After reading that:
Interestingly enough, the creation of the world currency has been mentioned for over 30 years in The Economist, which belongs to the Rothschilds: “THIRTY years from now, Americans, Japanese, Europeans, and people in many other rich countries, and some relatively poor ones will probably be paying for their shopping with the same currency. Prices will be quoted not in dollars, yen or D-marks but in, let’s say, the phoenix. The phoenix will certainly be more convenient than today’s national currencies, which by then will seem to be a quaint cause of much disruption to economic life in the last twentieth century”.
I think that this can really make sense because Rothschilds have a sufficient amount of monetary, political and other resources to make a new world cryptocurrency. What do you think how will this collision between Rothschilds and Buterin develop over time? How will it affect other cryptocurrencies? Should I sell ETH?

http://bitcoinist.com/worth-caring-vitalik-buterin-doubts-rothschilds-sway-crypto/

I went to buy some items at a company using bitpay (over 1k usd) which I had bought items from in the past, and NO BTC address popped up, instead I get this BIP70 bullshit that doesn't work with my wallet..  Great... 

I am still deciding if I want to bother to load a wallet that bitpay's new protocol works with..

I am on the fence as to if I want to buy these items at all, so much hassle.  Why can't bitpay just put up a real BTC or BCH address for us to pay with, instead of some proprietary bullshit that only works with a handful of wallets.  This isn't what bitcoin is about.  Its about creating a simple method to pay, not the cluster fuck that bitpay is creating...

FUCK YOU BITPAY..

This is also known as cryptojacking.

Cryptojacking is the unauthorized use of someone else’s computer to mine cryptocurrency. Hackers do this by either getting the victim to click on a malicious link in an email that loads crypto mining code on the computer, or by infecting a website or online ad with JavaScript code that auto-executes once loaded in the victim’s browser.

Its a crime and a fraud to your audience. Better to avoid it.

I am quite certain that we are near the bottom of this cycle, from where we will only increase further. The price might slightly dip below $7000 for a brief moment, but that will directly be the last time we have seen $6xxx levels. Every bottom after that will be +$7000.

That being said, I don't expect a crazy market this year. People should lower their expectations significantly in order to prevent disappointment. Bottom development indicates $400-$500 jumps, which I don't believe will change any time soon, so from $7000 to $10,000 means there is plenty of ground to cover, and for that reason we will keep dealing with sub $10,000 levels at least till Q4 of this year. It doesn't mean we won't jump over $10,000 again, but we'll reset back below that.

Trade the market or just chillax and do something else with your time.

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 They are heavily centralized, working with big banks and money transfer companies like Moneygram and Western Union.

What do you think?

this is just another token being created in the name of "blockchain technology" it has nothing to do with bitcoin so it has zero effects on its price. one may even consider tokens like these pointless creations and waste of time.

Jewelry related stuff that can affect bitcoin price is when the jewelers start accepting bitcoin as payment like REEDS Jewelers for instance or many others that are already accepting bitcoin payments. these increase the popularity of bitcoin and also they add to its usability which is always good for bitcoin growth.

I think those who are into cryptocurrency, that is living in Ireland will now move to a different country, it is true thay taxes helps build bridges and structures, but a social responsibilty, I doubt it, creation of taxes was made way back even before the romans took over, this is just collecting money from the poor to make the rich get richer, and if we started to pay taxes, what is the sense of using decentralized currency if we are just going to give it away to the government, and there is no assurance that they will only take coins for what they are worth, if they decided that they will take an equivalent of .01 btc from you, at today's value, no one would agree, and why would they give out their names and all their assets, where will be the anonymity?

Speaking on the future of central banking, Mark Carney says the primary role of banks is maintain trust in money. As for cryptocurrencies, a Bank of England-backed coin is, for now, not being seriously considered because the current volatility inherent in the coins prevent them from being a secure medium of exchange. Full article on NewsBTC