I'd imagine that the price $1082 from Coinbase and Bitstamp now is not only because from devaluation of yuan in China but is also due to demonetization in India, and the hyperinflation in Venezuela. Mainly the rally today and previous 5-6 days is coming from China and we can look the price of chinese exchange now is $1121 Bter. Therefore there is an increased demand of coins in China.

The biggest problem in my country, which belongs in Eurozone, is the legislation about bitcoin. We follow only a regulation of European Union where bitcoin falls into a "grey" framework because according European legislation is not electronic money but something as agreement between two parties. So if I buy a car with bitcoins I really don't know how can I prove that bitcoins is money so as to pay the corresponding tax.    

    First time I heard about bitcoin was when was at ATH and after that in December 2013 it crashed as I remember. After that I forgot it and I did not deal with bitcoin up to end of  September 2016. Then I began to read articles and a couple of books, to participate in meetings, to subscribe to forum, so on. It is obvious that I regret because I left about three years without to deal seriously with bitcoin world

I strongly suggest that bitcoin at first is a currency and secondly is an asset. So every time I  use btcs I am in and out. But for people think bitcoin is a commodity the time to sell depends when they had bought the most of their coins. Imo people bought their coins one year or more ago and had as barrier the $1000 have already sold at least the half of their stash the previous month.

Trading is a very complicated process and someone must read articles and/or books in order to determine his trading style and develop his plan. In addition he must be active everyday and very well prepared. It is important to mention that trade is not a business "set and forget" or "9 to 5" not for everyone. Are you willing to do this?

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I strongly agree with GMPoison opinion. This is not the time to have a competition in the sense of antagonism between currencies. Instead of it a healthy competition, in the sense of fair play would lead the crypto currencies to be done day by day better and earning mass adoption of people worldwide.

My country belongs to the European Union and for this reason has adopted corresponding European Directive under which the legal framework is very unclear. The prevailing view is that bitcoin  is not money in the narrow sense but a way of transaction and an agreement between two parties. In this light of view cannot considered as money.

As I understand OP states that would be difficult for him to earn money online if nobody had find out bitcoin. On the other side, I’m pretty confident that the world would be really poor if 8 years ago people didn't implement their idea about an online payment system from peer to peer without the need of a trusted third party using the online distributed ledger, said blockchain. This is the most revolutionary and innovative idea in financial science and man or group of people who published the bitcoin whitepaper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf deserve the Nobel prize

   On my little knowledge I believe that all of the above questions @OP asked has only one answer. Proof/evidence. Someone must proof that the hacker has compromise his system. Furthermore, must proof that has legal right on these bitcoins because hacker can claim that he owns these bitcoins and he is not a criminal. These are very difficult legal questions and an experienced attorney must be asked.
  
   There is an attorney in the forum and @OP can ask him. But really this is a very interesting question and the four cases too.

   The topic is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1724798.msg17379531#msg17379531

I am sure nor this happen in 2022 neither 10 years later. Nowadays, internet access has only the 40% of people worldwide. Assuming that this problem is overcome using networks of mobile phone. How anybody can persuade billions of people many of them are not familiar not only with bitcoin but with any form of  technology generally  that their money are in a online distributed ledger? I am very curious about that. Education, patience and time if we want mass adoption of people globally.

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Is a very good and informative article. I had read about all of these countries and for completeness only, for members want to learn more about it in Esthonia, the independent bank LHV from June 2015 has already did an experiment using cryptographic claims (CUBER) worth 100000 euro and blockchain technology. Anyone wants to follow the link http://www.cuber.ee/en_US/news/

It's first time in this forum someone opened a thread if fiat money, USD, GBP, Euro does not matter, are used for illegal activities. I believe that all people, maybe only the very young ones they know that fiat money is the most favorable way for criminals to do their transactions. If someone listen media and journalists when they express their opinion about bitcoins the first thing they say is that it's used mainly for illegal activities and some they say that must be banned. I wonder before 2009 where the genesis block mined had ever anyone asked to ban fiat money? I am eager to learn.

It is difficult and depends on whom you're trying to explain. You should each time to take into account the age, educational level and willingness to learn. The most difficult "students" are people have passed middle-age with low educational level but they don't wish to devote for learning more than the minimum time. These people will be forced to learn only if all the others around them are using bitcoins

We are far away from a world where banks should be disappeared. Do you believe bankers will keep their fingers crossed and wait bitcoiners to take over the keys? In addition you mention the Coibbase. I believe that you told it as a joke. Do you know coinbase policy and complaints of its customers? http://www.complaintsboard.com/coinbase-b125588 and http://bittrust.org/coinbase and many others if you spend a few minutes to search.

No only the private keys you need to know. Probably nor them, only the seed that is the passphrase where can import in any other wallet say electrum. But you could take a look at their support site and decide http://support.ledgerwallet.com/help_center. 

To my point of view is a small risk for a big benefit. Assuming that you buy now to invest in the same place as with fiat money it's the same risk but for sure you have at least near to zero fees. If investment for somebody is hoarding, then after eight years bitcoin has gain enough maturity compared the alt coins and is not inflationary as fiat money. So the risk is very low.

Always my economic transactions are made in the light of conservatism and the very careful selection and after thorough checking. So my choice in gambling could not have been different. With this in mind I choose the second option.