There is no fork mate, at least not on the same date as scheduled. If you haven't seen the recent news, Segwit2x was rescheduled and the date currently is still unclear. There is a signed notice from basically all the primary players in support of 2x.

I think it's a good time to buy your bitcoins, at a price below $7000.

It's going to be rare moving on from now to see as low as price like this. I would recommend at least buying half of what you are planning on buying bitcoins with.

Now that the fork has been cancelled i think this changes the entire outlook of how bitcoin is going to perform. Right now obviously we're seeing increased support for bitcoin's forked counterparts which i think will be a temporary phenomenon.

Price in the past few hours have stabilized in the $6500-$6800 region.

Could potentially lead to a bigger pump tomorrow or even on monday.

Exactly, it's important to address the fact that bitcoin's supply is completely controlled by the actual code that is governing the entire thing and can't just be planted or whatever like tulips. That is the main difference between the tulip bubble and bitcoin.

Also, bitcoin actually has a usage. It'll never crash to even close to zero, even back in 2013.

The main thing to take away is, the scarcity of bitcoin makes it intrinsically valuable. And when demand grows, where else would you expect the price to go?

This completely sums it up.

You would most likely have no issues with buying bitcoins or selling bitcoins with coinbase, becasue you're going to be dealing with reversible methods that can be easily contacted and get your funds back in case something bad happens.

But storing your bitcoin, you are likely to experience some troubles. And the support is just isn't there for you.

Well it's obviously temporary or at least they claim that it is temporary, but still. Hashflare doing this basically means that they have some sort of issue with their finances one way or another and want to pause payouts for some reason.

Also, they have previously done some shady stuff like basically manipulating contracts of investors.

It's not wise to trust them.

Wait a bit before you buy. I would definitely recommend buying at a level that is less than $7000 because the floor is there right now and when it gets dumped below that it means that investors are panic dumping and overselling.

You can't always time the dip right, so don't buy everything at once. Buy in phases.

Also, don't get too excited when price is going up all the time and you want to buy. As i said - wait for the dip. There's always one no matter what.

Why are they even updating their minimum withdrawal amounts? What sort of monitoring information do they need to get from doing this? It's completely useless since they already can see information from every account anyways.

Just an excuse to reduce withdrawal demand for the moment in my opinion.

Hopefully this isn't the newest scam on the cloud mining block.

I don't see any sort of problem with this.

In the author column they actually state clearly that this was written by the guy who original wrote it. They also once more acknowledge that they got permission from the author to republish this and i'm sure they probably came to an agreement financially about the rewards of this post.

No harm done here, both parties are in agreement.

Nothing Bittrex can do in this case. It is entirely up to the US government to decide which countries are sanctioned or not, if bittrex allowed access then they'd be under pressure from the US government to do what their agenda is.

But Bittrex has suspended lots of accounts even though they are in the list of accepted countries.

Moral of the story: If you are in a sanctioned country, just don't use any US based exchanges or at least use a VPN. Even if you're not, try to minimise the time you're storing your funds on exchanges for.

It is indeed crazy but we are seeing some resistance on the $6500 level.

We could be going down to $5000 or so before climbing back up again. A correction is going to come soon in my opinion and once it does come, just don't be surprised by it. Every single pump will be followed by a correction.

We'll be setting more all time highs for sure this year.

It's safe if you run it offline and download it from the official github repo, yes.

But really, it is only a ssafe as your computer. Even if it is open source and proven by time, there is no good using it on an infected computer and expecting a good result out of it. Secure your own computer first, before running it even offline.

There is always a slight possibility of them being compromised, but that can be countered by downloading the source code direct.

If Segwit2x fork was successful then yes, i think that even $10k is possible. Without it being 100% successful however this figure is very hard to achieve and unlikely to be hit for the next few years as a crypto winter may follow.

We're already pretty high up though and making another $1k on current prices is not difficult. All it takes is some whale to start buying and bag holding bitcoin to push that price upwards. If we can see any sort of major news from regulators that is pro-bitcoin then price could definitely be bumped right up there by the end of the year too.

I mean, there are a lot of real adoption happening here and that's undeniable. For example Japan and Australia have both "legalized" bitcoin and removed the double taxing that came with bitcoin's purchase and that was a huge step in the right direction.

Still though, price has risen around 15 fold in the span of 1 and a half years.

Definitely close to a bubble and i think correction may come soon to bring down price to around $5000.

There's already a few exchanges starting to trade B2X.

If we look at the previous few major forks(BCC, BTG, etc.), then when they happened bitcoin actually didn't move much at all. For BTG it was a small fall in price that was later recovered pretty soon. For BCC it actually rose.

It'll depend on the exact market conditions going into the fork.

Maybe you would be interested in miningrigrentals?

I remember that they were fairly active a few years back, i have actually no idea whether or not they are still legit. So use at your own risk. I'd say that nice hash is still the leader and you should aim to use them if possible.

But on miningrigrentals, the minimum is 8hrs for most rigs.

I never knew "[" was a valid character in a valid bitcoin signed message

Right now investing wouldn't be such a good idea as before. He's wrong in the way that he expresses his hatred towards bitcoin with no apparent justification, but i do think that investing now could potentially lead to small if not negative profits.

It's just too much of a risk to take atm.

If you want to accumulate then do it after the dip. 20% gains in a day will always be followed by a dip.

Depends on what you have in hand, cash/bank balance/paypal etc.

If paypal, use virwox but expect to have around 20% of your total trade eaten up by their fees. If it's cash/bank transfer then i suggest using localbitcoins, the rates will be around 5-7% above spot. If you can get verified on a big exchange such as bitstamp, then you can get better rates but honestly not worth the hassle imo.

Once you get btc, exchange it into whatever altcoin you fancy using bittrex/polo/shapeshift.

Should have expected this.

Coinbase right now definitely have one of the worst track records in terms of user experience and customer support - in fact, i'd say that it is close to yobit level. The director of coinbase says that they'll be diverting their attention to customer support in Q3 and yet in Q4, there are no improvements.

Unless you're willing to lose what you put in, don't use them.

I searched on my end as well for the string "darkstar", returned with the same results as yours. essentially there seems to be a date cut-off somewhere in 2016, and scrolling through all the pages there aren't any 2017 replies returned.

I personally just use the inbuilt google search - does it not work for you?