nope, i just checked and it doesn't work for me either. used 2 different browsers and it has the same issue with the DNS.
even changed my DNS servers to different servers such as Google DNS servers but it still doesn't work. i think it only affects certain IP ranges. bitcointalk recently had a similar problem too, that theymos asked for tracerouts. this maybe the same issue.

it is not just ripple, there are more altcoins there with highest volume. and when the volume is ridiculously high that means they possibly have 0 fees and also are reporting fake volumes.

something similar to all the Chinese bitcoin exchanges last year before PBoC started putting them under observation. now you can see their volumes are back to normal levels.

the same will be true about Korean exchanges someday too. they will either scam and run away or become regulated and they put a stop to their fake volumes.

i wish you didn't speak about price in your comments, you just devalued all the things you said because of mixing the price in the discussions about "an exploit in the code".

i am no expert and didn't understand how this is supposed to work but what i am wondering is why nobody (or you-the self claimed security expert) has already exploited this?

read the assumption that i've made bold. right now BCC blocks are still being found every hour or half hour. there were 23 BCC blocks in the past 10 hours and that is about 60 BTC blocks, that is obvious that mining bitcoin is still more profitable specially with the rising price which is probably going to break $3500 too.

with that said my previous comment was a theory, i am very interested to see what happens in reality in the near future.

in my opinion it is not just the bitcoin name it is also building on top of bitcoin chain!
and it will fail or at the very least have a very tough time in the world of cryptocurrencies because of that. there were 16.4+ million coins available (some call it premine even) and people are dumping that and dumping leads to panic sell and leads to lower and lower prices.
low prices lead to low profit for miners and them leaving and their leaving leaves the network vulnerable. of course there is bitmain with all their hashrate which are backing it up, i am sure.

if they built something from the ground up it would have been a lot more successful than this. it may have even be worth at least 0.5BTC right now. for you see mining from block 0 could have meant no premine, no dump, and even regular users mining it. that is how all the rest of the altcoins work so far.

maybe not for groceries but there are a lot of shops around Japan that have started accepting bitcoin as soon as it became a legal method of payment and then a lot more started accepting bitcoin when the taxes on bitcoin payment was removed.
it is a slow process until people start using bitcoin on a wide scale, you can not expect that overnight people suddenly start spending their bitcoin all over the country.

well, you are dealing with money and it is a risky investment, nobody can doubt that. and because of this risk it becomes stressful. but how much stress you endure depends on many different things.
for example if you have invested a large amount of money, obviously you will endure a lot more stress than someone who has invested $50. and it is not just about the absolute number it is how much that number mean to you. $50 can be a lot for someone and a million can be nothing for a rich person. as they say, invest what you can afford to lose.

the other factor is how much experience you have. investing in bitcoin is easy. you always know bitcoin price will go up no matter what. in the long term bitcoin is the winner.
but when you invest in altcoins it is not true anymore. if an altcoin goes down it may never come back up. so you have to act accordingly. sell at a loss if you have to and prevent bigger losses and then invest at the bottom. never hold alts. this way you reduce the stress, consequently you can think better and make better decisions.

and don't worry you are still new (3 months is nothing). with time things will get easier for you.

how about bumping this topic on fixed intervals (lets say once a month) and then apologize to the community because they have not only not moved up but also either stayed the same rotting place or dropped lower.

or maybe someone else who has a better memory than me can bump it in a month and remind you how wrong you were each month

the problem that i have faced with bitcoin cash is that it is not easy to dump it otherwise i would have dumped it so fast and probably price would have dropped so much harder.
because of it, i could only sell a portion of my total bitcoin balance that was mostly held on exchanges for trading during the fork. and i have already dumped what i have received.

but now that price has dropped hard and is falling more, i think i won't bother with the dumping of the rest. i am trying to find a safe way to at least access it and maybe send it all to one address then have it ready for dumping if i saw a good price worthy of dumping.

bitcoin is on the rise and it will continue rising but it has a lot of obstacles on its way up.
the good news is these obstacles so far could only slow down the rise and could never prevent it. i don't see any reason for this to change in the future. bitcoin is still strong and it actually becomes stronger as time passes.
the thing is, when you create a decentralized peer to peer digital cash, a lot of people (such as banks) don't like it. so they prevent it as best as they can by things like throwing hard forks (bitcoin cash) at it, trying to centralize it,... hopefully the community stays aware and cuts their hands before they can do any damage.

bitcoin is what the majority of users accept as bitcoin. it doesn't matter what a random throwaway desperate account calls it. these pathetic attempts change nothing. bitcoin is still bitcoin and it is still pretty strong because it has the majority support.

what you desperate people did with your BCC is an altcoin which again the majority of users came to a consensus to call it as an altcoin hence treat it as one.

and as for its price, again the majority decided that it is not worth anything so they are dumping it and price is headed to $100 for now and possibly much lower in the future.

in fact you can!
there is a market for ethereum as its base on bittrex (which was added recently). if you visit this page you can see all the markets: https://bittrex.com/Home/Markets there are 4: BTC, ETH, USDT, BITCNY

and here is the direct link to ETH_LTC market which you can trade these two coins directly against each other: https://bittrex.com/Market/Index?MarketName=ETH-LTC

know that these markets are usually having lower volume making it harder to trade successfully specially if there is a big spread too.

this rise is mostly about 8th of August and the activation of SegWit. and it will continue to be like that. price will stay up above $3000 unless another FUD camp starts up and tries hard to break the $3000 resistance and push it down for more cheap coins before the next rise but i think it is too soon for something like that though.

for now the charts look pretty solid, we are back on track as before all this drama about "split" and BIP###
the $3200 is also showing a powerful support.

i dare say we can expect near $4000 by the end of this year too.

bitcoin is the only cryptocurrency that people around the world know.
they may have heard about eth since they spam the news but they never know it or care to look at it because they have no use for it whereas bitcoin is a currency which they can actually use!

bitcoin is the most secure coin that has never had any serious issues and no hacks or bugs in the code that leads to any losses (don't confuse an exchange getting hacked or you losing your wallet with bitcoin getting hacked).
ethereum has had at least 1 huge exploit called DAO which is never fixed and can happen again if someone intelligent enough comes and uses the smart contract exploit again. there has also been smaller ones. and on top of it all their official wallet was easily hacked and people lost millions of dollars held in multisig wallets.

bitcoin has a good and logical supply and a logical distribution with a set cap from the start.
ethereum is limitless. the supply knows no end. it will continue to be generated and make the market cap number become a big bubble. the rate at which it is being created is ridiculous. and as i said it has no cap.

the blockchain size of bitcoin may be big but ethereum's is huge it soon will be twice bitcoin and that means less nodes, and only centralized master nodes finally fully centralizing ethereum.

i don't think so. nothing can kill altcoins. you can see altcoins as two things: either projects with good value and features which are here to stay and shitcoins that have good pumping groups behind them which will pump and never let them die like ethereum and ripple.
and bitcoin cash is nothing compared to these big altcoins. they have a lot of money to throw at them and keep them alive. and meanwhile BCC doesn't really offer anything interesting.

those numbers seem to be only the hashrate that the viabtc mining pool can manage not the total hashrate of the total network.
you should look at the other column saying "Network HashRate" which seems to be total, but i am not sure how accurate those numbers are. 3208 P and 6718 P

.... and the waiting is over, bitcoin just broke the $3000 and we finally have in the rear mirror. and it was well expected too. despite all the drama and the FUD, we know that as soon as the scaling war is over price will start its rallying. and here we are now.

now the questions is how high will it go this time?
there has been speculation about $3600 as ATH of this rally like the one by goldman sachs

90% of the altcoins that you see today won't exist in 2020 let alone until 2025 and if you plan on investing in any of them to become a "millionaire" then maybe you should think again!
and the rest won't give you that much profit to begin with. they are mostly staying on low prices then during a couple of months tops, they get pumped heavily and then go back to their normal low prices which again means in long term you lose more money than you can make.

bitcoin is different because it is the only coin with real world application. and its adoption is growing. the rest of the altcoins are just tokens that are being speculatively traded and will cease to be profitable at some point.

coinbase guys are too good. they are protecting themselves by not adding bitcoin cash for now and preventing all the headache and possible losses because of its small thing which can easily be attacked.
i believe it is because of the pressure of certain people that they have released a new statement. and in that they are still too good! they've said they may add it in 2018! by that time this BCC is either dead or stable with less to worry about.

this is way too wrong
a node is not changing anything about confirmation time, the confirmation time is based on how long it takes to mine a block. and since the difficulty is still high and the hashrate is still low (even though difficulty was reduced) finding blocks takes a long time.
running a node helps decentralize the network, helps you have access to full verification, and some more benefits.