I'm confused.  You're talking about it as if you set a receiving address and used them to send?  If you click the send button on Blockchain and do as it says you shouldn't be thinking about what address you're sending from.  Are you sure you actually send these Bitcoins? Can you give the transaction ID so that we can check it?

I'm skeptical.  I don't know a lot of faucets which genuinely pay out over 500 satoshi.  How do we know that all of these are legit?

So essentially, this is a giant Ponzi scheme which is open about its aims.  All you have to do is refer other people, which in turn refer more people, which in turn refer more people etc.

If you have to clarify "Bitcoin is the most popular international cryptocurrency" to the sort of people who are participating in this scheme, they should not be participating.

Pretty ironic how people created a coin depicting Stalin to make a profit from their 15% premine.  Quite funny really.

I don't think you understand the concept of transaction fees.  You still have to send your Bitcoin to LocalBitcoins and withdraw it, and as long as your Bitcoin is online it's never 100% safe as we learned with MtGox.

Bitcoin transactions shouldn't all be about exchanging it for fiat, otherwise Bitcoin would be pointless.

You don't need a source of data to state an opinion.  They are right that a lot of new users get their first Bitcoins via faucets - the prospect of free money, no matter how small an amount, is an interesting concept and shows the purpose of Bitcoin as a payment system.  While it is true that faucets practically give dust, this won't stop thousands of people using them every day.

I'm surprised that you've bought as much as 0.24 despite being new, but anyway the fees on your transaction are 53 satoshi per byte - to get your transaction confirmed quickly you should send with fees of over 100 satoshi per byte as the network is under a lot of pressure right now.  With the 373 bytes of your transaction at 150 satoshi/byte it would be about 55,000 satoshi or $0.61.  There's not a lot you can do now that your transaction is sent, but you could try ViaBTC's (or anyone else's) transaction accelerator which will help try to get your transaction into the next few blocks.

Well most of the time you can stick to trusted sites that are mentioned a lot on this forum and that'll cover most of the games that you probably want to play since most of the major ones are provably fair.

When you need to check, you could ask about the specific site on the forum, or put in a small amount of Bitcoin (0.0001 or so) and fiddle around with it to see how often you get payouts.  Be careful though, there are some sites that pay for small amounts but not for larger ones.

How condescending of you.  Sure, they should have watched the whole thing to form a genuine opinion, but it's hardly going to help a discussion to just question someone's view - instead, you could try presenting more information about your view so that they will hopefully take it into account.

But while its market cap percentage lowers the altcoin community will never settle on one.  There's huge amounts of competition between people who like Monero and people who like Dash, there's people who love or hate Ethereum, people who are loyal to Litecoin or even Dogecoin, and the list goes on.  Therefore even if the market cap of Bitcoin was below half, it would still be the dominant cryptocurrency. 

Still, the news is slightly unsettling.

Very much directly supporting altcoins, I would say.  Which is okay if Bitcoin is incapable of finding a solution.  The surge to altcoins won't happen though, because no one will settle on one specific coin and therefore the coins won't have proper usage.

If mining is not profitable, and you never make an ROI, then it doesn't matter whether or not the price of Bitcoin goes up, because you would have been much better off earning your Bitcoin some other way - you could have worked for fiat and converted it or done something which would earn you more - frankly, even a signature campaign would probably earn you more than mining right now with a small investment.

Bitcoin is naturally designed to be a deflationary currency, it's the same as any normal investment in that people buy it in the expectation of the price rising so they hold it until it does (or trade it, if they're clever/brave enough to handle the volatile market).

True, you can never really be exactly right with the time to sell except for one lucky trader.  What we are fairly sure of is that since the price is going to keep going up over time, our investment is safe.

Bitcoin is a great investment, because the value will continue going up in most situations.

A lot of investments only have the value which people give them rather than solely based on how useful it is, but Bitcoin is very useful.  It's going to become more popular.

According to some people posting here OP was using the Blockchain wallet, which is particularly weird since I've got warnings from Blockchain on fees that are even slightly too high.  I'm not sure how OP managed to make this mistake, it's not too easy to do.

Depends what you regard as a competitor.  Among cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin has no competition.  But Bitcoin has several functions, and some of these are taken up by other things (such as gold).

I think that in moderation, technology is a good thing.  I don't really agree that children just sit around on technology, I think that this is an exaggeration of the actual situation as young people are still genuine individuals and don't restrict themselves.

How am I supposed to believe any of this information when you won't actually give the name of the account or use the forum correctly?

EDIT: ignore the forum bit, that was based on something I saw a minute ago

I think that doesn't necessarily say a lot about the actual people who are in favour of SegWit.  There will always be people on both sides of anything who are nasty about the other, but this doesn't say anything about what SegWit itself is actually presenting to the public or about the majority of SegWit/BU supporters.