Blockchain (Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, Ripple etc)

Synchro

As someone who follows these products, I am starting to think these will be breaking through into mainstream finance soon.

http://www.coindesk.com/japan-bitcoin-law-effect-tomorrow/


Bitcoin in India: Govt Invites Citizen Comments on Virtual Currencies

QuestShield

What about Ripple?

Synchro

Yeah, Ripple in the list too.

RiceRocket

Man if only I'd bought $100 of Bitcoins just seven years ago.... would now be worth $75m

Bl4ckGryph0n

All major banks, central banks, clearing houses, governments, law enforcement agencies have been preparing for this for a long time.

xafier

I blew a bonus on Bitcoin about 3 years ago after buying and selling a few in the year previous to that... with the recent increase in price my stash is now roughly the same as my annual salary Kinda wishing I'd put more into it now, but hell I'm definitely not complaining!

Bitcoin definitely has the potential to be a very disruptive technology, as it's adoption increases around the world I think everyone will be surprised at what it's price eventually will be. Really impressed with things like airline companies in Japan adopting it!

Wish the UK would be more receptive to it though, I've used some in the past to buy things from www.scan.co.uk and a few other techy websites but not seen much mass adoption yet.

Synchro

Looking hard a Litecoin myself.  Price has doubled in a month, with LOTS of potential.

Synchro

They all came off their highs, by quite a lot, over the last few days.

xafier

I try not to get too excited about the massive run ups, it always drops back quite a bit. Just look back 30 days, it was roughly £1000 each, compared with about £1750 now. The peak was about £2100 but who cares if it drops back and its ONLY up 75% in a month?

Give it another six months and we could easily be looking at £2500 each by the end of the year I reckon

To put it all into perspective, my more safe passive investments are in a Vanguard fund, that has ONLY made 5% YTD, which is still inflation beating.

Vanguard LifeStrategy 60% Equity Fund A Acc|GB00B3TYHH97

Matt_C