anyone got bitcoin

not if you paid £19,000 for it.

I've posted on here before on the subject....

I bought Bitcoin last year and it was at around £8k...

It was knocking on the door of £17k by the year end and is now less than £5k....

I'm in it for the long term, but it's not going back to those figures any time soon, if at all!

I did try to sell some, as an exercise when it had dropped to E14k, but there were no buyers....

I had £1.15k in Bitcoin so have lost bigtime!

I also had £2k in Ether but it's a similar story there too!

I had some more in Coinbase but again not good.

The big problem I have here is that, with 2FA for security they send a code on each login attempt, to your mobile.

I live in woodland, at the top of a big hill, and there is sod all mobile service, so by the time I get the codes they have lapsed!

Blockchain can't help, and I can't cancel 2FA without getting into my accounts, so it's a bag of rats!

My son is in IT and it was on his encouragement that I rushed into it, because a work colleague had left two years previously and
is now a millionaire.

The good times have gone, and it is only people like him who have made it big time, by having speculated in the early days.

There are scores of these coins and it could be worth a punt on them, as with Penny Shares!

If I finally get back what little is left, that's where I will be going, as the bubble has already burst, as was predicted by many, last year!
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yes a friend of my friend made a lump on them but he was lucky to of sold.

you see the fella that was mining in the early years and his girlfend got fed up of his set up

so he binned it all at the peak the hard drive hat had his coins was worth 180 million.

he says its 40 million now. how gutting.

Yes indeed, but it's easy to bemoan it after the event, like any speculative wager!

These people were on the case before few knew about it.

I'll never get mine back, but will certainly have a punt at some low priced ones.....

Ripple, aka XRP is £0.3511 today, and an associate was holding a bunch (haven't asked how much, and when he bought in, but it was $3 in October 2014)....

I should add that I now don't get an e-mail to authorise my log in, before 2FA......

Very strange as I mail them, and they respond (eventually) to that address!

Aren't they like shares, Lady?

In that the share price, in itself, is meaningless?

So, what is cheap and what is expensive?

Not exactly JH....

Shares you can only buy and sell but, with crypto, it is said that you can use it as a currency, against other products!

I fail to understand the mechanics of that, and who is going to accept them, as unlike cash you know how much is in your wallet, but with Bitcoin et al,
the value can be anything, at the point of transfer so, presumably, the only people who will accept them are other speculators!

Take a look here, and others with similar content.....

https://99bitcoins.com/who-accepts-bitcoins-payment-companies-stores-take-bitcoins/

https://unblock.net/companies-that-accept-bitcoin/

I'm prepared to wager, that if you tried to pay for a sandwich in "Subway" with Bitcoin, they would probably call the police!

I too got drawn into bitcoin last year and for a time was making £200 a day trading small movements 5/6 times a day.Trouble started when Chicago stock exchange started up a market and basically traders just shorted bitcoin until price collapsed.Still hold but overall am down about £5k but am optimistic price will shoot up again at some point.

Heavily involved in the space now. I don't think it is too late at all. The technology and the rates of adoption for it is still in the very primitive stages. We are finally beginning to see some actual use cases emerge for the technology. The infrastructure etc in place now for mass adoption is vastly superior to what it was this time last year before the big run up. The big banks/corporations will be stepping into this space in the coming months.

Think I've got a couple down the back of the sofa

I hold 0.0355 of a bitcoin which is worth around £176.

"Aren't they like shares, Lady?
In that the share price, in itself, is meaningless?

Shares are literally a fraction of ownership of the company, so hardly meaningless.

Bitcoin .. not a fan. Bubble built on a waste of time.

The PRICE in itself is meaningless, JC.

e.g. companies can alter the share price by a bonus issue.

the bubble has burst now alright a couple years ago

Its tough to describe it as a bubble when it is still in such early stages of adoption. Yes the market grew ridiculously quickly and has corrected subsequently. That has happened on numerous occasions throughout the history of Bitcoin. The technologies being developed (not just Bitcoin) will be complete game changers for society. We will look back in 10 years time and go wow.

http://cryptodailynew.com/lotttery/?utm_widget_id=9709&utm_content_id=3531403&utm_boost_id=537176&i0tz=NjU2Mjg0MzQ1MTM5OTMxMDZhZjNlYWY0ODg1NGNhZDkzMjA1M2E3NzhiOGRhMTIwYTY3MDg1ODg4MzE0OWIxMzU4MTQ0MmNjYzAZMzh

Just read this nonsense and, following the couple on "Dragon's Den, Willoughby and Schofield did it live on air, allegedly, as I didn't see it!

I think you would find, that the registration process takes much longer than implied here (having said that, I didn't register with a broker)!

My earlier posts here, are still the current state of play btw!

Out of interest.......who put the BROKE in BROKER

Pointless buying the stock market bitcoin tbh

Its value has gone

Lady, just thinking about your mobile signal and getting codes....

You can use your mobile via your home internet...

e.g TuGo. which I know 02 have stopped, but other providers may have similar..

Have any of u the new currency   INITIATIVE Q    if not you better be quick, this is the next flyer,  u been told..
not sure look it up..

Thanks Jack H.....incredibly I managed to get into "Coinbase", only to find that my holding of £350.00 of "Ether" is now worth £36.47!!

The current price of "Ether" is now £87.94!