The system has already collapsed, it just keeps running. So yes, we are dealing with an actual zombie like system here, where it persists even after death. How ironic right? It keeps functioning, even after being technically done. That's my fear, that it just keeps going on like this forever and beyond, after they launch fiatcoin and the people is too stupid to use Bitcoin instead.

Warren Buffet always says, first rule of becoming rich is not losing any money. So I think this means, not wasting money in necessary crap and put as much money as possible in investments and trying to grow it. All money must go to make it convert into more money unless you need to buy necessary stuff, other than that, you must seek for good investments and pray that you have luck.

This chart should tell you a couple of things, including how boring holding Gold is. Bitcoin did what Gold did in 4 years. It also shows the potential for future bubbles where 5 figures will be nothing. The potential for growth in Bitcoin is too much so our brains refuse to process it as a logical scenario.

There's just no way to quit your job these days unless you hit some sort of jackpot and you have a very successful business. Posting in a forum profesionally is imposible due the low rates, you would need to post all day. If you could get something like 0.005 as a Legendary member then it maybe would be viable, other than that and it's just pointless.

I like the idea of doing groceries and everyday purchases with BTC but honestly, right now it feels like a waste of time not because of the lack of merchants, but because why would you pay with something that is insanely under valued and most likely will go to mars in the next decade. I feel like Bitcoin is gold to me. If I got paid monthly I would use some of it tho, but not when I depend on buying more.

The guy that got the 10.000 BTC back then by delivering those famous pizzas (it was indeed a couple), im pretty sure it's still pretty broke since im just sure he forgot about Bitcoin, didn't even know exactly what Bitcoin was or how to securely store, mistakenly lost it, or sold when it was like 5 dollars thinking price was under an extreme bubble.

I think autonomous corporations as well as sidechains and so on still remain sort of vaporware until we see them fully functional. I know it will happen and I know we will become rich once we see a world filled with Bitcoin based operative sidechains filling gaps in the automation process, but I dont know exactly when.

We just need the price to go up, that's all. Of course, even if you become a millonaire in 10 years holding 10 Bitcoins, I see problems in trying to cash out all that money if you want to avoid taxes, and it seems OP want's to do just that. I don't think it's possible without becoming insane trying to do tons and tons of IRL Local Bitcoin transactions in small batches.

I don't think this will become a serious threat. The most interesting stuff is being played right now, this translates into a stable price because all the moves are being made under the blanket. Whales are buying slowly to not destabilize the market (which wouldn't be beneficial). The 2015-2016 era is the era of stacking up while the software gets better and the infrastructure around it gets built. After 2016 I think we will see some serious shit.

Gold is always a guaranteed bet... if I was rich (sadly im not) I would have at least 50% of my fortune in gold by now. Anyone that is rich and has more than 50% of their fortune on banks is simply insane. I would put the rest across banks and some solid companies, and I would at least invest in Bitcoin with a 10% of my fortune because it's the most exciting place to be for the future.

An Euro is an Euro in every single European country, because it isn't a free market, it's regulated so merchants don't have a say on how much a currency is valued, otherwise it would just be like having a national currency.. one of the points of being in an union is to have the same monetary value across said conglomerate of countries.

It will theoretically, no demand needs to be increased, just mainated. If the demand is maintained and the total supply is cut in half... then we should be at 500 usd at least post halving given current price, so yes, it's good news, but of course, this is all theoretical, we'll see hw it performs under real world situation.

China is prone to collapse. Thats what happens when you grow an economy based on low quality products, mass produced trash and low IQ people that aren't capable of actual innovation. It's unfortunate, im sure there are lots of good people there, but they are all doomed due their shitty goverment.

This:
The only people who might still make a profit, will be the people with the cheap electricity or those who has some sort of edge over the rest.
Will still be the case in the future. It's basically the fundamental premise to make profits with mining... good price of electricity (cheap) and competitive hashrate. If there is some kind of technical leap the market will adapt, but it should follow moore's law anyway so I dont see any catastrophic scenareos with this.

I think the ongoing blocksize debate will keep happening forever, I don't see how some people are waiting for some sort of conclusion. Due Bitcoin's open source nature everything is open for debate constantly, so we should focus on trying to improve Bitcoin and ignore those that constantly talk about this or that blocksize mb limit as ideal.

Brazil will eventually ban Bitcoin if it becomes used widespread across the country and surpasses the Brazilean Real. Unlikely but could happen in a couple of years if their economy keeps crumbling. Eventually they will unban it and realize it's pointless and will try to cooperate.

I still don't understand why people is default after delivering all of their personal details on BTCJam... all that does is ruining your rep and as a side effect ruining any chances at getting any money in the future. I guess the people that default in BTCJam (which are A class) just can't pay for real? I don't see any other explaination. Is it true that there should be consequences, which is where collateral is useful.
I don't see how this process would be automated without trusting in a 3rd party tho (escrow that holds the collateral)

Well, it's a solid theory. Im not saying it's true, but there are clues that may aim at Hearn having an agenda, and maybe potentially Gavin but I think he's legit tho, or at least was at the begining before becoming pro XT. Apparently Hearn used to work in QinetiQ.. do your research. Again im not saying any of this is true, it's just an interesting theory, given the recent developments.

Where are the satoshi quotes where he said 1mb was temporal? what did he think about off chain transactions as a solution for this? I wonder what would he think about 8 mb raise, let alone 20..

Lol camwhoring doesn't pay much unless you attract a big public.. so here we go again, you need to attract a lot of people no matter what you do. Thats why being a camwhore it's lucrative if you are a hot girl or a hot guy but be ready to act a homo if you do that because only guys search for that shit on the internet, no girl will pay for guys when they can get them for free.