Buying Bitcoin and spending Bitcoin is obviously not money laundering, governments tend to be concerned because it's very easy to do money laundering with Bitcoin (which it is, you just buy some Bitcoin, put it in Bitmixer or a gambling site, cash it out and boom it's clean money).

If you're not actually doing anything illegal, the government doesn't care.  If you are, good luck as long as it's not hurting anyone, and you would usually get away with it.  Money laundering just means covering your tracks and trying to get money that wasn't involved in crimes so that the crimes can't be traced back to you.

It's definitely trackable, Coinbase have to keep these transactions accessible to the authorities, especially since the bank (obviously) knows about all transactions out of your account.

The only way to actually do it is to take your bank account money into physical cash, since they don't know exactly how you spend that cash, and you can then exchange that for Bitcoin on LocalBitcoins or another useful exchange.

The rising and falling of prices may be normal,  but the events causing the falls sure aren't.  Bitcoin will take more than time to recover, it'll take actual action.

Now that Ripple's just been pumped, it's not as good an idea to invest anymore.  That kind of instant growth isn't sustainable.

What I would do if you want to find the newest altcoin is look on the announcement threads on this forum.  Most decent (or wanting to be decent) cryptocurrencies will start a thread here, and then you can see all the user feedback on the currencies in the comments and figure out based on the factors they describe whether it's worth investing.  That'd also help you to evaluate yourself in the future.

DASH was doomed from the start, it was never a legitimately good choice, just well marketed and well pumped.  It's terrible to hear people who put lots of money into it, now that the price is going to drop dramatically.  Although coins like this never completely die, so we might still see it over $20 for a while and people might talk about it a little bit.

As I was well aware of before, zig zag charts are just one way of indicating potential future price and are not always meaningful, especially in situations like we're in right now where the state of current affairs is far more important than recent price fluctuations.

Because they trust people that they're not forced to learn from.  I think it's the fact that learning from peers is voluntary that makes them pay attention more.  Beyond that it's also the fact that they can relate to someone closer to them, and that they're not just pressuring themselves to do well in some exam - instead they're gaining information based on what they want to hear.

For practical purposes this is nothing because only one person among thousands can actually win the prize.  It's like a meaningless lottery of people who try too hard for something that someone else was inevitably going to win anyway.  Just a publicity stunt from bitcoin.com and it's nothing to Roger Ver, who won't transfer his BTC for BU tokens.

BTC already is Bitcoin Core, that's the current development team and SegWit would just be a new update for Bitcoin if the miners signal support for it.

BU doesn't matter, it might go through and then collapse or whatever but it won't succeed.  If I were rich, I would buy loads of BU coin tokens at their low price and dump them right when the hard fork happens, and I can see some major Core supporters doing that (and if it didn't go through you could always sell it back to BTC).

Nothing to do with Coinbase, they're legit and you presumably haven't downloaded anything from there.  This is pretty basic malware though, your computer should be safe as long as you don't send it to the address but run some virus scans and send from an uninfected machine in the future (since you're using Coinbase I assume your Bitcoins can be used from any device).

And these altcoins getting popular from MLM are just complicated Ponzi schemes trying to pass themselves off as legitimate.  They always collapse eventually.

If anyone gets rich from gambling, they're stupid because naturally that means that they put in far more money than they can afford to lose with terrible odds of winning.

Unless they did it over the long term with games like poker or doing card counting, in which case they're pretty clever.

No matter how many graphs you make with arbitrary and basic analysis of Bitcoin over a very short period, it's not going to change what actually happens.  It won't keep going in the same direction, so maybe you should be analysing news and potential news instead of looking poorly at price charts and assuming that Bitcoin is going to just reach a point at which it goes up forever.

I think it's because BU's percentage of hash rate has leveled out a bit.

In the long term, Bitcoin will have a bullish trend, but within a week or so it'll start going down again due to the uncertainty about what solutions may occur and how they'll affect the network.

It's annoying that this is news.  The arguments of barely a hundred people should not influence a community that should be as decentralised as possible, and people shouldn't be considered "Bitcoin personalities" who act as a public face for Bitcoin unless they are Core devs who actually work on Bitcoin.

To be fair, you can't expect him to exchange all his BTC for BTU before the hard fork even happens.  He'd be relying on an exchange to hold thousands of BU coins that might never even exist.

Dealing with fiat can be really troubling for traders due to identity verification, government interference and potential problems with the exchanges. People should really get more into USDT, while less established it works really great on Poloniex since you can exchange them more freely without having to think too much about the conversion.  Hopefully tethers for other currencies will be developed as well.

Bitcoin Classic failed, Bitcoin Unlimited will inevitably fail due to how determined a large amount of Core supporters are and how many people don't want to signal for either, and since most people are running Core nodes anyway because BU is so buggy now is a great time for some BU miners to give up.

Now that it's gone up a fair bit it's not so reasonable to buy.  It was a lot lower when the BU hashrate was clearly rising and a hard fork was more likely on its way, but after that $980 price I don't expect it to go up for quite a while (until scaling disputes are resolved, if they are).