Taken from one of luke's reddit post.

"If and only if BIP148 has minority hashrate support, there will be a chain split. Whether your node supports BIP148 or not, there is a risk that your economic counterparties (ie, people you want to pay and people you want to pay you) will be on the other side of the split. So long as nobody double-spends, this should be mostly okay for 100 blocks (about 16 hours); the only difference will be that transactions might confirm at different times. But if 100 blocks pass and miners begin spending their newly mined bitcoins (different on each side of the split), the chains' balances will begin to diverge, and transactions will become tied to one side or the other. There will be two "bitcoins"."

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6bxpsj/bip148_and_the_risks_it_entails_for_you_whether/

Well, that's the Tor link so it's supposed to be like that. If you want a easy url to access in the clearnet with your chrome you can use chipmixer.com

What do you mean? If the project is promising, well organized and made up of a good team then people will invest. And of course you also need to invest in marketing not only to show how serious the project is but also to attract investors.

What can not be expected is that people will invest on unnecessary projects or full of failures just because they have a whitepaper.

People probably only make investments to profit. Make this clear and explain why you project can grow.

$2950.64 per coin? Too damn cheap for my taste.  
Check out the price in one of the biggest exchanges in Brazil:

BitcoinToYou: $3074.75

And this is considering that the cryptocurrency public in Brazil is quite limited and that the chance of finding someone who messes with Bitcoin on the street is quite low. But the demand of Bitcoins here is always higher than the amount for sale, which makes the price rise almost 20% in comparison with other international exchanges. And it's always been that way.

But how would you be sure they don't save your private key/seed before sending you this kind of product?
I think you should never use a wallet which key wasn't generated by you alone. It's the same as using a online vanity address generator.

You can never be sure about the safety of you coins.

IMO that's why a hardware wallet like Trezor and Ledger are still the best options to store BTC in a long-term, since you have exclusive access to your keys.

Edit: I see that with CryptoSteel you are the one inserting all the wallet info with your own hands. So this is another valid option to keep your Bitcoins safe.

Does that mean Big Blocks are the right solution for the scalability problem? Because everything I see on /r/bitcoin is about how Segwit is the only solution and how Jihan and BU supporters are the bad guys.

On the other side, /r/btc is exactly the oposite. They criticize the Core team and say UASF will split and destroy Bitcoin.

Care to explain to me which side is the right one and why?

That actually looks awesome. Now that I'm actually back in the Bitcoin community, I am looking forward to buy a hardware wallet and this project has everything I ever wanted for an wallet. (Even the USB design)

Safe guarding my bitcoins + OTP? You can count on me for the crowdfunding!

Could you give us a price estimate on how much this is going to cost in an initial phase and when is the crowdfunding happening?

Bookmarking this thread. And please take the project forward!

Just buy while you can. If you are a true bitcoiner and long time hodler, you won't regret when you see your balance.
Everytime you have doubt about buying or not, remember we are early birds and every investment will turn to profit.

And of course thats my opinion 
If you care that much and want to try profiting as much as you can, Bitcoin correction is settling down, so yes anyway.

I don't think there is any website tracking the number of specifics nodes at real time on a scale of minutes.

Maybe this site is the closest you can get.
http://uasf.saltylemon.org

I do not think there would ever be a plan to recover people's lost Bitcoins for some simple reasons:

1 - It is impossible to confirm someone's ownership over any Bitcoin wallet without them having access to private key.
2 - This would put at stake the trust of Bitcoin as a decentralized payment method and free from the control of individuals. If someone can take control of certain Bitcoins without actually owning them, what keeps them from doing the same with mine?
3 - A smaller number of Bitcoins in circulation may be good for the ecosystem, by reducing the amount of coins, we reduce the inflation.

This same type of discussion is being made in the post "Coins of Satoshi" if you wanna check out. Link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1924762.0

No. Without the private key all the coins from that wallet are inaccessible. That means they are gone, and there is no automatic method of recycling.
The only way possible to recover those Bitcoins without the private key would be doing a hard fork in the blockchain.

I found some reddit posts that can help you understand UASF risks and what can happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6drwrv/if_exchanges_dont_support_uasf_can_it_still/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6bxpsj/bip148_and_the_risks_it_entails_for_you_whether/

"Addressing the OP, the important thing to realize is that UASF is not subject to a majority or consensus of nodes. It is happening 100% for sure on 1 August: a new chain tip will split off a chain that can only be built with SegWit signalling blocks (onus on miners).

Users/businesses/miners will have to decide on what chain they're on before they can transact. Transacting on the wrong chain will see those transactions lost.

Trace Mayer gives the example of Alice buying Bob's condo. If Alice and Bob transact on the chain that gets discarded then Alice has the condo and gets her bitcoin back. Bob has neither.

That's an extreme and easily reversible example, but think about the current daily transaction volume and fees worth $1mil+ going to miners on a daily basis. Businesses and miners will have to commit decisively or lose big.

The UASF is a watershed event and it is coming."

(all credit goes to original posters)

I would not do anything that could damage the bitcoin ecosystem and selling would be dangerous if this technology fell into the wrong hands. So I might just use it to mine Bitcoin and other altcoins and get rich with it. And more important: get Segwit activated.

But now the biggest problem would be the confidence that Bitcoin could lose if someone no one knows held most of the mining power from nowhere, having the chance to control the future of the currency. Thus making Bitcoin "less decentralized".

That's correct. Rarely a public pump group works in the long-term. Mainly because the manager of the group which usually is the guy who starts the pumps, probably has already bought amounts of the selected currency and will always try to profit from the new users and beginners mistakes.

I can speak of this from my own experience because I was already part of a group like this, and it never worked well.

The best way to organize an artificial pump is with a private group of whales that own a large amount of BTC, and are willing to allow the whole group to profit, controlling their greed to avoid disasters.

You can boost your confirmation time with this free service: https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
Or if you are willing to pay, you can get a tx confirmated in 1~4 hours with this one: https://pushtx.btc.com/

Otherwise, you will need to wait even if you fees are enought. That's what bitcoin is turning into nowadays.

Who would have imagined that Bitcoin would become so expensive? We need this fixed asap.

Rofl. Not just 61 randoms. This poll was targeted at experts and personalities from the Blockchain community. On the 21.co page itself, you can see some of the people who are part of the group where the poll was made. Do some work first before trying to spam for some posts count. https://21.co/blockchain/

Adam Back (CEO of Blockstream), Brian Armstrong (CEO of Coinbase), Nejc Kodric (CEO of Bitstamp), and others. Just some random folks right?

Btw, BillyBobZorton is right. Segwit is indeed the only right choice.

Did you backup your seed while creating your wallet? If so, you can easily recover your wallet with them.

Can you explain what is this "wallet key numbers/letters" you are talking about? Do you mean the private key?

It's quite simple.

This is how your trust is shown
Trust: 1: -0 / +12(3)

Purple: user's trust score calculated based on how consistently they've received positive feedback.
Orange: number of reported scams
Blue: increases with the number of positive reports

Everyone registered in the forum has a list that can be filled by you, where you define who is trustworthy for you. However, everyone registered in the forum already starts with a predefined list of trusted users, called Default Trust (DT). Only theymos can add people in the Default Trust, so they can be considered the most trustworthy people in the community.

The system works like the OTC WoT. Because you automatically trust the people in Default Trust, all members trusted by them will also be trusted by you. This is why you see many users with the green trust, simply because they have received positive feedback from a reliable user present in the DT list.

The same way works for the people you manually puts on your list. If you add me on your trust list, everyone I set as trustworthy will also be considered trustworthy for you.

This is actually a smart way to mix your btc. I think this is the first mixer using any method like this, and with 0% fees. I have only one question that I would like you to confirm: As I have seen in the FAQ, is 0.001 BTC the minimum deposit amount?

I wish you good luck in the future. I'm sure I'll be giving preference to ChipMixer as my favorite mixer.

Just like you said, I think a paper wallet could be safer since there is no chance of hardware failure. Not that this is a major issue since most hardware wallets are made having long-term durability in mind. Just store your paper wallet in multiple banks and you will probably be okay. Also, if there is a hard fork and you are storing your btc in a paper wallet, the way your coins are affected depends on the wallet you use to claim your btc.