Binance also trades in IOTA and don't have restrictions whether you come from the United States or from Poland. I haven't personally used this exchange but I heard good stories about them. One nice aspect of this exchange is that it's decentralized, just like Bitcoin and IOTA. I don't know any other exchanges that accept IOTA besides this one. I've looked on coin conversion websites like shapeshift but I couldn't find one that supports IOTA.

If you really think that the project contributes something to the society then you should just hold your coins. I did the same with Bitcoin when in the beginning it made a downfall and everybody was telling me that it was a bubble. An increase will happen by itself if the project is truly valuable. Development is an important aspect when you want to determine if a project is valuable. You should ask yourself these questions and then decide whether to hold/sell/buy.

It's because the media is able to influence opinions and make theirs, them. That applies for everything, they make use of the fact that most people have no basic knowledge about everything so it's easy to influence their opinion about something that they never had. Most people that researched blockchain technology or Bitcoin will be positive, it's just the people that had no opinion that think negative about it. 

The fees could be reduced if more wallets would implement Segwit or if users started to switch to wallets that do support it. But there's a permanent solution coming that will make the network much faster and reduce the fees significantly, it's called the lightning network. It could support over 1 million transactions per second and still register them on the blockchain. However that's a technology that's still being developed so it won't solve the problems tomorrow.

There is not really an accurate measurement to tell whether an exchange is legit or not, there have been a lot of exchanges that were trusted by the community but later turned out to be scams. Make sure to store your coins in a paper- or desktop wallets after you did the trade, in most exchanges this process is called withdrawing.

That's a good question, I understand your concern as this is the only way to prove that you belong the Bitcoins. Like other mentioned, web-wallets do this to make their service working, as you let them store your wallet on their servers. It's a risk, that's why many people recommend not to store huge amounts of Bitcoin on web-wallets. For desktop-wallets this isn't the case, at least for the wallets that are opensource. As their source code can be examined and it's even possible to build the executable yourself from source so you don't have to download the pre-compiled executable. That's why I prefer wallets that are open-source.

I think Satoshi's end goal is to succeed his project to a stage where people have the ability to be independent from banks, while that's almost true now there are still a lot of businesses that don't accept Bitcoin. For me the end goal is basically the same, I don't want my money to be controlled by banks. As they use my money to invest in nucleair weapons and other bad stuff.

Om wat voor bedrag gaat het? Ik heb voorheen wel is gelezen dat bezittingen onder de 25 duizend euro in Bitcoin kwijtgescholden worden van belasting. Buiten dit soort bedragen van de belastingen ook wel mee, Bitcoin valt onder box 3: Sparen en beleggen. De waardes kunnen hier gevonden worden:

Zoals je zelf al zei is dit mogelijk bij een van de Bitcoin ATM's in Nederland. Ze zitten best wel verspreid over Nederland dus ik ga er vanuit dat er bij jou ook wel een in de buurt moet zijn. Mocht dat niet het geval zijn dan kan je op LocalBitcoins met andere gebruikers een afspraak maken om een transactie te doen. Ik raad wel aan om met iemand zaken te doen die een goede reputatie heeft, dan weet je dat je handelt met iemand die zijn afspraken nakomt.

Als het goed is geven applicaties die 2-factor-authentication gebruiken een backup-code, heb je deze toevallig nog ergens? Ik denk dat het je enige oplossing is. Heel misschien kan je Binance je uit de brand helpen, ik zou voor de zekerheid even contact met ze opnemen.

The energy used to mine blocks is not wasted, it's used to keep the currency decentralized. I don't think that the energy that is used to power a TV is much more justified than the energy to mine blocks. TV is just for entertainment purposes like you mentioned but mining really adds something to the society, because it makes payments possible without a central authority.

That's good news, I expected this jump so I have been buying Litecoin for the last 8 months. Litecoin always seemed under-priced in my perspective, as it always was at least 1/300 of the value Bitcoin had. Although the supply is only 4 times bigger than that of Bitcoin.

The first time I heard from it was at 2012, when someone mentioned that I could use this to accept payments instead of PayPal. Because, at that time I did a lot of in-game item trading using PayPal. However I didn't give much attention to it as I thought it was a payment method like PayPal with less users on it. After a year or so PayPal limited my account because I had an abnormal amount of money in my account so I called them and things were solved but on that same call I just sort of slipped out that I was underage, so they disabled my account till I was 18. I felt really bad and searched for alternative payment methods and came across Bitcoin again. That was when I bought my first Bitcoin at a price of around a 100 Dollars.

I'm not really informed about Ethereum but I've seen a lot of threads circulating here discussing the Crypto Kitties DApp (decentralized application) that slowed the network down. It might be still the case or maybe even more DApps got released? The attention in the media for Ethereum also could have been  a cause for the slow network as this also results in more traffic on the network.

There was a nice opportunity to sell them on 17k so you could rebuy them now and make a decent profit. However that's always easy to say afterwards, it could've been different. If you still own your Bitcoins then I would recommend holding them, I predict that the price will rise again, as these small dumps always happen after a significant increase. Buying extra Bitcoins would not be a bad idea right now, but it's your own choice.

Bitcoin is freedom, it makes you independent from banks. It's a technology that is growing, there are new updates coming that will dominate the current digital payment providers, like Visa and MasterCard. It could be an investment if you believe in the future of it. Besides that does the value really fluctuate, which could be a good thing if you want to make profit from speculating on it on a daily basis.

I would invest in Bitcoin rather than Ethereum, because in my opinion Bitcoin does have more potential for mass-adaption than Ethereum does. Basically because Ethereum's smart-contracts are too complicated to understand for regular non-tech-savvy people, Bitcoin on the other hand is just a matter of sending funds to the right address. Bitcoin also has the advantage that it was the first crypto-currency ever created, Ethereum is only around for less then 2 years. But it can't hurt to invest in both, for example 80% Bitcoin and 20% Ethereum.

With that kind of money I wouldn't feel safe investing it all in just altcoins. I think Bitcoin has the best future because it was the first crypto-currency ever created and therefore has the most trust. Also because it's development team is working on a technology called the lightning network which is a permanent solution for the scaling problems and will make it possible handle millions to billions of transactions per second. This technology makes Bitcoin faster than Visa and MasterCard together. I would invest the rest of your money in Litecoin, it's identical to Bitcoin but not overpopulated, so it doesn't have the scaling problems yet. This coin will probably implement the same technology, maybe even earlier than Bitcoin, like it did with Segwit.

If this doesn't happen then your Bitcoins will reappear in your wallet after 3 days.

Bitcoin is not a scam coin, it's actually the first crypto coin that was created that made use of a blockchain. It's the technique that every other altcoin uses to make their currency decentralized. If you think that Bitcoin is a shitcoin, then you shouldn't use any other coin because these are just copies of Bitcoin. Yes it's true that Bitcoin faces scalability issues but Bitcoin developers have found a solution for it, which currently being developed called the 'Lightning network'. Although you're not right about the altcoins being better because these coins don't have to handle the extreme amount of transactions Bitcoin has. Some coins might have increased the block-size but that doesn't really solve the problem permanently, it's just a way to handle the current flood of transactions temporary. This increase also brings side-effects with it, like more centralization which is basically the opposite of what Satoshi intended his currency to be.