This happens in India a country which in 2022 will have greater population than China (currently has 1.31 billion inhabitants) is an example of the means the financial systems use in order to persuade Indian citizens to create bank accounts. It is characteristic that the notes will stay in circulation (10, 20, 30 Rs) are very low value when the banknotes of  Rs 1000 is only 14.6 US dollars.

      If we mean the nearby or mid-term future and if we could talk with numbers I believe that after 15-20 years as it increases the number of people who have everyday access to internet as well as the training of the people will be increased to cryptocurrencies not only the btc but also other -coins will get their competitive position as a transaction value between people like as fiat money. I fear only the reaction of the financial institutions will try every way to distract people from the use of any cryptocurrency not only from bitcoins.

     Bitcoin is a digital currency. So the poor or average people does not have the possibility to know for the digital era so well, because it requires computer knowledge and internet connection things. These things are minor when you consider that a large percentage of many people in these countries are at risk of poverty and their first concern is the day by day survival.

    The banking system and the technology behind bitcoins community is the day and the night. In the first case someone gives confidence to the financial system, gives his money to a third  party (bank system). Bank is  aware of what you do, he knows your transactions he can freeze your money if you don't use it like system wants to do. Furthermore, if bank system wants they can 'haircut' your savings. Searching to find the most recent country where banks haircut the citizen savings to save the damaged banks.

On the other side blockchain technology only 9 pages of a paper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf gives you freedom.


So The poll question could be 'Do you want to put the wolf to guard the sheeps ?'

Of course No

If you have not yet decide and you want a PC wallet my favorite one, as it was proposed from many others above,  is Electrum. There is portable edition and has support with cold storage and with Trezor HD wallet assuming that the user has Electrum 2.0+. I believe that is more friendly than Multibit especially if you want to import coins from paper wallet.

   According to Business Insider  http://uk.businessinsider.com/swedish-central-bank-considers-digital-national-currency-ekrona-2016-11 'Sweden could become the first major country to issue a national digital currency' author says that central bank of Sweden aims to decide whether to issue a digital currency called 'ekrona'  two years from now. Deputy Governor of Sweden said FT, that blockchain technogy is one of several technologies they look at in relation with their digital coin.

        It is not easy to calculate. A good article (Feb 2014) http://bitscan.com/bitnews/item/how-many-people-really-own-bitcoins-and-why-does-it-matter considered that there were 500,000 users and foresaw a growth rate of 100-fold in the medium term future. Home screen of blockchain wallet https://blockchain.info/wallet/#/ claims that has 8+ million wallets but how many of them are active assuming that many bitcoin users open a wallet (especially web wallet) only to test it? 

     It is risky. Those who have dealt with purchase and sale of banknotes understand that temper is needed, insight and certainly very good information. If you are considering trading between digital / fiat money there will have to bear in mind the great volatility of digital money that exists. Even more difficult is trading between btcs eths and so on. But without risk of loss there is not gain.

  Does anyone believes to open a savings account in a bank where they will pay him an interest on his savings is a good and secured investment? Say that the bank can pay him an interest rate eg 5% a year on his money, if inflation is around 7%, his investment loses 2% per year. Saving and investing are often used interchangeably, but they are completely different. 

  In my opinion not all eggs in one basket. A good strategy would be: 50% of our capital to savings, 30% -35% in low risk investment and 15% in high-risk investments

  But this not the point. The crucial question is the investor decision about the risk he wish to take and what he considers as a savings and what as investment. Savings in bank notes? Definitely yes if you live in an advanced country with a strong economy. If you live in a small country where the currency is inflationary then gold is a secure investment. Cryptocurrencies like as bitcoin I believe is a good investment but it depends on the price that someone bought it unless he was smart to buy or mine years ago and prudent to hold it and not trade it with paper money. Long-term investments such as market shares of large multinationals and land market. Short-term market as medium and high risk shares. So I would like to ask; What kind of investment is trading between cryptocurrencies?

I use blockchain wallet but last version has many limitations than older ones. That is, it is not possible to sign a message only if you import an address (as it says) and you cannot export private keys. On the other side using pairing android app is very handy. But I believe that someone must have and a PC wallet in order to have more control of his funds. I use an electrum wallet for my savings because uses SPV technique so there is no need to download the entire blockchain. Furthermore supports cold storage.   

As I know there aren't many countries were gambling is legal. A colleague told me that Australia laws permit online gambling. I cannot confirm that and as all of us know what is permitted today is prohibited tomorrow. Furthermore there are countries with more lenient laws in sport betting if the owners of these sites pay taxes in these countries.

In my opinion gambling is only for your pleasure and even instant satisfaction you feel winning some amount. Over the time the player will always be the looser.The greater evil with gambling however is that it is highly addictive and may lead to a loss of largest amount this considered to lose when starting to play.

How can I look something like that? That is, which address belongs to which version of blockchain wallet? Where somebody can see the version of his web wallet?. Furthermore I believe that there is no sense to import an address from a wallet id to another address of this wallet. I believe that this (hopefully) working if I import an address from another wallet. I did this only as experiment and I think that blockchain wallet had to warn me that I transfer funds between addresses in the same wallet. Instead of this, asks money for the miners giving option to transfer or spend that money or to archive the address. This make sense knowing that if I want to transfer money between addresses   need to pay fees to miners. Truth is, that I take money from one pocket of my pants to put it another. May be in this case is better (calculating miner fees) to transfer all of my funds to a new wallet only in one address.

Name: sportis
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Btc address: 1EYi1t7MKPxYKEJJVP76a7vFg2cVrSqASp

Name : sportis
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Btc Addy : 1EYi1t7MKPxYKEJJVP76a7vFg2cVrSqASp

I agree with you. If we were in twitter I would retweet it

I have same wallet version. So I imported one of my used address (that is from same wallet id) only to see if I could sign it. But  there is not this option. Click to more options  right from imported address and only options are: archive, transfer, spend. Moreover, they claim in their support that I can sign an imported address /hc/en-us/articles/210353833-What-is-message-signing-and-how-can-I-do-that-]https://support.[Suspicious link removed]/hc/en-us/articles/210353833-What-is-message-signing-and-how-can-I-do-that- this is not working. Looking forward to see what happens in newer versions.

I believe that paper money is easier to use for illegal activities especially if these are local activities. On the other side if these activities are far away each other crypto coins is a solution. But I believe that this is not the Bitcoin for a simple reason. Bitcoin was "designed" as decentralized monetary system not a coin for users who wish to remain anonymous. There are other crypto coins which serve this purpose such as monero and as we know illegal activities does not need publicity.

The question is 'Are You Satanic ?' isn't?
 
It's easier to carry out a poll. If you still care about my answer this is no I'm not.

Today I was paid so I thank the owner of paidbooks and I believe that topic must be locked