i don't know about others but if i ever talk about diversifying, then i am talking about diversifying your "money" and that means for example investing in bitcoin and gold and some other stuff like real estate, stocks ,...

and besides the notion of "scam"coin is a bit weird to me! mostly because people have very different definitions of the word. to me all the altcoins are the same. they are there to be pump and dumped and if we are skilled enough, we can make profit from this scheme. but it is not an investment.

The statement's actually on their own site. It's in the message they sent a few days ago. Are you not actually reading what they say? Note: you have to click "I've read" or whatever to even access the site, so it'd behoove you to actually pay attention, .

It will require time and evidence of Bitcoin losing market share/sentiment for people to realize the importance of bigger blocks for the long term success of Bitcoin. Transactions will become even slower, fees even higher and Bitcoin will be sitting on the wayside while other projects seemingly gain more traction and support with regards to solving scaling. I foresee a certain project coming along in the crypto-landscape essentially solving this whole scaling debacle and causing a serious threat to Bitcoin. However, this threat will be the push Bitcoin needs for it to get out of its death-spin stalemate.

If you can make 100+ accounts on twitter, facebook or other social media.

You might be able to sell 100+ followers for btc.

That's the "easiest" small business I can think of.

If you could learn some coding and make a bot that would give someone 100+ followers, without having to manually log into every account.

That type of account farming might earn some btc.

That is more suicide move in investment you have no 1btc and then you will go all in .So if you are being scam you will have nothing .a good investor will dont do that move.

Another article with more info: https://medium.com/@whalecalls/taiwan-aml-reforms-usd-crypto-drama-15417cbcdf7b

It's all because the US started imposing stricter AML requirements for USD transactions since the beginning of April. Taiwanese banks don't fully comply with the new rules, so now any BTC company that uses a Taiwanese bank has these problems. They have to either find a new bank or wait for their current bank to comply with the new, stricter rules.

Again, this isn't just Bitfinex, but also OKcoin, Xapo, BTC-E and others. Let's hope they find a solution soon.

Well, of course, in a permissionless, trustless system, all parties are supposed to act out of self interest.  So what is "an attack on bitcoin" ?
It can mean two things, that touch upon the immutability of bitcoin:
- its protocol
- its transaction history

I was essentially talking about the transaction history, because the *cryptographic protection by PoW* only protects that, of course.  Miners pushing BU don't do this, I think, in order to modify the transaction history.  

So the only thing left, as an "attack" is the desire to modify the protocol.  But then, anyone wanting to modify the protocol, in the first place, Core with its segwit, is an attacker of bitcoin.  As I think that BU was only a way to keep segwit away, because small blocs and high fees are a benefit to miners, you could then even say that BU backing to keep off segwit, was in fact, protecting the current protocol of bitcoin from Core's Segwit attack, that wants to modify it.  
If you see "modifying the protocol" as an attack, then anything else but the current bitcoin protocol (including 1 MB blocks) is an attack.  And if you are considering that protocol modifications are to be envisioned, then increasing the block size is just as well a possible protocol modification than introducing segwit, so if one is an attack, the other is one too.

Exactly, the risk of losing your money is high if you focus in just one thing. diversifying your investments is really important although you cant take away the risk no matter how diversified your plan but somehow minimize it. its important also to have a cash on hand incase there is a sudden or emergency situation so you wont be empty handed if that happens.

There cold storage still shows what BTC they have i'm guessing they have all the funds and the banks are being awkward. Keeping an eye on the situation though.

I hope that at least BTC-E won't encounter such a problems, but it is an interesting thing, because it looks like exchanges, one by one are disabling wire deposits/withdrawals.
First was Bitfinex, now we see that OKCoin has the same problem. Who is going to have their bank accounts frozen next?

I would be very worried if the goverments would try to block all bank accounts of the unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges, it is still possible because they might consider these projects as a money laundering operation.

That is why I prefer to sell my bitcoins peer-to-peer, or to the local exchange where I wont encounter such a issue.

Well, then they got conned. Caveat emptor!

Also, I call bullshit. People want Bitcoin because of it's unique properties which are possible thanks to decentralization. Who gives a fuck about sending a few micro transactions for free when governments worldwide are preventing people from using (or even continuing to own) their own fucking money?

BTC never needs protection from miners, as miners are those that provide the protection.  BTC needs protection from attackers, that want to redo the history of transactions (orphan long pieces of chain on purpose).

How do you mean that all this started from the banks, Chinese banks? I can't understand are you talking about overtaking or they are trying to destroy competition? This can easily be some conspiracy theory, what if this is just inside job, that is the first thing that falls on my mind.
Anyway I would like yo hear more about this theory, what is the interest of the banks in this case?

Blockchain.info is so far the best choice for web wallet out there . All of us have their preferred wallet platform as the features we want depends on their situation . Many people don't wanna use web wallet because it doesn't give your private key so you don't have a full control over your bitcoins . The company can freeze/block your acc. although unlike coinbase, blockchain has an active support and won't do it for no reason plus if the site gets hacked our put out of business you are doomed cause you don't have your private key . Using a web wallet is not bad as long as you don't store large amounts of money to it .

I would advise everyone to stay from altcoins altogether

Unless you certainly know what you are doing since "risk comes from not knowing what you are doing". Regarding 1 bitcoin specifically, you may stay with just bitcoins and dollars (if we talk about trading, obviously), but that doesn't mean that diversification ends with moving your funds into different assets. In fact, it only starts here. You should "diversify" your bitcoin to a few reliable exchanges (2-3) since any exchange can be hacked (or scam like what Cryptsy did), and this is the systemic risk which you simply can't get rid of if you intend to trade more or less regularly

Since BTCe and OKcoin have started suffering the same issue, this might be a bit wider problem not restricted to Bitfinex only. Hope this gets resolved soon, BTC price started increasing again, we dont need this kind of panic.