I suggest planting the Bitcoin in a rich, loamy soil, taking care that the roots remain largely undisturbed during the transplant process. After packing the soil firmly around the rootballs, water the bitcoin into its new pot and place it into full sunlight for at least 5 hours a day. Your bitcoin will grow quickly with adequate moisture.

This. After a while, they asked merchants that had started accepting bitcoin how many customers were still paying in bitcoin. It seems after an initial burst of spending, the novelty wears off and people go back to spending fiat. This was seen in UK, and that little town that had the 'bitcoin bowl'.

Given all the coins in this space, ether might literally at the moment the most uncertain bet you can place your value into. If I had to choose between a halving event that has already elevated the price from 450 to 650, or a hacking event that has recently devalued a coin from 20 to 10 dollars, hell, I want the first choice.

TLDR: ether is not a 'haven' asset for bitcoin holders, ESP in its present condition.

It's like acknowledging the uncertainty of the Halving, but ignoring the elephant shaped Ethereum hard fork in the room.

Nothing is too big to fail. Observe the past American housing market, or banking industry. I'm pretty sure those guys percieved themselves as 'too big to fail', right up to the Congressional hearing.  And we are talking about serious market capitalizations.

Roach and Spoet definitely aren't shilling btc. If anything, they might be hyper critical of some of the alts and offerings, but shill they are not, at least currently. Can't speak to historical posts. The huge difference between this and btc is that this happened very early in the coins life, and that this is a caveat of poor programming, not of theft/mismanagement/fraud, which are people with bitcoin issues, not bitcoin issues. I don't think eth is a bad idea. I think it's a risky investment at the moment that the majority of us shouldn't ass with for lack of investor experience.

I don't think this is the case. Why hold this asset, knowing at the very least it's going to be cheaper in the immediate future? Smart money says sell now, and rebuy in the dip. Also, we are not considering if a large dumping entity might possibly cause a panic.

If Ethereum drops to this level, below it at least, this will actually be a sign of extreme loss of confidence in this asset. Even from the speculative camp. It's been holding 9 with all this uncertainty, to lose two additional dollars on stale news would be surprising but not impossible. This DAO shit has shown me anything is possible  Specifically if it pops back up, Id be wary of the dead cat.

Exactly, and this is what we think will happen en masse as soon as everything is forked. As soon as people get their coins/value back, the majority of folks are most likely going to USD or btc. Consequently, the price is gonna tank again, but most likely without that odd 'I refuse to die' hovering price action this time.

I think the speculative value will elevate it above 10 eventually,  not so much production cost, but as I said yesterday, ETH will be sub 10 until the fork fork fiasco. We will see the greatest volatility right before or after the hard fork. I would be surprised if we stayed at 7 for more than a day/a few days; guys have been zany about holding this asset and I don't think that's changed. But now that the market isn't being propped up, we are starting to see the decline that I was expecting closer to the original bad news.

Observe the current price of ETH. No one is shilling at you, because many of us have been saying the same shit for months at this point. These are observations on reality. Eth price and btc price aren't directly correlated. 

Typically, people don't shill bitcoin on a bitcoin board. Remember, eth is the alt here

I don't think the current financial system is at all threatened by bitcoin. Should bitcoin threaten a major currency, I'm pretty sure its government (not the bank) will step in and regulate the hell out of it. Plainly said, at the moment there isn't enough money in bitcoin to affect the traditional banking system. Eventually, but not now.

Cloud mining is entirely too risky to be profitable; legit companies or no. They wouldn't sell you the miners if they could make more money mining themselves. They are getting paid for mining today that you will do, at an uncertain difficulty, tomorrow. The fact that half these companies aren't even legit is just icing on the cake. Given how hard it is to do diligence on these companies, ID look elsewhere for returns.

Lol, I was about to come in here and be blunt like this, but you beat me to the punch. I figure, if the asset were that awesome, we would have never heard about it because some company that sees its worth would have came and snapped it up. So the fact that they have to rely on the public for VC, instead of institutional VC, makes me feel some of this is simply too bleeding edge to be a sound investment.

But, as you can see, the Sig campaign brings out the not so great side of alot of cats on this forum. If you accept a Sig, you will field a fair bit of hate from the board participants that don't look too highly upon the effect the campaigns have had on the general quality if the boards. This may bother you, I suggest they go jump from a high place. And everyone feels warm and fuzzy.

I'd suggest Yobit. Despite delays, they always manage to pay out, and the payouts are automated (self initiated, but automated nonetheless). You will need to have s decent posting history, I think they just moved the starting rank requirement beyond newbie. But if you like to post, and have cogent contributions, why not get that literal penny for your thoughts?

File complaints in your local jurisdiction; if enough jurisdictions contact the FBI regarding the issue, it will become a priority

How did you just now discover this? That was weeks ago, Charlie Murphy!

This is the definition of laundering money, ROFL. What criminals learned long ago is that it's easier to just spend the got money, instead of trying to legitamize it. Pay your bills and life expenses with the bitcoin, converted to cash via peer to peer exchange, and save your wages. No one can get mad at you for saving your paychecks.

If you found this useful, since you may have copious amounts of money, send me some. I am not kidding. I have more cogent advice where that came from.

+1

Bitcoin is more of a tool to facilitate change. With easier money remittance, we can move wealth around the globe faster and cheaper, eliminating the middleman easier for workers to send money back home, people can work in remote markets but still provide support to geographically distant dependants.Greed is the reason for poverty; until human nature changes, we will always fight things like this as a society. Think of it as growing pains

You could do things for bitcoin that your mother wouldn't be proud of.

Go on. We aren't judging, and we won't tell anyone.

Purchase a Gyft card, purchase a Walmart card via Gyft with that, and purchase all the fried chicken you can eat without stroking out.

That was easy. And sounds delicious.