I think that’s off topic, he wasn’t comparing gold and Bitcoin, rather he’s talking about the Bitcoin logo which is the same symbol that’s inscripted in the Bitcoin physical coin in the image you have posted.

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Why does the second logo have two Bitcoin symbols? The first Bitcoin logo is the one I have been seeing and for me I think it’s better than the second one. Not minding, Bitcoin is a free community, so you’re free to use whatever logo is best for you. But looking at the both of them you don’t really need to be told which one is more better and it also shows that Bitcoin is accepted with the writing below the logo.

Maybe if the government starts to regulate Bitcoin it might start to gain wide stream adoption, the only problem is that most people don’t want Bitcoin to be regulated because they think that’s not how it’s meant to be, and they are probably right about that because Bitcoin was created to give people the freedom to do whatever they want to do and use it for, so being regulated spoils that idea.

Yeah sure, the level of risk is also the level of profit you can make from it. But what about when you lose your money? That’s the reason most people are afraid of investing their money in assets with high risk because they can lose their money at any time and it can take a long time to recover from the loss.

If we could hopefully get this hype going instead of letting it down every single time, we could. However anytime altcoins have a good time, some people either sell because they want to get out of the market or some people come up and say "this is bull trap" "this is dead cat bounce" or whatever bad thing they have to say about it and actually change the mindset of investors into something worse.

It is really not a great idea to let altcoins slip every single time they have a good increase, when the next one happens if people actually stuck together and not sell their coins or do not let bears take their way again, we could have an AMAZING year in altcoins, we just need to stick together for it. In any case I see at least %25+ in all major coins for sure, even if not more.

There always is a constant risk of losing money in any newly launched project as not each of those project succeed. There are some of those projects who did not even reach their roadmap structure and fail to even list their tokens on any exchange. In this situation, people who have invested their capital into these projects are the ones who have to bear the loss as they would never see that money coming back.

Yet there are few projects which can really cover your past loses as they have the potential to multiply in-numerous times and give you immense profits. There takes a lot of efforts in finding such project but once you do so, you would be the one filling your bags with profits.

Is etherum launching a new version, ETH2.0? This would be a come back for etherum in this case than. I think, etherum has been shown us immense growth in the mid year 2017 and we can hope the same to occur this year when the bull runs arrive. Etherum is one of the top coins from the coinmarketcap and I personally trust each and every top coins from the coinmarketcap.

Etherum offers us huge benefits like token creation on the etherum network by deploying smart contracts, etc which has made an immense growth for the etherum markets. A lot of big whales and investors are holding etherum in their bag and it might happen for a reason. We all can expect higher price for etherum soon.

There are a lot of new people who join the blockchain tech only due to their greed in order to have vast profits in small time. They might be the ones targeted and they usually get attracted to any such project who might be paying good for minimum hardworks in small time but those might end up being a bubble and if you really spend most of your capital on the scheme to find yourselves profits than you would be the one landing up in loss once the scheme is distressed.

So for newbies, it is always necessary to stay away from these kind of schemes as it is not even possible for them to make an immense research for the project before investing and actually, their greed eats them up.

Your challenge might be fulfilled if you have the guts to do so. No offense but this might really seem a difficult task for all those who have recently joined the field. Also, I am not really sure if you could get a fixed rate of interest each month according to your calculations so you should also prepare yourself if your calculations do not run exactly. $1000 might be a smaller amount to start with if you want to reach $1 Million but the time span which you have is sufficient to fulfill your dreams.

You could really earn a lot in those 8 years you are planning to denote. Sports betting might be a good choice but never forget that gambling can eat up all your profits. Even if you were successful to earn $1M, you could lose them all in gambling only because your greed would eat them all so be cautious in any field you earn.

I think the first and likely problem they do have is with price volatility and storage security. Someone who is starting to invest in cryptocurrency for the first time should be aware of the risks that comes with it, since the price is volatile they can lose their money at anytime. Then as for where to store their assets and how to, they really need to make sure they choose the right wallet and also know how to secure it and be careful not to leak any important information that has to do with their wallet except their wallet address if they are about to receive money from a sender.

As for hackers, it depends on how careful you are, because I know for sure that if you’re very careful they wouldn’t hack your wallet.

Increment in regular payment of a job is not always a solution. And yes I do agree there must be a change in mindset of people by not demanding too much from the work and the services we get. We at least get a wage but there is population which are wholly dependent on bitcoins where we don't even get a fix pay. Instead for asking a higher wage let's help poor ones who don't even have a job and nor can invest in bitcoins.

Cryptocurrencies offer a huge list of jobs and it really makes it easier for unemployed peoples to find a suitable job. You can even earn cryptocurrencies by investing into them or actually even if you don’t invest into them by working as a freelancer or offering any kind of service.

There's no harm in sending money over bluetooth. However, its time consuming and even might need a most advanced technology which can convert Bluetooth into sending cryptocurrencies on a local network. And yes there are rooms which are located at basements with insufficient internet connectivity.

But, there will be a day where we all might be able to send cryptocurrencies using bluetooth from anywhere and any corner of the world. And people will be able to send and receive money without any network errors. We still need a good network connection to handle and deal with cryptocurrencies. There are places where we don't even get an access to internet connection so in that case bluetooth could help us for cryptocurrency transactions.

That’s not really necessary. When I talk to people about cryptocurrency almost everyone already knows about it and telling them that you purchased with Bitcoin is not going to make them interested in it. Those that even developed interest in Bitcoin didn’t do so because they heard that they can use it to purchase from stores, they only decided to buy Bitcoin because they saw the possibility of making profit from it.

Bitcoin is volatile, so how exactly do you except them to be funding their wallet without plans of making profit in return?

I wish it happened because the more places that start to charge taxes to be paid in crypto the more places will follow that seeing a success.

Of course, it is very risky for us as well because if they do it and then see its not working out they can remove it, we all remember 2017 peak times and how many places accepted bitcoin. We could use it on amazon, on steam and on some other places as well they all accepted but the harder price went down the more they stopped using it because they realized they were making a loss, now after almost 2.5 years they still haven't readded bitcoin to their systems. S,o this new Hampshire bill not passing is either bad or good, if there would have been a good result of this, I wish it stayed and I think that would have happened, but if there would be bad result, I am glad its not there just yet.

I wish it was as  simple as that but bitcoin is now more global and there is more people involved in this than just the people who would need to withdraw money during celebrations. There are literally companies and whales involved in bitcoin nowadays, these are the people who buy bitcoin in thousands, you can't expect them to sell their coins, if there are people who need money during a celebration they can sell it however there are so many rich folk involved that they can buy all of that and still not drop the price.

I am not saying that will happen or has happened but they can actually do it, they are that rich. So if there is a drop in price, that is because people want to sell, if there is an increase that means people want to buy, simple as that really.

If we could just focus on helping out the good projects we believe in instead of trying to collect as many coins from as many different projects, we could have better future but people are just too greedy. I have seen people who have entered every single bounty they possibly can to make money, it doesn't matter if the coin they are supporting doesn't exist yet, it doesn't matter if it worths less than 1 litoshi, all they care is having as many coins as possible from all those worthless bounties, just for a chance to one day get rich if one of them actually worths something in the end.

Most of them end up being garbage, almost all of them are garbage, no proper coin would try to get bounty from bitcointalk (except rare one or two), we should try to be more picky but I fear that won't happen.

Not being centralized and under control of 2 people? Who would want to accept a currency thats basically a playground for two man children?

I personally never owned XRP and do not consider buying any in the future as well, even when offered XRP as a payment I have always declined and asked for some other currency and I have accepted worst of coins yet still not XRP. People who support XRP either do it and know what they are doing, or they have no clue how idiotic and horrible XRP is, if you just google xrp a bit and search why people dislike XRP you will literally come up with thousands of results. It is basically a play money some guys printed and you guys are gullible enough to buy into it... for no reason at all? I mean even they don't think XRP is important part of their business.

I don't disagree with the fact that there could be bad parts found in any casino, after all running a business like this is hard and every single decision they make could be "make it or break it" level of deal. However, let's not go overboard, there are plenty of casinos that are literally scams, they keep players money and not pay them for it which kinda is the whole point of the "bad" casino, this is just a one that is not managed that very well according to some feedback, we didn't even hear from the people who actually prefer it this way. I would love it if the betting was lower just like dice as well but that doesn't mean there aren't whales who want to be able to play higher without any small timers around as well, who knows? I don't think this is a big deal at all.

I don't know if this mortgage crisis is just like the other one, the other one was stemmed from the derivatives that came out of mortgage as well. Basically, the other one was bunch of mortgages colliding each other as a one big thing and then sold once again, this time it is mostly just mortgage itself which is fine as long as people pay and there is of course a bunch of people who default on their loans but as long as it doesn't reach to a critical point that won't be a problem.

I am sure banks do not give out mortgage loans just like shark loans anymore and actually look at who can pay and who can not. Hell even mortgage debt going high could be seen as good because people have money to buy houses if they end up paying this off, so it is not that bad on face value.

Nobody can deny that it is "technically and mathematically" possible, of course you can actually go into crypto world and make your 1k into 1M but that doesn't mean it will be possible as well. This is one of those things that financial people say "possible but unlikely" there are not many people in the world who can make that much profit in 8-10 years and that is why there is only one Warren Buffet who makes on average 20% per year and that is enough for people to give all their money to him, just 20% year and becomes one of the richest people on earth whereas your ambition is even bigger.

Long story short, I would probably go for a smaller aim, like maybe 1k to 100k? That is much better and actually sounds very reasonable as well compared to 1M, at least you can get that 1k to something decent and make your job easier for the rest.

Well, it is a very very simple reason why people do this ; money. Think about it, the costs of starting a new ICO or even creating something with just airdrops and not even get funding, means that you will be in control of a coin that is used and exchanged in many platforms. No matter how little you can spend, in the end you will just sell bunch of coins and you will make that money back and profit from it.

So, there is no reason NOT TO create a new coin, if you have the capability of creating a new coin, you probably should because there are hundreds of people out there who will most likely want your money as well. I personally won't because I know it is shady and immoral to do so but I do understand the shady and immoral people and why they do it, in a world where money is very difficult to come by, potential of making thousands of dollars is a good reason to do so.

Welcome back. I am just interested to see what are those stunning websites to evaluate your designing and creative skills. Basically I am working for an altcoin and looking for all related service providers. I like to suggest you to include links into your OP which will be more helpful for people like me.

Got time to navigate your github profile. Showing zero profits but 17 repositories and most of them are forked from other projects. I am not familiar with these things but I look for what are the projects you worked for. Interestingly I found that you worked on crypto changes too? I need more information on scripting exchanges and I will be sending you PM on this.