I see that you love bitcoin (as to many of us who are here) but to arrive in the proposal of such targets (as can be these make with bold by me) is a little out of reality. A country cannot have a computer or a product of peer to peer technology (which is the technology which produced this invention and gave it this power that it has) instead of its Government, its Army, its Police, its Mayers of every city etc. The previous are some of the most important Government functions. Then we are not yet a national money decentralized and publicly controlled. Bitcoin s not currency of some country. Not only this, but about 70-74 percent of all the countries of the world ignore it totally. To not mention here those who has banned it.

Peer to peer is a technology but to arrive partially such targets (if possible) needed in the best of case at least tens and tens of years. There are initiatives which want to replace some civil services (like e-residence program or blockchain based public notary) but there are yet projects and not concrete implementations and for more are only public service and not government functions. For example I cannot understand in which way a computer can create a law? Or perform other mentioned above governmental functions.

As I know it is one the most "addicted" people at bitcoin. I have a friend which have a team of developers in that country (work with them) mainly in peer to peer products and according to him there is a big spread, knowledge and use of bitcoin in Ukraine. Even recently this situation is not as it was before the problems that were created in this country, yet the interests for bitcoin there remain high. This my friend is creator and owner of a website which is the successor of another one which accepted only bitcoin as currency to be founder or co founder and gave only bitcoin as a reward. According to him the percentage of the Ukrainians in the above site (actually members in the new site) was very high compared to the population that this country has. I don't know if they are active in this forum or not but that bitcoin is followed at all few in that country this is a sure thing.

For the moment it is not at all bad. Big stability and high price. Maintaining the trend of the last 2-3 months. I hope that go in this way. No one can find what will bring tomorrow for the bitcoin but is a fact that all the previous year bitcoin was much more stable even than to many important legal national currencies (beginning from the is dollar). So have no "reason" to change it behavior this months or in the others to come. Anyhow all that we can do is to hope that this wish become true. Or even to pray. All the other remaining things have to do with "It". "It always can do what "It" want.

The Woodoo Magic Man maybe has found the prices but has not given the days when the prices will be as it were founded (predicted) from the chicken bones. So the Woodoo Magic Man must ask not only the price but even the day in which that price will be verified. In this way have meaning even the prediction. So if the bones give three or even hundred prices, if asked and give (cannot not give if are able to find the prices) even the day in which those prices will be verified then the Woodoo Magic Man can deserve his name. 

It would be definitively even for the buyers. First of all the first 6 months everyone will buy. Or at least most of those who know what is halving and that it will be a halving. Everyone who understand what is halving will hope that the normal thing (the increase of price) will happen so will buy before to sell after. then will be even another category of bitcoiners (in which are pert even me who will buy even after halving. We will buy because our plans for bitcoin are long term ones. So we buy because we hope in one more bigger increase of the price of bitcoin in the years to come. So for us the halving is only a little step in the big mountain in which will go the price of bitcoin.

Where are the analyses? Where are based? Seems that are based only at the mind of the one you have spoken or at the thread or news that you have read. Or maybe in your mind. Because weekend is gone out and bitcoin is stable at 430 us dollar plus minus some dollars. So, if go even higher what would tell your analyses? I bet you would tell that was not mines. Or that were only guesses more than normal in this section.

Cannot believe that MMM has such power regarding bitcoin. Being MMM China or MMM world. I don't know both and is the first time I hear about those. If these are so important the news which to do with bitcoin maybe would have some time news from those. Anyhow think that don't exist some organization which can have such power at bitcoin. Its decentralization make difficult the concentration of such power able to manipulate it in this way. Was MtGox but there were concentrated about 80% of all the trade and change of bitcoin. And the first thing that a newbie learned about the world of bitcoin after the known of it was exactly MtGox. The same would be if MMM have the power that pretend. But no one know MMM. Or very few.

The most big achievement of bitcoin is to have been created, to exist and to go from zero value at 430 us dollar in the moment I am writing. Without having no one to help it except itself and its followers. In other words: an orphan. Even with all its followers. Which are much less powerful than them who take care for us dollar. Can you imagine the possibilities that have an orphan to survive compared to a rich boy? If yes you can understand easily the power and the greatness of bitcoin which have 430 times the value of us dollar. So, not only 2016 but every year since its born have been the year of bitcoin. Even after the bankruptcy of Mt Gox which shook its foundations.

You are making confusion with terms and times. Halving is the produce of bitcoin in blocks with 12.5 bitcoin each and not at 25 bitcoins each as it is now and will be since the moment when will begin the halving. This moment will happen after the production of other 28 477 other blocks (in this moment that I am making this post). Knowing that every block is produced approximately every 10 minutes can be calculated a theoretical time in which will happen the above phenomenon named "halving". So in the market will be not more 25 bitcoins after 10 minutes bout only 12.5 bitcoin. The halving begin in the moment in which will be produced the first block with 12.5 bitcoin and will finish after four years after another halving (from 12.5 at 6.25).

Halving, theoretically must bring increase of the price of bitcoin because the bitcoin market will have less supply (less bitcoin) compared to before in the same amount of time (within ten minutes). Assuming that the demand (who want to buy bitcoin) would be the same (since now don't exist any kind of data that can show some known reason that can change it) must be increase of price. When something is asked by the market (people need and want to buy or have something) and the market have not enough amount from that what is asked (in our case will be only half of the previous amount of bitcoin) exist an simple economic rule that tell that the price of the "something" which is asked will increased for sure.

Anyhow this is never a sure thing. Because, in our above case, there can be created to many other factors which can affect (even hardly) the market and the demand (because the supply if fixed by the technology and cannot be changed in the case of bitcoin) and this can change everything. But normally the above process (named shortly as "halving") must bring increase of the price of bitcoin.

So practically you are telling that we have the Government of China who need bitcoin to "cure" its finances. The second world powerful economy need to own/create/buy only one exchange within a country in order to buy in a hidden way bitcoin. Because need those to invest in all the world billion of dollars in millions projects. Cannot have such courage to wonder such situations. 

Wow. So easy to make money? If I would have the luck to have read this post before my bought of bitcoins at 00:00 of this new year I wouldn't bought those. Will wait first the KABOOM. Then will wait the another 10% of drop. Then will ask to the OP the time of KABOOM and after even the time of the another 10% drop. Or I'm wrong...    First must ask the time and then wait. Because if I do otherwise I may lose the time of KABOOM and the another drop of 10%. Anyhow for the moment is happening the MOOBAK because the price is about 430 us dollar one bitcoin. So first must be eliminated the MOOBAK then wait the KABOOM and at the end the drop of 10%. At that moment, and only at that moment, everyone must be buy bitcoin. With big profit. Piece of cake. 

With bitcoin can happen everything. Exactly this: Everything. Being decentralized and without no one who can take care for it "he" can do what want and everything can born in its "head". But, all the possible few data that can be analysed about it, assure that its price can go only higher (as a final result in long term speaking). So everyone can do what he think is better for him. Who want to believe that will go higher let buy and store or save those in their wallets. While them who don't believe that "prediction" can sell all their coins. No one know who will laugh and who will cry.

Here I am. Bought about 0.6 btc exactly at 00:00 (UTC+1) of this new year. With the desire to buy 100 but without the money to do this. Being convinced that this action will bring me luck during all the year in everything (if I would believe such bullshits  ). I can assure you that I will continue to buy bitcoin even for at least 5-6 months. Within my possibilities but will buy. From what come all this angry and stupid words about bitcoin? For more from one who made post at the home of bitcoin... Very strange... 

The most devastating factor for the mining and the miners. Halving is nothing compared to the difficulty. Something that cannot be predicted never make every kind of investment made in  this field or work seems like gambling. Or better, every kind of use of money in this field or work is for sure gambling. Who don't want to understand this mean that don't want or don't know to reasoning. Fortunately that are people who like gambling (first time that I not only don't attack the gambling but want and incite the contrary), who have not to many knowledge about it or are effected by the beauty of mining, otherwise who will mine would be only the owners of the pools.

It is "Liberland" composed by only one person and "Principality of the Pontinha" composed (if are again there) by only a family with four people. So are jokes and nothing serious. Are more reactions of angry people than reality to take in consideration. There exist even one thread about the second "country" (only a rock on the side of the sea) here in bitcointalk. You can read it here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1288845.0

With your words put at your post you really (even if not were not possible to see the number of posts made from everyone here at bitcointalk) make everyone who have not mine, but much more less time with bitcoin, to understand that you have not more than 1 or 2 weeks which have heard the word "bitcoin". Maybe from some gambler who make trading for fun or for seems qualified or smart. Because to tell that bitcoin is good only for speculation is like telling that wheat have value only for the straw (which serve to feed the livestock). I know that needed time to learn some things that are not easy to be masticate but that someone with your "age" at bitcointalk, tell these thing about bitcoin like you do, must have a good courage.

Was only a telling, mine. Had any kind of reproof there. But waiting 1 or 2 hours to have the first confirmation is already a normal thing. Especially when the sent of bitcoin is made during these hours. I don't know when live you but in my country the first part of the day (the morning) is when the people in USA are sleeping. Within these hours every sent of bitcoin take the first confirmation within minutes. All the transactions. Without any exclusion. After the noon begin the story. Initially needed about half or one hour and then can arrive at two and even three hours. That mean that USA have the part of lion in transactions with this coin. Even is told that China has the most users of it, this cannot be true. My morning is full day in China. If the above about China would be true, the story of confirmations would be the opposite of the above told about the waiting time of those.

All this story of only one or two hours of waiting. I have waited more than 48 hours that some bitcoins sent by me arrive at the destination. Not only because of the retard of the first confirmation (had after about 12 hours) but even because the receiver who has given the address in which my bitcoins must be sent has used the mixing option of blockchain and my bitcoins were remained stuck at the intermediary address for more than 36 hours. Compared to my case your case is not even a joke.

While me like to much this one:



It is the most brilliant paragraph which show all the good and right understanding of the author of the article of the invention of bitcoin and the blockchain. the red words of this paragraph express the real power of peer to peer. The most important factor behind the importance of bitcoin. The peer to peer technology about which very few talk or write even here in bitcointalk is the real power of bitcoin. The cause of its being decentralized and without owner, the cause of its impossibility to be owned some day in the future, the cause of its anonymity. In few words, the cause of everything can be appreciated today or in the future, known or that maybe will be known in the future, regarding bitcoin. But the financial field of the use of peer to peer is only the tip of the iceberg of its power and its spread. It is only the experimental field of it. The real power of this technology will be known and verified in to many others. But when will be known better. As the bitcoin, even the technology which made possible the creation of it are in their daysprings.

There are an infinity of movies in youtube. Who want to learn, learn. Who want to insult, insult. This is the story of all the world. Which is walked ahead even with this kind of behavior or even actions. This behavior will happen always. Since will exist always some people which will see one glass with some water half empty and some others which will see the same glass with water half full will exist even some people which will see bitcoin as a tool of devil and some others will love it. Te results during all the times are in favor of the positive people. Otherwise the humanity would have been disappeared already.