This kind of comment makes me think that maybe Bitcoin Cash/big blockers are right.
Bitcoin is almost unusable for a large percentage of the world now as the fees are so incredibly high. I wouldn't use a credit card with fees as high as bitcoin.

But we don't need to solve that problem, because Segwit slightly increases the number of transactions that can be processed?
When the average fee is about 10 satoshis per byte, the problem is solved. The median transaction with the recommended fee costs about $3.50 now, I'd like to see that at about 10c.

If bitcoin worked as bitcoin should work, then it would be possible and great.
Bitcoin could be integrated into Uber or other Taxi apps, just scan the code and you are done, great!

Except that Bitcoin is now pretty much useless as a currency. Like someone mentioned, the fees are far too high. I wouldn't pay a $20 taxi with $26 everytime!  The transaction times are less important, as soon as it is broadcast they could accept it as a zero confirmations transaction, but the fees kill Bitcoin as a currency.

Segwit is active now and it has made little difference. IF the block size doubles, that should help in the short term at least.  Basically the number of transactions that can be contained in Bitcoin blocks isn't enough to allow for micro transactions to be economically feasible.  It's a shame as that was the main hope of Bitcoiners in the past, now it seems to be speculation.

Is $4000 the perfect time to buy, no it is 100% not the perfect time to buy.
For about 99.9% of Bitcoin's history, the price has been below $4000, anytime in this 99.9% would have been a better time to buy.

In fact looking at it, this is just about the worst time ever to buy. It doesn't make it a bad time to buy, as the price might rise further, but it is very very far from the perfect time to buy.

Some time in 2009 was the best time to buy.

People can and do have more than 1 phone number. He wants everyone to start with 1 coin, so they can only claim 1 wallet.

How about approaching it from the other direction. It isn't a realistic proposal but it could/should work.
Everyone can collect their coin/wallet, and when they do (they would have to physically collect something) you could mark them or fingerprint them. By mark them I mean a small tattoo or alike.

Then whenever someone collects their wallet, if they are marked, or have already given their fingerprint, they cannot collect another wallet.
People will cheat the system, no matter what you do. Removed tattoos or silicon finger prints or so.  People will also use the old system to corrupt the new, i.e. the poor will sell thir new coin to the rich, meaning that the rich will dominate this new coin too, making distribution unfair.

He would have to send his Bitcoin to an exchange - so pay the transaction fee - to be able to buy an alt.
It isn't a solution, unless he finds someone who is willing to swap private keys, which I wouldn't recommend as they might have copies anyway.

Just pay 50 sats now, that will cost you $40-50 for the transaction. It sucks but now is a very good time to do it.

They aren't estimates, the website shows how many unconfirmed transactions there are and what fee they have paid.
You can see then what the optimum fee to pay is, so that your transaction will be confirmed in the near future, or at some point.

As of now, you could use 100 satoshis per byte and you will get confirmed quite quickly, that is still $100 for you, but is better than $300.
To be honest, 50 sats per byte would also be confirmed within a few hours.

wenn man mehrmals weniger als 12,500€ einzahlst, muss man das auch melden?
Ich nutze Bitcoin.de, könnte ich z.B. 5x1 Bitcoin dort vekaufen, circa 15,000€ dafür bekommen, wäre das meldepflichtig?
Ich überlege es mir, ob ich bald ein paar Bitcoins verkaufe. Obwohl ich die Bitcoins im 2014 gekauft habe, mache ich mir Sorge, dass das FA oder sonst jemand sich melden wird, wenn ich die Bitcoins verkaufe.

(entschuldige mein Deutsch, bin Englisch)

Bitcoins are not Tulips, this much is true. You can't grow more and the hype is also more subdued than the tulip mania.

The current price increase is somewhat mania like. People only see that the price can go up, I guess because most posters here now have only ever seen the price go up.  They don't remember the year long fall after the last peak/bubble.

I read a few other forums, and the general consensus is that Bitcoin is in a huge bubble now. It has quadrupled in value in the last 7 months or so, this is a huge increase without too many major increases in usage, or improvements to Bitcoin in this time.  I think some of the bubble talk stems from jealousy, but it is always worthwhile to take a step back, look at the charts and realise that the price might not always continue to rise.

You never know that it is a bubble, until it pops. I think that stocks and bonds are in a bubble, but that is a government supported bubble. I'll let you know if Bitcoin is in a bubble in 6 months time!

If I knew when the price was going to fall or rise, then I would happily trade like that!

I live in Germany and have held my bitcoin for longer than 1 year, meaning that profits are now tax free.
If I sell and rebuy, I would have to wait 1 year before being able to sell tax free again.  I want to stay away from the tax man as much as possible!

I am with you here and do own some precious metals. I have collected silver slowly over the last few years (starting at $17, so no big losses), mainly bullion, but some junk silver too.
I always thought it would be great to own some gold, and I have a few ounces now, which I am happy about.

I wouldn't be scared holding lots of PMs, except for possibly missing out if Bitcoin does go to $10k or even more.

I bought my bitcoin a few years ago now. I was and am a believer, but the massive price increase has me worried that I am now overly invested in bitcoin.

It looks like I have 75% of my money in Bitcoin. Obviously it wasn't always like that, and it with the price rising so much recently, I find myself with a fair amount of money available for the first time in my life!
I know that Bitcointalk probably isn't the best place to ask this, but would you recommend diversifying and if so, in to what?

I was very happy when the price was $1000, but now it feels like I have enough that I could buy a flat or something. It used to be a speculative thing for me, I had invested what I could afford to lose, but now the price has risen so much that it could be easy come easy go, and the price falls back down to where it was last year.

You bought at a very high level, there might be profit still there for you, but there might not be too.
You can't complain, if you jump on board after a 50% rise in a month,  and 250% in the last 6 months, it is possible that the price won't continue to rise.

We aren't even at that point yet anyway. It might go up, down or sideways from here, my point is, you can't complain!

Bitcoin cash seems to have fallen into a great position for a 'new' coin.
It got onto lots of big exchanges, it was well distributed and it was accepted in more places than most other alts.

It seems almost weird how low the price is, and how little it is being traded..

Yeah I sent 0.1BTC yesterday, I selected priority in Blockchain.info si it was 200sats per byte.
Apparently lots of small transactions had to be combined, so it was bigger than normal.

It cost $9! If Paypal tried to take $9 for a $390 transaction without insuring it, they wouldn't be a business for very long!

Taking private property and threatening to sell them online unless they pay $250k isn't a crime?

Sounds like there could be theft, copyright infringement and blackmail to me.  That it will save HBO millions by only having to pay $250k changes nothing. I guess that if they do pay, the will also try to press charges.

I'd guess that they actually want to receive the funds from the people they are blackmailing/extorting.
If someone says - pay me $1000, then you might do it, if they say pay me 1000 fluurks, you wouldn't have a clue what they are talking about.

People know about Bitcoin, maybe only a little bit, but they have heard of it. They could buy it if they needed to. Basically no one has heard of Monero, people would'nt know how to buy it, they would probably be more inclined to bin the computer, than pay.

I ordered from them yesterday morning, everything arrived this morning!
It was very well packed, looks good and professional and comes with certificates etc.

I will be ordering from them (Amsterdam Gold) again.

You asked the BitcoinCash community if they were optimistic about BitcoinCash, and you were surprised to find that they are?
Don't go to the Altcoin section on BCT, you will be broke within a few minutes!

Most people are bullish about what they own, that is why they own it. They are often full of sh!t too, as soon as they sell, suddenly they don't care anymore and often start trashing their old investment.

You have to form your own opinion. I thought that 0.2btc would be far too high for BCH, and that 0.05btc would be too low. I got out at 0.14, but might buy back in if the price falls back to 0.05.

With some of the airdrop alts offering freebies to Bitcoin holders, I was wondering if there is a way to sign/verify my bitcoin address, if I have a 2FA Multisig address?
The addresses I am talking about start with a 3, and so far when I have tried, they don't spit out a code when I try to sign a message.

I know the easy answer is that I could move my coins out of the multisig wallet, then sign from the new address, but is that the only way?

I don't know that site, but it has a physical location, which is a plus.
It isn't called Bitcoin Gold or alike, also a bonus.  They have google reviews and lots of trust pilot reviews.

It says on their website that they are listed on the Dutch stock exchange.  I will have a look around to verify that the reviews really belong to the site, and that what they say is true, but it looks to me like a real precious metal dealer, who also accept Bitcoin!

The prices are much better than the Bitcoin PM dealres too.