It's not that people are too stupid to use btc right now, I think most folks aren't really ready for the level of security required to be your own bank. People are kind of haphazard because of ach; if you can prove your money was taken fraudulently, usually you can get the transaction reversed. This makes people very cavalier about keeping a tight ship, once it's gone in Bitcoin, it's gone. I notice the people hemorrhage personal details on social media that can be used to socially engineer one's way into their accounts via customer service. No one believes in privacy anymore

My biggest problem with btc is exchange rates, and merchant acceptance. It's a nightmare to use an ATM or local bitcoin to convert btc; the fees are outrageous although the service is swift. With comes to the reason you have to convert bitcoin in the first place, real life companies (mortgage, utilities, the government) don't directly accept bitcoin. Only fiat.

Simply, just don't do this I haven't found a way to magically multiply my bitcoin, believe me I've tried. Value always has to be generated, beware those that would seemingly offer you value for free.

Methinks we are going to see distincly sub 10 prices after the fork is implemented, but given the relative stability of the price throughout all this fiasco, I don't expect it to go sub 8. But, we will be in 10 territory for a while.

If there is one thing we can depend on, it's the persistence of eth holders

Don't forget DOGE as well, it has very low fees and very fast transaction ions. Ltc, and Doge are both my 'exchange' coin. Pretty much assured they will be on the recipient exchange's orderbooks, and the networks rarely seem to experience congestion.

Don't you love these presumptuous thread titles that the OPs end up regretting?

The logo for this coin always looked a little cheesy to me, as well as the name. I never get what goes through the heads of the devs when they  pick these coin names.  Mainly, I could never figure out what they hell a Lisk was looking at the logo. Apparently a badly Photoshopped blue space crystal.

The other side of the coin is how do you want people to invest largensums of money into something with such poor advertising (the logo/name?). Seems the opposite way to get VC.

But not yet. Id wait til right before the fork, or right after it. The price is entirely too unstable at the moment, as previously said.

Apparently, it depends on where you live. Some countries, like North Korea and Russia, aren't so friendly towards Bitcoin. It certainly would be illegal to hold Bitcoin in one of these jurisdictions, under certain circumstances.

Try the classics, bitcoin, litecoin and dogecoin. Can't go too wrong, all are pretty stable and trusted, and have very decent market capitalizations without all of the risk these more experimental, newer technologies bring.

Its kinda easy to pick on eth right now, and when you see a thread title that obviously doesn't reflect reality, there is a strong chance ut might be powered by troll energy. I only clicked on this thread because cause we obviously "didn't miss the eth train". Maybe it's on a circular track..

So after all that drawn out debacle, they still had to opt for the hard fork? If they were gonna end up here, why not cut straight to the chase? It seems like they are drawing out what will be the obvious decision.

I just don't think the DAO will actually recover. Why would anyone trust something, that was so catastrophically broken that it costs millions of dollars? As you have said, eth over long term, but otherwise, these assets aren't going anywhere too soon.

Didn't know this, thanks. Use coinbase primarily at the moment, was going to a paper walle t to ensure I would have the wallet keys for the address in case it was needed. Polo is pretty cool about shit like this, Ill most likely just do it on their platform

Lol, it must be the case, I have never seen a group of asset holders keep coming back for a beating like that. Well, maybe the HashOcean guys at the moment, with that refund bullshit. But if this thing hard forks, it's done (stick a fork in it done. See what I did there?).

Laugh wholeheartedly. Then eventually, if it exists a few years down the road in a better form, invest.

We might even have a use for smart contracts by then 

I don't think this asset is going to resurge, given the lack of confidence St the moment. It may uptrends long term, but short term, this thing is drifting down.

Have to agree, slock.it made DAO a bad word for the time being. It will be a while before saying it doesn't leave a nasty taste in ones mouth.

And fast as hell (transaction wise) .It's also one of the more popular in the public eye, since this is one of the few coins that actually made a nod at branding (the meme itself, the NASCAR thing, etc). You could do much worse

I think of holding DOGE like holding a pocket full of nickels and pennies.

To get rich, or die trying 

But seriously, you will not find another asset with the same ease of investment, nor this volatility. It's like stocks on steroids. Also, the government isn't generally aware of my investment, which is absolutely amazing for tax considerations. Trading an SEC regulated asset requires alot of KYC and account minimums.