Well, just make sure that you keep some funds aside, when they do. In my country they did the same and we had a free for all for a while, but they quickly closed that loop-hole and implemented "Capital Gains" taxes on all Crypto currency trading income. Luckily for us, taxes for that income was only applicable from the time when the new stipulations were added to the tax regulations.

Most countries implement "Capital Gains" taxes on trading income and VAT on normal Crypto purchases. 

You are only touching on one industry, but Bitcoin also created jobs in the manufacturing industry <GPU/ASIC & mining hardware> and it also created jobs in the online Gambling industry. There are also people working full-time in hosting presentations and events to educate people in Bitcoin matters, like Andreas M. Antonopoulos is doing.

We also see online activities like Youtube & Podcasts and also Crypto currency forums and websites dedicated to Crypto currency matters.  

There are a lot of different opinions on this and I think the most logical answer should be something that would bring balance to the market. If 100% of the people HODL, then merchants will stop accepting bitcoins as a payment option and then they demand will decline.

Who would want to buy bitcoins, if you cannot spend it somewhere? <The demand will also increase the price.> Everything must be in a balanced state. <Too much supply = price decline / No availability = higher price / No availability, but no merchants accepting it = lower price> 

Governments are not threatened by Bitcoin at all, because they still control most of the on-ramps and off-ramps for Bitcoin to Fiat conversion. They are in bed with the Banks and other financial institutions, so they still have control over a vast area of the financial system.

Bitcoin just makes certain things more easy, like :

~ Granting financial privacy and freedom to citizens. <No more snooping in on what people are using their money on>
~ Capital Flight
~ Tax evasion
~ Global crime and cross border transactions
~ Terrorism funding <Their perfect excuse to terrorize people>
~ Removing the 100% control over currency manipulation and creation.

So, until some kind of solution can be find to prove them wrong, we will have to accept that they will be hostile towards this technology.

franky1 his goal was never to prove that Bitcoin has no value, it is just some click bait noise to confuse people. He is one of the well known shills on this forum and no matter what counter argument you bring here, he will have some crazy misdirected answer for that.

Just post your counter argument to clear up the possible FUD that are being spread by him and be on your way, because no debate will change his mind. <The goal is not to have a good debate about this, it is just to spread FUD>   

Ok, let's give it a try. I send you a PM with my username on your site. Strange thing I noticed while I was browsing around and testing things, was when I used the "Copy to Clipboard" on the Bitcoin address, it pasted a whole different Bitcoin address that was copied from the one provided on your site for my account. <Hope I do not have any strange Malware/Clipboard Hijacking going on> 

I will test this a bit more and see what is going on.  <Looks like the problem is on my side> 

Zimbabwe will be a bad choice, because their political decision making is killing their economy and Crypto currency investment is still very low, compared to M-Pesa. If you want to watch Crypto currency grow in Africa, you need to look at South Africa and also Nigeria to take the lead. <I travel for work in Africa and I have been to both of these countries and I can tell you that both these countries are already the pioneers and leaders in the Crypto currency scene in Africa>

Reason, why I asked for the source was to prevent this thread from being flagged as plagiarism.  Just give credit to the source, even if it was your article. 

Most of the early adopters agree that a ETF approval will do more harm than good in the long run. The short-term impact will be a sharp increase in the price, but this will be short lived, because the injection of large amounts of speculator based investments might cause higher volatility.

These speculators will be very jumpy and they will panic at the slightest indication of any bad news, so we might see large amounts of money coming into Bitcoin, but as soon as we see any bad news, these investments will be pulled and the price of Bitcoin will take a nose dive. 

Krugman is talking out of his ass, like most of the people who does not regularly use Bitcoin as a payment option. Since the introduction of SegWit and also the Lightning Network, high fees has not been an issue. People like him most probably are still using legacy addresses and high fee setting to transfer bitcoins or to do payment.

Someone should demonstrate to these people how fast and cheap Bitcoin is, with SegWit to SegWit transfers and better yet, the Lightning Network. 

OP, you once again highlighted some of the real reasons why this technology is so extraordinary. Global remittance has exploited people in developing countries for years and there were almost no competition for them. Now, Bitcoin came on the scene and it disrupted their monopoly and we are seeing a lot of changes as a result of this.

People should stop focussing on the profits that they want to make from their investment in Bitcoin and rather appreciate the disruption that this technology has initiated in industries where there were no alternatives and total dominance by some centralized entities.   

Please provide a link to your Blog, your entry was very constructive. 

Just want to congratulate you on doing some great work on advertising and marketing of your site. I think a lot of people neglect that part of their concept and projects and then things goes south very quickly.

At first I thought this was an attempt to bring back a tipping platform like ChangeTip, but on further inspection I realized that it was something totally different. Good concept and a great idea. 

I will try it soon on some things that I have been searching for. 

'This is exactly why no one likes to debate Roger because he does stuff like this,' Song exclaimed. - I am glad he said it, because Roger Ver's primary strategy when he debate someone is to assert dominance. He wants to be the Alpha male and he wants people to know that.

The unions in our company often try the same tactics and they also try to push your wrong buttons to unsettle you, so that your thought pattern is interrupted and this force you to make mistakes in your presentation.

You will often see Roger Ver making controversial statements or using personal attacks to evoke anger in his opponent. This might originate from his training into Martial Arts, where you have to intimidate your opponent to break their concentration.

All of this are cheap tactics and easily identifiable by the trained eye.   Take Roger Ver on at the technical level of the technology and his wheels falls off.  

It is this "Get Rich Quick" mentality that are causing the most problems. In 2017 a lot of people made some very good profits and a lot of newbies wants to emulate that, but the problem is that they do not want to wait a few years for that to happen, like the old-timers did.

So what is the direct result of their impatience? The answer is simple, they sell too early and then they lose money. My best advice to these newbies will be to forget about the performance of previous years and just to focus on buying as many coins as possible, in times when the price is low. <Your 2017 will happen, just be patient> 

Most governments already targeted the on-ramp and off-ramp for fiat to Crypto currency conversion, so regulation already cover a large portion of the transactions that are done via centralized exchanges. Regulating P2P tx's and also tx's that are done via decentralized exchanges is more difficult, but it only represents a small volume of the total tx's that are being done.

The governments also have a good hold on the payment processors and all the merchants that accepts bitcoin as a payment option. So gathering information on Crypto currency use, is a lot easier than what it was a few years ago. 

Nope, you will not be like all the other sites, you will be in a better position to be competitive with them. A 1% reduction will already place you in a better position to compete with other gambling sites. When you changed the business model from a faucet site to a gambling site, you effectively changed the original concept and the original goal for this site.

When you were mostly a faucet, you had to subsidize the faucet payouts with the gambling income, but now you are re-defining yourself as a gambling site and that changes your target market. Gamblers wants a low house edge and a fun experience. <Do you think the Multiplier is a fun experience?> 

Banks are interested in Blockchain technologies, because it will streamline their business and that would put more money into their pockets. The savings as a direct result of more efficiency will not be channelled to the clients, but rather into shareholder pockets.

Banks will hate any technology that might cause their client base to shrink, because there will be less money being deposited into Bank accounts and less money for them to make available as loans. 

So which articles are those? Source..   Many countries does not acknowledge Bitcoin as a currency, so I am curious. The problem with Bitcoin investors these days are the fact that everyone is expecting a repeat performance of 2017 and now that it is not performing in the same way, people tend to trash it with pessimism.

In the beginning it was all about the technology and lately it is all about price.  

My best practice is to do incremental backups, where previous backups are not being over-written by newer data that are added later. I also keep a hard copy of previous backups, separate from newer backups to stop cross infection.

You need to keep the copies of your backups as total separate copies. Once you access previous copies, those backups can be infected too. So only use copies of original backups, when you do the restore. <not the originals>

The cost of the backups might be more, but the re-installation will not be from infected originals that are being overwritten over and over again. 

I disagree. Dropping the house edge will pull the customer base you should be targeting, not the faucet suckers that are sucking the place dry at the moment. Freebitco.in is not a faucet site anymore, so there is no reason why we should add higher referral bonuses to attract these non-gamblers.

I think gamblers are looking for sites with the lowest house edge and by dropping the house edge, we would be drawing in the target crowd that we should be targeting. 

I am not saying, joining signature campaigns are a waste of time. Nope, that is just one of the ways to get some more coins. The problem is that most newbies are too focused on signature campaigns and getting payment from these campaigns to increase their Bitcoin totals.

They should continue posting constructively on the forum and acquire more coins from signature campaigns, but this should not be their only strategy to increase their coins.

It took me several years to rank up to Legendary and it will take some members even longer to reach that level, so if they put all their eggs in one basket to get some coins, then they will waste a lot of time to get some cheap coins now. I still buy a lot of coins on the dip and then I sell some of them to make some money to buy when it is low again.

The main focus should be to increase your coins, and not to wait 3 or 4 years to rank up on this forum, just to possibly join a paying campaign to use that as a strategy to acquire more coins. Start now, by buying coins or selling things to buy some coins, because Bitcoin is not waiting for anybody.