What is to be expected is not always so. You are expecting a 100% increase... from what point, though? If you mean from right now, then I highly doubt it. If you mean from last year, then we've already passed that point [it was around 230 or something in the later months]. It's not like as soon as we hit the halving block the price will instantly jump up (without market manipulation) to double its price. That's not how economics works. Halving the supply does increase the price, I will admit to that. However, we'll be halving the INTAKE of the supply. That is different.

I've already talked about bitcoins many times to the so-called, "normal people" before. Why the fear? If you have an opportunity to spread the word and potentially influence others to participate in the trade, why not do it? I've already introduced a multitude of my friends to bitcoin, and there were only a few who were reluctant on joining in. Perhaps it's just the demographic, but I'm sure if they have some sort of intelligence they would be interested in the technology. (Or at least blockchain tech!)

Why the jump straight to cloud-mining? Mining in and of itself <i>can</i> be profitable (though I wouldn't personally recommend it) and there aren't any scams related to physical mining.

As for trading... it's a gamble, essentially. You could try to manipulate the market, but your bankroll realistically is kind of small in comparison to some of the whales out there.

I would personally open up some casino and invest my time into that. Sure, there's a risk to it, but then again there's a risk everywhere. I like gambling, and I know that many others are the same, and thus I'll appeal to the demographic and offer that opportunity.

You still need a way to generate electricity (though hydro power is very efficient and is also a source of renewable clean energy) and perhaps in the beginning stages of having  a majority of people using electric cars, there would still linger some oil. It's good having less oil used for cars - we'll stop consistent pollution. However, there are also other car models that are even better than electricity in terms of pollution, like hydrogen vehicles.

The only reason electric cars would really be better than those is due to how there are less hydrogen fueling stations than charging stations.

Things that come to mind involve advertising on other sources of media. Like you said, tweeting or posting on a form of social media (which you can do while multitasking) would probably be a good choice for a job that pays 1 USD/hr. Reminder to all the first-world people that some earn way less than you, and that what it takes for them to survive for a month differs greatly.

Now, any job that you can possibly expect to be able to multitask at would be a good choice. Something that you can do on the side. Captcha solving (though some people do it) takes up way too much of your attention, and that's an issue. Perhaps instead of typing captchas you could offer those picture captchas where you select the correct shape/color/etc. instead. That would accelerate the process (potentially) and also allow the users to multitask which wouldn't bore them and would incentivize activity while they're doing something else on the computer.

Everyone's answering a question that has never been asked in the first place (by OP, anyway - it popped up later in the replies) about whether they should do it or not.

Here's the thing. Gambling is such a large part of bitcoin that it even has this section and subsections for itself. This is one of the most popular boards (though it's populated by spam) and gambling is a huge industry in bitcoin. The ease of bitcoin allows potential casino owners to reach out to wider horizons and it'll help newer smaller businesses start up. On the topic of scams and whatnot... for the large gambling sites that have been scams, I get it. It's a big deal. But taking a small minority of the entirety of gambling sites related to bitcoins is literally just using half-truths.

There's a lot more buzz about bitcoin partially thanks to the gambling aspect. We should at least respect that. Untaxed gambling is after all an appeal.

Eventually, bitcoin will fall when a better alternative is offered with enough support. It's popular right now. There is much more publicity for bitcoin, both in a good way and a bad way *which does increase demand, mind you* and thus with the larger community, it offers more opportunities for people who decide to start up in bitcoin.


Perhaps the price will not rise as quickly as the halvings come (for they are exponential) and maybe we'll see less and less people using it due to miners dropping out.

I think this would be the wisest way of gambling your money (though investing some money into bonds would also possibly pay off) and it would be your way of seeing yourself "gamble" every time someone decides to wager a bet against the house. The best part is that now you're on the flip side, and you know that statistically you have the odds in your favor (but there's always the small, small chance that someone will potentially win all your money and leave) so you have to resort to recruiting a lot of people.

Their money becomes your money.

Many people lose their money from gambling, and they usually don't stop until they lose a significant percentage of their money. Thus, the bankroll doesn't matter. Losing $10 or $10 million.

Buuumpity bump.

Prices change on a moment's whim. A decline or a bubble does not show the true value of the currency, but rather, the overall trend should indicate some type of interpreted value. I mean... you can't really predict the future of the price completely, but for now I think that the price of bitcoins will steadily increase from now until [who knows when] and by that point we should have gained at least some profit in investing our time.

When were these accounts made (roughly) and have they participated in any signature campaigns before?

Are signed messages/addresses available, or even perhaps the private key?

I'm just a bit curious about this bonus. Will it be granted after stage 6 is completed or should we have already received this? (Because I'd been looking for it due to the last line in your post)
If it's the former, then I will not need any further explanation.

The halving is not an automatic price increase. Time and time again it has been misrepresented as just that, but the reality is that the halving is only to limit the supply of bitcoins. Sure, you can talk about supply and demand, but the supply will not drop to such a point where the price would double. That's not how the future would play out. It would gradually even out as the difficulty drops due to miners quitting from unprofitable earnings.

You do want to be rich. That's true. Greedy nature makes us that way, and that's why gambling is so popular. However, entrusting all your money into one source is bound to lead to trouble eventually. I bet even you don't follow your advice of going all in with bitcoin. Why not sell everything and turn it into bitcoins? If you did that a couple weeks ago, you would see a significant increase! But you didn't do that. You didn't go all in. You diversified your assets and played safely.

'Tis one thing to grant advice, but 'tis another to follow it.

The backing of currencies still has some weight to them. Keep in mind that paper money is also much more popular than bitcoins. Does that mean in fact that we should instead always use paper money instead of anything else?

No.

Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and nor does paper money, but the perception of value allows it to keep its value.

Username : actmyname

Although I initially heard of bitcoin a while back, I didn't think much of it. (Of course, now I regret not joining in early on but I'm glad that I came, late as it is)

I began using Bitcoin consistently starting last summer because I was a little curious, but I'm glad to have been able to join this journey. I've still not gotten close to my initial goal of 1 BTC, close as it's been (0.8 BTC), but I hope to reach that point in the near future.

I've spread the word about bitcoin many times to people I know in an effort to get them to join. Some have, and others haven't, but at least I know that my involvement will make at least a small difference in the perception of bitcoins. The common portrayal of criminal activities really puts bitcoins in a hole.

Unfortunately, a while back I took a pretty heavy hit. I still very much enjoy this one game, mainly due to the low house edge (on your first click of course).

Hopefully next time I have better luck.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1359320.msg14256574#msg14256574

Not insinuating anything from this, but 9 days later? (and the similar name, which is identical to your MoneyPot name [not the actual name])


Hmm...

Except it's not. The accounts are usually trash (for those who seek loans and default them) and if they're not bad then most likely the lendee won't bother with defaulting - they'll rather sell the account itself.

You want to look for real collateral, not BCT accounts.