now people slice you to pieces like beef.

That statement changes everything, have you had any apple product in your life to know ios doesn't get infected by any virus?
Maybe they are doing a good thing by closing the source code? laughter is very loud when you think of Bugcoin with their closed source code still crashing every 2 weeks.

You might want to change the OP title, I'm going to be honest with you, if I could understand your article and it's importance and relation to Bitcoin?

Some body is trying to use the blockchain technology in fashion industry?
Like the inventor of electricity should care if some body is using it to cause vibration and enjoy the feeling lol

News like Wu was assassinated and now BU has no real leader/support.
Or SW was successfully activated.
Or ViaBTC is not asking us to buy contract in cloud mining first and then we get to use their accelerator without 100TX per hour limit.
Or fees are back to 25-50 sats/byte again just like 3 months ago, I was checking blockchain and noticed some 10sats/byte transactions while at that moment I was waiting for my 230sats/byte transaction to get 1 confirmation after 45 minutes.

Wu was it your name?
From my point of view I see you BU guys and gals acting like you own Bitcoin, you are not even entitled to it or if you are then it is equal to every body in this community, you constantly talking like we're retarded and don't understand anything so we need you to tell us what is good and who is bad.
Godmother more concern than a mother? that's a saying if I got it right though.

With all the love and respect for Satoshi, fack his vision dude, he was just around for one year and either diverted Bitcoin and whole community towards his di*k or one of you guys killed him back then lol.

Core devs are around and active for more than 6 years but for more than 4 years Satoshi's vision was blinded or you were blind? then coming out since 2015, there was no SW back then was it? then what was the excuse to create BU? are we not running on the same chain until now ever since? I'd say they have done a great job so far and now that they are trying to move to the next big level they became the enemy?

Some damn decent enemies they are working in our favor up to $1800.

You think that we can't see that you saw an opportunity and grabbed it in the air after realizing with enough hash power and friendly full nodes at your side you could take over? 

One thing you should really learn is that things like this are never spoken of until it's too late.
My thoughts on this matter, I believe a few big whales with serious funds in billions entered crypto after the news of Japan, they indeed pumped every thing which appeared legit and the code was worth the money.
Now if ETF passes the approval successfully we know those whales were from government or at least were in bed with them and if they reject it then they still made a wise decision to invest on the future of money Bitcoin and a few altcoins whether we like it or not.

One thing though, when weak hands dump price will go down as a consequence and that shouldn't be considered as a correction, with limited supply of Bitcoin we have no or very small room for such market maneuvers.

Is that a question without question mark? you should say cash is better than Bitcoin, here is why.
Give it another 50 years to see some improvements and not everything fixed, the current state of Bitcoin is exactly what it should be as a decentralized network, remember Ethereum hard forks every few hours?
Yes totally legit decentralized blockchain not.
You could see how a centralized blockchain performs by looking at the rate of BU blocks and signals.
That's why I consider them hostile take over attempt, a company pushing against the wall for gaining the control.
And that's why their code causes crashes all the time because unlike Core they don't have a divers numbers of developers with different skill sets.

I disagree, if nothing were to change then why not approving it the first time and get on with it?
I just feel sad to see despite the successful take off we're still looking up to the governments with their laws and power of control.

We're very much like animals in a zoo where looking at the hands of zookeepers to see when they feed us and just seeing them makes us to jump around(becoming happy and buy at whatever the price is)so people can enjoy watching us.

After approval I believe many things will change forever, however I couldn't see the reason why a government ever wants to help any revolution started by people around the world which will eventually result in their demise? if they wanted to be good they wouldn't have take control over our lives and use our God given natural resources for their own agendas and gain.

I heard some companies are using metals to manufacture guns which are to kill people, lets ban metal mining and discard them from our lives.

I don't see their price going down nor their related businesses destroyed.

If you are a woman, you could get married or you could sell your body.

It's entirely up to individuals how to use everything.

Saying Bitcoin price going down because of this is absurd, anyways I don't see Wu shutting bitmain down and turning off all the antminers for this lol.

It all started with ETH pumping from $6.5 up to $50 2 months ago if you all remember? at first some of the Bitcoin's marketcap literally moved into ETH which was obvious and every one called it out, then it went back to Bitcoin and the pump of other coins such as DASH, Ripple and other centralized alts began.

Who could've thought doge hitting 100 satoshis, ridiculous right?

And as always while they will pump later comes the dump, I don't know when we learn?

Though if you put some missing parts of the puzzle together you'll see LTC is still undervalued but I don't recommend buying rather mining it is better and smarter move because the price will naturally increase after difficulty does.

What ever happens Bitcoin will have the required support from community, after all, community is what really matters.

Since posts can't be removed here I need to say this, faucets are a burden to the network, we're no longer a micro-transaction processor as the fees are much higher than what faucets are paying unless you can accumulate $10 as a minimum to withdrawal.

I wont as a business owner trust my advertising to people like the ones putting ads on faucets, who are you fooling here? we all know the kinds of people claiming dust on faucets have no buying power to buy anything which you offer in the ads.

What is the difference between stealing and coating the act by providing fake visits, views?

You are practically deceiving people that you are advertising for them and they might get the daily visits but in the long run those visits will bring zero income for businesses.

One person desperate enough to load a website to receive pennies can't bring any money for you if you are advertising in a faucet unless you are fishing for idiots to trick them into giving away their hard earned money to invest in fake investment opportunities.

Sell before you lose more it's never too late to stop the loss, Bitcoin price at these crazy rates such as $1900-1800 was an artificial reaction to some news and as well some altcoins increased in marketcap.

I guess the altcoins fever was contagious and caused a spike in price of the king of cryptocurrencies.

I'd be waiting for $1200-1300 if I were you.

24 hour trading volume was 170K-185K before we reach $1300 but right after $1500 was passed the volume decreased to sub 80K in 24 hours.

What does that indicate?

I don't know the answer because I'm not an expert in economics.

One more day for the ETF and price already going down half a percent every 4 hours, lucky those people who bought at $1100 back in March even if they sell right now they can have $650 pure profit on every Bitcoin.
I think $1300 is more within reason and that shouldn't be considered as a crash, remember the price before the sudden increase?

Crash would be a sudden drop from $1750 down to $750 but with the current infrastructure in place I really can't see that happening ever.

You don't like these prices go mine for yourself and if you can't afford to mine then go engage with altcoins but don't come back crying here later that you got screwed over.

Whenever I need to pay for something using Bitcoin then I will pay the amount in fiat and buy then send Bitcoin only with a few percent difference which is deducted as fees but it wont effect my buying power much.

If you are a trader and constantly doing small and big trades, again it wont effect your tradings that much.

But if you are a miner and selling your coins as you mine them it will definitely change things for you.

At the moment I'm not buying any altcoins because they are in a fake pump stage, so no need to buy Bitcoin for me but no matter the price as long as I can sell back with a few percent difference I will pay the price, market price.

I don't see any where a mass ransom demands surge to force people into paying them by Bitcoin, I'm sure bad guys very well know about LTC and ETH why not demanding them as well? maybe XMR or DASH?
Or maybe we don't have LTC mixer or ETH mixer like we have bitmixer?

The unfortunate part is when you send them Bitcoins after they mix them there is virtually no possible way to track them, unless you deal with amateur mixers which either scam you by stealing them or just have no skills or volume to properly mix them or they are just government's agencies masking themselves as mixers and secretly keeping the records of every transactions for future references, you never know.
BTW, price is going under unlike what you are suggesting.