How Bitcoin is Really Future Of Money?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Where is Bitcoin headed? No one knows for sure, but a popular refrain is heard in the Bitcoin community: In ten years, either Bitcoin will be worth nothing, or </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">significantly more than today. I believe this is true.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <img alt="The Future of Bitcoin" border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRxAjOCb1167kWUHw7n2xUDJrLh2fttsB6NWEgJbDKCO5PdqK8J2OKYL_dB_u7umPJQWpQNW8oysUk5Di16jU24BybzHzQvVohGF1v-cqaxG00c-hrn1GiVFk7flMQNtu6y40S-LRgIKI/s400/Future+Of+Money.jpg" title="The Future of Bitcoin" width="400" /></div> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The idea of digital money that you manage yourself is a powerful one, and in the first four years of this monetary experiment we’ve seen explosive growth. It’s easy to </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">see continued growth in both individual users and businesses that accept coins. If it continues at its current pace, the value of 1.0 BTC will continue to rise </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">compared to other currencies. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Eventually, goods and services might be priced in Bitcoin itself, instead of relying on other currencies to judge value. Online shopping </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">might not require entering your credit card information, or signing up for a PayPal account. Your identity wouldn’t need to be revealed when purchasing goods, unless </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">you made that choice.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another aspect of Bitcoin that I haven’t discussed is the potential for smart contracts, which use the cryptography inherent in Bitcoin to facilitate more complex </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">transactions, such as escrow services, arbitration, or even estate management. If Bitcoin becomes more popular, these services will likely be implemented in the code </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(as Satoshi originally intended).</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">But the future is far from certain. There are three primary threats to Bitcoin that I see on the horizon, that could substantially restrain—or even destroy—this new </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">monetary system.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1. Technical.</b> Right now the Bitcoin economy runs fairly smoothly, handling tens of thousands of transactions daily. But what will happen if that hits millions of </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">transactions daily? Can Bitcoin handle the same amount of volume that a major credit card does? There is speculation on both sides of the issue, but no one really </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">knows. If the system isn’t able to handle a large amount of transactions, its value is obviously limited.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2. Governmental.</b> Because Bitcoin can be used for illegal activities (so can cash), and because the Bitcoin system is inherently difficult to regulate, governments </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">across the world might decide to limit their citizens’ ability to use Bitcoin. If this happens, it will obviously inhibit the Bitcoin economy significantly.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3. Competition. </b>Right now, Bitcoin is the clear leader among digital currencies, but it isn’t the only one. Several alternative cryptocurrencies have taken the Bitcoin </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">code, altered it, and launched their own currency. Some of the most popular ones include Litecoin, PPCoin, and Ripple. These aren’t nearly as valuable as Bitcoin, but </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">it is possible that one day another digital currency could replace Bitcoin if it were significantly better.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If Bitcoin can handle large transactions, avoid government restrictions, and beat the competition, I believe it will become the standard currency of the internet. This </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">monetary experiment has evolved from a nine-page paper written in Fall 2008 to a billion dollar marketplace today, with millions of dollars of investment capital </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">flowing into new start-ups, and new services launched each week.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Only time will tell if Bitcoin will be as revolutionary to our current monetary system as email was to the old system of communications. It’s certainly off to a great </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">start, and I hope this guide has helped you to join this grand monetary experiment.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/2016/03/big-advantages-of-bitcoin.html">Read Next: Big Advantages of Bitcoin</a></b></span></div> </div>

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How You Can Disrupt Industries Globally Using The Bitcoin Protocol

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bitcoin has certain rules, also known as the Bitcoin protocol, which makes it work. The ingenious part of Bitcoin is not necessarily the creation of the currency but rather the creation of the Bitcoin protocol. For the first time in history, technology makes it possible to transfer property rights (such as shares, certificates, digital money, etc.) in a fast, transparent and very secure way. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhRoYIx-S8wNBmsItEh_ReCXeYbf0RV-CoC6XHezBmHzESp0H1bh18QBctwoKIyUNatb3em-SJD8db-_U3zVysmONxja2YIpLTf-nKo5FeFpbzsNCUgAX4eLi2ywKtyojSDQ3hnLBdELE/s1600/How+You+Can+Disrupt+Industries+Globally+Using+The+Bitcoin+Protocol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhRoYIx-S8wNBmsItEh_ReCXeYbf0RV-CoC6XHezBmHzESp0H1bh18QBctwoKIyUNatb3em-SJD8db-_U3zVysmONxja2YIpLTf-nKo5FeFpbzsNCUgAX4eLi2ywKtyojSDQ3hnLBdELE/s400/How+You+Can+Disrupt+Industries+Globally+Using+The+Bitcoin+Protocol.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Moreover, these transactions can take place without the involvement of a trusted intermediary such as a government, notary, or bank. Companies and governments are no longer needed as the "middle man" in all kinds of financial agreements. Using the Bitcoin protocol to create Bitcoin the currency is just one out of many uses you can have for this protocol. A lot of businesses are also forming around the idea of Bitcoin 2.0 which means the decentralization of previously centralized businesses. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read More: <a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/2015/08/bitcoin-future-of-currency-bye-bye.html#" target="_blank">Bitcoin the Future of Currency, Bye Bye Dollar</a></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some examples for Bitcoin 2.0 projects are Etherum (a platform for decentralized apps) and Gems (a sort of decentralized social messenger). Creating a Bitcoin 2.0 project also requires technical knowhow since you'll need to implement the Bitcoin protocol into other forms of assets. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If we look ahead at what's coming there are several business categories that may utilize the Bitcoin protocol to create new products: </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Email:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Applications that eliminate spam by requesting a small amount of Bitcoin for every delivery. So for example let's say a "normal" person sends out 100 emails a day (I know I went a bit overboard). If we request 10 Satoshis (the smallest amount of a Bitcoin available = 0.00000001BTC) for every email he sends he will need to pay 100 Satoshis daily or 360,500 Satoshis yearly. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is equivalent to $0.0867167 at today's exchange rate. Not too bad paying $1 a year for email to avoid spam. Why would this eliminate spam you ask? Well imagine that a spammer needing to pay for 100,000 emails a day - this will cost him $1000 each year. Suddenly email spam takes a toll and isn't free to abuse as it is today. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Video:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Applications that eliminate video advertising by charging a small BTC amount for the time viewed. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Crowdfunding</b>:</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Global crowdfunding applications that allow project creators to raise funds easily from around the world using Bitcoin. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Payouts </b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Applications that allow creators or service providers to get paid by a global audience. ChangeTip is a great example of how people can tip Bitcoin to Internet users who helped them out.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Remittances </b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the hottest industries Bitcoin is trying to disrupt. Through Bitcoin you can create applications that enable worldwide, cross-border payments. Many Bitcoin startups are basically trying to "bank the unbanked". </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Ecommerce:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bitcoin focused merchant directories that offer a beautiful UI for consumers. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Identity:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Applications that give people control of their own identity (without the need of a 3rd party like the government). </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Attribution:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Applications that allow users to prove ownership of assets. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>Voting:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blockchain-based tech is already being used in elections throughout the web. This way you know your vote was counted while still keeping your anonymity. The advantages of creating a Bitcoin 2.0 business are that you are inside a blue ocean meaning there's little competition (no sharks, unlike a red ocean) and also this is definitely the place the industry is headed. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Probably not all of what I've written here makes sense to you and that's OK. Heck, it doesn't even all make sense to me sometimes. You don't need to be an expert on Bitcoin; you just need to understand the basics of where the industry is headed so you can choose your Bitcoin business idea more wisely. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the best sources that consolidates all the Bitcoin industry's information is Coindesk's state of Bitcoin report. This report comes out once a quarter (every three months) and sums up everything nicely. A lot of the data brought here is from that report. So make sure to sign up for report updates and keep your finger on the pulse of the Bitcoin industry.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/p/bitcoin-rush.html">Bitcoin Rush: Discover Advantage of Bitcoin</a></span></div> <br /></div>

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Expansion Markets For Bitcoins

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>There are many opportunities for Bitcoin entrepreneurs.</b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurMKnpgpQ5TbfYqtKfPp9Q4K8gQGrFK2ss47b6hoEVhrVB8tkqH3_qQ4PDp8Rz5WE_F0_7l33ga5MKRx7oDyRr65HS331dh4NjRu_O8yRncnKoWuXWtteMkWdh0uyAnie_yFeBl2tX6Q/s1600/m9uaE.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiurMKnpgpQ5TbfYqtKfPp9Q4K8gQGrFK2ss47b6hoEVhrVB8tkqH3_qQ4PDp8Rz5WE_F0_7l33ga5MKRx7oDyRr65HS331dh4NjRu_O8yRncnKoWuXWtteMkWdh0uyAnie_yFeBl2tX6Q/s320/m9uaE.png" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1. Bitcoin consulting</b> for getting online and offline merchants integrated with Bitcoin appliances, pricing, out-conversion, marketing, and trading.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2. Developing and selling Bitcoin trading robots</b>. This is a huge potential opportunity for those with the software skills for tackling the coding along with the trading chops for making the robot a profit winner.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3. Bitcoin financial transfer agents for converting from debit cards,</b> credit cards, loans, gold, silver, local currencies, creating transfers, etc. The old guard institutions consider Bitcoin the enemy. This leaves an open window for those willing to get over the MSB hurdles.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>4. Bitcoin network monitoring codes</b> for alerting Bitcoin users of unusual activity across the network. This would be similar to the stock market where futures indicate the direction of the market before it opens. With this service, Bitcoin users could be alerted to when there is a market rocking event and make decisions accordingly.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>5. Bitcoin advertising network</b>. One of the biggest issues for Bitcoin is that businesses cannot easily use it for buying business services. An advertising network suited for Bitcoin clients will absorb the Bitcoin flow from online merchants. Google refuses to convert to Bitcoin, so another avenue is needed.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sign up for the newsletter and frequent trading tips, risk warning, and investment strategies about Bitcoin and alternative investments.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of the most active forums for Bitcoin: https://bitcointalk.org </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To a future of Bitcoins…and freedom.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/p/bitcoin-rush.html">Bitcoin Rush: Discover Advantage of Bitcoin</a></span></div> </div>

Expansion Markets For Bitcoins

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Predicting Prices For Bitcoins: Bitcoin Marketplace

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Already, we’ve calculated a possible worth for $/BTC north of $80,000.00 based on the U.S. M2 value.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUV6LR9vkIUAK9egFHnvQi8jnEwL21skY-D5E3Kra5mCLg_V7p04LSsnHXATxUp9L9xUhPK12GXYzDunq6ygMCsmwyfHRae4qgt69trmnIzqld4kHH8yckDJevIxFDcfvz-eoy0fkNTM/s1600/webitcoin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUV6LR9vkIUAK9egFHnvQi8jnEwL21skY-D5E3Kra5mCLg_V7p04LSsnHXATxUp9L9xUhPK12GXYzDunq6ygMCsmwyfHRae4qgt69trmnIzqld4kHH8yckDJevIxFDcfvz-eoy0fkNTM/s400/webitcoin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Including all the worlds’ currencies in that calculation will send that number up by 4 fold or more.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">More important than the currency value of a BTC, is what the realizable value of one will be. We could, and probably will, have a currency regime change between now and 2139 when the last Bitcoins are mined. The question is what will we be able to buy with a Bitcoin, or a dollar for that matter?</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The U.S. dollar will buy less of the critical goods over time, as has been the case ever since 1929. The value of a dollar has declined roughly 97% over that period. Bitcoins will move higher and lower, but will not experience a waterfall decline - unless attacked and stopped by governments or banks. Bitcoins will continue their market penetration, pushing aside inflated national currencies.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-to-become-bitcoin-miner-and-earn.html">How to Become A Bitcoin Miner and Earn Bitcoin</a></span></div> </div>

Predicting Prices For Bitcoins: Bitcoin Marketplace

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Opportunities And Dangers Ahead for Bitcoin Users

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">According to MtGox.com's traffic estimation chart for only U.S. web access:</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Going from 5k unique visitors per month (UV) to over 25k UV in shows that the future looks bright indeed for both Bitcoin and mtgox. We would see even greater growth from international web access graphs. The majority of Bitcoin users are coming on board from outside the U.S.</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGxZGgzuiUdwt4Xv1chudTj8dS6GmBJEcPv2sCSXhfbBDXbN5YIn7J4Paov5E-zhIb00jU-BL3tCmxIclITYhiR5BpaHXJ5lxLPTVhcHXWgjzmfoH8GTwy5hsZ2wSx6g4gIH94sgzB6o/s1600/bitcoin-exchange-hacked.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="198" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJGxZGgzuiUdwt4Xv1chudTj8dS6GmBJEcPv2sCSXhfbBDXbN5YIn7J4Paov5E-zhIb00jU-BL3tCmxIclITYhiR5BpaHXJ5lxLPTVhcHXWgjzmfoH8GTwy5hsZ2wSx6g4gIH94sgzB6o/s400/bitcoin-exchange-hacked.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <br /> <h3 style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Opportunities being seized and presented to the market place include:</span></h3> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>1. Physical forms for Bitcoins with bitbills, Cassascius, and others.</b></span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>2. A myriad of applications for Android</b>, iPhone, iPad, Windows, and the tech favorite, Linux.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">aCurrency, an Andorid app for currency conversion now links to Bitcoins. Bitcoin Wallet for Android and many others allow Bitcoins to be used almost like a credit or debit card, from our phone. Either we scan in our Bitcoin address and wallet information from a generated QR code, beam it, email it, or go through a web interface (plus other types of withdrawals not yet fully functional).</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>3. Merchant services from bitpay</b>, OkPay, MtGox, Dwolla, etc. are making it easier for merchants to accept and cash out their BTC's.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>4. Trading platforms are springing up to relieve Mtgox of its dominant role.</b> Mtgox is not universally approved of because it has stopped trading at the most critical points, and often has lower prices.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>5. There are also a host of competitors on the horizon.</b> Ripple is the biggest and best financed so far.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Produced by a company called OpenCoin Inc., Ripple is based on similar concepts to Bitcoin. Ripple is open source and distributed around a network exactly like Bitcoin. One of the key differences is that there are already about 100 billion ripples in existence, but they are fed into the system on a controlled basis.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Read More: </span><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/2015/08/how-to-become-bitcoin-miner-and-earn.html">How to Become A Bitcoin Miner and Earn Bitcoin</a></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It also uses something called social capital for backing financial capital. Plus, it has trust features for selecting networks to use for payments or transfers. What has the Bitcoin world suspicious though, is that OpenCoin Inc. is backed by large Wall Street venture capital firms.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ripple has betamax stamped all over it. Bitcoin is working, out of the gate sooner, belongs completely to a voluntary community, and is not affiliated with Wall Street interests.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Other digital only competitors include Litecoin, Lucre, OpenMoney, OpenCoinage, Voucher-Safe, and many more.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i>Entrenched competitors that are not seeing the growth, but do have tangible assets - gold and silver - backing them include:</i></span><br /> <br /> <ol style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Pecunix</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">GoldMoney</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">BullionVault</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PerfectMoney</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">LibertyReserve</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Tecnocash</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">C-gold</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Formerly available e-gold</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Global Digital Pay</span></li> </ol> <br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">These gold or silver backed currencies are not widely used, traded, or accepted. They do have the advantage of being backed and convertible into physical precious metals. Without wide market acceptance, however, their future is limited.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>6. Most critically</b>, there are efforts for backing Bitcoins with gold or silver. This is a critical step that will cement BTC's as a functional form of money. There are reasons for not taking this step, as it decentralizes the network if there must be storage for the gold. However, a de facto backing by gold would mean that the value of a BTC is respected enough that it can be tendered for gold.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://webitcoin.blogspot.com/p/bitcoin-rush.html">Bitcoin Rush: Discover Advantage of Bitcoin</a></span></div> </div>

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5 Big Advantages of Bitcoins

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyone should own some physical gold. It's been the store of value, and the preferred method of asset protection for more than 5,000 years. It's irreplaceable. However every investor ought to own at least some bitcoin.. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You see, most of the people buying bitcoin are interested in the explosive growth potential the new "currency" offers, as more and more retailers, CEOs, and governments embrace it. But they're getting more than that. Bitcoin comes with some unique wealth preservation properties, too. And while it will never replace the market's most</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bitcoin supply is fixed they will never exceed approx 21m in total</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LsHSv67R15KcQzY4ITTDYeRtcR0MekhH8RlyqNl54UEjOP1qfS3Ua-dC1FKGcSNry3wNpqIwj-FBxb8S2XrvIz07PMA2s9DyQC-8cczTXHusypbms2OEoqO4KoWjUlH4Qh6QHgoMS6M/s1600/bank.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5LsHSv67R15KcQzY4ITTDYeRtcR0MekhH8RlyqNl54UEjOP1qfS3Ua-dC1FKGcSNry3wNpqIwj-FBxb8S2XrvIz07PMA2s9DyQC-8cczTXHusypbms2OEoqO4KoWjUlH4Qh6QHgoMS6M/s320/bank.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>popular hedge, it does have five distinct advantages over gold...</i></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>No. 1: The Supply Is Absolutely Fixed</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of investors look on gold as a store of wealth because of the precious metal's limited supply. Actually, that's really only true in the short term. Yes, there are only so many mines operating at any point in time, so the </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">immediate supply remains fixed on any given day. However, exploration teams are scouring the planet and finding new gold reserves all the time. When the price of gold rises, those new tracts become more economical, meaning the supply of gold can in fact expand. It's the exact opposite with bitcoin. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They are created when someone discovers a new mining block on the global computer network. The number of blocks is capped at 6 per hour. Moreover, bitcoins generated per block decrease geometrically, falling 50% every 4 years. The number of bitcoins mined will never exceed 24 million by the year 2140. Roughly 57% of the total maximum have already been mined...</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>No. 2: This Is a Real Currency</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It began when President Roosevelt confiscated America's gold during the Great Depression. And when President Nixon took the United States off the last vestiges of the gold standard in the early 1970s, the metal's days as a true currency were over. Sure, you can still buy gold coins, but just try using them to pay for something at Walmart or the local</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Central banks cannot manipulate the price</b></i></span></div> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Convenience store</b>. People will look at you like you're crazy. But in the United States alone, more than 700,000 retail outlets accept bitcoin, including chains like 7-11 and Wal-Mart. And in France, workers can choose to have their salaries paid in this new digital currency. In fact, bitcoin is already recognized around the world as a medium of exchange and is traded in roughly 90 different markets from</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Toronto to Singapore every single day.</i></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>No. 3: Central Banks Can't Manipulate the Price</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paul Craig Roberts can't afford to make baseless charges. A noted economist, Roberts served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during the Reagan administration and is a former editor of the Wall Street Journal. So, were he to make a wild accusation, that would undermine his credibility as a market analyst and possibly ruin his career. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But Roberts is adamant that a big part of the recent rout in both gold and silver prices is a direct result of central-bank manipulation. Roberts believes the Fed led a coalition of mega-banks that sold off gold reserves and certificates to support the dollar in an era of mega-printing. Veteran metals trader Andrew Maguire agrees. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The former Goldman Sachs employee-turnedwhistleblower says more than 500 tons of "paper gold" got dumped on the market in April alone. With bitcoin, however, it would be extremely difficult for global bankers to act in concert to secretly drive</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bitcoin is A SUPER LIQUID ASSET.</b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">up or down the price as they can with gold. Anyone with a Web connection can check the volume of bitcoin trading around the world almost in real time. In other words, though individual transactions occur in private, the markets upon which they are traded are highly transparent.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>No. 4: It's Super Liquid</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you own physical gold in your home and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">want to sell it, you have to grab it, put it in the car, and drive to the local dealer. There's always the concern you could be robbed in the process. Moreover, most stores are only open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. five or six days a week. That greatly limits your market access. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are paying someone to store your metals offsite, you will obviously incur fees. And when you sell your gold it could take several days for the transaction to finish and for the money to end up in your account. With physical gold, your liquidity is limited by both market access and the size of your ingots or coins. On the other hand, bitcoin is a super-liquid currency. Not only can you buy and sell basically 24-7, you can "chop it up" into extremely small slices. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For instance, on the Camp BX exchange, you can divide a bitcoin down to 12 decimal points, which might look like this amount - 0.011111111111. At $550 a bitcoin, that gets down to $6.20, including commissions. Just try chopping a gold ingot or coin down into such tiny increments.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>No. 5: The Ultimate in Portability</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's say you were fortunate to own $500,000 worth</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bitcoin is very portable try moving 26lb of gold around</b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">of gold, or about 415 ounces. That's nearly 26 pounds worth of metal you'd have to cart around if you wanted to move it in the event of an emergency. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Remember</b>, there's no guarantee that during a natural disaster you'll be able to access your safety deposit box at your local bank. The police may close roads, or if the electricity is out, you may not be able to get to your gold in the first place. With bitcoin, however, no such challenges </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">exist. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this a virtual currency, it lives online at your hosted wallet. So, you can access the funds from anywhere in the world as long as you have an Internet connection. You also can download and store your bitcoin on a small USB thumb drive that will easily fit in shirt pocket. It doesn't get much more portable than that. Thus, bitcoin occupies a unique space in the global financial system, one that clearly has some major advantages over gold.</span></div>

5 Big Advantages of Bitcoins

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Best Way to Accepting Bitcoins In Your Business

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bitpay.com appears to be the leading merchant services provider for online stores. There are several other methods that work almost like Paypal for accepting payments via Bitcoin. The other Bitcoin merchant tools do require some custom coding.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All we need to do is give users our Bitcoin wallet address for sending payments to us. We can also choose to create an individual wallet address for each sale. This is how the automatic checkouts work and requires software for generating an unlimited number of unique Bitcoin wallet addresses.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bitpay.com simply requires setting up our products with BTC prices, the normal account tie-ins such as business name, tax code number (EIN# for a business or Social Security# for individuals in the U.S.) and accounts tied to the BTC wallets. Then Bitpay provides all the clearing and collection function.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Showing that we accept Bitcoins on the first page of our store or site shows we are ready for conducting business in the newest digital way.</span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3rTe18ifVOwyeEsJI2P8ZToCGEj6kg6L_xE1G29YPsIE2eHm7drTmKE4NLt2o5lrtyabVb8IdZpAt1535fv0XsPTWHSfLS9d8dRbtqquC3QnmP7jtROzTl69a11vHzWgmBZVqBy1iL8/s1600/m9uaE.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd3rTe18ifVOwyeEsJI2P8ZToCGEj6kg6L_xE1G29YPsIE2eHm7drTmKE4NLt2o5lrtyabVb8IdZpAt1535fv0XsPTWHSfLS9d8dRbtqquC3QnmP7jtROzTl69a11vHzWgmBZVqBy1iL8/s320/m9uaE.png" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With our proud sign displayed, we can use one of many different merchant solutions. Bitpay is generally the leader, but others offer similar functionality.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Merchant solutions for Bitcoin:</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <br /> <ul style="text-align: left;"> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okpay.com</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mtgox.com</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BIPS</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BitUtils</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paysius</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Walletbit</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bitpay</span></li> </ul> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>This is only a small portion of the ever-expanding options for merchants.</b></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All that we need to do to sell with Bitcoins, is sign-up for one of the above accounts, (again, bitpay.com is recommended) and place the correct Bitcoin code they provide onto your website. The site will automatically coordinate the Bitcoin transfers and loading up the correct wallet from the purchases.</span></div>

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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buying a Bitcoin is a form of investment. Buying Bitcoins also works almost like a foreign currency trade. We “sell” our national currency - USD, Euro, GBP, INR, Yen, etc., and “buy” Bitcoins at the same instant. The huge difference between foreign currency investing and Bitcoin, is that there is almost no friction cost to the trade.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUV6LR9vkIUAK9egFHnvQi8jnEwL21skY-D5E3Kra5mCLg_V7p04LSsnHXATxUp9L9xUhPK12GXYzDunq6ygMCsmwyfHRae4qgt69trmnIzqld4kHH8yckDJevIxFDcfvz-eoy0fkNTM/s1600/webitcoin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPUV6LR9vkIUAK9egFHnvQi8jnEwL21skY-D5E3Kra5mCLg_V7p04LSsnHXATxUp9L9xUhPK12GXYzDunq6ygMCsmwyfHRae4qgt69trmnIzqld4kHH8yckDJevIxFDcfvz-eoy0fkNTM/s320/webitcoin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fees for buying and selling currency can be steep. Buying Bitcoins or selling Bitcoins for a national currency is almost completely free of any fees. The big cost is the Bid and Ask spread, or the difference between what people will pay versus what people are asking for a Bitcoin.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Opening a foreign currency, commodity, stock, or any investing and trading account can be a hassle. We often have to prove income, net worth, years of experience trading, credit score, and other private details. Bitcoin investing offers a smoother, easier, and simpler way to invest.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Buying and selling Bitcoins offers foreign currency investing profit and loss opportunities. Already the early adopters of Bitcoins have multiplied their net worth many thousand fold. Those who bought Bitcoins around $5/btc around early to mid 2012, are now sitting on almost 20 fold profits in less that a year.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More sophisticated investors can buy derivatives (similar to options in the stock and commodities world) from two new exchanges: iCBIT and with the IG Group. Neither of these markets are being heavily traded thus far.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is also a Bitcoin mutual fund of sorts, based out of Malta. Primarily for institutions and high net-worth investors that want Bitcoin portfolio exposure. At the moment, this is not a recommended approach for buying.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While admittedly risky, the upside for investing in Bitcoins is life-changing gains.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The “How to Trade Bitcoins” section of this book explains techniques for extracting the most profit out of Bitcoin investing. Bitcoins are not yet accepted for buying shares on national stock markets. This situation is unlikely to change anytime soon. Banks and governments controlling commodity, stock, bond and currency trading exchanges will not want to cede credibility to Bitcoin.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No matter, even without access to any conventional investing markets, Bitcoin has the potential for vastly outperforming other investment classes over time.</span></div>

Investing Money In Bitcoins Good or Bad

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