i am not, and i don't think if anyone is really doing it is going to come out and give you numbers, publicly!

and you shouldn't even ask these questions about specific "numbers" either in my experience.

if you want to really start living full time on cryptocurrencies, aka by trading them, then i suggest starting small and starting now. start trading, investing or however else you already know to earn money. invest  a small amount of money. a couple of hundreds should suffice.
then after a couple of months (6 for example) come back and reevaluate your performance in the past months. if you earned enough profit (%) to be satisfied then go bigger an go full time.

otherwise just have it as a secondary option, you'll sleep better at nights. trust me.

it is a scam

first and most important reason is that bitcoin gold is not even ready yet. the specification that a wallet needs to use to sign a transaction is not yet set (i am talking about replay protection and the sighash they should use like bitcoin cash). so a wallet can not release something already but you can find a .exe on their website!

secondly, it is closed source! it has no source code, no github repository, nothing! it is just a binary on a random website that anyone can create as cheap as possible. and it is poorly designed which means the scammer wanted to not even waste time!

if you download this it will most probably broadcast your private keys easily to the scammer or maybe even spends your bitcoin and bitcoin gold both by sending all you have to the scammer's wallet.

it is scary to know that whales like this are buying bitcoin and buying a lot of it. and it is even scarier to know that they know spreading FUD can help them buy cheaper coins and make more money out of the bitcoin market by manipulating it like this!

i wish we could find a way to flush these whales out or at least decrease their power.

it won't be faster because it uses the same block time.
it won't be better because it really didn't add anything or change anything meaningful.
it is cheaper as all the rest of the altcoins are cheaper

according to charts bitcoin cash went up to 0.224BTC or 914$ by that time. and that was the second pump
bitcoin gold went up to 0.2BTC or nearly 1100$ so BTG has already surpassed BCH once, and this was the initial rise not the pump itself!

why are you talking about 2010?
i have started a long time after that and i am still in a big profit that satisfies me greatly.

but please make sure to remember that it is not just about profit and making more fiat out of bitcoin. try to become more familiar with bitcoin and see what it is. use it as a currency some time even if you buy something worth $5 and see how it works. you will see that it is much more valuable than just some XX dollars.

i try no to decide too fast about these things. today we saw bitcoin dip unexpectedly and these "usual suspects" recovered a little.

but i will keep my eyes open and watch the prices and volumes to see which one is showing more "potential".
i am also known to be a hardcore LTC hodler too and if bitcoin drops LTC usually goes up against it

i am going to risk it with 0.5BTC because i already have it there LOL

there are some more wallets and exchanges listed on their website (btcgpu.org). i saw it myself today.

people mostly trade altcoins with bitcoin and since bitcoin is not banned and has no problem with deposit and withdrawal since it is decentralized unlike fiat, people can continue doing that.

also as far as i know China never banned trading or all the exchanges. you can still use localbitcoins,... to buy p2p with your fiat. the rate should not be that high since the BTC/CNY tanked
1 BTC = 37580 CNY = 5676 USD (according to Huobi)

no, we all don't know that because SegWit2x is scheduled for November not October. and it falls in mid November.
the Oct. 25 is is called bitcoin gold.

do because nobody is giving you anything for holding $$$, so if you hold $1000 in your wallet you still have $1000 in your wallet.

however if you hold bitcoin in your bitcoin wallet by the time of fork you will receive the same amount in bitcoin gold!

if by blockchain you mean the website called blockchain.info which happens to offer a wallet to, then they have not yet announced anything to my knowledge so they may not "support" it, but you still can claim your BTG since you own the private keys there.

so many newbie account are saying ethereum to this repeated question
let me check, or right ETH price has been falling pretty hard again! currently at 0.048 which is 70% lower than what it was at the ATH (0.155) not 4 months ago!

the dollar value is no better either! from $400.38 down to $295.64

so yeah, awesome investment...

there is no need to completely cease altcoin trading just because they are getting dumped. there is also profit to made in dumped altcoins like by shorting.
besides there are others which rise. see Vertcoin for example, it was pumped!

now you are speaking my language

this is a good strategy and i will be doing this too. but with my trading funds not with my stash. never with my stash actually.

i will be dumping some BTG at least but i have some long term prediction about this which makes me want to hold some too.
i have not decided how much and what i will do yet though.
you can read my thoughts here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2254572.0

a little risky but a good option if you can pick up those which have a good chance of big rise.

the code was not exactly finished last i checked! there is only their github repository which you can clone and build yourself. find the link on btcgpu.org there may be wallets by 24-25th.

there is also exchanges that "may" credit 1:1 BTG for your BTC. yobit already said they will but it is yobit, AKA a shitty exchange.

there will surely be a correction, there is no doubt about it. and a correction is a couple of hundred bucks drop.
then since people expect the drop it may get bigger. some also may be in it only for BTG so they may go out after the fork so the dip may go deeper.

the 2x stuff is another story though. the drop may be tiny or may be huge. we shall wait and see.

not everyone but if enough people do, there will be a small dip and that is enough to follow this strategy.

my thoughts exactly

bitcoin has given me 3966.66% profit in 2-3 years just by holding it.

altcoin on the other hand go down in 2-3 years but they are getting pumped (1000%-5000%) in a couple of months for example if my memory serves, ripple was pumped about 6700% in 3 months and it is all down-hill from there and will continue getting dumped the rest of the year too.

but that is just my observation, you can promote, invest, dump,... anything you like.

you "promoting" or not, doesn't change anything about bitcoin.
the people who are buying bitcoin now and have been doing it for 8 years are not doing it because you or others like you promoted it.

then do that.
it is always best to invest what you think is better not what others think is better.

if people already knew or had a way of finding out which coin is going up 1000x at the present time then that coin would have already gone up 1000x because all those who knew would have bough it

in any case, look for coins that will go up 1000x in in 2 months not 2 years. you will have a better luck.

that is a cool idea, and as a BitcoinHolder i am all for these kinds of long term stuff.

and i don't want to disappoint you or anything but what you are storing is already available online
for example you can visit any exchange that gives you historic data and use that to draw a line chart or even like poloniex get the OHLC data and draw an OHLC chart.
example for XMR from their API doc:
https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnChartData&currencyPair=BTC_XMR&start=1405699200&end=9999999999&period=14400

there is also bitcoinity where you can get market cap or price and other stuff in CSV format (only for bitcoin though).

you are being too emotional in my opinion
bitcoin cash is not bitcoin simply because the majority did NOT want it to be bitcoin. if majority wanted it to be bitcoin it would have been bitcoin.

that is how bitcoin works and must always work. based on consensus of the majority. this is all the miners and users and businesses. generally anyone involved!

saying it was "not founded by Satoshi Nakamoto" is a silly reason in my opinion. the bitcoin we are using today is not what was created in 2009. it has evolved ever since. always based on the same consensus i talked about.

all i can say is that some people LOVE to call bitcoin a bubble. it really doesn't matter what the price is, why it is there, how low or high it is,... they just close their eyes and call bitcoin a "bubble".

i don't really remember this but i wouldn't be surprised to find out that some of the same people were saying bitcoin is a bubble back when price went down to $150 back in 2014!

the funny thing is that real economists say you can not call something a bubble until it bursts and price comes down.

from early days people have been forking bitcoin and others have been saying the same as you just said. and bitcoin never even felt their presence!

you can already see from the bitcoin price that last time when bitcoin cash was a thing, price had a hard time rising. but this time despite bitcoin gold price is rising so much faster! it shows people are caring less and less each time someone repeats the mistake of the pasts.

nothing.

because most altcoins do not have long term potential. the long term potential is not just more people wanting to invest in that altcoin. but instead there should be a reason why more people want to invest in it.

so far altcoins are just tokens and every day a new token comes with the potential of taking the market out of the hands old ones. and investors love new coins better because a coin that is not yet over-bought, over-pumped, and has a low price has a lot more potential of rising than something that is already on top.

of course it is not! bitcoin is something much better than gold!

while gold is just an element which happens to have value, bitcoin is a digital currency which is also decentralized and it has been a revolution since it has already changed the way currency system works.

before bitcoin nobody could even think of a decentralized money that no government controls! now we have bitcoin and thanks to it another thousands of other altcoins.

"division", "split",... these aren't really happening though!
go check out what has changed about bitcoin so far! exactly nothing. bitcoin is still one thing and majority knows one thing as bitcoin. all the rest has been forgotten and became a page in the history.
these forks are not "splitting" bitcoin, they are simply creating an altcoin. and this has been happening for a long time. everyone wants to have the name "bitcoin" in their crap coin.

bitcoin is not a physical machine to age as it works and need "maintaining"! it can continue to work as it is for may years without any issues. all the things you see are "additions" and although they have helped bitcoin's future but none of them were necessary for its survival.

besides, did you think there are only a handful of programmers in the world?

oh, and by the way stop centralizing bitcoin