not all exchanges. and some may not even credit your airdrop tokens for months. i believe Coinbase said they will give bitcoin cash to the users in 2018 but i never followed the news to see if their plan has changed or not but i don't think so.

besides everyone knows keeping coins on exchanges is very risky. they can get hacked or become scam and run away at any moment. in this case there is an additional risk of them messing up and not credit your tokens.

i always love these reports that BitPay releases every now and then. i have seen the previous ones for the previous years too, they had a nice volume chart to them which is missing this time.
but i like it because this is not showing some random transactions on blockchain which we don't know what they are, it is not the trading volume which only shows how many speculators we have, it is not gambling volume,.....

it is the best volume we can hope for: the merchants volume.
this shows that despite all the negativity and all those certain people calling bitcoin "only store of value" the market disagrees and uses bitcoin as a currency more and more every day.

it can potentially be very profitable but at the same time it can potentially be very devastating. it will all come down to the bot and the choices you make with the bot and how the bot executes them.
for example when it comes to "automated trading" i always see these bots use Ping Pong or something like that. and in that strategy you can earn some good profit if you choose the market correctly and your timing is perfect. but if you make mistakes you will lose money and there is no way of recovering it.

go to pages 20 or so of the speculation board and try to find the time when bitcoin price reached $1000+ this year. you will surely see the same topics, same pictures, same people seeing the "similarity" in price of that time and price of 2013.
i wouldn't be surprised if you were one of them too.

i am not sure hoe Jaxx works but transaction fees are not set based on what wallet program you use. they are set based on the bitcoin network and factors related to that such as how full the blocks are and how many other transactions are in the mempool paying what fee.
of course the wallet may give bad suggestions too.

i have used bitcoin core and electrum so far and both of them give good fee estimation which may not be perfect but it is better than others.

yes, you can check the previous blocks and compare them with the blocks which were being mined in 2-3 months prior to SegWit activation

Spam attack against the network stopped. the reason is probably because the fork(s) happened and the spammers wanted these forks.

only for a short period of time. and that is not because of the forks per se, but it is because the market is hungry for chaos. everyone seems to love  FUDing so they can buy cheaper coins before the inevitable recovery happens. and so far it has worked for them so they will continue doing so.

but good news is that these types of fork which aren't doing anything and have no support, will just disappear in time as a shameful act by the people who supported them.

i would like to believe that it is quite the opposite.
which means the bitcoin price started rising and showing all kinds of potential again so the news type changed with it. if you look at the dates and check them with charts this theory of mine seems pretty good.
first, price started recovering, then it broke the $4000 resistance and went above it, then the news came. now everywhere you look all the "bitcoin is fraud" news has disappeared and "bitcoin to 10K" type news replaced it.

quite the opposite
the "Crackdown" in china actually cause a huge increase in volume because prices fell and that means a lot of action in the market from traders selling, shorting, buying the dips,.... and that happened for every single coin that dropped in price, their volume went up.

there are 2,100,000,000,000,000 units available in bitcoin and ~1,660,000,000,000,000 have already been mined. it is possible that after many years a large total number of coins will be lost but there is a very good chance that the amount won't be that big to cause any issues. and certainly bitcoin won't cease to exist because of something like that.

worst case scenario is that a very large amount is lost to a point that scarcity because a serious issue, although highly unlikely but there are solutions for it. such as breaking bitcoin to a smaller unit. in other words truing 1 satoshi to have 1 decimal point (1.0)

the same thing happens as when you have a nasty divorce and a fat pocket with a lot of money in it. if the ex finds out about it and can prove it, they take a part of it (of course depending on what country you live in and how the laws are there) and if they can't find out about it or prove it they can take nothing.

there was nothing surprising about that fork actually!
the fork itself was planed ahead and we finally got rid of the attackers, even if for a short time. and the price went up because we got rid of them and also additionally because that fork was at the same time with activation of SegWit or have you forgotten that

we all own bitcoin as our primary thing and then own a lot of shitcoins because we see chances in them to make more bitcoin out their pumps.

it may suck for you but it is fair. it sucks for you because when others were seeing the potential back in the days of cheap coins or easy mining days, you were either listening to the FUD calling bitcoin Ponzi,... or were ignorant. and now you are blaming others for believing and using their heads sooner than you.

majority of the transactions that i have made so far, have been with 0 fee. they all confirmed in less than a day.
the rest of my transactions had never have any more than 5000 satoshi as fee. and they have always been confirmed fast.

BCH is currently like an unused altcoin. they are also fast with empty blocks. imagine a highway. that highway has 3 lanes. bitcoin's highway has 300,000 cars passing through it every day. BCH highway has 24 lanes but every day only 50 cars pass through it. this is the "way" that you see and think it is better.

no it is not.

and what is your point?

when you broadcast a tranasction it takes approximately 5 seconds to propagate through the decentralized, spread-across-the-world node network.
as for confirmation/block times, as i said a lot of times, everything comes at a cost. this so far is the best we can hope for. anything more will cause a lot more issues than it can solve.

high fees is something that those who want to pump BCH keep repeating or those newbies who got involved with bitcoin a couple of days.
for 8+ years fees were as low as it gets. in this 8+ years only a couple of months fees went up and stayed up and that was because of spam attack (something that all blockchains are susceptible to). so you take 3% of the lifetime of bitcoin and call it "high fees".

hold on to your altcoins as much as you like, just don't get caught up into their lies. make sure to dump when they get pumped or be left holding bags.

when in doubt, sell. there are many others who will willingly and happily take bitcoin out of your hands.

so it takes a price rise for you to realize this and accept it! huh.

bitcoin was strong even when the price was going down, it was strong when they were spreading FUD, it was even stronger when they called it "Fraud" and "Dead". some people just never accepted it back then because all they cared about was the short term price movement.

it is a long wall of text you made on steemit which is mostly repetition of the obvious. i saw at least 3 times you repeated the thing about private keys and if you don't hold it....

as secure bitcoin wallet you introduce "samouraiwallet" which i have never even heard of before you wall of text!

as the hashes, you said check the MD5,... and with an online wallet. first it is not wise to use a website for these things, second checking hashes is not enough. you must verify the signature of the downloaded file versus the public key of the developer signing the binaries.

i didn't really go through it all, just quick scroll though. an i assure you nobody will read these types of "walls of text" just to learn something that can be found and learned much easier through better sources.

it is impossible to give any real opinion about what miners will support at this point. the 94.4% is as meaningless as the 30% support for SegWit versus 40% support for BU in beginning of this year was. when the time comes and the real signalling starts, then the percentages become meaningful and you can speculate about them. also the number of S2X nodes versus others will become meaningless if 100% of mining power goes to another fork.

if in reality it remains 94-95% then you can be sure it will become 100% soon and there won't be any other chain. the original bitcoin chain can not exist with 5-10% hashrate with the difficulty it currently has unless core releases an emergency patch to fork that chain too which will cause a lot of other issues which we saw with BCH.

if it was only 50-60% then things will be very different. a replay protection for SegWit2x becomes mandatory (hell, they shouldn't even fork with that much). then all the things that are being said becomes true.

it is a free market, you can't really blame them for making some crap and you can't crash the price.
take a look at years of altcoin existence and see how they have done. those altcoins that had something to offer stayer around and even had a long term rise. but those altcoins that didn't have anything to offer, came in and make a lot of noise and got pumped in short term. they even reached higher prices than bitcoin but they never last in the long term. they die a slow death and eventually be forgotten.

it is Amazon, it is not just some random small merchant

and why exactly is that not realistic

you think Amazon will sign up on bitstamp or poloniex or coinbase to sell the coins each day
because price is determined on those exchanges not the way merchants receive the money. and you seem to not know about how BitPay works by automatically converting bitcoin back to fiat.
also you seem to forget that for every buy there is a sell. someone buys bitcoin to spend so the merchant sell. there will be a balance.

price will go up with more adoption, more adoption happens with more people coming in, more people should be coming in to use bitcoin as a currency not just bag hold it to dump for more profit, and that will only happen with more merchants accepting bitcoin, and they will only accept it if people are spending bitcoin.

growth doesn't just happen on its own. there is a limit to how many speculators invest and how much price can go up because of them.

China & South Korean have banned ICOs and i completely agree with this move. ICOs should have been banned a very long time ago. so if you have a petition to ask the governments of these two places why they have not banned them sooner i will sign it

in fact i do believe that ICOs are ruining the cryptocurrency in general too. you keep seeing a new one spring out without any usage. they gather some money and that is the end of it.

if you want to petition then find a dozen ICOs that have ended at least a couple of months ago and show what they have achieved in this past months after their ICO ended. you are calling it "innovation" right. so show what they innovated after their ICO finished.
and unless you can provide any examples don't expect anything.

haha, i didn't even know it is still active. i think the website domain was down for a long time. now that i have re-visited the website it seems like the old database is working too! i still have my account from 2014 which is 3 years of accumulating rewards

here is my current balances:
and note that the bitcoin balance is my own deposit (0.00026598BTC deposited)