theoretically it is possible but realistically it will never happen in the real world simply because if a business (a mining farm in this case) wanted to get investors they would look for big ones not small fishes investing small amounts. that is a lot of hassle.
so the only case you will see in reality is Ponzi schemes.

if people could earn money by playing games and gambling then everyone would have been rich now instead of us seeing lots of broke and homeless gamblers who ruined their lives. these "games" are made to take your money away not give you anything. where would the money come from if they were going to pay everyone?

be very careful, this sounds to me like you are on the verge of becoming a gambling addict and that will not end well for you. you have already lost money and then lost more trying to fix that, so you should already know how things work in that industry.

can you fly without a plane? or can you start your car without putting gas in it?
that's the same with mining, to mine you need equipment. for bitcoin it is ASICs and for altcoins it is a decent GPU. and you need to run your hardware for long times and run special codes to do that. it won't be like you could visit a site and click a button to make millions!

i used to think that way too but eventually i realized that these coins will never get anywhere close to that price. and in the end it is a matter of how much your time is worth.
for example if today you worked 10 hours on these faucets and all the other wastes of time and earned $1 that means you were earning $0.1 per hour!!! doing literary anything else could give you better payment. for example if you flip burgers at McDonald's you can earn $10.66 per hour which is 106 times more money!

no that many.
i think the reason is because i have always discouraged people from just investing in bitcoin while thinking of it as a get rich quick scheme and whenever someone asks me whether they are going to make a ton of money by buying bitcoin i will tell them "no you will lose all your money".
instead i have always encouraged them to see bitcoin as the decentralized currency it is and when you do that you discourage those money seeking people and only get people who are willing to learn a little and use bitcoin instead of holding it to dump a while later to go back to fiat.

exactly!
this is the only reason every other altcoin that has PoS algorithm chose it in first place and is the only reason why some of the other coins are going that way. if you look at each of them, they have big owners that have a large "stake" in that coin. for example XRP is 100% premined and controlled by their creators. ETH has 72 million premine and is controlled by their owners. they all want more power and control with their free "stakes" + the easy money they earn just by having that amount.
now they are pushing the same thing for bitcoin because they have some coins and want free profit. it will never happen.

it used to be healthy and the drop used to be a correction up until the $11k and even $10k. now it is a big ass panic sell that has brought the price to $9800 which is below the strong buy support at $10k which was holding nicely but was broken due to manipulation and panic sells.

either remove these or change your title from "bitcoin" tools to "cryptocurrency" tools in which case i would argue it is no longer suitable for "newbies" since altcoins aren't suitable for the beginners.

a "newbie" shouldn't use any of these tools. they should stick to their wallet GUI and do everything there in the safety that it provides them. looking under the hood and getting a transaction hex without knowing what you do is not a good idea.

there is a lot more wallets between Electrum and bitcoin-core!
for example hardware wallets can be a good option for beginners, web wallets even web accounts like Coinbae are excellent for beginners who want to get started easily as long as they understand the difference and the downside of using them.

that is because of how pump and dumps work. basically there are pumpers who initially start buying that shitcoin they plan on pumping prior to letting their sheep know about it. so there is first a small volume spike. then as their purchases causes the price rise they tell their sheep to buy it and that is when the volume spikes bigger. then as they dump on the sheep the volume remains high until the cycle is complete.

the volume i was talking about was the total daily volume that the coin normally has which also indicates how packed is its order book. lower volume means less packed order book and that means easier manipulation aka pumps.

this is what happens when you are only "gambling" with bitcoin price! you end up thinking price rises are "pumps" and any drop is a "dump" and your total profit in the end is always going to be negative even if you haven't yet faced the consequences because like any other gambler you will eventually run out of luck and start your losing streak.

but if you start analyzing bitcoin and stop with the silly thinking of "pumps" and "dumps" and start seeing the bigger picture here about how this is a rally which has rises and corrections that follow those, then you can have a better time in this market and even if you decided to trade, you will be able to earn a lot more profit.

exactly. i have seen newcomers usually neglect the importance of immutability, specially in some cases of altcoins that performed some sort of roll back and nullified their immutability and turned into a shitcoin overnight. coins like ethereum and bcash have have already lost that characteristic and that is why nobody trusts them anymore and that is why they have no value, their price is high only because their centralization is pumping them and preventing their demise.

looking at 3 random exchanges that don't even have a bitcoin (versus fiat) market is hardly a good metric to talk about the entire cryptocurrency market and specially a topic that is worthy of posting in the "bitcoin board". if you want to talk about altcoin fake volumes them move this to the altcoin board.
not to mention that all these percentages are the guesses of these companies that were trying to make a name for themselves, practically advertising their services by bullshitting about exchanges and their volumes.

actually the "fact" has always been that altcoins get pumped when bitcoin is stable. simply because traders can't make the same amount of profit from a stable market so they invest their time temporarily in altcoins to pump them.
otherwise when bitcoin bull market ends it always ends with a bubble (like $20k) and that is followed by a bubble burst  which then causes altcoin dumps.

this is the worst comparison i have ever seen. you are comparing (the first chart) a time where price was already half way through the bull market and had surpassed the previous ATH of $1200 and was already 4 times higher than that with (the second chart) the time where we have just started the reversal and are barely in the bull market no to mention we have not yet even reached the ATH.

you should change the first chart to reflect the same thing if you actually want to compare. that means panning to the left until your end time frame is at somewhere in 2015 where similar to today we have just began the reversal and price was at $400ish coming up from $150

you can't start a warning about pump and dumps in altcoins while at the same time you call bitcoin a "pump"!
so basically you are also calling bitcoin a pump and dump which is obviously false.

the altcoin pumps don't have to take place in a single day to be considered a pump. some pumps take longer specially when the coin has a bigger market (like the top 10 altcoins).

actually the volume of the pump and dump coins increases drastically, that is why they are being "pumped". having lower volume is a benefit that makes pumping that altcoin easier otherwise it is not needed.

your ASIC that is actually mining the blocks doesn't validate blocks or construct next ones, it just hashes the 80 bytes that it receives. while it is hashing, your node can easily construct the next one before it reaches the end of nonces and fails to find and requires a different change in extranonce or something. and while you are at it you might as well add new transactions and construct the merkle root too. and since this is done elsewhere (not in ASIC) then there is no difference in time it takes to mine an empty block or a block with 3000 transactions!

from menu: Tools > Preference > Fiat (tab)
then select a fiat currency and the API to use to fetch the values from.

it was 1 factory and it was practically stealing electricity because the electricity it was receiving was meant to be used in that factory for the thing that that factory was build to do not something else. and since they got electricity for something else with the discounts and then used it to mine bitcoin, that makes it illegal and leads to their closure not just mining bitcoin or using electricity. instability of grid,... are just side products.

they don't.
despite what you may think, blockchain buzzword and bitcoin are not some magical solution to solve every single problem in the world. people in poor countries, specially with wars, domestic or otherwise, aren't really thinking about using something new that they hardly understand. they have more pressing concerns ahead of them such as basic human needs for survival.

topics like this are either made for trolling just because they saw the drop, or they are made by absolute beginners who thought bitcoin price must only go up without ever have any kind of correction! that is why a lot of them are created each time price makes a big move...


... the bubble that will shape up at least a year from now.

regarding this i have to say by the time that split fiasco happened, there were a couple of faucets which were giving away dust amounts mined from new blocks that people could use for splitting. sites like http://forkfaucet.cash/ but it doesn't seem to work anymore, i didn't search about it that much but there may still be faucets that do that. you may want to ask BCH bag holders like on /r/btc they may know more and have coins to send you.

i actually have never seen one that did that. are you sure you are not just talking about the theoretical hijacker? because i remember there was a discussion on bitcointalk about how they could do that using vanity generation technique but it would only be first 2 or 3 characters since it takes a lot more time if it is more and also there is absolutely no way you could have identical "end" since it is the checksum and with 1 bit difference in address the whole thing changes.

lol no.
and the worst part is that i have never been hacked and it wasn't a hacker that stole my money, it was an exchange called Bittrex and they stole thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and some altcoins from me and millions from a lot of other users like me and they never paid any of us back. they simply stole it and got away with it.