I said 2-5% and even that is a stretch imho. That's still what, 140-350million people? (Assuming 7billion people wordwide). That's way more than we have now (again, assuming. It's hard to tell how many bitcoins users there really are) so there would have to be a huge influx of people starting to use bitcoins.

It could be total crash as Indian batting lineup just lurked at around 150 runs. I don't have idea what to say it is India which is lucky to successfully avoid that collapse or England again remained unlucky for missing that opportunity. India will not repeat that mistake anymore. In coming innings match will bring real twist and interest for sure.

Well if you are into day-trading these small changes are what will make you money. Every bit of info is somehow important IMO.

Added some more shorts.

BULL trend IS OVER. Mark my words.

Right now, there is a fierce competition ongoing between Saudi Arabia and Russia for the market share. The Saudis tried to hijack the acquisition of Essar Oil by Rosneft, by offering a better deal. But it was foiled by Rosneft, who sweetened the offer. They don't care about the prices anymore. It is all about the market share now.

What a great innings so far from Khawaja 138 not out and he looks very good at the crease. He now just needs the tail to stay with him and Australia can easily get a 150+ lead as they already lead by 48 runs. Too bad he ran out Smith as both looked good and were playing easily before that run out. Australia will be hoping to bat as long as they can as they would want South Africa to be batting at night where the ball starts to play tricks on the batsman. Like I mentioned in a previous post Australia would be very hard to beat before the match because they already have some experience playing a day/night test match where as South Africa have so it was going to be tough for them to win and also Australia doesn't want to loose the series 3-0 which will be the first ever time in Australia. So Australia has more to play for in my opinion and they are showing it in this test match.

Pakistani batsmen was playing on dead pitches in UAE now in New Land they are on typical balance pitches so its very big difference for them and they are here without any practice match they have no too many practice matches like England hope they will give some resistance in second match

yes I agree with you. This is a natural occurrence that happens because of the greater demand for bitcoin. current users of bitcoin is growing rapidly and is also outstanding. an increase that occurred at this time purely because bitcoin is getting better.

The new economical attitude of the new president and  interest rate will affect the number of people who will invest in BTC this year.

Well, for a long time the gold was accepted as the safe heaven during chaotic times.However, the gold is losing its place to BTC.This is mainly the easiness of transfer and keeping.Everything seems positive for BTC in near future however have we missed the big picture?What if there is a problem between USA and China?Well, new American origined pools will appear suddenly, so 'the force awakens'.Will the american pools will satisfy Trump or will he order a new digital currency controlled by USA goverment directly.If he does decide to the so, can USA centered new currency take the place of decentralized BTC?

In the case of Core, there is --fast to speed it up, but in the case of blockr.io it may indeed be some kind of connection problem to them. The only other possibility is if you've done a large number of transactions, which will slow it down for sure, but hopefully not "insane"-ly.

Pakistani batting line again has deceived everyone and has lurked as usually seen anyway New Zealand has already taken full control on the game as it is matter of formalities because can not do anything to save this match. India on the other hand is doing fantastic job against England let's see where this test match takes us.

It seems a little foolish to put all your eggs in one basket as the saying goes. Sure it has efficiency and transparency savings but what happens if the power goes out. Cyber warfare also looks increasingly prevalent and financial operations are always going to be a number one target. It would be very foolish to rush into such an idea, even with bitcoins record so far

Closed at 735 and reopened short again now.

India is brilliant today after posting the 455 runs on the board bowlers did hard efforts to take down England so quickly, England has 5 wickets in hand and still have to trail 352 runs, than it will be good for India to increase the pressure and take some wickets in early session than it will be into winning position for this test match.

There are no big upsurges anymore in the Bitcoin world

the price "only" increased around 7% in the last week

the problem is decide between buy again at loss and risk a price drop or do nothing and the price increase again, making your losses bigger

Central banks all over the world have been controlling the national fiat currencies since the very inception of fiat (the term itself is telling a lot about this). And this control coexisted pretty well along with capitalism in most developed countries for many decades if not centuries. Also, why would the government allow anyone to mine the national cryptocurrency but their citizens exclusively?

For me, it is like being a public employee in Finland and demand payment in American dollars.

bitcoin price now topping 750...doubt it'll drop any time soon  

But then again...I've wasted so much selling the past few weeks...wouldn't mind a nice big dip to buy in again (and sell all these crappy alts when they rise as a result)

It's a currency. Just because it fluctuates and isn't like any other currency out there doesn't make it any less of a currency. Governments just want to classify it so they can figure out how we should be taxed!