Nothing new. Everything is being done to attract people to click on their articles to generate a few pennies of ad revenue.

Correct, if he was so confident that his altcoin was going to take over, he would take the bet at any time of the day without any hesitation. But that's not a big surprise. I add more value to the scenario that with artificially bumping BU forward, they (BU gang) just try to force Core devs to come up with some sort of mid-way solution, that's it.

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Other than that, it has been well pointed out in the last years that Roger Ver enjoys a great deal of wealth (few hundred K worth of BTC), but is there anyone knowing what addresses belong to him? Just being interested here.

Correct, it can't and won't last endlessly, but that's all fine as Bitcoin will offer traders enough other opportunities. Especially in situations as we are moving in right now with uncertainties regarding a potential hard fork. In order to get rid of these uncertainties, Bitcoin must scale, and as long as that isn't happening, we'll face a long period of heavy occasional price swings and range movements.

Segwit is indeed the best option. Even when you consider that it isn't a perfect long term solution. It's important that all alternative sides are being put to stop. It's a shame that someone creeps in and just artificially sets up everything in a way that it will cause a fork as result. BU gets supported by shills and trolls, and perhaps a few people that see value in their proposal. Core has the majority of the support among people here, BU can't change a single bit in this regard.

PayPal is quite a popular payment option around the world, that's a fact, but that doesn't make PayPal a currency. PayPal is nothing more than a fiat related payment platform. And yes, they have a banking license that allows them to operate like a traditional bank, but that doesn't change anything from the fact that their main focus is still offering people a reliable payment platform.

Holding is indeed the best option, but you don't really have to be an expert to spot the repetitive movements within a certain range of the market in current situation. Every dump that results in the price to fall below $1000, gets bought up to over $1000 within a reasonable number of days. As long as there is demand (and there is no reason why the demand shouldn't be there), the price will get bought up to over $1000 every time. If this isn't an easy way of making money, I seriously don't know what is.

That's the best possible thing to do. While others get driven by fear and dump their coins as result, you just buy/trade and take advantage of the situation. I have been doing exactly that. Just look at how easy it is to make profit each time the price sinks under the $1000 level. So far, the price has repeatedly recovered its +$1000 position due to the demand. In a matter of a few days, you can make a more than decent profit, and that several times per month. We can thank the uncertainties around the potential hard fork for that, in this case.

Nothing wrong with free speech, but things here in most of the BU threads get pushed to the extreme limits of free speech. Every thread regarding BU, scaling, transactions, etc, gets hijacked by the same group of people, and that every day, and by mostly the same group of people. Do you consider that to be a positive thing?

Shills and trolls forcing through their BU "preference" is interesting?

We don't. It's Segwit that offers the best possible solution to end this nonsense. But hey, you are of course free to support an altcoin if you so wish.

As DH also stated, pay a higher fee, and your problem is as good as solved. If you don't want to pay the network-situation-appropriate fee, then that's up to you, but don't complain.

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It's all this forum that is offering people too much freedom to do basically anything that they want. It's annoying seeing that basically every thread in the Bitcoin discussion section gets taken over (demolished) by the well known group (newbie to legendaries) of shillers. As long as this forum doesn't take any actions (and this isn't likely to happen), these clowns will continue to fart all over this forum. So yes, it's indeed a shame.

How wrong can you be... Even if Bitcoin falls back to $1 it can't be considered the end of Bitcoin. Bitcoin comes to an end if all nodes and miners just shut down everything. That's when Bitcoin is dead, and nothing else.

In every market there are certain stagnant periods where the price can't seem to move through certain levels, Bitcoin is definitely not an exception. It's all about supply and demand. At that point there was simply more supply than actual demand, and thus the market stays where it is. No big deal.

That would be a normal market reaction. People move their money to places that at that time offer a better perspective.

There is nothing special about the $1040 level. It's the $1000 level that is more or less a stable point as the price gets bought up to over $1000 each time the price gets dumped down.

That's just wishful thinking. Bitcoin has proven to do exactly that what people don't expect (especially short term wise). If we look at how the current situation is developing, then I wouldn't be surprised to see a fall back to around $900-$950 in the coming weeks. Market is moving within a certain range, so if you are able to use the repetitive market movements in your advantage, you'll make some easy bucks.

High hopes (especially if they are beyond what's possible within a certain period of time) aren't worth anything. In that regard, you're right, people with extreme expectations will come out as hard loser. But that's nothing new. If you look at how many people were heavily disappointed in the block halving to not directly result in a rocket heading towards the moon, then is obviously visible that people here live in their own dream. That's why I always say; having certain expectations and being excited about Bitcoin is great, but don't expect any miracles to happen. It's not 2011-2013 anymore...

You can't seriously put HYIP's and Bitcoin in the same category of high risk investment options. Bitcoin offers a long term growth opportunity, which at the same time can function as currency, store of value, hedge, etc. HYIP's are nothing more than pure scams. In that regard, I am quite surprised that you advice people to put their hard earned money into obvious scams. It's a shame.

Basically that. If they don't change from stand point, then I don't know when they ever will approve whatever Bitcoin ETF. It's not that much will change in the coming years in regards to the reasons of why both ETF's were rejected. It didn't even change a single bit knowing that SX has an insurance policy of up to $125 million. I am quite sure that the reason for both rejections is that the government doesn't want Bitcoin to step up a notch in ranking. Allowing institutional investors to enter Bitcoin through ETF's would make Bitcoin grow in such a rapid pace, that they prever to keep things as they are right now as that will buy them enough time to come up with something else to hold back Bitcoin's growth.

What do you mean with the plug? If you're referring to the potential hardfork, then it will indeed cause a massive decline that could last months before we see somewhat of a recovery process starting up. But that's only if there will be an unsuccessful hard fork. Right now people can only speculate based on how much support miners signal for BU. I still think that the chances are high that it's only done to 'scare off' Core developers to come up with a mid-way solution. I can't seriously believe that miners are willing to jeopardise their own operations to allow Bitcoin to fork. But then again, there are enough people with a massive hunger for power that might be willing to pull the trigger. RV & JW I am referring to.

It's mind boggling how stupid certain people can be. In normal circumstances it's common sense that would tell you to stay the heck away from coins that are badly pumped already, no trading expertise required here. But these people go completely nuts on whatever comes at their way, and dive with full confidence into something that is on the edge of falling down in pieces. There is a saying; Greed makes blind - and that's really the case here. It will be a very expensive lesson for them.

Every serious investor (serious in the way that everything is being thought out well, and researched properly) knows that everything regarding the potential hard fork is nothing more than a short term annoyance. In that regard, all these endless drama discussions, shilling, trolling, etc, can also turn out to be a welcome entry point for investors as the price has taken a few hits, and will probably take a few more in the coming weeks/months. It's not for nothing that the price jumps back to +$1000 levels each time it faces a serious dump. Long term is all that we should care about.

It depends on what exactly is the case. If people just don't know Bitcoin because they haven't heard from it, then you're definitely right. But if they have been influenced by the media with all their negativity regarding Bitcoin, and don't use or even dislike Bitcoin because of that, then these people are nothing more than a bunch of sheeps. How difficult is it to check for yourself to find out whether or not the media is right. If people would spend under a hour on analyzing the basic aspects of Bitcoin, I am sure they would love it. Especially because it allows them to outrule governments and banks. People have come to a point that they don't trust any of the two afore mentioned.

Couldn't have said it better. People however don't look at things from that point as they just see what they want to see (cherry picking). People think that the more features altcoins have, the more their beneficial/usability aspect is compared to Bitcoin. But the far majority of the features that altcoins offer are nothing more than gimmicks. They are meant to trap in people that will end up holding a bag of insanely overpriced coins that enjoy no real world usage. Like seriously, who buys Dash at +$100 (now it's closer to $80), and Ethereum at $50, and still think they are a fantastic investment?