I guess this number is virtually unlimited

That's likely the reason why you couldn't find any relevant info. Basically, any blockchain is conceptually centralized in respect to processing transactions, i.e. the majority of nodes should accept the mined block to make this transaction valid (read confirmed). This is not the case with LN, since you don't need blocks to send transactions via payment channels, and this basically means that it is meaningless to talk about processing capacity of LN network in terms of transactions per second. Transactions are processed as soon as they reach the receiving end of the payment channel, i.e. they are real time and they are independent of each other as well as blocks found

Not a big deal, who cares if it does hit $1200? anyone bought at any price will dump before it's too late for them and that's the exact reason why the price drops to that level in the first place. one thing miners should keep in mind, there are not many big investors as themselves, only a few have big investments directly buying from exchanges they are the ones who'd dump with the first signs of a drop and the majority are small investors and they can't afford high fees simple. if they think someone will invest $5B in a decentralized currency they're wrong.
Bitcoin is standing to date only because of the same small traders and if it continues to stay the same system without any upgrade then I promise you they will abandon bitcoin just because it won't be profitable for them any more. time to wake up you are not the only currency generator in town.

With high fees and slow confirmation times, which is good for altcoins, especially Litecoin with SW and LN already activated. The bottom line is that Bitcoin will likely continue to slowly bleed with its prices stagnating and people looking for alternatives elsewhere. In other words, instead of spectacular crash we will see the same boring faces sending curses as before. That would be kind of meh. Jihan will likely abandon his Jihancoin too, at least for the time being

It seems that there might be no SegWit2x

And no soft fork either (i.e. no just SegWit), so your fears (and not only yours, obviously) may be unfounded. As theymos recently wrote, BIP148 has little to no chances to pass through, so there is no reason for Jihan and his Antpool to signal their support for SegWit2x anymore (which they are firmly against). It kinda looks they are going to revoke their agreement, and then there won't be enough support for SegWit2x activation. The bottom line is that the current status-quo is likely to be preserved (read miners have won)

People have been using  this cite:

https://coin.dance/blocks

This is turning out to be a real dampener. All these days, I was checking the SegWit2x support levels. It was hovering at around 86% for the past 2-3 weeks, and I was finally hoping that the scaling problems will be solved for ever. Seems like the issue is going to get even worse.

It is not quite clear what you mean

After the split you should have 1 BTC on the one chain and exactly 1 BTC on the other chain, so your total of what could still be loosely considered as Bitcoin would be equal to 2 bitcoins. In a sense, chain splitting doubles your bitcoins (or even triples them, if there is more than two chains). If you meant to ask whether the combined value of these bitcoins would match (or even exceed) the current price, this is highly unlikely. Most likely, the price will crash below 1,000 dollars per chain per coin, and it may in fact be way lower than just 1,000 dollars

The bitcoin folk

If Bitcoin splits that might mark the end

.... Regarding coins in cold storage, they should be safe (and get doubled or tripled), but Coinbase is obviously a big no-no (we may see a massive exodus of bitcoins from every web wallet out there right before the Judgment day)

Ethereum failed so hard so they had to do emergency hard fork/rollback update, at that time people were saying that ETH is done for and this is the end.
Look at ETH now, the second biggest crypto. Just to remind everyone, price after the fork was around $10 or even less, now it is like $222?
As always, speculations about future and potential demise/fail of bitcoin are exaggerated greatly. Bitcoin will survive even after a split.

It is FORK not FOLK.

Sounds a lot like me, except I had $3,000 when it was $15, and didn't buy. Ooops.

Hindsight is 20/20, right?

On the bright side, I am still involved with Bitcoin and hopefully someday will be in this guy's position, or even close to it. I would be cool with a couple of mil'.

The price will hit, but you`ll be dead.

And your future grandkids will be the ones to be spoiled lol.

Seems kinda strange to just forget about a $3000 investment, which makes me think that he might have been pretty well off before he made his big fortunes with Bitcoin.
I can ionly drean that something like that would ever happen to me, though I do have a few $100 worth of altcoins that I've almost forgotten about

I can confidently say that there are indeed others like him who made lots of money off bitcoins and I always dreamt I was one of those people, but it's still not too late to make money from bitcoins.

In one day it's surely not possible as of future not possible. Maybe you should check the price charts daily so you can understand more about the price structure and maybe even check different markets as there are really huge sell walls which would require billions to make the price reach 1 mil. It's not impossible but in one day it's too much to achieve.

I think this thread is related to this image. "Yahoo: Mother of Bad Luck". I wouldn't really want to compare Yahoo and Bitcoin because first of all, there are people that are behind Yahoo. There are people that rejected these offers. There are people behind Yahoo that have made a series of bad choices and ended up in the worst place possible. It has a similarity to a trader that bought a coin at a low price, then the coin has pumped, and then ended up selling at a price lower than what he bought the coin.

If things like this happened to bitcoin, we can't really blame anyone since bitcoin is not an entity. The only people that can destroy the bitcoin market is us, the users. It's totally possible that bitcoin would also end in the worst place because big players don't really care about this market. They only care about profits and if it takes total bitcoin devastation for them to create tons of profits (in fiat, probably), then they are going to do it without thinking twice.

No. There will be another cryptocurrency that people like or bitcoins will slow down around the $100k mark. No matter what $1million will be impossible unless $1million buys you a used car because fiat is nearly worthless at that point.

spammers are always gonna spam
1. they will avoid using segwit transaction types and avoid using the LN side service.

2. segwit does not address spammers. it needs to stop letting 1tx have 100kb of space allowed. it needs to stop allowing more than a few thousand sigops per tx.(needs dropping lower than 4k (16k cludgy maths)

segwit is cludgy and doesnt fix the issues it promises. it stupidly HOPES malicious people will use segwit keypairs/ln.. yet psychologically spammers wont.

3. LN is not going to be useful as a 'throw all your hoard in' service or a 'lock your funds forever' service.. it will end up with channels opening and closing every fortnight on average holding just enough funds for them couple weeks average spending, which means that onchain blocks will still get filled, due to all the open/closing sessions

4. as for the utility of LN. it all depends on channel connections(routes) which is the game theory of "the 6 degree's of separation". this involves people having to have more than one 'channel' funded and accepted as a route on certain LN dns seeds.

do not accept LN as the ultimate solution of utopia. atleast research and understand its niche and limitations.. not just the reddit false adverts of utopia