What's going to be the next big Bitcoin announcement?

[bhodson]

I'm looking for something to look forward to.  What do you feel will be the next big announcement for Bitcoin in the next month?

[1Referee]

I won't happen next month, but I am definitely waiting for the moment Wall Street is making it possible to trade Bitcoin like you can do with stocks. That would be an insane announcement. It will most likely take some years before it's possible. I have patience.

[n2004al]

I'm looking for something to look forward to.  What do you feel will be the next big announcement for Bitcoin in the next month?

There will be only nothing. Maybe it will be discussed again (as it is becoming since its creation) about its price. If it will be some special price about which can be told more there will be more posts and more threads dedicated to it (even I cannot understand how can be more than already are; cannot find the aim of the new ones). Then other threads full of speculations or repetitions. And posts which will tell the same things because no one read more than the previous post (if read even this one). That's all.  

[Amph]

the increase of the block limit maybe? with whatever way they choose to do it, i don't care much about that, the important thing is that they find a way to increase it, which would suit everyone needs

[virtualx]

I'm looking for something to look forward to.  What do you feel will be the next big announcement for Bitcoin in the next month?

I don't know what the big one will be, but these ones we will see again:

• Banks think blockchain technology is future, not bitcoin
• Chinese government bans bitcoin for the 500th time, bitcoin price rises
• Interview with some guy

[LiteCoinGuy]

-the winki ETF might launch in 2016

[AtheistAKASaneBrain]

I would like that the improvements in privacy keep happening. I was very excited to see confidential transactions when they were released, but apparently Gmaxwell has stopped working on Bitcoin? or that's what i've read, it's a shame. Well I hope someone keep pushing on the right direction..

[sahliano]

the next bitcoin announcement will be bitcoin reaches 1000$ again with the start of 2016

[doublemore]

I won't happen next month, but I am definitely waiting for the moment Wall Street is making it possible to trade Bitcoin like you can do with stocks. That would be an insane announcement. It will most likely take some years before it's possible. I have patience.

What would be nice to see in january new year would be the winklevoss ETF launch but really the best we could hope for is approval for a date in the future it will be launched. Cant see a bigger and better way for wall street entrance than that.

[EdenHazard]

there will not be special in the months ahead, there would be no significant price increase in mid-year until August, that we should wait, bitcoin halving, we all do not know what will happen too

[Lauda]

I guess everyone is excited. 2015 is already different than 2014 for many reasons, e.g. the price level in January is lower than at the end of December (where it kept going down in 2014). Anything could happen in 2016, I'm looking forward to something like the ETF.

[Denker]

I'm not sure if it's a BIG announcement, but at least a very positive one.

Privatbank of Ukraine: " Blockchain is great, but we put our stake in Bitcoin"

http://forklog.net/privatbank-blockchain-is-great-but-we-put-our-stake-on-bitcoin/

Last week PrivatBank became the first Ukrainian bank to integrate bitcoin as a settlement tool. As of December 14, it has been available to several customers of the bank, while as of December 20 any entrepreneur has had an option of accepting bitcoins for goods and services.

Unfortunately, merchants cannot accept bitcoins directly. As the customer sends his or her bitcoins to the bank, the merchant receives a hryvnia-equivalent of the amount. This limitation is related to lack of legal certainty for bitcoin in Ukraine. However, the National Bank of Ukraine stated that it was going to integrate bitcoin in the country’s financial system. This means that immediate acceptance of bitcoins in Ukraine is but a matter of time.
ForkLog talked with Mr. Donets at the conference.

Doesn't sound that bad right?!

[Lauda]

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Last week PrivatBank became the first Ukrainian bank to integrate bitcoin as a settlement tool. As of December 14, it has been available to several customers of the bank, while as of December 20 any entrepreneur has had an option of accepting bitcoins for goods and services.

Unfortunately, merchants cannot accept bitcoins directly. As the customer sends his or her bitcoins to the bank, the merchant receives a hryvnia-equivalent of the amount. This limitation is related to lack of legal certainty for bitcoin in Ukraine. However, the National Bank of Ukraine stated that it was going to integrate bitcoin in the country’s financial system. This means that immediate acceptance of bitcoins in Ukraine is but a matter of time.
ForkLog talked with Mr. Donets at the conference.

That is great! Let's just hope that the 'immediate acceptance' doesn't mean in 6 months or more. I could say that this is quite a good announcements, it's quite rare that a bank wants Bitcoin and not blockchain technology. It does seem like we're heading in the right direction.

[yenxz]

I'm looking for something to look forward to.  What do you feel will be the next big announcement for Bitcoin in the next month?

Maybe you should change your question,this is will better and clear : "What do you feel will be the next big announcement for Bitcoin in the next YEAR"
Because on next month,nothing gonna happen,nothing big anouncement,but whole of next year,maybe will.

[1Referee]

I won't happen next month, but I am definitely waiting for the moment Wall Street is making it possible to trade Bitcoin like you can do with stocks. That would be an insane announcement. It will most likely take some years before it's possible. I have patience.

What would be nice to see in january new year would be the winklevoss ETF launch but really the best we could hope for is approval for a date in the future it will be launched. Cant see a bigger and better way for wall street entrance than that.

I definitely hope this ETF that they will launch next year will be better received by the public than their Gemini exchange. Let's hope for the best.

[VeritasSapere]

the increase of the block limit maybe? with whatever way they choose to do it, i don't care much about that, the important thing is that they find a way to increase it, which would suit everyone needs

Core is not planning to increase the blocksize anytime soon, therefore I think that an industry or user led fork will be the next big announcement we should all be looking for. I do not accept waiting for Core and accepting whatever they choose, the market wants the blocksize to be increased, so the blocksize will be increased. Bitcoin is not ruled by a small centralized group of technocrats, it is ruled by the market and the economic majority. The original vision of Satoshi will prevail even if Core is presently active in attempting to undermine it, for anyone that thinks that Bitcoin is not ruled by the market I suspect they will soon be facing a rude awakening.

[nonbody]

I am thinking the Christmas's month's sales paid in Bitcoin is much more than last year, more than our expectation! And the bitcoin's price is still stable at over $450! It means ppl are accepting the current values of it!

[crazyivan]

Once it goes over $500, it s gonna hit the news again. 500 mark is a pretty big psychological barrier.

[ATguy]

the increase of the block limit maybe? with whatever way they choose to do it, i don't care much about that, the important thing is that they find a way to increase it, which would suit everyone needs

Core is not planning to increase the blocksize anytime soon, therefore I think that an industry or user led fork will be the next big announcement we should all be looking for. I do not accept waiting for Core and accepting whatever they choose, the market wants the blocksize to be increased, so the blocksize will be increased. Bitcoin is not ruled by a small centralized group of technocrats, it is ruled by the market and the economic majority. The original vision of Satoshi will prevail even if Core is presently active in attempting to undermine it, for anyone that thinks that Bitcoin is not ruled by the market I suspect they will soon be facing a rude awakening.

No need to fork, just patiently wait till the unevitable happens with more transactions - then even the hardcore decentralizationers realize they protect no decentralization with small blocks when people need to do mostly offchain centralized transctions in order to use Bitcoin at all. Learning the hard way is what most people need.

And most likely the next big news will be price related - so typical for media.

[Kprawn]

I am not sure what it will be... but I am pretty sure what I want it to be :

~ A release of a Killer Bitcoin Application
~ A major online retailer accepting Bitcoin payment
~ Banks failing miserably with their private Blockchains and accepting Bitcoin.
~ A whole country {bigger than 3km} accepting Bitcoin as the reserve currency.

If only one of these things happen in 2016... We will once again see some 4 figure prices for Bitcoin.