bitcoin cant be a global currency right now because of the small block size that is already full now with the current few users. it is now about the coins number.

I do not think so, the price may rise a little bit because of the gbp fall but it won't reach $700 by the end of October. anyway, in order to see any rise in the price, bitcoin needs rebranding so more people start using it

If I were a multi millionaire I will just think about spending all of these money before I die. I might try bitcoin because of curiosity only. I may buy few btc and store them in paper wallets just for fun

Browser software startup Brave has some bitcoin it would like to give to The Wall Street Journal.

The controversial browser that blocks third-party ads, also gives users the ability to offset lost ad revenue in the form of bitcoin micropayments reconciled at the end of each month.

The first of these reconciliation cycles ended last week and Brave has now published a step-by-step process explaining how website owners can claim their bitcoin.

"The Wall Street Journal is number one," Brave co-founder Brenden Eich during a conversation with CoinDesk earlier this week.

Eich added:


http://www.coindesk.com/brave-bitcoin-micropayments-publishers/

to be honest, 20 dollars are very few to make any revenue. you may try to trade altcoins and the more risk you take the more profit you may earn

Of course Humans will win because anyone can easily shutdown a robot by disconnecting its power source and that is it. anyway, I do not think robots will be that smart

The island of Jersey is a pleasant, tranquil place known for its rocky beaches, soothing waves, and oh yeah… It’s loose tax regulations and growing Fintech arena. Over the past two years, arrays of financial and tech-related companies have looked to Jersey as a potential home thanks to its limited regulations regarding bitcoin and digital currencies, but all that is about to change.

Presently, there are nearly two dozen established companies and businesses on the island of Jersey that accept bitcoin as a method of payment. Since October of last year, Jersey has expressed its desires to regulate cryptocurrency and implement stricter laws. As ten months have already gone by, very few of us probably took these regulators seriously, but now, it appears the day has finally come.

The new legislation entitled, “Proceeds of Crime (Supervisory Bodies) (Virtual Currency Exchange Business) (Exemption) (Jersey) Order 2016” is Jersey’s way of (what a surprise) trying to crack down on cybercrime, money laundering, and many of the other things people seem to think come about with bitcoin. While a full on BitLicense like in New York is being avoided for the time being, new regulations are ultimately being enforced, especially on larger companies. If the annual profits of a business are equal to 150,000 pounds or more, that business is required to undergo official registration with Jersey lawmakers, and go through additional rigmarole as one of the “big men on campus.” If a company’s annual profits are less, it’s likely to be exempt.

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Indian Bitcoin Exchange Unocoin Raises a Record $1.5 Million in Funding


Unocoin, an Indian bitcoin startup that offers a trading platform for Indian customers to buy, sell and store bitcoins has raised a record $1.5 million in a round of funding, the company announced on Thursday.

Founded in December 2013, Unocoin is headquartered in Bangalore, a city that is commonly deemed the “Silicon Valley of India.” Over the past near-three years, the company has grown to house 30 employees while clocking over 100,000 customers across the country.

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in the old blockchain web wallet, they allow users to get their private keys. So if it is still available in the new wallet I will vote for it as in xapo you do not control your coins or your addresses at all. but it is better to stop using web wallet

most of Africa countries do not have a good and stable electricity networks. so here is the main problem. also mining difficulty nowadays is very high and you may not be able to get you ROI even after a year

if you are so confused and did not reach a decision, sell half of your btc and keep the half. then you will be happy if the price drops or goes up

you know ? I sold before  when the price was low as $230 but I do not regret it. because I needed this money during this time and in some point you have to spend some of your btc and stop holding it

every few weeks I see a site similar to these scam sites and it is always on the first result because they pay money ! I do not understand why google does not review these sites before accepting their ads? it will prevent it

5 complete bitcoins ? that is very interesting . I wonder if someone saves these 5 btc and did not sell them till now. he would be great patient

this is really a good initiative from this companies and will promote for bitcoin more in Japan. I hope I will see something like this in my country

Of course some people do say that because they hate bitcoin but some people they said so because they do not believe in bitcoin anymore or they see a serious problem that is not solved in the network

PayPal and bitcoin are not even the same. PayPal is not a currency nor decentralized nor not regulated nor provide the same freedom for its users that bitcoin do. so how come it can kill bitcoin? it is just a competition but bitcoin will win at the end

even if the said they won't trade that token nothing proves they did not do it. I can never trust them again after they "got hacked" scenario happened and the loss they cut from all their users although the security was their responsibility

After months of heated debate over whether the Bitcoin network should scale or not, there seems to be no consensus in sight. The community is at a crossroads with two differing opinions on forking the network from 1MB to 20MB.

Yet, getting most of the validating nodes, miners and the rest of the bionetwork on board in an appropriate manner is a very significant issue. One camp thinks that the current network with its mere 7 transactions per second is debilitating and uncompetitive. However, the other camp believes that promoting a hard fork will revert transactions, which is the opposite of the basic principles of the Blockchain technology and its immutable ledger.

read the full interview here  https://cointelegraph.com/news/roger-ver-on-bitcoin-scalability-two-bitcoins-are-better-than-one

an economic crisis in china will affect the whole world not only bitcoin. it may even lead to a world war between china and other countries. it can affect the bitcoin network really bad