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But in my opinion, this fear is completely unfounded. The transparency of Bitcoin is such that criminals would essentially be making a permanent record of their actions on the block chain. Analytical software is already to the point of being able to suss out individual transaction paths, by analyzing the web of transactions and how these relate to known actors (business wallets, exchanges). So it's not figuring out who the criminals are at all. It's finding out what merchants the criminals utilized, to convert value. Then it's a quick trip to the address you registered on the exchange, or the address you had that sweet new computer sent to.

Smart criminals no longer use Bitcoin, that's stale. Dark coins are the new green.

This is more the issues of fiat, rather than Bitcoin. If Bitcoin were to cause a financial crisis, it would be limited to a very small community of actors. The total level of adoption should indicate that while we have came a good ways, we are still at single digits adoption rates. So if Bitcoin went to say, 1000 bucks tonight, while it would indeed be a bloodbath, it is limited to a roughly 130 billion dollar one. That's really not alot of money, in the grand scheme of things.

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First off, consider you dont want to cash out all of that at one time. Tax is usually assigned on assets like this when you convert to fiat, so to be safe, take off what you can in a reasonable way. I would take off a decent amount, but not so much that you would blip in the eyes of your respective government. Also, there are few places on the world that would let you convert all this at once. Do smaller amounts. There is no rush.

The immigration thing here is actually a serious issue. Do not count on being able to move into the US as easily as before, our immigration policies are in flux, to say the least.

Secondly, its bitcoin! as long as YOU can move outside of the borders of your country, your bitcoin (or at least access to it) will move with you.  You are stinking rich if you are being honest, relocating to a more friendly/ higher capitalized environment. Once you establish domicile, you can use the exchanges of that better economy. In a similar vein, open an international bank account. Use an OTC service to sell via bank wire; you dont have to hold that value in your native fiat.

Finally, purchase expensive assets with the bitcoin, like gold, art, or performance vehicles. they are pretty liquid in most markets.

But for everyone else on this thread, do be wary of an advance fee scheme 

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This is some of the same heavy handed, reactionary policy that we have seen with China and S Korea. It seems that high population locales cannot afford not to tax bitcoin; and for India the is a caveat. They are very sensitive about licit/illicit capital flow, AKA "dark money". They recently replaced the banknotes over there for the very reason; they cannot allow capital flight given how bad it could be (they have a lot of users). This apparently just occurred to them

SO they will make crystal clear guidelines soon, wait for it (we are in a new quarter, these things are strategic). And for the first few years, they will go out of ther way to enforce these guidelines, given the potential for profit.

None of this would be happening if not for the price

To my knowledge, it would depend on the nature of the crime per case, to determine what jurisdiction would investigate. If this was purely a cyber crime, then the above, or the SBI would be appropriate to contact. But if there is a violent component to the crime, say a bitcoin robbery or kidnapping, then the locale would have initial jurisdiction. Additionally, if there is say, drugs involved in the transaction, then other federal/state bodies could also participate in the investigation, even if not initially.


You are always the safest reporting first to your local police, in the place where the hacked device resides. They can help you escalate to the appropriate agency, or if they are lax, you can do this yourself

This is oh so true here specifically, due to a lack of news sources for folks to draw consensus from. There are a lot of btc news sites, to be sure, but given how quickly one has to react to news in order for it to be useful, by the time a thing makes it to a major news outlet, it is stale. Given that news here also usually has profit potential, folks are a bit nepotistic in the way that news spreads from the origin to the crowd.  So social media has become an additional source of diligence. and people are exploiting this, by paying influential people that are willing to promote

tldr; dont trust the news here its a chicken egg thing.

Depends on the country, and the severity of the law. Some countries are extremely intolerant of financial crimes, and some countries are very draconian in the way that these crimes would be prosecuted. North Korea, for example, might mean a death sentence, while China or the US might mean a fine, at the worst some jail time.

Bitcoin is practically useless without a fiat gateway, either for conversion or to spend on real world goods. That gateway will need your identity if it is legit, so eventually, you will be able to be connected to your transactions. Since the blockchain is not going anywhere anytime soon, that is a very long time to have evidence of a crime in a public place

If you would not do it with fiat, do not do it with bitcoin. They have been lax up to this point, that is changing as we speak

And I would drop bitcoin like a hot potato if they banned it.

Forgive me, Im Xtian so working from an outside knowledge of Islam. But would not the speculative nature of bitcoin make it haram, as for many it is essentially gambling? And that is aside from the dark market associations, as expressed by the OP.

I think it comes down to intent. Under Sharia, a lot of the same legal/fiscal structures you see present in other systems are still there, but adjusted to avoid usury and speculation. Finance needs certain features to function efficiently; these are present in Sharia finance in alternative forms.

If a bitcoin user is purchasing bitcoin to utilize the network as a payment system, he should be fine. But if a body purchases bitcoin purely with the expectation that the price will go up, that does indeed seem like a violation of the spirit of Sharia.

When its all said and done, the only argument that will truly matter is the one you have with the Creator about bitcoin!

The reason for this instability is the average level of investor skill in this space. it is exceedingly low. thus, actors are more prone to react, and this behavior, to a degree, is predictable. if there was a tool to scan the webs for bitcoin news, and read the news to gauge majority public sentiment, i think that particular piece of code would be a crystal ball into the behavior of the markets. observe how the price reacts to rumors, let alone actual developments.

if you had a team of guys reading social media 24 hours a day, you should be able to make mostly accurate signals, in my opinion.

Im assuming you arent new, despite your profile. Because if you were, it would be wise to understand that there is no promise the price will remain at this level. For example, if you purchased at the peak, you have been sitting about a week or so with a very dour outlook

People need liquidity, we have bills. And if you get caught in a dip, you may only have the option to exit at a losing price

If there was not risk in this, there would be no profit potential. in fact, bitcoin may be about the riskiest asset class currently in existence. it does not matter how solid the core features of the network are; this is still cutting edge (we are beyond bleeding). without actual adoption (both civic and corporate), it will remain obscure like it did its first few years, or even possibly lose value. that a long shot at this point, to be sure, but not considering this is a recipe for disaster!

Given the current network difficulty, it would take a wide spread of this malware to amalgamate into a decent amount of hashing power. And now that ad platforms are aware of the presence of malicious code like this, it will be much harder to slip something like this by unnoticed.

but this will be the future. once cryptos become a bit more widely adopted/ubiquitous in everyday life, most things with spare processing power will be mining. It would be a waste of resources not to do so. And in certain cases, the byproduct of mining (heat) is actually useful!

21 (a company from back in the day) tried to pull this off. i think the difficulty got to big too fast; they abandoned this seemingly.

I would think that the term 'bubble' would be respective of the entire market, not a personal snapshot. Of course, if you got in a few years ago, this is far from a bubble. But to a guy that just started observing the market in say, 2017, this would certainly look like a bubble, especially retrospective if it pops.

this much growth is unsustainable. we have seen some considerable retreat in the last quarter of 2017. I cant say for sure yet, as we are so fresh into the New Year, but we are still seeing a bull run. If this is the point that the rest of the world will adopt bitcoin, then the support they provide will establish a new price floor at these levels. But if this is just speculation (I assume this, but exchange congestion seems to indicate otherwise), the price may see q1-q2 price levels if we correct.

But we are still seeing capital inflows from traditional VC.. This ride might not be over yet!

but lets see if we actually get to the implementation. suffice it to say the controlling stake in mining has opinion about this; and most of the reason we have not seen this or an alternate implementation already is because of politics.

we dont really have a choice but to adopt this. and of course, the price wil rise, despite the fact that it is seemingly elevated with no reason already. hell, we saw a spike during a fork; you cant really put anything past the enthusiasm level at this point.

Apparently, this will be the entry price to mainstream adoption. Absolutely wonkers, but these are the times.

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Like IOTA, Ripple is riding the hype wave and there will be much collective butthurt when folks get burned. The bull run on ETH and many alts in general is also sucking the cap out of BTC, but it is a cyclical thing. in my opinion its healthy. Bitcoin wont survive alone, at this point this is a whole, connect ecosphere.

But I hate to see "capital flight" into unstable markets like the aforementioned ripple situation. LTC probably didnt feel so good is you purchased in at 300, right before the retraction.