All you would need to do to attack a PoS coin is buy up a lot of the shitcoin, transfer them to a lot of different wallets housed is various VPS that all have different IP addresses. You then attack the network, transfer the shitcoin back to an exchange, sell the shitcoin before anyone notices

I agree, and I also think we will see more merchants offering some level of discount for paying in bitcoin. Newegg offered a (I think it was 20%) discount for orders paid for in bitcoin and they saw a massive response. I don't think that the cost savings is that large, but the principle does stand that people will be willing to pay in bitcoin when offered a discount

If you look at longer term charts you will see that the price of most altcoins have been on a long term price decline. While bitcoin has not.

Facebook added real new features to social networking that myspace did not offer. It was not merely a copy of myspace. The altcoins on the other hand do not add anything that bitcoin does not offer and is actually less secure making them less attractive

You can make any number of 'methods' to get satachi's name into some other phrase and get your preferred result. I don't think this means anything.

I think the fact that many people are obsessed with satachi is a real threat to bitcon's success

The movie file could potentially be altered and someone could use a botnet to increase the popularity of the hash of the altered file on torrent sites. Someone could make a fake twitter account with fake followers, retewaters ect.

I was not talking about this movie specifically but rather the concept of paying after the fact in bitcoin for something after you download it. Just look at what happened with the fappening, after the first person published the pictures and a BTC address, many other people quickly published other BTC addresses trying to get people to give them money

Fractional reserves allow banks to "create" money and essentially devalues money however the amount that money is devalued is less then what can be earned by investing your money so fractional reserve banking actually facilitates people to increase their wealth and standard of living.

The only people who are negatively affected are people who have cash 'under the mattress' literately

Unless a website is going to be giving access to whatever is being sold immediately that cannot be reversed after 10 minutes then it should be safe to accept an unconfirmed TX. The only real time that an unconfirmed TX should not be accepted is when something is to be downloaded that would generally take less then 10 minutes to download and is not protected via DRM. 

When you use a credit card, your name as it appears on your credit card will generally be displayed on the credit card receipt. I don't see any real reason why this would be any different with apple pay. If your name is on the receipt then there is no reason why it could not be present in a database maintained by the merchant.

The major improvement that apple pay has over credit cards is that you need to carry one less thing on your person when spending money.

The effective fee that consumers have to pay to use apple pay (credit cards) is much higher then the effective fee that consumers pay when sending a bitcoin TX. There is also still the chargeback risk to merchants essentially making a apple pay transaction be unconfirmed for months

The fact that apple pay uses fiat does not matter

You should only lend to someone an amount less then what their reputation is worth (if lending unsecured - you did not offer any collateral so it should be assumed you are asking for an unsecured loan). Your reputation is not worth .215 (nor is it worth .2). Much of the trust that you have exchanged appears to not have been legit trades but rather just agreements done via PM to give eachother trust

No.

Chase QuickPay is a threat to paypal as is is very similar to paypal and is a competitor to paypal. It is also similarly reversible and relies on a central authority (chase) to keep track of your balance

This is a very risky proposition and likely a scam. If someone were to lend money for them to lend money then they are not only risking that the borrower will pay back but also you are trusting his judgement that he will make prudent loans that will be repaid

I think the reason the movie was made available for free was because it should help spread the word about bitcoin and hopefully increase adoption in bitcoin (and the price). If he owns a lot of bitcoin (from mining in it's early days) then he will indirectly profit this way.

The dangers of downloading the torrent and then 'donating' bitcoin is that it is very difficult to determine what the 'correct' address to send the money to is. This presents an opportunity for scammers

In order for this to be sufficiently secure you would need to keep your FDE password long/complex enough so that it cannot easily be guessed and is different from other passwords. Cold storage however, by definition is not used very often. Your risk is that you do not enter your password often enough so that you remember your FDE password and lose access to your computer and private key.

This is a bad idea. Not only should you not hurt yourself to keep your money safe, but you would also need to further hurt yourself to be able to spend your money. In order for cold storage to be effective it not only needs to be safe from attackers but also allow you to be able to spend your money with semi ease.

You would also risk that the doctor would put in the incorrect screw in your arm (you would not be able to put them in yourself)

This would still be illegal. The reason or person that you steal from does not matter in the eyes of the law, although stealing certain high amounts or stealing from certain people can be treated more harshly.

The fact that bitcoin is fungible means that you cannot determine if the bitcoin that was stolen from SR is the "same" bitcoin that you stole from the thief

I assume that you are implying that banks are the ones stealing. But who are they stealing from? The deposit-holders can withdraw their money anytime they wish so they do not lose out. If you are saying that it is stealing because of inflation, then the interest that banks pay traditionally is higher then the inflation rate and the rate that can generally be earned via investing is greater then inflation.

What is the problem with this spam? Laxotrade is paying their fair share in miners' fee which is the same that everyone pays for a similar transaction.

The block size was appropriate for it's early days when there were few transactions, and balanced the resources needed to run a node with maintaining the ability to have a lot of TX per block. 

As bitcoin has evolved into more of a payment method, more transactions will occur every second which  equals more space in each block

This is not necessarily the case. In CO there have been a number of robberies at drug dispensaries that have been connected to drug gangs.

It also means that people will be able to openly carry drugs after they buy them but does not mean the people will buy drugs legally. This means that drug gangs can sell more potent drugs and does not need to worry about transporting drugs discreetly as the penalty for doing so would be removed