Well, it's just a matter of time until hashrate jumps back again. Bitcoin has a more stable network but the instability in the BCash one along with its rising price and lowere difficulty make it more profitable.

DO NOTE THOUGH: An upcoming fork in BCash will change the instability in its network that allowed for more blocks per hour due to the rapidly moving hashrate. See here.

Things are about to change and profit taking from mines will litely set the price rally of BCash to a halt.

Bitcoin fees are based on demand. There's only a limited amount of space in each block and miners decide how they're going to prioritize transactions. Of course, transactions with the higher fees are given priority over other transactions so they're included in blocks faster. But as lower fees transactions mature they also have better chances of getting into a block.

I did invest in Ethereum. Arguably the best ICO of all. Sadly, I did sell a bit early on and prior to its great bull run but thankfully went ahead with mining and holded some later on.

Later ICOs have in my opinion been based a bit too much on speculation rather than providing a minimum viable product from early on. Infrastructure in the crypto space is in my opinion worth investing in, but speculative ICOs are too risky and could potentially leave nothing behind if the ICO bubble pops. So I haven't invested in any later ICOs.

Bitcoin Cash keeps rising close to 2000 USD. It's worth noting that it's something mostly based on speculation but still rather than just real world event. It's such ways that cryptocurrency markets function under. Some people will try to play it as markets are pricing in the neglect of the New York agreement but speculators know no better than speculating.

Cutting the losses through BCH isn't a bad idea but for those that came into bitcoin after the fork it is not that of a viable options in reality. BCash was distributed to bitcoin holders and now it's soaring but buying right at the top it's experiencing right now doesn't sound like all that of a wise plan.

What is it that is not working? Let me know if you tried a website and it didn't work, I'll have it removed from the list.

If you are referring to cards not being available outside of the EU though, that's something many providers had to deal with due to the issuing bank of most of those imposing that rule.

1.3% for a risk free investment isn't bad. It's considered risk free with guaranteed returns because its government backed but that's still a trust based sentiment. Investing-wise, it's not great returns, but it's the base you should use to calculate the risk/return margin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_free_rate

With the price falling and BCash mining now being more profitable, we could see an even bigger downward spike in mining difficulty. It's just an odd time to coincide with the difficulty re-target because both those factors could contribute to it.  

Nicehash is a very easy to use miner and also has profit switching. Claymore is good if you're only interested on dagger-hashimoto coins and their dual mining counterparts and a bit more specialized but you could also run it through Nicehash only when most profitable. Nicehash can't help you optimize it all that much though. Also there's the fact that Nicehash has an efficient autotrading method that will only yield you BTC at the best market rates while claymore's miner will leave you with the alts you mine for you to trade or hold.

It's a matter of preference in the end, based on this multitude of factors.

Bcash isn't the new bitcoin but it's be safe to say that its markets are currently going through yet another bull run. https://fork.lol/ also indicates that due to the recent price rise, Bcash has become more profitable to mine, which as a result should lead to quite a bit of selling pressure sooner or later after the coins from the first mined blocks are out in the markets. Bcash still has an unstable network however, the fact that its block release speed can't stabilize is something manipulable and doesn't contribute to its longevity.

Bitcoin prices are merely speculation. Not much to do with real world events. It was approaching 8k the other day but it's kept being very volatile ever since 7k was reached in the first place. I think that it's just speculative profit taking. If you believe it could go back then you could buy the dip but there's no guarantee for a return.

The volumes when Bcash was at $900 were really low. It was just futures at first and no real market to absorb such high prices for a currency that had barely launched yet. Once the network stabilized and people were able to cash out their wallets prices started falling imminently so $900 is not a reliable price point by any means. The recent price rise of Bcash has been accompanied by large volumes though so it's a great opportunity for those that want to cash out their coins.

People say that every time there's an altcoin fall with bitcoin's price rising. Alts are no safe heaven throughout they have a greater risk factor than bitcoin and a high covariance, meaning that investing in bitcoin is better by all means. Even historically, it's been proven the best choice.

I think that it's becoming quite obvious that consensus is also important to be drawn from core Bitcoin developers.  No "agreement" would get far without support from those that are already standing behind the development of bitcoin.

Paypal and AWS, those in the OP would work fine with. I've tried both personally.

If you're after the free trial in AWS though, then Amazon sets other restrictions so it can't be abused. It's not only a matter of the VCC, but also by the longevity and past use of the account. Amazon doesn't just give out free trials to anyone very easily. The other website you mention I know nothing about. 

I offer to review OP's service in exchange of a vouch copy. I'm known for having a thread dedicated to debit cards in this forum so people will know what I'm talking about with a honest review of mine.

Holding any amount of unspent BTC to an address of which you control the private key would Grant you access to 2x coins if the fork ever happened. Past forks like Bcash and Bcold had it so, and if 2x happens it should be no exception. Certain exchanges and wallet services have announced that they will be offering coins to customers after the supposed snapshot but that is still trust based.

Of course it is not. If you don't hold someone else will hold the coins you sent out. As a matter of fact, bircoin is quite centralized when it comes to wealthy distribution and the fact that its price is rising does not change that all that much. 1% of the top addresses hold 99% of all BTC or something like that. Check out the address rich list for proof of that.

So what do you make of this? The system is built as such so it is more efficient for the wealthy to avoid taxes. If taxation was reasonable then more wealthy would actually be paying it but right now it is in their best interest to invest in legally avoiding it as they would be paying out less this way.

On Bono and Madona though, I think that it'quite hypocritical coming from them. They were quite big in politics and it's very hypocritical for them to advocate for things they don't follow themselves.

CPUs are quite inefficient for mining as they deliver a low hasheate and still work at full load for it. Nicehash's miner is perhaps the most easy to use miner for such purposes but I'm in no position so say if it's the most profitable one. The website has a profit calculator AP you could use to.mewsure your hardware. The mining software has benchmarking for more case specific reports.

Check here:
https://www.nicehash.com/profitability-calculator