In anticipation of new challenges: Bitcoin has grown to $ 590

The sharp drop in prices Bitcoin, which occurred as a result of the shock of the attack ruthless hacker stole nearly 120 thousand Bitcoins have Bitfinex customers seem to benefit the cryptocurrency.

Over a two-week drop-down trend of the exchange rate Bitcoin was interrupted by the sudden news of the failure of the Exchange security Bitfinex, sending the price of Bitcoins in a short-term peak. So, at the lowest point immediately after the attack BTC / USD exchange rate was $ 531.33, while a day before the Bitcoin was worth about $ 595. However, during the next 24 hours, the trend has changed, and went into the growth of Bitcoin, reaching a maximum at $ 573, and in the following days stabilized at between $ 565 - $ 580, as we show Coinmarketcap:

At the time of writing, Bitcoin course got another boost as no surprise to growth. Bitfinex made encouraging statement, according to which the industry's largest exchange does not involve going for bankruptcy. However, the way out of the crisis, the exchange can be considered sufficiently ambiguous. The company expects to initially write off all the customers 36,067% of their assets. Exchange customers losses will be compensated by transferring ownership of the users of the company or a gradual return of funds. Against the background of this news Bitcoin has grown by another $ 20.

Thus, we can assume that Bitfinex hacking is not so bad for the industry. In addition, these events make the community more often to ask questions Bitcoin companies.

This example relates to the centralization of claims and risks arising from it - it hit in one big point is always more efficient than in many small. As such protection is the meaning of the decentralized systems. A consolidation of power in the Bitcoin community for a long time is the subject of heated debate and broken copy on the Internet. Some even slam doors.
Should I wait for shocks?
Shocks are always worth waiting for, because they are (#karmabeatsyou, though). It is hoped, however, that major crashes exchanges and falling asteroids in the near future will not happen, and so it is possible to receive and adrenaline dependence.
It is difficult to assess the future, but the British press and scientists trumpeting amusement candidate for a small shake for Bitcoin community. Sabreddit / r / btcfork appeared on the wave of success fork Ethereum Classic (some like to argue here, who is there a fork). The guys seem to go to success, only to see that he wrote an anonymous moderator Subforums:

n short, the text is presented the idea to hold a controversial hardfork Bitcoins, which, just like Ethereum Classic, will result in two sets of coins users. By the way, according to Vitalik Buterin, the latter was inspired by the outside community.
Obviously, with the success of ETC gain popularity this way of creating your own altkoina - at a crucial moment for the other cryptocurrency wait for or to provoke hardfork and get multiple users at once.
Will this be another joke or a serious threat to Bitcoin is not yet known. At the time of writing the material sabreddita audience of only 838 people, but who refuse to free coins?
It is necessary to assume that members of the community are greedy enough to engage in such a venture. At least, it became apparent after entry of the distribution of thousands of (presumably stolen) Bitcoins gathered more than 4 thousand addresses Bitcoin wallets of those who want to try the fate of the lottery in dubious. So the potential is there.