Not certain if this is positive or negative news. It could be either. Japan has been content to live under the directives of the united states in the past and mirrored much of US economic policy. At the same time, japan has shown a will to become more independent. They recently built "helicopter destroyers" which are disguised pocket aircraft carriers capable of deploying fixed wing aircraft. This goes somewhat against terms of japan's surrender during World War II which prohibited them from building aircraft carriers. Germany likewise was prohibited from building many types of warships after World War I, which goes to show how ineffective those types of surrender terms can be.

There is a chance japan will echo the sentiments of central bankers with their anti crypto stance.

But there is also a chance japan will announce rules which protect the long term value of bitcoin as part of their recent independent streak. Guidelines which call for a cessation of trading on crypto exchanges if bitcoin's price declines by a certain amount could be implemented. Capital gains taxes or fees which encourage long term HODL rather than short term speculative daytrading could also be standardized to encourage long term value in bitcoin.

No matter how things pan out, we will know the answer soon enough.

I don't want to sound I am panicking, but the price of BTC has reached the lowest point this month. Checking on the chart of this quarter on 5Feb there was this dip when the price of BTC even went down to $6,500

I heard people around me they believe BTC price will even fall further. Is this really gonna happen?

I just read another thread that a lot of shorts were opened on the US market today and immediately put two and two together but if what people are saying about him being unable to sell any more coins until after late September is true then who knows what's behind that.

Kobayashi could pull off a great trick by shorting bitcoin himself and then moving those funds to an exchange, he wouldn't even have to sell anything but he'd already have profited from that.

Decentralization. Once there's decentralization, no one has ownership of the currency. No one can control and ruin millions of people's lives. That's why it's so important.

This dumps don't seem to be related with news, or bitcoin development. They actually look like coordinated sell outs to crash the market and cause some panic. Some say it's Mt Gox sell out, maybe it is, maybe it's not. It's hard to tell, but they don't look natural, so they should be over eventually. Or maybe it's from rich people that don't believe in bitcoin, or that just have so much coins, that they simply want to sell out a few, without completely destroying the market, so they do these sell outs in a timed way.

As long as $8,370 holds, and it did almost a week ago, then we'll be up for another bounce back to potentially the $10,000 mark. If it breaks, then sub $8000 is almost a certainty, and that would indicate a lower demand.

I don't see the market dip under the previous bottom, because that would actually be somewhat worrying. It means that a long term cycle has been broken where the price never dipped below it previous bottom.

I am comfortably hodling my coins, and will continue doing so. I however will use the decreasing market to accumulate as many coins as possible within my financial reach, so there is not much to complain about for me.

I find it kinda hard to HODL when the marketing is bearish... there is a lot of stress:p
Do you think going HODL might be bad for the health?

Here is what will happen during recession to bitcoin prices:

1) Big companies will also have lack of funds as they will less number of prospects or work available. As  a result, they will be forced to sell their assets to pay for the running expenses. If they have bitcoin funds, they will have to sell those.

2) A lot of people will loose jobs. Since these people will have no source of monthly income to pay for rent and food, they will have use the savings. Once bank deposits are spent, they will have to sell crypto holdings.

All this will increase the supply and reduce the demand of bitcoins.

What if every person loaned money from a bank or maxed out their credit cards to buy Bitcoin and deliberately not pay out those debts. Would that start "killing" the banks or, at all events, dent their dominance?

Sorry if this might be a shit topic. But go ahead, discuss. Haha.

How do people see this panning out? It is interesting how Donald Trump is proposing greater term limits for political office, while in china the complete opposite is occurring with the further removal of term limits. Certainly there is a difference in methodology at the moment with china and america pursuing polar opposites.

Marathon Patent Group, Inc. has commenced mining operations in Quebec.

According to reports from NASDAQ via Globe Newswire, Marathon had previously announced the purchase of 1,400 Bitmain Antminer S9 miners — commonly known simply as Antminer S9s — on Feb. 8.

A week later, Marathon announced that it had leased 26,700 square feet of space in Quebec to be used as a data center.

Today, Marathon has officially announced the successful installation of its aforementioned equipment. Likewise, Mining operations have also officially commenced, which — as noted by NASDAQ — “are expected to utilize approximately 2.0 MW and deliver approximately 19 Ph/s of ASIC mining capacity.”

You guys never heard of short selling? I'm short most of the time so I want BTC to go lower most of the time. But I'm short because a reason and that's that I don't see any future for bitcoin. So I'm just posting my perspective of things. Just like the long people post their perspective (mostly something like "buy bitcoin because it will ALWAYS go up"). So I'm not really sure what the reason is behind this topic. Longs want the price to go up, shorts to go down, what's new here?

Fud or not. This rally is over. Prepare for the slumber.

Qualcomm appears to do defense work for the government which could be the main reason the deal was blocked although there have been a high number of american businesses that have been bought out by foreign corporations over the last few decades which could be concerning.

The Cboe currently has four monthly Bitcoin contracts available. The closest one expires this Wednesday, and just over the past week it traded between $8,380 at its low point to $11,710 at its high, a 28.4% range. One news item that created this volatility was the SEC announcing that cryptocurrency trading platforms needed to register with it.

Bitcoin’s price on the Cboe closed at $9,257 on Friday. Since there is no physical aspect to Bitcoin all of its contracts will need to be closed before 2:45 pm on Wednesday or settled if the investor does not buy or sell their position. While there are many factors that drive Bitcoin’s price there may be some added volatility this week , and especially on Wednesday as the contract expires.

Bitcoin chart is going up and down some times I am thinking maybe I should invest part of my BTC (at least the part of the profit  I’ve made on crypto) into something real?!
Let’s say I can buy share of real estate company and get the part of profit (50-100% per Year).
  
Should I
                Spend all my BTC on that shares?
                Spend small (profit) part?
                Or just do nothing and wait?

?!

I’ll do appreciate for answers with any suggestions and recommendations!

This one i guess is quite simple to the most of you. Recently i am kinda feeling that the smart thing to do would be stop growing my portofolio and start to look bitcoin as the only crypto investment for me. Just want to now your opinions on this because besides forums i cant really discuss this matter, let me know.

While it's nearly impossible to get accurate numbers, I'd like to hear what you guys think. Does international transactions (between 2 address that their owners are in different countries) cause more congestion to network? or local transactions (between 2 address that their owners live in same country).