It may sound cliche but I like Bitcoin as it's still the best crypto currency we have, not only because it was the first but also because of the continues developments. SegWit was a very useful update but soon we will be getting Lightning Network to Bitcoin. This technology is going to solve the scalability problem permanently, expect all the scalability debate to be over.

What makes you think Ethereum is centralized? In my opinion Ethereum is not really a cryptocurrency but rather a platform where decentralized apps can be build on. Also I don't get this sentence "it currently is centralized but nobody talks about it, but eventually as the blockchain size increases to something that only a super server (like master nodes) can handle the network will be centralized" don't you mean that it's currently decentralized instead of centralized? Don't get my wrong, I'm just interested in your opinion.

I don't think these domains are worth that much.
You really should have taken the offer of $3000 if real.

Bitcoin can also be a store of value, it's digital gold. The only danger to bitcoin is an internet outage all over the world, it's the only way your Bitcoin cannot be accessed again. When there's not internet, there's no way to verify the blockchain anymore. But for the disasters you mentioned that won't be the case.

- Edit: An other scenario in which Bitcoin can't be accessed again is when all copies of the blockchain are gone, but that's highly unlikely.

Exodus isn't open-source either, I wouldn't trust them with large sums of money. Better get a hardware wallet like you mentioned or a safely offline created paper wallet.

Not true, there are more safe ways to create a safe paper wallet. Armory is a really good one, especially if you create it on an offline machine. Also bitaddress.org which the poster probably intended to use is safe if you take the right security measures to generate the address. There are many guides here on the forum on how to create a paper wallet using bitaddress offline. For more information about legitimate wallets, take a look here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0

The website doesn't seem to have their source code online, which makes it really suspicious. The only way to generate an address offline using their service would be downloading the zip from their website, this could also be easy altered to only generate addresses that they already have access to. Also I can't find anything on google about this website, only your scam accusation. This makes me think that it's really them who stole your Bitcoin, I'm sorry for your loss.

- Edit: Next time, please verify if you're using a legitimate generator. Open-source is a good sign of legitimacy, but it's still not 100% safe unless you can read code. If you would have searched for bitaddress.org you would actually find multiple threads on hear about it. Always research before storing large sums of money

It's your own decision, nobody can look in the future to see what will happen with the price. But keep in mind to never invest more than you can afford to lose.

I haven't seen this website before so I checked to see what it looks like, but did you generate an address using there online version or did you download it and generated it offline? In case you did generate it online, are you sure that you don't have any malware on your computer? 

You're right about micro-transactions using Bitcoin, for this purpose the costs are too high. But this is going to change in the near future, as more people are using SegWit which will speed the network and cause lower fees. Also Lightning Network is being developed, this can potentially increase the confirmation times to 1 million transactions a second, according to their website. But I still believe Bitcoin is not fully speculation at this moment, it got much more use cases like value storage and just transactions with higher value. It still has the decentralized aspect, banks don't have.

Daar heb ik geen onderzoek naar gedaan. Zoals ik al zei heb ik er ook geen ervaring mee, dus ik raad ook niks aan. Het is slechts een antwoord op zijn vraag. Zelf gebruik ik ook Kraken maar ik kan mij voorstellen dat het net zo makkelijk is om het via blockchain.info te verkopen als je het toch al daar hebt staan. Aangezien de transactie tijden niet al te best zijn en de kosten hoog, als je bijvoorbeeld naar afgelopen week kijkt dan zou een uurtje een groot verschil kunnen maken.

If paying to bump is allowed then I can totally understand their decision. Getting the ANN thread on the front page might actually be a better way to raise awareness for a project than just signatures, depending on how much.

I would just hold your Bitcoins, it's actually the safest option for value storage (in crypto space). Also I was researching Ethereum before and the project seems to have some performance problems like Bitcoin. But I believe Bitcoin is in a further stage of solving this problem than Ethereum is, as the core developers already implemented SegWit to allow Lightning network transactions in the future. Ethereum is still experimenting a lot with solutions like Sharding, but there doesn't seem to be a definitive solution yet.

Zoals brobbel al zei, dan moet je jouw crypto valuta's opslaan in een exchange portemonnee. Daar zitten nogal wat risico's aan verbonden, als je bijvoorbeeld kijkt naar hoeveel exchanges in het verleden wel niet failliet gingen of zelfs erger verdwenen van de radar. Als je dit doet geef je in principe de verantwoordelijkheid en daarbij het eigenaarschap over jouw coins aan een derde partij, want de sleutel tot eigenaarschap (private key) is in hun bezit. Dat is precies wat meneer Nakamoto wou voorkomen met zijn project.

I think you're right about Litecoin being the silver in the crypto space but why would silver replace gold? Litecoin is not much different than Bitcoin other than some characteristics. If Bitcoin would somehow fail as a payment sytem then so does Litecoin. The only reason Litecoin is much faster and cheaper as a payment system is the fact that their traffic is much lower. 

Correct explanation but I have seen signature campaigns demanding participants to post on their ICO announcement thread, at least one timer per week. It didn't state that it has to be a positive post, that will probably make it legal on this forum.

Volgens dit artikel is het mogelijk voor gebruikers in de SEPA regio om Bitcoins te verkopen: https://support.blockchain.com/hc/en-us/articles/217439106-Buying-Selling-Bitcoin-Europe . Ik heb er zelf geen ervaring mee, maar hun web-wallet dienst bevalt goed.

Bitconnect has so much characteristics of a ponzi scheme.
I'm actually surprised that this 'crypto token' could operate for so long as so much trusted sources warned for the risks.
But I assume they could because they had the populair Youtubers promoting there pyramid scheme.
I hope that the people that were influenced by them learned there lesson, always do your own research before you invest large sums of money.
  
- Edit: Also look at recent Bitconnect conference where a man called 'Carlos Matos' is screaming "Bitconnecttt" and telling all sort on nonsense at the podium, it looks so suspicious. I mean why are there only people on the podium talking about how much money they made using this token, not one spreaker talked about technology or future developments.  

You expressly write China bans centralized exchanges, so can I conclude that decentralized exchanges are fine? In that case, this ban isn't that bad as it seems. I'm pretty sure that more decentralized exchanges will open, because the Chinese population seems to be one of the biggest participants in the crypto community.

Selling your coins right now is probably the worst decision you can make, unless you really need it right now. That's because Bitcoin proved multiple times in the past that it quickly recovers after a big drop. It might not be back in just one day, but expect some recovery quickly after the lowest point is reached.