5-8 years equals an eternity in comparison to bitcoin's timescale. So that answer to OP's question is: yes.
Each mining calculation that I did in my lifetime using nifty calculators ... backfired on me.
You can't predict Difficulty. That renders all numbers useless.

I have been waiting for a precise definition of "all transactions are fake" what does that mean?!
Zero bitcoins transferred, that does indeed sound invalid. Any blockchain explorer link (TXID or similar) for the naked eye to see?
It's hard to believe without cryptographically sound evidence. If this proves true, the network should develop a way to route around malicious pool activities.

The motives have been the right one, but $ 12 billion doesn't really cut it, not turning pages. Another some monthes and a gov blunder will blow twice that amount elsewhere. Watch and wait.
The abortion is a difficult matter, since there are medical reasons besides the struggle of different believes. And any voices of reason are seldom recognized in the recent days.

Himself beeing the biggest one  honestly, never seen anybody beeing full of himself so much.

Once Bter had been paying annual interest rates like 10% (or even12% ?) and a gambling site can move much more money than an exchanger, twice the amount could be doable. The risks are higher, however.
The more safer loaning on Poloniex results into smaller returns, of course. < 1% but shortterms.
40% rings my alarm bells, too.

All three come close to a currency, bullion coins since millennia, Apple shares just since some decades and Bitcoin since years. People recognized their value! Just to "replace" a currency you would need to apply lethal force. Something "official" in the workings.

First and foremost memorize to password protect / encrypt your wallet. Whatever happens to a local copy this assures the baseline security. Write down that password somewhere else, stored far away.

Now the not so beginner stuff. Backups, backups and backups! Keep a copy on an USB stick. Continually renew that copy since the data can get slightly outdated. Remember those backups are encrypted files. It's not even needed to delete the outdated ones. Try to keep some oversight which one has been the most recently used version.
Never, never never ever loose your wallet. And not the password, too. Never store both at the same location.

Third step: You can transfer the whole wallet.dat from one device onto the other. That is possible without a network connection. You can store that file on any device even without installing the complete bitcoin software. Rigth, no transfer fees.

Pro step: It is technically possible to extract the secret keys, handling and copying them from here to there BUT that's not best practise. Insecure, even. Usually when people start doing that, they break havoc on their Bitcoins.

Lethargy has proven to be my secret weapon. Neither emotion, nor confidence, and not fear has lead to any genius trade decision. Just buying, watching, occasionally selling.

There is a correlation between local situation and believe systems manifesting at those places. Hinduism has been linked to powerty, too, but developped in a different way.
The narrow focus on religion seems to rule out any solutions. In middle east it's more related to energy supply than muslimism in my mind. So a valid attack angle would be solar power, as unrelated as it seems on first glance.

If it forms out like a shoulder head shoulder just standing on top than the whole manouvre has been futile.
For seriously scaring people away the dip would have been below half of former hill. 950 is not even close to that.

A doubling of coin supply, going from 21 up to 42 would at least solve that Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, The Universe, and Everything from Douglas Adams novel.
Coinfidence would never ever return. Limited supply beeing a foundation of everything.
Forking or 42 are just the wrong answer.

Care to explain in simple words for the tech weary? From my knowledge "replay" implies "play" first, a wallet address that don't move (like cold store, or Satoshi's BTC) cannot be touched.


That is some serious assault. Nobody in a right state of mind can support people of those intentions.

You got quite the tight timing shedule, like daytraders do.

A different angle watching this seasonal. The term of a Bitcoin Summer. Like countrymen and crop grower take a stance at things. Last year's charts had that june / july harvest season. Watching the rainy charts of the last days maybe this year's season move to july / august.
The idea is to trade and transfer less often to pay lesser fees.

The idea was born dead. If an altcoin is needed there is that opposite implication - the original seems to be unneeded. That leaves it behind as a collector's token.

I did not understood the OP's intention, neither. A free starter capital usually hints on a gambling house, to hook in new customers, we are far away from that game of chances, aren't we 
The trading fees are proportional on your trade size, so small in absolute proporsitions on a small portfolio. No barrier to enter.

The old school investors are preaching this along Rothschild, "Buy When There's Blood in the Streets" but I want to raise doubts, the markets tend to react illogical for a longer time period than you have spare dry powder.
Average down with caution, on a longer timescale.

Hashrate?

You know one of the most vocalist altcoins out there features variable blocksize. And for a while I have thought if that's a solution, and if it is, would get adapted by Bitcoin, too. Only if it has proven to be the right, unique and unavoidable approach. Not as a struggle to ruin everything upfront.

One can say that "njet" from the high officials against the ETF has been an attack from the outside.
This one comes from within. It's always succeeding from that inside attack angle.

From that question alone one can guess you know nothing, absolutely nothing about the technology. You even know about Fukushima?


This always blaming the russians for everything seems to wear out.

There are several kinds of Fiat. These paper bills, your online banking, the bank in your town. Depot value.
Gold comes as jewellery, bullion coins, gold ingot.
Bitcoin probably has a million altcoins.

Just that "replacing" thing does not happen, never did anywhere. Once something of value has proven to be tradeable it just pertains. If another thing pops up it stays next to that, too. There are no replacements.

Would require a additional register for tying one real personality to one private key and the address belonging to it. That defeats the catchy slogan of bringing voting into the blockchain.
And once you need a centralized database you can stuff the whole issue inside that instead of using the blockchain.

The celebrity voting on the other hand could work out, but I would advertise that as monetizing the audience's votes. Like phone voting where you get charged for a call. And again, there is allready a solution in existence which has momentum and mass appeal.