In my opinion Amazon wouldn't be all that interested in implementing bitcoin or cryptocurrency payments in the near future. Of course, people in support of bitcoin would be interested to support the adoption of bitcoin but that doesn't really mean that there's huge overlap between bitcoin and amazon users.

Why is it that governments aren't doing this job well? Countries can thrive where organizations make it for corruption to be against the interest of a government. On the other hand, countries with a lot of corruption fail to distribute wealth through capitalism due to centralization of wealth to the few fortunate having good ties with a government. Bitcoin can do well under a system of government.

Coinbase can't keep adding every altcoin, it'd end up for their services being too hard to maintain. I believe that the cost should remain low for them to offer what they offer to a large base. I'd rather have lisk users trade their coind to deposit in whatever crypto coinbase already supports.

There is not much in term of inside knowledge being made public. This thread could very well be a bait thread to promote OP's own investment in an asset...

I think adoption is important and Bitcoin would have to be developed in a way for it to allow adoption to happen without causing any issue. Fees rising for example is an issue however...

that's comparing apples to oranges. Not many similar things between those two. Amazon has some of the best, proven services in the market while syscoin is under development with the expectation that perhaps a stable system could maybe come out of it ready for use and if and only if there's adoption it could scale to cover a market. Amazon's decentralized structure allows for very fast scaling.

The feasibility of that happening is questionable. Bitcoin dosn't scale well with use. It's good as an alternative but increased usage makes transactions more expensive for everyone due to fees. A good scaling solution could have this addressed in part perhaps for BTC to be used by a larger group. In reality though, it'd be very hard to expand to global currency levels.

If 2x receive support form at least some miners that are to leave the bitcoin network, the difficulty would only fall if the gap wasn't filled. In so far, due to the purported difficulty rules of a supposed 2x fork I don't think that it'd gain too much support from miners that are on bitcoin. And that'd be the case for at least a couple of difficulty re-targets unless an exception is made in the rules.

It is very interesting to see how a public university can accept non-state means of payment, especially for a country that manages its own currency. This is in my opinion a good example of how bitcoin can co-exist with state means in a country.

That's why many altcoins rose in FIAT value while BTC was rising on price. Some went through their own bubbles in the meantime but among all bitcoin scores the biggest total gains in whole value as a single entity market-wide.

I think that you should post a more presentable showcase of your services in the service announcement board of this forum. Where is your company registered? Any pictures of your data center? Those'd better be in the announcement thread.

We don't really need all that many. I believe that every altcoin will go though massive devaluation once side chains for bitcoin are established and tested throughout.

If that's the case then I don't think that this is a risk worth taking. It's easy to know the issuing bank from the bin of a cc number.  Gibraltar (most Bitcoin debit cards) probably wouldn't be ok for Bing.

This seems sad. I'm a freelancer and can only feel lucky that I've never had to go through this in the bitcoin world. I feel empathy for what you went through and really hope you'll find a resolution to this situation soon. Sorry that going public had to happen but if clients are dishonest the blame is on them.

I don't see why any card would not work in adwords or bing. All I've tried worked with Paypal and all websites accepting VISA. Never had any problems. Perhaps give a try to one of the virtual ones and report back with results.

There are just too many projects that try to point ther reserves at this to tap at the social media marketing. But I think that accessibility is key in social media. The premise that s coin is going to back a social media project doesn't make it very accessible to the general population.

I think that both are making speculative predictions about their potential but neither has really brought any cutting edge applications under their platform. So up to this point it's all bullish speculation. Be cautious when investing.

Tether  is sure better at being audited and in my opinion points to the direction that hey are legitimate but people should still be cautious. Tether is long running and has come to be treated but so far an audit should be a must.

Overstock.com is good if you're a small business. Their bitcoin acceptance was breaking news and they're pioneers at how they handle bitcoin transactions. However, they're mostly for retail but can serve businesses perfectly well too.

AirDrops can't be "ponzi" schemes unless they are not an airdrop. Giveaways are not allowed here in bitcointalk anyway so ad spam isn't something that would bother you here. Nevertheless, if they aren't asking for money they can't be a ponzi. ICO's on the other hand, it depends on what they offer. Some like Centra are outright offering rewards to premium users with funds of others.