The fact is that the increase in crime rates is increasing. They use bitcoin as a transactional tool difficult to trace by the police. So they feel comfortable to increase their criminal acts.

Not all the time the alt coin price is going down when btc price is up, but for now buying alt coin is better than selling your bitcoin, bitcoin price will keep on rising, if you sell you will regret it, trading alt coin now is better because the price is quite unstable so there are many chance to earn profit but you need to choose which alt coin to trade, there are so many fake pumps so need to be extra careful when you buy alt coin

Coinbase is da best. I can ensure that. They are very good in this field

Between this Aug 1 deadline on scaling and ether going crazy I am a bit concerned. Media still going strong on bitcoin but wondering if the future is still bright for bitcoin.

If i really could predict the exact price of bitcoin i would have made a million by now,the realistic possibility is that if everything goes well and the if the bull run continues we could see the price crossing $3000 in a few months ,it all depends upon how much investments are coming into bitcoin.

Are they new? I guess people still want centralised exchange. I see that because the number of traders on centralised exchanges are very huge in volume. Look at Poloniex. They are the most popular exchange for altcoin. Even though they are centralized. Maybe they feel more safe because they think the security is tough than decentralised exchange. Also, there's a lot of exchanges all over the which scams a lot of people. Maybe they are just taking precautions although decentralized exchange has a lot of advantage.

I'm looking for an escrow for some gift card deals.

Can anyone do it?

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As of now based on my experience, its Poloniex and bittrex. Big volume and fast trading. many traders are transacting here and its very smooth. Though I do trade in kraken and liqui also, they are a good alternative too. C-cex is also fine but I have some not so OK experience especially on not so familiar coin.

Right now too everything comes under one ledger, but you cannot track the end to end user who involved into the particular transaction. You could have transparency in the transaction and if the anonymity is lost its same as using our traditional fiat. Bitcoin doesn't lead to corruption, but the knowledge base of people make use of it for corruption as it gives ease of transaction and anonymity.

Just some positive news is enough to push the price past $3,500 in a matter of weeks. Let's just hang on tight and buy while we still can because we don't want to be left behind regretting not buying at these levels. Sure the price is going to correct at some point also, but the trend this year, and even the long term, is still upward with lots of room for growth in the years to come.

most of the popele waiting for bitcoin to skyrocket and hits these high value, will be the oen that will sell way before it actually hits that, i doubt many of use can hold past the $10k mark

you will be very tempted to sell, because at that point you are reach already, and for that value one must wait a decade+ at least...

Bitcoin is great for hiding funds and u can use mixers to retain anonymity so for now it does lead to corruption I think. In the future however if you pay someone in bitcoin you can demand and see proof of which addresses a business or politician sends funds to provided you know their original address.

In my personal opinion localbitcoins is quite good for buying through bank transaction. Also it is the one among the five licensed trading platforms. Hope you make it through bitcoin, else you can make it possible through the exchange websites that are available. Probably every exchange accept bank transaction depending on the country you reside.

I guess my question would be why? What advantage does your BTC business have over any other business? If there isn't an answer to that question you might need to revisit

I think the best time to invest in bitcoin is always today.  Having bitcoin, we can have multiple things to do to have earning from it.  We can use bitcoin for investment that can yield bitcoin profit.  We can also use it to trade altcoin to bring even greater profit.  Not investing in Bitcoin today simply means waste the opportunity to earn with bitcoin.

I think 100k satoshi is very small earning for 1 week and that can be earn only in faucet if you have more time with it. To make more than 100k satoshi earning is to put big capital in trading and participate in signature campaign for sure income.

Holding bitcoin is very good investment when compared to other commodities , but as all members suggested don't hold it ideal instead trade it with ALTCOINS and USDT...

Yup, unless BTC hits few dumps on the road the 3000 USD seems like a rather reasonable and reachable goal.. I'm not sure if it will be able to maintain the same momentum afterwards or will start to drop when the hoarders start selling, I guess this is a rather delicate moment right now for BTC.

Have you been under the rock my friend? Newbie (or alt) spreading FUD. Lol. This is funny. Bitcoin price is holding now and above $2200 so I don't know what chart are you looking and saying that $1300 will be tested again. You should buy when the price is $1800-$1900 and now the price is rising again and so sorry you miss the opportunity to profit.