What do you think happens when people make payments with Bitcoin? Most businesses accepting Bitcoin will just exchange those Bitcoins directly for fiat once they receive them (Overstock is an exception).
People who are using Bitcoin as a long term investment aren't doing anything wrong and I also don't see how it hurts Bitcoin. People also use fiat currency for investment, people also save massive amounts of fiat currency without using it.

Ideally, I'd like to see even more investors get into Bitcoin, raise the marketcap and perhaps make it a bit less volatile in the future.
Bitcoin is just too volatile to be used as a means of exchange for most people.

Imagine getting your paycheck in Bitcoin and the next day you've just lost a couple of hundred dollars, now you're short for paying your bills etc.

But it's pretty reasonable to expect people to do some basic research. I mean, if you're planning on getting a BTG withdraw you at least have to get a wallet set-up before you even try and get your BTG.
It takes just a couple of minutes to figure out that there aren't any wallets yet, you don't have to follow BTG news and updates for that.

Why does it matter if they haven't read the whitepaper or don't care or know anything about decentralization?
The fact that these people are using Bitcoin should be enough, no?

Most of us want mass-adoption, it's a bit silly to expect everyone who buys Bitcoin to first read the whitepaper and know of all technical aspects.

You're in no place to tell anyone to 'fuck off', you don't get to decide why someone should or shouldn't use Bitcoin. You sound very elitist tbh and I disagree with your notion that the Bitcoin community should be some elite club of people who are only in it because of ideological reasons.

You won't earn any significant amount of Bitcoins mining with a smartphone, I know there are some miner apps for Android, but they're a waste of processing power.
Even with 40 of them bundled together, I doubt that you'll make ends meet, heck you'll probably spend more on fees than anything.

I assume you're talking about this article:
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/samsung-creates-bitcoin-mining-rig-with-40-used-galaxy-phones/

Seems more like a cool proof of concept than anything else.

Where did you get those numbers? I mean they're pretty specific and I'd like to know which source you used.

I think that the current price is very much driven by speculation, it might be because of the next fork, we've also seen a steady increase in value with the previous forks.
Definitely expecting a rather big correction soon, but I could be very wrong on this.

For me, it's a combination of all three values I think, I've been around the Bitcoin community for a reasonably long time now and I've used Bitcoin for every reason you've listed.
In the earlier days the community was much more focused on the ideological aspects than now it seems, that has sadly disappeared a bit, I think.

Also, if you make use of Bitcoin a lot, then it's hard not to like the technology and monetary value behind Bitcoin, you just benefit from it if you use it.

Instead of relying on cloudmining websites, you could also just rent a miner from someone.
I'm not saying if it would be profitable, but at least you can check the hashrate for yourself and get your payouts directly from the mining pool.

Here are a couple of options if you want to rent a mining rig from someone: https://www.miningrigrentals.com/ or https://www.nicehash.com/

Trading with Bitcoin is definitely profitable at the moment, it's so volatile that you could definitely make some big profits if you're day trading.
The altcoin market is a bit worse of, profits are still to be made there, but it's more difficult to pick out altcoins which are going to be doing well.

I'm not sure though how long it's going to take for Bitcoin to experience a serious drop, I'm interested in seeing what will happen after the fork.
I'm already prepared to temporarily sell some if the price drops significantly.

That's the thing, for amateurs it could actually be a bad thing to play games like poker and thinking that they're good at it because they've heard that poker is a +EV game.
Then they fail to actually monitor their wins and losses in the long term and get totally blinded by their perception that they are a supposedly good player.

I really think that there are a lot of unsuccessful poker players that are just making themselves believe they're +EV when they're not.

I agree with you about the forum not being that active, I would have assumed that there would be a little bit more suggestions of gambling sites to verify in the future.
And I don't think that they are affiliated with anyone, at least the website doesn't show it and it doesn't look like they're promoting one operator over another.

I mean, they're not using affiliate links and their articles are very objectively written, they're basically offering you some technical explanations.

Now I do think that they should keep adding more casino's to their list of verified operators, a few weeks without activity isn't that great if you only have 5 verified operators listed.

I think it's a good idea to do something around ICO's, but there are already enough websites that are offering news and info about airdrops.

I'd personally be more interested in a website that provides accurate information about the ICO's, without doing paid op-eds.
Have every ICO thoroughly researched and asses the viability of the project and give out more information about the team members.

You'd need a lot of writers though if you are not planning on adding content yourself.

Can really recommend entering, I got 2500 DOGE on my first or second try
I've seen other people get 0.12 LTC, so the prizes are pretty decent!

On a side note: Damn that lottery! If I ever win 1st prize, I'm giving out a big tip in chat!

I would be interested in following this blog, seems like there's a pretty interesting journey ahead of you.
It would be a good idea to post this in 'Project Development' and document your progress there as well.

Hope to hear from you again in this thread, since you've just made this one post.

Drug and gambling addicts are actually almost the same, I mean it's the same kind of chemicals that get released in their brain which gives them this 'high' feeling.

There just isn't a simple solution to this problem, you could make gambling illegal, but that doesn't stop the problem, just as it doesn't with drugs.

The only partial solution is to allow people to seek help before it's too late, make it free/cheap to get into therapy for your addiction.

Yeah it seems to have significantly less support than Bitcoin cash, I mean how many exchanges are even trading Bitcoin Gold?
Normally, I'd say to wait a bit before coming to conclusions, but I don't see Bitcoin gold making a recovery.

Done

I've been using https://coin.fyi/ and so far it's met all my needs, haven't found an unsupported coin yet.
You can also use it completely anonymous without having to log in, though I would recommend creating an account.

It's completely free as well!

Payment received, but got confirmed pretty late due to slow conformations.

New rates seem fair, but I hope the price stays a bit stable

The Bitcoin lottery jackpot is pretty low compared to the previous weeks, I really hope some more people join in.
Even with Bitcoin at 6k dollars, it's only around 80 dollars for 1st prize.

I do have a pretty good chance of winning now though with 50 tickets

It seems like you didn't really choose an original name, when I look up Cryptobuzz on Google, I get results from a couple of different websites.

How are you planning to get active members on your forum? Have a look at other similar forums and you'll see that most aren't that active.
You mentioned that you'll give out rewards, but you'd need a pretty big bankroll to keep that sustainable.