JP Morgan are making a statement about bitcoin that it will blown up "FRAUD" that suddenly it will collapse but i hear that he and his team creating their own crypto, which is lame. Every one around him in the wall street are adopting crypto currency and also investing on it somes are making their own coin. But it was a huge factor in terms of bitcoin price where many people believe in him regarding financial aspect thats why many of us selling their bitcoin. he knows that bitcoin is a threat in their business thats why she was attack cryptocurrency and bitcoin.

same to you OPS i buy more bitcoin as it price is decrease, Because i believe it is not for long term situation, it is like what happen last august when the hard fork are been stimulated around the crypto-world. This will soar high a few weeks, i dont care about China banning of ICO as I know they do it to regulate ICO, and JP morgan says its a fraud, which he was surrounded by bitcoin traders and investors around the wall street.

you want a war to rise the price of bitcoin pal, thats not good. It is not good for every one of us Living right now, war is hell and no one wins we all lose. It is a greedy attempt. Bitcoin  price is in our hand, hold up your btc and dont sell it, it price determine by the situation and event in the market or everyday cycle of the economy if you want to increase the price of bitcoin spread the words about it, buy and hold bitcoin. 

investing means taking a risk, when it comes to ICO you should do you own homework, but this what i do:
Check out the team or developer each one of them if they are real
Check out the developers background, is they have a project before or not
Check out the Road map of the project
look at how the project resolve existing problem
and read thier White paper

it you done about it, and find that the ICO are promising in your own perspective then why invest a huge amount of money on it.
Lastly investing in different ICO is one good strategy. Try it out so you will see the answer. GOOD LUCK!

i think we should believe in bitcoin as we all know one of its characteristic is being volatile were many investor attract to it, when it drops it drops so hard but when it pump it so high thats the characteristic of cryptocurrency. DARK SIDE? we are in that side every minutes those who cant take the risk will not succeed so in my part as the price go down i buy more and wait until it pump again like what happen last August. Im always looking at the bright side of a things and situation everything have a purpose so just hold on and believe on it.

dont get panic and buy more! CHina are making it first move to regulate ICOs after this i believe that there will be about 85%-90% Safe and no scam ICO come, in every revolution the first step is very hard but soon all Altcoin ill shine like a diamond... China will develop the first regulated ICO as mark in the history when it will get out and done.

in my side i first check out the developer, are they working on ssame project before or are they develop existing project, are they real people are not, next road map and white papers. also i include market back-ups who are they market back-up are the company issuing ICO or new crypto can hold it ad support it for long term. Well this are my thought when there are new crypto currency exist. hope it will help you

what will happen if government will ban bitcoin? then it will grow more faster and increase it price. why? Bitcoin volatility is what businessman and investor attract to. next Supply and Demand when government ban bitcoin, bitcoiner will create its black market were investor will pay a higher fee to gain higher profit in return. Other say bitcoin is "ILLEGAL" you know people are afraid to what they dont understand and they will not accept it at first. This is the reality bitcoin will grow further and the years go by and government cant stop it.

it will take a serious calculation to point in to your question, if you invest 100$ which last year september 2016 which about 570$ - 600$ and now Sept 2017 about 4200$ it is roughly 700% increase on your investment, this just an simple calculation how your investment grow over a year. But right now it may vary. Jsut always remember 50% to 100% increase is good above that is better.

do you forget that the government dont take a risk when it comes to investment they really want to know if it is profitable and good enough in their nation for long term or not. Bitcoin mining is taking a risk and lots of electricity consumption, if the bitcoin will crash all the machine that government buy will be useless. Maybe if bitcoin will stabilize its value their will be a chance that the government will put their shoes on it.

regarding of leasing a excess electricity to miners i think it is a good Idea if the government will jump in, it is another source of income of the state or a country if they lease some excess electricity to miners who needs it.

We cant predict what will happen to bitcoin, all we can do is to assume and watch the market and reading a news about it. One World currency is an optimistic point of view which many of us really want it to happen but in reality we and many of us are prepared fiat money as it have a stable value unlike bitcoin and other currency. I will leave it as an investment and asset for now.

It is be more good if we have many option in different currency than having ONE-WORLD-CURRENCY. It sounds like we are one country at all wit no choice or option in living controlled by one Government and bank. I dont want that to happen.

pal if you cant accept the volatility of bitcoin you must not invest on it at the first place, in the market even in stock exchange everything happen in a minute or seconds, it can go down or up this is one of the characteristic of bitcoin, dont get panic on the announcement and ove of chinese government banning of ICO and Shutting down exchange, maybe they have plans about it for good. Bitcoin is going down right now and it is the good time to buy more soar more, it will increase soon. Our ecosystem are not going down, together with the population everything is going up so does the market, sometimes it need a little correction. so buy more bitcoin as it price go down and hold it till it reach 5000$ again and so on.

You can buy bitcoin at coinbase using your credit card or debit card, as it is the largest bitcoin broker worldwide [as far as i know] you can olso check cex.io using your visa or master card , also you can check out paxful.com for your CC.

Coinbase have a limit of $150 per week when using credit card but idont think if it is really happen. you can try to check it out. I search this a month ago regarding buying of bitcoin and other altcoin using credit card but i didnt try it right now https://wemovecoins.com/ check it out. These are what I know for the moment but you can surf the web for more info but i can highly refer to try COINBASE.

I cannot accept bitcoin as a payment for may regular job as it is volatile character. Value and price may vary every minutes I can have High salary or Low salary if i accept it, i still prepared fiat money as payment for my regular job as it have stable value.

But if a country will regulate it and make it as legal currency like fiat money maybe i will try to accept it. but for now i will leave it as an asset and investment like other cryptocurrency i have right now. It will be good in my part to leave it as it is.

bitcoin is not made to be illegal it is just people take advantage of it anonymity and take it to illegal transaction of buying and selling stuffs. Traceable "YES" but government need to check the blockchain with over 200k transaction every day [good luck to the effort and i'll give them A++ if they really trace it]

some government in other country dont see bad on bitcoin but people taking abuse of it function thats why they ban it. but if you are referring to China they only ban ICO and not bitcoin.

   

as of now you can buy bitcoin in different bank, believe it or not bitcoin is so popular and bank see more potentials on it so there are banks that accept bitcoin deposit in you wallet address. If am not mistake Visa are accepting bitcoin deposit. also WB21 digital bank also accept bitcoin deposit Ref: https://www.business.com/articles/digital-bank-wb21-is-accepting-bitcoin-deposits/

also you can check news about bank accepting bitcoin in BITCOIN NEWS, Blockchain News and Coindesk.

hi ops, since you are a newbie where everyone does in this forum at the start you should learn more about crypto read some article and post about your thoughts and ideas. your activity define your ranks. when you get in Jr. Member like me you can start to join Sig. camp. but not all Sig. manager accept Jr. Member there are Sig manager that want to know the quality of your post before you reach Jr. Member. But the basic is that. Benefits of Sig Camp. and other bounty to us is having a profit in return we will wear there ICO sig cam. and Avatar and Spread the words of there ICO. as of my knowledge that all about it. in addition many users wearing sig cam logo attract many investors and buyers.

as long as you din not break the rules of this forum your account will not be perma ban. but your Idea is good to prevent more ICO scams. Blacklisting the team and the manager is not that easy in this forum as they can use and create another account.

1. we cannot predict were bitcoin price will go up or down i only do is to watch from different exchanges paltform when the price down I buy when the price up I sell.

2. I dont there sodtware to buy to aid as trader, but try to search maybe theres one exist. I only do is to assume if the price will go up and down base on the current news and event. watch CFNM news or check bitcoin news, you can also check latest news from coinbase and coindesk.

3. when buying altcoin check first it background how do the project make a solution to the problem, background of the Dev. team, Status of the Company offering ICO or IPO are they really have as strong foundations, advisers and investors. Make a research mostly check their road map and whitepapers.

4. "Do you make profit by trading your bitcoin with your national currencies?" NO you cannot. You can make profit if you buy alcoin using bitcoin and trade that altcoin when its price go up.

these are my answer to you question hope it helps you! good luck and happy earnings.

I far as I concern there no warning listed and reported, if the warning include the China Ban ICO and shutting down Local Exchange I think it is not a warning chinas are just cleansing their market. Plus,  i saw many Thread happen to be alike of this one which talking about "BUBBLES" which bitcoin are down 22% and then increase again. And As far as i know bitcoin experience many correction way back a years ago and still stand on top of other crypto price is still increase. So I've been wondering where the news came from about the Bubbles. in your question: "Are you mainly here for profit?" my Answer is YES im here to have a profit and so do you!