Nah, not that bad.  I think a lot of what's going on in the market is related to the recent interest rate hike--at least in the US.  If money gets more expensive to borrow, stock prices generally go down.  I don't think what we're seeing is anywhere near as bad as the great depression.  Not even 2009 was that bad.

They don't call bitcoin the honeybadger of money for nothing.  You think the honeybadger gives a shit about Mike hearn?

There are millions and million's people around the world is using Bitcoins, trading, gambling, spending online. People are getting rich with the savings of Bitcoins money. I also don't care about Jamie Dimon s speech. It is his thinking not ours. And it will sure grip the whole market in future.

Hold on there, Pardner.  Don't confuse cause and effect. All that means is the price is higher.  The bull market isn't really back until the ATH is topped.  That won't happen without a scaling fix because long before we get to four digits, we'll slam into the 1MB blocksize limit. 

When the blocks are totally full, the fees could go up 100X what they are now because there is only enough capacity for ~600,000 transactions per day.  That's it, no matter how high the fees go, there won't be enough capacity for each of us to have even one xation/day each. NO MATTER HOW HIGH THE FEES GO.

You don't wait until the snow starts falling before you start chopping firewood. It's coming.

eh wot!?

The liquidity aka as 'free money' supporting equities at the moment would evaporate and the markets would collapse....

....she wouldn't really do that, woudl she?

Those are not even close to anarchists.  Those are identical to the collectivist leftists posting in this thread.  Leftism is a mental disorder based on inferiority complex where you can only relate to groups deemed weak, discriminated against, wronged, inferior, etc.  

Those people latch onto the whales because they see them as having been wronged.  It's a clear case of textbook collectivist leftism.  Their mental disorder is often mistaken for just common empathy, but that's not how it works.  Anything seen as strong or seemingly normal they have contempt for, so it's not empathy, but an actual behavior pattern/defect.

They were all dumped into the trash can when they were younger and now show contempt for anything in their mind that they see stronger than themselves (which is everything).

Thanks for letting me know about bitbet. I didn't know about them, but they're similar to Predictious. They both use Yes/No statements about different things. However, they are not finance focused. For example, there is only one item on the price of silver: it's either below $9 before Dec. 2015 or not, that's it. What if I want to say it's above $14.50 tomorrow? Or $14.60 the next day? There are just two BTC price related items. I'm talking about a platform just for finance related items, and ability to be more granular. Traders like to speculate on and make money on small price movements, not general statements. I thought I'd find people like that here, in the Speculation thread. Am I in the wrong place?

lol Thank you for recommending the forum Gambling section

However, binary options are not gambling, at least no more than investing in the stock market in general. They are a new type of financial product similar to Contracts for Difference (CFDs), another contract where you never own the underlying asset, which are useful for different financial options:

http://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/contractfordifferences.asp