Try using a different browser, or look at your cache, just maintenance as the scripting for such things is kind of unstable compared to most sits that use it including other faucets.

consider your current income. Only put in what won't make you cringe each time. I put in a certain amount of my check into bitcoin each time and i'm slowly amassing more everyday!

You have 3 choices.

Continue to hold until their value rises even more.

You can hold in a service that offers interest.

You can loan out yourbitcoin for a higher percentage return.

*bonus option*

trade on the highs and lows*

News for the day!

Bitcoin is way up! I hope you invested when it was at 3000! All of my past few investments are blossoming nicely!

I believe double what your free roll earnings are.

To start off the discussion:

Who was able to buy during the 3000 dip a few weeks ago? i was super lucky and have been able to get around $200 and am watching as that money grows! it's super exciting. Knowing that it is generating more and more every day only makes me even more excited.

Is anyone preparing for the forks coming up? what are your plans? do you plan on buying/selling holding?

Oh and there is someone in the help section asking for people to complete a survey for their schooling, please help them out!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2219399.new#new

Guys I made a new forum for the continuation of broader topics concerning smaller investors here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2219459.0

I'm hoping the Mod will catch this and lock this forum.

This is a place to discuss bitcoin investment decisions as they affect smaller bitcoin investors from newbies to veterans slowly buying or earning small amounts of coin as early adopters.

This is a place for current events and global news, proven best techniques for holding and earning at a given time, security trends and concerns, making friends, and even a little humor as they pertain to people growing their bitcoin investment. Please keep what you say objective(aside from jokes) and let's stride into the future together!

1.) This thread is a response to one I published during the dip in early september/2017: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2175594.0
2.) If possible I would like this to be one of the many closer knit communities on this board and while I'm not a moderator will check in at least once a day.
3.) If you are an expert in economics and are great at making charts to explain a current trend please do as this is a place for learning.
4.) I'll also update this very first post as deemed relevant by people participating in this forum.
5.) Please be tasteful with links and try to avoid spamming. I will avoid listing specific sites that aren't on this forum. (especially referral links) If enough people would like a certain site posted then i will post a neutral link to the site. For now i'll leave an empty link spot in this post.

Ways to earn bitcoin:

From 0:
1.) There are many free faucets that provide incentives to use them. They are many and are amazing when coupled with other investment methods.
2.) Some sites reward you for playing skill games in the form of bitcoin.
3.) Join one of the signature campaigns here on Bitcoin Talk forum. Participate in meaningful discussion and be rewarded for it.
4.) Join one of the many bitcoin exchanges to buy bitcoin if you have extra cash lying around. Saving little by little will add up more quickly than you think.
5.)(This requires a huge buy in for people seriously considering this venture) You can mine using your CPU for small amounts of Satoshi, however for larger amounts, you will need Powerful mining devices that use large amounts of electricity. You can look up some of the buy in costs, planning, problems, and profits on other threads.


From 0.00000001+:
1.) Interest: There are many safe sites starting to offer interest in the form of bitcoin. Usually around 4% annually this is a nice way to earn especially as you approach the possibility of having an entire bitcoin.
2.) Trading: Wait for opportune times daily, weekly and monthly to sell and buy bitcoin. The September/2017 is one such example. If you sold high at $5000 and bought low at $3000 you pretty much almost doubled the amount of bitcoin you had. (I didn't sell but I did buy low)

From 1+:
Congratulations you have acquired one bitcoin in the post easy to mine era.

1.) For long term profits you can lend your bitcoin for high interest at varying levels of risk from 4-6% to around 20% Be careful as it is not guaranteed.

Trusted Bitcoin links:
Empty for now!

Cheers!
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I think bitcoin already has various representatives for its different purposes. Focus on them. Some bitcoin business owners have taken very dramatic strides towards fairness and transparency. you will find this same sort of thing in the mining communities among other smaller factions. Don't forget the developers and when they make announcements. Everyone does there part with different people being in the know at a given time. It really is a beautiful thing considering that truly this is wealth without power in many situations.

Thanks for the reply and the work you do.

I think because the daily interest that is generated is random, depending on when i check it won't show up. 3 of my referrals have interest generating accounts.

Again keep up the good work, you are one of the selling points when we pitch the site to people IRL

In all honesty, the best way to determine such a thing without getting into the fibonacci sequence, graphs, charts and the breaking of up and down cycles is to aim for benchmarks.

Case in point, whenever bitcoin hits some kind of huge rounded number like say 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000 etc. you will see small sell offs.

At one of these major points I would check every half day or so to see if a trend is forming. I wouldn't recommend any faster as you may lose patience and jump the gun. Basically it turns into gambling if you sit on your computer and obsess.

Watch the peak, if you see bicoin lose $100-$300 consider selling some to buy when the trend ends.

The rule I mentioned above also applies to the lows. People aim for rounded numbers. The last dip ended around 3000. Consider buying around that time.

i can be rocket science if you obsess, but keep it simple and don't make knee jerk decisions and you could benefit from the ups and downs.

You understand that most if not all of your arguments are the fuel for why bitcoin has and is becoming more popular right? Bitcoin is both a commodity and a currency just like light is a wave and a particle. You don't need a government and a federal reserve when this is a literal mathematical protocol neutral to all things with no bias in a closed system that can not inflate. people take the risk of zero visibility so they can't be manipulated by our "controlled" fiat money. Most people who are smart and simply holding or holding wit interest don't pay any attention to ICO's.

Bitcoin already touches the real world. You can grab a Bitcoin Debit card today, Amazon will be accepting it soon AND the same wall street big wigs criticizing the currency have bought up bitcoin themselves.

let go and jump into the ocean or you'll be stuck on the lonely island.

At this moment in time you can get debit cards that withdraw bitcoin into USD. Amazon is beginning to accept bitcoin in the near future and entire countries are starting to embrace it. (Japan) Basically it depends on just how useful you want it to be.

Another way to look at whether you should keep your money in an exchange is if it is insured. Some are good for the entire balance of their customer base in USD. In such a case you can rest fairly easy even in the event of a major breach in security. Just understand that in such a case said exchange would go through a process that may take months before you see it again. In general if you are simply holding and not trading, put it in cold storage or put it to work through trusted lending or interest sites.

I like what some of the previousposter said about keeping a certain ammount liquid for those fast trades and unpredictable scenarios.

I think wetsuit once deleted a few people who had similar double accounts. you might want to ask for help and possibly permission as double accounts might make you lose your balance in a different way.

cheers.

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone would be interested in collaborating on a national/international level tournament which awards players in bitcoin.

The format would be a massive bracket ending with a very serious final broadcast on twitch.

prizes could start small and raise as we go OR just have a massive prize waiting for people to compete for.

Suggested games:
league of legents,
Starcraft 2
Counterstrike

there are many others but these I believe are the top 3.

The purpose of this tournament just like bitcoin is to give everyone a shot at something bigger. No matter where you are in the world, you have a serious chance at winning this bitcoin prize. I understand specific logistics like server location etc. but that is a bridge to cross later.

My experience:
I am certified in basic Japanese, know some German and Spanish and have in fact shout casted and hosted tournaments for the purpose of making people aware of the gaming circuit in japan. i built the website and for better or worse translated it all.

I know what i'm doing and players earned cash prizes from me in the process usually in a prize pool consisting of a couple hundred dollars USD or 20,000JPY.

The business plan at a glance:
With twitch as out main media hub we can have 1-4 channels broadcasting a tournament every weekend up to the final. I suggest having it in the fall but any time is reasonable.

The bracket would be as large as possible and we would try to highlight any Cinderellas. Each bracket would comprise a season. This wouldn't be one weekend but many weekends leading up to the final bouts.

No more than 4 games would run at a single time.

Money would be made from streaming and simple merchandise sold on site with an emphasis on some of the bottom line feeding the over all prize pool as the season goes along.

Tournaments are online only until possible investment and profit is high enough to invite contestants with a stipend to a central location.

initial capital:
personal investments
crowd funding

With anyone who has the know how, will and drive we can make this happen.

Thoughts comments are welcome here or please IM me.

I think you're seeing a wave of people who during the recession couldn't afford to focus on bitcoin. In my case for example when the price was around 3-600 in 2013 I was too busy and couldn't afford anything in the way of really investigating the currency. It wasn't until I became slightly more stable that I took a look and realized I needed to get in in any constructive way as soon as possible. I think what you are seeing are people in situations like mine. Also in the past few years alone the entire market seems to have become even more open, accessible and intuitive to new users who have less technical prowess. From code to exchanges like latin to english. (Reference to the reformation). Just food for thought.

In all honesty..the only thing that would wipe out bitcoin is to make it illegal. But even then, how would one enforce this? Blockchains are peer to peer meaning the internet essentially runs is. Are you going to shut down your entire countries internet/ PC base? I could only see anything like this happening if certain oligarchs managed to lobby enough..but again enforcement. I love the hypothetical question though.

hypersonic1
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I've invested in bitcoin and am looking to be informed and give out BTC as a prize for game tournaments.
I would be honored for your consideration.

I think you can do most of the things you stated, I mostly stay away from transferring from my account to others to avoid losing compound interest. You can buy bitcoin directly from various exchanges via the deposit button. You would have to link your bank account to an exchange. I personally rarely gamble as proper technique for such if it exists requires a huge bank roll.