Thats little amount of 0.01 btc per week but if you can raise to let's say a minimum 0.1 btc after some time the best options for you are:

1. Invest in bitcoin casino bankroll --- As with all investments there is high risk to lose your money but so far many of the big online casinos have proved to be profitable in the long run for the investors there although with small profit. If you like what you are seeing and getting if everything is going like predicted, you can add more btc to your investment.

2. Lending--- Try lending but always get a collateral at least 120% of your value that you will give for loan. Also make sure to accept only collateral which can be sold very quickly i.e altcoins.

Stay away from cloud mining, ponzi, Hyips and all shit like that.

The entire purpose of downloading the entire blockchain is to independently verify it and allow for the independent verification of every single block and transaction that occurs later. The only thing that a full node needs to "trust" is the genesis block, the very first block of the blockchain. This is actually hard coded into the software so that there is a defined starting point. After that, the node downloads all of the blocks from its peers. It will check each transaction in the block, and then check the block to ensure that it is valid. Because each block is chained together and transactions are also chained together, it is not possible to start from any point in the blockchain other than the beginning and still maintain trustlessness.

I saw someone mention some things about wishing they could buy gas and food with btc ...
I agree with them both, food especially.

So what about you guys ?
Anything that you wish you could buy with btc ? (legal things of course LOL )

What do you think about Decred ? I was able to make some profits with PoW and PoS, sold all, waiting.
The price seems to be stable around 1.5 USD, but people say you can have 8% per month with PoS.

Monero is going up consistently for two weeks now so I think it would be a good investment. It already surpass the trading volume and price of Etherium and Etherium Classic which has been in the top for a long time and more trader are getting in the game so I think it would continue to go up for now. Factom and Maidsafe Coin is also going up and down in terms of trade volume so I think it would be a good investment also profiting in the fluctuations.

Carlton you not serious about this right? Why do you need a technical expert to speak about the economical/social impact of Bitcoin? Andreas is the best man for the job, because he has the ability to comprehend the difference between coding Bitcoin and applying it in the real world. He has travelled the world, and he has spoken to thousands of people in this scene. I have to differ from you on this one, because I know of no better speaker than Andreas that would hit this out of the ball park.

If this was a technical seminar for programmers and developers, I would have agreed with you. ^hmmmm^

Can Bitcoin or any other altcoin help poor countries?
how? what can be done?

Is it still available for twitter following bounty?