If USD somehow would crash that would bring down most of the world economy with itself. In a crippled economy during the time of uncertainty many people will go for the traditional stores of value like gold, instead of something new and not very well known like bitcoin. In addition USD and bitcoin economy goes hand in hand in this early stage so bitcoin would suffer too.

I agree with peteycamey's short term prediction. Long term I'm also rather optimistic but with some precaution. It will go up, if the devs keep developing and - more importantly - if it became a widely accepted add-on for bitcoin.
Actually I'm surprised how well it keeping it's value. I expected a lot bigger dump down to the IPO prices or even lower.

As Spoetnik pissed off a lot of scammers and their shills, and a couple of other (otherwise honest) people as well here, I'm not surprised about the result of this vote. But these kinds of votes means nothing. BTW with a little effort (e.g. making a bunch of new accounts or having a couple of buddies around) anyone can make a similar poll about anyone else. So it's still not official, this is still just a few opinions .

Actually global warming and higher CO2 levels used to promote plant growth, as we know if we take a look at the triassic and eocene coal deposits and plant diversity.

It's a pretty stable, well written coin and Balthazar is still around if if you have any questions about it.

There's one important point what you missed. Let's scroll back...not very far, just to mid 2013. 1BTC worth $60 in that time. Let's assume we bought 1BTC. Take a look at what we were able to buy for $60 back then. Now scroll forward to these days 1BTC worth roughly $420 now, $60 is still $60. Take a look at again on the shopping basket what we can buy for $60 and what we can buy for 1 BTC today. You know this is why we like it .

IMO at this moment it's not pegged to fiat as pegging measn a fixed rate. Of course as we do not have a real bitcoin economy where all sorts of goods and services are available we need to use fiat therefore we need exchange rates, but those rates are not fix at all and not defining the purchasing power of BTC, so I wouldn't call this pegging.

I think you are a bit bearish mate . Next year btc can very well hit $2k or even more. In your model you simply ruled out all external factors, like a sudden "gold rush", a new bubble, or just a simple increase in demand what we've seen on the Chinese exchanges after the new capital control rules. Not to mention that there could be things with negative impact on the prices. I wouldn't say that $2k would be sustainable in for a while, but I can easily imagine a nice big bubble sometimes around the halving.

Try to Google "Touchable 3D holograms" . At this moment it's still Star Trek stuff, but maybe in a few decades it could turn to reality.

There a few active nodes, it's still traded on Cryptsy and Bter, you can even see some little volume, there are buy orders, so I wouldn't call it dead... yet

To be honest that was a perfectly open fund raising. In that time I've already allocated some funds for joining but then suddenly I've got very busy with getting back my stolen BTT, Cryptsy and many other accounts and salvaging what I can when I've get f**ked by a keylogger. So if 25 person joined from the God knows how many around (who also had the same opportunity) that's not the fault of that 25.

Edit: Ops! I didn't noticed that this is a really old discussion.

I've used to get rid of stuff what still working but I no longer need it, and also used to buy spare parts, and some interesting vintage stuff. I wouldn't be very happy if eBay/Paypal could start tinkering around my bitcoins. I don't really trust them.

Choose random for a day or two (maybe for a week if you want some more representative samples) and then make some calculations about how much you got vs how much you can get if you go for average.

They are seems to be quite optimistic. They can be right but I think that will happen around the end of next year unless something unexpected. Of course I can't rule out some big pumps around the halving but I doubt that those highs will last long. BTW a slower more organic growth would be better in the long run.

These two coins are barely have any real life purpose, there are no meaningful marketing therefore no demand. However because of the small but die hard user base, both coins are doing relative well if you compare them to other coins. So there are still hope .

Sorry to say, but probably wishful thinking. Unfortunately. Socialists are still have a lot of supporters, they have infiltrated into green and some liberal parties long time ago and then took control. Just take a look at the programs of most green parties. Apart from some environmentalist stuff all of those are massively socialist programs.

Maybe they want to keep the buildings in more or less one piece. A massive carpet bombing and then sending in flame thrower tanks and self propelled guns with a lot of infantry support would be quicker, but after that there wouldn't be city there any more. The SAA is much better trained, equipped and determined. In addition Iraq had to rebuild it's army after ater it was routed by IS, while the SAA made a fighting retreat into defensible positions and it's just got more tough and battle hardened after the hammering.

BTW on the military academy I've seen plenty of Iraqi and Syrian officers on post-gradual trainings and the difference between them is like the difference between theology and geology .  Syrians were much more disciplined and determined.

If we are talking about luck based games, then perhaps the best strategy is no strategy at all. If there are no 100% working strategy, then why bother...

I know this isn't very thrilling and adventurous approach but paired with some self-control it's a good way to avoid big losses in the heat of the moment .

I must agree, there are no point in testing HYIP sites, these sites used to be good for days or sometimes even weeks and then they used to suddenly disappear together with user funds. However listing these sites and warning potential users about the imminent scam is useful.