Would anyone be interested if I decided to extend this Signature Campaign beyond Friday? 

It might be good for speculation and the price, but ETFs will not help in what the real bitcoiners want. Adoption.

Also, ETFs are only good for those few large specialized investors called authorized participants because they hold your bitcoins, while you hold a useless ETF.

I reckon the approval will pump bitcoin, but it will also dump bitcoin after a short time when the news of the approval is released.

Vietnam is eating those Chinese factories one by one, and it's not like it has begun this year.
Wages in China are growing and workers are becoming twice as expensive.

Even here in Europe, I've started seeing this trend.
Cheap clothes and lingerie are made in Bangladesh and Vietnam, the Nike store was half full with shoes from India, and for the first time, I've seen some tools in the bricolage shop made in Indonesia.
Tariffs might be the nail in the coffin, but the coffin was ordered and ready years ago.

I'd be happy to see manufacturing moving out of China, even if the jobs only move to Southeast Asia (or wherever).  China has been counterfeiting every great product the rest of the world has produced for more years than I can count, and I'm not a big fan of the country in general.  They're a bunch of thieves as far as I'm concerned.  Not that I dislike the people, because I have a great respect for their history and their collective intellect. 

Countries like Indonesia and the rest need those manufacturing jobs too.  Maybe the shitposting situation would even improve if they could find real-life jobs.  That's probably a pipe dream, but I suspect it's not easy to work for a living in south Asian countries--don't know if the islands are included in that; my grasp of geography leaves a lot to be desired.

About time. The US has finally come to its senses about legalising sports betting, and India should get on board. God knows how much their economy would benefit from revenue.

Normally wouldn't immediately see it as a good thing but in India's case, it's way beyond control. With regulated gambling, they should also make some headway into match fixing. Cricket there is such a disgrace, but with so much riding on blackmarket betting, who wouldn't throw a few games for easy money?

No. Don't be daffy. It's not a coin in any way. It's a redeemable voucher in effect.

It is an interesting one though. If McDonald's made them valid forever that makes them a vastly better store of value than the USD. They'll always be worth one Big Mac no matter how shitty and worthless your dollar bill becomes.

It might wake some people up as to what money actually is.

I agree, and I think the smaller and more volatile the market, the more susceptible that market is to rumor and news.  Bitcoin is relatively small and certainly is volatile.  That said, I don't think any coin issued by McDonald's is going to have much of an effect.  I hadn't heard anything about it, but to me it sounds pretty stupid.  McDonald's doesn't need its own cryptocurrency and if they create one, it'll basically be a gift certificate--you'd have to purchase it with fiat and could only spend it at McD's (though I haven't read anything about it yet and I may not know what I'm talking about).

Bitcoin is down in the past few days because after popping up to $8400 or whatever it got to, people are taking their profits off the table.  I think a lot of speculators made money after a period when it was stuck at $6000, and they're cashing out.  I don't think any coin McD's made or is planning to make had anything to do with it.

Yes, those aren't downtown apartments. There are many factors to consider, one of them being construction materials. Older buildings are made of bricks, at least here in Europe. The newer ones are prefabricated and built within months. If you compare 50 year old buildings to the new ones, for the same price you're getting underground garages, terraces, huge panoramic windows, and cheaper per square meter than a 50+ year old downtown apartments.

IMO The Trump administration is doing its best to discourage people from moving to the US.

This is an important factor. The  problem is that most EU countries have negative growth. Some have neutral, but a positive is a rarity.

If I had the money I would try to own at least 4 apartments in big cities which would deliver a rent high enough to not have to work and live pretty comfortably. These will ALWAYS have a demand. In a globalized world there will always be people willing to pay for it. Many exchange students come to these cities if no locals want to rent it. There is a big demand. Just try to get them in places without troublesome people so you don't have to lose sleep over some fucktard destroying the furniture or whatnot.

According to Marca, Florentino Perez said that Modric isn't going anywhere, they'll only sell him if a club pays €750m LOL I think he'll leave the team once he contract expires in the next couple of years.

High, after all, it's Real Madrid, they're always the big favorite to win the whole thing. They've won a bunch of CL without Zidane, CR7, or Modric.

There are enough signs that an economic crisis is going to happen soon in the next 3 - 5 years.

Whether China's bubble will burst or the dollar will implode.
Do you guys think crypto will be as good an investment as gold in time of crisis?

What has quantum to do with blockchain?
Quantum is a changing the way of how computers work from bits to qubits, the blockchain is a database.

For most people here bitcoin is work, bitcointalk is work, airdrops are work.
There are a lot of users who are actually saying they are "doing bitcoin" whatever that means, I just hope it doesn't involve humping.

Anyhow lately this blockchain madness has gone beyond anyone could even dream of.
They are designing projects based on "blockchain" for everything, and I saw some pretty stupid ideas, from pets to vegetables to skin care.

- Inter Milan keen on Luka Modric (Real Madrid).

Is the Pogba deal confirmed (as in, is Juventus really bidding) or are they just rumors?  Cos that's the thing when the transfer window is getting closer to the deadline...  Lots of sites keep reporting anything that gets us reading.

The price of bitcoin is showing great resilience even after the recent decline of ETFs by the SEC decision. We must not be moved at all by these few odds.The market will surely pick up greatly again.Staying postitve is the key.In history,there have never been any commodity that it's price never declined. So it is also normal for price of btc to fall and rise.This is a normal market situation and every seasoned trader understands this principle.

you are!!!

BlackRock never denied anything because they never said they are doing something they weren't. you are just making things up in your head. all they said was that they are looking into cryptocurrencies as viable investment options, that was all. and the price rise wasn't that significant either. this is nothing new, it is not like we went to $9k+! this was a small 10% rise above $7k resistance which was about to happen with or without BlackRock,...

Wait what? The article says the survey was conducted in May this year. Or were you referring to a similar survey?

But yeah, I'm kind of interested as to how much these serious investors actually have in Bitcoin, and what would make those who aren't interested to reconsider their stance. Bitcoin still has a huge untapped market for sure, but this survey doesn't paint a very pretty picture of how it is currently doing in the eyes of traditional investors. It just seems like we're stuck in a paradox where we need more adoption to drive more adoption.