I would hold on to my Bitcoin for sometime. I personally believe that Bitcoin will not stay at the 200 or 300 range in the future.

I don't know how you earned it, if it should be just be signature campaign I think this is a good outcome.
However I would keep those coins.Put them in cold storage and safe it for the future.At least the biggest part of it.A minority you can use to spend if you want. And continue accumulating Bitcoin.You won't regret it!

If you don't trust yourself then it means bitcoin is not for you in the first place. Bitcoin is created for people who can mange their own money and are not afraid of it.
You better stick to the FIAT and banks if you have trust issues.

The amount you trade depends on your willingness to lose money. However, if that's covered, then you should look at the volume of the asset you intend to trade and try to stay lean.

I've been dealing with PayPal for the past 5 years and the fact I've never been charged back is because I've always dealt with only trusted people. If you use trusted exchangers like xmlgold or trade with reputed members of the forum, chances are very less than the cash will be chargedback. It's not only bitcoins but trading for any digital good/product can be chargedback via PP and hence even ebay had stopped users from selling their ebooks/egift cards and they deleted my listing when I wanted to sell my ebook for PP. Localbitcoins also is a trusted site but you need to deal with trusted buyers and not newbies or people with less reputation.

I still don't understand how people fall for this. It is as easy as having your OS up to date and not opening anything that is from an strange origin (beware of cracked software...) and that's it.

This is a thread I'm starting to keep track of XBT markets, price movements and a bit of fundamentals. Mostly interested in price movements of the medium - long term variety. Not intraday.

The icon is a question mark because no one knows what the price will be next week, or the week after etc etc My idea of coming up with close predictions/forecasts is from the crowd.

Nights Watch because they see what is coming before the rest. Ideally, the point of this thread.

I believe there is a ton of information out there on where people think the price is heading. What I will do is bring together all i come across/ find into a single thread.

There IS great value in aggregating forecast from the 'wisdom' of the crowd.

Of course, not just any sort of shitty forecasts and TA, but what i judge and consider to be worth a look.

MY THREAD, MY RULES.

Will Mod if things get out of hand.

PLEASE DO NOT COME HERE EXPECTING STRAIGHT ANSWERS. Can't handle a maybe/dont know answer/answer you disagree with, GET LOST!

Since it is under 'Speculation' i will occasionally play toy with speculative charts & TA

Will gather charts from other threads too, no rules against that.

CHARTS, TA, EW, PnF. . . .

Free to follow.
No hate speech.
Peaceful thread.
no trolls

Thanks a ton. Finally a thread where the 'wisdom' of the people will be compiled and analysed. Will surely save a lot of time and resources rather than searching individual threads and sites. Let's hope the analysis will be more accurate (I don't mean EXACT). Thanks again Afrikoin!

In your opinion what are the reasons that let someone start dumping his bitcoins and walk away ? 
I personally (and this is just my opinion) that it's more panic then simply his need of money or something else , as we saw on the BitcoinXT last time , people started to panic and simply sold their bitcoins and that caused a drop in the price .

Not necessarily. It seems you have no idea about this, we are still above 100+ dollars of the initial price and suddenly 381 which is the current price is slow.. well give it time and it will recover, this is called a correction.

with so much fake gold out there, I would walk away with bitcoins. Chances are the gold was tungsten filled

If you want to create a blog you will need to write good articles, and provably a twitter account to promote your articles.

I'm always weary of any regulations about bitcoin. Nonetheless, it is nice to have a few regulated companies to buy and sell btc/usd from.

Of course, nothing is going to prevent a mt. gox like situation though.

Ministry of Finance is cracking down on cryptocurrencies in general, and this new proposal could just be the beginning of things to come


http://bitcoinist.net/russia-proposes-jail-sentence-bitcoin-activities/

...and why do you think so ?

I guess most of it depends on the demand and supply of things. Gold and bitcoin are completely two different things, and gold going down has a very little or nothing to do with bitcoin going up. You might consider reading this for some more info on gold prices : http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2015/07/economist-explains-17 .
Though the trend for btc going up is because of other reasons, that include high demand due to FBI auction(people might expect btc to crash afterwards and so they are buying right now) and halvening that will create a low volume of bitcoin in the market.