Very unlikely for OP to profit from mining without the proper hardware though, without good  hardware best case scenario would be that OP would break even between profit and costs. I don't think OP currently can afford good mining hardware due to him/her sounding a bit desperate to make that .3 BTC.

Again, I would suggest that OP should get a job instead, rather than probably doing something like faucets or something.

Nope. You'll barely make anything and probably even end up with negative profit because of the electricity you have to pay. I suggest doing work on your pc instead. Probably writing, programming, eCommerce, SEO, all those stuff. Depending on what marketable skills you have.

Either go get a job and use your wages to buy bitcoin, or look for gigs online on some website like upwork or fiverr with whatever skills you currently have, and use the wages again to buy bitcoin. You can't make bitcoin appear out of nowhere.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to assume when you said BCC you meant bitcoincash(BCH).

Don't worry your BTC didn't magically turn into BitcoinCash. If you had bitcoins at the day of the fork, then your bitcoin balance should be the same as your bitcoincash balance. Bitcoincash is sort of a duplicate or copy of bitcoin that's why you're seeing the same balance. You pretty much have 2 separate wallets, one for BTC one for BCC/BCH.

Not because if ever btc crashes it doesn't mean altcoin's price will go up, but it can be possible if people move their bitcoins to altcoins after the fork. Not to mention most altcoin's prices usually goes up and down together with bitcoin's price. No one really knows for now. Your guess is just as good as mine.

Read the article. He didn't get in at an all time high. He got in at a reasonable price, at around $4100.

"His property has been sold to a cryptocurrency trader under reservation and fetched him 85 bitcoins which equals a whopping  €300,000 or £269,000."

€300,000 = $354,639

354,639 / 85 = $4172 per bitcoin

What he did was completely and utterly stupid. Even possibly dragging his family down and significantly risking their future with him if things went completely south. He took a huge risk and won as he was lucky; a lucky idiot, that is. Congratulations to him though, I just hope he doesn't pull off a similar idiotic move in the future.

Do I think he will be a rich man in the future? Definitely not if he continues to take these huge gambles.

Currently ICOs are definitely the #1 reason on why ETH is being used, besides using it for trading. The thing is, as long as people are willing to offer up ETH to ICOs, then I don't think ICOs are going anywhere. They're making good money even without a working product. But yea, if ICOs were to stop, ETH will definitely go lower in price, unless there's some huge ETH update that makes it very useful or something along those lines.

1. Did you hold your BTC on exchange on August 1st?
Nope. Because leaving funds on exchanges are really unsafe. Also, whether or not there's an upcoming fork or not, it's always best to leave your funds on your own wallet.

2. Are you going to hold on exchange during Bitcoin Gold fork and during SegWit2x fork?
Nope. Why? Same answer as my first answer. Also, it takes time for exchanges to give you access to your forked coins. Sometimes they don't even give you access, depending on the exchange.

Why would a dump be expected? A good number of people might sell their bitcoin to convert them back to altcoins, but I wouldn't call it a "dump". Also take into consideration that people will most likely sell their bitcoin gold asap for more bitcoin(BTC). So I think things will balance out. We might get a small dip, but it wouldn't be too significant in my opinion.

Just make sure you don't save your private keys in a text file or something. Always keep your private keys non-digital. I suggest using Exodus wallet: http://www.exodus.io

Also, take note that when using wallet apps like exodus, your wallets are still separate. The only difference is that both your ETH and BTC wallets are only in one Application.

I'm pretty sure this wouldn't make a person interested. "just by memorizing some jumbled numbers and letters". Nope.

I would prefer electronic money instead.

Too vague. People call a lot of newer technologies "the future". I wouldn't use it, as it also sounds like someones trying to sell something.

Decent. I suggest also stating to the person that bitcoin is still in it's early stages, therefore not very user friendly at all, just like how the internet was in the past, whereas everything was basically command line. Did people actually call the internet a "fad" in the past though? Sorry, millennial here.

Good point, but remember that bitcoin is easily stolen from people who are not tech-savvy and pretty much don't give a shit about security. Like people who save their private keys on like a Word document or a .txt file.

I don't think faster than 1-minute price updates wouldn't be a good idea, that's why you don't see exchanges having faster than 1 minute price updates. That would make your browser use so much resources to the point that your browser would most likely freeze because of your computer running out of available RAM, especially if you don't have a high end device.

What about.. eTHEREUM? *badum tss*

Jokes aside, just to add to what midvoc said, OP make sure that you're getting the right mining software at the right place. Don't just Google something like "fast and easy bitcoin mining program" or something along those lines as you may end up clicking a scammy Google advertisement. Also, don't expect to make much with mining especially if you don't have ASIC miners. Go mine for a while just to have a grasp on how transactions or mining in general works.

I mean, it can definitely go back down, but the drop wouldn't be too dramatic. A price dip would probably best describe it. Probably like $5600 down to something like $4800 or something along those lines. That's like $500-800 down in price, but I think if it were to go down, I'd expect it to go back to a bull run in no time, as I think were not going to see any FUD for a while.

Still hoping for 5 digits price on this December. *fingers crossed*

But what if instead, people sold the bitcoin gold to buy more bitcoin though? 

It won't go anywhere unless the miner count goes to zero (very very unlikely), or an electromagnetic pulse(EMP) happens, damaging most if not all electronics along with internet connections. I honestly don't know much about it but I think it's very unlikely.

Probably true, but that doesn't answer OP's question.

6-10+ years only? Why do you think that?

If you bought it in the first place, it's because you're probably confident in it due to it being a good project(unless you bought because some people told you to) and you probably think it would go up in the future. So what's the problem? Seriously. People in the crypto-space always expects to be overnight millionaires. This is an investment. It is going to take time.

What will happen if you die without anyone having access to your private keys? Your bitcoin will be lost forever.

Personally, I have one brother and one sister. So just so the funds would go to a family member when I die, I'd probably give the first half of my wallet seed to my brother, and the second half of my wallet seed to my sister. The only issue with this is you definitely need to trust them to not steal you bitcoin while you're still alive.

Best way to invest? Simply just buy bitcoins right now, then simply hold it and keep it very safe. Go for the long haul. If everything goes right, theoretically bitcoin should just continue to go higher and higher. Sure, there will be dips and drops, but after every drop in price the lowest price point rises as well. So yeah, but BTC, forget about it for years, then comeback and look at the gains.