So, you’ve bought Bitcoin – that’s great. But what do you actually do with it? Thousands of South African traders are asking the same question. Trading and hodling is certainly one way to go about it, but why not spend some of those hard earned digital coins?

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The USA has no control over Bitcoin...

The Bitcoin protocol are distributed all over the world and the Protocol cannot be altered without the majority consent from the full nodes.     Yes, a lot of the developers are working in the USA or originate from the USA, but their hands are tied, because it's not a centralized database.. where 1 company or government can do what they want.

The USA can influence policy makers in other countries, with the laws and regulations that they implement in the USA, because a lot of these countries have poor leadership and are looking at large western countries for guidance to mold their own policies.

We saw this with the banning of Crypto currency advertisements on large Social media platforms, when the ICO's got out of hand. A lot of other countries implemented similar actions, when the large corporations in the USA started doing this.  

Voters should vote better leaders/politicians that can think for themselves.  

I am in marketing field for a long time but I gave a little attention to BTC. Now I am  studying about bitcoin. What I got is that a concept which rises from ashes to heavens. But the main aspect which make me to think twice before entering the btc is its high volatility and also I fell prey to the negative views. And when I further watched btc then I got amazed that btc is getting more adaptable day by day. Then I suddenly realised that if anybody would have purchased btc in bulk in the start (In pennies)  and let assume he forgets but now he suddenly  acquainted with his btc then OMG he would have "massive money", cannot imagine.
Lol it's just a thinking but the morale is that I have missed the biggest opportunity and I accept that it's a blunder for not participating positively in btc.

Bigger transactions have happened in the past few days and this is very less than 1billion dollars that was moved some days ago too.
What I'd say is that these whale are waiting for the perfect moment to build their wall of manipulation.


Well, since wallets doesn't carry name tag on them, I'd say they are whales.
Or group of investors

Not really much and majority some of my friend that called me was Tech-Savvy, They was asking about How to mine Bitcoin or where the local exchange, The rest is just normal person and they was asking about how to get money from bitcoin, etc. Mostly they asking it around 2017 when bitcoin rally happens.

Since the introduction of cryprocurrencies such as bitcoin in our present world, a whole lot who took advantage of it has made tremendous profits from investing and acquiring it. Bitcoin with its global value currently has become an investment tool for many across the globe. It is also a means of storing wealth with the strong hope of heavy returns in the future. I keep wondering what bitcoin would rise to  in the nearest future. In past decades when it was newly introduced it all sounded like a joke, many made mockery of it in which I was one of such persons. But today we all fold our hands in regrets wishing we took hold of the opportunity when it wasn't make much impact as its doing in our present society today. If you haven't considered owning a bitcoin give it a thought today

And that is indirectly saying that the OP has no proper understanding.  If you will look at his post history, he has some bitterness to bitcoin or crypto but wonder why he is still here wasting his time, if he doesn't believe in bitcoin. Anyway, we don't have to assume that bitcoin is scam because it is not. Plain and simple.

The election is over, Trump had negative attitude towards bitcoin but what Biden's administration will bring to crypto. The fact that the Fed will continue printing $$ and new stimulus is coming is definitely good for bitcoin.
Never heard that president-elect Biden or someone from his camp made any public statement about bitcoin or crypto-technology, hopefully no tough regulations will be made.

Bitcoin needs women,but do women need Bitcoin?I don't think so...
Unfortunately,most women are not into the investing game.They like to spend money,not to invest.
Bitcoin is more of an investment tool,rather than an actual currency used for spending.
The vast majority of women want cash and credit cards.They are simple and easy to use,there's no learning curve.
Geeky and nerdy,tech savvy girls are more than welcome in the blockchain community,but I don't see any tech savvy geeky girls around the IT industry in general.
Is it because of the educational system,or simply because girls and women don't like tech stuff,I don't know...

now lets imagine world without fiat currency.
lets say we use bitcoins.
so milk price how many btc?  fuel price? rent ? and how the prices will calculated?
and if there is only limited supply of bitcoins.....then those who who have bitcoins merely will rule over others?
so your skills or value in society dont count only matters who go the most of the bitcoins?
bitcoin halving by the time so less and less btc will be in circleation....so how the world will remain sustaineble then ?
okay if bitcoin is not good to be currency then ethereum ?? well ethereum is centralised as i know ?
stable currenies?? well i dont see point of them they are just the 1:1 of the same fiat currrencies.
so where does the theory come from then we go all in cryptocurrency and fiat currency will disapere?
well this is not possible bitcoin without fiat can not serve all the peoples currecny needs !!



right now we dont have clear answere so fiat currency still rules. how we are going to control the money supply how big quantity of currency is in circelation?
if bitcoin is the future of money without fiat then everybody will have the guns and shoot each other:D just to get other bitcoins becouse btc has limited supply lol   so i want to know if fiat currency will disapere then how the new currency will be issued? and how it will be backed?

and please dont comment something nonsense lets try to gather here only smart comments as this topic is important topic to know.

Bitcoin is not legalized in my country but people are using it privately to do business and other things. Those bitcoin user in the country cannot use bitcoin to buy any thing in the shop unless they go to other countries where it's legalized. During the pandemic when the government was experiencing devalue in currency they don't have choice than to legalized bitcoin in the country for the citizens to grow their businesses and other things.
Bitcoin is fully legalized in my country which you can eat and pay with bitcoin in anywhere in the community.

C'mon bitcointalk! It's almost 2021! You must be the only website in this day and age without mobile view. And considering your popularity...! What are you waiting for Let's do this!

The fee's will improve over time, I believe

I don't think Bitcoin got anything to do to help people escape poverty, not as long as they bought Bitcoin and threat it as an asset or investment, but overall I really don't see any aspects that it can help people to escape poverty. But in terms of financial services, yes Bitcoin is really capable of that, which is the most goal of Bitcoin having the freedom and we will have our own bank in our pockets.

As a general rule, please be extremely careful what you discuss or send in private or e-mail.
You have to make sure you don't send things that can get your coins stolen (wallet files, private keys,..) and also allowing others access your computer remotely is a security risk.

If we all treated gambling as entertainment I think casinos would cease to exist.Casinos rely only on the greediness of all the gamblers to make money and don’t be fooled by those statements that we see on Tv ads like gamble responsible etc.They are just to be conform the law in different countries.

It is very difficult to be a gambler who only plays for entertainment.I myself have suffered until lately from slot addiction but now the last times I have played a maximum of 5-10 Eur and stopped if I didn’t win anything.So I think I am pulling out of addiction slowly.

In gambling the chances are against you, doesn't matter what game you are playing. Keep in mind when betting you have to give the house some comission while you still need to pick the right result between 3 different possibilities (team 1, team 2 and draw). That is pretty certain most gamblers won't succeed on this task on long run.
As mentioned on this thread you can do a lot of things to increase your profit chances with sports betting on long run, but they aren't a recipe you follow to have 100% chance of finding a bucket of the gold in the end. Actually if most people were winning, from where would the profits be coming?

Not for those players who played at the Finals. They didn't enjoy much their vacation and due to the season that will start next month, they will fly away again from their families and be separated for a long. Their practice does have limited time unlike those who didn't play in the bubble or got exit early.

There are even reports that some main players of both Lakers and Heat might not play in their early games because of that. I don't know how they will organize their time as not playing without a valid reason is against the NBA terms.

While newbies are more prone to fall into this trap the truth is that anyone can fall in this kind of behaviour especially if you are in a psychical casino and you are too intoxicated to think clearly, during my life I have seen this too many times, and while after suffering such losses many people say that they will never do it again for the most part this is not true and the same keeps happening to them, to me the most simple explanation of why this is the case has to do with the fact that it is difficult to control our emotions and losing money especially money you were not expecting to lose can be very hard and people instead of accepting their mistake decide to keep gambling with the hope of recovering it.