unless you can show me the source code of this wallet, i would advise everyone to stay away from this because it is closed source! their repository only contains a github.io code (github pages) and a bunch of stuff they forked! https://github.com/Atomicwallet?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=&type=source&language=
there is no source code for the wallet itself and the only thing their website provides is the compiled binaries which you have no way of knowing what they do.

calling it "a fair share" may create a wrong idea in people's head that bitcoin is supposed to be distributed evenly among people like a charity! but that is not what bitcoin was meant to be like.

but your point about scarcity of bitcoin is valid. in fact the main reason why price is going to continue to rise until mass adoption is exactly this. of course mass adoption is not going to be anywhere close to 100% of people in the world using bitcoin but only a large percentage.

* halving effect will be small compared to bitcoin rise that is going to come. in fact i am starting to think that halving hype (meaning the hype in 3 months before and 1-2 months after the halving) is slowing down that big rise because we see a bubble that bursts and puts market in a short bear market. it has happened the last two times before the big launch too.
* facebook's centralized token has nothing to do with bitcoin and i don't think it introduces anyone to "bitcoin"
* haha, you wish. people like CW will continue to scam unless they are stopped
* China FUD is old news...

that is technically incorrect.
they are not exactly finding private keys with balance, they are solving a puzzle. a long time ago (2015) in order to show the hugeness of the private key space (or maybe just for fun) someone created a "puzzle" where he chose keys in a certain smaller space and sent increasing amounts to each of those keys like this:
2⁰<key<2¹ send 0.001BTC=$0.2 at the time
2¹<key<2² send 0.002BTC=$0.4 at the time
2²<key<2³ send 0.003BTC=$0.6 at the time
and so on.
now, people to this day are still trying to solve that puzzle. so technically if you have a private key (which is impossible by the way) that is in one of those ranges they won't find that because they are only looking to solve that puzzle.

p.s. a bit nitpick-y but there are 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFEBAAEDCE6AF48A03BBFD25E8CD0364140 private keys which is a little smaller than 2²⁵⁶

well security doesn't come cheap. it requires lots of effort. so the question is whether the user values his security (which can be based on how much bitcoin he owns) enough to spend time learning how to do it. i believe the reason why most people do crazy things like holding their coins on Coinbase is that they don't value their security that much.

you find the source code of whatever open source application you use, in this case Brave browser and you go through it to see what it really does. then you can also clone the code and build it yourself instead of running the binaries they provide. https://github.com/brave/brave-browser

haha, it is so funny how this person is using this "opportunity" to gain some popularity. basically he saw how CSW was scamming people and how the topic is a hot one for discussion so he jumped on board. he starts by stating the obvious and makes good arguments about how CSW is a scammer and lying to everyone, then he uses the same lies to make the same claims himself...

not necessarily this case but generally speaking skepticism is not the same as negativity. you have to be skeptic about new things you see, specially when you see something like that which may have looked like money out of thin air on the internet at first look. but automatically being negative is to be extreme and that is only the case with naive people who jump to conclusion without research. and in some cases with those who want to spread FUD.

that is why centralization could never work in bitcoin (decentralized) world. things look P2P on localbitcoins but they are centralized which is why "bans" like this can happen. unfortunately that has been a problem in bitcoin ecosystem for ages and although mitigation exists with decentralized exchanges, they are not that popular.

i didn't know Localbitcoins had such a high volume though! alternatives exist and there are cases which offer much better rates, i personally never find Localbitcoins rates any good which is why i have never used it before. i prefer true P2P trades when it comes to exchanging bitcoin with fiat.

a very interesting analysis for sure, and the current momentum in the market has been very bullish making it possible and even easy to have breakouts that big but i think $9k+ is not going to happen that easily. it is true that the rise you described is going to trigger a lot of buy orders and logs but also going above $8500 will trigger a lot of short term sells from day traders cashing their profit out and $9k is another barrier that will act against the rise.

yet another reason why you should never use a closed source wallet/tool (in this case the website) to generate a wallet, private key or seeds. instead you should always stick to open source tools (in this case the code on GitHub instead) and run it offline.

if you restrict your payment to cryptocurrency only then you restrict your customers because not that many people even know about cryptocurrencies and those who do know are using them as investment not currency specially altcoins!
what you said about giving discounts for crypto-payments is a better idea as long as you keep the fiat as the normal way of payment.
also be careful with altcoin payments, they are not as safe as they look. and many things such as double spending is easier using many of them.

there is no point in accepting cryptocurrency if you are going to use a third party processor and/or receive fiat from them.

the question should not be "what if" because it is possible and even in most cases it will be easy to implement blockchain technology for almost anything but having the capability doesn't mean you should. so the real question should be "WHY" or in other words what would be the benefit of it and what would be improve?
in this case i don't see any reason to keep that kind of data on a public blockchain. not to mention immutable while i may not even use my car as long as my data persists on that blockchain!

ignore the age and the "grandma" part and you can see how this is a very normal news not worth reading. someone was doing something illegal and got caught doing it. now they are paying the price of their wrongdoing with a fine and jail time. this is happening every day with people with all ages and backgrounds doing all kinds of illegal stuff and getting caught doing them, so it is not really something newsworthy!

so far with all the restrictions they have been putting in place for Indian to buy bitcoin, they have never slowed down buying bitcoin. this may become a factor in decision making in the future in my opinion, they know their restrictions aren't going to do them any good so maybe a total ban can never happen in India.

in the small number of countries that have actually banned bitcoin (like Bangladesh) it was done because of the fear that government had for losing their control and not being able to continue their corrupted ways if people were to switch to bitcoin more some day so they banned it now to prevent that from happening.

there is no such thing as "SegWit space" or a "separate/dedicated space" for SegWit transactions. there is only one block that has a limited 4 MB weight that can contain all types of transactions in it.

the reason why SegWit transactions are "cheaper" than legacy ones is because fees (ever since August 2017 when the Segregated Witness fork happened) are no longer calculated based on size but instead based on weight. and a SegWit tx has a lower weight compared to a legacy transaction so you pay less fee.

they are not delusional, you are naive for not reading between the lines. what they do (and what others like ETH, XRP, DASH and a couple of dozen others did) is to advertise their shitcoin and get it pumped for a while so that they can dump and get their profit out.... rinse and repeat after a while.

their lack of success is not about lack of SegWit or LN (LN can be implemented on top of BCH too). they reason why they have failed is that they are poor copy coins with no advantage and heavy centralization.

apparently it does not. i am not familiar with US laws but based on what i read, the claims like this only have a small fine if it is proven that the claim was false. so in this case the proof will never exist because real Satoshi has to come forward and also the fine is small so he doesn't care because the result of this lie was a couple of thousand dollar profit due to his shitcoin pump.

the problem with seeds is that there are many different clients and many of them are different from one another usually in the BIP32 path they use. so even if you have your seed you may not be able to recover your keys due to this difference. having one address can give you a result to compare with inside a loop and find the correct path specially when you don't remember the client you used to create the seed.
(that is why i asked him if he had his address in his topic which he was saying he had sync problem not showing his balance)

there is no need for an upgrade to PGP standard as long as SHA-1 hashes that are used for PGP fingerprints is strong (2^160) against second preimage attacks (not to be confused with collision which SHA-1 is no longer strong against). so as long as the long form of the hashes (the whole 20 bytes) is used, everything is safe.

there is something wrong here, and that thing is your title. you are NOT talking about bitcoin trading volume in USD, you are talking about the number that a shitty website called coinmarketcap.com reports and that number is not fake, it is just not what you are looking for.
it is like if you looked at the date and time of this post and think it is the bitcoin price!!!
the number that website reports is the sum of a bunch of irrelevant markets which includes both bitcoin/USD pairs, bitcoin/Tether pairs, bitcoin/other stable coins, and even bitcoin/some altcoins like LTC pairs!