Maybe "it's a good time to buy right now" reason could push Bitcoin up... Many people thinking the same thing at same time increases the demand considerably. Almost reaching $11.500 at this moment, just need more $500 increasing in price. It's not too hard, I believe. But the spectatives are that the price continues stable without huge fluctuations because there aren't news to boost BTC's price at this moment, as you said.

I can be wrong, but I think a huge increasement in price will come only when more updates about Lightning Network reach to us. Or any other important event meanwhile, what would be unpredictable for now.

He used to talk to people on the thread some time ago...


The casinos were very smart, they took investor's Bitcoins and gave them these worthless tokens/coins. I believe it's impossible to hit ROI with these tokens if we are calculating the ROI in relation to BTC, similar to cloud minings process.


Some slow profit from traditional casinos, but better than nothing!  

Crypto-Currency bank already exists, it's called... Bank!  

Digital banks deal with local country's currency, but they are digital, you don't need pape money, all the transactions can be done virtually, but you aren't using a decentralized platform, you are using the bank's centralized one. And even you use a "Crypto-Currency bank" it will be centralized anyway, because you will using them as third party service, they will be under control.

I believe there wouldn't be any difference between the currently local centralized bank's system and the Crypto-Currency bank's system you are talking about.

Well, I live in a country where there is gun control policy and most people aren't satisfied with this.

Where there is gun control only two groups will have guns: Security forces and thieves. And the security forces aren't enough to stop all the thieves all the time, so the criminals feel safe to steal/kidnap/kill without worries to be shot as the common citizen doesn't have a gun to protect himself and his family.

And in countryside areas it's worse, as farmers need powerful guns and all they can have are some ordinary guns...
I think the american's Second Amendment is very right.

I agree. But the main problem isn't the media spreading FUD and being dishonest, it wouldn't be an issue if people were able to think by themselves without believing in so many lies and exaggerations without hesitation. It proofs media has too much power over people's minds yet, however, it's slowly changing as people start giving more attention to alternative medias on the internet and searching for the true of facts.

Real stories of people who are in Crypto-Currency world is the best way to make others exit from the matrix.

I don't have any problems with gambling neither. If I have to stay away from gambling for months or even years it's not a problem, I will concentrate myself in another kinds of activities and won't even think about gambling meanwhile.

These people that can't stop playing are addicted, they aren't on the control of their own minds. If anyone here thinks it's hard to stay some days away from gambling it's better to start finding a solution for this, before it becomes a issue too big to be solved with serious consequences.

For these companies it's inviable to continue dealing with Bitcoins at this moment, but it doesn't mean they won't start accepting Bitcoins again later when the fees decrease and the transactions become faster. Companies must adjust their systems to the currently situation. Steam said something similar, but they don't exclude the possibility to stat accepting Bitcoin again later, or maybe an AltCoin...

Yes. During a pending transaction, Bitcoin's price can oscillate too much in a way when the transaction finishes the company receives less money than they should for the game. So it's necessary to ask the buyer more money to finish the deal. It's an embarrassing situation... Furthermore the buyer would have to pay expensive fees twice this way... It ended not being a good deal for both parts.

But I think we don't need to worry about it, they have already said Bitcoin can start being accepted again in a future date. Solving the scalability issue, everything comes back to the normal again.

The most important aspect is the proportion between their existence time and the rates they receive from users/customers, if they are positive or negative, surely, checking first if the feedbacks are legit, because some people try cheating and abusing casinos without valid proofs.

Another important point is the provably fair system, anyway it's related to the casino's reputation. If the house is reputable, it has a provably fair system. And a last point that could help casinos to gain trust a lot would be if the casino's owner showed himself: name, country, picture, etc... So he would have to think twice before doing anything shady against his users/customers, as he would be easily tracked.

I believe Crypto-Currency have became too lofty and strong to be destroyed at this point. Their only option is to "adapt" to it, yes. But they don't feel like any mortal man of the world, they feel to be different and superior, so this "adaption" won't be friendly with the Crypto community, they will try to impose their wishes somehow.

I have seen rumours Soros could be behind Ripple currency, with the intention to bump the currency, buying Bitcoins next, while Bitcoin investors were exchanging their BTCs into Ripple to hold this AltCoin. It surely seems FUD, but the strategy is interesting and can be used by greedy guys like that to accumulate Bitcoins while fools give all their BTCs to hold AltCoins that may not worth in the future.

Another possibility of "adaption" is by country's regulations: These billionaires have great influence in different countries, especially the poorest ones, which they send donations. They can put their own agenda on these countries with the help of local governments and politicians. Regulations that will weak the individual enthusiasts and fortify the system we are trying to avoid.


I fully agree with you.

Here it says the connection is infected with HTML:Iframe-inf at Bitcoin regular faucet.

Anyway I received the BTC reward (10 satoshis) on my account, thank you...
There aren't anti-bot links, short links, so it's fast to claim, that is the good part.

While Bitcoin continues decentralized and unregulated you shouldn't worry about illuminates and other groups seeking for power and mass control. Bitcoin was a legit creation, with the intent to give people more freedom and accessibility on their financial life, I believe the illuminates' goals are the opposite of that. Not that these groups aren't trying to blame or control Crypto-Currency somehow, but so far they didn't achieve it.

There are some attempts to make this real. When people say Bitcoin is a currency mainly used by terrorists, drug dealers and criminals in general, they are trying to make the ordinary Bitcoin's enthusiast think it's a dirty world, crowded by the humanity's scum, so the common person will think twice before start investing and bringing more people to invest too, as he doesn't want to be categorized on this group...

Fortunately, this strategy doesn't have much effect and even more people are finding the truth by themselves, so it's not a serious menace for Bitcoin survival at this moment, a hard way as you said.

Well, Lightning Network seems promising... I'm excited to see how it will affect Bitcoin's transactions.  

I believe in technology's magic.  
As I said, the solid progress is built slowly, there aren't final solutions overnight.
It shoudln't be a reason to be against Bitcoin.

Anyway, you are free to think what you want and to invest in what currencies you want.

I'm saying Day's work as an expression in relation to the trader and his "trading job". After the trader benefits from Crypto-Currencies prices to make profit, he converts the money to BTC again to keep holding. On long term holders prefer Bitcoin, instead of AltCoins that are used to make profit on short-term. Bitcoin's success is being built on long term, a solid progress being built slowly.

That is how I see the average Crypto enthusiast mentality at this point... What other coin do you think people have more confidence than in Bitcoin?

Traders benefit from Crypto-Currency's prices in general. And after a day's work the profit is converted to fiat or Bitcoin... (A good part of it at least). Without Bitcoin there woulnd't be any other AltCoin at this point. Bitcoin is the original, the first one, it's normal people have more confidence on it than on any other AltCoin, right?

If Bitcoin succeeds (that is what it's happening), many other Crypto-Currencies can succeed as well (as we can see some solid AltCoins already).

It's true, Bitcoin is a great success today because its supporters, that are many. And if they support Bitcoin it's because they are satisfied with the results we have today or because they still see a big potential on this currency. I don't understand why OP blames Bitcoin as it was the first and original Crypto-Currency, that united many people around a new conception of financial system. He should be proud of this...

If he wants so many guarantees and fast solutions he should use fiat instead of Bitcoins...


In a decentralized system, changes take more time to happen as there are many disagreements, there isn't a central authority to say "we will do this or that, dot". What annuls OP's fifthy point: "It's centralized".

If you want to talk about my red feedback open a thread about it or ask it to me before saying bullshit about what you don't know, just don't bring to the table a subject that doesn't belong to the topic.

No, I didn't mean that. You just misunderstood what I said, now I don't know if you did on purpose or by accident.

Seems you are a clever person, so please, enlight us about the ICO investment risks. This thread is about it, you should add some information on your post to make it constructive.

I also started from zero on Crypto-Currency world and I can say it's very possible. You just need to have conscience all the work and effort you are putting in Crypto world today will generate consequences tomorrow, the results aren't immediate. The real profit you make with BTC price's increasements, the big pumps. A good strategy would be to not spend much time/money with AltCoins and risky investments, hold Bitcoins and be patient. On the right time you will be ready to harvest the profit you deserve.

It's indeed a risky investment, but I would say the riskiest kind of investment in Crypto-Currency world is Ponzi/HYIP. Most of these ICOs won't succeed on long term, so the "hit and run" strategy is used, you wait a fast pump, sell all your coins and wait for the next opportunity on a next ICO and forget forever about the last coin you have used to trade. And there are another situations which the ICO team fails: isn't able to create the currency or fail in putting it on the market, so total loss for you as investor... Some nice topics here about ICO risks: https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@sparkit/the-risk-with-initial-coin-offering-ico