They will have to get compliant. Japan is not Malta. And most probably they'll have to drop privacy-oriented coins (unfortunately).
Maybe there will be other problems too they have to adapt to. We'll see. It should worth it though, Japan is a powerful market.

No, he does have a point: OK, for what we change into fiat, it may be somewhat reasonable to pay taxes. But for the Bitcoin in the wallets...?
On the other hand, as long as the private key/seed can be stored on a piece of paper, the HDD can be broken 1000 times and the coins are actually not lost. So it's not really the best possible proof / story.

Unfortunately I've never used it, so I can't tell.
However, I recommend you install only wallets from the official list, so you can reduce the chance for "surprises": https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet

It's a very ambitious plan.
I have a few questions though, since the ones that may be following this find this useful (maybe you should even put it onto your website).
1. Do you have any trading background / experience (crypto, forex, stocks)?
2. Do you use trading and/or arbitrage bots?

I'd like to also warn you that you should use at least 2 different ways of trading, and/or not trade always "all in" because the bigger fluctuations may make you lose everything. Of course, if you have big experience you know this very well.

Good luck and happy fishing 

2 major loops/bubbles are far from enough to be certain about a rule.

Bakkt.. is just another company. Of course they have paid for some news here and there to increase awareness. There's also the possibility that some big players may have been also using Bakkt news (and all ETF related news) now and then to influence the price in their favor.

If you are trading wannabe you'll be very busy. If you are long time holder you'll get entertained or maybe bored.
Whatever you choose, make sure you understand that too much stress is not good for health  (hence I'd go for HODLing if one affords it, but keep in mind that this is a speculation thread)

1. Use a wallet where you can control everything. Electrum is a good option.
2. Consolidate your inputs. If you have 0.1 BTC in your wallet and it's made of 100 inputs of 0.001 each, you'll pay more than if you have it "in one piece".
3. Making SegWit transactions (from SegWit address to SegWit address) will also reduce the tx fee.
4. Patience also helps. If you are not in a hurry, even a 1 sat/vbyte transaction should get confirmed, just it may take much longer.

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It's easy to create tokens. It's much harder to fool enough people into buying them.

They want to get where Tether is. But they are doing it wrong. I think that they just don't have enough patience.

If you want to just download fast the blockchain, no, it won't be faster. It has to be checked. Bootstrap was retired years ago exactly because of this.

All your can do is to help your wallet process the data faster. For that you need fast internet, good CPU, fast storage, hence my previous answer.
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I don't think it'll change much. Users already keep huge amounts of crypto in centralized exchanges, for various reasons, because most are thinking about hack that "it will not happen to me".
And insurance services offered by companies that understand crypto are needed imho.
Of course, some (like Binance) seems to do this more or less internally. So the question is indeed: will the twins "sell" this service or only use it for their own exchange?

I think that the bottleneck could be the disk. You are saving to a HDD, right?
If you have a SSD by chance, close the app (and make sure it's closed), move the data folder to the SSD, make a symlink there and fire it up again. And when you are sync-ed, move the data back where you want it to be.
(Of course back up the sensitive data)

After that manipulation and with this kind of news, the drop is not even big. Yet.


Actually I won't be surprised if CSW would pull out of the hat another "evidence", maybe after the lawsuit ends. It's the way he operated in the last few years, I don't expect him to stop.

Because up-and-down-and-up-and-down make traders rich?

Indeed, now I would use testnet.

My point was that one doesn't necessarily have to invest first into Bitcoin. That can come later, or not at all.
Bitcoin is not only an investment.

You are right. But that "matter of time" is actually the time needed for "a new generation of elderly people" replace the current one.
The "expensive phone" is indeed a fake problem. Many of them receive for free their kids' 2 year old phone.
Imho the real problem the elderly people have is that the technology is "strange" for many of them. My mom is afraid of using her debit card (!), I simply cannot expect from her to pay with the phone at a shop.

I'd speculate that it could make us an interesting 10k surprise during the week-end, but then it'll have go back to lower values (under 8k) until the Chinese New Year festivities end.

Not for the contest, just a happy screenshot showing Bitcoin was > 9k

I also don't agree with the first point "Small amount of bitcoin to get started".

In my early days in crypto I played with Dogecoin. There are 2 great things about Dogecoin: it is very similar to Bitcoin and it's extremely cheap.

Now I know an even better option: testnet. Testnet coins are for free (you can easily google for working testnet faucets) and some of the well known Bitcoin wallets work with testnet (they need special parameters though).
The idea is: instead of investing money in order to get started with Bitcoin, one can start even for free.

Also it should be in the list: whenever in doubt search, especially at http://bitcoin.org/ and http://bitcointalk.org/ and if not found ask for help.

If you plan to make another coin, I'd really love to see you don't use Bitcoin name in it. Too many altcoins were made with Bitcoin in their name only to fool newbies into buying it.

This being said, the name can be either something related to its differences/new features you didn't disclose (FastCoin, AnonyCoin) or, even better, find some catchy name not containing "coin" in it, like Ethereum, Monero or Dash have. You know Dollar, Pound, Yen, ... they don't need "coin" in their name and we all know what they are. Make a proper new brand (name).

At home I consume more than 2GB/month, so giving up the internet at home to keep only mobile doesn't worth it.
And I do use the mobile. Both packages are cheap as long as one has an income - it doesn't matter if it's from crypto or not. I am not sure I understand your point...