Really, Mercenaries for what? Do you think Holders should bomb a country if it isn't ready to accept Bitcoin? ...Senseless... We have enough wars and conflicts worldwide, we don't need and don't want an army to do whatever you are proposing.  And I am not looking to be part of a BTC community that needs to spread the fear and terrorism to promote BTC

This is a possible scenario indeed but between theory and practice, there is always a difference... Even if I like this situation enough, I don't think the same thing will happen. We are in unknown territory at the moment, and the sphere is really different compared to 2013-015, there are many more things to consider.


This.

Many people say that the US are septics about cryptos but yet the majority of companies are based there. So?
Others talk about Malta as a pioneer but excuse me, how many companies do you know operating in Malta? 2? Binance and another one? This is not at all what I call a pioneer country.

We are talking about the BTC adoption and not the BTC trading adoption so I don't see any use to look at the exchanges volumes, we shall consider the real uses and I would rather rely on the stats from localbitcoin (posted earlier)

They learned nothing from the 2008 crisis and if you think about it we are far to have recovered back to before 2008. Printing money didn't fix anything. Remember back in 2008, all the millions spent to fix the crisis have gone to banks and not citizens. Today who is still paying for the debt, not the banks but the citizens.

Even if generally speaking the worldwide economy is doing better we are still weak, see:
(quote:"And Sir John Vickers, who led the post-crisis financial reform drive for the UK government, has warned that UK banks are still not safe enough, despite the many assurances from the Bank of England that they are adequately capitalised to withstand even a severe new crisis.")

another recession could bring a lot of trouble for a country and more if it's a European. Take a look at Italy



LOL afraid of a Bank run?

I am ok with merging 2 weeks as you already did previously.
Not bothering

Bitcoin isn't only a currency, it's an ideology, a protocol, a lifestyle but we still need to have a total change in mentalities. The challenges are bigger than what people may think even if we have already taken a big step forward since its creation.

Not all people have the interest to adopt Bitcoin or to see it adopted for multiple reasons (economic, political, geopolitical...)
To implement Bitcoin is more difficult than that also, not sure if it could be compared with but take as an example the EURO, it took over 10 years to see Europe adopting EUR, not even talking about the time spend to work on.

Is it the new year resolution for 2019? Because hacked accounts are usually never recovered

Crypto-banks already do exist. A bank account with crypto, you have wirex, bitwalla, mistertango, epayment.... Yes, they are only online banks but the future of the banking will be online and you can already see it with all the neobanks popping out.
The trend is now for the neobanks, people aren't interested to use the traditional banks anymore.

Interesting charts, it's showing an open door to take the opportunity to introduce BItcoin by showing its true advantages. Both countries are the perfect example to adopt a digital currency (or a decentralized )If someone is thinking it will help to recover the BTC price sorry for you but nope, it won't happen unless there are 15-20 countries in the same situation at the same time

I remember the buzz on Weiss Ratings and their biased top 50 cryptos. Weiss Ratings isn't teaching us something news. Either you believe in cryptos and hold and the gains will come in the future, either you consider it as a short-term investment and are currently in lose or soon and ready to leave the market.

Even if the slap is severe, the crypto market has still its potential otherwise companies wouldn't been investing millions in

Banknotes are backed by nothing, scriptural money/demand deposit is/are only virtual money that physically does not exist. Imagine an economy runs and based on real money/gold, forget paper gold, paper money, ETFs, Futures and the system collapse since the funds doesn't exist
China perfectly knows this and anticipate.

It's like if someone is killing a lady in the street and you say "I don't make any $ from it so I won't call the police"
Coinmarketcap cares about these types of altcoins but as you can guess they can't monitor all coins daily and without people reporting it can take a while before the coin is flagged.

You didn't understand the principles of the ICOs. This has nothing to do with making a profit. It is used to raise funds to create a project, the same funds are supposed to be used to develop the project. The same startup/companies/entrepreneurs do with Kickstarter etc.

Not really relevant. You can have a young domain name since the project is new.

Yes, this news is true. https://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/1053533/Bitcoin-price-latest-news-btc-usd-blockchain-Nasdaq-list-crt
However, I am not sure if it will benefit to Bitcoin. ETFs are based on nothing, you can buy gold ETF but the gold doesn't exist, it's just a paper money. It leads to more price manipulation and Bitcoin won't be safe from it.

2/3 of the Bitcoin transactions are related to trading and not a real use (I mean someone buying something, etc) Don't worry it's the same with ETH, so. I created a thread long ago about this topic. Considering this, it means traders stopped to trade and/or are just holding coins I don't know. AS whales aren't responsible for most of the transactions, I would say it means nothing about whales, it's rather people refraining to trade/use BTC

That's the Co-Founder & CEO of BitMEX.


If all his predictions have been wrong then why do you still wonder if you shall follow him or not? At least he knows the market better than the puppies talking on CNN-CNBC and others media outlets. With predictions, you have 50% chance to be right 50% chance to be wrong, so easy to make right or wrong predictions.

Seeing how things are going, the Bitcoin price can easily go below $3,000, even before the end of the year. People were saying the bottom is $7k, then $5k and now they say like you, $3k. In 2 weeks they and you will say $2k... Nobody can say where is the bottom, especially here,  everybody shall have his own bottom.

Viabuy.com removed Bitcoin deposits a few days ago. Too bad since the Mastercard worked well. They say they are currently looking for an alternative (it used BitPay as the middleman for BTC deposits) but don't have an estimated time. No need a translator to understand it means BTC deposits are gone forever there.

Anyone here is still using Wirex? Any feedback?

TradingView is good because it has something different, it can be used as a social network too and there are some good people to follow.
It's not a crypto only platform it's by far a lot more advanced than Coinmarketcap, nothing to compare. I didn't know Strymex.com but it seems to have a lot of less features

Anothers to mention
https://www.investing.com/
https://www.investfeed.com/home

You should look in the Marketplace or Services sections, you might be able to find a rehab center to apply for cure and pay it in BTC
Good luck!