bitcoin can help poor countries in collecting donations. because all what you need is an address and everyone from all over the world can send a donation in a matter of second. it also works fine in remittance because of the low fees comparing with WU

It was only a matter of time until someone made a TV show featuring bitcoin. Well, that show is here in the form of a 10-episode series called Startup, and, frankly, it does a good job of depicting the weird world of crypto-currency.

The show is set in Miami and (surprise!) involves drug dealers and an FBI agent as well as a brilliant young Stanford drop-out, Izzy Morales, who tries to convince people how digital money will change the world.

The young coder is actually flogging something called “Gen-Coin,” which she claims is better than the original bitcoin, but is based on the same idea of a decentralized digital currency beyond the reach of banks and governments. In Izzy’s eyes, while money can corrupt people, the bigger issue is that “people corrupt money.”

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why should be a competition between bitcoin and fiat currencies ? both can be used and live together because most of the world is not ready for a complete move to a digital currency while most of the world still has no internet access in the poor countries

you can avoid the price movements at all by exchanging bitcoin to fiat once you receive it. I still do not see any point in receiving salary in bitcoin because to buy or to pay for anything you will have to exchange it

there are many known addresses are mentioned in https://www.walletexplorer.com/ . it shows also the related addresses that owned by the same person ie different addresses in one tx
I hope this site can help your research  

Web browser developer Brave Software has a new weapon in its arsenal against third-party advertisements.

While the Brave browser has been automatically blocking ads that target users based on their browsing habits since earlier this year, the beta version of Brave Payments, launched today, is the latest move to advance a disruptive business model designed to give users control over their web experience – and the data it creates.

Brave founder and CEO Brendan Eich told CoinDesk how the startup's technology can be used to give users the power to reward websites with content they enjoy and practices they agree with.

Eich said:

"You can start funding a user wallet that's associated with your anonymous identity with Brave, and automatically micro-pay your top sites."

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Id the internet went down ? why would this happen ? there are dozens of companies that works only online and their market value is more than all the bitcoin that has ever exist. so those companies won't let something like this to happen

I only used before bitcoin prepaid cards because they are more cheaper than debt cards specially the virtual ones.
I tried both ecoin and spectrocoin and there is no much difference between them in fees or loading prices

because every thing online can be simply hacked specially if there is a big motive like the value for bitcoin which will encourage hackers to spend days and nights to try to steal exchanges

The ban of all bitcoin and virtual currency-related advertising from the online portals of China’s largest search engine, Baidu, has thrown the fate of cryptocurrencies into a dicey state in the world’s largest market for bitcoin trading and mining.

As China literally controls the bitcoin market, this move is likely to have a multiplier effect on the entire ecosystem.

Though the reported reasons behind a blanket cryptocurrency-related advertising ban could still be said to stem from speculation, there is a claim that Baidu’s action was in line with recent efforts by Chinese authorities to combat widespread financial crime.

Aside that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) had revealed plans to launch its own digital currency, it could be recalled that the China Banking Regulatory Commission had warned financial companies not to use the word “bank” loosely in their names. China’s authorities had also pledged to clamp down on online fraud in March.

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Bitcoin is a cipher—literally and figuratively. The crypto-currency conjures a William Gibson–esque panorama of dark web Tor servers, masked figures cavorting in Eastern European shipping containers, multibillion dollar South American cartel-laundering operations, gaunt college sophomores picking up Silk Road designer drugs at liberal arts–school mailboxes, and so forth. It's also an indicator of libertarian Silicon Valley utopianism where everyone pins their identity to the blockchain, eschewing the globalist banking Nanny State and spending the rest of their lives blissfully playing video games on a seasteader colony in international waters.

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bitcoin is not friendly when it comes with debit or credit cards. because if you find a site accepts them. you will find very high fees even more than %25 sometimes. so you should search for alternative way to pay with it

A former counterterrorism analyst for the CIA has found that terrorists are utilizing innovative technologies to boost their funding, one of which is through the use of bitcoin.

Yaya Fanusie is the director of analysis for the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance (CSIF) who previously spent seven years as both an economic and counterterrorism analyst in the CIA.

Writing on The Cipher Brief, he explained how he recently came across a troubling case of innovative terrorist fundraising.

According to Fanusie, The Ibn Taymiyya Media Center (ITMC), which is an online jihadist propaganda unit located in the Gaza Strip, has been using social media to run a fundraising campaign. Fanusie states that it is the first terrorist group to publicly use the digital currency.

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I saw Roger Ver once in a documentary about bitcoin and he really deserve this position. I have never heard of this VPN software before and It is good thing to have the option  to pay with bitcoin for such a digital goods

the price is not guaranteed to rise soon so you do not know for sure are you smart by waiting or the price may go down again in the next days ! if you think in this way you will keep waiting all time without spending.

I totally agree with your statement.
 bitcoin protocol can never be hacked. all the hackings that happened are either for exchanges that did not secure their wallets or servers well or for individuals who use defected computers or softwares that may steal their btc.
that is why I believe that using a wallet that do not give the private key is just stupidity

I see it is nearly impossible to happen except if bitcoin become one of the main used currencies in the world and I do not think bitcoin can handle that  huge number of txs now.

the Oil price falling is because the high quantity that are produced daily. high supply leads to low prices as usual. so why OPEC do not lower their producing so the price will rise ?

the state of weed in US is just confusing. some states had legalized it and others are still consider it against the rule. so maybe she smoked that pot in a legalized weed state

you better say it is the time to stop trusting any exchange site and stop storing funds in them because every thing online is possibly can be hacked or scamed