Da würde ich die Seriösität aber stark in Zweifel ziehen. Die nutzen nur das seriöse Schweizer Image um Vertrauen aufzubauen. Tatsächlich operieren sie aber irgendwo im rechtlichen Nirgendwo:


Ich bezweifle, dass man von denen - wenn überhaupt - Original-Medikamente erhält.

A nice read. However I do not agree with that part:


For me it's not frustrating. Progress in adoption is actually happening surprisingly fast. I'm afraid that adoption is too fast for technology to keep up pace.
It's important to have a sound technological base. That's more important than speed of adoption.

I agree. Bitcoin is new technology, Facebook wasn't. Much more infrastructure has to be build to enable Bitcoin for mass adoption. Facebook will turn out to be a fad looking back ten years from now, but it offered a simple mass-adoption compatible interface from day one.

Bitcoin encompasses more and much more relevant use cases than Facebook. It's both more complex and more useful, so it needs more time to reach S-curve-growth.

I think Bitcoin can still fail. But if it does, I think it will be out of totally different reasons than those mentioned frequently (confirmation times, complexity, gov. ban), because these potential problems are already addressed.
If Bitcoin fails I think it will be most likely due to a software bug or malicious code introduced by a corrupt developer that remains unnoticed until damage is done.

That said, I'm still getting more confident every day that bitcoin will succeed.

Correct. Almost all silver coins issued in the 20th century as general circulation coins had a higher nominal value than the value of the contained metal when they were issued. It's inflation by so called "quantitative easing" (a modern euphemism) that made these coins commodity money. You can find multiple modern examples for copper/bronze and nickel coins disappearing from circulation because of the same reasons. Pick a coin catalogue that lists weight and metal compositions of recent circulation coins and compare nominal value to the current trade value of the metals contained, then you'll know which coins will likely become commodity money in the near future and adjust the coin composition of your cash reserve accordingly...

With each new coin issue the material value is reduced and/or the nominal value is increased. That's a much more solid indicator of inflation/currency devaluation than any official statistic on the matter.

Absolut richtig. Es ist erfreulich zu sehen, dass es entsprechende Initiativen gibt und die Developer-Community aktiv bleibt.

Bei der Lösung von Protokoll-Problemen sollte allerdings darauf geachtet werden, dass die vorgeschlagenen Lösungen nicht zur Neuschaffung anderer Probleme führen, wie z.B. Zensur.

Generell gilt aber: Protokoll und Implementierung besser früher als später optimieren - je größer die Bitcoin-Akzeptanz wird, desto risikoreicher sind spätere Änderungen.

Officially all coins regardless of their composition remained fully fungible simply because the law stated that they had to be accepted. It is an entirely different question which kind of coins people preferred to accept in order to hold (hoard) them. But this preference had no real influence on fungibility because law forced people to accept non-silver coins as legal payment.

Yes, but such costs are only significant if your stake of forest is really tiny. People tend to underestimate the value of natural wood - at least in Europe prices have surged greatly. Even simple firewood is valuable - and you don't have to cut down entire trees to collect that.


Normally building areas are much more costly than farmland or forest. If you want an even cheaper option and have lots of patience you can also buy forest clearance areas to regrow forest on them - if available.

I would not invest in luxury goods. These are high risk speculations and greatly depend on economic cycles.

Even if this news does mean that Bolivia really banned BTC - question is, to what extent this ban could be enforced. A lot of the economy in countries like Bolivia goes on in the gray/black area. Without the gray/black economy most people there simply can not survive. The government in Bolivia certainly has a lot less effective influence on everyday life than in western countries.

Of course it would be better if they realized the positive potential of Bitcoin to grow their economy.

Aber was sollte es bringen, die Blockchain zu löschen um danach die gleiche Blockchain mit den gleichen Virensignaturen erneut runterladen zu müssen, weil Bitcoin Core sonst gar nicht benutzt werden kann?

Am besten - wenn möglich - eine Ausnahme im Virenscanner hinzufügen, dass das Blockchain-Verzeichnis ignoriert wird.

No problem if you just want trade data. Go to http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/. Select exchange and time period, then click "Load raw data" at the bottom.

For complete order books I have no idea though - I don't know if any exchange stores data for the full order books for longer periods.

Yes and I really hate this kind of attitude towards investment in general: People who never spend a single minute on getting informed about finance because of disinterest and laziness calling markets "casino", thereby proclaiming that gaining knowledge about finance is worthless and implying that their disinterest and laziness is the perfect attitude toward this topic.

It's clear and perfectly fair that people who are not interested in educating themselves get burned.

At least she didn't sell it right away. But I think she will ultimately sell at some point (maybe if price has doubled).

It takes time to develop the right mindset to realize that BTC is actually better, safer money than fiat.

Semi accurate prediction: no problem. Accurate preditcion: impossible.

How to get a semi accurate prediction? - Just pick a random number.

Wow. I did not know international transfers were that complicated.



They can't stop it anymore. It has already grown over their head. People involved in banking will adopt the better system (bitcoin) and build services around it (for example escrow).

Banks that start a war against bitcoin can only loose (reputation and customers). It's wiser to adapt to the new situation.

Buy forest. It has predictable returns overall (in decades) above inflation (even if not managed intensively) and is really low risk if bought at reasonable prices. However you have to have knowledge in forest management.
It also offers recreational benefits.

400k / 250k sind zwar nach normalen Maßstäben ziemlich viel Holz, andererseits für viele Investoren nur Peanuts. Was ich mich frage ist, ob diese niedlichen kleinen Inselchen überhaupt in der Lage wären, all ihre neuen Staatsbürger im Lande aufzunehmen, sollten diese massenhaft einreisen...

Thank you!

I like to rejoin - same BTC address, postcount now: 581.

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Please send.

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Richtig. Das kann ich genau so unterschreiben. Eine gesunde Skepsis gegenüber neuen Entwicklungen ist sicherlich oft nicht schlecht, problematisch wird es aber immer dann, wenn die ursprünglich ja auch nur aus der Erfahrung gewonnenen eigenen Überzeugungen zu reinen Dogmen "auskristallisiert" sind und stur selbst gegen widersprechende Evidenz verteidigt werden.