first of all what exploit in BTC!!!

also the current drama is actually proving that bitcoin IS decentralized. if it were anything like ethereum or other centralized altcoins, it would have forked already and left another forked chain behind!

being decentralized, as i said above and you didn't read, means one person or a group can not control the decisions. it needs consensus and no change has reached that level yet which is why bitcoin will stay as strong as it was before.

if you really want to invest then do it. but don't fall for the hype, that is all i am trying to say.
as traders we all know ethereum is an awesome investment if you know when to get in and when to get your money out. because the pumps will always have an expiration date.

making extreme assumptions always goes both ways. as i always say with the price that $10K is as stupid at this point as $200 is. and it is the same here too. saying bitcoin will wipe out banks is as unrealistic as saying it is not being used by more than say a thousand people to trade!

we can all see the progress, the new merchants that start accepting bitcoin, the new countries that show a spike in their interest using google trends and the trade volume coming from them, and now with Japan.

and the supply is still the same very limited amount!

there is always going to be bugs in every code out that is made and no matter how much you try they will persist. bitcoin had many of them from the start and they were found in early days and fixed hopefully nothing too bad that i am aware of.

and i think litecoin (if activates SegWit) will clarify a lot of things. and litecoin has a lot of transactions too, it is not as small as you think and that much is enough to show how things would work.

so you ARE making a guess, because if you read the tweet it only talks about a concern about Litecoin becoming different code than bitcoin in case bitcoin never activates SegWit. that is a lot of ifs there.

also read the answer that Litecoin developer Charlie Lee gave him.

seems to me like you already have all the answers and made up your mind and to be honest i find it a little strange that you are "asking question" but then make statements about ethereym.

it is centralized because nothing is done based on consensus and what all the network agree upon. we saw the hard fork already. majority of the hashrate and nodes were against it but they did it anyways and it left it with ETC.

being centralized means that.

no it is not capped. there actually is no maxim to it yet. and there is about 5x-5.5x more supply than bitcoin has and it is growing fast.

on top of that 70 million (about 75%) of that supply is in the hands of foundation and owners of this coin.

ethereum has always been supposed to be a pump and dump coin. that is why the code is this bad and full of bugs.

you have been misinformed my friend. Microsoft has no relation with Ethereum.
Microsoft has a platform called Azure that you can add practically any random altcoin to it and no surprise, there are many altcoins there. that is as much involvement Microsoft has with ethereum.

again you have been misinformed. Bitcoin has a clear cap at 21 million from day 1. and ethereum has been evasive about the cap from day 1.
and it is already about 90 million coins last time i checked and in 2-3 years there will be at least 300 million or more.

having 90+ million coins is enough to kill the price and it is being created more every day.
the main problem however is not that, it is the fact that most of the coins are in control of a few as i said above.

there is always money to be made as long as there is a name and an exchange to trade that name on it and it is being pump and dumped. eth is not the first and wont be the last.

who said F2pool is not supporting SegWit anymore? do you have a reference or is it your guess?!!
as far as i know f2pool never said anything about not supporting it and the evidence shows they are supporting it.
i don't know where to see the blocks and where they add the string but the percentage is still between 68% and 70% and without F2pool that percentage would have dropped down to 50% at least and then went down back to 30%

well yeah but it wasn't ineffective either.

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EDIT:
i found it and yes F2POOL is still signalling SegWit:
https://chain.so/LTC

not even close!

right now, no because it was recently pumped and now the price is in a bubble which means it will only go down from here with some small come backs (dead cat bounces). and you can see it already going down hard because it is getting dumped these days.

generally again no. because it is a manipulated coin, and the coin itself is centralized unlike general altcoins.

mining ethereum was very profitable at first but i think it is nearing the end since the difficulty is higher now and price is not really as high as before.
and when it comes to mining you have to consider the electricity cost too.

in my opinion the track record is important not a one time calling a price and that coming true. even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
if anybody could predict the price bottom and top and within a decent time frame then they are good at it and have to be proud. but saying x coin is going to get pumped and that gets pumped is just random guess that came true in my opinion.

we think this "what if" is becoming as pointless as the similar what if topics such as "what if internet goes down" and "what if 3rd world war starts".

it is not going to happen. and the possibility of it is too small. or have you missed one of the biggest mining pools saying we will never allow the hard fork to happen?!!

and this was possibly said a million times but i am going to repeat it one more time for you.
no miner will switch to another fork unless it has at least 90% of the network support (both hash rate and nodes and services).

a long time ago there were people saying the earth is flat and claimed it is ridiculous that some people are claiming it is round. what i'm getting at is the fact that if you don't understand something doesn't mean it is random!

there is a certain amount of unpredictability but you can not call it "random".

since you keep mentioning LTC!
there is simply a season for pumping altcoins. the pumpers go around from coin to coin, accumulate them then start pumping these coins. in case of some of them such as ETH they are based on manipulation and they get pumped by the owners of the coin.
now it is time for LTC, it has been pumped and has not yet stopped.
so far for the pump and that means price goes up.

now there is always an addition to the pump which means a hype that pumpers use to get others on board too. for Dash and Ethere it was bitcoin price going down and them claiming to replace it. for litecoin it is its SegWit. for another shitcoin it is something else and so on.

there are additional things on the side too. people trying to justify that "hype" that i mentioned but it is always ending up the same way: DUMP.

again it is never random and it will never be random. all the signs will alawys be out there. you only need to know where to look and what to look for.

there are still a lot of weak hands in the litecoin market who are selling their short positions cheap and prevent the faster rise but overall looking at the charts, it is rising and analysis points to a higher price.

with this recent news about Segwit and batpool signalling it, i believe many things are going to change and the hype alone can cause a big pump as we have been expecting months ago when segwit first started on litecoin.

now the question is how much?
we have seen 0.03BTC for litecoin recently and with all the other altcoins getting dumped these days i say we can expect it again and even go up to 0.05BTC this time around.

i don't think we can see any more fast rises. because the fast rises are always because of some kind of news (such as ETF) and we don't have any of them now.

right now we are back to normal slow rise up. which means by the end of the month price can only be around $1230-$1250 if the trend continues.

whenever you finally figure out that there is only 21 million bitcoins supposed to be created and nothing more. and there are already about 15-16 billion people in the world and a small portion of them investing in bitcoin means price would be 10 times more than this.
with that in mind the profit has been also good so far making bitcoin investment an awesome decision.

although you always have to keep the risks involved in mind. risks such as losing the private keys and losing all the funds.

as i said before, it is hard to say how this project of his is going to affect bitcoin. it looks cool, and interesting but also there are some stuff that i don't get.
you are filesharing, and mostly "pirating" and asking for payment? how is that going to work! and there will be a lot of lawsuit against it if it gets some traction.

and besides have we forgotten that there is torrent and it is free and awesome?

you shouldn't hesitate like this, instead you should just buy back.

i did the same thing in the first day right after the 0.008BTC rise then i placed some new orders at lower prices and spread them and walked away. most of them were filled up to 0.0055BTC and then i sold some of it again after the second wave of rise that day and again bought back at 0.0073-0.0075BTC
and that's the way you do things not by waiting around thinking should i get in or not.

and right now i am waiting for the next wave or rises to happen to make some more short term profit.

that's racist. there has never been any evidence of Nigerian people being scammers. the thing you heard was some scammer from somewhere else who used the words "Nigerian prince" and it caught on as widespread scam and finally as a joke that stuck.

and bitcoin has been growing in Africa for some time now. it started with some advertising over there and then their bad economy helped and eventually the trade volume picked up and it is still growing.

generally speaking you should never even pay attention to anything you read on bitcointalk. there is nothing happening by that date and google didn't show anything either.
and even if there was something, there is no way of speculating about price the way he did which leads to the conclusion of him saying some random comment here!

probably his wishes not speculation.

nobody is accepting ripple for anything and they never will, it is a centralized pump and dump altcoin with a huge supply and a little worth. as you can see the hype is over and the price has been falling pretty hard for the past 24 hours or so.
and what Japan said was bout the blockchain not ripple.

maybe i am doing it wrong but i wouldn't call day trading as "fun". yeah the profit is good and in the end you enjoy the profit you made every day but this process of making that profit is hard and so time consuming. and the stress and time it takes is sometimes not worth the profit, that is why most people go long.
and this gets worse in altcoins as they are more volatile and hard to predict.

FUD is only when price takes a sudden dive to a low price and panic sellers get flushed out of the market.
this however is normal when price goes up slowly, a little rise then a tiny correction then another rise and correction and so on. it is mostly because people are trading and they sell after a rise leading to the correction and they buy again in the dip.