Please remember these fees are not obligatory or fixed, I agree the "minimum fees to be confirmed in 2 blocks" is excessive but the reason is the competition between us to get the best possible place in the chain, Fees are miners major profit now so they will take the ones with highest rate of course, I think something more fundamental and positive should be done regarding blocks and fees.

Just -Today- saw a post about an european bank offering accounts in BTC for users however it's not with profit/interest... Giving interest on BTC is very difficult since you need to invest the money to give interest, investing BTC wouldn't be easy "in the BTC form not USD" and even funding starting bitcoin sites is risky since they can easily default.

Every country has there own opinion and laws, for example China mainly because of currency, Other Asian countries because of how hard it's to follow up and regulate them, and allot of nations do it without actually understanding BTC and more for publicity.

i share this view too, with the price at 2200 and apparently lagging a crash in price would follow soon IMO, i'm not selling but not buying as well until I see the next trend of the market... Also a crash here might be a very big one, so better be careful.

it might be an impacting factor "can't deny it completely as a very large number was hit, some of them did pay the ransom" but I guess the reason is more fundamental from that with the increasing media attention and coverage and new countries like Korea and India buying more into it.

Actually no, other than ETH none of them is even interesting enough, some seemed promising like STR and later LUM, Monero and before Darkcoin, Litecoin (Doge coin was just a gig from beginning, so no), Right now ETH is spearheading against BTC, although it taking even a little from it's space is unlikely.

I save bitcoin for future purpose mainly as cold storage for children's education and the like. It has the capability of becoming a global currency to replace fiat, though its a big long shot idea but it is capable of becoming such. My reasons are for trading and earning money from it. I also sell bitcoin to get fiat money when prices rise (so not holding indefinitely).

They would grow interested in it overtime, most of them also have keen eyes to opportunities of profit so I guess they will get involved later (if not already using BTC), They wouldn't be a negative impact to the market because of the amount of FIAT pushed to the market hence increasing the market cap.

Better in which aspect exactly, if in the possibility of generating massive return in a short period of time then it's better. However regarding the stability, the less downward curve are better in gold than the volatile bitcoin. IMO bitcoin is best as short term trading and gold as long term savings.

I don't know about tattoo's, I wouldn't find it possible for some to record their BTC, security key or even a wallet implanted under the skin, just because of the many weaknesses, Also a wallet needs to be private so why share it and link it with others? (unless you are asking for donations or promoting something specific address to fund them).

in that time, it wasn't an actually a bad deal IMO, However it just shows you how reliable, resilient and constitutionality increasing in value from the first day to day, even the change from down to upward trend it improves regularly over long term till now.

Username: jhannlenr

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I think OP already Emailed them, However:

* OP is using blockchain.info, if you check the TX you would see it is relayed by them
* BC users can not sign messages with the address

familiar with the new interface, probably entered the 1 in BTC instead of USD

best of luck op, hope you get your funds back.