Most of the interesting matches are played in the evening, I like to be prepared so I make bets much before games starts. I take my time to look on statistics, players, who is injured, all that in afternoon and I just wait games to start.
   I never bet right before the games, I dont like to hurry with placing bets, its a bad luck in my case I never one like that.

   Its like you said in headline, pump obviously is not sustainable. Insane or not its what we have, with bitcoin history this is what we had to expect, but our hope is blinded us. You chose good moment to sell, and probably you will grow your bitcoins with that shorting. I dont do this kind of things, I keep my coins always safe.
   

   That is not drastic, that is completely insane. If bitcoin lose 50 % of its value that will be big alarm for almost everyone who have bitcoin. That would be real shock for me also.

   I dont think that is bitcoin in the race, its fighting for survival here, and most of us are in the dark. I think 2017 will be full of challenges for bitcoin, what will happen with existing problems its hard to tell, community is not united on some important questions.
   Bitcoin and other alt-coins need to become more popular, and just with that popularity they can become strong enough to be competition to other fiat currencies. 2017 will bring many new things for bitcoin, like it was until now we need to be ready for everything, bitcoin is full of surprises.

   Freedom is a state of mind! Being able to do what you wish, and now question how many of us are really free? Free to do things we wish, but cause our society doesnt give approval we do things in the dark. We are not free to do what we wish, we are forced from the birth to have IDs, documents, to work for money to be able to buy what we need with that. And how many of us here work for decent salary, who can pay apartment, car, to go on vocation, buy gadgets?
   I get my freedom in nature, when I`m out there in wild. Where human hand still didnt ruin everything, there I get my freedom, and only way to be free is to live with nature, everything else is illusion.

   Nothing new with bitcoin! Price is now 960 $ and I don't think it will settle soon. This ups and downs are good for traders, and I don't know whom else, but I was hoping for a little stability.
   What we can expect in next few weeks, looks like its hard hard to predict price even for experienced bitcoiners. If nothing this price is making us all excited with this moving.

   I used western union once and never again, for 130 euros they took more then 20 euros, that is a robbery. On table that OP posted bitcoin is more used then wu, and now from paypal  as Ryan Dugan posted above.
   Finally this services have completion, bitcoin is alternative that we desperately needed.

   I'm ready to accept that God doesnt exist, I'm ready to accept polytheism, but one God is bullshit! There is no logic in one God, there is no sense to even think about it.
   What you believers have except your belief? And truth is that the biggest believers are most evil persons, pedophiles, thiefs. Most of you believe in God just to have free spot in heaven, but you should feel ashamed! Look the world we living in, its terrible, and mostly cause of your stupid beliefs.

   Like some other members I also dont see a point in comparing bitcoin and gold. Both of them represent different movements, and they have different purpose.
   In my head there isnt choice between gold and btc, I never had sympathy for gold and I never earned from gold. On other hand I embraced bitcoin from beginning, and I can I just enjoy in sweet victory over gold.

   In this topic I learned that even for shorting, trader need to choose right moment, in case he borrowed bitcoins lose is huge. Confusing part is that he wanted to do this now when everyone expect rise, where he got idea about drop, why he expected that?
   I feel sorry for this guy, he lost a fortune. Trading is proven to be very risky investment once again, learn from this and try to not do the same. If this is me, I dont know how would I recover from this huge lose.

   All investments involve some degree of risk. Before you make any investing decision, sit down and take a look at your entire financial situation, nobody cant tell you how to manage your investment portfolio. Risky investments can offer a chance for big rewards, and there I see bitcoin. People who invested bitcoin made a decent profit ( depends from money they risked ), and I dont think this trend will stop.
  At the moment bitcoin is relatively risky investment that can bring a lot of profit, price is rising and looks like there is a chance for much more. Next halving is for 3 years, and price can grow a lot in this time (when I see what happened until now, its reasonable to think it can happen again), I believe bitcoin can bring benefit to all people who invest in it.

   I'll say the same as many others, trading is like gambling definitely! No matter how much you know about some alt-coin its not a guarantee that will worth a lot. Team behind alt-coin is same like in team in football, doesnt matter how good they can be, thy also lose from time to time.
   Skill is important for trading, but I also saw traders that run for luck and to buy cheap alt-coin that will worth like btc one day, thats not happened yet.

   Why February 17, what is so special about that day? Many people thinks thats possible to happen, just double in month and half is too big rise in short time.
   I would suspect in pump, and there is many discussions is bitcoin able to hold 1000$, how will bitcoin hold 2000$. In case we see new record I'm afraid huge drop will happen rigjt after.

   I'm on zero, or close around. I never actually calculated how much I spend on my bet slips, and I usually win once in 10 times and I always have money to bet more.
   I didn't have luck last year. I always make couple bet slips, always minimum bet, and on some possible payout is x 20, but I always have betsl slips where possible payout is higher then x 100. With fiat I had luck to hit it couple times, and to make + 100 euros, with bitcoins I still didnt hit nothing similar.

   Sell it for dollars on any exchange and withdraw, or try local bitcoins, both ways can be good, just watch for fees. You are a bit confused here, fiat is fiat, you sell on exchange site for fiat.
   This is shorting as I understand markets and it doesn't always work. You assume price will go down eventually, but here today who can predict bitcoin drop and when? I'm open minded, anything can happen, guess we will need to wait and see.

   This can be a good idea, in this way many of us can earn some extra bitcoins. Just if this is not to hard to create, for example how much is shipping for one t-shirt from Europe to Asia? The cost of clothes sometimes is so small that is not worth to ship it so far, and shipment can cost more then the desired clothes.
   All I know if bitcoin wish to become mainstream this is part where bitcoin need to be present, fashion industry worth a lot each year, and bitcoins should have part of it.

   God is imaginary thing, created to confuse people. I'm sad when I see believers, so much pain in the world cause of faith and God's and you are still pushing the same fucking thing.
   I feel sorry for this people who live in illusion, thats why there is more people who live in poverty and pain. When you people will rise above imaginary God, and start to love people who are close to you.
   

   Happy birthday Bitcoin, this is the first time we are celebrating your birthday together, I hope the first out of many more. Look forward to the future for the best things are yet to come, in moments like this I really feel that bitcoin can rule the economy one day.
   "SN contributed to the network for around a year. His last public post was on December 12th 2010 just a day after posting, “... WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.”" How to understand this, what this means? Who are hornets and where they headed? I dont understand this analogy.

   Yes there are many bitcoin mixer services in this moment, what is normal if you ask me. Community is making a progress and now in this moment we have a lot more of everything then before. I wanted to point its not just with mixers, its with other services as well.
   OP will not make a mistake if he choose bitmixer.io. Just click on my signature and you will be there for a second.

   I see nobody here can tell why price is going up. Nobody! Supply and demand, halving, more things to do with btc accepting, everyone here is just guessing and that is all we can do here. Maybe is Trump, or Hilary, lets guess more, aliens maybe? Some thread and topics here sound like little kids are playing, maybe thats why nobody take btc for serious.
   Chinese definitely! When we dont know what else to say we blame Chinese every time, doesnt matter if its going up or down, they are guilty for everything connected with bitcoins, and litecoin of course.
   

   I cant say I reached my financial goals. I live very modest life, with my salary I can pay bills, food, for other things I need to take credits from bank, borrow money, and even then I need to male choices between couple things, I always have for one.
   With bitcoins I started to think and work for my future. I plan bitcoins to be my pension one day. And only with bitcoins I see opportunity to make my finance better.