It looks like you never used ad blocking or faucets

I use AdBlock and I can tell you that most faucets, if AdBlock is ON, just show an info that I should not block their ads if I want something for free.
Which is OK and I do that.

You should do the same in the place (website) you show the ads that get the revenue for this.

Let's not forget about the mother of all spam:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

The only disadvantages I can see are:

1. It's not as anonymous / private as some would think.
2. It is evolving too slow now (this is also somehow good - for acceptance for example, but on long term it's bad imho).
3. Since my mother still has troubles using a dumbphone (not mentioning smartphones or computers), she cannot use Bitcoin (she don't even understand what bitcoin is). Meaning that bitcoin still has a huge disadvantage in the "fight" with fiat.

I use Comodo free for some 5 years already, I think.
For the phone I had Bitdefender paid version (some 1 year key I've got for free) and it expired, now I can't make my mind between CM and Comodo.

I am getting disappointed of ESET. It used to be great. But now at work we switched from NOD32 to Endpoint Antivirus (the solution for businesses) and it sux bigtime. It slows down the computer VISIBLY.

No, I don't.
I would have 1BTC, maybe more, if I wouldn't have spent it on a few alts.
I could sell and get the 1BTC, but I prefer to just gather slowly more satoshi until I'll get to 1BTC too.

Since the world has plenty of governments, the internet cannot actually be "shut down".
Since the blockchain is copied and synced between quite a lot of computers (milions?) we can safely tell that nobody controls bitcoin.

There are lot of interesting features one coin or another adds from time to time.

Bitcoin acts like a dinosaur already - very well established, but very hard to change. The last attacks were piece of cake compared to what will come from time to time. And they were handled under (my) expectations.
One thing the the attacks have also shown was that (the) miners don't care much of the network and some payments were simply not processed because of "bad luck" (laziness, optimizations, ..) actually because all that counted was the block reward, not the "pennies" from the tx fees. My conclusion is that we have to watch closely the halving as I expect quite a lot of miners to give up.

And when the network (which currently is the strongest without doubt) will weaken too much, another coin can "step up".

But Bitcoin will not die easily, so it won't be replaced, a much better expectation would be for another coin(s) to "step up" and become real alternative(s) for Bitcoin, but which will just live on in the same time / together with Bitcoin.

One is https://bitcoinpaperwallet.com/bitcoinpaperwallet/generate-wallet.html and in the bottom right it has a "Secure Download (GitHub ZIP file)" for local use.
Another is https://walletgenerator.net/ with "Download (GitHub Repository)" at page bottom.

I suggest that after download (and unpack to an USB stick) you should AT LEAST:
- verify thoroughly your system for malware, viruses and keyloggers
- unplug internet
- after generating and printing the wallet reboot your computer THEN plug back the internet cable

Even safer would be a virtual box with Linux where you generate the paper wallet.

Yes, there are web pages which you can should download for offline use and which can generate basically one or more pairs of public keys (addresses) and private keys.
You print the private key on a paper (yeah, that obsolete thing used for reading in the past) and put it into your safe box.

Exactly. Welcome to the coin of the future! 

At least 75% of those "german products" are manufactured all over the world. In Germany there's only the upper management and maybe there are registered some trademarks.
There's a global economy since "a few years" ago.

And yeah, luckily I know how the Greek letters look like and I understood what's this about.

The software can have bugs (it is the case for hardware wallets?).
The data on computers can be stolen via internet / key loggers. Also computers fail sooner or later and you don't know who will have access to your HDD.
Cloud storage .. that's laughable security wise.
I really can't think of safer way than paper wallets. They are cheap, and if you are relatively careful you are super safe.

Obviously spreading wealth over multiple paper wallets is the way to go:
* people will not know how much you own
* you can redeem only parts of your money if you want to

Yeah "you have no every day access to your paper wallets". I know, but do you keep 5k euro cash in your wallet when you go out?

Payment received, all good as always, thank you.

They can make an altcoin and voila, they'll have a blockchain.
But there's no stronger blockchain than Bitcoin's. And if that's advertised enough, organizations will come for the blockchain and will have to use bitcoin for that.

Not really, as the development seems to be gotten slower.
However, it's too early to matter much.

In 2-3 years it should start the takeoff though. At least I hope so.


You are too optimistic!

These are valid points. I am from Romania so I grew up with the "knowledge" to always watch my pockets but, yeah, since everybody tell the tourists to go with cash (I don't understand why, because most places seem to go well with credit cards, I know from somebody who came back yesterday from Greece) it's just a call for pickpockets from all over the world.


More important is that the taverns should (also) accept bitcoin!

The 16th message on this thread already had a valid magnet link.
But yeah, if some cannot download a bittorrent client and use the clipboard, they better pay the 6$.

At some point all the bitcoins will be mined and from that point the miners will earn their money only from the transaction fees. But mining will not stop.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Supply

... Residents from the following countries may order cards, but may not raise card limits to level 2: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola ...
https://bit-x.com/guide/bitx-cards
So it works in Algeria, but only for limited amounts.


About paypal, this is more tricky and I don't know. But I would ask in 3 places:
their thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1006153.20,
the contact at the end of https://bit-x.com/ page and
Marco https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=147773

I'm sure that at least one of the 3 places will get you an answer.

It's also a lot, given the potential of being a scam / empty or fake db.
As far as I've read you will never know who sold that to you.