the best thing happen to all us who have to do with bitcoin is without doubt its stability during almost all the year and the increase of its price as a response of the big demand began from China.

The first thing (the stability) maybe is the first weak sign of the begin of its maturity as a currency. If so the hopes are enormous. If bitcoin become stable this mean that its behavior is like the other currencies. Having in mind the totally diversity of it compared to the normal (centralized and with care by the owners) money it is a big thing. This mean that even other behavior of normal money can be verified in bitcoin. If so, mean that bitcoin can be predicable not only guessing or following the dream seen during the previous night but based in facts and theories.

The second one (the increase) mean another important thing. There has hope that its price will increased if it will be big demand. This is the most easy thing to be understood and known by everyone. And so it is. everyone can tell that is no need to be verified such things in order to be true. It is normal to be so. And so must be. But one thing is to know one thing about bitcoin and another is to see it verified. Another fact that make bitcoin like the normal money. So can be told again the same thing about this kind of behavior had from it like the normal money.

As for me the people must use bitcoin only to earn other bitcoins from those which will use. At least this is what i do. Bitcoin is to precious to be used for the bought of the everyday things.

Even for investment must be very careful because can be lost even you use them to earn more. It is an example happened to me which is perfect to confirm the wrong use of it while you with its use have in mind to earn other bitcoins. There is a opportunity which offer profit for an amount given by you to them. This amount could have been in us dollar or bitcoin. I thought to use bitcoin because want to have more such. But the problem was that they worked with us dollar and the profit was given in us dollar. So I invested in bitcoin. The amount of bitcoin sent by me was converted immediately and automatically in us dollar and worked in us dollar. Then if you wanted to withdraw the amount to be taken automatically was converted in bitcoin and sent to me as bitcoin. Where is the problem? If the price of bitcoin increases I will have less bitcoin than before with the previous price. So was the risk that me don't have even my invested bitcoin if the price goes high more than the percentage of profit given by the opportunity. So an my error in analyzing well the opportunity could make me lose bitcoin instead of earn others.

Conclusion: don't use bitcoin for everyday stuffs and use it very carefully in investments which can grow the amount of those in your wallet. Bitcoin is precious. There are justified hopes that its value will greater in the times to come.

My story abot the known of bitcoin is very simple. I have about 8 years in which try to find opportunities online in which can be earned money. One day about three years ago (it was end of February or begin of March) i found an opportunity which had big impact on me. Was something which promised and pretended disruptive changes using a technology not created by them but used neatly by them. They pretended to change all the appearance and the structure of the actual (that time) business environment when the various applications had or developed by the authors of the site will become reality. Big words but expressed with to much intelligence. The curiosity more than the believe in such words make me to follow this website. They asked donations to develop their ideas and knowledge and in return give the position of the founder. I decide to give that donation and to become founder. Here enter in scene bitcoin. The only money accepted by them was this kind of new thing named bitcoin. They gave some links to read, some places where to find bitcoin and a couple of link in which can be opened an e-wallet for bitcoin. This was my first contact with peer to peer and with bitcoin. Which attracted me every day more after every read had about those. To many things was unable to understand but the main thing, the being disruptive and the why of this, is very easy to be understood. And these qualities make me fan and promotor of both the previous named (peer to peer and bitcoin).

The OP deserve the maximum of evaluation for its scrupulosity in finding and bringing here all the possible "news" and "facts" mixed with the endless thirst of every kind of journalist which have found another "victim" to "crucify" with all the mysterious of the creator and the itself creation of bitcoin. But this time with the desire and full desire and involvement of the personage himself. Who like and ask for all this attention give time after time "new news" about its protagonism in the first biggest invention of this century. How will be the end of this story? Who want to bet that it will be like all the other similar ones before this.

There are to many situations and very extremely. If it will the first case (99.99% improbable) I will be King of my life and my family will live without problems for at least two-three generations. But even more because I have in plan to increase the number of my bitcoins. If it will be verified the second case I will be happy and will not change my bitcoins hoping that the price will go higher. And with to much probably will go. As for the remaining cases it will be the same. I will be again in hope that one day the price will go very high. So will happen nothing and the situation will be exact as it is today.

Seems one of the most stories of unknowns who want to attract attention for himself and to be in this way at the center of the attention for as much as it can be possible. This kind of people are known as lovers of themselves or otherwise and with more fully meaning as narcissist. Everyone can tell that he is Satoshi. It was enough to have deep knowledge of bitcoin. This is not to much difficult in our days with all that sea of free sources which exist about this invention. Then if you have the qualifications of the person in question it is way more easy to be such pretended. Add to this the thirst of media to find scoops and all the fiction is done. Is missing only to be a movie and to be show at the cinema.

For sure are bots. Someone is tried to put in work its last "invention" and use bitcointalk as a place where can verify the quality of its "job". Work or not. For sure are not humans. Have any kind of meaning these threads. Even the more idiot person cannot do such things without meaning. Or if is human is not in mind and do the things that normally can do a mind who need help by a doctor. Anyhow I think that soon will be not more. Every moderator who is responsible for the section in which are made will delete these soon. If not are already deleted.

Yes. I am interested in altcoins. And even I am investing in one of those. The reason is very simple and don't want to much to be understood. I am investing because I believe that this altcoin might have good future. If it will be so I will have very good profit and even more. May have enough even to make other important investments. But is an investment considered with high risk. So have nothing sure on it. Only the hope and some signs that give hopes about a future possible success.

Why to you have given a name with only letters and with any number? Why all us are humans? Why have born you and not another with other combination of genes taken always from your mother and your father? Why was invented computer? Why I have a laptop? Why exist the actual numbers and the letters and not other ones? Why To grow up and to live every human must eat food and must drink water? Why was created the water? Why the life become from the water? Why someone like one thing and an other another one? Why for different people the being beautiful is not the same? Why Some people like bitcoin and some others not?

Ask to the above question and I will answer to your question... 

The most clear sign of its actual status and its perception to the people of bitcoin. It's a shame this situation for something unique like it is bitcoin. All the quarrels, all the "original" thoughts or behaviors have from every elected person or developer, every wrong policy about the use of accumulated funds and the totally anonymity in showing itself as a leader in everything regarding bitcoin cannot have other finish except this: lack of funds. And think that several months ago the bitcoiners donate a very big amount for someone which was no one. Only because was disturbed on its privacy because of one journalistic scoop about the same surname with the inventor of bitcoin. How will go bitcoin without funds?

Normally the stability of a currency mainly come from the monetary policies created, followed and managed by the owners of it. Which are the States of all the world. They  delegate such power to one monetary Authority which normally is called Central Bank (but not always so; in USA for example is called Federal Reserve). The lasts take care and manage only the national currency. All their work and the structure they have is build to serve this aim. Normally, theoretically, the amount of money in circulation in a given moment must be equals with the overall value of all the good produced and in market and part of those in production in that given moment plus an amount which allow a desired amount of inflation of that currency (all this is very simplified).

Bitcoin have nothing similar. It is a pure product of market which move and play according to the rules and the "caprices" of the free market. Have no owners which can take care of it, have no goods which can justify its existence on the market. Have one particularity which make it very strong. Its flow in the market is constant. So in this case we have an overturned situation compared to the above explained. In the above the money must "follow" the value of goods in the market while in the case of bitcoin is the flow of the amount of bitcoin in the market (which is fixed) which must be followed by everything. This flow, being fixed, is the initial point of everything has to do with bitcoin. With this situation is hard to tell that bitcoin can follow the normal rules followed by the normal currencies in use and issued by the Central Banks.

So no one can know when or if someday bitcoin will have a stable price or less volatile possible. Can be guessed that this may happen with its maximal spread and the possible increase of price. But are only guesses. I, for example, personally believe that bitcoin will have one day a very high price and will be an almost stable currency when it will be in these levels. This is one my hope and maybe conviction given from the facts that it is the first materialized product of a disruptive technology (peer to peer), and above all, because it is in limited number. But i am sure that this cannot be verified if bitcoin will be not regulated by most or majority of the countries. The non legalization will transmute it in a marginal currency mainly used for illegal stuffs and only from people devoted to it. That's all I can tell about your question.

Seems like it is announced the end of the world. Apocalypse now. Or better: the day of halving. As for me nothing will happen. Absolutely nothing. At least that day. There will be followed live the halving in one of the sites which show live the mining process and then, after would have "tasted" the first block with 12.5 bitcoin and not with 25 such, will give with its mind the last greetings to that last block. Maybe will register the exact time in order to have this knowledge for the future uses and everything will follow the everyday flow of the life. Maybe will be less miners since a few minutes after but every day enter and leave the mining of bitcoin hundred of people. So nothing new in this direction. The very new thing will be price of bitcoin. Will be reflected such event in its price? Will follow the rules of economics science a currency without economic goods which justify the amount of it in the market? Will obey to the rules of economics science a decentralized and without owners currency (and as such without no one who take care about it) when these rules are made for the centralized and owned ones (controlled and managed strictly by hundred and hundred people)? Will see us an increase of its value? And if yes will a be momentous increase or an almost definitive one (meant as a move in low margins of a fixed value)?

This is the more exciting thing. This is really a historical thing. This have rare value to be followed. This can give to much data about the possible future of bitcoin. Lets see...

We are talking about different things. I am talking about commercial banks. You are talking about "countries". What does it mean with countries? Country is not an institution or a business. It is a land where live people of the same race. The land cannot use in any way the blockchain. So what do you mean with countries? And how a country can use blockchain "to draw their one-end transactions easily towards the other end..." I cannot understand that.

If you with countries mean the interest of its Central Banks (the only Authority which have the right to create/stamp and manage through the monetary policies the amount of all the money in circulation of the country) because have in mind (or might have in mind) the creation of a national digital coin currency cloning the bitcoin blockchain (or creating another using the technology peer to peer with which is built it), this is another point and for this I can give you other data that can help you to understand better this point of view.

There are rumors that Bank of Russia (Central Bank of Russia) and Federal Reserve (Central Bank of USA) are studying blockchain especially for this reason. Are rumors that USA and Russia want to have their national digital coin currency. For more read the below articles:

http://cointelegraph.com/news/115302/russia-to-create-bitruble-a-state-run-digital-currency-for-2016

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/ibm-federal-reserve-want-create-bitcoin-knock-off/

I don't share the same opinion with you about India and its citizens. I don't know from which country you are but I live in Europe. Indians are very diverse people compared to the Europeans. And maybe even from to many other peoples. They are very patient (until the acceptance of suffering as a normal way of life) and this make them very precious people. This infinite patience and obedience make them maybe to repulse the new things - even immediately (they may need not few time to accept the new thing because of the above personality), but slowly they learn and understand what is good and is necessary. Then the same attribute which make them to not accept (immediately or not) the new thing become a "terrible weapon" in their hands and heads. No one and nothing cannot change more this their acceptation. So it will be even with bitcoin. They will understand some day what is bitcoin and what represent it. Such day India will become a second China (in which only two years ago no one or very few people knew bitcoin). This situation it is verified in USA when to many very high important workplaces are fulfilled not from Americans or Chineses but from Indians. The last discovered what is important and are feared competitors with the most brilliant minds of all the world (which mainly meet each other mostly in United States).

Any kind of commercial banks (as are the banks you have in mind) cannot do/stamp/create its currency. Cannot do this because is not allowed by low. Only the Central Banks of a country have such right. So your "fear" about various coins, which can "compete" with bitcoin, created by various commercial banks is not at all possible. This is the first thing. The second one is that even this could be possible (cannot be) any commercial bank have not any kind of interests to do so. They don't (can't) own any kind of currency and have no interest to do (to ask permit to have) one such. If yes then every such bank will have its own currency and the finance world will be drown with hundred and thousand coins which will have value (probably) only for the commercial bank which have issued/created that and other few with which this commercial bank have connections. And if will be known by other commercial banks have no meaning to exist such situations. Full of fees for conversions or/and of transactions between those. Who will use such kind of service? Where will be the profit for every commercial bank for this kind of activity?

The words are the meaning that everyone understand from those and not what you wonder or imagine. If he tell that with "advance analisys (not analysis but analisys) he mostly (in the most of cases) can be predicted the EXACT RESULT this mean the exact result. Period. This is and can be the only meaning that has these words.

As for your thoughts about the "broken down of the dice with money management skills and stuff and the .... lot more mathematical.... and the need for lot more advanced knowledge ...." I think that you have no idea what are the skills and have no idea what is a skill and the management of the skills (while me have no idea what can be the stuff). But for sure (and I am sure about this) you have not and will have not any kind of idea about what is the "mathematical" and the "advanced knowledge". You have read these words in some publicity or have hear about those hearing some "important connoisseurs" from your preferred television program (or some movie) and you liked those and decided to use some times when will give some high thought. If used those make you felt more superior compared to the others and able to do impossible or very hard things.

I bet all the world if you or someone else will be able to realize such bullshit and absurdity (these word are very soft to determine the seriousness of the case) ONLY ONE TIME. To show how will do this and to realize. To show the "money management skills and stuff", the "mathematical" and the "advanced knowledge" written by you in your intelligent and insuperable post and then "broke down the dice". But must do exactly what you have written and not something else which can be meant by your mind. Let make e video and let put it in youtube. So everyone like me which mocks with such things will remain ashamed with our posts (like this).

What kind of expression is this? How can be calculated something that if possible will eliminate the subject of those calculations? Are you in mind when tell this kind of things? How can be possible to be found the exact result of a match? What kind of mind have you to make such calculations and such predictions that can eradicate definitely the sport your are talking about? Because after your big analysis and the find of the EXACT result of match, have no meaning that this match be played. Repeat: have no meaning. The results is known by everyone. Every team know in which way will go the match and have no reason to play. The result is the aim of the play of the match. The results can be told by you. The RIGHT one. Every player will ask: why to play when we know the result from the "PREDICTOR", the "FINDER" and the "ONE". What else can be born from that your sick mind?

And you will be very rich with all those extremely, huge, immeasurable money. All the world will be under your feet. You will be crown the New King. All the people will love to touch you because in this way were be blessed for all their life. You will give them (not to all because not all of them will deserve your attention) your benediction too. Maybe even some penny. Not more. Because you will want all that extremely, huge, immeasurable money to gamble again and to have again the same money. In gambling can be won every time can be played. But must be specialist and professional like you. Must the right strategies and make good plans. Studied even in the most little particulars. Must do big calculations and must have studied tens of gamble books. Books like: How stupid can be someone? In which way the stupidity can conquer the mind of stupids? The stupidity without end. Why the stupids remain stupids whatever can be made to bring them in the real life? And other book of this series. After all the above you are ready to have without end extremely, huge, immeasurable money. All from gambling.  

Finally someone who think. Congrats to Diana.

All the others (the "connoisseurs" and the "scholars") resolve the situation with ban and "weapon" against bitcoin. This is the most clamorous fact about the ignorance that reign in the elite of (in this case) the European politicians. All the unable people to be able to do something else valid in their life choose to make the politician in Europe. So are expert for everything being unable to do even one thing (professionally speaking). And this kind of people will decide what to do with bitcoin. Which for those is an completely unknown and incomprehensible thing. And will be so even if they will remain all the remaining life to learn about it (to try to do this). What else can be wait for people like those? People which blame bitcoin for the assassins made from terrorists. So, according to them, the terrorist take one bitcoin in one hand and another in the other and using its power use them to kill the people. Then use again and again to many other bitcoin to kill as many people as they can. And at the end use the big bitcoin (a special weapon made with bitcoin) to blow himself. The solution according to the European politicians (taken after hours and hours of thinks and discussion): evaporation of bitcoin. Case resolved. No more kill of people in Europe. No more terrorist in Europe.        

At least let learn something, only one time in their life, from the United States.

Have no meaning to do such comparison. Bitcoin is owned only by its miners and not by the pools. The pools today may exist and tomorrow not; can be demolished or can be stolen the server, can go something wrong and can be damaged the software, the software can be infected with spyware, malware or virus and become irreparable or even the owner of the pool can be dead. Can happen even more other things that cannot be imagined by no one. After the above the pool don't exist anymore. Then can be created even other 100 pools without having necessity to take permission from no one. Or having such permission (if needed) without any problem. It was enough to fulfill the conditions. Thing this not difficult to be made if the owner of the pool has decided to create it. So the above 10 pools will become 110.

While the place of every bank in Federal Reserve is untouchable by no one and irreplaceable until the possible consensus of the parts who are involved on it about the decision to sell it to someone else. No one factor can touch it. Nor the dead of someone and neither other external and unpredictable factors as it is in the case of the bitcoin mining pools. Depends only from the will of the Executives and other Responsible of the bank (or who have to do with the bank or its place at Federal Reserve), which have that place. They may dead but will be replaced immediately and the place at Federal Reserve will have not any consequence.