I have done trades in localbitcoins involving paypal and BTC, with no problem at all. But I have been charged back unfairly with paypal, with no possibility to defend myself (it was advice given what I was paid for). Paypal is indeed risky, and measures to alleviate this are alwasy ok.

Indeed there is quite a big of hope when more and more mainstream media and governments begin to consider Bitcoin as more than an experiment run by some nerds. It is quite probable that it ends up being as you say, and I hope for it.

Looks good. Layout has big fonts and, although I am seeing it through a pc, seems mobile adapted. It is funny to see the doge from dogecoin in the cover too lol. There are other sites like this but there is always place for an additional one.

Could not claim, probably due to the proxy service I am using (and I need to use it). Thanks anyway, looks like a simple, clean and high paying faucet. That is not easy to see nowadays, so I hope you can follow on with it.

I think this is one of the most important reasons. If you have a xapo faucet, you will have less users, so you tend not to provide a xapo faucet. For me it is annoying that xapo demands 2 factor authentication, I have lost my cell once and lost access to my Xapo account. Now I use my laptop to provide the 2 factor, but it can also break someday and I will lose access too. That is no good at all.

It is always good to have another xapo faucet. They are not all that common nowadays, and the direct pay feature that xapo offers is really worth it. Payment is a bit low, but I hope you can raise it as you get the hold of it.

Faucets are less and less profitable everytime I do a good working round. I remember times in which you could do 150k sat with a moderate effort. I would say that today you would get around only 50k with same effort... even though BTC has not doubled its value.

Something should be done.

It is too bad that adsense is banning those faucets, but, as some of you previously said, this can be good at last for other ad companies that are not adsense. I find some of them quite profitable.

That is a very good poing. I guess that yes, they keep them, which makes the exchange somewhat more profitable. However, user may get some more satoshis and sum them with the ones in the exchange to finally withdraw all.

I basically have bitcoin because I entered it as a new mean to earn income. Then (from reading this forum mostly) I got the idea that it can go really high, so I began to store it instead of exchanging for fiat.

Well I am interested on this too. No pun intended, but the OP was asking how to do it (a guide) not how much time would it take to do it. Some link to a guide or offering some help in PM would help.

Came into this post just out of curiosity and to lear more about ethereum contracts. Feel a bit discouraged as I see there is no contract running that users can refer to. Does not looks like it is going well.

Gold has proved (I think) to be quite safe, and something many people do not realize is that gold has value in itself (ductile metal, needed for some applications etc). However you have to balance the expectation of profit. It is not much with gold, but very high with BTC. Perhaps not 50/50, but a lower percentage on gold.

I think it will go a little lower due to bad news and general discouragement, but will end up going up to 500 or 600 once issues are solved and we come back to a more optimistic frame of things.

For me, anything that is more than 1 year is long time investment. It can be long, or longer, but yet 1 year seems like a good time in crypto world. Medium time would be months, short time weeks/days.

I think the most suitable and easy way is to join an exchange that allows for BTC/USD pair, like coinbase exchange or the like. If you link it to your bank account, you can easily trade fiat to your account and back, sell bitcoin for fiat, etc.

But this big amount of dollars has been rised in order to advance the sidechain solutions right? It does not seem the market has reacted too well to this as price has gone down a bit today.

The coin sounds very interesting for its gifting capabilities and facebook integration, however I am a little confused by the layout. The "awarded" value is my balance? How do I send my valorbits to other address or to a local wallet?

I feel that trying dogecoin faucets is really a good idea. There are too many bitcoin faucets and with the attack of bots they have grown increasingly loaded of antibot links, ads and popups. Dogecoin faucets tend to be cleaner nowadays and with a slightly lower pay.

I see your point but... exchanges might chose to remain open in one fork or another instead of just closing operations. They lose money if they remain closed and if there is a hardfork, I guess it would be better to have some than nothing.