It's a bit more than that. I doubt OP is interested in the volatility and looking at Bitcoin as an investment. The question is strictly about security and this is much better with Bitcoin. A bank is still managed by a third person and you never know what that person might do. There might be a bombing in Switzerland that disrupts the network or power in the area and you won';t be able to use your money for a time. With Bitcoin it's all in your hands.

I wish it was as easy in Europe. Americans are strange. They have so many rights and freedoms, but they never stop complaining that they need more. They can carry guns in the street and have like 100 guns per 100 citizens. In Europe when you have 50/100 it's actually great and the country must have really modern laws for that to be possible. Most Europeans never shot a gun in their lives and have no clue how to use one and protect themselves. Believe it or not but some EU countries have less than 10 guns per 100 citizens!

I used to mine a bit, testing different USB miners and my own computer (CPU mining) and got bored with maintaining it all for just cents. Mining is for two kinds of people. One is hardware geeks, that treat it as a hobby and like maintaining it and tinkering, even if they're earning very little. The other one is professionals, able to rent a airplane hangar and fill it with machines worth hundreds of thousands USD. If you're none of them and want to earn, forget about mining and buy Bitcoin.

This is great news. The only issue I had with Bitcoin was the problem with confirmation times. Two years ago when this first came up the most common response was "don't wait for full confirmation, we have software that acknowledges payments after 1 confirmation." Years later even that single confirmation needed hours to come through. With this resolved nothing stands in the way of our Bitcoin becoming the fastest and most secure payment system on the planet.

They sure used a lot of fire extinguishers for that Tesla That thing was burning like a meth lab!
Phones are also blowing up and catching fire. Lithium cells are delicate and can explode in your pocket. This guy's e-cig turned him into a torch. http://edition.cnn.com/2016/02/25/health/e-cigarette-explodes-in-mans-pocket/
I read that many of the Tesla fires were caused by people running over curbs. One guy received a warning from the car's OS, ignored it and kept driving. A couple minutes later the car was on fire.

I agree with hilariousandco here. There are only 2 ways to tax you. The first one is to tax your fiat coming from an exchange to your bank account. This is actually what you legally should add to your tax declaration.
The second one is to tax your purchases. For instance if you decided to buy a house you will have to declare it and pay due tax.
I see one way they could trace your coins that is by taking your personal data from an exchange via a subpoena and linking your exchange address to your wallet. This data might be inconclusive and I doubt it could be used in court, because an address that sends money to your exchange account doesn't have to be owned by you. It can be your employer or your friend, or your pimp
Not only they can't beyond any doubt prove which addresses you own, they can't also seize these addresses, unless you give them the keys.

Cyborgs? This has been fought of over 30 years ago.
The idea of implanting people with mechanical organs to enhance their physical capabilities is great. Implanting the brain to allow it to connect with a computer is not.
Such link works both ways and can allow people to hack into our brains, maybe even take control over our bodies, delete our memories, even kill us. Any electronic equipment can act like an antenna, receive electromagnetic waves. This may allow people to literary electrocute those with implants by overloading their chips.

1. You lost part of the first sentence somewhere.
2. You're promoting a dice site in your signature. If you don't like gambling and think it's not worth it, maybe it would be a good idea to stop indirectly luring other people to it?
3. There are several similar topics in this section.

No, not really. What does experience have to do with you winning at slots? You really need enormous experience to do it!
Another great example is dice, surely a player who spent a year playing online dice has much greater chance to win than a newcomer. LOL

I think that's what BU tried to achieve with their council, but I guess they'd quickly change their minds if someone lost money trading and decided to sue them Roger and friends. 
ETF has a chance if Bitcoin becomes more stable. Maybe in a couple years there will be less red tape and knuckleheads at SEC, we'll see.

Bitcoin used to go without ETF for 7 years, there's no reason it wouldn't continue.

They denied the ETF because it had no insurance for their clients. SolidX hasn't done anything to fix this, so they got denied as well.
Not much of a shocker, really. This is not a final ruling, they can appeal or adjust and file again.

Here's the definition for you: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hard-fork.asp
What will happen next week like in 7 days? Nothing. Do you think we're going to have a fork next week?
It's a normal update. It can be good if it brings vital upgrades and no bugs, otherwise it's bad.

Oh yea, especially when they're paying in cash. People are using shell companies, laundering money through casino tokens. There are many ways to do it you can even pay a poor, homeless guy to make a bank account and give you the card, so that you can use an ATM to withdraw cash and disappear.
USD is being used for illegal stuff as we speak.

It's similar in Europe, not as bad as you say though. An average Londoner uses half of his monthly wage to pay the rent. You get similar prices in Eastern Europe. A 100m2 house (which is quite small) costs over 200k € and the average wage is around €10k a year , so you'd have to save up 100% of it for 20 years to buy a small house in the city. Usually nobody can afford it and people buy on credit and pay it back in the next 30 - 40 years.

I always thought it's simply not worth the risk. You don't have to be a genius to see that you're giving money to a company that:
Can be fake from the start
Can disappear at any time
Is very difficult to pursue in court and even if you try it's going to take years to get anything back
Pays very little
Needs a lot of time to pay back your money, which means you will start to earn money usually after 12-18 months. In a bitcoin world, where the price can go up 10% in a day, it's a very long time.

You're so wrong. In 2016, China had 68 submarines, compared to 75 owned by the US. Subs can patrol along the shores hunting supply ships and vehicle transports for months without the need to refuel.
A country that decides to attack never sends 100% of their forces to the front, but a defending one can, so we could expect not more than 80% of the US military (probably much less) to go to China, while the Chinese would defend with everything they have.
The States could launch an offensive against a small country like Iraq, that doesn't have a strong navy, but reaching the mainland China while being harassed from the sea would be extremely difficult. Even if they could win, it would be devastating for their military. China has over 2 million soldiers (active duty), which is the most in the world. To defeat such numbers the US would have to consider the possibility of losing at least 1 million of their own people and at least half of their arsenal. No country is going to take such odds.

It exists. We are using only a small part of our brains and there were people with supernatural powers, like mind readers, who after examination were found to be using more of their gray matter than a typical human. If we were able to awake that sleeping part of our brain we could most likely gain some additional skills like photographic memory and telepathy. Who knows, maybe even telekinesis.

I agree with your last statement, but Bitcoin is not a typical currency. It's more of a means of payment, an asset.
Investing in Bitcoin is a great idea and I'll tell you why. Bitcoin has been around for almost 10 years now and it has never been a bad investment. If you bought it at any point you've earned money on it, because it always gained value. I'm a simple man, when something brings me profit over and over, I tend to treat it as a good investment

You have a different opinion, you get arrested. How typical of fake democracy. In some countries only the people change but the system and corruption remain the same.
The Prime Minister and former President is Putin's puppet. Putin needed a break in his presidency, so he gave power to Medvedev for one term and took it back soon after, giving Medvedev a position in the parliament in exchange.

Ignorant or plain stupid? Maybe both. Did you come here to complain or just show the whole world that you're now butthurt about Bitcoin not sending your money as fast and as cheap as you'd like it to?
Go back to fiat, it will be just as you want it to and you will still have no idea how it works.