I disagree, you just need to use one wallet that gives you control and has flexibility  (for the purpose you mentioned) but educate yourself on how to use bitcoin.
for instance many are using electrum and that wallet gives you enough flexibility to change most of the things that are needed and if the user has educated himself then he knows what fees would be appropriate.

and I disagree with suggesting blockchain.info that wallet is bad, specially for beginners, for someone who is experienced that may work as a handy everywhere-accessible-wallet kind of thing.

this tab you are on seems to be showing the "history" of your orders, in which case they must be completed orders, but I admit it is a bit strange that it is saying "executed" instead of "complete" try refreshing the page and see if your balance shows up.

also to check to see if an order is still open or filled/closed check the other tab called "open orders" that should show the "trade or open order" if there is any and lets you cancel if you want.

and when you are confused you can always go to your exchange account and check the history, balance, and open orders to see what that third party platform in the picture is showing to you.

haha, actually 2k will be a trap for you when you sell and price continues going higher and then you start FUDing again in here calling the drop to $100 and you will be forced to buy back again at $2100 and that is when they dump on you.
have fun with your selling point.

this poll doesn't have a both option yet!
so I voted for currency. but in fact even if anybody is using bitcoin as a currency they are automatically using it as an speculative asset (for profit or as investment) also.
right now we are on the fast adoption part of the chart even though sometimes it seems like price is stable or even dropping but we are still on an S shape chart with the initial slow phase long over and now we are on the steep rise nearly 90 degrees to the moon. and until mass adoption this will continue so the profit will be there. and at the end of this phase (which may take a couple of years) bitcoin will become a currency only with little profit.

the problem is not pools, it is mining power/equipment. it is not easy to invest in mining equipment when the manufacturer is also in China and also you needing a cheap electricity (although I think that is no longer the case with nearly $2000 price) and also it may not be allowed in some countries to do so.

lol, sorry I just had the Quatloo Trader in my bookmarks and didn't check it
try the below link, it will search all the projects on github containing the keyword "poloniex" and will exclude the word "lend" so it doesn't show any lending bots to you:
https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=poloniex+NOT+lend&type=

you can also do this to get the specific language (python in this case)
https://github.com/search?l=Python&q=poloniex+NOT+lend&type=Repositories&utf8=%E2%9C%93
you can also change the language from sidebar.

you just need to use a search engine and search for it
something like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=poloniex+bot+code

also if you are not looking for a bot, but looking to make your own then look for API wrappers. meaning a code that is written in a language that you know which is containing all the API calls that poloniex supports, that way your work will be reduced a lot.

you can always use something like this too: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=711966.0

your friend didn't understand how bitcoin works or he was not capable of putting it into words. there is no "lag issue" with "Blockchain" or with bitcoin. in fact there is no issue at all. the only thing that you may call issue is that the number of people using bitcoin grew a lot recently so there are more people sending transactions and also on top of all that, there is some group of people who are spamming (sending a large number of transactions for no reason) and since blocks can only contain a limited number of transactions there is a competition for getting that space. this competition is what we call "paying higher fees"!

the "issue" will be solved when:
- spam stops
- people send less transactions, usually happens when price volatility is smaller
- we get a capacity increase

it is an ongoing process so we can't possibly know a "firm" date on that. and it is a "maybe" at best. I believe near June, they start slowly resuming their full operation, maybe first ask their users to properly register and fully verify first and then open up some channels to slowly let in and out some money.

things will surely be under a lot of observation and restriction from PBoC, because the Chinese exchange have been naughtier than we thought

for choosing a wallet always check this link: https://bitcoin.org/en/choose-your-wallet to see if the wallet is even listed there and also more importantly to get the real link to their official website/download link.

as for fee paying wallets, I believe coinbase does or did that at least in the past. not sure if they still do it.
although it is best if you choose a proper wallet that gives you full control over your funds rather than trusting a third party to do it for you no matter how trusted they are.
another link to read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631151.0

I've found another transaction from the old days. just be careful when looking at this screenshot since it can cause heart failure

from $77,966 to $26,250,150


it is this transaction https://blockchain.info/tx/273948116651d9334bbdf40e30f01ef60b0f37437732a15e04c4c7a3efd75530
and in case it wasn't obvious, this doesn't belong to me

if people start thinking like this then we need to kiss bitcoin goodbye as a currency! and all the businesses working with bitcoin have to close down shop because bitcoin price is going to change for the timebeing since it is still volatile.

what does a mistake/bug have to do with "something" being cheaper than bitcoin!

and if you want to find the highest fee paid ever just google highest fee ever paid and find the ~200BTC fee in history transaction!

edit: have fun
https://blockchain.info/tx/cc455ae816e6cdafdb58d54e35d4f46d860047458eacf1c7405dc634631c570d
14,836,520.632 sat/B

Bitcoin's share of the total marketcap (not its dominance) is decreasing because of a very simple math.

market capitalization = supply * price

increase the supply you increase the marketcap.
increase the supply to a ridiculous number like 100 billion you get a ridiculously big marketcap.
now have hundreds of altcoins with ridiculous numbers you get a huge total marketcap in which bitcoin has a tiny share.

Manipulation 101

I don't know what you are talking about
all the exchanges that are accepting fiat are following the KYC AML and all that BS and your bank already knows and tells everyone you have made a deposit to a bitcoin exchange, so they already know you are a bitcoin user.
also exchanges like coinbase (One of the biggest exchanges currently) is working directly with the government, IRS and reports all the transactions that is made through them (I'm only partially kidding).

and these are the ways regular people use, and not-regular people who are using some other methods are not going to pay with bitcoin to go on "the list"

what was the "reputed wallet" was it by any chance blockchain.info?! that wallet is a piece of shit when it comes to fee suggestion. and if your transaction took 2 days it either had a very low fee of <90 satoshi per byte or it was spending some unconfirmed output.

with that said I strongly disagree with what holiday and QuestionAuthority are trying to convince others about. bitcoin is not some millionaires' money to just move around their $20,000 around the world. it is supposed to function for all purposes. maybe not buying coffee day by day or paying your friend $5 but for small transactions too like buying a 5-10 dollar VPN .


words are empty. show some action, show us your "better coin"'s adoption. show us the merchants that are accepting your "better coin". show us the countries that are considering your "better coin" as a legal way of payment.
people like you repeating the same script about altcoins only proves your desperation about bags that you are holding and want more profit on them.

Homeland Security's US Citizenship and Immigration is now considering accepting bitcoin payment for US Visa application/payment fees

the documents from USCIS.gov website reads:
"USCIS is currently considering issues involving virtual currency such as Bitcoin." related to "the use of bitcoin to transfer investment funds to the new commercial enterprise".

http://www.coindesk.com/us-officials-weigh-bitcoin-payments-eb-5-visa-program/

let me just put some emphasis on what you just wrote here.
Ripple Total Supply = 99,994,799,156 XRP (~100 billion)
bitcoin Total Supply = 21,000,000 btc (21 million)

Ripple circulating Supply = 38,305,873,865 XRP
bitcoin Total Supply = 16,332,937 btc

nice stats when you look at it this way, isn't it.

it is the "media effect" and if it weren't for this ransomeware it would have been for something else entirely. they just paint bitcoin in negative light as they please. and there aren't many things that we can do.

the only thing that can negate this is probably the rest of the news. for example when the only thing you hear in media is "bitcoin+ransomeware" then you obviously think bitcoin is only used by hackers.
but when in addition to that you keep hearing "Japan+bitcoin+legal way of payment" and then "Australia doing the same" and then "US thinking about doing the same (I read this on reddit yesterday)" and so on, then the negative effect will be far less.

are we sure all of these are legit payments from victims of this malware?
I mean the hackers could have simply sent some bitcoin to those addresses just to hype things up and show others that other virtual victims are paying the ransom so you (the real victim) should pay it too!

you know like what some businesses do, put some money in to show your business is active and have customers