The answer is today. Bitcoin is international currency today. Look how many Bitcoin ATM placed all over the world, unfortunately mostly in capitals and other big cities), there you can sell or buy Bitcoin easily. I have hear a few stories on the forum how people travel over the world having just Bitcoin. Many place accept Bitcoin already as payment, so, every day Bitcoin come to our life's deeper and deeper. I can call it as international currency already and what about you?

Altcoins may be very perspective investment. I have bought a lot of coins of one ICO this summer and if the price will reach at least 10$ per one I'm going to be very rich, I plan to leave my work on that moment and start new life without cares! 

We have to understand that the coin's success depends on us, promoters the most. Than higher interest we will attract than higher price we will get in the final, and it's all in our interests.

Some people may think "oh, Bitcoin costs so much!" or mining of crypto-currencies may seem too complicated and asking for investment and necessary knowledges, same like trading, which is asking a basic amount of money. But it is still not late to join to Botcoin and it never will. You just need to find some work which will be possible to be done with those skills that you have. Take a look on "services" area and try to find any that suits to you the most.

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Every coin has it's chance for success, but without demand it's impossible. We should to make good commercial for the project to it succeed and to demand would be on the necessary level, without that the project just will get lost in the sea of other coins.

I will correct you, Russia and China didn't ban Bitcoin. China banned ICO and closed exchangers activity. Russia is only planning to follow the same methods, but they announced the necessary moves are going to be done only the next year, so for now Russia stay free zone for Bitcoin and all altcoins.
And I doubt those countries see danger in Bitcoin and it's domination, they only try to control it to make it work on them.

There is an opinion that 7617$ per BTC was the top of this year and currently Bitcoin is going down. There are a lot of passion around new fork, the market and exchange must be ready to support three different fork of Bitcoin in November, the original chain, 2x and the new chain of Bitcoin with the best PoW. People are not sure again about their assets and selling their founds, that's why the price is going down. But I doubt to see any big drop like before the August's fork.

All those guys won't stay on the forum for long be sure, sooner or later their accounts will be blocked by the moderator. But nothing stops them to start everything from the most beginning.

Let him go. He had earn a lot of money already which be enough for life of all his children and grand children. He doesn't need to search any other source for investment, so, I actually understand him.

Before investing, make sure that your first thought of an exit strategy. You either get nothing or get a lot of money. Nothing is so toxic to rational investment, as getting a lot of money. The strategy of the exit planning can have a sobering effect and can bring all investors to the most profitable decisions.

Currently the most of alts are in the red color due to people move their founds in Bitcoin to get as much free coins as it is possible by the 16th November. It is really hard to predict the future of every coin, so I would not hurry to call all of them as scam. The demand is playing the greates role about every coin, the project of a new coin can be good, but if people don't buy it that won't be successful, logically.

We can protect ourselves from forum scammers with 100% guarantee. That first a person was scammed he reports to moderator and the scammer gets negative trust. This souls to make other people to think twice before to start any contact with such user. The problem is that accounts are selling and buying and a lot of people should to complain before poizen account would be blocked. I think we can't do anything with that unfortunately.

That's right, investing in Nitcoin is going to be very profitable and you need to wait for long to have results I suppose more and more people step on this path, cause of holding money in a bank doesn't bring any profit at all and even doesn't cover the inflation, meanwhile Bitcoin raised 700% this year and it's not the limit, many people are talking about seeing 10000$ this year already.

This hardwork called SegWit2x will create another branch of the original Bitcoin block chain. Its rationale is similar to what we had in August. The block size is increased to 2 MB (in the original chain of 1 MB). It is expected that this will increase the speed and reduce the cost of transactions in the new network, with the result that the currency will be able to successfully compete with other payment systems such as Visa and MasterCard.
According to analysts, hardwork will be another important event, which will increase the volatility of the Bitcoin's price. As in August, a lot will depend on the support that will be received by each of parts. The fact is that than more support than more transactions, than better growing currency.

We easily can call 2017 as year of ICO. Among all those ICO that's are a lot of scam, mostly because of this area of business is still not regulated, but the process of regulating finelly began and I think it's good. Investors should to be protected from scammers.
I am agree with you that the idea of ICO is great, but we all need to learn to use if for good.

A manager simply could call you a trash commentator or a spammer, depends on your posts. It's hard to get out from the list, so my recommendation for you is to check all SMAS's managers  list and to find in which one you were not added and work only with those one who stairs friendly to you. Good luck!

My suppose is that Bitcoin as we see it today is like a prototype which is going to be modified with years and take some other form or even meaning. I like to be one of those pioneers who use the first version of Bitcoin, but it is surly not so perfect to stay without change for long.

My plan us to cash out all my savings at 10000$ cause of my nervs just will not be strong enough to wait for something bigger At the same time I know that 10000$ is not going to be the top for Bitcoin, but I just don't want to risk, those money are going to be enough to satisfy all my current needs.

The number of users is coming to 1 million already and I suppose withduch huge interest to crypto-currencies this number is going to be reached soon. The forum is really amazing place for all the community and I am happy to be a part of it. I don't thing we don't need to change anything about the forum, let it stays fee as it is.