I think Bitcoin is already international currency.bitcoin is a Crypto currency, we dispute it into dollar and we use it anywhere and we have no difficulty in it.It is as well as easy to pay and have some transaction via your Bitcoin wallet and that is utter of the wallet.we just need a tiny more period behind the halving in my eyes than its possible.

I think the future of bitcoin will be defined in terms of banks and the establishment versus the world.

One one side, we have independence movements like #brexit, catalan independence and others who are dissatisfied and unhappy with the pro establishment status quo. Nations like iceland, hungary and others who borrowed money from the IMF during the economic crisis of 2008 then kicked the IMF out of their country after they realized the price of borrowing money from them was for them to interfere in their politics and infringe upon sovereign rights may also be considered affiliated.

On the other side we have organizations like the european union, IMF and central banks which represent an attempt to centralize and unify the entire world and its money supply under their own solitary rule.

I think independence movements like catalan and #brexit will eventually embrace bitcoin and crypto as it will give them independence from SWIFT and other banker financial networks while central banks be attempt to ban crypto and outlaw it. Of course they have other alternative plans such as having banks regulate crypto or buying up all of the exchanges as we have seen goldman recently buy out poloniex.

Who knows what the outcome will be but I think bitcoin's future could be defined in terms of this conflict.

You would get a clearer answer if you specify the amount of bitcoin which are going to be sold. "Huge" can be anywhere from 1000BTC to 1MBTC. The former won't even move the market while the latter will likely result in a substantial drop on the price.

Of course. But I think it is not a fattest piece of the pie in their portfolio.

Money is unreal, meaning imaginary, intangible - a concept.

Currency is NOT money, but merely represents money.

short answer no, just a little crisis due to the price being low/many lost huge amount of money because they bought at the peak, taxes being a problem, and other small stuff

just a despair phase that is very long apparently

I think the right question would be what's the next big thing after Bitcoin?! Aside from it's present status as the top crypto currency amongst hundreds, it is now being included, if not, already included in the wall street futures. Now being included in wall street would pretty much say Bitcoin is BIG! 😉

bitcoin is not profitable anymore. you should try altcoins. but if you will keep your bitcoins you can mine.

Bitcoin has become a new power in the world of money as we all know that all sides deal with it so it has to survive until it become the powerful source of life . So what it is difference between bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? and why Bitcoin has become powerful among other currencies and cryptocurrencies  ?

Firstly ,let us define bitcoin by defining cryptocurrency briefly then pass to make a contrasts between Bitcoin ,Dogecoin and litecoin .
We hear always that bitcoin is the money of the future .this expectation can be taken seriousely when we see bitcoin nowadays and how much transactions executed per day which is surprising . we can say that bitcoin is a cryptocurrency and cryptocurrency is a money which is not traditional rather it is digital or numerical which works electronically ; the most common cryptocurrencies are Bitcoin , Dogecoin and litecoin and bitcoin has something special in contrast to others and this specialty is represented by the number of transcations made per day and its volume, so bitcoin and litecoin and dogecoin differ in their volumes which will interpret to us that bitcoin has power nowadays.

In fact bitcoin is increasing exponentially in volume and numbers of transactions which will get us to the hell of thinking that bitcoin may take the lead of other cryptocurrencies if we don't say that it will take the lead of traditional currencies.because it has power which can fortify its presence in today world.

Lol I don't believe a word you say about your bitcoin holdings, no offense.  And what's up with people not returning what they borrow?  Hello, are you new to the world?  It's greed and dishonesty.  I assume you're probably not new to this forum either.

I don't really have a strategy that I use. I just buy some Bitcoins every now and then when the price has gone down to hold for the long term. That's all I do at the moment. I am not even trading. It's purely holding what I do. I am so happy with my Bitcoin investment that I never look into any other investment. Bitcoin is more than enough for me as I believe in its full future potential.

Invest some of it, yeah.  You have to realize how frigging volatile bitcoin is, though.  There's nothing that says we have to stay at or break above $2500.  We could be back down to $1500 or lower by tomorrow.  Do I think that's going to happen?  No, but it's possible.  So if you're young and don't have a retirement plan and have extra money to play with, do it.  But be ready to lose money...and hope you don't.

I wouldn't put too much into crypto.

All valid points and those are the only that I can think of that anyone can really ask for when choosing to use bitcoin in the first place.

If you use USD and want Yen you don't necessarily have to exchange them. You can start working for Yen. It's the same with bitcoins. You don't have to buy them you can just start services to earn them. I like it better because then you don't have to give out your ID to some online company!

what are you trying to compare bitcoin to when you talk about the power of bitcoin?

if you mean bitcoin is powerful among other cryptocurrencies like the ones that you have named in you comment then i agree because none of the other cryptos (altcoin) are even close to bitcoin in usability.

but if you are comparing bitcoin as a currency with other currencies in general like USD, EUR,... then bitcoin has very little power since the percentage of usage of bitcoin is very small comparing to others.

Some exchanges pay interest on bitcoins held in their accounts (Bter had been paying, but at all costs stay away from them), other exchanges (like Bitfinex) allow to safely loan your bitcoins to other users on market terms. But the interest is usually small, and income thus earned will be tiny unless you have thousands of bitcoins. Besides that, holding your money at exchanges is rightfully considered risky by itself. Other than that, you could find someone who would manage your coins for you, giving away a part of profits earned this way and sharing losses potentially incurred...

But this also involves risks associated with trust and managing skills of the trustee

Simply? bitcoin is not going anywhere. Rich people will always manipulate the market and try to make profit of it. long term holders will eventually be the ones who make the biggest profit, checking the price on a daily basis will only give doubts and encourage you to sell, Its better to hodl and forget about them for sometime.

Buy now and sell it after 4 years. It can triple your profit.
And its every bitcoiners dream to become rich with the help of bitcoins.