I don't even have a top 5 list, I have a top 3 list.

I'm currently only invested in Bitcoin, Steem and Monero and I'm not really looking into any other coins at the moment.
The reason why I'm only interested in the above coins is because I know those coins inside out and use them pretty much daily.

I personally don't like to invest in something that I don't make use of personally. Probably a bit weird though...

Positive? This move just leaves me indifferent to be honest. As if there's going to be any benefit to the public that Google is going to make use of blockchain.
Could just be for internal use only and I doubt that the reward structure will be any good if they do decide to use it for something public.

They're just jumping on the bandwagon like almost every existing company that suddenly wants to launch their own blockchain.
Not saying that this is bad or anything.

It's a good list, but I think almost everybody already knows this, it's pretty general info. So I'm not sure how useful it actually is for people... If you're prone to addiction, this probably doesn't do much for you.
Also, I think that most people who are aware of this, still have a chance to become addicted. It's something that creeps up on you and before you even realize it, it's too late.

In theory following these rules should be easy you'd think, but it's different in practice for some people.

My favourite privacy focused coin is Monero, I'm perfectly happy with the amount of privacy it provides and the speed of transactions.
It has also been around the longest which means that its code has probably been most reviewed out of all privacy coins.

I think that there are overall more places that accept Monero than most other privacy oriented coins.

Congratulations! You are the one-millionth person who had made that exact same statement here on the forum.
You can go to the off-topic section to collect your prize.

No seriously, this has been said so many times already and I doubt it will stop.
It's all fun when bitcoin is going up, but when it dips for a few weeks/months everybody is declaring it dead.

You can follow bitcoin's demise here: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/

Yeah I personally wouldn't look into that too much, I mean it's obviously a large purchase, but you could never be sure if it means something or not.
It could be the case that some pump group is preparing to pump that coin and is first buying large quantities for themselves, but like I said, can't be sure.

Could be very risky to base your trading strategy on events like this.

Edit: Could also be artificial volume, didn't think of that before someone mentioned it.

Well, you can just lock away enough funds to ensure the future transaction fees would be covered, you can choose how much fees you want to add after the lock expires. (like you said in option 2)
I assume OP plans to do this with a reasonable amount of coins, so I'd suspect there will certainly be enough to cover the fees, making it a non-issue really.

OP, I've asked about timelocks on this forum and some people helped me out by creating a simple guide.
Check out this topic before you use Coinb.in: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2415595.msg24710770#msg24710770 (How do timelocked transactions work?)

Whether his prediction will come true or not, it's still positive that these semi high-profile people are publicly coming out in support of Bitcoin.
It is a bit strange though that this comes from the CEO of Twitter, since they're planning on banning crypto-related ads.

We'll have to see what kind of ban they're looking to put in place, for now it's just speculation anyway.

That's great to hear that you were successful in convincing Cool Earth to start accepting Bitcoin donations!
Do you have any idea when it'll be implemented?

I've already sent this in pm to you, but I will go ahead and write that article for you ;-)

Oh yeah, I'd like to ask for your permission to use some of the images in your OP in my blog post, as well as some of the data you've provided.

Instead of speculating whether Bitcoin has stabilized or not, you can just have a look at the volatility index.


Source: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/

Looking at this, the volatility is still higher than it was in 2016, but it's obviously a little bit more stable than we've seen the first couple of years.
As the market cap increases, volatility will go down over the long run, you can clearly see that already.

I see a lot of people commenting here that addiction to gambling is not hereditary, but the reality is that we're still not completely sure about that.
It's very much possible that some part of addiction is caused by genetic factors as well as environmental factors.

Source: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/addiction/genes/

So, I really wouldn't say that it's 100% certain that genetic makeup doesn't play a factor.

What kind of blog did you have there? Could you share a link, we'll still be able to view it through waybackmachine...
I can definitely understand that Medium wants to ban posts that are misleading or generally spammy, which is exactly what most of these ICO promotion posts are.

You can go over to Steemit, but you'll get downvoted if you post low quality spam...

That alone is reason enough for me to not play at such a casino. Why on earth would you take anything less than instant withdraws? There are more than enough crypto casinos that offer this.
Now I've always disliked Fortune Jack for a number of different reasons, but this has to be the top one.

Crypto-Games could be added to the list of casinos that don't require KYC. I haven't heard about anyone having to wait long before withdrawing large amounts of Bitcoin/altcoins.

So if I'm reading this right, there are just links to certain illegal files embedded in the blockchain.
The author assumes that Bitcoin could be made illegal because of that, I have my doubts...

The simple solution would just be to take down the source of those images, there isn't anything illegal about a reference to a dead link...

Bitcoin's transaction speed has been greatly improved indeed, but now we're seeing Ethereum struggling from time to time.
Through blocktivity.info you can see how much load there is on the network of any given coin and ETH is running at 100% capacity.

I really do hope that these issues will be solved over time.

Ehh, I'd say that in some areas we have developed pretty decent artificial intelligence, but you're right that it's nowhere near the level needed for it to be able to have developed Bitcoin.
Seems like one of the most ridiculous theories floating around the internet...

But if you look at Youtube, you see many silly conspiracies that have lots of believer, just look at the flat earth thing  

I mean, it's definitely a good thing that at least some people are even selling houses for Bitcoin, but I would have expected a few more listings.
There are just 8 houses listed on their website currently, way out of my price range as well

There's also this website btw:
http://bitcoin-realestate.com/

They have a lot more listings...

With an old group of friends we used to place some bets when we were playing darts.
If anyone is familiar with darts, we played cricket and occasionally we would make a bet for little amounts of cash if we could hit the number we had previously mentioned.

It made the game a little bit more exciting

Very interesting project, I hope you will succeed in convincing Cool Earth to start accepting Bitcoin donations.
I'm tempted to write an article about this project on Steemit, but I'm not sure if it would have that big of an impact if I'm being completely honest.

The numbers you've presented do seem very attainable, I hope this gets enough support in the long run!

I want to make a cryptocurrency donation to Cool Earth.

You just have to find places where you can promote your Telegram channel, places that will allow that, I mean.
I'm sure that there are other forums besides this one that will allow you to promote your channel.

Facebook groups could also be an option, if they allow it. You can always make a crypto-related Facebook group yourself.