I believe no, because the case is not the same this time if we compare it to the 2017 picture. Those times we're great to make a living through trading even the most shitty coins which were so overvalued just to make more and more BTC to whales that was being shifted by noobs in their hands. This time is a lot different, because even if BTC rises and alts show some greens in the field, that doesn't mean that alts will really do great but worsen it for everyone out there once ETF gets accepted as Bitcoin will then be supreme enough to kill all bs coins and let only those remain which have sound projects with something related to blockchain, something that really needs blockchain.

I believe this shouldn't be considered anything surprising because Samsung had been into developing its smartphones crypto-efficient to start mining Bitcoins with the inbuilt chips. This was to happen during such times because everything looks to be going just as planned, like removing all the weak hands out of Bitcoins by dumping it down hard, and now re-correcting it back when every fool is out of it thinking Bitcoin is dead. These such news are going to play a big part in gaining investors' confidence back that a big name like Samsung has started to accept a CRYPTOCURRENCY that's been said a ponzi years ago. Bitcoin is nothing but a revolution, that's not going to end, not so soon at least.

I believe there are many wallets allowing Bitcoin transactions to be done through mobiles by providing Android and iOS wallets for your smartphones, including but not limited to Electrum, Greenwallet, etc. But, there is one big disadvantage to such a great convenience here: Possible hacks.
As almost the whole world is now aware of Bitcoins, they know that people are literally using such a technology in their mobile through these wallets and if these devices get stolen, hacks would be like a piece of cake for those thieves who will enjoy the victim's bitcoins. I really don't think anything is secure enough to tackle such situations, but it is better to have 2FA as well as very strong passwords enabled on our wallets, at least in order to gain some time to get their coins shifted to some other place by using their private keys.

On one side, I agree to your assumptions based on facts shown by the website you mentioned, but we cannot ignore the second fact here that some institutions might fuck up by kicking the value down once again if and only if, ETF gets rejected (most probably this won't happen). I don't think it really makes any difference as of yet because even if they approve ETF, bull run will take some time to start at such an exponential pace as the money will get in slowly and steadily, and will make Bitcoins reach $50k for sure till this year's end as the markets will turn out to trillions and many bullshit projects will get eliminated from the crypto world. Feel super lucky you've still got a chance to get in at such low levels. Think of those who got in at $1, $5 and even $100, they are the ones who reaped the best fruits of their lives and may still be enjoying investing in Bitcoins. Don't hold your fiat, utilize it and create more wealth by supporting a technology that's still very much new to the whole world.

I don't really support the OP on this but I can't even deny their claims that these are literally bots, because many are used to post bullshit in order to earn Bitcoins and/or altcoins as well as tokens. It is obvious that there is nothing here on this forum to measure what things are to be consciously considered as spam and which ones are quality posts. Each thread I watch, is mostly full of garbage or repeated things just in order to get some monetary gains and these bots are designed exactly to do that - to get these bastards the amount of bitcoins for their bullshit posts - which somehow gives them the power to manipulate small markets and become big by eating others' money. The only way currently is by adding too much man power here on the forum to eradicate all such losers as well as their bots, I already know some good people here on the forum doing the great work of stopping these scums from spamming the hell out of forum, people like rizzlarolla, Lauda and many others of whom I am super-grateful.

We don't really need to show anything to anybody, karma speaks for itself and so does Bitcoins.
No need to speculate when we know how gradually it is now getting used to some important aspects in the real world that may significantly affect its value as well as spread the word at global level that this thing is something that can be trusted over fiat. G20 stated that Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as well as their trading is not going to harm global economy by any means, and the ETF that is most likely going to get accepted by SEC is getting hyped real hard that I believe that the rise will be giant.

First of all, there is no such website that can literally help you out at any cost in recovering your wallet's password because once it's lost, it's lost.
You need to keep your private key/s safe in order to remain safe in case you lose such passwords and even 2FA. It's better not to go to any websites, because if I'm not wrong, these websites will surely ask you for your identifier and I'm not so stupid in order to put any details over there and it will literally prove to be the biggest stupidity and I may lose all the chances of getting my wallet back and/or even lose the funds that are conserved in my wallet.

If you are into categorize them here, there are many different choices to be noticed:
Offline wallets - Paper wallets (highly recommended)
Online wallets - Core, Electrum & (Blockchain which is not so good to use as it is vulnerable to hacks)
Hardware wallets - Trezor, Ledger Nano S, Cryptosteel and billfodl (highly recommended).

People like Warren Buffett or Bill Gates would not support bitcoins anymore, but yeah, the logic behind this topic is really good and if people stop selling under panic to these giants and start accumulating at such low prices and if we buy the rumor (which might become a fact) that SEC is going to accept some Wall Street ETFs in August, which might turn into some very big viagra-tic candles once confirmed and will be an opportunity that will be out of our hands. So get your hands on Bitcoins while they're still cheap.

Here you go:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3048258.0
List of Threads Giving Away Merits - Updated 12 march 2018

There, you'll find some best threads to look for, while trying to earn merits and promote your rank. Good luck everyone, had been busy but will now start back to look for some cool posts to share my merits with.

By any means, I never told them that double-spending gives anyone the ability to delete or manipulate blockchain. It was just for information purposes only. Though double-spending is a disadvantage, it also cannot be considered a vulnerability to the entire blockchain system. The blocks validated by miners are so secured, because the whole network needs to go block-by-block in order to get each of their future transactions validated in upcoming blocks, so the older blocks have no such probabilities howsoever that they can ever be teased.

No, because each and every transaction gets validated over the network by each peer using the clients (be it core or electrum or any that needs to download the whole blockchain). Why would anyone use this technology at any cost and why would Bitcoins be so trustworthy if such vulnerable possibilities would be there? There's nothing that can be done except double-spends.
For more on double-spending: https://www.bitcoin.com/info/what-is-bitcoin-double-spending
Blockchain is a ledger that is completely locked block-by-block bit-by-bit and can not be touched nor manipulated at any cost.

Hi, please check my PM and respond accordingly.
For public info, I'd like to disclose that I've repaid the principal amount in full by sending BTC0.071 more today.

https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/tx/a9a351aff73a65e631bc53419ed8d204a93ab85533c40734f398ecafede3a929

Hi! Sorry for the delay, I didn't actually check this thread after updating this. I'll be sending 0.07 tomorrow and remaining 0.02765 next week as I'm in a loss currently due to alts bloodbath. Is it fine with you? Or you need more interest? Please let me know till tomorrow and I'll update as well as send what's already promised. Thanks again.

First of all, you're not earning merits over Bitcoins but Bitcointalk (this forum)! Don't adjoin both of them together as they're not related to each other in any way.

Second, if you're interested in earning merits, stop thinking about it and start working here by learning more and more, gain better knowledge about each of the concepts here that you see and try to understand what does it literally mean. That's how you will EARN merits, by working for them being completely selfless. People here give good merits to posts that possess an information that is much better and newer or at least more informative than others, so don't worry. Forget about them and just put more efforts in improving your quality as well as make on-topic posts.

Not really if the end use case has not been to harm someone by other party, else not just blockchain, but even real money will work as a means in the surge for criminal activities. About drug trafficking, why don't people consider smuggling of gold and other precious metals as well as chemicals in exchange of these drugs instead of blaming blockchain alone every time? I've had been watching this since the beginning and can say that Bitcoins' use is least in such malicious happenings compared to those that are used in real world already like fiat, gold, etc.

Surprised to see there's not much moon talk, but I believe it's the right time we will be mooning back towards $15k once again this year. I think that the first half of 2018 was made bearish with an intention to let institutions inject their money at lowest prices possible. But now, it won't remain the same and they'll start buying back with a very big volume that none of the small (snail) traders would be able to even think of buying 1 whole BTC. I think that bitcoin has already reached its bottom for this year and it won't go down any further than this. Take my advice with a grain of salt and DOYR.

Thanks a lot condoras for this loan, it helped a lot.
Repaid 0.0795 currently and based on our PM, I'll be sending you the remaining amount (principal) tomorrow and will be giving you the interest in one week. Please confirm the same here.

Here's the txn to my partial repayment:
ea64ce1a1effd4edfed7ee159a93711eaa95929b05de49327ae3a4c0203158ce

But I guess the probability of attacking the chain with 49% is least compared to 51% as it crosses more than half of the stakes for the upcoming blocks, right?

One more thing, why is only 51% a number that is considered so attackable? Is it like anyone can even go for a 95% or even a 100% attack (by trying to collect the biggest number of miners) and doing a hash of more than 100 times the current hashrate? Wouldn't that just end up getting all the remaining amount of Bitcoins mined in least time?

Hi condoras,
Can you please give me an address to send your coins to? I think it's time for me to repay you. Enjoyed a great ride during these harsh market movements, as well my brother got married finally. Busy in managing the whole event so I didn't follow up. Thanks a lot for this.