it is all about adoption AKA more demand.
right now more demand means more people investing in bitcoin since it is mostly an investment, and things such as ETF are effective but LN, Segwit,... are off less importance to investors.

for the future we need more adoption as a currency and the later things become of importance. and when more businesses and services are created in bitcoin world we see more people coming in and higher price. and the 100%-200% rises in a year continues.

best is a wrong word to use. it all depends on the usage you want to get out of the wallet. for example you may want full verification and not rely on a third party so you go with a full node client.

but if you want light weight client and have trouble with the full node and can accept the relying on third party part, then you choose an SPV client.

then if you want maximum security you go with paper wallet or cold storage in general.

of if you want to use bitcoin on your phone, then there is a whole different story!

and for each of these there are multiple wallets to choose, and you can easily install each of them, work a little and see if you liked it.


there is no such thing as "original" or "official" bitcoin wallet.

it seems like support doesn't exist. to be honest i wouldn't be surprised if i find out that there is only 2-3 guys who own the whole exchange service and are handing everything from running fake pump bots to answering support tickets and adding new shitcoins and banning people in chat!

i had a bitcoin withdrawal and it took a couple of hours for them to put it through and the fee was too low it took even more to confirm. and they deduct a large amount of fee for withdrawal in website.

these aren't exactly good names, specially since they have numbers in them like the way you do. it makes it hard to put it and people don't usually like these types of names.

on top of that these are .co domains which is not so hot either.
if you have hoarded these in hope for a profit then you may have wasted your time.

you can also check out blackhatworld.com forum for more information about these kind of thing.

if you need to buy/sell bitcoin then go to an exchange service that you like and get the live price there so it is the accurate and current price.

a wallet app is not supposed to have live price which is accurate with exchanges. a wallet app that reports price should do that so that you can have some kind of idea about how much equivalent money you own in your bitcoin wallet.

although this also depends on where that particular wallet app takes its price. bitcoinaverage is average price, some of the wallets (mostly desktop) allow you to fetch the price directly from an exchange API if that is what you want.

let me ask you a question and if you can answer that question then you can answer your own question too.

if Dollars and Euros are removed how will you determine the value of groceries that you need to buy?

if you are not a throwaway account and you actually read the replies come and explain to us what you mean by "tock of your existing bitcoin wallet" because that makes no sense!

and besides why would anyone stop at $2000! the same question was asked about $1000 a while back when price was $600 and the answers should be the same, these prices are too low for us to start selling!

to be perfectly clear, i was not talking about "what these transactions are" or "why they are big".
instead i was saying that these type of transactions seems to be occurring more these days and blocks are full in another way: with bigger transactions, so smaller number of txs fit in one block.

i just googled "Mercedes-Benz price" and their prices actually start from $34,475 and it is ~34.4 bitcoins right now and you could have bought that much with a lot less last year. even if you bought it at $500 that means you invested your money for a year to get it doubled and be able to buy a car with it.

well kudos to 1Referee for finding the transaction and i guess to you for finding the block number

and it actually explains the 114 transactions but what i said in OP i had these transactions in mind:
i was refering to transactions such as these:
https://blockchain.info/tx/96464066187b8161c9aa79f2901e740b661ff4bda8d7f168b3c047b68fc13b9f
https://blockchain.info/tx/36cfe63b97eca9d5b2e3943698effac3b40e97ca9e19ef7b2fc1b452b9644a08
https://blockchain.info/tx/f3996a62f086709112c812da317196c40095e27465c2a4261dda9dc397760333

or even very big ones such as these:
https://blockchain.info/tx/94e11eb1499786293a6773fc0282022e80cbd04e72877d4f93490ce3eae1faa0

and without automation, it is not about being lazy, it is about this process being impossible to do.

i am not talking about number of transactions.
i am talking about "size of each transaction" which seems to have grown lately. in other words transactions, instead of being 250 byte to 500 byte are 2000 bytes and more.

if you check a couple of those blocks you can see these gigantic transactions with 4400 and 5500 bytes each and more.

Blocks usually contain 2000+ transactions to reach the max size (999ish aka 1 MB)
but lately, mostly today i have been seeing much smaller number of transactions.

i don't know how frequent this is though!

examples (all are full blocks):
Height   #tx
453742   576
453742   546
453730    829
453720    114
453719    910
 

The china thing has just started, PBoC comes up with newer stuff to enforce on the exchanges and adds new restrictions. the exchanges have closed down withdrawals for now!

i think you had price in your mind, since price has settled down from volatility.


i think it will be a big and a good news for bitcoin but only if it is accepted. and besides it is not going to happen overnight so i disagree with the 65% rise after the ETF because that would mean going up to $1650 and you are forgetting about the resistance.

any insurance service that tries to do that, will either end up having to put some ridiculous rules to let themselves from getting out of paying their customers (just like all the other insurance services for other things) or they will go bankrupt very soon because of all the reimbursements they have to make.

thanks for the payment, it is a shame to see this campaign end sooner than i thought!

haha, funny guy. you waited this long to start a new topic with your main account instead of all your brand new spams.

the $1000 barrier was broken a while ago, and it has been a week or so that we are touching it and coming down, mostly because of the dumps, uncertainty and shorts.

we will most probably remain in this state for a while. but it certainly can not be called "down trend".

the old casinos that are considered trustworthy today were all new and with no trust once. they all built their trust up over time.

in my opinion we still have room for more casinos and more games. although some of the games which have many players such as dice are full, and a new casino with those games will have hard time becoming famous.

but if they start newer games, and if they can make the new games interesting enough for people to play them, they can easily grow and grow fast.

they stopped their signature campaign today, so i guess the hype has stopped and will slow down in the near future.
and as you said, i am waiting for the dump to happen, there are going to be lots of people with lots of bytes to dump and that will always cause a big drop in price (one of those sharp declines in charts). i will keep an eye out for post dump actions if i were you.

which coin's volume did drop?
the total volume of both of these exchanges are the same, and sometimes it goes a big down (like 10% lower) and then comes back up (10% higher) because some days there are more and bigger pumps.

and individual coins when they die or when their pumps stops their volume drops a lot. you have to say a name of a coin so that we can analyze it better.

what does this mean? have you been mining? you can't deposit mining reward into exchange address, they will reject it.


these exchanges are safe enough, although you should make sure to put a strong password on your account or if they have 2FA enable it.

but all of these can not protect you from the exchange getting hacked and running away!
if you can move to desktop wallets and cold storage.