i hear it too. someone have 7000btc and be richman.
i hope i know bitcoin at 2010 but im very lkate i know bitcoin in middle 2013 when bitcoin fall and try earning as much as possible.

A new fintech consultancy  is raising a $50 million fund to invest in startups bringing the technology behind bitcoin to banking.

Set up by one of the cofounders of Mondo and Gartner's former head of global digital banking, 11FS' "Banking on Blockchain" fund has started with $5 million of seed funding from Singapore venture capital fund Life.SREDA.

http://uk.businessinsider.com/11fs-raising-fund-banking-on-the-blockchain-2016-5?IR=T

At its core, the blockchain is a technology that permanently records transactions in a way that cannot be later erased but can only be sequentially updated, in essence keeping a never-ending historical trail. This seemingly simple functional description has gargantuan implications. It is making us rethink the old ways of creating transactions, storing data, and moving assets, and that’s only the beginning.

The blockchain cannot be described just as a revolution. It is a tsunami-like phenomenon, slowly advancing and gradually enveloping everything along its way by the force of its progression. Plainly, it is the second significant overlay on top of the Internet, just as the Web was that first layer back in 1990. That new layer is mostly about trust, so we could call it the trust layer.


http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/11/the-blockchain-is-the-new-google/

it's good idea, i think in each companies have technical special to keep the data from hackers, but sometimes the trouble come from goverment, because only small country use bitcoin as currency.

if you know the distribution risk you know bitcoin is better choice than gold, we can trace bitcin distribution anywhere any time.

in fact if you are seller it's very risk to accept paypal as payment processor, buyer can refund his money after transaction done

in fact in this time all signature campaign is closed for new member, better to find other way, don't use signature campaign as sidejob. it's just bonus for each your posting on bitcointal.org

and you will be late, this time we know some way to be fulltime on bitcoin, we can trade bitcoin, we can work as writer at cointellegraph or other news site,or we can get job like campaign manager etc.

if you can go full time on bitcoin, i prefered you start go fulltime on bitcoin now before you late

the problem can be solved faster if we can introduce bitcoin to our client, companies, relation etc. if he accept paypal, im sure he willl accept bitcoin too, we can give him some way to accept bitcoin like use Bitpay service etc.

The bitcoin world is experiencing a bit of a controversy at the moment. Just last week, an Australian revealed that he is the creator of bitcoin, but his claims have since been met with a lot of skepticism which was not helped by the fact that he has since declined to provide further proof that can corroborate his claims.

That being said controversy aside, the bitcoin cryptocurrency appears to be chugging along just fine and it seems that over in Switzerland in the Swiss town of Zug, they have recently announced that they will begin a trial in which they will allow people to start paying for public services via the bitcoin standard.


http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/05/swiss-town-experiments-allowing-payment-via-bitcoin/

yeah it's true fact, we must manage it. if we want to invest for long term better to use bitcoin QT backup (wallet.dat) or we can use paper wallet. for daily usage i suggest to use 3rd wallet with 0 fee like coinbase or xapo.

nice list but im sure you need more than 3month to reach 1btc with faucet, you need more time to waiting next claim round. better you buying bitcoin with real money than trade it.

What is the national pastime of China? If you answered gambling, you probably have a few Chinese friends. What is the national pastime of Chinese business people? If you answered tax evasion, corruption and money laundering, then you’ve tried to do business in China. When a handful of businessmen merged these two pastimes, they made a fortune by building casinos in Macao. Now, the Chinese government is cracking down on Macau, but cultures don’t change—they find new outlets. Is Bitcoin the next combination of these pastimes?

I’ll be honest, until about a month ago, I hadn’t thought much about Bitcoin. It seemed like a fringe product for people to buy illicit goodies. Then, a friend forwarded me a chart of Chinese Bitcoin usage and I saw the light. Over the past two years, the Chinese went from a negligible percentage of daily Bitcoin trading volume to between 90% and 95% of the trading volume. That’s a huge increase in usage. They can’t all be buying Bath Salts and Moly and a quick google search laid out a number of creative schemes to launder money out of China using Bitcoin. The wealthy have Macau and now the peasants have Bitcoin for moving their wealth out of China.


http://www.valuewalk.com/2016/05/chinese-dominate-bitcoin-trading/

For better insight into long-term bitcoin price, and its relation to block reward halving events, we consider the cost of production of Bitcoin mining.

When calculating the cost of mining production, several variables come into play, namely, capital costs such as ASIC equipment expenditure and infrastructure, as well as, operational costs such as electricity, cooling, etc. Geographical location influences costs because different locations have differing rates for power, have different climates and variable internet connectivity.

The above costs are calculated alongside the mining operation’s hashrate and the protocol’s current mining difficulty in order to arrive at the miner’s effective cost to produce one bitcoin. Different methods for calculating production costs yield different average amounts, but for our purposes we’ll refer to Adam S. Hayes’s 2015 paper “A Cost of Production Model for Bitcoin“.



read more detail : https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-cost-mining-production/

each people have plan for future , some people have plan  support bitcoin to growing up everyday. and he will go full time on bitcoin.
and other people have plan to keep his realjob, and use bitcoin as extra income/sidejob .

both of them is good, because each people have diffirent mental, mindset and comfort zone.

you say " you can always be hacked" but you use blockchain.info LOL 
so you think blockchain.info is more safe than mycellium on my android phone ? and electrum wallet on my PC ?

After fortifying at a medium-term resistance line, Bitcoin’s price has undergone a turn to growth. The level of $450.5 could’ve become the peak of a correction preceding a downward trend, but the bears were a minority. Bitcoin’s price is now close to a significant resistance line, where long-term bears could activate and win the advantage.



http://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-analysis-week-of-may-8th#

each people have goal point, some of them thinking by precentage, if his profit reach arround 10%, 20% , 50%  he will sell his bitcoin.
im altcoin trader, and take middle profit arround 10-15% .

so if people who trust blockhalving make the price rise again, better to sell if you get 5% and holding some until the block halving done.

in first time , if i need something, topup mobile phone, renew hosting, buying domain etc. i will ask to use bitcoin before other payment.
no people can freeze my bitcoin wallet is the best reason why we must use it.

Thanks for warning but my bitcoin has been sold at price $350 
but now im still have some bitcoin for selling at $500 above