lol you are delusional. There's not a single alternative to POW that delivers the level of robustness and army-grade encryption that POW delivers.
Bitcoin's core will remain like that because it's a feature, then through second layer solutions like Lightning Network we can have instant cheap transactions and we will have increased anonymity in the near future as well.

Bitcoin has no competition, stop dreaming with altcoins taking over and be realistic.

Lol this guy asks why it's the new gold and says "it must be used as X".

Bitcoin can be used however the fuck you want to use it, having said that, then we have the precedents in history about governments easily passing laws to literally steal the citizen's gold, so no need to even worry about the supply getting expanded to insane amounts once we (inevitably) find some place in the cosmos that has tons of gold. The faster problem will be governments trying to get your gold.

Gold is outdated, gold cannot be encrypted. If something can't be encrypted it's useless in the digital era. Those that know how to hold Bitcoin and encrypt it are the real pioneers and ahead of the game and everyone will eventually hate not getting in way earlier.

ETH is always a good coin to have on your portfolio, in fact one of the few altcoins that I would hold longer than a couple of weeks. The question now is if ETH has a place to survive once Rootstock and the rest of the cool stuff that Bitcoin will deliver soon kicks in. I mean, who is going to use ETH when you can use your BTC to do what ETH does? It's yet to be seen if ETH has a niche use that may make it go to the moon, until then I guess it's a good speculation tool.

Well it is unfortunate that you can't run Bitcoin Core in your computer, but I recommend that you at least download Electrum because it is infinite times better than holding your coins in Coinbase or any exchange whatsoever. So everyone should learn how to use Electrum at least, but if you want the real deal you gotta have the blockchain in your hard drive, at least pruned mode if your hard drive is small.

I didn't know that it required more work beyond just switching to schnorr sig, im not a coder as you can see, I invest but I like to know what I invest into so I try to learn as much as possible on my spare time.

I think CT+CJ+decentralized exchanges will be the holy grail, then we have internet cash for real. Ideally I would like to see an actual trading platform that is decentralized so you can do day trading against other currencies and not only some sort of decentralized localbitcoins (i think thats what bitsquare.io is trying to do). Im talking like a Poloniex type of exchange, without no restrictions and decentralized, because all those exchanges always end up either "hacked" (inside job) or authorities push them to require ID for users unless they want to be out of business (Poloniex case)

Once great level of fungibility is reached all those niche "anonymous coin" may disappear since who cares about them when Bitcoin can be anonymous as well, so it can potentially absorb their marketcaps.
Thanks 4 input.

It's working, so make sure you try again because it should work. Everytime that I have tried to access this website it is always available and I never had a problem with it, and I access it a lot because as you can see im part of the campaign.

No, once iet reaches $1000 it will reach 3000$ to 4000 dollars, it just can't stay at 1000$, the buy pressure will be insanely high. When Bitcoin reaches 1K again, it will prove that Bitcoin is the only asset ever to rise from a super crash and then everyone will turn into believers, FOMO will kick in rampant and we will see prices higher than ever imagined.

All those people becoming pessimists because Bitcoin didn't continue growing after the 1.2K ath will cry A LOT once they realize that Bitcoin's path towards 5 figures i not only possible, but unavoidable. Bitcoin being 5 figures is like 2+2=4, it's a fact, we just have to wait for time to catch up with this reality.

Lol since when do democracies work with super majority? Even if someone owns 51% of the mining hash power it means nothing, to actually cause damage you would need way more than that, it's unrealistic and a non issue, at that point the attacker would be making more money by being a good actor to the network than an attacker, there's no incentive to deploy an insane mining attack whatsoever.

Well 5.0 is a lot of BTC and a lot of people are dreaming to even own 1.0 BTC so congratulations on this one.
Personally I have never found a wallet lying around because I always make sure that I know where the current wallet is, and I always pack the wallets together when doing backups and put them in different places but I always remember where the wallets are, so no chance for me to find some forgotten wallets.

Everyone that has been around for some time must know by now that Bitcoin has a problem when it comes to fungibility, because of the blockchain being too transparent. The good job done by Gmaxwell is delivering Confidential Transactions soon which solves the "how much money is this dude moving" problem, but not the "this dude moving money from A to B" problem. Now Coinjoin can potentially fix this, but we need as much people as possible using it otherwise it's pointless. So what's the ideal situation? Everyone using it by default, unless you want to specifically send a "transparent transaction" which has it's uses too of course.

So apparently Coinjoin not only makes it more private but cheaper, and Schnorr sigs will deliver a more efficient way to deal with this stuff. So my question is, how far are we from true fungibility? (all transactions mixed to hell so it's impossible to know what's going on)

When we will be able to start a "roadmap to fungibility"? like a transition from the current standard transaction model, to the next standard ("CoinJoined") transaction model? Because that's what we should do as soon as possible.
This should be a top priority imo. Lets not forget that Bitcoin is supposed to be p2p cash so this is a must to reach that definition, so like I said before, default state of a transaction should be Coinjoin and CT enabled for everyone, unless you want to be transparent in purpose.

Actually this raises a good point, another good advantage for Bitcoin will be that if you are not an adult you can still gamble with your money anyway.
I remember when I was a kid like 14 or something, I was in highschool and I wanted to play some poker on the internet, but the fuckers wouldn't let me join on the sites to play for real money cause it needed an id. If I was 14 in 2016 I would just use Bitcoin and have some fun in poker playing for real money, and even spin some on the slots. I could have made a lot of money back then but they wouldn't let play. Imagine being in high school and making money with poker, it would have been so cool but I was stuck with my parents small time cash pay :p

In order for gambling to wreck your life yo must  have some sort of serious problem that requires quick and constant supervision from a professional in the field. IT is very and I repeat very important that you are sure that there are no other people in your family with gambling addictions, if this would be the case, then ti would confirm that you are prone to gambling addiction, in this case please do not gamble or you will suffer the consequences, if not then yo can enjoy some sporadic gambling like normal people do.

Wow how did you get that much moeny to begin with? I think it's insane that one would lose 24 BTC by gambling. Most people will never even own 10, let alone 24 BTC. 99.99% people here are dreaming with the 21 BTC goal to enter the 1 million club, but you lost 24 BTC by gambling, so you must be really loaded. Early buyer or miner??

Once people can find jobs that get paid with Bitcoin all over the place they will start getting it and spending it because that's how it works. Give people better job offers than what they can find for fiat and they will do it, because the jobs are getting harder and harder to get due rising unemployment, im sure a lot of people will be happy to work for Bitcoin.

I also hope that Steam can bring a lot of people (Steam is adopting Bitcoin soon, finally)

The theories I contemplate nowadays are the following:

1) He has other addresses that no one knows are his addresses, with some money there too, enough to live a comfortable life for the rest of his life. He is not greedy so he doesn't want to move the coins from the 1 million stack because that would cause uncertainty.

2) He forgot the pass for his keys or simply lost his wallet

3) He was already a millionaire in fiat/assets before starting so doesn't want to damage Bitcoin by fucking around with the massive 1 million stack.

4) He doesn't want to move the coins because the movements would get scrutinized and it's a risk for his identity (he is a target worldwide already)

5) Guy actually got killed already

6) He's just a long term hodler

Something along those lines.

It's actually funny that you say "this time for sure", I mean it just sounds comical at this point. People that are still hoping for Bitcoin to die must be on some dank shit to believe what they say. They are so delusional that they may even believe their own lies. It's sad because it's always fear of missing out that drives people to fud like this.

Well the casinos have to make profit, otherwise they wouldn't be able to pay for the stuff, at least in the begining, once the casino starts getting a lot of traffic maybe having a fee to withdraw is overkill, but most casinos that aren't Bitcoin related also apply fees so I don't know about this changing any time soon.

How you can't lose 100%? If you start playing casino or dice or whatever, and keep rolling and making spins until you end up with 0 BTC... that's exactly what lossing 100% of your BTC means, and it has happened to me before, because I was too greedy and wanted more and more. Thank god I control myself and only gamble small amounts tho.

All wallets ever should do this automatically, this is not user friendly at all, if we want to make Bitcoin available worldwide, we better start working in ways to automate all of this so the person has to only press "send" and the fee is automatically calculated and set by default, anything else is a failure in terms of user experience. But we are still on the early days so im sure this will get worked on.