There are fundamental differences between the bitcoin and ethereum. These differences are certainly related to the protocol of each cryptocurrency like as the reason of their existence. It's sure that all of these will influence the way of a hardfork so it is wrong to compare each other. But the most important between bitcoin and not only the eth but all the altcoins is the network effect of the leader. So if the big base of users which supports the bitcoin and maintains this effect ceases to exist due to hardfork and the price crashes then people who caused it will understand that maybe there was not any reason for the scaling debate because the remaining bitcoin users will be very few to full the blocks with their transactions.

I can't understand the percentage (80%) and what that means. To my point of view not all eggs in the same basket. Therefore, there are other assets someone to put his wealth and savings too. Even though I have a strong belief to digital currencies and especially in bitcoin it's not easy to see what will happen in future and bitcoin is volatile to trust my wealth.

According to John Hedley Brooke all these are due to a huge misunderstanding that starts from the wrong definition of what is religion and what is science. This misunderstanding is fueled the distrust and lack of respect between the two sides. That is, religion is not the route search of the objective truth - that which science seeks - but the communication path with the supernatural, that may we think and many times these are complementary forces each answering in different human needs.

I don't know your level in cryptography but recently I was enrolled in a MOOC of Princeton University which is entitled as Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies using the Coursera platform. I believe that you can have access in videos and assignments even though has already finished so as to learn some things. In these videos professors are speaking in a initial level of cryptography.

As many people I believe there is not this person and is a fiction one or is a group behind him. As many in this forum had already posted there is no reason find him especially when his coins are sitting in the blockchain. When these coins starting to 'move' there are people to spread it everywhere in the net. Since then there is no reason searching for him.

I had no intention to answer in your post, but you are very wrong and it's unfair for rest of people worldwide to accuse them that they are racists because they speak about Nigerian fraud or scam. May be all of these scammers are not Nigerians but live in this country or I don't know why. But, if you make a simple search in any search engine maybe a popular one say Google with the phrase 'nigerian frauds' you will be surprised from the results. The very first result is from scamwatch site where in the 3rd paragraph writes' These scams are often known as 'Nigerian 419' scams because the first wave of them came from Nigeria', period. Moreover I would eager to learn why Wikipedia is writing about nigeria 419 mail scam and maybe BBC is racist news site too? No offense, please.

35 years ago Thatcher sent army in the Falklands islands to the other side of the Atlantic ocean. Now the Britain will engage war with Spain which until yesterday was at the same table of the European Union? It makes a great impression to me but Britain should understand that things not only in Europe have changed. Now they have the problem of Scotland's independence. Do they like to stay alone all over the world? But who really knows?

I don't know why the @OP has not include as major revenue category services or sales with payment as bitcoin. Maybe because many people has the belief that nobody will pay them with bitcoin. Therefore, I don't consider as source of bitcoin HYIP and ponzi schemes like as the gambling too, but only trading and others. But does it so easy for many of us to have profits from trading?

Activity and frequency of posting are two different things but there is a formula which connects them and do the proper calculation. The following is from this thread

activity = min(time * 14, posts) 

More over if you would like to see the activity periods there is a google spreadsheet
BTCtalk Activity times

I used both of your methods; that is firstly downloading .asc file and secondly from pgp servers. Works great for me too. Thank you for your effort @HI-TEC99 because I was trying a lot time ago to find how to verify the electrum but always I had an error like as 'invalid data' or at least I knew that was signed by ThomasV but it was not fully trusted. It is a very detailed and valid guide like as your comments that all files have been in same folder.

To my point of view some of these are belonging to worldwide known wallets but I don't agree with your classification. All in the same basket (web, desktop, HD wallets). More over it is very subjective because there are no explanations why mycelium is the 1st and so on. That is, armory and electrum in 3rd and 5th position for what reasons from these which you already have mentioned? And Airbitz? How many users using it? Where is something like ledger? So I could propose another classification using different rating scale according the features which taken under your consideration. That is a rating scale for open source/security and a different one for web availability.

I thought that I was hacked. Firstly I tried to see if someone has changed my profile information and I decided that was time to change my password. I had completely forgot that was the April's fool day till now I read the thread. Have a nice day, good joke Mods.

Why someone needs to transact with bank? There are other ways like as the bitcoin cards. All of them are debit cards and when their users fill it with bitcoins they can store the balance and use it for shopping or with ATMs like the usual VISA cards. It's a very handy way for any transaction in places where bitcoin is not accepted as medium of payment.

I do not know what was first time in the humanity history people they tried to gamble but I am pretty sure that the human beings after their basic needs they start to find ways to earn any kind of money. Easy profit (and loss too) and the feeling of excitement made some many people to gamble on a daily basis without thinking anything else; that is, like being addicted to drugs. Unfortunately, for some people instead of an enjoyable experience can become the everyday madness that will eventually lead them to disaster.

This is in general truth all over the world. Recently I have wrote in some posts where people claimed that the dominance of bitcoin as the leader of cryptocurrencies will vanish and another altcoin will take this position etc., that bitcoin has value because people want it and do not want anything other than this. Moreover I believe if bitcoin crashes many alts, if not all of them, will be disappeared because people will go to the next big thing. 

That is a fallacy. Atheists do not hate any religion because you can not hate something you do not believe that it really exists. An atheist, simply is not convinced of the God's existence. But not nurture any hatred for those who believe, or to what they are respected to. Simply he is not convinced, and is open to all which he can understand with his senses without blinkers and obsessions. On the other side, an atheist is dogmatic in his views that there is no God. This rules him with certainty, and with religious zeal. This man his religion is a religion contrary to the faith. The philosophy of religion ends up, as far as the absolute dogmatism pushes him to similar influences in his life.

It's very difficult someone to predict the price during the 2017. Things with debate scalability are going more and more bad and there is not a point the two camps to agree. On the other side, people they are keeping the price more or less $1000 which means they are waiting so as to do their next move. If there was not the debate the price would be, imo, more than $1500.

Do you really believe something like that. That is, bitcoin can be used for illegal activities without government authorities to find your transactions? I dont believe that is really true due to bitcoin protocol. This is the reason nowadays monero is the crypto which usually people use when they do care to be untraceable.

Why people all of these centuries they had given value to precious metals (silver, gold, platinum) and they continue to do the same till now? If gold and the rest precious metals were something that there is in abundance and everywhere then all of these can not have any value, it would be like the inflationary fiat money. That should be rare but not too rare! The same is with bitcoin. It is a digital scarce coin. If anybody could create any amount he wants then the price of bitcoin could be absolutely zero. 

It is clear that many people believe that bitcoin usage is anonymous and nobody can reveal their real identity. I do not know why they have this opinion but would be better for them to understand that bitcoin is only pseudonymous. Hence, there are some mixing services (tumblers) trying to protect the identity of their users.