If you sent Bitcoin to the wrong address, I'm afraid you're not getting it back.

There's no definitive "Bitcoin team" - there's the developers, Bitcoin Core, but they can't decide to override a specific transaction as there are no third parties which have power over them (this is a huge part of the reason for Bitcoin's existence).

If you sign a message from an address, anyone can go and search on a block explorer and find the Bitcoin in that address and transactions that have gone to or from that address.  It won't necessarily compromise your security, provided that you're quite sure the address can't be linked to you.  You won't be exposing your private key, so your Bitcoin would still be safe provided that what you use to sign the message also isn't linked to you.

Japan is known for innovative technology as much as Europe is.  I think you're just being racist towards Asians.

China will continue to be the world leader in mining and some other reasonably stable businesses which can be ran with Bitcoin.  However, this is not inherently a problem to decentralisation - the problem only occurs when this business is concentrated in the hands of just a few people.  Unfortunately, mining is concentrated in the hands of a few people, but this is nothing to do with "China" per se, as if it is one single entity.

So in that sense, no one will be a world leader because the only people that have control are the miners (which can be anyone and Chinese monopolies can be dethroned at any point by businesses) and the developers (as well as those holding Bitcoin).

The reason that Bitcoin hasn't failed is a mixture of two things:

-Even less consensus from altcoins (they all have different intentions)

-Loads of people HODLing and not giving up for any logical reason.

The problem is that on the forum we have you favouring Litecoin (arguably the most logical standpoint, since it's well-established and SegWit is a possibility), loads of people favouring Ethereum, some potentially misled people favouring DASH, some people favouring the even less scalable Monero, et cetera, et cetera.  Even though the end goal is slightly less definitive, this should be viewed as a lack of consensus just like Bitcoin is struggling from.  Even if Syscoin has activated SegWit and Litecoin might activate it, there will be people flocking to coins left and right.

There are as many good methods to earn Bitcoin as there are to earn fiat currency, you just have to actually participate in things and offer your services to people who are willing to pay.  You can always earn fiat currency and convert it to Bitcoin, and even if you don't do that you can just offer something on the Services section of the marketplace and be successful.

As for obvious ways, there's signature campaigns like mine (but don't treat them like a job) mining (but it's expensive / hard) and trading altcoins (don't jump on pumps).

If you have a decent starting capital, you can always put your money into investments - among the best of them are casino bankrolls.

Bitcoin isn't 100% public and USD isn't 100% anonymous.  Bitcoin transactions are public from the blockchain but they're pseudonymous as addresses are hard to link to individuals.  While Bitcoin isn't anonymous and those who don't take very careful precautions can be caught, it's a lot more anonymous than digital fiat (e.g. bank transfer) so if you're doing anything online, Bitcoin is the best choice since a lot of criminals already accept it.

Even cash USD, while having separate purposes to Bitcoin, isn't 100% anonymous.  Also, if you think that USD is accepted everywhere, you're pretty arrogant about how national currencies work.

If you are looking for Japan based exchanges, Bitflyer is the biggest.  That'll let you buy up to 250,000 yen worth of Bitcoin (at time of writing about $2,250) each month with only a phone number or Facebook account.  After verification you can buy more.

If you really want to be safe with your Bitcoin though, I would try LocalBitcoins.  It's anonymous and lets you do cash transfers, so you could buy large amounts of money from a trusted seller.  Unfortunately some people sell LocalBitcoin accounts with high trust sometimes, so the best thing to do is choose more than one account each quarter and exchange with cash since it's not reversible, which would make you anonymous and mean that you're not dealing with an exchange.

Yeah, it's margin trading.  A lot of exchanges have it.

Pretty much all lending services are going to be pretty risky, so the important thing is not to loan all your money at once, but the problem is that you can't make a lot of profit from a small loan so you have to have a pretty large starting capital.

The problem is that the chance of defaulting on these loans is huge because if you do a long term loan they'll have to pay back the loan plus the hugely increased price of Bitcoin, which makes them very likely to fail even if they're not trying to scam you.  On Bitbond, loans are usually denominated in USD, which means that with 13% interest rates per year you're going to fall way behind the Bitcoin price rises in earnings, which makes your loans meaningless and potentially they could dig into the profit you would have made from HODLing.

Paying a low fee is not being "selfish" or "greedy" it's just sending a transaction which miners can just not confirm for a long time.  The fee market is part of what makes the choice practical - you want a quick transaction, you pay a high fee.  The price rising is not what results in a higher fee, it's just that Bitcoin isn't scalable.  Litecoin, on the other hand, is more likely to scale (and this might help Bitcoin, really).

I wasn't here in 2013, but maybe people were just going too fast, if they were really hyped up.  Nostalgia is a terrible thing though, because it makes you see everything through rose-tinted glasses.  I doubt 2013 was quite as perfect as you remember.

For your savings, you should definitely hold gold and/or Bitcoin.  This post is unreasonable though because not everyone can expect to gain from an asset.  If everyone in the world held gold and continued to do so, the price would not rise (because the price increase would not be from an increase in adoption so it would have to be due to progression of the economy, which cannot happen all of the time).  Even if progression of the economy did happen all the time, the continued introduction of new gold would result in falls until all of the gold was introduced.  So by nature, gold's inflation rate is neutral or positive - only its current state results in deflation.

The same applies to Bitcoin, but in a different way.  If everyone held Bitcoin, the rate of new Bitcoin being introduced would decrease as gold does, but at a more specific rate.  So in the end, Bitcoin's inflation rate would neutral or positive to a negligible extent (tiny fractions of a Bitcoin per block).  However, Bitcoin in its current state would be inflating if everyone held it.  This does not mean that anyone is stealing your Bitcoin from you - on the contrary, inflation can be tolerable and even positive to an economy's operation and therefore does not represent the direct theft of money.  Furthermore, this potential inflation would just subsidise miner fees.  Right now, we are beginning to realise that as fees only represent a small amount of miners' revenue, after continued block halvings it would eventually result in huge fees to the amount of Bitcoin being sent if they were minor transactions - so the inflation of Bitcoin proves that inflation can be positive as it serves a definitive purpose which affects the community positively.

The admin of the YoBit exchange is YoBit on here as well, and is reasonably active so you could always contact them.

YoBit is shit but they're legit, I'm 98% sure that you'll get your coins eventually.

No.

Freebitco.in is a trusted faucet running for a long time.  But still we can say that putting your money with them isn't worth it.  What are the chances that a Bitcoin company like that, which seems pretty desperate for money as it is, is going to last more than 100 / 4.08 = 24.5 years continuously giving you these returns?  Looks to me pretty close to zero, and any investment, even in casino bankrolls, is safer in itself just because you can diversify.  

And if you're just talking about other groups' rates, you're talking about 2.5% on most of the major ones.  Not that that money is safe either, it's basically an online wallet with a service that's messing around with your money and could fail or even turn into a scam.

The link comes up with an error when you try to open it.

Regulation could do either, depending on how governments act in their regulation.  For example, recently many people have been talking about new laws in Japan giving Bitcoin recognition by acknowledging that it has features of a currency (a move that most other countries are yet to take, generally having unclear stances or regarding it as an asset).  However, the law's actual practical purpose is introducing regulation on exchanges and making users of Bitcoin more open to the government to regulate (as it is now legitimised by them).  This law seems to be accelerating adoption though.

In other cases regulation may slow it down, like China's plans to regulate Bitcoin exchanges closely.  So my point is that it's mostly based around how governments phrase it, rather than what they actually do.

This is a common fallacy related to bot trading.  A bot on an exchange never acts instead of you, it acts as your servant.  Gunbot and C.A.T (the main bots on the forum, the former being on Poloniex and the latter on exchanges of your choice), make you set how you want them to run.  You choose the best trading pair (a currency with a chart that goes up and down consistently, no pump/dumps as it's a day trading bot), then you choose the variation of price that you want it to allow before buying and selling (so it'll automatically place orders for you) and then it's ready to go.  If you actually want it to be profitable you have to check the charts every day and consider changing these parameters and the instructions of the bot.  You also have to be prepared to take your money out of the currency if it's looking bad, or shut down the bot and trade manually in certain situations, if you want to profit.

Seems an odd choice to go with a forked coin.  Still, Ethereum has a lot more exposure since the recent pump, so maybe it's time for it to get some competition.  

That's quite an arrogant way to look at it though.  You shouldn't assume that it's going to go as high as it possibly could, especially when altcoins can get huge dumps at nearly any time.

I suppose this is a bit late for the thread but since someone else wants to know, I disagree.  I actually haven't bought a license, but Gunthar gives a very reasonable explanation for it.  All the bot does is make very quick decisions based on parameters you set (how much change there should be, what currencies to trade between, etc).  It is not trying to be a substitute for real trading l, but it can be effective as an aid to real trading.

Actually, he said that they had failed, not that they were not trying (and he was objectively correct, as a consensus has not been reached).  His points about division were clearly addressed to you and to others who are divisive and close-minded (for example, arguing with a fascist does not make you one).

Objective truth.  And this seems like a creative insult to me.  Your repeated use of the term "liar" and attempts to discredit Danny are unhelpful (and I hope this is addressing your "clever editorial decisions" "like a man").

This only actually applies in the event of a hard fork.  If a hard fork happens, then we'll have the clear lines drawn up between different camps to make our decision.  Right now, our only real power is our potential power in the future (if the BU camp knows that no users will use the new coin, they would mostly give up).  

Right now, the miners have the power.  Ironically, while BU supposedly wants to give miners power, we could take it all away from them if a fork actually happened and go back to BTC from BTU.

Just to clarify, the two are pretty much mutually exclusive.  SegWit doesn't have a change that requires a hard fork so if it's​ chosen there won't be one.
I'd say it's okay to keep some of your Bitcoin on exchanges for trading, which is the main use of the speculation section.  If a hard fork were imminent I would take it off straight away though.
What stable alts do you suggest? Alts like ETH and DASH were at least partially pumped it seems (falling now), and Litecoin is uncertain now as well.  Monero or something?  Any ideas? (Don't suggest ones that will "moon soon" those are always the riskiest even if they're good).

If you're posting about altcoins only in relation to Bitcoin, it's fine on the Bitcoin section.

A class action law suit would be stupid.  All of their actions have been 100% legal.

What you should do is consider arguing less aggressively for other exchanges, especially when other people ask for a good exchange to trade on.  Unfortunately, I still think Poloniex is the best altcoin exchange with serious trading volume (and the pumps are insane with all the bots).