Besides looking on these freelancer's sites, always check Services section on this forum, there you may find tasks which you can earn some satoshis.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0

Just be careful with the employers, because you might find scammers there.
Also, caution with which kind of task you take, some of them are forbidden by the forum (like bumping specific threads for an example).

These people who bought BTC for $19.000 should continue holding and waiting until BTC hits the mark again, so they can choose between selling and making profit, to continue holding or both alternatives.

As you said, Crypto-Currencies can't grow indefinitely, after a big increasement in price last year it became unsustainable to continue on the hype for more time. People were excited to buy BTCs some months ago, before the end of 2017. I have never seen so many comments and news about Bitcoin on the local media's sites. But once it became unstable, maybe because governments started talking immediately about regulations/bans, the new investors started panic selling, making the price drop.

Clever whales saw what was happening and helped to drop the market even more. And then we hit the impressive $6500, creating a lot of fear among investors. But with some clarifications about regulations in South Korea seems BTC recovered a part of its strength again. Looking through the events now, South Korea was a key point on this story. The asian markets exert big influence in Crypto market, if things do well there, Bitcoin does well.

The positive or negative impact will depend how people are using internet and technology. As I see, for most people the impact is empty, null. Because they just use the internet to access Facebook, Whatsapp and these kind of sites/apps just to watch, comment superfluous bullshit. I'm not blaming the platforms, because they can be very useful and make our lives easier and it can even help us to access information faster, but the way people use this it's not worthful, they don't learn or talk anything useful on these platforms, all they do is to copy/paste beautiful catchphrases, follow what celebrities are doing and post pictures to show how they are happy and beautiful, while the truth is a total inferiority complex...

For most people the real impact is null, same than nothing.

I see Bitcoin in different ways, depending the moment and the currently necessity. Now it's more like a profitable investment, a profitable asset. But sometimes, when necessary, it's a normal currency used to make purchases online. And without doubts, it's a tool to give more power to individuals and decrease the state's power over people's lives.

However, to make it work correctly, the decentralization principle must be respected and put in practice in large scale.

Crypto-Currency can't be stopped and governments know about it, and they also know most part of their citizens don't know much about it and that they can be easily manipulated. So there isn't any difficult in creating a centralized local Crypto-Currency and telling the people that "it is like Bitcoin, but much better, because it's regulated/protected by the country's laws".

I don't think it's good, but as you can see, many people ask for regulations and more regulations, always celebrating when a new one is approved by a government. So governments can do what they want, in parcery with banks, and in the end there will be a lot of people applauding these ideas.

To become an usable currency the transaction's fees must decrease, that is the main reason some stores that were already accepting Bitcoin stopped accepting it. The negative volatility influences too, but I think it's not the main reason. Even because expensive transactions lead to depreciation in BTC's price (negative volatility).

I believe people need to learn how to deal with BTC's volatility and accept it. Volatility is part of BTC's nature, it can stay unstable forever, but it doesn't mean it's useless as currency. We will never achieve 100% of global preference anyway, but fiat will indeed drop a lot in preference's percentage...

That is what banks want: To control your money for you... Giving your Bitcoins on the bank's hands, the same happening to fiat will happen to Bitcoins, considering an hypothetical future where they accept it. Banks would make profit with your money, you would receive a little part of it and they would enjoy the rest, somehow like what happens now with saving accounts.

Crypto-Currency is interesting because it's decentralized and gives more freedom to its users, makes no sense to use the same centralized fiat's system for Crypto-Currency, otherwise why are use using digital decentralized currencies?

The important is to begin, I agree. I believe if you aren't 100% secure about a business and are starting now, the best to do is to not go on with all your budget at once. Start low, get experience first, then when you see your business is doing well, you start investing higher and expanding it. This way you minimize the risks and get the necessary experience to continue on the market.

And not only talking about Crypto-Currency, but any kind of businesses.

There are good chances Bitcoin will cross the line again without a lot of difficult. The price is increasing slowly, but constant, what is a good signal. Seems some news from South Korea's new rules about Crypto-Currency helped Bitcoin price to keep on the green trend. The investors may be returning to their routine and putting their funds on Bitcoin again. A happy day for Crypto market!

I don't know if the effects in my country's economy are too big, otherwise the government would be desperated to legalize it immediately. But I see the banks are already very worried about Bitcoin, some of them have already tried to forbid people to transact money to or from exchanges.

Maybe because people are moving their money out of the banks to invest in BTCs, others may be not paying taxes, putting their money in BTCs. So the impact is that the individuals eare becoming richer, while the state is collecting less money than they need to keep the state machine swollen as it's now.

After people cashout their BTCs into fiat, more money will be circulating on the country, boosting the services sector, boosting the economy and distributing the money among all those who have a quality service to offer.

Thanks! I agree risks should be calculated, on that guy's example who invested $1000 in BTC and became millionaire, he didn't risk himself too much. $1000 was just a gift he received from his grandmother, an extra money very well used. He could have bought a toy, a game, clothes... But he was smarter than that, by knowing how innovative Bitcoin was, he believed on the idea and invested on that, in the end achieved the success.

And those who don't have spare money at their disposal, things can be more difficult and higher risks may be necessary to be taken, but if they manage their budget well, they can have good chances to grow their patrimony with calculated risks, without the need to stay in debt with acquaintances, relatives or banks.

If it's being so unfair and big companies don't pay their taxes, neither the small businessmen should pay theirs.
That is what happens in my country, and what I see are small businessmen afraid to start or continue their businesses, while the big companies control the market, with government being conniving with these big companies, massacring the small ones.

The conclusion is that no one wants/likes to pay taxes, so let everyone run their businesses without paying this or paying much less taxes and let's see what happens with the country's economy. Changes will have to be done, outgoings will have to be decreased, state size will have to decrease.
But in the end, it can work.


I fully agree with this.

If you don't find job on the virtual world or jobs related to the virtual world, you will have to find something on the real world. Can't you produce anything at home and sell it later? If you have some free area at home and depending where you live, you can feed some animals and sell what they produce or even sell their meat.

Also, I have seen some vertical vegetable gardens, it doesn't occupy a lot of space, doesn't have bad smell and can generate an extra income.
You would just need to find customers or a market where you could sell your production. It may not be a final solution for your problems, but extra income helps a lot... Especially if the necessary effort is low.

Nice faucet following FreeBitco.in's pattern. I will give it a try, however minimum reward is really low ($0.0003).

Seems you have a lot of users already and the site was just launched recently (this month).

I liked to claim without the need of filling a captcha and without viewing short links.
I hope the site is legit and really pays, let's see...

It's already a kind of currency and some people use it to make purchases. The point is that each person uses it as they think it's more worthful for them on the currently situation, so for now you may see more people treating Bitcoin as an investment.

Will it change any day? If transactions fees decrease, if people are satisfied with their patrimony and if many stores from all sectors of society start accepting Bitcoin, yes, it will be more used as currency than as an asset. But it takes time to happen.

Terrible move towards centralization. The only positive thing you can say about it is: Better than a total ban...

The government wants to know who is trading, how much you are trading, what currencies you are trading, what you are doing with your money, everything they want to know! It was so simple years ago... You could hear about Bitcoin on the internet and on the next minute be already earning it online... Very simple as it should be...

It's upon to you to decide what to do with your Bitcoins, you don't even need to explain anything to others about why you are or aren't selling your Bitcoins. The chances are good on long term for Bitcoin price, and all those looking for prosperity on long term instead of wasting money on ephemeral things on the present time should be very aware about it.

But the transactions would take more time to complete with less miners operating, right?
So the transactions costs would be extremely high, making many people search for alternative currencies to execute their transactions.

This way Bitcoin would become useless, losing demand and price.
Another way to kill Bitcoin besides ending internet it's by "killing" the demand. Making Bitcoin looks uninteresting for many investors.

Accessibility nowadays is very present in almost everyone's lives. It's interesting how it makes easier the contact with those who are far from you, but at same time it makes the contact with those who are near you harder, as people are too connected to the internet all day long, becoming more antisocial.

It indeed help gambling's industry to grow and to move even more money. And those who are too lonely on their lives will find confort in gambling, surely for them, after gambling becomes a routine's activity, it will be almost impossible to stay without gambling for a long time.
Just a reflex of an unbalanced life...

Well, no news here are good news... At least it's a signal there isn't a prepared offensive ready against Bitcoin yet and we can continue dealing with BTCs online without worries of retaliation from government. For now, better that Bitcoin stay under the radar, without calling much attention to itself maximum as possible on the local ambit.