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The writer have little understanding of what the PBOC is trying to do. If he does, he will realise that this has little effect on Bitcoin trading in China. PBOC suspended FX trading of 3 banks because they do not wish to see arbitrage between the onshore and offshore yuan, not necessarily halting capital outflow. They would like to see a more natural converging of the those rates. Banks which are involved in such trades with market moving volumes are not going to convert yuan to bitcoin to be sent offshore.

Don't force yourself to buy a whole bitcoin if you don't have enough cash. Buy 0.5 btc or any amount you can spare and buy more when you have more money. If you want an address look good with nothing but 1.0 btc in it, you can send 1 btc to a new address when you have more than 1 btc.

This promo is sounds great. Complete 10 tasks and get a free virtual e-coin card? Some of the task are just re-tweets and visit blogs, fairly easy to complete. Thanks.

I don't think an anonymous mixer can ever be legal in the US. Think about all the KYC regulations involving crypto exchanges and no profit tax paid on the profits.

I read the article, the "Sesame Credit Score" is tied to social media accounts, not people. If the chinese use different social media accounts to purchase goods and to express political views, there are no ties. Problem solved.

Bitcoin adoption is not driven by china. I believe they don't actually use bitcoin. Their trading volume is exaggerated and some buy bitcoin to transfer out of china. The "Sesame Credit Score" is not going to have any effect on global adoption.

There are talks about changing the bitcoin protocol to allow adding fees to sent txs, or child-pay-for-parent type systems. We are not there yet, so for now, we need to place enough fees into txs before we send them. It's not difficult to get used to

We expect the last block reward to be in 2140. Over 100 years from now. It could be argued that we would see the effects of zero block reward well before the actual day, like when block reward could not cover the costs of mining. I would imagine Bitcoin would be abandoned by then, moving on to a more complex revolutionary system.

OP is saying the recent rise in prices has to be a bubble. I disagree. There may be one coming up in May/June, which can be named "Halving Bubble 2016". But at this point, we are still in a recovery phase from the bottom, there is no bubble yet.

Who wrote this? This is an article? It can be summarised into one sentence: "imagine the numbers we would see if every country followed in China’s footsteps". That's it. Original writer: http://www.newsbtc.com/2015/12/20/bitcoin-is-accepted-globally-what-would-happen/

Bitcoin is already accepted globally, demand is not going to suddenly explode. It will take at least 2 more years for bitcoin adoption to reach the level we expect. Price may or may not rise with adoption.

Cheapest I bought was around $150. Totally forgot when that was, and the highest I bought was around $600. Not worried about the exchange rate, honestly. I think of bitcoin as another currency, will get to buy common things with it sooner or later.

My withdraw from bittrex has been very good. Confirmation email took less than 1 minute and actual transaction was sent within 10 minutes. I withdrew more than 0.1btc even. May be hot wallet was empty and they need to refund the wallet which could take more time than usual.

Your tx has 16 inputs which made the tx nearly 3k in size, you should have used 0.0003 btc fee.


Blockchain.info wallet always warn you about fees, fee calculation system does work. You must have ignored their warning or sent custom tx. You have to wait for it to confirm, but network is busy, more than 7k tx in mempool. It's going to take a while.

Once allowed, referral links will take over the Micro Earnings Section. I can imagine newbies would spam the section with pages of new click bait topics. Members can use their signature area for referral links if they really want to promote a site.

OP has a point, there were large fluctuations after Christmas in 2013 and 2014. If this year follows the same pattern, profits could be made from high frequency trading. However, I believe bitcoin is different in 2015, the run up to Christmas this year is so different from past years, it would be difficult to guestimate a high and a low. Could get burnt if prices keep going up.

IMO, I would rather spend time with my family and leave bitcoin trading out of it  

That's is just a simple speculative demand for bitcoin. Applicable to most investments.


Bitcoin market capital is very small relative to wall street players. They probably don't need to borrow to speculate, and there are many other vehicles to do so. They can speculate on the success of bitcoin with their share holdings in bitcoin startups. They can speculate by shorting corporations which bitcoin can "kill".


Yes, what I would like to see is derivatives to allow investors to cover bitcoin on the downtrend. It may sound pessimistic, I believe it's a beneficial investment tool to reduce the volatility of Bitcoin.

Not really, banks can deposit reserves at the Fed and earn 0.5% interest, or they can loan to consumers and corporations. In order to make the loans worthwhile (risk of default), banks would charge a higher rate than the Fed's rate (risk free). This is a simplistic explanation, bank cashflow is a factor too, but I hope you get the idea.

I read your "review". I still don't understand what it is. Your target readers may be developers (in the project development section), so review is short and simple. For non-dev readers like me, it's screams "not something you would want to know". Nice if you could insert a simple description of what it is at the top.

Giving Bitcoin away for free is fine, but give to people who will actually use the Bitcoin, not just dump it for fiat or forget about it. The best way is to demonstrate how Bitcoin can be used in everyday life and how easy it is to use it if one follows several simple rules. I have demonstrated to a few friends how to send and receive coins and it could be used to purchase gift cards, or even purchase electronic goods at a discount. These are things that draws people into Bitcoin, not just "free money".

When transactions aren't confirmed, you client will rebroadcast the transaction again after it was dropped from the unconfirmed pool. In this case, your core client rebroadcasted it yesterday.


The network is fairly busy right now with 7k unconfirmed transactions. My guess is that it will confirm in a week when it has higher priority, could be sooner if you are lucky.


Your coins are still in your 1DBS9 address, it is reported as "spent" because it is used in a transaction. If that transaction never confirms, the 0.1 btc can be released back to "unpsent" status (with a bit of work in core client).