I have many bitcoins I'm wanting to cash out, but I'm debating whether I should do it for gold, or for USD. The possibility of the bitcoin price crashing scares me, whereas it seems impossible for gold to lose all value.

What do you hold the bulk of your wealth in?

So last evening at a meet, I met this guy who works in the insurance field, and has tieups with all large general insurance companies. So I asked him what's the insurance companies stand on Bitcoin, will they accept it as a payment over usd. He said the trend is divided, some people are clamoring for its inclusion, while many are yet skeptical. So pressing further I asked him the reason of being so skeptical, and I wasn't surprised lack of awareness, it's not owned by a country and etc. But end of one hour down, i finally convinced him to buy one btc which he did today morning, and he's promised to get insurance  people also to have a look into it. That would be awesome right, paying of high premiums with Bitcoin what do you all think?

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WHat is missing in the Bitcoin EcoSystem?
Why hasn't it blown up yet?
It is still just a Speculation tool, albeit I think a good one.

SO far there is basically nothing that RELIES on Blockchain technology, if the technology disappeared tomorrow - the world would hardly change.
Where are the communities/groups with their activities that depend on Bitocin?

I'm sure most of the people on this Website are hopeful and can see some potential in Bitcoin, what are your thoughts on what is holding this technology back from having a greater impact on society?
And what are your thoughts on what steps can be taken to navigate this?
Is there a crucial part missing from the Bitcoin EcoSystem that needs to be made/created for the technology to have impact?

Your thoughts are much appretiated.....

What will happen if Tech Giants Like Google, Microsoft, Amazon starts investing in Bitcoin or Altcoin Mining?

I've been using BTC for a while. I've been using it at exchanges, to trade altcoins and to order goods over the Internet, but I've never exchanged BTC with someone in front of me. At a store or between friends, or family. This despite having had long conversations about BTC with various kinds of people, and attending a few meetups.

Who has exchanged BTC F2F?
 

I am not the only one, lots of people have already given up.  Very fucking stupid mismanagement is the result.  At least TCP-IP and Linux had some means to make sensible adjustments in the early days.

Circle Gives Up Bitcoin

Bitcoin has no means to fix things that need a fixin'.  "Consensus" is just a very stupid concept.  95% consensus will never be reached for any issue.  Bitcoin is fucked.  Doesn't scale.  Everyone already left.

Losing is part of successfully trading. If you treat losing as part of trading then you are an experienced trader.

For true devotees of Bitcoin, the price of the digital currency is almost irrelevant. They believe in its inherent value or, more frequently, cannot see any value at all in the alternative of government issued fiat currency. Price is therefore not a concern. At the other end of the spectrum, for those that harbor what appears to be an irrational hatred of Bitcoin and anything to do with it, the exchange rate also matters little. They were screaming that it was all worthless when the price was at over $1000, and somehow convince themselves that an exchange rate of over 200 times what it was before that bubble proves their point. For the vast majority of people somewhere in the middle, however, the price of the currency in Dollar, Euro, Yuan or whatever terms is important.

Read more: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/does-the-price-of-bitcoin-matter-cm476312#ixzz3a1cH4qcU

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Now i read our goverment planning -$215,89 "basic income" "daymoneys" next year  
I hate our goverment, they have been eaten they promises, raise taxes and cost of living in
Capital City Helsinki area.  

Finally, after this blockchain hype we see right now, attracting so many thinkers , projects and budgets, many of the intelligent will finally debunk the real power of bitcoin itself.

If this is because of its feature to be a mostly uncorrelated investment class, a money transfer system or together with Rootstock on top some smart contract / dapp enabling super asset, who knows?

I say it will.

 

Bitcoin has been beating gold by a big margin so far this year. The digital currency has more than doubled in value, while the yellow metal has gained 8.73 percent; and both assets outperformed the S&P 500 and the twenty-year US Treasury bonds.



Does this make Bitcoin a better long term investment than gold?

It’s hard to say, as past performance isn’t a guarantee for future performance, as the old adage goes in Wall Street. Besides, Bitcoin has been around for a short period of time.
 


Still Bitcoins have two advantages over gold. First, they can be used as a convenient medium of payments, though for a limited number of transactions, a function gold is missing. Second, the Bitcoin supply is expected to be limited to 21 million. The supply of gold, on the other hand, is expected to increase anytime its price rises, as it provides an incentive for gold miners to mine for gold.

To be fair, gold has its own advantages, too. It can be used as an outright gift, to make jewelry, and in manufacturing of certain products.

That’s why investors shouldn’t rush to substitute the yellow metal for the digital currency in their portfolio.

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Original Story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2016/12/09/is-bitcoin-better-than-gold/#42ccc567c143

I just read some article about Forex trading. I read that 90% of traders in Forex Fail or lose their money and 10% are succeed and make a large profit.

I am just wondering if the Forex is better that C-cex  because as far as I know Forex is using Real amount rather a Real money and at C-cex is altcoins. So do you think trying the luck in Forex can make a profit or just stay at bitcoin trading? Luck and strategy is needed but what do you think is safer C-cex or Forex?

C-cex and Forex are same in some aspect so what? Cryptocurrency or real money?

Experience has shown that: Trading forex is very risky and most times inexperienced traders jump into trade with they hard earned money without thinking of what they going into. Please advice inexperienced trader here.!!!!!

Recently the San Francisco Metro System got Hacked with Ransomware resulting in free rides.


What do you think guys?
Isn't it bad for the bitcoin to be known as a bad thing in our lives?
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That question has always been intriguing me. Reading about possible control over Bitcoin by the government, I thought about the ways how they could actually do it. One idea that came to my mind was to print enough fiat to buy all bitcoins existing and get done with it for good. But then I recalled about the top Bitcoin holders including Satoshi himself keeping their coins, and it struck me that they might not be selling their stashes just because of this, for the fear that government could easily buy up all bitcoins that are traded and turn into the biggest whale itself.

How likely is that?

I believe so, that US has trillions? of debts and as what I read before,they are indebted to China also. Also even though strong in military and technology, but its not sound financially. And it seems its a ticking bomb,waiting to explode.

what happen with bitcoin after not mineable?
miner will stop his mining activity ? then how to make bitcoin network strongest ?
and how about the price of bitcoin ?

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Hi Guys,

TREZOR is just another layer protection to your wallet, which in this case, to get a full functionality i need to open a wallet in TREZOR's website (startup company - I know with great reviews).

i won't get the full functionality with other compatible  wallets. So, basically, what's the point?  and which wallet is the most reliable in this moment who support TREZOR? been hurt by so many exit scams....I don't want to put my BTC into a startup company (with all of the respect).