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SergiuS 44
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You wouldn't have to choose a chain, your coins will be on both. If you spend them together with newly mined coins that exist on that chain only, there is no risk of your transaction appearing on both chains.

I prefer to get bigger blocks without a fork, but if it's going to take a fork, it may be a good thing for Bitcoin if it can finally handle more transactions.

I think we have a different definition of "stable". Not many stocks go up and down as much as Bitcoin. The same for currencies.

I have a different theory: pump & dump is used to manipulate the market. The ones doing it are referred to as "whales". From my experience, they use a pump to increase the value of their Bitcoins, while inreasing demand. When the order book is filled with enough people willing to pay a high enough price, they dump their coins.
When panic sells start, they buy back their coins. In the end, the whale holds more dollars and more Bitcoins.
That's also why the term "weak hands" is used for people who panic sell once the price goes down.

It's nice to notice Bitcoin's price usually goes up slowly, and drops quickly. Also, drops go in stages: while dropping it usually goes up a bit again, only to drop more. I think this is meant to increase the price again before the whale sells more coins.
Looking at price graphs, I feel like Bitcoin "wants" to go up in price, but it's being held back by dumps.

In stock trading, "the common man" like you and me on average buy and sell at the wrong moments compared to the professional traders.
While pump & dump strategies are illegal on the stock market, Bitcoin is unregulated, which makes is a perfect playground for whales.

There is a thread that analizes MtGox-data, but unfortunately I can't find it back. It showed the large majority of users owns only a very small amount of Bitcoins, while only a few people own a lot. Basically, that's the same as the real world: the top 1% owns more than the bottom 50%. I doubt that's going to change any time soon in Bitcoin.

I don't think so: some actors still own more Bitcoin than exchanges trade per day. If they sell all, they influence the market.

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Bitcoin and Ethereum prices often move in opposite directions. Ethereum is nothing like Bitcoin: it's centrally controlled, the millionaire-creator can hard fork basically whenever he wants (or needs) to save his interests, and it's attrackting attention from big corporations and banks ("the consortium").
Bitcoin on the other hand is unregulated. That's a feature, not a bug!

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Satoshi also said it can be increased again in the future. Read satoshi's post:
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I get the feeling wallets are "overdoing" fees when it's totally unnecessary.

1. There are currently 1480 Unconfirmed Transactions.
2. bitcoinfees.21.co claims the "fastest and cheapest" transaction fee is 220 satoshi/byte, resulting in 49,720 satoshis for a 226 bytes transaction. (is this site owned by miners?)
3. btc.com says the current best transaction fee is 20 satoshis/byte, less than 10% of the recommendation from bullet point 2:

The above screenshot shows that most transactions with less than 10 satoshi per byte confirm quickly.

Now, what fees were used in the last 4 blocks?
457952: 55987037 satoshis for 998.18 KB resulting in 54.8 sat/byte
457951: 141344188 satoshis for 998.064 KB resulting in 138.3 sat/byte
457950: 206531288 satoshis for 998.136 KB resulting in 202.1 sat/byte
457949: 171280224 satoshis for 996.719 KB resulting in 167.8 sat/byte

I can only conclude wallet software is now massively over-estimating the required fee for a fast transaction, and we're all paying much more fees than needed when there aren't many unconfirmed transactions waiting.
And even worse, when there are a many transactions waiting, these same fees still mean we wait long.

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I've said this before, and believe it more and more now. Bitcoin's first real improvement in years could have a very good effect on it's price.
Especially after the ETF-denial, current Bitcoin volatitility, emerging alt-coins and months of slow confirmations, Bitcoin could use some good news.

I'm using Bitcoin for more than 2 years now, and I've known about it pretty much from the start ^{(the regrets are real there)}, and it's still confusing me. I'm not an expert, I'm a user. I've also noticed many users don't really understand the basics of Bitcoin, from fees to unconfirmed transactions.
In my opinion as a user: transactions are either too slow, or too expensive, and "the ones in charge" disagree on how to proceed from here, up to the point that "rumors" of a hard fork are getting stronger. I also think this is damaging Bitcoin, other coins are pumping up, reducing Bitcoin's market share (as percentage of coin market cap).

Another thing that's confusing: the name "BTU"! Wiki:
Please don't use this abbreviation for Bitcoin Unlimited! Call it BU, BTCU, BitU or UBTC, just not BTU.

Why doesn't Core just do this? This discussion has been going on for too long already.

Further reading (CoinDesk): Bitcoin Exchanges Unveil Hard Fork Contingency Plan
I'm kinda excited to see what will happen. I just know something should happen to improve Bitcoin's user experience.

As long as it works fine, it doesn't need "innovation". Don't get fooled by the "we need innovation"-hype.

SegWit is only needed to work around the small blocks in Bitcoin. Doge is much faster, and making a transaction is about 25,000 times cheaper than Bitcoin. There is absolutely no need for the hassle of SegWit.

I've always liked Doge for this. It's quite stable in dollar, the Bitcoin-value varies wildly caused by the fluctuations in Bitcoin's own value.

What I don't like much about it, is how it's mined: it quickly produced 100 billion coins, and now continues to produce 5+ billion per year. See https://dogechain.info/statistics for a graph.
It's designed for inflation, but that might also be what keeps fees low.

Maybe we have a different definition of the word "transaction". When I say "transaction", maybe I should have used the word "confirmed transaction". It's not that Bitcoin has a lack of people wanting to make transactions, the scarcity limits the number of possible transactions that can be confirmed.

This would happen in a free market. If it becomes cheaper to produce bicycles, sales prices can go down.
But Bitcoin transactions are scarce. Unlike new bicycles, users have to compete with eachother.

If blocks wouldn't be full, it would make perfect sense to pay a lower fee (measured in Bitcoin) if the Bitcoin-price (measured in USD) goes up.

Suppose Bitcoin could handle 8 times more transactions. Fees would be lower, but more transactions means more fees anyway. And more importantly: Bitcoin could facilitate 8 times more users, which means the price could go up an order of magnitude. How can miners not see this?