Am i wrong by saying all online shopping does the same thing?
All overseas purchases result in currency migration.
As I understand it I dont see the big deal, its just focusing on BTC again.

Patience is the key! if its only a few weeks before you are in a
position then there is no need for panic.

We are still at the early stages of this crypto journey and with
the current market climate they may be more favourable in a
few weeks  

I agree, the value of crypto will be affected in the short term
by the latest news on the social media PAID AD's ban but
in the long term the bans will have no effect, it will be as if
they never existed in the first place.

We need to get over this and stop panicking and spreading FUD.

I have been using Exodus since I got into Crypto and every month there is
an update sometimes more and these new updates are very welcome
particularly the immediate effect of the LTC TX fees.

Going forward the full segwit support is great, this proves 2 things, the exodus
development team are "on the ball" and behind the scenes work is being
done preparing for segwit, its all positive for the future.

#LongTermGoals

This is not as big a problem as its is being made out to be. 
There are a lot of scam sites being created and scam ICO's
being advertised and its difficult to identify good from bad
at times so I can understand why they are taking this move.

This ban will not prevent anyone from promoting a project
using the twitter platform, this only applies to paid ads.

this is a very big statement and its very interesting that its from
someone with a high financial profile such as the "chief executive of Twitter and payment company Square"

I cannot believe it though, at a time when the G20 had crypto
currencies on their agenda this week and Facebook, Google
banning ICO and crypto ad's and of what most high profile financiers
are saying, this goes against all that.

its good though 

Diversification is a must really but there are some limits you have to
put in place. Im not sure working a "spread bet" is a good move to
coin a phrase you would be "spreading yourself too thin".

From what I have learned here you would want to consider a 50/50
or 60/40 split of Bitcoin/Altcoin mix.

The way I personally see it is that BTC will give the biggest return
and possibly bigger that any other altcoin can deliver in the long term
for the same $ value of "investment" if you are a holder.

If you are a trader/speculator there are other considerations like being
lucky enough to get into a coin for less than $0.10c and it to moon to
$1 and beyond. To me this is just too risky and I cannot dedicate the
time needed to work this way.

Very good news about the AlAX and Gionee partnership this is
a very positive move forward. I like that on the new phones
ALAX will be preinstalled and eventhough most of those
preinstallations will be deleted I wonder what the percentage
of "keepers" will be?

Will Gionee be providing app info with the launch of each phone?

regardless it will certainly increase the awareness.

at the moment not everything is available to be purchased with crypto,
so people have no other choice at times than to convert back to FIAT.
I have done it myself. This is a kind of chicken and egg scenario.

What we can do is ask the question over and over again of the retailers
and traders if they accept BTC, LTC, Monero or Dash.
This is to let them know that there are people willing to spend crypto
and hopefully sooner rather than later they will accept our crypto.

We all need to raise awareness.

of course it is worth risking your time and money in BTC but not all of
your money and not all of your time. If you are going to get into crypto
only put in what you are willing to loose.

I firmly believe BTC has a very relevant future in society especially for
those who dont want to trust the banks into the future.

what do you think about bitcoin at the moment?

the same as i thought when it was $1000. back then if you
had told me in 12 months that $1000 will be worth $9000
I would have doubled my purchase.

now from today, fast forward 12 months . . .

Its nice to see a few more threads about Litecoin being generated
I am holding Litecoin for close to 12 months now. I ahve seen it
many times where newbies asked for suggestions for coins to get
and rarely would Litecoin be mentioned.

Here is another thread I noticed today asking which is better Litecoin
or Bitcoin Cash > Will (LTC) Litecoin be more valuable than (BCH) Bitcoin Cash in 2018?
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3019020.msg32748578#msg32748578

and a quote with link from that thread shows very promising fiqures,
check them out.



Check out the 155 page Litecoin is Officially Dead thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=658541.0;topicseen

I hate to have to say it but its not going to happen, the equal society theory.

Two factors which will prevent it from happening, Human Nature and Greed.

Humans in general terms will always want to evolve, to make progress, to
expand their holdings and wealth.

We can see it from the inequality which exists currently the statistics are here
to read > https://inequality.org/facts/global-inequality
we all want to progress forward financially at the end of the week or month
when we manage to have saved $50 or $100 we dont give it away to the
nearest person who is struggling financially.

Its the same with crypto, generally people are scrambling to get as much as
they can now at the early stages for a better life for themselves and their family.
I dont think I have read once where anyone has stated they want to help
their local homeless community.

Ending world poverty is a great idea but unfortunately there is no point preaching
to the ones who are powerless to change it we need to target the 1%

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/nov/14/worlds-richest-wealth-credit-suisse

its difficult to actually spend BTC at the moment for items not
listed on the online stores which accept it.

I converted BTC to FIAT to fund a project I have ongoing, the
items were Engine Parts and where I shop for them doesnt
accept BTC

It is important to ask the question though because it shows the
vendor that there is a demand for BTC and crypto. If they get
enough queries they might consider accepting payments sooner!

I dont normally post in such long running general threads like this
but the timing of this thread surfacing again is good timing.
I was just talking with a friend today over lunch about the future
of money.

They way we see it is that going forward we will not have control
of our own FIAT currency, what I mean by that is CASH and the lack
of it. We are moving ever closer to a cashless society particularly
in Europe and what have we if we dont have cash, a plastic card
with the promise from the Banks that we have X amount of
FIAT in our account at our disposal.

What we are doing currently is moving FIAT from one bank to another.
If I pay my house insurance, I pay by bank transfer from my bank
to the other, I dont walk into the insurance company and hand over
Cash.

So what Satoshi Nakamoto came up with in BTC is actually a pure
genius moment because we own our own currency, we have access
to it 24/7/365, and that is the future I am willing to back.

I may be interested!

I have a small damaged gold ring, silver tie-pin and a silver bangle.
I also have some coins with varying amounts of silver from 40% to 90% [ i think ]  if you are interested.

I think we are at the early stages of a 3rd industrial revolution but it
is a long way off yet as has been mentioned 20, 30 years.

While the 3 seperate sectors of Internet, energy and transport are in
motion [excuse the pun] there is still a very long way to travel [ ! ]
for the new transport sector to be properly linked to both internet
and energy.

When all 3 align i can see it being a massive revolution.

1 sMerit awarded to Mr.Cross for the very long post and all the effort.

1 extra sMerit awarded to epidose for the updates.

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Thanks for all the replies the thread is now locked.

Yes I have spend BTC to date, well a portion of it even though
I HOLD most of my BTC for the long term.

I used part of my BTC holdings to fund a different project which
is not related to currencies or investments, just a personal project
as a reward for my BTC adventures.

You are dillusional if you think banks are going to accept BTC or any
other decentralised, open source, unregulated currency which they do
not have control of. I think you may have had the wrong idea of BTC.

It also sounds like you may have over extended your financial situation
to get involved in crypto with your anger and frustration.