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5441  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Buying Drugs with Bitcoin ? on: January 08, 2017, 04:36:15 AM
Its possible, simply search on the deep-web and you will find plenty of dealers that are selling it for bitcoins.
More and more average people find their way to the deep web where they purchase whatever kind of drugs online.

It's more convenient as they don't have to deal with people face 2 face anymore as they can just order something online and have it delivered the next day.

I don't really see this as something bad. People always choose the easiest way to buy drugs. Best thing online is that they have plenty of choice.
The internet has brought things really easier, from things that they offered us to do, it made things better and that includes illegal things also. I hope that people wouldn't do that because it's not going to help the society.
Everything has its positive and negative side so beside of its useful features offered by internet there's also something bad inside it, it just depends on how people use it and if someone who uses it has such a criminal behaviour then don't expect them to avoid those negative sides instead they're getting interested of it and trying
5442  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: How to explain bitcoin to teenagers or children on: January 08, 2017, 04:29:17 AM
here in the philippines just explain to them that bitcoin can earn money then thats it . Some teenagers here are practically want money than other things.
probably in most of the population of Southeast Asia, most teenagers already know how to work, so I'm sure when you tell them that they can get money easily in bitcoin, I'm sure they would be interested
I don't think so, most of people in Southeast Asia never taught their child to go for working instead forcing them to always learn to be a "workers" when they're becoming adult and graduated with a good score and aiming to be employee for working in an office, just minority of them will learn to earn money when still a kid while the other having fun with their parents' money

5443  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin Future on: January 08, 2017, 04:25:12 AM
Bitcoin is the next step in money evolution. Same as paper post gone on the Internet and appeared e-mail, the same way paper money gone to crypto form. Bitcoin took all the best in itself from other payment instruments as paper money, gold and credit cards. yes, bitcoin is used by 2 millions of people now only, but it's only cause of bitcoin is not understandable to many people and that provokes skepticism. I am sure that soon bitcoin will be the same normal thing as credit cards.

I fully agree with you. In the near future, We can use bitcoin as fiat. We are living in this digital world and using almost the smart digital devices so that is the reason bitcoin will have a bright future.
Bitcoin and fiat are both currencies having the same functional but just in a different kind of world if you think in the near future you can use bitcoin as fiat which means bitcoin will have its physical form then it's more likely not going to happen, but if you referring to the same functional but through digital world to pay things offline then it will eventually being realised
5444  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoins Investment: risk or benefit? on: January 08, 2017, 04:18:08 AM
there are a lot of benefits to invest in Bitcoin. Even so, there are also a few downsides. Bitcoin gets you rid of capital control and for me that is the major benefit. As for the the downside, what I can tell you is that, since Bitcoin is still a fairly recent experiment there is always the chance Bitcoin can crash and lose all its value. However, and judging by its brilliant performance in the last few years, I do think that's a risk you should be willing to take.
I think bitcoin really is not risky because i believe that the price will increase more again if we seen that the price was drop these days i think the price can be still increase again back.. if you know bitcoins already in 2015 if you compare there is the advantage because the price is really increased and we are touch in 800 value and experience to hit $1k value and more price will come i think..
So there is no risk for me if you buy right now.. government still not asking for a tax for bitcoin so better to enjoy what is bitcoin right now.
Bitcoin itself can be considered a good investment, due to the potential reward, but it is a risky investment. The Bitcoin market is a relatively new market, with limited liquidity compared to fiat currencies. That brings high volatility, and that's one of the reasons why I see Bitcoin as a risky investment.

yeah but this has been changing. every year there is more volume and more investors apart from the day to day users that are also using bitcoin for their payments online. and the risk has been getting lower and lower. you can see from the history that in the past two years price has been rising consistently.
Wake up from your dream, the latest price falling just happened not so long ago and you still say the price has been rising consistently, I honestly even doubtful that you're actually ever seeing the price statistics or not. Well, besides of that thing, I want to say that from my perspective the risk still remain the same because the volatility still high just like as usual
Bitcoin getting used for an online payments is just normal as it should be
5445  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What would happen if BTC was Banned? on: January 06, 2017, 10:34:13 AM
It can be banned, but it can't be stopped.
Right, because we are the only one that can stop bitcoin and that if we will stop supporting it.
Don't think the sum of users in this forum could cover the whole actual bitcoin users out there, but it's obviously right that bitcoin need the support from its communities, therefore, it can still living up
Even if government really banned bitcoin, the bitcoin users might be outside that region
5446  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin has no competition on: January 04, 2017, 12:38:51 PM
I think the same.
Altcoin to me is just a way to multiply my bitcoins, sometimes all my bitcoins are invested in a few altcoins but in the end i sell all of them for more bitcoins.
Agreed.
Most people, along with myself, probably feel the same way, and use altcoins for the same purpose. The altcoin rate of change is much faster than bitcoins. While risky, the profits can present themselves much quicker than investing with bitcoin. But at the end of the day, all of that profit goes directly back into Bitcoin
altcoin rate of change is much faster than bitcoin because higher price and volume is smaller compared to other cryptocoin
Exactly, the more lower volume the easier those whales could control its price, for example an altcoin that having 24 hours volume with only 10 bitcoin when a whale suddenly came and pumping it with only 5 bitcoin which is half of the current 24 hours volume then the price could probably increasing about 100% or even more. And altcoin sometimes could lost its trust by their holders so it's more volatile compared to bitcoin
5447  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do Bitcoins have Tax?? on: January 03, 2017, 10:55:02 AM
It is established that bitcoin itself have no tax.  Bitcoin transaction has fee but no tax.  Probably bitcoin will have tax when the government implement taxation on exchanges and charge when you convert bitcoin.

The exchange websites that are legally operating to a certain country are obliged to pay their tax but that is no because of bitcoins taxation but they are registered as a business body in their country. Usually the fees that we are paying when we cashout or convert with them are already taxed subject to their compliance of taxation.
Exactly. So it's also mean that we're as bitcoin users indirectly paying all those taxes when converting our bitcoin to local fiat thus we're not avoiding any taxes. The taxes for bitcoin users still pretty low and rare due to lack of regulation about it so, it's not our mistake or our fault to not fully paying the taxes
5448  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: 15btc transaction fee, big mistake on: January 03, 2017, 10:14:51 AM
I just wondering , how can this type of mistake possible? I think fee are automatically being charged right. This is such huge huge mistake ever , I can't even imagine if that was me. Pheww. Looking at current btc price and 15 btc as fee. I'm going to shop and buy myself a rope. LoL !

Epic blunder. There should exist some chargeback function for fee blunders.
As long as it only returns the fees to the sender for a specific amount and still left the required minimum fees then it's fine otherwise if the thing works like PayPal's chargeback it might be a bad idea.
And unfortunately it seem that this feature is just never be implemented into bitcoin though, just my 2 cents
5449  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: bitcoin transactions - Slow OR Fast on: January 03, 2017, 10:12:02 AM
The confirmation time depend on a lot of factor like how buys is the network, the miners, the fee you send in your transaction and the use you want to give to bitcoin, if you only want to move money from one country to another then bitcoin is very fast but if you want to buy something and need a confirmation in seconds then bitcoin is slow.
I agree , It is depending on the situation. If you want to send money in other countries it is quite fast if you compare in other money sending services like remittance center ,  bank transfer and other digital transfer.
Well, compared to bank and other remittance center, bitcoin is way faster because once it is sent it is automatically sent to a specific address. Banks double check the transaction before clearing it, and lots of regulations they must have to consider with fund transfer, there's even a possibility that transaction can be on hold or freeze.
It's right if after you send the bitcoin it will directly and instantly arrived in the receiver's address but I think it's still unconfirmed yet when confirmation in blockchain system is really a thing and really important.
No one is going to consider the transaction done until the confirmation arrived hence it's the only thing that make bitcoin transaction slower than ordinary transaction through bank transfer
5450  Bitcoin / Hardware wallets / Re: KeepKey 30 BTC reward for capturing the hacker ! on: January 03, 2017, 09:48:31 AM
From what I can see, they've provided no information whatsoever.

https://www.keepkey.com/2016/12/31/message-founder-email-breach/

It just says a buonty is being offered and says what happened.

Anyone got any information related to this? Would be interested.
These are just scare tactics without any bloody information no one can find shit and they are not providing enough information regarding the capture of the hacker.I hope they want the hacker to come in front of them and reveal them self so that they can give him the 30 bitcoins .  Cheesy looks like its just an advertisement stunt
makes sense and i agree with you that this is just a fresh way to have the brand advertised. noone can find who they are, if they didn't release an enough information to support the investigation and get the attacker caught up. so far nothing .

If they aren't able to find any information about the hacker, I doubt anyone will. First of all, Bitcoin is anonymous and almost completely untraceable. If you deposit money at a local ATM in a non-supervised place, there's no way anyone can find who you are (except your ISP maybe, by looking over your history). Most Bitcoin 'hacks' never got info about the hackers.
If bitcoin is completely untraceable then why your transaction history is saved up in the blockchain and can be traced through blockchain explorer? and Why your relay IP is recorded?. And I think that almost all of ATM in this world already have some sort of security camera because it's about money and people will always seeking the chance to get it when there's an opportunity for them and if a bank having a "non-supervised" ATM then it's as the same as letting your precious getting stolen easily by not securing it but maybe this kind of ATM still exist however there must be some skilled individual out there who can surpasses a group's abilities, some geniuses maybe.
5451  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why bitcoin is not supported in some countries? on: January 03, 2017, 09:40:57 AM
well the bottomline there is that each country has its own rules, laws and regulations.  if the decided to ban bitcoin due to some reasons them we can not do anything about it cause its their country,  its their law.

Or we can just move to some other country, which is more tolerant to Bitcoin. A lot of bitcoin-related businesses are currently migrating from non-supportive countries to those which are more open.
I think most countries also prohibit the use of bitcoin, they are almost the same reasons the government may fear the legalization bitcoin, there will be more money laundering and other crimes
You must realise that bitcoin itself actually more transparent than local currency and it's pseudo-anonymous. Every of your transaction can be traced while if someone using an ordinary local currency it's nearly impossible.
And also bitcoin can't trigger crimes because it's just a currency, even bitcoin doesn't have brain to spend itself LOL.
5452  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Is it illegal for someone to hack my BTC wallet? on: January 02, 2017, 07:39:55 AM
This may be my opinion,, whatever form hack is theft and not justified, even if the act was illegal and not justified but to entrap him with the rule of law is a bit complicated, of course, go back to the state where the rules and regulations of legal sanction applied in the country to the hack
That's really a problem related to any hacking activities in the digital world. Most of the government in this world still lack of regulation about these hacking activities thus we're still weak and need to be really aware when connecting to the internet. Maybe it's because gathering proof in the digital world related to hacking activities which are done by the hackers still hard and most of the hackers are smart enough to not leaving their footstep so we need solution about this problem in the future.
5453  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin has no competition on: January 02, 2017, 07:25:55 AM
But, bitcoin will always be on top, it's hard to go beyond bitcoin shade.
That's simply not true, if other cryptocurrencies become more advanced, are easier to use and receive more adoption, they'll overtake Bitcoin without any trouble. Bitcoin definitely has an advantage because it was the first, but its development is slow, so it may be outpaced by others.
Well, there's existed other cryptocurrencies which have better features or even much more features than bitcoin but still can't take over the bitcoin's place. Even my opinion was whether the coin will be popular or not is based on its community. I think that competing bitcoin with the same system such as using blockchain is really hard because when people just heard blockchain then they think it's something related to bitcoin.
If someone or some groups want to really compete bitcoin then they should develop a new system which is really better and unique

your statement is contradicting itself Cheesy
if an altcoin has a "better" feature then it will grow automatically and will replace bitcoin with ease. you should know that there is a difference between a feature that looks interesting or good and a feature that is really good and is useful. the later is not easily found and most altcoins which are hyped up are using the former as a technique to show their altcoin as good and get a pump out of it.
I'm in my post above talking that so far until now none of those coins with "better" feature compared to bitcoin could take over on bitcoin's place (most used and on the top ranking of market cap according to http://coinmarketcap.com/)
No offense but as for example monero which is anonymous if you compare with bitcoin (pseudo-anonymous) and you can call it "better" but as you can see its market cap still number 5 and having really wide gap if you compare with bitcoin even though it's having "better" feature and "more useful" then can you explain it based on your statement below?
"if an altcoin has a "better" feature then it will grow automatically and will replace bitcoin with ease"
I know the popularity of cryptocurrencies is affected by so many factors and features is one of them that's why having only "better" features will can't rocketing its popularity and not enough to be in the top ranking.
5454  Bitcoin / Legal / Re: Tax v Bitcoins on: January 02, 2017, 07:10:56 AM
Taxes is an obligation for every citizen of a country which obligating their citizen to pay taxes. However, if you avoid paying taxes then you might be punished so it's always better to be a good man and always pay those taxes. If you are still having intention on avoiding taxes then it's you the one who will be responsible for everything you have done
But so far I haven't seen country which taxing directly onto bitcoin but only taxing you when exchanging your bitcoin to your local currency so, lucky you.
5455  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Why bitcoin is not supported in some countries? on: January 02, 2017, 07:03:36 AM
Because bitcoin is decentralized, so government has no control over it, only it's owner has. And bitcoin is anonymous, it has potential for illegal use, like scam, money laundry, drugs, and guns.
yes the government is too frightened to use bitcoin. this time bitcoin does have a fast enough rate movements. so they think that bitcoin can give chaos in a country's economic system.
yes, I agree with that opinion. bitcoin prices have stabilized, it may have been when the government bought bitcoin in significant amounts, and sudden price drops, I think it would have a negative effect on a country. the government may wait until the bitcoin prices stable, and then accept bitcoin.
The volatility of bitcoin is no more disadvantages because it's already resolved by using some sort of bitcoin payment API which could exchange directly the bitcoin that the senders were sent to the address given by the API. I think that government should not use bitcoin to save up their money in form of bitcoin but only accepting it as payment method in their instances to pay things such as taxes or anything else necessary or their citizens' obligation so, there will be no more problem regarding to its volatility characteristic of bitcoin
5456  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: What would happen if BTC was Banned? on: January 02, 2017, 06:59:05 AM
If bitcoin is banned then the chance to get adopted by many countries will not exist because banning bitcoin will result for having bad reputation to others and development for bitcoin will be hard because for sure the authorities will arrest people who try to help in improving bitcoin since they didn't obey the law.
Well, it proves that with specify a bitcoin, will be very much the crisis. as we know that 20% of the world population, have made their main income from bitcoin, even very many who develop it by creating businesses that accept bitcoin. it may be bad for the country where people are bitcoin hunters like china and india.
How do you know that 20% of the world population have mad their income from bitcoin? even none of statistics from surveys nowadays could prove the exact amount of bitcoin users nor people who made their income from bitcoin. I assume that's kind of unreliable and unreasonable data then. And if country like china where majority miners come from just release a regulation about banning bitcoin then those miners just simply moving out to other profitable cryptocurrencies.
5457  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do we need ebay like site to promote bitcoin on: January 02, 2017, 06:52:11 AM
Bitcoin need  more exposure that it can get and this will create new market and bring more people to Bitcoin, for site like ebay to accept and promote Bitcoin will be a huge boast for it.
But unfortunately, eBay is already owning PayPal and promoting bitcoin will be the same as killing their own service, therefore, it's not going to happen or they will only enable 3rd party and not implementing bitcoin by themselves. I think the only way is to encourage some business which is providing similar service like eBay to implement bitcoin. It's the most effective way so far in my opinion
5458  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: (RE: Exchanges hack) Let's talk about a solution before instead of crying after on: January 02, 2017, 06:35:02 AM
While the exchange can be hacked one minute after your deposit, if you don't constantly keep the bitcoin in exchange, or keep only the minimum, your chances being hacked are a lot less. I never trust exchanges or online wallet, they are simply too risky. Mt Gox got tons of accounts hacked even before the big hack, so exchanges are not safe at all.
Well, that's why saving up our wealth while being connected to the internet is really not safe. Whether you will lose your money on exchanger is all about your luck. If you're having such a really bad luck then even if you have prevented as much possible problem which will be coming as you can then you may still get the problem.
5459  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Bitcoin has no competition on: January 02, 2017, 06:31:49 AM
But, bitcoin will always be on top, it's hard to go beyond bitcoin shade.
That's simply not true, if other cryptocurrencies become more advanced, are easier to use and receive more adoption, they'll overtake Bitcoin without any trouble. Bitcoin definitely has an advantage because it was the first, but its development is slow, so it may be outpaced by others.
Well, there's existed other cryptocurrencies which have better features or even much more features than bitcoin but still can't take over the bitcoin's place. Even my opinion was whether the coin will be popular or not is based on its community. I think that competing bitcoin with the same system such as using blockchain is really hard because when people just heard blockchain then they think it's something related to bitcoin.
If someone or some groups want to really compete bitcoin then they should develop a new system which is really better and unique
5460  Economy / Speculation / Re: Bitcoin Price Tops $1,000 in First Day of 2017 Trading on: January 02, 2017, 05:22:10 AM
Its wow! Just saw the price on preev and came here to look for the relevant topic. It is quite amazing, as I'm still in my first year in the bitcoin world, this is the highest I've seen it go, and I'm quite amazed actually. Wonderful isn't it?

Sure it's the highest point of bitcoin so far and according to this source which is coindesk's bitcoin graph (http://www.coindesk.com/price/) even the highest price bitcoin "was" ever touched in 2014 only about $979 which means we're going to make another record and brace yourself this one is going down in history. Next generation of bitcoin adoption will always talking about this.
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