First of all most of people don't know what bitcoin is, never heard the word before in their lives.
I've met IT guys who work in some pretty renowned corporation and they have no idea what bitcoin is.
The problem here is that bitcoin is decentralized and not backed by any centralized company.
If bitcoin was the creation of Microsoft, Apple or Samsung we would have global marketing campaigns so huge that everyone would know exactly what BTC is after a year.

It is pure speculation at this point, we have no clear idea what will happen, we can only consider couple possibilities:

- the current surge of BCC price is temporary - and as soon as mining difficulty catch up price will go down significantly
- BCC high price is growing trend and it will grow in a way similar to original bitcoin
- adoption of BCC will grow -> price will follow  
- everyone on a business level will disregard BCC - it will remain only pure speculative coin  - which will effectively reduce its worth

Thanks, Irfan and vDice for making this campaign happen. If possible I would like to continue for another month.

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Apparently, we are still waiting for the final decision of vDice team and Irfan will confirm soon what will be the future of this campaign.
But I gotta say with each passing day I think that chances that this campaign will be active for another month are decreasing.
I hope I am wrong on this one though

Thanks for the payment, I confirm I received it. I am waiting for the news about future of this campaign.
Hopefully, it will continue for another month

You are completely right and miners are completely right to create even more confusion regarding their altcoin.
They want the new name to be as similar to standard bitcoin ticker as possible - the more confused users who will think that BCC is legit the better for them.
It will allow Bitmain to manipulate the price with even greater ease.

I expect that the story with BCC will be the same as we already know from observing what happened to Ethereum after the split.
The main Bitcoin chain will continue to grow, thrive and become even more successful while this BCC will be forever stuck at 1% of BTC value.
But of course, before August 1 we have no idea whether we will even see BCC at all.

From what I know Bitmain will support BCC and this company alone will be enough to single handled change the name of the game.
I expect if miners really follow the idea of forking alternative chain then we will see the same scenario which happened before to Ethereum.
The main chain will take everything while side chain will be forever overshadowed and will simply exist in the background.

Ass far as I recall CEO of the Mt. Gox Mark Karpelès isn't Russia, same goes for Bitfinex team and some other less known exchanges which failed in the past.
BTC-e had a good history of delivering good service -  it was founded in July 2011 and has been running almost continuously for six years.
I wonder what will happen with all the coins they have in their wallet...

I wouldn't go so far as to say that we are facing some danger and collapse because of permanent BTC split. Stop panic!
In the best case scenario, BCC would follow Ethereum Classic footsteps, it will be mined by Bitmain and will forever be worth 1% or original BTC price.

To say the least...

This coin basically has no identity, Op just described Bitcoin with a minor twist and zero innovation needed to distinguish this project from dozens cloned coins.
A half witted announcement with nothing but couple buzzword sentences is not helping either. Either scrap this project now or upgrade it while you can.

It is not about similarities about standard monetary systems and cryptocurrency, of course, that basic principles of currency won't change drastically.
But the fact that bitcoin is being omitted and treated like 'flavour of the month' kind of thing which will won't survive in the long run is kinda sad.
I guess we still need more time to get rid of conventional thinking and uncertainty surrounding bitcoin inception.

I doubt anything like that will happen during next 20 years and even if some government will be forward thinking enough to work on blockchain tech it doesn't mean that bitcoin or any other altcoin will gain value.
Not to mention that Kazakhstan is a pretty much insignificant economy and even if they will make cryptocurrency their alternative legal payment method it won't change the big picture, not in the way Japan adoption impacted markets anyway.

Technical analysis of cryptomarket was never a good option to estimate trends - we can agree that for the most part, technical indicators are not working correctly.
Indicators are lagging, create a noise and are simply elaborate method of guessing. Bitcoin might reach the moon and go back and technical indicators won't have time to react accordingly.
Bitcoin scaling upgrade is something unique and new, we can't compare the current market situation to anything that happened before just because charts look similar.

Crypto Market is insignificant not without reason - average Joe either never heard about Bitcoin or it is sceptical about it.
Mainly because he is feed with mainstream news about 'Bitcoin being tool for terrorists" and other bullshit.
Some things cannot be accelerated and take time to grow - I would rather see stable growth based on increased adoption rate than speculative bubble like we had in 2013.

I never thought about this option, but I think that ETH gambling is a viable solution for everyone who still wants to gamble during bitcoin forking process.
The only downside is a fact that price of BTC after the fork skyrocket so fast and so sudden that it will be hard to rebuy all converted coins back.

This is the best advice for every bitcoin enthusiasts, position trading is the key form of earning money with BTC.
Trading is a rough way to make a living, only a few percent of traders can constantly profit from it.
If you are not sure that you can handle it, then holding the coins is much better and safer option.

Good news which bolsters people's confidence in the reliability of cryptocurrency exchanges.
Let's just hope that Bitrex will keep their words and there won't be any problems with bitcoin after potential split.
Bitrex is now sealed shut so you cannot withdraw your bitcoins, let's just hope they will honour this statement to the end.

You shouldn't keep money/cryptocurrency in exchange's wallets anyway.
Especially not during events like scaling upgrade, exchanges have no experience in handling such cases.
As for the potential price crash - even if everything will go fine according to the plan and scaling will be a pure success, we cannot guarantee that people will still panic anyway.

We don't have problem with overpopulation at all, there is a problem with the correct distribution of population instead.
There are massive cities and ultra clustered areas with millions of people packed tightly and meanwhile, rural areas and small cities are empty.
The correct way to battle this problem is not to force people to limit birth rate but rather encourage them to migrate to less populated areas.