Bitcoin long term is definitely going to be a terat for everyone that is involved in bitcoin.

But consider this - short term wise is bitcoin really a good investment right now? Has there really been some sort of extremely good news apart from Australia, India and Japan(just 3 countries out of the around 200 nations around the world) legalizing bitcoin? Has the bitcoin network scaled yet? Are the problems that loom over the bticoin network solved? Are there even twice as much the amount of bitcoin accepting stores around the world compared to the start of this pump? Probably not.

Fiat inflation is going to drive the price of bitcoin up in teh long term, but short term wise, bitcoin is outpacing inflation wayy too fast. Even penny stocks don't rise this fast. I wouldn't be surprised if BTC went down to $2000 before bouncing up, although that low will be an opportunity for everyone to buy in cheap coinage.

I really do think that he is secretely investing some of his wealth into bitcoin.

Because bitcoin is something that rich people can hide their wealth in. Nobody will knock on their door and ask rich people whether they hold any bitcoin or not. Even if they do ask, it's easy to give a "no" as an answer even when you do hold bitcoin because there would be really no way to prove that is true.

Society expects rich people to be all philantrophists, and bitcoin could be a way to avoid this expectation privately. After all, money that is yours is yours. Bill Gates has said very positive things about bitcoin(search on youtube, there is actually an interview i believe with Mr. Gates about BTC), and it would really make no sense at all if he say these positive things for nothing and not take action himself.

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It's not really rethinking the way we look at 1 bitcoin, but rather to revaluate bitcoin altogether. I think this would be a good idea, if it could be implemented. Even though it might seem like we are inflating the bitcoin currency base, and i'm sure that a lot of critics will try to argue this if this idea was ever going to go mainstream, the fact is that this is just a simple revaluation of bitcoin. It's no different from saying that 1 BTC is equal to 1000 mBTC, except now the mBTC is the default value.

It's extremely hard to deal with all the decimal points in bitcoin especially if you are not experienced. I have set all my wallets to bits(uBTC) and mBTC where bits aren't accepted as a value. It's purely mental, but it could make a difference. 1 BTC sounds like a small amount, but really, it's a huge amount for most of us here.

You probably had multiple inputs.

When I use a standard sized transaction (1 input, 1 output) it is costing me on average around 0.0008 btc per transaction. I mean not ideal, obviously, as it is still a nice chunk of coinage that could have been spent elsewhere, but manageable.

If you are accepting payments, make sure that you don't accept too many small payments to make up an amount, instead try to either save these amounts up on a web wallet before sending or just tell the guy that's sending to only send you one big transaction instead of several small ones.

You gotta be pretty frugal using bitcoin these days, hopefully we can come to a resolution for this issue soon, even though it shouldn't affect the usability of bitcoin especially for these who are transacting in large volumes and/or storing wealth in bitcoin as a store of value.

I think that a big reason why this is occuring is that there is simply no demand for these services to exist. There used to be c-cex which was immensely popular and people actually made a profit because you were able to trade your GH/S for bitcoin on an open market, even after you decide to stop mining with the hashpower. C-cex was also connected to one of the biggest pools at the time, GHash.io.

The legit cloud mining sites like Genesis mining aren't connected to any proven pools directly, which basically makes their legitimacy not very verifiable. People now invest in cloud mining like a sort of game - they expect to get a profit, quick and fast, just like a HYIP game and they can afford to lose what they invest. With legit cloud mining sites, nobody wants to pay 30% maintenance fee, pay $50 for a contract and never get his full ROI back. But how else is the company going to profit apart from doing this? So again, a lack of demand for non-ponzi cloud mining sites due to the unprofitability historically means that admins do not have incentive to open up new sites.

It is certainly recovering pretty fast at the moment which is a very good sign in my opinion. The price floor seems to be set at somewhere between $2300 and $2400 because as soon as it drops down to around that level there are whales that are just absolutely thrilled to get more coins into their wallet and buying as much as they could, driving the price up despite further dumpers attempting to drive the price lower.


Maybe. But I would really rater bitcoin just stayed at $2500 and stabilized because the price swings are really driving me crazy. And also if bitcoin keeps on rising people will call it a bubble(as expected). Sometimes it is actually best to have bitcoin not fluctuating much than rising all the time because we know at the end of a bull wave will always come a big dump.

Hmm, really? I've seen people withdrawing a few mBTCs at a time. Not that many at all but quite substantial for a PTC site, especially when the bitcoin price is actually quite high. And I'm pretty sure that they've gone on holidays way more than a fortnight sometimes, or they just forget about it. Why do they do this anyways? Like is there really anything for them to lose expect for money without deleting user accounts? Do they not have enough storage for the entire user database?

If this is the case, then nobody should use this. But we shouldn't assume that OP is always telling the truth either. Maybe he was using fake referrals? There is a possibility, but there are so many cases against BTCClicks with account closures that i have to side with OP this time.

Agreed. I swear these people just quickly skimmed through the wikipedia page for bitcoin and went onto youtube and searched for "what is bitcoin" and clicked on the first link that popped up. They probably saw something related to private keys and public keys and said to themselves, if there is a private key and there is a public key... Then why not a master key that opens up the whole network??

These idiots want us to hand over bitcoin. That's very abstract. How exactly should we do so? Even if the consensus were to hand our blockchain to the central bankers(which will never happen), there will no way for us to do that  Do we hand them the code that btc runs on? Oh wait, it's already open source. Or do we hand him the "master key"? Oh wait, nobody knows what the hell a master key is!

1. Move this to digital goods because it is evident that the gift cards that you are selling are all virtual and not physical.

2. Where did you get these? Just saying that I got it from an affiliate program doesn't prove anything. I could say that too, a scammer can say that and sell you a carded GC. Can you show proof that it is indeed actually obtained this way instead of fraudulent methods?

3. Why not use purse.io for cashing these out? Sometimes you'll even get better than 80% for your gift card balance by buying goods someone else wants.

4. If you need help with setting up a bitcoin wallet, PM me. Don't use any third party hosted wallets because they are insecure and can go scam quick.

I haven't tried this myself, since as you said apparently there are issues sending messages to users. So I'm probably going to sign up for this as soon as this current issue gets fixed, which hopefully will be soon.

However, based on the screenshot you gave it seems like that it's basically a scraping tool that sends all the threads that have been updated in the service section that contains the words signature campaign? Why not make this send new threads only because usually new replies don't mean anything?

Great project though.

This is probably not going to happen but the fact that they are even trying to do this is pretty horrific. They definitely are very insecure about their position right now, and they want to stop this rise in bitcoin adoption as well as price before it goes to the moon. The fact that they are even attempting to do this, no matter possible or not, means that they are evil, evil human beings. Not even exaggerating/joking here. They have no respect for privacy and anonymity, obviously.

But don't worry, there is no magical key that will let them be able to control the whole bitcoin network. Closest they are going to get to controlling bitcoin is taking full control of bitcoin exchanges, in which case bitcoin trading will just go to p2p mode. It won't affect us that much because a lot of exchanges are already under heavy governmental influence anyways.

And 30 hours later, it's currently sitting at $2555 apiece. Congratulations for those who have made a pretty good short term profit from this.

I think that the floor is definitely $2200-2300 right now. There is no way that bitcoin was going to go lower than that in the next month or so, or at least until the UASF. This means that it is quite a safe investment as anyone that is buying in now isn't going to experience losses that are larger than $200 or so. And if you just hold onto your coins there is a possibility that after the potential hard fork the price of the original bitcoin(say bitcoin unlimited + bitcoin core = original bitcoin) will actually go up. So easy profits either way.

There is absolutely no need to panic. The price is actually quite stable, and fluctuations are less than when the pump was happening. It's quite funny how human emotions work. When the pump happens and bitcoin value is changing every minute nobody was panicking, but just as bitcoin corrects and is moving $50 a day everyone screams and panic sells.

agreed. Taking a picture of a box does not prove anything at all. You should take pictures of the actual phone as well as the phone powered on to prove that your product actually works. unless it's still sealed up with the original factory wrapping??

Do you accept escrow or no? Btc payment option? Shipping worldwide? List all the details in your OP please. Not only will you find more people interested because you appear more trustworthy, you'll also avoid repetitive questions all the time.

It could. If the fork does not go well in August, which i doubt, then Ethereum has a real chance to catch up. It's already within nearly 10 billion in market cap which may sound like a lot but really a $150-200 price increase of ethereum will easily exceed bitcoin.

The main problem with altcoins in my opinion is ICOs. Devs are trying to monetize their coin, having the rewards before anything has even been released to the public. This is unlike bitcoin which is built from scratch, never had any ICO, early adopters didn't know that bitcoin was going to take off etc.

Even if bitcoin gets exceeded in market cap by another altcoin, i really wouldn't call it being "replaced". Take for example, fiat and gold. Fiat obviously has a larger "market cap" than gold, but gold's status is unmatched.

One thing is for sure, i know for a fact that Bill Gates has learned about bitcoin and said very positive things about it and he's the number 1 billionaire in the world right now and probably will be for at least a few years to come as Windows is still widespread and so is microsoft products.

I do think that he has probably invested in bitcoin, otherwise he will not have said so much good things about bitcoin.

Also it doesn't necessarily have to be billionaires investing in bitcoin - it can be bitcoin making people billionaires as well. For now the market capitalization is $46 ish billion dollars which means that someone who owns just 2% of the entire circulation is a billionaire and i think that someone out there probably does own this much btc.

I think that most users here would prefer option 1.

Whilst many are celebrating Australia and Japan legalizing bitcoin i think that people are forgetting legalizing something will inevitably lead to regulation of one form or another. Russia is threatening to monitor all blockchain activity in their country on the bitcoin blockchain, and wants to create their own copycat version of bitcoin. How exactly is this good for bitcoin?

Maybe legalizing bitcoin will bring more people to using bitcoin but it's unproven. Has any of the existing countries that have legalized in the past see a noticeable surge in bitcoin users? I don't think so. I mean legalization is good, but it's not necessary. Plus, there are downsides to having legalized bitcoin as i mentioned above.

Agreed. The thing is that the pumps are prolonged and much more sustained which means generally a lot healthier growth than the obvious pump and dump in 2013. If you haven't noticed the price tripled through 5 months, compared to 2013's huge ass bubble in which bitcoin price shot up to $1300 each in a week and then corrected to $500 a or two after.

Is this going to be the only year that bitcoin has this sort of returns? I don't think so.

I think that the trend is that every year after the halving is a good year for bitcoin while the years in between two halvings are the best time to buy in as things can get a bit boring.

Sorry to hear this OP. Venezuelans have already been suffering enough and i heard that you can literally live off less than $5 a day so i would assume that 0.1 BTC is pretty big amount for everyone there. Venezuelans are actually using bitcoin to store their wealth as well becaues of the fiat collapse in that country, which is awesome to hear.

Anyways back on topic, yeah unfortunately you have probably been infected by the clipboard virus. What you should do now is download a good antivirus, scan your computer completely and isolate/delete any viruses that it finds. If no viruses are found then unfortunately you'll have to reinstall/reset your OS to make sure everything is clean.

When you copy addresses, make sure that the first four letters/numbers are the same before you press send. Next time you use bitcoin make sure you do that.

Agreed. This is ridiculous no matter how overloaded the bitcoin network is. I can get around 25-30 inputs in there and pay a 0.03 BTC or less fee and get a confirmation within the first block. Why are they charging OP 0.05 BTC for something that he has no control over? Why are they using so many inputs in the first place when they know that the blockchain is full? They're paying nearly 400 sats/byte which is unreasonable as well.


OP received the transaction, the problem is that apparently Changelly charged him 0.05 BTC in miners fees, when they were supposed to only charge him 0.00002 BTC. I've used changelly in a couple of occassions, i've never had any problems with them but i won't use them again until this is cleared up.