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Old 29-11-2017, 11:48 PM #1
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Default Bitcoin reaches $10,000 valuation for first time

[The value of the cryptocurrency
is continuing to rise despite fears
that an economic bubble is fuelling investment.]


A single Bitcoin has hit $10,000 (£7,495)
for the first time despite fears of a bubble.



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Bitcoin is the way to go, though I always say, never buy more than you can afford to lose.
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God I wish I was aware of this ten years ago. Then again I'd have sold whatever I bought long ago, too.
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Should have got into it 8 years ago when my wife's friend was telling us to; I suspect that now is the time to sell up and make a fortune before the whole thing comes crashing down.
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I heard on the radio yesterday - and I'm not clear how this all works - but a man had $600,000 worth of bitcoin on his hard drive, lost the hard drive, couldn't find it and consequently lost his money. And now it would have been worth $100,000,000.

He was "unavailable for comment".
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I heard on the radio yesterday - and I'm not clear how this all works - but a man had $600,000 worth of bitcoin on his hard drive, lost the hard drive, couldn't find it and consequently lost his money. And now it would have been worth $100,000,000.

He was "unavailable for comment".
Last seen heading towards the local landfill in a JCB digger.

(It's a cryptocurrency, people "mine" it themselves using high powered computers and store the data string which means the currency is stored as data... most of it is stored in secure, backed up online storage these days but it used to be more common for people to store it themselves on their own drives and if the drive then gets lost, damaged or corrupted then the bitcoin is "gone", just like if it was a wad of cash in a fire)


I've heard quite a few stories of people who just "dabbled" when it first became a thing and mined maybe 2 or 3 bitcoin (it gets progressively more complex over time - so it was easy to mine in the early days but now takes a LOT of tech / time / power) which were at the time hardly worth anything so they just got forgotten about, binned with old computers, wiped from the drive in an upgrade, etc. and now people are like " **** those would be worth twenty grand!!".

Also happier stories where people had totally forgotten they had a few of them from years ago then found their old computer in a cupboard and cashed in . I do think now really is the time for anyone in that situation to exchange them for cold hard dollaz though.

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Jesus Christ it's gone up by 2000 dollars in less than a week . It's due a massive price crash tbh.

And if it does crash I'd say it's worth a punt as soon as the value starts to stabilize.
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Last seen heading towards the local landfill in a JCB digger.

(It's a cryptocurrency, people "mine" it themselves using high powered computers and store the data string which means the currency is stored as data... most of it is stored in secure, backed up online storage these days but it used to be more common for people to store it themselves on their own drives and if the drive then gets lost, damaged or corrupted then the bitcoin is "gone", just like if it was a wad of cash in a fire)


I've heard quite a few stories of people who just "dabbled" when it first became a thing and mined maybe 2 or 3 bitcoin (it gets progressively more complex over time - so it was easy to mine in the early days but now takes a LOT of tech / time / power) which were at the time hardly worth anything so they just got forgotten about, binned with old computers, wiped from the drive in an upgrade, etc. and now people are like " **** those would be worth twenty grand!!".

Also happier stories where people had totally forgotten they had a few of them from years ago then found their old computer in a cupboard and cashed in . I do think now really is the time for anyone in that situation to exchange them for cold hard dollaz though.
Thanks for that TS. If only we'd all known we could have been posting to each other from our yachts so big you could land a jumbo jet on them.
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its another form of gambling really, and I thought about having a punt a while ago and decided against it .... silly me
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You know..I have a couple of BTC in various wallets that I have lost the private key things too. It never used to bother me as it was like 50 quid or something at the time. Now I find out that its actually 20k? Great

I also somehow had 1.5 BTC nicked from an online wallet a few years back. Which pissed me off as that was a few hundred at the time, but again, this is now 15k worth

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its another form of gambling really, and I thought about having a punt a while ago and decided against it .... silly me
It's more similar to the stock market really but... yeah... the stock market is pretty much just highbrow punting too .
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load of bollocks

From CNN HD LIVE Money show
2PM show
a report direct from South Korea
showed a student making 1,000's
as its a Faster way for profit , than any stock market.

There are loads of Bitcoin machines in South Korea
Buy it or Shares.


Its Not Regulated
thats why Worldwide trading is High
but in one day it went Higher than jumped down
Next ASIA day - It went up fast.....................


If you trade in Bitcoin
on your computer insure you can not be hacked
easy , FIRST.




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its another form of gambling really, and I thought about having a punt a while ago and decided against it .... silly me

Yes we need Machines like they have in South Korea
no hacking on those terminals
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Jesus Christ it's gone up by 2000 dollars in less than a week . It's due a massive price crash tbh.

And if it does crash I'd say it's worth a punt as soon as the value starts to stabilize.


Yes it could Crash
but some Experts see it as Future Cash.

Many London places like Pizza
take Bitcoin.



Of Course in Cash in the UK
After the Plastic £20 arrives
its the Fab Plastic £50 note.

Perfect for me to to Fly FAST to Scotland with a Handcuffed case to buy a old Castle
on Pure BIG Plastic Cash
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One in NYC



Bitcoin ATM in London.

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God I wish I was aware of this ten years ago. Then again I'd have sold whatever I bought long ago, too.
You didn't need to know about it ten years ago. You needed to know about it at the beginning of this year. If you bought £1,000 worth of bitcoin in January, it would now be worth £8,500
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One bitcoin today would cost you £13019.10
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One bitcoin today would cost you £13019.10

Yes it jumps real high
and then darts down a bit
then Asia Markets
Push it up overnight.


Gamble it is.
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The BTC I spent a couple of hundred quid on would today be worth nearly enough to buy my ****ing house. How very depressing.
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Yeah but if you bought £1000 of bit coin in 2010 it would be worth £260 million. They were 5p each .

Even a year to 18 months in, you could get a bitcoin for a dollar. So £1000 worth would now be approx £13,000,000.

Insane. But it's all effectively gambling. That said, I can see it peaking at over the 100k dollars mark so it's still worth punting a few £ on if you have it spare. Basically it'll either increase another 10+ fold OR it will bust completely (predictions are that when it busts, it'll settle at around $1000). So consider it an all or nothing bet and hold onto it for a bit .

Its not that easy to buy these days though, you have to sign up for a proper currency / stock exchange website and provide scans of passports, etc.

Obviously you can buy it anonymously on the darkweb but it costs like double.
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I generally find, it's very easy to say in hindsight "Oh I should bought loads years ago!" but you can say that about loads of things. If you had lumped money into Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, Amazon etc etc when those first started being traded, you'd be doing pretty well on those too.
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