If I were you, I wouldn't worry about who's who behind Bitcoin core. Don't make things complicated dude, it is non-issue as far as I know.


There is no contingency for a lost bitcoin. Once its lost you cannot recover it. That's why its been practiced that you have to really take care of your wallet's private key. That's why its called private key, because obviously you are the only one who knows it and can retrieved your wallet. Protect it at all cost and I'm sure that you will be fine.

Well crypto is really for everyone including person with disabilities. However, what if the person is blind? How can he/she do like cyrpto trading. There are a lot of disable person who works mind me and they don't need to rely on governments assistance whatsover because they didn't see their disabilities as hindrances. But crypto has some exceptions, like person who is blind and totally needs someone so it will just a liability for them.

Right now we are hovering just above $7100-$7200 levels. Remember that the last bottom was around $6500 so we are just like $500 below, so its possible that we might hit that bottom again. But we have to look at the $7000 support level first and see if its gonna hold or simple crumble in the pressure. Of course there's not doubt that we can bounce back, but its gonna be like a struggle again. June-July was a good month last year, so maybe we can see it doing the same this year. But its really difficult to say when we are going to bounce back because there's no positive news that is on the horizon, unless investors suddenly flocks the market again. So just continue to hold and wait for another break out run. Maybe its just around the corner.

The China bans bitcoin was really one of the worst we've been, it was like a month or so before we have recovered by from disaster and then hits all-time-high at the end of the year. So I wouldn't be surprise if the same thing happens this year. I agree that the jump from $7000K-$10000 was very abrupt and everyone jumping for joy, and saying that the bear market is over. But if you look closely at the TA, it was overbought so most likely if will go down again as what we have seen. And then follow by bad news one after another. But I'm fairly optimistic that when everything settles down a bit, in a week or two we will see it gradually bouncing back around $8000. No need to panic here and we all know how this market works and reacts.

But we are going to weathered this storm, and remain on the top of the game. And after the launching of investigators on the supposedly trading malpractices, some of the coins have bounce back Bitcoin already trading above $7600 and didn't went below $6000 as other may have wanted to re-enter the picture again, ETH above $600 and gaining quick and most of the top 10 coins having a 1%-3% increased already which is a good sign that we are still here and no matter bumps around the road, we will eventually reach our destination in the next coming months.

There was one attempt though to hack the Binance was it was not successful. And the hackers ended up losing money than actually stealing, that's why the table has somewhat turned. The way they explained is that they being alerted by some users and to cut the line, they immediately stop processing withdrawals, while leaving deposits and trading to function normally. So they really did a good thing to stop everything from the start that's why they still remain the best trading exchanges so far.

The previous (double)bottom is $6500, so that will be the gauge. However, it seems that we are somewhat stabilizing around the $7200-$7300 range right now so I don't see it going below the $7000. So I would rather hold and not offloading today because we might see some reversals in the next 48 hours. Of course its always good to buy at any dip. I also have buying schedules at $7000 so lets see how it goes. Those negative news really put a lot of doubt on investors but this we have been in this situation and we know how to react.

The Philippine case is different though, its a Ponzi scheme and the culprit was caught. In the OP's case, it looks like he/she was really used as a sort of middleman to broker something and worst is that he/she is totally compromise, As we have noticed, he/she didn't reply so it only means one thing. He/she is out of the job, his personal data compromise and worst part is that is involves a lot of money (4,500 euros). Hope though that he/she is ok and has since move on.

Oh ok, its about time that GMO should launched their own bitcoin mining hardware to challenge Bitmain. GMO has already made a lot of press release last year about joining the picture so I'm glad that they are on track so it going to be interesting to see how it goes in the next coming months. We all know how Japanese technology is, its far more superior than anyone so if new miners wanted to get their hands on this kind of business, its much better to try GMO's gear and test its durability. Now the ball is on the other side, time for Bitmain and has something to match GMO, I'm not saying that it might break their monopoly, but its good to see some competition.

That's why BTC-E was taken down because it might be one of the gateway of the tainted Mt. Gox hacked coins. However, it has to be proven and I remember that someone has put up a good timeline as to how Vinnik or BTC-E was involved here. So investigators have their hands full in this investigation and since Vinnik already admits his guilt its not a matter of time before authorities will have the complete picture as to who really is behind the Mt. Gox hack and other exchanges (knowing and unknowingly) involvement.

Looks like a fairly new website:


Its weird that a lot of spelling mistakes, bad grammar (maybe English is not their first language), although what's caught me is their "Corporate Body", LOL, why don't they show the real faces of the President down to the Master Distributor (I don't have any idea what it means), plus the fact that they have no social media contacts besides e-mail is a red flag to me. So I advise you to stay away.

Obviously all bitcoin forks has no future, expect for BCH, because the people behind are really doing their best to really promote this as the real bitcoin. But if not for them, BCH will simply go down die as well together will all the Bitcoin forks. As for the OP, let me give you a good rude awakening:

That is a fork coin and look what happened.

https://www.ccn.com/bitcoin-gold-hit-by-double-spend-attack-exchanges-lose-millions/

So just like @btyco, just stick with bitcoin and you will be fine. But if you wanted to have problems later, then its your call.

Yes, I think for USDT withdrawals, its about $100, which is so high assuming that you are going to withdraw less than amount. As I have said before, I already withdrawal most of my funds and everything went smooth. However, let me just warn newbies, as to be very careful not just HitBTC for that matter, but all other exchanges. This is just part of the process, if you don't trust the exchanges then get out.


Hmmm. weird error because I just access it now and seems everything is working. Although I don't used FF because its too slow. Maybe you have to check everything, you might get phished, so be careful.

Edit: I just saw this

As compare to the start of 2017 when bitcoin price is below $1000? Yes the current price is like X7 and that's something to cheer about. But the problem is that there are a lot who FOMO and bought bitcoin around the 5 digit mark and they are the first one to bitch around when the price is going down. Well, the price seems to really move down very fast as there are news that regulatory body from USA and Canada are doing a coordinate investigations on ICO, sadly though is has put a lot of pressure on the price that's why it plummeted in the last 24 hours or so. But I believed that there are strong support at $7000 at least, so we not might see it going below that price in the next couple of days.

I really like Tom Lee's very bullish predictions despite the so many bans, regulations going around the ecosystem.  Maybe one day we can truly appreciates Lee as the only one really trying to put some confidence back in the market with his upbeat forecast. As far as the coordinated efforts by the between US and Canada, well its good though to see and find out what ICO's are indeed scams but as the same time we also need to see reports who are really legit. Although the damage has been done already as the market quickly go South in the last 48 hours because of this news, but just like any crash or price correction, we are going to bounce back again and bitcoin will not be tired to fight this kind of negativity. Hope Tom Lee's prediction though will happen at the end of the year.

Of course this will be another negative for bitcoin as a whole. And those who are against bitcoin will really used this crimes another way to opposed it in every way. Maybe those critics inside Africa will blow this out of the proportion and painted bitcoin as a tool for criminals. As for the price, it may have affected it but I don't think that it will be long term though. Right now the price keeps going down and maybe this news have added fuel to the fire. But if you are going to analyze it, criminals will be criminals and will exploit any system that they can find and crypto is one system that they can take full advantage because of its (pseudo) anonymity.

Issues will not go away and will remain with us throughout bitcoin's journey. We have been hovering around the $8000 mark for the last couple of week but suddenly fell below today. But I don't think that we can dip further below $7000. We have tested it before and we know that it has the ability to bounce back. Also, its not just bitcoin, but the rest of the crypto's and even stock market. So it means that something big has triggered this down turn. To get to that 5 digit mark, we really need to see some news, a big one, the will put the price on track on another all-time-high. G20 regulations will be coming this July, and I'm hoping that this will be the catalyst to the bull run that we wanted to see.

Just to give you a heads up guys, I just moved out my almost 2 ETH out of HitBTC and a got a warning that there might be delays and it might take as long as 1 month to get my funds. They are citing issues on their side and ETH network as well. But knowing that ETH network is not that clogged as much as Bitcoin, I click Yes and in matter of minutes I got my ETH on my wallet. So its all good and I'm happy that I was able to get out now.

LOL. If you have the funds ready then you should go for it and don't wait till some "experts" here says that it will still bottom.  Its already below $8000 so this is a perfect buying point. The price is very fragile that tomorrow might be a day that it will bounce back and recover above $8000 mark.


What if it doesn't go below the current price? As I have said, no need to wait, its another perfect opportunity being offered by the market, why not take your chance and see how it goes for you in the next couple of days?

You really need to be calm and not panic with this situation. Just remain optimistic here, although we are struggling and trying to get up and bounce back, sometimes it doesn't work as we wanted to be. As far as holding, definitely its a good strategy, the question is what coins are you going to hold? And how long, do you have that mental toughness not to be tempted just because its being pump. I still prefer to HODL bitcoin long term, might takes months to really see it bounce back, but I'm fairly sure that it will recover. We only need one good news, to turn the tide to our favor, so yes, just continue to HODL and wait for another break out run.