The system needs money to keep running. Our economy depends on the fact that people buy stuff. Sometimes even things they do not really need, just for fun.
Saving too much endangers the way our economy works.
Of course it's not whise to spend all the money you own, but a few extras every now and then are good for both, you and economy.

If I would want to make a long term investment, I would pick gold.
It has proven to keep its value for thousands of years. And from that experience I predict that it won't be worthless in ten years.
I can't say that with the same certainty about bitcoin.
For short term investments, I would pick bitcoin. I see room to grow in the short and middle term future. But what happens on the long run, I can't tell.

I just made two test runs with your faucet.
Got both times the same result: Cookie Error.
Unfortunatelly the problem does not seem to be solved.

For me bitcoin is more fun than serious.
I can make payments anonymously, evolve my programming skills, spend time withe people who have similar interests.
Of course, when money is involved, it's always kind of serious.
But the amounts I usually invest or trade are not that high it could harm me in any way if I lose them.

Trump said during his campaign several times that he wanted to remove those regulations from the banks the Obama administration created.
Maybe that would be somehow possible for bitcoins as well.
Identification for buying or selling bitcoins on platforms for example could be simplyfied.

The whole crypto currency area is a risky thing. But of course altcoins are even more volatile than the bitcoin is.
If I would mine altcoins, I would get reid of them as quickly as possible, regardless of the current price u get for it.
And if mining a coin does not end up profitable, it's best to switch on to the next one. There are enough of them out there.

I experienced it to be a clean and simple faucet.
One captcha solving and one antibot solving is needed.
No registration is asked and no minimum payout has to be reached, that's great.
Payment comes directly to faucetbox as promised.
Thank's a lot!

Faucetbox says on their site that they they will disable their api on 19 December 2016.
I was not aware about that until I just read it.
That's another major strike against the faucet system after the ban of adsense.
It's going to be interesting if the companies who are already in the starting gates can fill that gap.

To me it's number 1, 2 and partly 6 on that list.
I use btc for payments I do not want to have my name involved, but I am also aware of the future potential that bitcoin has.
Although I do not see it to be future money, more an already existing one, I expext the price of a bitcoin to increase alot within the next few years.

I don't think that bitcoin is the future of money, for that it has too many weak spots.
But I think that the future of money will be digital.
And I think that somehow a blockchain will be involved, since it has proven to be very useful in terms of bitcoin.
If the future money will be a decentralized crypto or an old fashioned fiat, I can't tell.

I am sure that if such a law really comes in China, it will cover all possible forms of crypto currencies, not only bitcoin.
What I still do not get is how such a law could harm bitcoin. Why exactly would a regulation of exchanges in China be a bad thing?

Bitcoin is traded a lot against altcoins in many exchanges.
If suddenly that demand would vanish, we would have an over supply of bitcoins on the market and that would lead us to a drop in the bitcoin price.
Of course bitcoin could survive that scenario, since it pulls its strength out if the infrastructure built around bitcoin, but it would not be pleasent.

Just made a test run with this faucet.
There are no antibots and there is only one captcha to solve. No registration is needed.
Unfortunatelly there is a minimum payout of 13000 satoshis until the amount is sent to your faucetbox account. I don't like that at all.

Another thing:
The owner says he will make payments on friday. Today is friday.
That means one whole week where nobody can confirm if there ever will be a payment even if the minimum payout is reached...

Under these conditions I am not going to test this faucet any furthere, nore can I recommend it to anybody else.

I had to solve 4 antibots and one captcha.
I would say that the antibots were hard to solve, I actually had to use my brain. That makes the faucet time consuming what it should not be for 100 satoshis.
And the first antibot is combined with a pop up. I don't like that kind of advertisement.
The payment comes directly to faucetbox as promised.
All together I would say it's an average faucet.

The biggest risk is always sitting in front of the computer.
Visiting sites that are not secure, talking too much about personal details, letting your password list lie open on your desk.
There are so many ways to give other people access to your wallet.
But I have never heared that there exists a program that can somehow get direct access to a wallet without the help of the owner.

I would rather like to see the bitcoin price reach 1k in the middle of 2017 than in the end of 2017.
If things go up too quickly they come down much harder than with a strong and steady growth.
Because I'm not really a trader, I would like to see the rais of btc be permanent.

I am not even sure if the buyers are the ones who change the bitcoin price the most.
I would say that it's the miners. Like in the oil market the opec do.
By deciding how many of your mined coins you put into the market I think it is the most efficient way to give the bitcoin price its direction.

I am wondering what is meant by record numbers in the article.
The only number I have read is that somebody in Venezuela has bought 370 btc in a single week.
Maybe this one purchase was already enough to bring the trading volume in Venezuela to an all time high like it is mentioned.
But in general I think as well that South America is really a very good market for bitcoins due to the uncertainty of the local fiat currencies.

I think I have read in a thread here that he and some of his business partners filed patents regarding blockchain technology.
That usually takes several years. I think I have heared as well that he targeted mainly the EU and filed those patents in the UK.
Of course that was before the brexit.
I can imagine him crying all day long since UK voted for leaving the EU...

Switzerland is known to have a lot of banks who understand something of how to work with money.
I think I have heared the average monthly income in Suisse is somehow above 5000 dollars.
If they adopt bitcoin that strong, it's a good sign that with bitcoin we are all on the right path!