Yes bitcoin is worthy to me and I wouldn't trade it's place for anything else currently. Hopefully we'll reach the 900$ mark by next week.

In. 2017 I foresee ethereum finally dead and Zcash taking over as the next big thing after bitcoins. Monero, litecoins and doge will also do their best.

Yes, it's a good way to make money but there are better ways through trading but I'm assuming a lot of people don't want to spend the extra time learning all about trading so if that applies to you then you better buy bitcoins, hold on to it with the hope of its price rising and then selling back for more money.

Arsenal always disappoints when much is expected of them, I bet Arsenal will be settling for a fourth place again when they could fight for the title. I don't know what the heck is wrong with this team?

Dice games are fun but I find a lot as scams and ponzi's, you'll lose your money easily if you intend making profits rather than going for entertainment and the fun part.

Not in the foreseeable future, but it's possible.

Just try and convert from whatever cryptocurrency to Bitcoin and cash out from coinbase, that's if you want use else buy whatever alt coin with your bitcoins on any exchange out there.

All are so risky but crypto trading is safer and less risky but I am used to gambling, so it depends on your preference.

Are you the owner of the website? Are you promoting it? A newbie account with this as your first post; look suspicious.

Ok it's my first time betting on the Portuguese league so I'll be cautious, I want to parlay Belenenses vs Sporting CP @ x2 and Chaves vs Estroli @1x

It's a good investment now because it keeps rising and you can make some cool dollars by buying and selling.

That's why you need to download the entire blockchain and wallet and keep your private keys.

If bitcoin dies , Zcash will up and running the show. It's just a matter of switching to an alt coin.

I will suggest you venture into trading or hold on to the coins you own at the moment, buy more if you can and then hope for the consistent rise and sell back for $ when it begins to decline and make profit while you stay alert for the decline until it becomes stable again and then you go buy your coins back, this time at a cheaper price. Hope you get my drift??

Ok I will help answer your question with some statistics, there are about 15 million people involved or holding bitcoins as at now and I got this statistics from a reliable source. Here we go;

1. 7.4 million bitcoin addresses with a balance .0001 BTC ($.0861)
2. 4.5 million bitcoin addresses with a balance .001 BTC ($.861)
3. 2.8 million bitcoin addresses with a balance .01 BTC ($8.61)
4. 1.2 million bitcoin addresses with a balance 1 BTC ($86.10)
5. 446,301 bitcoin addresses with a balance 1 BTC ($861.00)
6. 131,709 bit coin addresses with a balance 10 BTC ($8,610)
7. 13,698 bitcoin addresses with a balance 100 BTC ($86,100)
8. 1,658 bitcoin addresses with a balance 1,000 BTC ($861,000).
9. 121 bitcoin addresses with a balance 10,000 BTC ($8,610,000).
10. 1 bitcoin address with a balance 100,000 BTC ($86,100,000)

I hope this helps?

I bet to differ because the Bank of England made a consortium of 50 English banks; those that are completely rebuilt on a model based on blockchain technology. So I believe they will eventually integrate into a blockchain bank or something like that in the near future rather than a complete wipeout of the banks.

I doubt if bitcoins will be dead any time soon so I don't have qualms about those negative speculative fundamentalist.

I think it will rather have a positive effect on Bitcoin (i.e. It will activate the Streisand effect  ). I believe any attempt to ban Bitcoin by a government or a central bank can have the unintended consequence of making it even more popular especially among a demographic that had previously never heard of Bitcoin.

Yes, I think China is indeed controlling bitcoin,over 70 percent of the transactions on the Bitcoin network are going through just four Chinese companies or mining pools and most flowed through just two of those companies. That gives them the veto power over any changes to the Bitcoin software and technology. Over the past few years, China has become a major market for bitcoins unlike other countries and they have established huge investments in server farms as well as enormous speculative trading on bitcoin exchanges. Chinese exchanges account for 42% of all Bitcoin transactions. But China’s clout is raising worries about Bitcoin’s independence and decentralization, because they are now controlling majority of the bitcoin network hence they are in absolute control unlike any other country.

Well from what I've observed, nations/countries themselves haven't introduced bans on bitcoins except Ecuador I think but the rest has to do with central banks in those countries who have seen bitcoins as a threat and have therefore issued bans against its dealings and usage. In a country like Ecuador the ban makes the most sense of any ban, as they are building a national electronic cash system, so they feel the need to protect their new currency from something clearly superior. A decentralized currency of finite production that cannot be manipulated by governments or banks might dim the lights on their new program in the eyes of the public, which offers none of those benefits.