Gemini should come soon as far as I've read, they are done internal testings and the price has been already added to some websites of the style of bitcoinwisdom. I don't expect much to happen unless all those old money doubters start buying bitcoin en masse and at the same time. Other than that I expect a couple more months of a nice bullish stable low price which is perfect for me because that just means i can keep buying monthly and making entire units of BTC before it becomes mission impossible to do so.

I saw this guy (the CEO from Amagi) making a lot of interviews and saying how awesome Bitcoin was. I hope he is at least still a supporter. He took a big risk, way too risky to go 100% Bitcoin only. It's best to keep it fiat too, we are too early in the game to try to get a way with a successful 100% Bitcoin only business. Once Bitcoin is more known among "Normal" people then we'll see that kind of business having big success.

Thinking that this will apply forever (new technology creating new jobs) is complete nonsense. Jobs are being replaced by new technology faster than new jobs arise. Look at the facts. In the past in a Volkswagen factory you would need 30 people to make a car, now less than 8. Soon this will be 1 person only supervising the automated machine. Same for all jobs. It's unavoidable. There are less and less new jobs coming up, and not everyone can be an engineer.

This is complete nonsense. If all fiat currencies, and not only fiat currencies, if all other forms of value like metals died tomorrow, dissapeared, and only Bitcoin existed, then the price of Bitcoin would be made from an average of what people is paying for in terms of goods and services. The thing is, this is an absolute non sense scenareo because I don't see fiat currencies disappearing let alone metals.

Ironically that is how Bitcoinwisdom.com will look like once all the doubters jump in at once when they realize every second not invested in Bitcoin is suicidal. Im going to have a lot of fun seeing all those idiots critisizing Bitcoin now cry specially after such a looong period to store a lot of sub 300 USD Bitcoin at such a stable rate. People don't want to take any risks and get rewards then complain they always miss the boat.

Have fun trying to keep bitcoin decentralized with a blocksize big enough to keep all transactions, no matter what, on chain and with micro fees. This is unfortunately a pipe dream. Bitcoin or any other technology unfortunately deliver this so we are stuck with solutions like blockstream + "let a fee market develop" approach. So until someone comes up with a better idea just deal with it. It's better than centralized nodes.

Girls will start using it once BTC explodes in terms of popularity because of a thing called snowball effect. Once someone that is a stablished authority that attracts females start using it then it will spread and females all over the world will start using it as well, it's pretty simple. Watch Justin Bieber tweet about it and BTC will be huge the day after, it's sad but it is what it is.

The cheapest way is searching for all the availible markets and buying on the cheapest price, simple as that. Ideally, you want to wait some days before buying to confirm an upwards or downwards trend. If the price stays the same just buy. I buy some monthly, always, no matter what. If you are here long term it doesn't really matter if the price is 300 or 200. So keep on stacking, and one day history will compensate your effort.

I envision a future where every country has their own sidechain and create their own national issued crypto currency their own rules, but ultimately everything being backed by Bitcoin which in return indeed the Bitcoin price goes up. I think if countries don't wan to use Bitcoin, they should use a sidechain, but not their own blockchain because it's just stupid to not use the Bitcoin blockchain.

Is that an actual game of agar.io or a tweaked screenshot? Would be cool to have a dedicated server where its only coin names allowed lol. I used to play agar.io a lot before it went to steam and got filled with dumb cod kids ruining yet another cool game. It's the side effect of success and I guess there is nothing to do about it.

It's just a dumb simple game but sometimes dumb and simple go on really well and become viral and if you designed the game you become a millionaire. So that's how you get rich, you get viral even if you do something really dumb. Case in point being the developer of Flappy Bird.

If im not mistaking in the next version of core we will be able to run a node in pruning mode, so that's 1GB of blockchain only.

My question is if it count as a node, and what are the differences of not running a full node, in terms of security etc, what are you compromising in exchange a faster download of the blockchain? because im tired of downloading stuff everytime I open the wallet but I dont know at what% it becomes less secure if you run prune mode.

It depends on your perspective. Are you here to make a quick buck? then buy right now and take a wild guess of what the price will be in a mouth.

Are you here for 10 + years as a long term holder? Well, then you know the deal: buying anything below 4 figures is cheap as dirt Bitcoin.

It's funny how lately now media doesn't talk about Greece anymore and Greece has disappeared from most people's mind already. Just like Ebola etc. Next will be the Syria thing, after a couple of weeks we'll forget. I think next thing to be all over the media will be other countries of the EU going Greece and maybe China keeps crashing as well.

IF you look at the all time graphs on gold you'll see that gold is either a long term investment or just a store of value. The pump and dumps happen in way less liquid markets such as BTC, and even then it's still not worth it, I mean if you want to gamble you might as well go to the casino.

Bitcoin has to be global, that was the main point. If we start limiting Bitcoin by this or that country it will mean that Bitcoin failed. We must untie ourselves from the fiat system which is what is making us lag behind from where we could be at already. The future of Bitcoin is probably in unbanked countries as a bigger impact than developed countries since developed countries people are too dumb to realize on the fiat scam.

I like that you keep your opinion real about gambling even if you are promoting a gambling site. Some people change their opinion and start saying how gambling is awesome when they change their signature to some gambling website lol. Personally I think gambling should only be done with 5% of less of a monthly salary. And maybe, sometimes you can risk more if you are feeling lucky but never try to gamble again and again after lossing in a mad frenzy.

I don't understand who would like to see centralized nodes as a solution. We already got a way to address this which is by running nodes, so run Core or XT whatever you like. Sure I personally don't like blockstream solution but life's a bitch and I Don't see a better, realistic solution than that. Not every transaction ever can fit on the blockchain. Whatever coin can give us the same trust as Bitcoin that can scale worldwide with decentralized nodes that at the same time allows next to no fees and can do everything in-chain will be a potential Bitcoin killer I guess, but that's not going to happen anytime soon realistically.

What is a small purchase? a cup of coffee? Where did satoshi specifically say that bitcoin wasn't made to buy coffee but to buy I don't know... Xboxes? where is the cutoff from "this belongs in the blockchain but this doesn't because its too small"??

We are fucked with XT and we are fucked with 1MB blocks. Solution: A reasonable blocksize increase with blockstream. Unfortunately it seems you have to choose between decentralization of nodes or low fees for everyone (at the expense of centralizing the nodes).