Banks have showen their negative position to Blockchain and crypto-currencies, in the long perspective they really destroy all banking net. But that's for good I think, cause of how much fees the bank takes for loans and how much they give for storage? The reply is big and little. I doubt that banks will totally disappear, cause of it's just impossible to move all people on crypto-currencies and Blockchsin today, so I suppose banks will have to short their activity and will finelly suggest to their clines some better terms.

Bitcoin holders are those people who set the price for Bitcoin and everybody know that. "Whales" are paying the biggest role here, cause of every their move affect price a lot.
And if to talk about the price changing - I don't know how to predict it. Before I thought news and things that happening around crypto-currencies are making the price. But see, news from China dumped the price from 5000$ to 3000$ in September, but when South Korea followed this theme - the price become to grow! So there is no any stable way for prediction.

Everything cause of they still didn't decide what to do with Bitcoin, to follow Japan or China in this point. They are trying to mix all two - by adoption of Blockchain technology and not banning (yet), but warning about the use of crypto-currencies. I know how big percents Russian banks take for loans and I know how few percents they give for storage. So, I'm not surprised that banks in this country are taking negative side about cryto-currencies legalization and regulation. And the most of politicians are heads of banks and other financial structures, so their negative and "warnings" are logical to me.

Japan became the leader right after China banned ICOs and closed exchangers, all investors and users from this country moved to Japan. The United States are taking the second position.
Japan really seems as a revolutionary on the Asian market of crypto-currencies. Don't know the exactly reason why China and South Korea didn't go by the example of Japan and why Japan didn't go by the example of it's west neighbors? Must be politicians and banks in Japan doesn't see any danger in crypto-currencies for the system, but China and South Korea do.

Do you think it's not risky to hold money in the bank?  it is risky. But Bitcoin will bring you 300% growth per year, but how much your bank gives to you? 5-10% per year.
I have heard stories about people who take a loan in a bank and buy Bitcoin with those money. And it really can be profitable, cause of Bitcoin will give you +300% and for loan you will pay 10-20% provision 
So, think yourself what is more risky here and more profitable.

Hello Decoded! I would like to pay your attention on the fact that the forum seems are under some big cleaning and as I heard all old campaigns and thems are going in trash, so the number of posts in profiles of users are getting shorter. I hope you will take it in view and count our posts by it's actual number from the beggining of the week, but not by a number in the profile information.
Best regards!

Nobody actually knows what ig going to happen. I guess all this suggestions about future price for bitcoin just based on the last year events when the price for bitcoin extremely fast raised to 1000$. People just in the mood to something the same happen and I don't exclude it. The wave of Bitcoin is going through the world and legalization and licensing just prove that the era of crypto-currency is on it's pick.

They would better teach their citizens about positive aspects of Bitcoin and crypto-currencies, but not about dangers and risks only. I suppose people who invest in Bitcoin clearly understand what is their risk about. I didn't meet a person who was investing in Bitcoin without any fear about "what if the price will drop or the Government will ban Bitcoin" and so on. I believe that only few people in Russia know bitcoin, they need to spread the knowledge about digital currencies, cause of the biggest mass of people stay not educated about that.
But I see that it is just profitable to Russia to say about danger of crypto-currencies, to make people afraid of it.

I was exactly the one of such people. I am here for two years ago and I remember how I joined to all that, I was searching for source of money on the Internet. And one of the first thing was Alien faucet  I played like a crazy and could earn a little. With time I have found about the forum and now I am here. Today I earn twice more than on my full time job, but I don't plan to leave it, to me it's like covered back.

Yes that's going to be stressful to live like that. I wouldn't love that way of life and payment.
But in the situation if you receive salary in Bitcoin and pay for your costs in the same Bitcoin it's going to be ok, due to the price of Bitcoin in dollars doesn't going to be the matter. Right?

It happen almost all possible situations with me during gambling. Too long to talk about all cases. I gamble online and if the game doesn't go I just change the site. I don't mean that I change it after the first loose, no, I come to gamble when I have money and if for 1-2 days I have no hand - I change the site, that is my limitation.

Legalization is going to be that win-win solution you are talking about.  From legalization the government is going to have it's benefits in the se a of taxes which exchangers and ATMs would pay to it. And digital currencies are also going to have it's pluses, one of the is the price, we all here care mostly about the price and legalization would attract more crypto users, that will pump the price for all coins to the sky.

After Bitcoin crossed the point of 1000$ the number of different kinds of erotic suggestions rised in times.
I forgot already in which section of the forum I saw a commercial of porn sites and services, but it's actually full of it. If you are really interested in I can try to find for you couple of links

The power of Bitcoin as the most popular cryptocurrency is about to end. The question is, what will replace it? My arguments in favour of Litecoin, ZCash, Ripple and Monero. And I like Dash due to the fact that it focuses on convenience for the consumer and flexible decentralized control of the Protocol. For example, for the community Dash took only 24 hours to approve the proposed increase in size of the block in 2016, while the community of Bitcoin is the solution to scalability problems took three years, and the debate ended by the hardfork.

I suppose Bitcoin get compared with gambling cause of nobody know now what is going in the end. What is going to be in the final - worldwide banning or 50 000 $ price? No one knows and all of us may only suggest and believe in the positive end, due to all of us here on the forum, are Bitcoin holders.
The same like in gambling you invest your money and time in Bitcoin and waiting for the end of the game with you as the winner, so I think yes, Bitcoin is gambling.

One of the initial prospects for Bitcoin was anonymity. It turns out that it is not as anonymous as many people think. From an anonymous token XMR (Monero) is a leader.
I see that XMR is becoming very popular among those who are looking for anonymous transactions. But that is up in the air whether it will be able to scale.

You can start an ICO with one click if you a pro. But as I see you don't  
You need to start from teem making. Find a guy who will organize you everything about programming and online commercial. The idea is also important, cause if your target just to start the ICO it is going to be a scam from the most beginning.

I would recommend this thread to all forum newbies. All possible questions about Bitcoin are uncovered and explained. The information represented here is correct and told in easy word, so I think even that person, who's English is not so good, will understand it perfectly.

J. Diamon called Bitcoin is "fraud", probably those words were the reason why Bitcoin dropped even lower after bad news about exchanger's closing in China. He has said that Bitcoin is in the babble.
Increasing financial recognition of the crypto-currency, including the growing number of hedge funds and institutional investors, indicates that Janes Diamon's and otet "bears" predictions can be unconvincing.
China came back with new news, now they decided to regulate Bitcoin and that seems the best decidion they would ever take. I expect after such ups and downs we are going to see the "bull" market again.

Yes they do think about security, but mostly that is the security of the site and oftenly it happens that people loose their founds and can't do a thing, cause of the support of the wallet doesn't work effectively. You see, when you hold money on an online wallet those money are actually wallet's money but not yours. So, if one day the owner of the site will decide to close the site or it will be hacked - you will loose everything.
I used to believe to something more serious, as hardware wallet. Currently I use Ledger wallet and I feel safe with it totally.