This is normal. When you begin to have quite a lot of money, you start to think about how to diversify to protect your wealth. It's only logical, the same thing goes in any country, but it's quite new in China, since recently, it was very difficult to move any money out of China. It has become easier but obviously, the government doesn't like it, and it wants to make it difficult again.

In many cases the process of buying bitcoins is simple as scan code, feed cash, click send = 15 seconds. No registration or verification.
Almost all lamassu machines (~30% of all bitcoin ATMs) work like this.

Bitcoin is the only crypto-assets with gold-like features. They will undoubtly accumulate it as reserves.

In fact it's more likely they eventually use these reserves to spawn their own fiat-crypto.

Enters the Bitcoin standard.

One thing about the EU, they never let a crisis go to waste. This next move is a problem for
several countries, but especially for the UK and Ireland. Those islands could lose control of
their surrounding seas, and that leaves question marks over oil and gas resources.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-10/ft-shocker-eu-unveils-standing-border-force-will-act-even-if-government-objects
"However now in the aftermath of the Paris suicide bombings and the indefinite emergency
"pre-crime" laws instituted in France, conventional wisdom in Brussels is that Europeans' eagerness
to trade sovereignty (and thus liberty) in exchange for (border) security, is far greater."
"One of the most contentious elements of the regulation would hand the commission the power to
authorise a deployment to a frontier, on the recommendation of the management board of the newly
formed European Border and Coast Guard. This would also apply to non-EU members of Schengen,
such as Norway."
"If the plan is approved by EU states, Frontex's replacement will have a slew of new powers,
including the ability to hire and control its own border guards and buy its own equipment.
It will also be allowed to operate in non-EU countries - such as Serbia and Macedonia, which have
become transit countries for people trying to reach northern Europe "if requested."
"All have been spot on, but not even this aggressive and accurate forecast predicted that Europe
would be so bold as to effectively take over border and population control sovereignty across the
entire continent. It is about to do just that."

Given that control appears to be in the hands of "when things get serious you have to lie", forgive
me if this seems somewhat less than a well thought out plan, and for wondering how long will it
take before it is revealed who really is pulling the strings on these puppets?

This is the wrong attitude to have.  If everyone gave their btc to business which promise not to convert to fiat, its those business owners who will then seek out a supplier which takes BTC and promises not to convert to fiat and the cycle continues and you develop a parallel economy without the need to ever convert to fiat.

If we want to develop this btc economy the way we want it we have to be scrupulous as consumers.

Hi. What is shared coin mixing?

There needs to be more encouragement for shops to keep bitcoin.  There are a few businesses that keep their BTC as BTC and we should be encouraging that.  Not using companies that are just using the bitcoin for buzz and cashing in on all of us bitcoin consumers. 

There should be a list online of all the businesses that dont convert their bitcoins into fiat. Then we could as consumers make that choice.

well actually gold is better I think although bitcoin can be considered gold, gold represents for the value of currency as well as has physical value so buying gold should be better than bitcoin I think

Warring factions in India?
What exactly are you referring to in relation to Bitcoin?