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141  Other / Meta / Spam on: April 14, 2017, 01:30:41 PM

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142  Economy / Service Discussion / doubt about neteller on: March 21, 2017, 08:13:53 AM
Neteller has changed its account verification policies and now requires all members to complete additional identity verification steps. In order to ensure your account usage will not be interrupted, please complete the below steps to verify your account.

They are asking to use webcam to verify account

But it is not working, Has anyone managed to use webcam to verify account in neteller?


PS: I've already verify account for years, but now they say I should use webcam for additional verification
143  Economy / Service Discussion / C-CEX on: March 15, 2017, 08:18:54 AM
I'm having problems with my C-CEX account and other sites

C-CEX

"Authorization failed from IP: 185.50.251.109
If it was not You then just ignore this message and make sure your password strong enough and not compromised. We also strongly recommend to turn two-factor authorization on (2FA) if You haven't it by now.
"

Has anyone else received this email?

Days ago I received a similar email from another site that I have account with. Last week I received an email from a site that I have an account that said someone tried to enter my account.

It seems that this is becoming frequent
144  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-02-22] Bitcoin Price Recovers in China Making Up For Huobi, OKCoin... on: February 23, 2017, 10:36:40 AM
Bitcoin Price Recovers in China Making Up For Huobi, OKCoin Withdrawal Suspension


Bitcoin price has fully recovered since the temporary Bitcoin withdrawal suspension on Huobi and OKCoin traders, having increased from $980 to $1,123 within two weeks.

On Jan. 18, Huobi and OKCoin were requested by the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) to overhaul their know your customer, hereinafter KYC, and anti-money laundering, hereinafter AML, regulation
. Local publications including the Shanghai Observer reported that the PBoC told the two exchanges they were in violation of local regulations and failed to meet industry-wide standards.

Three weeks after the PBoC made its initial request to Huobi and OKCoin for a KYC and AML system upgrade, OKCoin and Huobi officially suspended Bitcoin and Litecoin withdrawals for one month. Depending on the upgrade, the two exchanges stated that the suspension could either be cleared before the one month period or could potentially last longer than the original one-month timeline.

On Feb. 9, when Huobi and OKCoin released their official statements, Bitcoin price plunged overnight from $1,054 to $988. While the Chinese market showed resilience to the PBoC-OKCoin and Huobi controversy at first, the US market and its leading exchange such as Bitfinex and Kraken began to demonstrate the rapid resurgence of panic sellers and traders.

Since then, Bitcoin price has continued to recover and is very close to reaching its all-time high price. Bitcoin has already surpassed this year’s all-time high price established in late January. Although the Bitcoin price recovery can be attributed to the exponential growth of the Japanese Bitcoin exchange market, Cointelegraph revealed that peer-to-peer Bitcoin trading has been on the rise.

Almost immediately after withdrawals on Huobi and OKCoin were disabled, LocalBitcoins China trading volumes began to surge, surpassing all-time high trading values at $5.8 mln weekly trading volume
.

Today, Bitcoin price officially hit its third highest weighted average price, surpassing this year’s peak. Based on the current price trend, Bitcoin price is presumed to increase if no major events that could potentially lead to the demise of Bitcoin’s value emerge in upcoming weeks.





https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-recovers-in-china-making-up-for-huobi-okcoin-withdrawal-suspension
145  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-2-8] Poland’s Bitcoin Exchange Bitcurex Disappears in Mt.Gox Fashion on: February 09, 2017, 01:15:59 PM
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Poland’s Bitcoin Exchange Bitcurex Disappears in Mt.Gox Fashion



Bitcurex, one of Poland’s largest exchanges has shut shop after a reported 2300 BTC ($1.5 mln) theft. The polish exchange was one of the oldest in the country.

Before the website of Bitcurex was taken down, a message was posted by the administrators in Polish which translated reads:


“On 13.10.2016 as a result of third-party systems service www.bitcurex.com/ www.bitcurex.com damaged by external interference in automated data collection and processing of information. The consequence of these actions is the loss of part of the assets managed by bitcurex.com/dashcurex.com.”

People were promised their money back


Bitcurex had promised to return money back to the users within seven days according to the Polish newspaper Gazeta. It is further alleged by Bitcoin.pl that the exchange had no records left after it was attacked and it was asking users to submit forms to confirm ownership of assets.

“Given that the exchange required proved ownership of the site and that the confirmed balance disagreed with the facts,” Bitcoin.pl wrote in an article, “you can come to the conclusion that the exchange does not have a current copy of the database, which could be damaged at the time of the alleged hacking.”

Thieves? Scammers?

Not only has the exchange shut down and people have most likely lost all their money, it also came to light that customer data of the exchange was also compromised in the hack that took place in October 2016. The lack of customer data with the exchange is a strong indicator of that.

While the last tweet on the company’s twitter handle was made on Sep. 12, 2016, the Facebook page of Bitcurex is still active and is riddled with comments and posts from angry customers.

One user Daniel Jarek simply posted “Thieves”, while another Daniel Stachurski wrote, “Scammers.”



https://cointelegraph.com/news/polands-bitcoin-exchange-bitcurex-disappears-in-mtgox-fashion
146  Other / Politics & Society / Cops Mistake 81yo Grandma in Her Backyard for a ‘Suspect’ Have K9 Maul Her on: February 08, 2017, 04:21:40 PM
Cops Mistake 81yo Grandma in Her Backyard for a ‘Suspect’ Have K9 Maul Her


Coon Rapids, MN — An 81-year-old grandma was hospitalized this week after she was attacked by a police K9 while cleaning her shed in her own backyard. Police are now claiming that they ‘acted appropriately’ when they unleashed their dog on this innocent woman.
Choua Xiong got up early Sunday morning to clean out her shed in her backyard. She had done nothing wrong and posed no threat, when police, looking for a ‘suspect’, entered her backyard without a warrant and unleashed their K9 on her.
According to police, a neighbor called 9-1-1 after she saw a suspicious person in a black coat in her backyard. The caller said she heard a loud noise outside but couldn’t tell where it came from. As police investigated, they entered Xiong’s yard and saw a person in her shed. That person was Xiong.

Xiong, who is hard of hearing, did not hear the officers calling for her to come out of the shed. According to police, they yelled for the ‘suspect’ to come out of the shed 10-15 times, however, no one emerged — so they unleashed the dog.
Instead of entering the shed to see if it could’ve been a child with headphones on — or an innocent old woman who was hard of hearing — police sent in their K9 to tear apart whoever it was that couldn’t hear their demands to come out.

The officers could’ve simply waited for the ‘suspect’ to come out of the shed as well. However, they chose to rush to violent escalation. From the time police entered Xiong’s back yard to the time they unleashed the K9 was less than 10 minutes.




Read More: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/police-k9-grandma-cleaning/
147  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-02-08] Chinese Citizens Troll PBOC and Prop Up Bitcoin on: February 08, 2017, 04:07:03 PM
Chinese Citizens Troll PBOC and Prop Up Bitcoin

The China Money Network released a “special commentary” which says Yuan fell “slightly lower than the end of December last year, but the rate of change is not large,” according to a google translation.

Zooming out of Yuan’s charts, the currency has fallen to its lowest level in seven years. Moreover, China’s reserves have fallen below the significant psychological threshold of $3 trillion, its lowest in five years, raising questions on whether the People’s Bank of China (PBOC), China’s central bank, can continue maintaining Yuan’s value – which fell yesterday.

Nonetheless, PBOC’s Weibo account, China’s Twitter, linked to the commentary highlighting: the “index of the RMB exchange rate depreciated slightly.”


“It can’t be mentioned” – one Chinese citizen replies sarcastically referring to news earlier in the year that China had ordered Chinese bitcoin exchanges to “not mention devaluation.”

“Unscrupulous Bitcoin only up not down. Pity my hard-earned money, hit my central bank face.” – replied another.



https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/chinese-citizens-troll-pboc-prop-bitcoin/
148  Other / Politics & Society / Six other times the US has banned immigrants on: February 06, 2017, 05:14:14 PM
Donald Trump's 'Muslim ban' is not the first time specific groups or nationalities have been blocked from the US.


Over the past 200 years, US presidents have placed restrictions on the immigration of certain groups [File: Reuters]


On Friday, Donald Trump barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries - Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen - from entering the United States for at least the next 90 days.

He also suspended the US refugee programme for 120 days, specifically banning Syrian refugees until further notice, reduced the number of refugees who would be admitted this year to 50,000 and specified that refugees who were from a religious minority and fleeing religious persecution should be prioritised.

A federal judge has blocked part of Trump's executive order , ruling that travellers who have already landed in the US with valid visas should not be sent back to their home countries, and protests in response to passport holders from some Arab countries, including US green card holders, being blocked from passing through customs or prevented from boarding US-bound planes, have taken place at airports across the country.


But this is not the first time that the US has banned immigrants from its shores. Over the past 200 years, successive American presidents have placed restrictions on the immigration of certain groups.

Here are six occasions when laws have been passed to restrict some people from entering the country.



http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/01/times-banned-immigrants-170128183528941.html?
149  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-02-05] Venezuelan Authorities Destroy Bitcoin Mining Center... on: February 05, 2017, 06:31:21 PM
Venezuelan Authorities Destroy Bitcoin Mining Center As Crackdown Continues

venezuelan authorities destroyed a bitcoin mining center in Valencia in Carabobo state, the most recent action taken in an effort to clamp down on bitcoin-related activity in the economically ravaged country, according to criptonoticias, a Venezuelan cryptocurrency website.

Venezuelan authorities arrested members of a Poland-based network after locating a shed with 11,000 bitcoins in Los Guayos in an industrial zone, according to the Bolivarian government of Venezuela website. The Bolivarian National Police (PNB) division against capital legitimation detected suspicious shipments entering a warehouse that contained bitcoin mining equipment. The investigation was conducted by a PNB commission in the state of Carabobo.

A Criminal Network

The network used the bitcoin equipment in various parts of the country to legitimize capital, conduct computer crime, finance terrorism, engage in electronic theft and engage in fraud exchange.

Authorities arrested Eusebio Gómez Henríquez (51) and Andrés Alejandro Carrero Martínez (35).

The operations were camouflaged as Internet connection centers and a data center.

Government action in various parts of the country continues against “criptomonedas” operations.

Pictures on the criptonoticias website show PicoStocks 100TH, a machine developed by PicoStocks and programmed by the Institute BioInoBank group of scientific and technological advisors. Both organizations are based in Poland.



https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/venezuelan-authorities-destroy-bitcoin-mining-center-crackdown-continues/
150  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-02-03] Bitcoin Price $2000 Is Just Starter, Unless Compromise is Reached on: February 04, 2017, 01:04:38 AM
Bitcoin Price $2000 Is Just Starter, Unless Compromise is Reached



As the price of Bitcoin is climbing slowly, a compromise may have to be reached in the face of the unfolding situation between a Donald Trump-led US and China for the earlier projected $2.000 price range for Bitcoin in 2017 not to be just a starter in months to come.


A looming trade war between the two countries would favor Bitcoin. However, the extent to which the war would last will only be determined by which of the leaders of the two biggest economies in the world to back down first on their policy statements.


Another considered scenario could be that the US would make efforts to contain China. According to Victor Zhikai Gao, a leading Chinese expert on international relations and chairperson of the China Energy Security Institute, this could backfire and escalate the doctrine of mutually assured destruction.


The state of the US-China relationship


So far, the US-China relationship has had some tension in the last few days. The new US president has signed into law a new national day of patriotism, and in a separate statement on the White House website, said he intends to develop a “state of the art” missile defense system to protect against attacks from Iran and North Korea. In response, Iran is planning to dump the US dollar now.


https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-2000-is-just-starter-unless-compromise-is-reached
151  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-02-01]Bitcoin Price Crosses $975 as Global Political Tensions Steam on: February 01, 2017, 02:58:39 PM
Bitcoin Price Crosses $975 as Global Political Tensions Steam


Bitcoin price is on the rise, gaining over 6% in value since yesterday’s trading day to reach a high of $977.52 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) on the first day of February 2017.

Following days of stable trading where bitcoin price steadied around the $920 resistance level, the cryptocurrency is now trading closer to numbers registered toward the end of 2016, when bitcoin pushed toward the $1000 milestone.

At the start of day on January 31, the BPI figures reveal bitcoin trading at the $920 mark, reaching a low of $917.5 for the day. Initial signs of a swell came about during the early hours of the day when price rose from $920.53 at 07:00 to $934.16, an hour later. Price plateaued briefly before rising again from $934.37 an hour before midday to $953 at 15:00. The day finished with trading at $963.99 at midnight.

Since then, prices have stuck near that figure, scaling a high of $977.52 around 09:00 today.


At the time of publishing bitcoin is trading to the dollar at $967.51.


Global Tensions Arise



The surge coincides with statements from Donald Trump’s foremost trade advisor accusing Germany, Europe’s largest economy, of currency exploitation. German chancellor rejected the notion in an ongoing verbal spar between officials from the two economic heavyweights. Meanwhile, trading among Asian markets took a cautious tone ahead of the US Fed’s regulatory and policy moves – the first since President Donald Trump took office – due to be announced today.

Trump’s sweeping executive order on banning immigrants and travelers from seven predominantly-Muslim nations has seen considerable criticism, leading to wider political uncertainties that has spilled over into the global financial stage. Iran has moved to confirm that it will stop using the US Dollar – widely seen as the global currency benchmark – as its currency of choice in financial and foreign exchange reports.

The uncertain economic climate, coupled with buoyant bitcoin trading in China has seen bitcoin break the $1000 mark in the country, once again in 2017.


Any proposed moves by Trump to tax remittance or trade with Mexico, China or other countries is certain to increase interest in bitcoin as the cryptocurrency embraces its duality as a store of value asset in times of economic upheaval and political uncertainties.


https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-price-crosses-975-political-tensions-steam/

152  Other / Politics & Society / Trump state visit plan 'very difficult' for Queen on: January 31, 2017, 09:40:55 AM
Trump state visit plan 'very difficult' for Queen



Theresa May's decision to invite Donald Trump to a state visit has put the Queen in a "very difficult position", a former head of the Foreign Office says.


In a letter to The Times, Lord Ricketts said the offer had been "premature".
A petition calling for the state visit to be cancelled has gathered more than 1.6 million signatures.
On Monday, thousands of people across the UK joined protests against Mr Trump's travel ban on seven mainly Muslim countries.
The controversial immigration measures prompted an emergency debate in parliament on Monday.


Lord Ricketts, who was permanent secretary at the Foreign Office from 2006 to 2010, said it was unprecedented for a US president to be invited for a state visit in their first year in the White House.
He questioned whether Mr Trump was "specially deserving of this exceptional honour".

"It would have been far wiser to wait to see what sort of president he would turn out to be before advising the Queen to invite him.


"Now the Queen is put in a very difficult position," he said.




Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38805196
153  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-01-31] ID Required to Buy a Coffee With Bitcoin in the Czech Republic on: January 31, 2017, 09:10:39 AM
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ID Required to Buy a Coffee With Bitcoin in the Czech Republic


In line with the recent legislative policy led by the European Commission, the Czech Republic government aims to create a more strict approach to cryptocurrency anonymity.

Czech Republic’s Ministry of Finance Enforces Cryptocurrency KYC Procedures


Bitcoin and cryptocurrency are a popular phenomenon in the Czech Republic and the city of Prague. The region has over 80 merchants that accept bitcoin and many popular cryptocurrency startups. Czech Republic officials have traditionally had a pretty lenient stance towards digital currencies. According to regional publication Právní rádce, authorities are now concerned with money laundering and terrorist financing through digital currencies.

On January 1, the Czech Republic initiated its cryptocurrency-related piece of legislation. The policy will require cryptocurrency exchange operators and other associated services to follow Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures. Exchanges must ask each customer for their identity card, gender, nationality, and address. “There is no longer any option for customers of bitcoin exchanges to hide behind false names or nicknames,” the new guidelines detail.



https://news.bitcoin.com/mandatory-to-show-id-to-buy-a-coffee-with-bitcoin-in-the-czech-republic/
154  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-01-30] Bitcoin Core Dev’s Blocksize Reduction Proposal Draws Ire from ViaB on: January 30, 2017, 07:11:28 PM
Bitcoin Core Dev’s Blocksize Reduction Proposal Draws Ire from ViaBTC Founder

Haipo Yang, ViaBTC’s founder and former employee at the Chinese internet giant Tencent, expressed strong criticism in a brief interview with CCN towards Luke-Jr, a Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream contractor, regarding his proposal to reduce the blocksize to 300kb or, alternatively, for the network to wait another 7 years before an increase of the current 1MB transaction capacity. Yang says:

“If we change the block limit to 300KB now, the bitcoin system will crash. He, as the core developer of Bitcoin, [is] very irresponsible to do this.”

Luke-jr did not respond to our requests for comments in time for publishing.

Yang further stated that Bitcoin Unlimited is winning and despite a recent bug that created a forked bigger than 1MB block, ViaBTC will continue to support BU as “every software has Bug. We have bug too and lost some money.”


https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/bitcoin-core-devs-blocksize-reduction-proposal-draws-ire-viabtc-founder/

155  Economy / Service Discussion / Opinion about payza plastic card on: January 28, 2017, 11:04:09 AM
Does anyone use a payza plastic card? I want to ask for a card and I would like to get some practical information about the card.

The information i need to know:

- How long does it take to recharge the card?
- did you have any embarrassment when using the card, for example you wanted to pay something and the card did not work?

- What are the rates like? Do they compensate? (I already saw the fees, I want to know in practice)

Feel free to share more information if you have one.
156  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-01-26] Bitcoin On The Rise in India: Steady in Growth... on: January 26, 2017, 05:42:46 PM

Bitcoin On The Rise in India: Steady in Growth, Impossible to Shut Down



Over the past few months, local Indian Bitcoin exchanges including Unocoin have shown enormous growth, primarily due to the demonetization of banknotes and the financial crisis which subsequently hit the Indian economy.

In November and December, Unocoin hit record-breaking trading volumes, reaching the highest total monthly Bitcoin trading volume in November. The company also announced that it obtained the most users in a month in November, after the announcement by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to impose strict financial regulations.

A Unocoin spokesperson tweeted:

Rapid growth of the Bitcoin industry in India


Belfrics, a Malaysia-based Bitcoin service provider and exchange, expanded its operations into India to strengthen the Bitcoin infrastructure and trading ecosystem of the country.

Recognizing the rapid growth rate of local Bitcoin exchanges, Belfrics decided to expand its services to India to ensure the general population of India has a wider range of Bitcoin service providers and trading platforms to choose from. The entrance of Belfrics into the Indian Bitcoin exchange market is expected to create solid competition for local Bitcoin exchanges.

Praveen Kumar, CEO of Belfrics, told a local publication in India during an interview that he is optimistic about the growth of the Bitcoin industry and the status of regulatory frameworks within the country. He firmly believes the Indian government is taking an appropriate approach in regulating both the Fintech and Bitcoin industries.



Read more here: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-on-the-rise-in-india-steady-in-growth-impossible-to-shut-down
157  Bitcoin / Press / [2017-01-19] Pakistan Set to Become a Major Bitcoin Hub on: January 19, 2017, 06:38:13 PM

Pakistan Set to Become a Major Bitcoin Hub

Pakistan is currently the seventh most populous country in the world with approximately 202 million residents. Today, the country exhibits many traits ripe for accelerated bitcoin adoption. Bitcoin.com discussed bitcoin trends in Pakistan with Danyal Manzar, the co-founder of Pakistan’s first and largest bitcoin trading platform, Urdubit.


https://news.bitcoin.com/pakistan-set-to-become-a-major-bitcoin-hub
158  Other / Politics & Society / Istanbul Reina club suspect 'confesses': official on: January 17, 2017, 10:50:13 AM
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Istanbul Reina club suspect 'confesses': official


Governor of Istanbul says Abdulgadir Masharipov, who was captured on Monday, admitted to killing 39 on New Year's Eve.





Istanbul's governor has said a New Year's Eve nightclub attack that killed 39 people was carried out on behalf of ISIL and that the suspect, an Uzbekistan national, has confessed.

Vasip Sahin told a new conference on Tuesday it was "clear that this was carried out in the name of Daesh," using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, also known as ISIS.

Sahin said that Abdulgadir Masharipov, who was arrested on Monday, was believed to have entered Turkey in January 2016, and that he had trained in Afghanistan.

The governor said Masharipov's fingerprints matched those of the attacker.


Earlier on Tuesday, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters in Ankara that Masharipov was being questioned by police and expressed hope that the interrogation would unveil the "forces" behind the attack.

Masharipov was caught late on Monday in a police raid on an apartment in the Esenyurt district, which is on Istanbul's European side.

Photographs from the raid, widely published in the Turkish media, showed a bruised, black-haired man in a gray, bloodied shirt being held by his neck. NTV television said he resisted arrest.

Turkish media initially reported the killer was captured with his four-year-old son, but the governor said the child was not present during the police raid.

Police confiscated $197,000, two weapons and ammunition clips at the apartment.

The state-run Anadolu Agency said a man from Kyrgyzstan and three women - from Somalia, Senegal and Egypt - were also detained in the raid, while Masharipov's son was taken into protective custody.


Anadolu said police carried out raids on members of a suspected Uzbek ISIL cell in five Istanbul neighbourhoods and detained several people.

Authorities have been hunting the attacker for more than two weeks, after the bloodbath on the glitzy Reina nightclub on the shores of the Bosphorus.

Hundreds of people had gathered there to celebrate the end of a tumultuous 2016 only to become the first victims of 2017.

Using a long-barreled rifle, the gunman shot a police officer and a civilian outside the club, before storming the premises.

Most of those killed in the attack were foreign nationals, mainly from the Middle East.


what is your opinion?





159  Economy / Speculation / Analyst Compares Current Bitcoin Rally to 2013, Buyers Should Hold on: January 13, 2017, 04:47:02 PM

Analyst Compares Current Bitcoin Rally to 2013, Buyers Should Hold





Bitcoin’s recent price plunge isn’t quite like late 2013 as many Bitcoin investors and traders assume.

In November of 2013, the price trend of Bitcoin was nearly identical with the rally of Bitcoin in the final months of last year. On November 25, 2013, Bitcoin reached a price of $988 on most global Bitcoin exchanges, including Bitstamp.

However, when China announced its first “ban” on Bitcoin, the price of Bitcoin dropped 36 percent within 30 days, declining to $625.

The difference between 2013 and 2017

One major difference between Bitcoin’s major price plunge in 2013 and the digital currency’s short-term decline earlier this year is that Bitcoin is successfully retaining momentum in the market, as seen above in the price chart provided by ARK Invest’s Blockchain lead Chris Burniske.

In 2013, the Chinese government and its central bank intended to issue a ban on Bitcoin, and it did, in an attempt to halt trading and usage of Bitcoin within the country. Evidently, the attempt failed, as China is still in control of over 50 percent of the global Bitcoin exchange market.

Regardless of the actual impact on the market of the ruling, investors and traders began to panic and sell Bitcoin, with a misunderstanding that the digital currency can be stopped or banned by the government. At this point, many users were not aware of the structure of Bitcoin and how it was designed to precisely combat government regulation and restriction.

As a result, Bitcoin showed no signs of recovery and the price plummeted down to low $200’s.


Bitcoin is worth more today

Currently, skeptical investors and traders have disregarded the fact that Bitcoin is worth more today than it was a month ago. This morning, Bitcoin passed the $800 mark on Bitstamp, reaching $807.


Today’s Bitcoin rally is tremendously different from 2013 in the sense that the Chinese government does not intend to ban the usage of Bitcoin nor operations of Bitcoin exchanges. The Chinese government has come to a realization that regulating the Bitcoin exchange market and working closely with Bitcoin exchanges will inevitably play into the advantage of the government as underground and over-the-counter OTC markets are significantly harder to regulate.

More importantly, a substantially larger population of Bitcoin users have developed awareness on government restrictions, as many users already see Bitcoin as a global store of value and safe haven asset which can be used to avoid economic uncertainty and financial instability.

At this point, buyers should hold onto their Bitcoins because the decline of Bitcoin is temporary. As the market recovers and the media begin to accurately portray the Bitcoin market in China, the value of Bitcoin will rise in the short-term.



https://cointelegraph.com/news/analyst-compares-current-bitcoin-rally-to-2013-buyers-should-hold
160  Other / Politics & Society / Scam Bitcoin? on: December 26, 2016, 09:00:36 AM
Bitcoin Scam : Online Money Laundering Racket Exposed In Sting Video

For more information watch the video Grin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xn6IOaP39yQ

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