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Topic: What could be the trigger to push BTC above US $500? (Read 2185 times)

sr. member
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Less coins per block , Paypal , visa / any country announce BTC as their national currency might take take to $500
newbie
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Why thanks Benson.

I created it as a private service for my own trading.
not sure about making it public as of now.

for others, the service basically sends an sms when BTCUSD moves in steps of $5. well reputed peeps can PM me to be included.
legendary
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I can't think how a good mixing service can be cracked.

When is your SMS service to be launched to the public BTW? It is very cool.
legendary
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Beyond the flavor!
Normal money is traceable. The anonymity of Bitcoin makes it attractive to terrorists, unfortunately.

Cash is about normal money. Cash is anonymous and untraceable too.
newbie
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The problem with indian govt and RBI approaching bitcoin is like rich people using it as a way to avoid tax. Well they can do that directly by bribing, i don't see this happening for terrorism. In fact why would anyone use bitcoin when they can use cash in small chunks like say below 1 lakh per account and then rotating it for that use. it is not hard for them to do such as many brokers and real estate agents use such strategies for years.
legendary
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I can't think how a good mixing service can be cracked.

Mixing service just makes it a bit ( may be very as of now  ) hard to trace the coins, but frankly speaking with bitcoin protocol I do not find it impossible to trace. The thing is that at the moment there is no real motivation for some one to write a tool to trace mixed coins transaction. If some one ( Government or any other thing ) wants it is possible to do that.

Bitcoin is not anonymous, at least as long as I see it Smiley

As far as normal money concerns, normal money is not easily traceable, the real advantage bitcoin gives is it allows you to store a good amount of wealth without need of much physical space. It is just like its much easy to hide it in black and dark than cash. But as far as trace ability  concerns, well,  bitcoin is much more convenient to trace than cash.

Cheers

Agreed, Bitcoin is better for in-game micropayments, small and medium businesses, export/ import and many other applications.
legendary
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I can't think how a good mixing service can be cracked.

Mixing service just makes it a bit ( may be very as of now  ) hard to trace the coins, but frankly speaking with bitcoin protocol I do not find it impossible to trace. The thing is that at the moment there is no real motivation for some one to write a tool to trace mixed coins transaction. If some one ( Government or any other thing ) wants it is possible to do that.

Bitcoin is not anonymous, at least as long as I see it Smiley

As far as normal money concerns, normal money is not easily traceable, the real advantage bitcoin gives is it allows you to store a good amount of wealth without need of much physical space. It is just like its much easy to hide it in black and dark than cash. But as far as trace ability  concerns, well,  bitcoin is much more convenient to trace than cash.

Cheers
legendary
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a good one, like BlockChain.info, deletes it logs after a few hours. so taking it down won't help.

Edit: Blockchain.ino can be taken down.

well, i still do not see it crashing down to US $5  Tongue.. May sustain around 50 or 80+ for sure.
newbie
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a good one, like BlockChain.info, deletes it logs after a few hours. so taking it down won't help.
legendary
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I can't think how a good mixing service can be cracked.

Well, unless something like zerocoin comes in, technically, the mixing service is a brick and mortar store that can be taken down quite easily.
newbie
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I can't think how a good mixing service can be cracked.
legendary
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Normal money is traceable. The anonymity of Bitcoin makes it attractive to terrorists, unfortunately.



Bitcoin is way less anonymous than cash. You should read up a bit on this.

Bitcoin is pseudoanonymous, which means that if you wanna do something really dangerous, better to use cash.
newbie
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Normal money is traceable. The anonymity of Bitcoin makes it attractive to terrorists, unfortunately.

legendary
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https://www.zebpay.com
picture this: Bitcoin is used to fund some terrorists who do another Boston Bombing


Really, is it issue of Bitcoin ?

Cheers
legendary
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picture this: Bitcoin is used to fund some terrorists who do another Boston Bombing


And, this is something that money does not already fund? If they want to do something radical, I doubt if Bitcoin's measly 1.5B value will help them much and if it's value does go higher, then there will be an economy that may be able to support it.

Once again, most of this is speculative.
newbie
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picture this: Bitcoin is used to fund some terrorists who do another Boston Bombing
legendary
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related question: What could be the trigger to push BTC below US $5?

I do not think that there is anything in the current path that could do that.
newbie
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related question: What could be the trigger to push BTC below US $5?
newbie
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I doubt it would be close to 400$. I guess it requires a lot of time and for 500 bucks though, not by small margin that amount is easy to get.
sr. member
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I think it could be close in three months.  But for the sake of the nitpick I'll use 5 Months. 

Remember when it shot from $8 to $10 then $15 then back to $8. Everyone screamed bubble and I'm sure for a moment it was. A few months later $15 was where it would hold.  Same trend happend before it reached $30-$70. Then it hit over $100. Then ee had the bubble to $250. I speculate within 5 months it will be at $250ish as a natural flow.  Perhaps close to $400 in 11 months
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