every single on of us would love to do that, to sell at $650 and rebuy at below $500 but the problem is that price of bitcoin is not going to go under $500 anymore and although anything is possible but right now rise over the course of the next two months is the most probably scenario.

yeah but it is not only about taking risks, it is about making more money. if you are satisfied with the amount of money you already own you don't look for investment but when you want more money you have to make some investments and accept the risks. besides you can always find good investments and lower the risks as much as possible.

it depends on your trading strategy. as a long term investor you may not even find some rises as "shoot up" because they are still small and not to your expectations. so in this case hold!

but as a day-trader any small change in price can be "shoot up" so you can sell on the high and buy back in dips.

blockchain.info is a good web wallet but it is not the safest wallet at all so don't keep coins there if you have a lot of them. and yes they have a mixing service (called shared coins i think) but never tested it to see how good or reliable it is. for mixing use bitmixer.io they are good

are you sure, i always thought the illegal drug market was around the time price went up to $1000 not in 2012!
anyways you can always argue about the reasons why price went up and the argument is going to take forever without any conclusion. i am simply pointing out what happened because that newbie above my comment said "historically has not doubled" which was wrong information.

nothing bad is going to happen it would be another day in bitcoin market and another wave of speculations. and as long as price stays here and don't go down people are also happy about it.

for the hundredth time mining websites also known as cloudminings are generally have nothing to do with mining and most probably they are not even mining anything because they own no equipment hence hashpower to mine anything. that's the way Ponzi scheme works.

i don't know where you bring your history but in the real bitcoin price history the last block halving happened on 28th November, 2012 and price of bitcoin has gone up from $10 in Oct-Nov 2012 to $20 in Jan 2013 (it nearly took 2 months to reach double price)


yeah if you look at the day halving happened, then yest nothing happened that day.

if you are looking for people apart from those known addresses that i mentioned in my above comment then i have to say those people (investors that are whales) are not going to reveal their identity for many reasons like taxes, hacks or even robbers can physically attack them knowing they own more than $650,000

just search blockchain.info for "famous addresses" there are a lot of them there that have more than 1000BTC most of them are services, gambling sites (casinos), bitcoin exchanges, online wallets, most important of all Mining farms and many more that have this kind of bitcoin.

why are you looking for them anyways?

it is so much easier said than done when you are not a gambling addict. but for someone who is deep in gambling and doesn't even realize it, giving it up is not so easy. although staying away if you haven't started it yet is so much easier because you haven't done anything yet to give up.

then how can you say it depend on how much confident we are!! because gambling has nothing to do with your confidence about the future and the result it is all about luck. if you get lucky you win and if not you lose even in sports betting as you said different thing happen against your expectations.

your problem may be first because of connectivity, something like firewall is blocking the Electrum access to the internet.
but if that is not the case it may be because of your blockchain (headers) file which can not be updated, i encountered this a long time ago and i don't know if it was corrupted or not but after deleting it, my problem was solved.
if your problem is not because of connection to network try the second solution.

haha, its a cheeky way of asking how much bitcoin do you own. and it is pointless because there are a couple other topics about this and people are either going to troll or signature spammers are going to spam here. because nobody will publicly say how much money they own!!!

edit:ROFL, i just realized OP's name is "Harlot"

it is all about supply and demand. as bitcoin becomes more famous and adopted by more people and merchants and also as it becomes more famous as an investment the demand for bitcoin increases and also with the halving the supply creation rate has also gone down which means lower dumped coins daily. the combination of these two means price going UP.

the importance of it is only for those who are investing in bitcoin, and in my opinion those who want to use it as a currency care mostly about fixed price.

as others said there is always bitcoin price increase that can save miners from going under. besides you don't have to worry about the far future, stick to the present!

also in the future when block reward is lower fees will be increased (assuming price hasn't gone up) to cover the costs of mining.

i always say that anything is possible with bitcoin but some things are highly unlikely to happen and this topic is one of them. the dream of bitcoin cheaper than $500 is something that we can only see in our dreams at night and never in the reality.

anything is possible with bitcoin price. but one thins has always been true, the rise don't always needs a reason for happening. sometimes it just starts. besides what bigger reason do you need apart from halving? the reward for miners is now 12.5BTC instead of 25

i am sorry to say this but that analysis was bullshit because in bitcoin it is impossible to reach $9000 within a month and a half. even if price starts rising right now and it goes up fast it can't grow $8350 in this short time, people will dump a lot in the process which will slow it down to a couple of years and that is only if it is possible.

if their security is good enough you should not worry about anything but the problem is that you can't be sure how good yobit's security is. and they won't care if you lose your bitcoin to a hacker so withdraw always and only keep small amounts there,