there is still about a whole month left until summer and yet you say "now" is the time to sell! don't you think you contradicting yourself here?!

whenever prices are on the rise like this, a huge number of people are rushing to exchanges to buy bitcoin or sell it to get profit and that creates a lot of traffic on a server that was not supposed to handle that much traffic, so it becomes slow or even crash sometimes.

then in times like this, many butthurt people or even possibly the competing exchanges or any other entity starts DDoS attacking these platforms and causes these outages.

what is a "license provider"?
these are unregulated, unlicense, anonymous exchange services online we are talking about here! and not to mention very shady in case of yobit!

also can you name the gambling sites you had issue with, because all the gambling sites i know of have no license either.

if you really "loved and wanted" bitcoin then you wouldn't have cared about its price at all.

if you want to use bitcoin, then buy it already. there are 100000000 satoshi in 1 bitcoin, pick an amount you are comfortable with and buy that and start using that

those who care too much about bitcoin price are loving fiat and wanting fiat not bitcoin

for those of you who are like me and don't live in US and have no idea what the heck Fidelity is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidelity_Investments

i think this is great news for bitcoin's popularity and in long term the price rise and also the way general population looks at bitcoin.

but i don't think it is good at all for bitcoin as a currency. i mean it doesn't matter if their cafeteria accepts bitcoin from their employee
what matters is the fact that they are an investment service and will show only the investment part of bitcoin not the currency part and that part is what matters most.

just reminded me of this, nothing else
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viDL2W0HcJw

it is cute when you are comparing bitcoin's solid rise from $1250 to $2300  (84% rise) after all the big news and mainstream adoption in the past month
with
altcoin pumps which has been 1000% to 5000% in one month for no reason!

so yeah "bitcoin" is in a bubble

there are a lot more reasons for the rise and the injection of the new money into bitcoin, and that is always the case when there is a big price rise like this, people simply start to FOMO buy everything which is a little scary to be honest because the same people will panic sell!

everyone in cryptocurrency world knows that altcoins are where the big profit lies. but only a few have figured it out that the profit is only short term not long.

these altcoins have always been small time and controlled 100% by the whales and pumpers to generate massive amounts of profit for some and a huge amount of loss for the masses.

and the hashpower, security, or even having a virus in their wallet executable file does not matter at all. people are only trading these on exchange platforms to make money. and it makes perfect sense when you factor in the greediness and gullibility.

the "fuz" is about the fact that 10,000 bitcoin could buy 1 pizza not so long ago and now we are getting closer to a point where 1 bitcoin can buy 10,000 pizzas. (50 to 100 pizzas today and who knows how many more tomorrow)

the 1BTC=1BTC notion has no meaning for bitcoin, that is a term Doge meme lovers use

if it happened once, it may have been because their node had some trouble broadcasting the transaction right away, and as you can see the transaction is already confirmed so it wasn't fake and proves my guess. the node is also a computer, it can crash, slow down, ...

but usually the reason why you don't see a transaction on other places is because they may have rejected the transaction. for example in case it was a double spend, or something they just dropped from their mempool because it exceeded the 72 hours long period without confirmation and since your transaction had 240 s/b it may have been the case.

with that said if the problem is persistent they should change wallet.

what i don't see anyone mentioning is the fact that signature campaign is a "cheap" way of advertising your product or service to a "targeted" audience with best "efficiency" that you can hope for in an advertisement.

you can check the rates for banner ads, ... on websites with huge traffic. some of the numbers are astronomical. the banner ads of this forum which is cheap are 0.5BTC each and compared to signature which is on each page and under each comment that is huge.

the same worth as any other altcoins have!
take a look at some lists, check coinmarketcap for instance. can you explain why any of the 100s of altcoins are rising?
the explanation is very simple though, it is a pump and dump scheme that is going on these days with altcoin market.

here you go: http://news.8btc.com/china-bitcoin-exchanges-to-allow-withdrawal-in-june

they are about to face some serious fines first though. but since they have said before that as soon as regulations are in place they will start their withdrawals there is a high possibility that they will start it in June.

as a beginner you should be trying to learn the basic stuff first, then if you wanted you can move up to more advanced matters.
what you are suggesting is like telling someone who can not drive to go participate in a drag race! obviously you need to learn how to drive first, then drive for a while around at slow speed then speed things up.

if you jump in trying to do Arbitrage trading no matter how much you think you can analyze and see all the numbers OP listed through, in action you will hit a brick wall and you will feel a need for a strong bot that automates all of it for you.

i would like to repeat like always and like others and say no i will hold forever and never sell but to be honest i have sold and will sell something at least.

i believe it is not a good idea to hold everything. for example if you have 1BTC then don't even think about selling.
but if you have a couple BTC then sell a very small portion to enjoy the profit you gained. like 5% of the stash if it is small or less if it is bigger. many are celebrating these days the Pizza day, the $2000 mark. it is healthy.

but apart from that i will hold for years.

a while back (a week or so ago) they announced that the Chinese exchanges will be opening up again, and start their operations in June. so that may be the cause of the price rise in these exchanges.

and although nobody can move in or out, their accounts still work and they have money in there like any traders would.

we have nothing called "exchanger" and as others mentioned you need to explain what you mean by it, it is not a real word.

also if you want to choose trading as a profession i think it is possible but you have to accept two main things
1) high stress
2) lots of risks.

when you trade as a job, like what day traders do, you need to invest a lot of money into this and do it every day and have your eyes open with a lot of bots and alerts on 24/7 and that is not easy, that is time consuming. but also it can be very profitable.

also when you invest a small amount like $100, that means worst case scenario you lose $99 and get out before the $1 is also lost
but when you invest something like $10,000 then a small loss where you didn't care like a -10% drop means losing $1000 in a flash. and that is the high risk part.

i liked the idea of a coffee shop with a bitcoin theme but i seriously doubt that kind of business can become successful where i live!

but here i know that if i start a bitcoin exchange service that works with local banks and is in my language and user (newbie) friendly then it can be super successful.

there have been a lot of activity worldwide about bitcoin so obviously a lot of different countries are showing this much new movement.

but in case of Africa there have been a lot of projects, start ups and things like that where people introduced bitcoin to them and they have been showing a lot of interest too. i never followed up to see where they ended up though.
there are a couple of very interesting links in the comment above by spin