First of all, it should be noted that all methods of extracting crypto currency using home computers, and even more so mobile devices, have long lost their meaning.

For several years, the miners have been using specialized high-power ASIC equipment. Modern models of these devices several times exceed the performance of video cards. When buying, you need to focus on powerful devices, the cost of which is thousands of dollars. Of course, getting 1 Bitcoin right now is impossible in this way. As evidenced by the reviews of the miners, the equipment pays for itself and brings a tangible income over time.

Rate bitcoin to the dollar : why bitcoin is rapidly becoming cheaper, the forecasts of experts come true
The bitcoin course today continued its decline, breaking through the mark of $ 9,000, and thus updating the November indicators. After it, other crypto-currencies became significantly cheaper. On the morning of February 2, the bitcoin course on the well-known specialized portals looked like this:

     CoinMarketCap - $ 8,683 (-14.73%)
     Bitfinex - $ 8,754 (-14.8%)
     GDAX - $ 8,517 (-15.13%)
     Coindesk - $ 8,593 (-5.08%)

In China, where 80% of the capacity for "mining" bitcoins is located, mining may be banned. Representatives of state agencies, fearing financial risks, issued an appeal last week to local authorities calling for an end to the activity, during which "mined" crypto-currencies, writes The Wall Street Journal.

Some analysts went a little further, saying that crypto-currencies can replace gold. Crypto-balts, in our opinion, can become a part of our financial system. As we believe, gold is very different from crypto-currency. Gold is less volatile and it has more liquidity on the market.

Bidding occurs only in an established and controlled environment. Gold has a very clear role in any investment portfolio. Gold also has very little in common with the crypto currency in the demand and supply. All these characteristics only emphasize the fact that gold will remain the main financial asset, which, however, will continue to resonate with the digital financial world

The simplest thing is to buy and sit on the ass exactly, the stronger the development of cryptoeconomics, the higher the bitcoin rate will be.

The second simplest application is the seamless cross-border mobility of capital. You can convert into cash in local currency soon (and maybe already) probably in any country in the world.

The third is to invest through bitcoin into other crypto-currencies or projects.

But why do we need other crypto currency if there is bitcoin? Because other currencies have different architecture and properties. For example, there are currencies with completely anonymous transactions, and in the same cue all in sight and smart-assed Feds (at least Pendosov) are already intensively analyzing the transaction graph.

The very new digital economy is still developing, and I will probably write my vision on it later. But there is every reason to believe that the reserve currency of this economy will be bitcoin. in him, conditionally speaking, the maximum amount of "efforts" of the community is invested.

The Ministry of Finance continues its crusade on bitcoin and is trying to achieve tougher penalties for all those involved in operations using this crypto currency.

According to the draft law, it is proposed to fine not only those who made financial transactions using "money surrogates" (crypto currency), but also those who create software products that allow them to work and disseminate information about their use and release.

Numerous fake sites of crypto-exchange exchanges and exchange services of bitcoins are one of the proven methods of enrichment for intruders. Changing one letter in the URL, they create fake clones of Internet resources, where you can store or exchange bitcoins, ethers and other crypto currency.

"Bitcoin is a" speculative mania, "according to the head of the Central Bank of Australia, but it's not so simple to say that the new height: the cost of bitcoin exceeded $ 17,000 New height: the cost of bitcoin exceeded $ 17,000. still do not know how to evaluate it.

This week, Bitcoin's price exceeded $ 19,000 on world exchanges, with the exception of one continent - Africa. Customers of the second largest and second largest population in the world in the world already bought Bitcoin at this price in November. On average, prices on the largest African exchange Golix.com were higher by 40% than the world average. Bitcoin.com decided to figure out what caused such a difference in price.

The Japanese financial regulator (FSA) stated about the need to equate Bitcoin and other crypto-currencies to ordinary fiat money. This step, according to the regulator, will contribute to the protection of consumer rights and stimulates the growth of the virtual economy.

After several years of uncertainty, the Israel Tax Service published a document (the original in Hebrew) that defines the status of the crypto currency and the taxation regime applied to them.

Bitcoin attracts serious interest as a means of investment and saving of capital not only in China, but also in India. Companies with a high level of income and just rich people began to look at the crypto currency as a possible asset.

Sandeep Goenka, general director of the Indian Bitcoin company, Zebpay, explained to Business Standard that Bitcoin's deflationary character makes it attractive as an asset class: "You can put money in a purse in the hope that the price will rise."

Zebpay is one of several major players on the Indian crypto-currency scene; other companies are Unocoin and the Coinsecure trading platform.

no, because the cost of crypto currency is not dictated by the authorities. You are not forced to accept crypto currency forcibly and only in it to make certain payments, as it happens with government money. The cost of crypto currency is determined only by the ratio of demand and supply in the market. Free market economy.

Supranational system
Crypto currency is the same supranational technology as the Internet. Throughout the world, in recent years, only the number of points working with crypto currency has increased. Even a large business like Microsoft or Dell is already taking Bitcoin for its products.

Many people are interested in the question of how to get 1 Bitcoin for free in the shortest possible time? If you believe the forecasts of experts, then within a year, the most popular crypto currency will rise in price to 5 thousand dollars. Having invested money today, tomorrow you can get twice as much. This is one of the simplest, but rather risky methods, which, unfortunately, is impossible without starting capital.

New opportunities
Smart contracts, multi-signatures and other progress made for the convenience of business and users. You can create transactions with the guarantor, when, for example, two of three signatures are required to complete a transaction. Smart contracts allow you to set much more complicated conditions for performing operations.

Now in the world, most of the civilized society uses the services of the banking sector. Given that the world has become more globalized, people have become more dependent on banks. This suggests that the economies of all countries are intertwined and become dependent on each other

Attacks on the crypto-currency from the state in the near future will certainly increase, until the global financial system fundamentally changes on the basis of blocking technology, I am convinced that the founder of the crypto-currency PRIZM, a specialist in crypto-currencies and block-technologies, Alexei Muratov

In Finland, bitcoin transactions are treated as financial transactions, so they do not apply value added tax. Although in most cases people view bitcoins as valuable assets, not money. The same situation is observed in Belgium.

Bitсoin worried about European officials after the EU parliamentarians agreed on limiting his turnover. They have banned the EU anonymous operations with crypto money on trading platforms on the Internet, as well as payments on debit cards. Now, the sites where bitcoin is traded must identify users - in 1.5 years this rule should be introduced in all EU countries.