The idea of mining is very popular with newbies, it is like getting something for nothing.
In reality mining is normally a money losing, or at best a break even venture, unless you have free electricity and get lucky with the difficulty increases.

If you need the questions answered, I would recommend not mining bitcoin.  Try mining on an CPU alt like Primecoin, see how much you get and how much fun it is!  You will be happy you saved your money on ASICs.

It is typical, they find that bitcoin isn't being used for terrorism, but they need to control it anyway.
I don't mind having a KYC for a reputable exchange, but when I spend my bitcoin at a bitcoin accepting establishment, there should be anonymity.

We don't have to show ID when we pay in cash, it should be the same for bitcoin

I find it a tough one to call.  Man Utd are sometimes dreadful, but sometimes they reaise there games to an ok level.
Arsenal might have beaten Leicester last week, but that was with a lot of refereeing help, at home, and in the 93th minute.

I think Arsenal might enjoy the step down from playing Barca during the week, to playing Man Utd now.  I think they might have a bit of success against Man Utds poor defence, so I will take Arsenal to win, with more than 2.5 goals scored.

A couple of interesting games today in the Bundesliga.
Mainz have been good recently, or at least they have been getting good results.  They don't tend to do very well against Leverkusen though.
I think that Leverkusen will sneak this one by one goal, so 0-1 or 1-2.

Dortmund look like they are back to near their level of a couple of years ago now.  At home against Hoffenheim should be an easy win by 2 - 3 goals.

In the original post there are two avatar links, one that doesn't work, and one for Bitvest!  I too thought it was a little odd that I should have 777Coin as my sig, but Bitvest as my avatar, but if that is how they want it, then so be it!

Seeing that the Bitvest avatar was used in the OP actually confirmed to me that I hadn't made a mistake.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-02-26/why-hedge-fund-manager-who-made-killing-subprime-buying-bitcoin

This seems like fairly sound logic, and is very bullish for Bitcoin.  So little money would have to move into bitcoin to move the price into 4 figures. As they say:

Every week Leicester are overprices as people expect them to fold under the pressure of being top.
Against Arsenal they probably would have won if it wasn't for a dodgy red in the first half, even then Arsenal just snuck it at home!

At home against Norwich, Leicester should easily win, unless they start to feel the pressure that it!

Somehow and kind of unfortunately, VfB have become really good recently.  A friend of mine is a Stuttgart fan and I used to like to mock him after most weeks games, but since the break they have looked excellent.

The prices reflect that too, but I expect that they will win today. No bet for me, I will wait for my team, Mainz05 to play tomorrow.

Utter rubbish posted after the result claiming to have prior knowledge, that's called after timing. 

Football isn't rolling a dice, so a double chance isn't 66.6% chance.
The bookies didn't know Las Palmas would win.
Bookies generally just follow Betfair prices now + a certain percentage.  They Don't need to be clever about it.

Check with whom about what? How about you 'let us know' in advance, then we can judge if you 'know'.  I can predict results perfectly after the game is over too!

I don't think I will be betting on this one as I haven't really had much chance to watch either of them play against non-Barca or Real teams, but Eibar look like a fairly solid bet to win at home against a team 11 places below them in the league.

That and that Las Palmas haven't won away from home all season losing 9 of 12 games, and Eibar have won 7 of 13 home games. Makes an Eibar win look fairly likely.

I consider some trading gambling, and some gambling trading.

I used to use betfair a lot, and you can really trade in play quite a lot.  As something like a tennis match evolves, you can trade positions and end up with a green book, or a red book.  That is as much trading as FX trading is.
Trading something like bitcoin or an alt is pretty much gambling, especially if you do it with leverage.  They are too risky to be considered real trading, and without any prior warning you can lose everything in no time (unlikely in FX trading, unless you were short the CHF!)

Why should google have an interest in Bitcoin, or a positive interest anyway?
Google is all about collecting and sorting information, they could make a good blockchain explorer and follow transction webs very well no doubt, but they don't really have any pressing need to get into Bitcoin.

The only real reason i see why google would try to co-opt Bitcoin would be so that they could have an 'open-source' competitor to Apple Pay.  Even then, they wouldn't be able to control bitcoin well enough to really call it their own, so something like Ripple would suit them much better.  Then they could have a failed payment system just like Apple!

What latest drop? The price is 1% up in the last week and 8% up in the last month?
The price is holding quite steady, I think the next push will take the price up to $500 or so.

There is a lot of economic and political uncertainty at the moment, something 'could' happen, like a new Leyman Brothers situation that would shoot Bitcoin massively higher, but otherwise things are ticking over, and in the right direction from a strong base!

Hertha have been rubbish so far since the winter break. Played 5 lost 4 1 draw!  Not that cologne are really good or anything, but it is well worth mentioning that Hertha are still in 3rd, just because they were really good before the break.

I am actually leaning towards Cologne given that they are ok at home, hertha have only beeon ok away all season, and Herthas form is shocking!

So for me, Cologne or no bet.

I am happy with the current situation, as I understand it, in Germany. 
If bitcoin are bought and held for longer that one year, then there is no capital gains tax due. 

For me that means that half of the bitcoins I have I could sell now at a profit, and not have to worry about the taxes, the other half I have to hold a little longer, or pay tax on the gains.  1 year is a long time, but I don't anticipate selling out completely unless the price skyrockets stupidly, in which case I could also live with paying tax on the huge profits!

As long as the EU rules don't change to make all profits taxable, I will be happy.

Really it is not a bad thing that they only had 7 bitcoins in the hot wallet, that is obviously the wallet that would be hacked or somehow stolen if they were to be hacked.
They must have more in a cold wallet, and I should arrange the transfer to you either offsite or at an agreed time.

Nice work on getting up to 41.5 bitcoin, and getting out before you lose it all!  The 2nd part is often the harder part of the equation.

I haven't watched UFC for quite a while, but should Anderson Silva not either be an absolute certainty to beat Bisping, or retire?!
I know he got done for PEDs, but for several years he was essentially untouchable.

Bisping is just a loud mouth with a punchers chance, but if it goes to the mat he is in trouble, standing, he is in trouble. Generally, he is in trouble!

If not, then please Anderson, retire!

In the short term yes, but if the price really does fall further, which I think would be unlikely, it will result in a real oil shortfall in the coming years.
Brazil have said that they won't auction any more exploration areas, as at $50 oil is far too cheap.  The major oil economies are all in trouble.  Investment is falling off a cliff, drilling of fracking wells is stopping.

The amount of money needed to restart will be much more than the running costs, so once they are closed, it will take time and investment (by those with burned fingers) to get them back up and running.  That along with the lag time associated means I think there will be an oil shortage in the next 10 years, with oils prices rising greatly.

I predict the return of $100 before 2020.

Use half of his bitcoin for a holiday? Half would be $170k, as he has a total of $340k in bitcoin. 
I too strongly doubt that this is a serious question, but if you want to loan, you need to be picky, ask for collateral and be prepared to lose sometimes.

Also, unless you are seriously wealthy, I would suggest diversifying, rather than increasing your holdings!  Real estate and PMs would seem a good idea for someone with so much in Crypto.

Congratulations on buying and holding for so long, if what you posted is actually true.  I would guess that most who bought at sub $1, also sold at sub$10.

I am no Alts expert, but Ripple, Nxt and ETH are all centralized, along with I am sure many others.  Ripple especially could be easily controlled by someone who chooses too.
The question is, if a controlled/controllable cryptocurrency starts to take off, as ETH has been doing recently, will the bitcoin community buy into it and abandon bitcoin?

I expect most would use both, but greed would move many into the newly expanding currency, so that would fluorish, just as the government want.