We can't instantly.

You're probably thinking about a signature campaign - these are when a company decides to pay users for posting while having their advertisement in the users' signature (such as mine, Bitmixer).

I would recommend that you don't participate in these until you begin to have a better understanding of Bitcoin and you read a lot on the forum.  Most campaigns won't or will seldom accept newbies anyway, so you'll have to wait and build up activity (posts, but you can only gain 14 per two weeks), before considering joining.  Also note that if you spam in the campaign, you may be locked out and added to the Signature Managers Against Spam (SMAS) list.

You can also participate in giveaways in the Games and Rounds section and offer your services in the Services section of the marketplace (where signature campaigns are located) to earn a reasonable amount of Bitcoin.  Make sure to read all the necessary threads before posting so that your account doesn't get labelled as a potential scammer.

Good luck.

The S9 was definitely the most efficient miner, Avalon have been lagging behind a lot in terms of energy efficiency (although the actual hash rate to cost has been pretty good) so for electricity bills that cost anything you should go with Bitmain.

Actually I disagree, because SegWit also won't reach a consensus quickly at all.

There's an attitude of just hard forking and moving on later, as if a hard fork wouldn't be damaging and dividing to a very well established coin - not to mention that SegWit is much better as a temporary solution (no need for a HF, effective block size increase within reason, potential for LN in the future which BU doesn't have).

What's even more important is that Bitcoin wallets are accessible and the concept is obvious to the lay man.  I think this is underestimated - people don't have to know everything but when it's gradually being adopted it has to be even more obvious, so that hopefully it will be used more in these retailers.

Not sure exactly how safe it is as an actual investment, but they're nearly definitely legit (can never be totally sure with these things, but people on the forum have been selling Goldmoney accounts before and it looks like people genuinely do trust them with their money).  They're also listed on the Toronto stock exchange and have a market cap of hundreds of millions of dollars, so they're definitely not out to get a quick buck by stealing your money.

Obviously a large amount of the revenue from YouTube adverts will go to Google as well as the content creators, and tip buttons would have to be in addition to the choice that content creators have to add adverts (but it's still a good idea, Bitcoin is ideal for this especially since no confirmations are needed for a few days after sending a tip).

An important thing to do with Bitcoin on social media is to show the simplicity of shopping with it.  You grab something, scan the Bitcoin address with your phone, hit send and you're done.  The simpler people make it appear the better it will be for the masses.  "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler".

Altcoins are good for the Bitcoin economy as they encourage development and people often even buy into altcoins to increase their stake in Bitcoin.  Litecoin, for example, has risen significantly recently and rightly so as it's well on its way to SegWit activation.  People shouldn't be afraid of altcoins, the shit ones like DASH will die off as they already are and coins like ETH are mostly just being pumped (even ETH is starting to fall now).

Bitcoin is now on an uptrend and the hype about altcoins taking over should be dead.

Nice try.  SegWit has an effective block size of 2mb anyway, and doesn't require a hard fork which would cause the price to tumble in the short term at least and be detrimental to the network (especially with continued opposition from any major Core supporters).

Yep, however much BTC you have you would have an equal amount of BTU.  The difficulty will be affected based on how many people are mining each chain and we can't predict this outcome (or what exactly the price would be of each strain or whether it's profitable).
You choose, but the pool is deciding whether to support the hard fork - so if you're mining in a pool that supports it, your miner will be contributing to it happening and it is likely that the pool would be a pool for BTU in the future (you could always join a BTC pool).
Stores that accept Bitcoin would take whatever they choose.  I doubt that any small merchants would take BTU and I think most will stick with BTC, but that's just my opinion.

They aren't the same but they are based on the same thing to put it lightly, so BTU would kind of be a development of BTC which supports bigger blocks/miners choosing to change the block size at will (which I disagree with).  Some people say it's an altcoin as it is a separate coin from BTC which is mined separately, but it isn't, of course, the same as an altcoin as it has to be supported by a large amount (over half and most likely over 75%) of the hash rate (computing power for mining).

I hope that was clear enough.  Don't worry though, it might not happen at all.

I think you forget that BU isn't the current development team.  If they were, you could be sure that they would be equally nasty if not nastier than Core.  They can't do a mandatory activation without having the power to do so - however nice they try to look, they're still propped up by the likes of Roger Ver, Jihan Wu etc and acting like BU is some grassroots movement isn't considering the reality of Bitcoin centralisation.

Spot on.  It's been near sideways for a good couple of days with a slight uptrend and I would say that bulls and bears have pretty equal strength right now.  Even the slight fall of ETH and extreme fall of DASH and other altcoins won't stop the FUD and the high fees/confirmation times.

Bitcoin is getting stronger, but ETH hasn't really fallen very much.  It's still on about $46, which is not that far behind where it's been sitting for about a week (about $50-55, it may have reached higher very briefly but its main point was around there).  I think ETH's dump will take a little while as a lot of people actually had faith in it due to manipulation from whales which is making its price increase somewhat more sustainable (although not fully).

DASH, on the other hand, was blatantly a pump from the start and only idiots put their money in it actually expecting it to be the new Bitcoin.  There's still legitimate support for Litecoin, which is a better coin than any of the main hyped ones, and I think it's great that Litecoin's price is rising as it shows a (slight) move to more stable altcoins.

They probably only mentioned that it was "unpredictable" as a means of promoting something which gives people certainty (a Ponzi scheme claiming to be a "mining pool" (confusing pool mining with cloud mining itself).  I hope newbies don't get caught up in it.

It's probably just because Bitcoin ATMs don't require much upkeep.  They're a very simple investment since you know that loads of cryptocurrency geeks in your area will go and pay even if you're no good at marketing or anything, plus you can charge really high fees since to lots of people it'll be some kind of gimmick so that they can show off about supposedly being different.

Basically, no.  You can only mine your own transaction if you mine a block - there's a block every ~10 minutes so as a solo miner you're very unlikely to do so.  Mining pools (collections of miners who combine their hashpower in an attempt to mine a block), however, can decide to take certain transactions in their block.  At first they'll take the ones with the highest fees, but some pools create transaction accelerators (some with a fee, some without e.g. ViaBTC) which allow you to try and fit your transaction into the next block that they mine.

The article doesn't offer much useful advice at all.  It mentions that it's all based on price, which is completely obvious as soon as anyone understands Bitcoin.  It also mentions that it's based on ROI, which is even more obvious.  It also says that it's unpredictable, which is why people are actually reading the article.  No mention of how to get the lowest electricity costs, get the cheapest miners or anything else.  Worthless article.

It's not that most of the miners are in China, it's that many of the mining monopolies are in China.  It's only a few people controlling a huge amount of the hashrate.  The (quite reasonable) suggestion is that these mining monopolies, mostly based in China, support BU.  So what people mean by China coin, if they say it (which I haven't seen anyone say actually) is that it's a coin supported by people who favour centralisation, and that could never be good for Bitcoin.

Gold still has scarcity and its introduction is actually very similar to Bitcoin - at first the supply increases quickly and is easier to get, then it becomes harder and harder to get new gold and there is a total limited about (the amount that can be found in the Earth).  That scarcity also makes the value potentially higher, because for people to mine gold the value of it has to be higher than the cost of mining.

While the introduction of gold is less stable, gold also has sentimental value and is traded outside of investment circles, while Bitcoin's usage, while viable, is sometimes under question and could potentially be threatened in the future.  Therefore while Bitcoin's value will continue to rise further, investors should preferably diversify their holdings, at the very least between Bitcoin, gold and any other available safe haven assets which protect them from low interest rates and potential problems with fiat currency.

Your behaviour is very shady, people shouldn't have to buy it themselves before making a judgement - obviously if you had your way this publicity about you selling a not working eBook would result in hundreds of people buying it, which makes no sense at all.

You're clearly selling several different eBooks which you certainly couldn't have written yourself within a few weeks and would be very unlikely to release in that time.  Several users have reasonably accused you of selling leaked eBooks and that won't change that no one else gets so many calm accusations on their threads.  Either you're selling leaked eBooks or I would question why you have so many enemies.

A fire safe would be waterproof in itself, so you wouldn't need to have a water proof bag.  Admittedly though I don't actually do this as it would take some effort and cost money, I just keep paper in my house.  I recognise that someday there could be problems, but I actually keep paper in two different places, one of which is outside and more difficult to access, so I know that if one is ever destroyed I can still recover my passwords.

What's important is that your passwords aren't online as that could be prone to hacking, even a browser extension.  If you can be bothered, holding your passwords offline and formatting them as previously described could be a very good idea if you keep backups.  Ideally you could just hold them on a secondary low quality PC on which you don't go on the Internet, so that you're very unlikely to be compromised, and back them up when you add new ones.

Gold is a stable asset and is not only an investment - it should be viewed as safe storage away from fiat currency.

Bitcoin is different because its price is mostly based on its utility.  People can invest and join based on the fact that it should be deflationary, but because Bitcoin's price is mostly based on its utility rather than its physical existence or sentimental value, the price can fluctuate wildly and potentially drop too much if there were ever problems in the network.  It's also important that Bitcoin is young and has not fully matured to be a stable asset yet.

So people should only buy Bitcoin if they can handle the risks and want to enjoy themselves.  Serious investors will rightfully put their money into a variety of different investments rather than just whichever one goes up the most, because if they lose it all it could be very damaging, and with Bitcoin there's a reasonably significant chance of that eventually happening.