not "every" information is made public. only what is required. the blockchain only contains your transactions not your identity, YOU are revealing your identity and linking it elsewhere not on the blockchain and not as far as bitcoin is concerned.

in short bitcoin may not be anonymous but it provides a very good level of privacy that is more than enough for all the regular users who are not trying to hide the law but only trying to maintain their privacy.

only an idiot would call bitcoin  technology obsolete, i wanted to say newbie but a newbie never makes such dumb statements. it is like saying the newest iPhone the iPhone X or CPU core i9 for example is obsolete why is it too expensive

everything you said here is wrong!
- bitcoin is good not both
- bitcoin can give you a lot more profit with a lot less risk than BCH can with its possible pumps. and if it is profit that you want then any much smaller shitcoin can have much bigger pumps so they can give you more profit in short term.
- if you want to take a big risk and want top become rich then invest in a super cheap shitcoin that  can get pumped for example from 10 satoshi to 10000 satoshi. it happens a lot more often than BCH can be pumped ever.

if you really believed half this statement then you would have never signed up on bitcointalk.org to talk about bitcoin 

there are bitcoin lovers only, they spread hate and FUD so that they can buy more of it while the price is low and not $1 million per coin!

bitcoin is not cryptocurrency in general.

you started this topic with the statement saying it is "throwing money in garbage" if you invest in bitcoin! are you contradicting yourself or haven't yet made up your mind?

it depends on the conclusion that you want to make from the "past performances".
for example if you want to take a look at the charts of a certain month and say because it was like this in that month it should also be the same this month, then your statement is correct.
but the conclusion can be this:
bitcoin is being slowly adopted and growing more. over the long term price of it will increase no matter the huge jumps or drops that it has in short term like in one month.

apart from a bad translation from Philippines to English, it is mentioning a good but obvious point. because bitcoin has a lot of potential it has been performing well and will continue to do so. this made a lot of scammers want to come in and earn a lot of it by scamming others. these scams are from spreading malware, to running scam services. and then with introduction of ICOs and how easy it is to scam people that way they switched there to continue ripping people off.

and what exactly is "this"? the market? you are surprised because it is the first time you saw the cryoptocurrency market, is that it?

that is how it worked for as long as it existed. when something is getting pumped, it attracts a lot of volume. when it is getting pumped hard it attracts even more volume.
and when something is stable (has small moves instead of swinging 30+%) it attracts less volume.
here EOS is the pumping coin and bitcoin is the stable one.

come back in a while and check it and you will see.

here is a fun shitcoin in rank #3 with $430 volume


posted it here a year ago: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1780445.0

good answer.
whenever someone asks a question like this 99% of the answers only list the coins they are bag holding themselves. and whenever you check the charts of these coins you can see they have been dropping hard!

at the same time the market is always active 24/7/365. there are lots of things happening, a lot of different pumping groups which are pumping different shitcoins left and right and making a lot of profit. locking up your funds in one altcoin and wishing for it to rise is never going to make you any money. you should always move around in the market and hunt the profit down.

unless we see another pumping season, the altcoins will continue getting dumped and go lower. for the time being we are on a dumping spree that has not yet ended so you should expect a much lower price from all the altcoins before this dumping season ends.

my guess is that we may see at least one short pumping period during summer since the dumps have gone on quite long by then  but i have not yet decided whether it can last longer than a short period or not.

this is more like gambling than trading. it has some traces of trading in it and uses the market and the price but what it does with it is pure gambling and because of that it is mostly unpredictable and highly risky. it is your choice whether you want to choose this option or not. the "analysis" and "strategy" mostly look like a joke to me regarding this one.


unfortunately that is not something you can learn from a "website". that is something you have to learn on your own. it is an experience which can only be gained if you dirty your hands and start trading and hanging around in the market (on exchanges looking at charts).

nah. there is a lot of FUD around and it is growing each day because price is not rising but it is far from its ATH. the maximum level of FUD will be when price reaches the bottom and doesn't go any lower any longer and probably when it reverses and starts rising right after the bottom.
that is the time when everyone who missed the chance to buy at the bottom, or wanted a lower price to buy at start spreading nonsense in the name of FUD thinking they can achieve their dreams.

definitely stay away from ICOs. and by extension it is best to stay away from altcoins too.
stick to bitcoin and only invest a small amount of money that you can afford to lose.
study the market and try to learn about the things that affect it. try to gain experience by looking at the charts.
stay away from groups that call themselves "trading groups" "trading signals" and the obvious ones: "pump groups" they are all the same and are scams.
then slowly if you gained experience you can invest more and also expand into altcoins if you felt the need.

well the Indian government tried so hard to ban cryptocurrencies and prevent or at least limit the number of people who invest in bitcoin but all their attempts failed miserably and they ended up with a lot of angry people and a lot of petitions against this decision of the government so they had to choose an alternative route of adding taxes to it. now they are trying to make it harder for people to invest in bitcoin by asking them to pay high taxes. i say this will also fail and Indians will continue to invest in bitcoin even more than before ...

no.
what you are suggesting will create more scams but now they will all have to spend a little more money to bribe that centralized website that you just proposed to list their scam. what happens is that this website of yours that you say should be the "symbol of trust in this industry" sees they have a lot of audience and the possibility to earn a lot of money that is not easily earned through their ads so what they do is that they ask for money to list these new shitcoins on their website and cover them.
the scammers seeing that will gladly pay the fee to get their crap advertised. now you have a lot of scams + a scammer website that advertises them and a lot of people who fall for it + those that fall for it through that website.

no because this news belongs to months ago which was the deadline for tax payers to pay their taxes and that was just a speculation that this might happen and price had a little drop by that time and recovered right after.

as soon as the manipulation stops and the whales run out of bitcoin to dump and decided now is the time to buy back what they have been selling.

no, thank you! websites that you find this kind of stuff on are full of shit all the time. don't waste your time on them...

according to your price report which is about $1000 or a week older than the current price it seems like you are really unaware of things that are going on in bitcoin world and it is not just limited to bitcoin price
there has been a lot of puzzles like this in the past and many of them have given away a lot higher amounts than this. there was a 32BTC puzzle if i am not mistaken recently. there was another 0.5BTC one last year which was a bunch of pictures each pointing to a single letter in a private key and many others like this. 1 bitcoin isn't that much for many of early adopters!

first of all you are saying this because you don't understand that bitcoin is a currency first and an investment second last. what the "pizza guy" did only proves that people back in the days were understanding this whereas these days people only care about earning more money out of bitcoin.
secondly it is only your assumption that it was "his fortune" spend. how do you know that he doesn't already have another 10000BTC. for example if i buy a Pizza with 0.002BTC and bitcoin goes to $10 million dollar you  would say i spend a fortune on a pizza but i own a lot more than 0.002BTC!

yes but only if they start becoming real independent currency!
so far almost all the altcoins specially all the top coins are not a currency. they are all tools for speculation by traders and have no other use cases. this means only people who want bitcoin invest in altcoins and do it to profit on their bitcoins and when things are bad they dump altcoins because they were temporary means anyways.

it is not just about not being worth it for all of them. for example if someone is giving you free money then take it but if they are asking you to take 10 different steps and jump through hoops to receive it, specially if they want personal information, personal social media like facebook,... from you then it is not worth wasting your time on it to receive some worthless token in the end and then bend over backwards to sell it and get real money out of it.
so analyze each of them and see if the time it takes for you to claim and dump one of them is worth the reward you will get in the end.

if they wanted to take tax in bitcoin then they would have had to see bitcoin as a currency which they clearly are not. so they take taxes in fiat. in other words when you have 0.01BTC and it is worth $75 and then it goes up to $20000 and that same amount is worth $200 you have to pay a tax on the profit you made (assuming amount falls above the minimum amount you have to pay taxes on). and you pay it in fiat. and it would be something like $5 on your $125 profit or something like that.