I think Supply and demand is perhaps one of the most fundamental concepts of economics and trade so there is no difference between how bitcoin price determined and stocks price determined right? Basic concept 1. Price up when people need and buying 2. Price up when people selling it.

You can buy stuff without having to provide sensitive information and usually it will be cheaper with bitcoins.

I was looking for something to spend btc on that isn't illegal that would make using bitcoin worth it, like are there "extra content if you use bitcoin" subscriptions or anything cool like that?

Trump would most probably be busy banning all the other things he is supposed to fight against to actually care about bitcoin, Republicans don't care about bitcoin "duh, you can buy weapons with it" so I don't think it's impacting bitcoin negatively if he becomes a president.

You can't really make wedding rings out of bitcoin, so it has some limitations gold does not have...

It makes no sense comparing the value of x to the value of y. You can't just exchange them. The value of apples on earth for example is a lot less than the value of bitcoin. And yet, it has nothing to do with it. You can't say "let's replace all apples by bitcoin", just as you can't replace all gold by bitcoin.

I see a serious limitation from the blockchain there... As long as "the ones in power" don't make it possible to do - say - 1000 times more transactions, why should the value go up 50-fold? You can't have mass adoption if the blockchain is already pushed to its limits.

after bitcoin unmineable the miner will stop his mining, then the network of bitcoin will be down,
each transaction will require a very long time to reach 1confirmation, or need highest fee.

so the bitcoin user will be use other payment gateway, and bitcoin will be die..

this might happen in the future... ?

Basically. That's why we call it a Sybil attack. A couple entities controlling thousands of nodes through a few datacenters isn't what I'd call "p2p." They won't even have any economic activity since they are not operated at home (I bet a good deal of their donators probably use Coinbase as a wallet LOL)...pathetic.

If fork goes through, what are they gonna do, keep donating to spin up nodes that they can't run at home? Sounds sustainable. Amazon running over 800 Classic nodes, Choopa LLC just brought over 1000 Classic nodes online in the past 1-2 days.

LOL. Not falling for that crap. Running my Core node.

Try living in a first world country in europe. Atms are usually free. Bank transfers are free and nesr instant.

The US definitely has some catching up to do. I've been consistently appalled at how archaic it is.

Not only Ethereum, also all the other altcoins which has risen of over the last weeks, namely Factom, NEM, Bitshares, Dash and Monero.

When those coin got dump then Bitcoin price will get a push again.

I've never scammed for my coins. All I've done is murder people for them. That's somehow purer in my mind.

Then we need to wait for the congestion to happen again, when they realized they made a huge mistake and they start buying Bitcoin again. Most people cannot even pronounce the word Ethereum

without people thinking they have a bad lisp { speech impediment } The dump will happen as soon as the price of Ethereum has reached the level where people pumping it, seems satisfied that they

will be guaranteed a big enough profit. I will never buy into this pump n dump scheme, knowing what I know now.. Same goes for Dash and the Alt coins before that.