Amid global economic instability and financial crisis, investors are becoming increasingly aware of Bitcoin and its advantages over traditional forms of assets and money. Although many investors remain wary of Bitcoin’s fluctuating price, there are five major aspects of Bitcoin which every investor must know about.

Full and detailed article : https://cointelegraph.com/news/five-things-every-investor-should-know-about-bitcoin

I guess that being optimistic is something good but you should be realistic as well, bitcoin is definitely huge compared to the other altcoins but the competition is always there and most of the good projects are taking sometime until they get fully developed and released for public , I already said that in different topics and I will repeat it...  If bitcoin stops at this point and don't get developed and getting some solution with the current problems , It will definitely fail.

Anyone here have an idea about when we should expect the massive upgrade ? It's being sometime since they started talking about (almost a year now) it and there is no news yet ? https://vimeo.com/163878728

Just be careful , I have my doubts about these threads that are popping up lately about offering Envato items for cheap , there is either an exploit in the website or SEing involved for sure.

A few months ago , ThomasV (creator of Electrum) said that they are still working on it so I doubt It's cancelled : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1655639.0 . Electrum is with no doubt one of the best (If not "the" best) wallets when It comes to PC but for phone , I'm not really a fan.

I believe that your birth date , your name or your phone number are the first things that a hacker would try to use before trying to crack/brute anything so I don't really see how this could be more secure then anything else , using a random password in the other hand or something that make no sense to you may be very hard to remember over the years and you could finish by losing your coins.

There are plenty of trusted members (I'd recommend OgNasty , devthedev ....) around here and don't hear those who say that you shouldn't use an escrow because he could scam you . We understand that some of trusted escrows as Master-p betrayed our trust but that doesn't make the other members not trustworthy.

Who is this "someone" that would agree on spending money to simply spread bitcoin ? There are commercial ads related to bitcoin but they are most of the time related to a specific bitcoin service like Blockchain.info ad : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_W-7hd4T2I but once again , It promotes the service instead of bitcoin as a currency.
If you ask me , advertising is kinda something hard to do when the project is decentralized/P2P (OpenBazaar , BitSquare are projects that are having this issue too)

The issue usually have nothing to do with the service Itself but instead related to the banks and there is nothing they could about it. Banks are unlikely to exit scam , at least , not without leaving a trace like BTC services.
If you are facing this issue using the web app then I suggest using the Mobile app , It sometimes works otherwise It's coming from the banks , all you could do is contact the support team and wait for their reply.

A MAGNITUDE 8.0 earthquake has struck off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, according to reports.

The Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre has said widespread hazardous tsunami waves are possible.

Earthquake-Report.com says that although massive earthquakes are very common in PNG, there are fears for tsunami waves potentially “metres in height.”

The Source : http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/powerful-earthquake-strikes-papua-new-guinea-tsunami-warning-issued/news-story/a06adff2e8e33a75dfc64a587d74fca4

At this point , the only thing that I see achievable is 800$ or 850$ at max by Christmas . I mean It could happen If something triggers it otherwise It should stay as it it or increase a little bit.
As you said too , If it increase too much and too fast then It will go to the ground faster and we don't want to see that , there is nothing better then an increase with stability.

I know there is already an overview thread about the hardware wallets but I made a new topic lately as the first one is not being updated anymore and OP is not connecting either , I'm trying to include more information's and more wallets with time (I sometimes need to contact the wallets providers to have some information's like the numbers of units sold etc...) , and reviews will be added as well : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1710607.0;topicseen

I would like to apply If this a paid job as well , If It matters , I can speak multiple languages (english , arabic and french as well) , I don't want to be involved in anything related to the gambling or the adult industry though.

There is Virwox.com , It's a very known and reputable service and exists for years , It accepts PayPal and Skrill and other payment methods that other exchanges don't accept. Only issue is that they are limits to buy and your level account gets increased with time , another thing are the fees which are a little bit high. If you have no issues about those two things then you should go for it.

The Chinese law enforcement cracked down on a Bitcoin mining farm in Bengbu, Anhui province, for illegally allocating a local electric power company's energy source for Bitcoin mining operations. The local police of Bengbu seized ASIC miners and other equipment used to mine the digital currency.

Xin’an Evening, a local news publication in China, revealed earlier this month that a family in the Anhui province used home energy sources provided by a local electricity service provider to mine Bitcoin.

The digital currency which the family obtained was used to finance the family’s expenditures. The news publication further noted that the family made enough money through its mining farm to finance up to 8 years of their future expenditure.

Like If we needed any more bad publicity , you could read the rest : https://cointelegraph.com/news/anhui-family-bitcoin-mining-farm-seized-by-chinese-police-for-stealing-electricity

Design looks pretty clean and simple and I like that however If we speak about the pricing then It's definitely overpriced If we compare it to the SIM providers we are using In real life , I also like that you are accepting bitcoin as a payment method but In the same time , I dislike the fact that you are asking the users to type their emails , payment info should be available on the public without the need of even making an account.

Protecting ourselves couldn't be easier . We simply shouldn't trust centralized exchange or in other words , exchanges that doesn't give us control over our private keys , I'm not saying that exchanges shouldn't be used but people shouldn't store their coins for long term there , once you trade , withdraw your funds. Poloniex is the most secure If you ask me as they are storing their funds in cold storage means no hacker will have access to them and If the website gets hacked the losses are going to be limited.

I guess you should use Blocktrail.com API as It's probably the best (from what I heard) and It also have examples written in Python , NodeJS & PHP too : https://www.blocktrail.com/api/docs (the limits are better then blockchain's one too)

It's backup online now but I just wanted to let you know In case you didn't notice , I wouldn't keep my funds there If I were you even though It was just a DDOS attack , this could be a warning and more may come (such as hacking).

Yes we will and as you can see on the news section above :


The API I gave you will be something official and the "epochtalk" is a new forum software that is made by developers paid by theymos , everything is open source and you could see the Github repo : https://github.com/epochtalk/epochtalk/