Probably it's because you are a Member user so you haven't seen scam ICOs going on in here back then. There are also some new questionable ICOs today. The investment amount keeps on increasing but they don't have an escrow and they don't show the address where all those money are stored. Those are obvious scams. There are some that just run away after the crowdsale. There are also some that let the whole thing go success but they are holding a good amount of their coin which is ready to dump anytime they like.

Do you read? Deja has had the negative trust for a week or so already. Know what you're advertising and know the people behind it. Don't just promote, promote, promote.

You can't just apply that. There's also a lot of people that are uninformed or misinformed about engineering, yet it's very useful to have a solid knowledge about it. Even better if you are one of the pioneers of engineering. Let's apply that to crypto. It's good to know about it while you're still young. It will become one of your options in the future. Maybe not as a kid, but as a young teenager. Most kids don't really care about things except when it makes them interested. Keep in mind that the fastest way to kid's attention is by making them curious about the subject, kids are always low-key curious about things that seems cool to them.

With that you're basically saying that third world countries would accept bitcoin and ditch their very own local currencies. How so? And how come the US of A will not do the same thing? It's not about how strong a currency is, it's about which people would prefer to use. There's probably more percentage of the population of major countries (including USA) that knows about bitcoin as compared to people from third world countries. Remember that there's a major digital divide going on to most third world countries and almost none to major countries (or first world ones).

I believe that USA is actually one of the first ones to adopt bitcoin assuming that bitcoin goes mainstream. With the digital divide, the people from third world countries can't totally adopt to it, thus, their local currency will remain strong.

Youtube has always been a good way to earn money, but not when you're just going to start today. A lot of people are already famous on Youtube. The competition is just too much. You'd upload one video, and then you'll see a similar channel uploading the same thing but have a much better quality content. If you're going to do Youtube, do it because you like it and you enjoy doing it, not because you want to earn money from it. This is true in blogging as well.

Selling your services, on the other hand, differs on the forum that you're going to offer your service. If it's here, then there are already some that are known here for certain services. Always look at other's work only to see if you can compete with them or not. If not, then just continue practicing and maybe do some small time service just so you can still generate income while practicing.

So what exactly is your point? Somebody can do this in bitcoins as well. You can get a loan and follow the same procedure with bank loans. In bank loans, you need a collateral or a good business plan. Along with these, you also have to submit your whereabouts. There can also be a trusted company that offers bitcoin loan to people. Insurance, car loans, housing loans, all of them can be in bitcoin form.

Bitcoin is much more than a currency. Bitcoin can perform all of the things a bank can (or perform even better to some extent). Online banking? Bitcoin got that.

It is a good way to make money only if you have other sources of income. Otherwise, you would either get tons of debt or sell even when you're going to lose money. What I do is that I hold most of my bitcoins and then withdraw some of them as time pass by just so I can pay for daily expenses. There are also times when I do major purchases. I know it's not a good thing to do when your money is on bitcoins because you lose the opportunity to sell at a higher price. Oh well, that's just how it is.

Holding all of your bitcoins is kind of hard to do if you don't have other sources of money.

A suggestion: To encourage local businesses to accept BTC, then start by using it and accepting it on your very own store. This way, people would know that it exists. Put up a banner that you accept bitcoins and people would always ask the cashier what it is. It's obvious that you have to educate the people in your store what is bitcoin so they can answer the questions of the customers as if it's just a normal thing to have. The customers will be thinking to themselves, if this waiter knows about it, then how come I don't know it? Am I behind the trend now? And then do a quick search about bitcoin.

That is why you need to always have an exit point. When you hold altcoins for a long time, doesn't mean that you're going to hold it forever. Always check for updates. Sometimes the developers of the coin have something more to offer under their sleeves. Another thing, you have to be content with your profits. Even if you hold the coin for a long time, if the market is dead, then it's just dead. Coins live off with hypes. When your coin don't get hyped, then that's just it. Sell your coins and move on to another coin to hold for a while.

In simpler terms, you don't have to settle with one coin. Move your investment to another even if you hold the coin for a long time yet you're just getting a small profit.

Depends on your area. Sometimes drugs aren't always owned by thugs. Sometimes it's the "normal" and educated people that have it. You can grow weed, you can make meth. There's no wonder why regular people also has it. You'd be shocked most of the time when you found out which of your friends are using drugs. I think buying drugs online is even more risky because you don't know who you are dealing with. Unlike when you buy in real life, you can have a friend refer you to his drug dealer friend. So when things go south, you know who you dealt with and you know where to find the person.

Plus, you get to see the drugs by yourself. You get to check the quality and if it's really the substance you're looking for.

What if I told you that there's another method of earning money which requires 16 years of studying? Most people go through it. It's called the education system. The first ones are needed since kids have to learn but after high school, I think the education system isn't actually that helpful (in my place, atleast). It's the time when kids have to explore by themselves what they really want to do in life.

Honestly, when I got to college, I don't even know why I took that course. I was so young to make the best decision possible. Which school, which course, and why.

Anyway, back to our point. With that in mind, one year of studying trading would probably not hurt since it's a lot less time than what most people has spent in college. I'm not saying to ditch school and start trading but to give trading some time. Most of us have spent a lot of time in school, might as well spend another year trying to learn another money making method which might save us financially in the future.

The age of cloud mining site hype is already gone. People are already aware that everything can be faked. First, the date of launch. Cloud mining sites have faked their history and say that they have been running for a long time and that they just didn't have any recognition before. The mining equipment as well can be faked. The address can be faked. Literally everything can be faked to look legit enough for investors to come in.

And let's just say that you finally found that "legit" cloud mining site that's actually legit. They are probably going to be a 6 month or 1 year return on investment thing. That's a long time for them to get more investors, accumulate decent amount of money, and fake a hack scenario. Even when they continue running longer than expected, it's still a good strategy for them (to accumulate more money to run away) since the profit of their investors per day is really really low even with decent investments.

You're being delusional. First of all, the "group of people" that have never used the banking system in their own lives are extremely low in the city where most people are. I might be wrong population-wise but these people just don't have that much money so they never took interest to open a bank account even if it's for free. They probably also don't have a day job since most day jobs pay you directly to your account and not in cash.

Stop deluding yourself that banks are going to accept bitcoins and the volatility of bitcoin will destroy banks. No bank that's controlled by the government will just start accepting bitcoins. They will start thinking of accepting bitcoins only when most establishments already do. Bitcoin is a serious matter since bitcoin removes the trusted third party from our transactions and that's exactly what banks are.

This often happens to me. I get influenced by the people around me. They don't know anything about these investments. I always ask a second opinion from other people about almost every decision and most of the time, I wish that I had followed my instinct and trusted my knowledge instead. This is why I learned to never trust people when they don't know anything about the topic and do my own research.

Honestly, always trust yourself on everything. Stop doubting yourself. Believe in your knowledge and skills. Everyone that's saying you can't do it or you're making the wrong decision probably have made a lot of wrong decisions throughout their lives so they expect other people to be like them as well.

The only thing that can give you 1BTC in a month or two without any money investment will require a lot of knowledge. For example, freelancing. In freelancing, you can be a designer, graphic artist, a programmer, a developer of something, etc. All of them do not require any money investment but they all have one thing in common. All of them require knowledge. These are all knowledge work and even signature campaigns are knowledge work. You can't be in a signature campaign if you don't know what to post in here.

Bottom line, you have to spend a lot of time learning things regardless if you have the money or not for investments. Gone are the days when you just invest and then that's it. Most successful companies have private fundings and startup projects that are actually good get funded by some rich guy right away.

First let us face the fact that it's already the information age. The kids will not remember any of those things. They will just google it, copy+paste the answer, and then completely forget about it. Except the kid has some sharp memory, then he'll be able to remember it for a time long enough for them to reach the time those information will have an actual use.

As a kid, I used to read a lot of things and facts on magazines. Do I remember any of those? For a while, but now that I'm an adult, I don't recall any of those. Maybe I might recall the pictures/images on the magazine, but now what's written on it.

I just don't see the point of this thing, honestly. Unless the questions are hard and can't be searched right away, then the "mining" process can be done by bots. And obviously you have to give the miners a decent reward since they have to answer a question instead of just actually mining.

There's a lot of censorship and control gong on in the media. They only show good things, and then show only the bad side of certain topics because they are biased. Aside from it's not going to be just accepted right away, who's going to pay for all these? The advertisement on TVs costs a lot. Plus, the watchers of the TV are probably not that tech savvy since most tech savvy people are always lurking around the Internet. Maybe it will be even better if bitcoin gets featured by tech related channels on youtube.

Bitcoin is not a product. You can advertise all you want but it's not easy to convince a regular Joe to start using it. Plus, the government will not allow us to just advertise bitcoins since it's not under their control and it's against them.

Just like in gambling, if exchanges implement bots on their website, people are just going to use that bot always. If a bot strategy has been proven a good way to make money, then everyone's going to use it until it's no longer profitable. Another reason, exchanges make money from the fee for putting up a buy or sell order. For a 2% exchange fee, when somebody with 10BTC worth of buy order changes his mind and put that 10BTC to another coin, then they just earned 4% of the 10BTC from the fee alone. With the amount of exchange going on every day, their profit is already good.

Putting a bot for strategies can become a bad thing when it has caused trouble to the user since there will be scam accusations against the website which will ruin the site's reputation which they obviously don't want.

One thing that we should not forget is to look at our side as well. Did you put enough fee? Eventually, the transaction will be confirmed. Maybe weeks (like you said) but at least you're confident that the money will not bounce back or revert just like on other payment types where it happens when the transaction is taking longer than expected.

The price of bitcoin can reach a million dollar regardless if this issue will be resolved or not. This doesn't affect the supply and demand law going on in the bitcoin market.

People always use the past to refer to the future. What if I told you that the past isn't always going to repeat itself in contrary to the saying "History repeats itself"? 3 to 4 years is a long time on the Internet. Technology grows fast. Maybe before 3-4 years, we already have a lightning network but it's implemented on a different coin. That will cause chaos to bitcoins since everyone will surely migrate to that coin. It's a good thing to the cryptocurrencies as a whole since the transaction fee and time will be resolved but it's chaos to bitcoins unless it's able to adopt the technology almost right away.