I always wondered what is the problem for BTC to be finally adopted in the wide range of business, I was expecting at least a great adaption in the online business but even so, what stops business from adapting BTC, the volatility? The low rates of adoption? Or maybe a lack of propaganda? BTC is so great and I really wish I could use it in more places IRL!

I've heard and read many analysts actually optimistic about this last big dive in the market flow, they believe it's a signal for a big bull in the next semester. But I find hard to believe as I'm not seeing why exactly they see that, what you guys think? 

I've seen a lot of topics like this but I don't know how to do it.

[How to mine BTC]

I don't know about you guys, but the greatest thing that made me interested about cryptocurrency was the dreamy chance to earn lots and lots of money "doing nothing", of course the idea itself was extraordinary, and it was hell to get to know even the smallest process about it. Yes, I was one the people that had the chance to invest in 2008 and wanst just that much interested, due to many things, I lost so much money thinking now... I had the money to invest, but no the time.   But whatever, everyday is a good day to earn! And I suppose most of you in the begginers forum is looking for some juicy bounty, opportunity and interesting information, well I got one right here.

How to mine BTC

Effectively, of course.

Step 1: Save your money!

The hardest part.

Stop immediatly buying those candies, sodas, useless clothes or anything you buy out of luxury. You gonna need all the money you can to make the best of your investments, pay your bills and try to save as much as possible for the next step.

Step 2: Buy a miner

The second hardest part.

They can be kinda expensive depending on where you from, but you need to choose your miner, CPU and GPU are no longer so good to mine for a lot of reaons, they are almost obsolete these days. And miners are simply too good, they are machines working 100% to mine and use all their power to make you earn. Some famous miners are Antminer , Pandaminer , Avalon and many others, research very well before buying it! Some are build especially for one sort of coin like ETH or XMR.

Step 3: Download BTC core

Let's say you bought a nice miner and have it at your home set-up and plugged with your computer. Read the manual! The process to install the rig might differ from branch, honestly I'm not certain, but I wouldn't be surprised. Now that you went through this small and boring step, go to bitcoin.org/download and download the core, it might take a while depending on your speed connection! Follow the guidelines on the website and proceed to the next step.

Step 4: Download a miner software

If your rig already don't have one of their preference, there are several mining programs of very skilled programmers on their knees imploring you to use them. For BTC the most famous (and some that I used myself) are: Bitcoin Miner, BTC miner (very criative names), EasyMiner, NiceHash and others. It really depends on your Operational System, look carefully!

Step 5: Set up your wallet

This is harder than you think.

Okay, this is a hot topic so I will just show you the most famous online wallets. Keep in mind, that are several sort of wallets, normally you can start with an online wallet without a care, but if you're really worried about security you can look for a hardware wallet, which is in fact safer and better in general. But everything is up to you! All I can tell you is that I went to Coin.space or BitGo.

Step 6: Choose your mining pool

That's up to you

Bitcoin mining pools are a way for Bitcoin miners to pool their resources together and share their hashing power while splitting the reward equally according to the amount of shares they contributed to solving a block. It's not necessary and it might take a while to solve your first block, but I strongly suggest you do that for a start. I can't say much about it as the topic is kinda complicated but if you ever try it out choose AntPool, F2Pool or BW.com!

Step 7: Commence mining

Hold your coins in your wallet, there are many services with small fees out there that you can use to cash out. But be careful, you can be losing a lot of money doing that, keep an eye on the market and watch BTC current price and trends, a good website for that is CryptoCompare, with charts and everything you need for BTC and all altcoins.


If that ever helped you one day, please let me know!

Additional to generating power for the farm, it also helps running the miners! I believe such ecological ideas are going to be a trend in the future.
Have you any ecological and clean idea to make energy? Your idea can worth a lot of money!

What are the thoughts until now about being able to change the forum colors/designs? Sometimes a change of look feels nice! 

[BTC will come back at full strenght in China]

How perhaps the most controversial country in the world like China has banned BTC? Their flag is red communist and we often see news about Chinese workforce, the censorship, the state-run business, the lack of freedom to protest and rally, the constant pressure that is the Chinese society and most recently, the cameras everywhere watching your life everytime as you leave home (at least in the big urban areas). At the same time, China is the world's strongest economy, truly the biggest force in the capitalist world, strong investor and voracious land buyer, China is the world factory.
One of BTC biggest believers and investors are Chinese, there are many chinese enterpreuners with a very capitalist mindset (different from what you would expect from a communist country) and I believe the a good portion of cryptocurrency users in Asia are Chinese, so... Why? It has to do with elections, ideology and communists. The left-leaning voters have no trust in "foreigner things" and the current president in order to guarantee his position, he needs their loyal support and by banning BTC trades hes appealing to his Communist voting bloc.
So in the following years BTC will come back at full strenght in China, even though I dislike the chinese president he has done many good things for the international market and the capitalist world.

What do you guys think? Do you think maybe other leftist countries will follow Chinese example?

[BTC to the moon!]

I will start and you guys follow with your own phrases that you had used before in crypto communities and chit-chats.
 
BTC to the moon! - It started with this youtube video of a dog carrying the BTC flag to the moon back in 2013, now when BTC price is rising a lot you might see some people saying that, that's what it meant! The prices will rise so high it will reach the moon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr_nfvSSoAo

I've spoted some posts in other social medias of people selling Bitcointalk accounts, is that allowed here?

What do you guys think in a near future there gonna be coins like "Bit-America" or "Canada-coin", backed up by public assets, would that be a good idea

People often talking about how USA was the good and Japan was the evil in World War 2, but when you see the history of every country involved, you start to find hard to take sides in any conflict, even though I hate nazis I can't see the Russians or Brittish or French as the good side, those were all imperialistic countries that killed and enslaved millions of people before Hitler, and kept doing so after he was gone. I believe one the biggest reasons for Hitler's rise into power was exactly Great Britain and France foreigner politics.

I wanna know if there are services that give you tokens in exchange of playing and being active on their game? Any information is welcome, thanks!

Prophets are high valued people used by religions around the world, like Jesus, Mohammed, Bhuda, high respected personalities like Japanese Emperors, Ethiopian Emperors and other minor characters. Do you think it's right to mock Jesus the way people do? Or to use him as a character, souvenir or picture to be used anyway you want? Do you also think it's okay when people kill a lot because they felt offended seeing their prophet?

We all know cryptocurrencies don’t fit traditional regulatory definitions—what policymakers do about that will determine where the technology goes from here. Especially regarding alt-coins who are based on big cryptos like BTC and ETH, used to rubbing shoulders with regulators. The dark underbelly of the bonanza in initial coin offerings, rising concerns about the security of cryptocurrency exchanges, and a rush of “Main Street” investors to the scene have helped convince bureaucrats across the globe that cryptocurrency markets deserve a lot more attention.
Alt-coins have way less power to deal with bureaucrats than big business like BTC, what do you think they can do that can destroy alt-coins? I believe a stronger ICO regulation might be bad for everyone in the long run.

How can the government discover I own BTC, let's say I'm from Venezuela where crypto is banned, what they can do to discover and arrest me?

I ended up posting my many topics, but when I hit the "Show new replies to your posts" button it literally show every single post that I went to and it's not dead, a big list of which I need to lose minutes looking for and I feel severely discouraged, is there any idea to improve this list? Also, I'm 100% sure nobody really uses the "Show unread posts since last visit", since it will mostly show updated topics from the market list (that is normally the most updated for obvious reasons), I don't know if this came with Bitcoin forum template, but I believe there are better options in order to improve it.

Gamers are also computer users and share some degree of knowledge, they are used to research and try out new things, as soon they learn you can mine "digital gold for in-game products", I believe BTC will see a rise of users never seen before! Mining cryptocurrency for tokens that can be exchanged items will be the new fever, profitable for all parties, especially the user that will feel like he is expending nothing, just using his computer power to create more and more coins.

Hello, I had this idea on another topic and I'd like to make it formal here, a system where good topics are highlighted by the average user and more users with merit have the chance to check it out and see if it worth it! How will it work in the topic list? Instead of going upwards (that still can keep working by the standard way), it will get highlighted (a golden neon or something), in exchange, topics with merit also gets highlighted! What do you guys think? 

[A quick guide to Bitcoin History, this is based on my research and might have some mistakes. Feel free to point out any mistake.]

A quick guide to Bitcoin History, this is based on my research and might have some mistakes. Feel free to point out any mistake.

What is Bitcoin?

Introduction

Bitcoin is the first cryptocurrency to exist and currently the most valuable one. The first and official appearance of the term was in 2008, it's a white paper that showed up on a list, written a person named Satoshi Nakamoto (real identity unknown to this day). The paper explained a method peer-to-peer where people can realize transactions using blockchain technology, in a way is safe, automatically and it doesn't demand trust. Before the release, Bitcoin is known to be a product made and maintained by a group of very dedicated scientists, and it has been on research and being built for decades now. After Bitcoin release, many other cryptocurrencies were born afterward.

How Bitcoin works?

Blockchain

Bitcoin is blockchain. And blockchain is a technology that has a decentralization as a measure of security. It's an ever-growing list of transactions records, known as "block"[/i], such blocks hold crucial info and transaction information from the previous block, which is chained with another block before him. Thus the name blockchain. Resuming the system, such blocks are managed by a peer-to-peer system, which every computer connected has the task to validate and connect each block (each transaction). Being secure by design, nobody can really modify the chain of information. Once recorded, the data in any given block cannot be altered retroactively without the alteration of all subsequent blocks, which requires collusion of the network majority. Thousands of independent computers are taking care of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. This way, Bitcoin is basically fraud-proof and can be used effectively as a decentralized currency system.

Pre-History

Other digital currencies and first evidences

It is known that Bitcoin is not the first "digital money" to ever exist. There were several other forms of transactions before the most trustable and safe cryptocurrency come to exist, E-Gold was a very famous service back in the day and was eventually shut-down by the US government for money laundering and being unlicensed. There were other services with similar experiences like Gold Money and e-Bullion, the latter ended up being another scam and stole millions of dollars from victims, the owner was eventually arrested for several crimes. As far as I researched most of them were shut-down or are really not that strong anymore, reasons: being a big target for hackers and not secure of all, resulting in a lot of headaches for investors and users.

After the disaster, it's very unknown what exactly the so-called Satoshi Nakamoto and the group were doing before 2008, there were many technologies like blockchain that could be discussed and found on the internet that probably helped them developing Bitcoin, some of the currency predecessors were B-money by Wei Dai and Bit Gold by Nick Szabo (what a lot of people assume it's the real Satoshi) , the very concept of digital money itself was very trendy amongst tech people from the 80s and 90s at the rise of personal computer and internet and the peak of cyber punk culture, the technology itself was used on some old technology released in the late 90's, as long people don't discover who Satoshi Nakamoto is, such events are most likely to remain unknown, at least for the great public.

2008

Monetary Revolution

Honestly, most people didn't care much about cryptocurrency at the beginning. With several failures and scams before it, "Digital Gold" was far from being popular due to scandals and scams that had recently happened, but the world was in crisis and even Wall Street was suffering from great public outrage when it started it was not even 10 cents, and it stayed like that for several months until the first rise in 2009. Few people understood what it really was and "Satoshi Nakamoto" kept working, buying domains and developing the currency.
We can still access Satoshi's post that reveals cryptocurrency to the world:
http://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html
So, Satoshi releases the Whitepaper and continues on to register the project with SourceForge (which is an open-source community collaboration website, similar to GitHub. As of June 2015 the project has completely been transferred to GitHub.)

2009

First actual year

The first 50 blockchains were released on 3rd January and didn't even worth 10 cents.The first transaction was made by Satoshi Nakamoto. On December 16 the second version on Bitcoin was already being released with several patches and crucial features, later a huge problem would be found. Mining was still low as few people were connected with the database, as far as I know, the year ended with Bitcoin not even worth 30 cents. No alt-coins existed at that time. An IRC channel was released, Bitcoin kept a low profile, not a surprise after the several cases and the US government cracking down on "digital money".

2010

The pot is brewing

The first official Bitcoin market stock was open! And someone bought pizza with 10.000 BTC! With ever increasing publicity we can say the oldest user base of cryptocurrency users was alive, which nowadays are probably all rich. Many advances were made in 2010, wallets, transactions, bugs were fixed, capitalization value of bitcoin reaches it's first million dollars. The first mobile transaction was made, by January 30 Bitcoin reaches 30 cents value! And the first miner was released, the legendary OpenCL miner! By now, 100$ invested in 2010 worth roughly 18 million in 2018 or more.

2011

A solid year

From this point I will just provide quick annotations. Since so much starts to happen and it's quite difficult to make it "fast" by explaining.
Bitcoin price hits 1 dollar in February! But that's still not the launching year, by the end of 2011 the peak will not even be 5 dollars.
Extraordinary fact: 4BTC were sold for 100 trillion Zimbabwe dollars, this country money history is very crazy!
Bitcoin is finally exchanged for crude fiat money!
"Britain launches the first exchange to trade bitcoin and British Pound Sterling (GBP). Just days later, on March 31, Bitcoin Brazil opens a service for face-to-face exchange in Brazilian Reals (BRL) and U.S. Dollars." from 99bitcoins.
Mt. Gov is open for business as just in 2 years BTC is already face-to-face with dollars.
Mt. Gov is hacked! Hackers steal employee credentials and sell fake bitcoins until the same reach the 0.01 price, later on, they manage to reverse the damage.

Under construction...

What if you were God and you could manipulate what coin wins and what coin loses, what coin would you make it to rank 1? Even tho you know it will never and it's not even that good, but you can't help but feeling some love for it (for whatever reasons). My favorite coin is Dogecoin and if it was up to me I'd make this cute doggo appear in every new and article when people talk about the crypto-world! He is so cute and it's funny that the coin is fairly successful, what about you guys?

http://dogecoin.com/imgs/dogecoin-300.png

He is so fluffy! I wish fiat money visual could be something more artistic rather than serious, generic and boring.