Wrong. Mind can be, and used to be controlled. Here in the west by the mass media and social justice warrior groups, in China by the mass media and the police. Actually if the punishment is swift and deterrent enough most people going to control their own minds, and the rest will be useful for reminding the majority what will happen if they stop doing so.

I guess many users will try this, but I wouldn't be surprised if some shitty exchanges would also try to make some extra profit from this opportunity.

There is an other scenario for "afterfork" scamming. I think if the "old" chain losing, and gets abandoned by most miners then it will be relative easy to take over and then this "privat chain" can be turned to a scammer hideout for selling freshly minted worthless coins to noobs.

If bitcoinXT wins I'm pretty sure we'll see a couple of "legacy bitcoin" holdouts for a while, and for a short time we might also have a good chance to find some smaller exchanges on both chains. So I'm pretty much optimistic about doubling my BTC holdings . I also expecting to see some bottomed out BTC and inflated altcoin prices as fiat sources can dry out quickly after the first big BTC dumping wave.

I blame NXT for all of this . The rapid development of NXT in 2014 rendered the then latest eMu versions obsolete, as the economy "module" going to be the big thing in eMU and without that it's comparable to some mid 2014 NXT versions, so it's pointless to release it until the economy part isn't ready. IMO NXT also forced the Eth devs to turn up with something before NXT takes AT form Burst or Qora and makes Eth pretty much redundant.

Don't paint the devil on the wall or he will appear, and going to teach us how masturbating (both intellectual and sexual) will destroy God, bigotry and the ruling class and resolve all social and racial issues, therefore making the world a better place . I like his optimism though... so much gains for so little effort .

Ethereum was rushed in service and now I hear a lot of people crying because of it's not mature enough, no features, no GUI, needs a degree from rocket science, etc. eMunie is still under development as Dan want to make a feature ready, turn key coin, and people complaining because of is still not released . Pretty funny. Isn't it?

Territorial gains thing: Originally they claimed the entire Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts. I guess they didn't gave up on that, and if you compare the performance of the rebel and the government forces, I would say, they have a good chance to achieve that goal.

A couple of years ago they haven't had any real reason for an uprising, but in last year the then new Ukrainian government wasn't careful enough and they provided a reason for an uprising and also provided a reason for Moscow to support that.

The rebels maybe just useful idiots for the bosses in Moscow, but don't forget that they are "brothers in need" for great many Russians, so they can easily get support from other Russians and those who want to forge some political capital can easily do that by satisfying this popular demand.

This BREAKOUTCOIN thing walks, talks, and looks like a scam, so it's most likely a scam indeed. Actually their marketing looks pretty similar to Neucoin, therefore I think it belongs to the "Paycoin school". I hope you not invested (or at least not in vested too much) into this coin.

Joking I guess . Ethereum is something in alpha state. Barely working, there's some heavy development on it therefore at this moment it's full of bugs and there are no meaningful use for it at all. On the contrary NXT is a working system with all the features (what ETH will have sometimes in the future) completed, up and running.

First of all you shouldn't ask this question here, because of you going to get loads of bullshit about the latest and greatest coin what is freakin' cheap today but for some reason it will go to "da moon" next week. If you want reliable information instead of bs from people who want to unload or pump some crap, you should do your own research. If you are unable to do that then you might want to go for forex trading instead.

Nor churches neither politicians like competition. As politicians are on the way to render all/most of us to tramps we would be a really huge competition, so they just wanted to act quickly and decisively in the right in time and get rid of other future beggars from their hunting ground .

Well, I guess most of the harvest is done, coal bunkers, tea boxes and vodka barrels are refilled, soldiers are back from holidays, all the gear fixed and nicely tidied up, Porky and Rats grabbed and sold what they can and got some fresh meat, as  heard recently the ukies moved back their heavy gear near to the LPR/DPR borders, the rebels did the same, so everybody and everything are ready for the next chapter.

I'd bet for more LPR/DPR victories and territorial gains.

It could be non-minable or mineable (mintable) coin as well. Indeed, a developer can create as much coins as they want as long as they can pay the fee for creating one but If they make coins what isn't interesting or have no purpose then that's a wasted money.

Only God knows. Such a turmoil around BTC could inflate altcoin prices to "da moon" as a lot of people would use alts as "safe heaven", but a forked BTC network could bring down BTC prices to cents and that can drag down every other cryptoes as well for months or years.

They can watch both chains for pre fork addresses but that's not a big deal if I move my very same 1 BTC into new wallets on both chains. As I wrote earlier 25% of the network is still a big market so at least for a short time it will be possible to find exchanges on both chains.

I think it's not quite so difficult, as after the fork the legacy BTC chain not going to accept blocks from the XT chain and vica versa.  However for a short time I think it will be possible to find exchanges on both chains... 25% of the current BTC network is still a huge market. So I just have to use the same pre-fork wallet file in a core and in an XT client. As there are no communication between the two networks these exchanges on different chains not going to know about my "double spending".

That would scare away me from bitcoin . Bitcoin controlled by banks or even worse governments would be something like VISA and Mastercard on steroids :/. That's why I'm pretty sure sooner or later we will see a great rise of govt coins, that will make surveillance much easier and much more effective.

Actually after the fork we are going to see interesting things as, as if I had 1 BTC before the fork I'll have 1 BTC and 1 XBTC after the fork with the same value. So, I can trade both for let's say LTC and when the war ended I'll have 2 BTC/XBTC worth LTC . Pretty straightforward way to double my holdings for free . 

No, I don't think so. At least not directly. However the blockchain technology almost surely going to be the basis of many (if not most) future money transfer applications. Bitcoin itself is just too unpredictable and volatile at this moment and large chunks of the existing BTC are also controlled by unpredictable sometimes even unknown people, this scares away most financial institutions.

As far as I can remember in it's time Orbitcoin was the most heavily preminied coin (actually 66%), because of a coding/logical error restricted the coin supply to only 1.526 million coins instead of the originally configured 31 million. All of this paired with 0 diff at start. Cryptsy suspended it after the first day of trading, and for a while it was traded only on some of the most shitty exchanges "of the age" like coins-e and phenixex... it was lot's of fun .