I don't remember ever seeing an alert and I have been using Bitcoin Core since it was called Bitcoin QT around version 0.7... I wonder how the alert looked like. Is this orange square message an alert?

I remember reading this here the other day I think, and it was at a 1MB blocksize rate.... I would guess that in 4 years maybe the blockchain has been increased, at least doubled.

Anyway, let's imagine it doesnt, and we stay at 1MB.... what do you think the price for 700GB will be in 4 years? If things don't change much, it means running a node will take almost an entire HD (let's say the usual HD size is 1TB).

What happens once the size goes beyond 1TB, or beyond the biggest HD? what happens when you can't fit the blocksize in a regular HDs? Can you run 3/4 of the blockchain then the remaining 1/4 part in another HD?

Big short profit whales don't care about the projects or fundamental or technical analysis, only about numbers, and ETC is showing consistent good numbers. A low price after a pump a great volume is what pumping whales love. Definitely worth being loaded with ETC.

If bitcoin stays where it is now, you still have enough time. Get a job and try o live with your parents or something, so every month you spend as much as possible monthly in buying BTC.

Of course if next year BTC goes to 1k+... its harder.

Look at the bright side: You can buy cheaper Bitcoin, and you can play with alts, since usually some alts pump go up when BTC goes down. ETC is looking good.

Try to save it all unless you have a better plan. You never know for how long a signature campaing is running, and rates are increasingly worse.. bitmixer has been paying 0.007 for ages even for Hero members, its better than thing but oh well.

I agree, I don't see a single coin conquering BTC's marketcap. The only damage that can be done to BTC is throught anonymous coins, but if everything goes as expected, in a year or two (hopefully quicker) we will have ways to make bitcoin way more anonymous.

I don't think any of those type of proposals is going t be a success unless they are somehow attacked to bitcoin as probably a sidechain or something. I mean who wants to mine a blockchain just for that when you can benefit from bitcoin? I think that is why FCT is being a success, it does not try to reinvent the wheel.

What do you mean "not all on drugs"? so some on drugs would be good?

Anyway, I would not bother going into details. Adults don't get it, let alone kids. We will have to wait for things to naturally reach mainstream status. You couldn't explain the internet back in the 90's to the average joe.

Drunk altcoin investing? Amazing fun. I would recommend the following:

1 BTC in ETC at current price: Seems low enough for a good pump.
1 BTC in XMR: Who knows if this is the bottom or just the beginning of a 100 dollar pump?
1 BTC in some super cheap coin in ICO phase with good fundamentals and interesting project: Agoras. It does not even have a wallet and its years away from being functiona software but who cares? you are drunk anyway and you may make millions lol.

I guess we will have to wait until next year. We will eventually have confidential transactions and mimblewimble, this should be enough privacy. Im not sure if it will be enough to compete against Monero, but then again im not sure if Monero can be a functional coin if transaction volume keeps getting higher, since the blockchain as far as I remember, had some really big scaling problems since it was too big.

Did you buy? I tempted to get in now and hope im not the idiot buying at the top. By looking at the data, it's not far fetched this could be a Litecoin tier pump. The supply and fundamentals are all there.

It was an insane pump, like 100 dollars to 1200 dollars or something. You can check it for yourself here:

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitstamp/btcusd


This is why I think XMR can pump really hard, LTC pumped hard too, they have similar supply.

Of course, you may end up buying at the top and it starts crashing... its a big gamble.

They do have developers, and they have the promise to not hard fork when the next smart contract holding millions gets "hacked", also it may go PoW while ETH goes ETH. Enough difference to justify its existence and prosper.

The hacker will not dump, this is FUD that ETH foundation mafia will use to try to keep pushing the price down.

Yeah but the thing is, when a coin that has good fundamentals and actual research and innovation is pumped, it may find a new floor and march towards higher prices. Look at ETH for example. Also Fibrecoin had shit volume, this pump has massive volume, so who knows if we are not going to 50 dollars.

The problem is in the bitcoin world at least in BTCJam, the people used to steal your money and run with it and never paying back, even the A+ qualified users, so that is why I never bothered with loans.

There is a list of the times bitcoin has died in bitcoinwisdom.com, it shows how stupid and short sighted people are. Stop paying attention to that and focus on buying more BTC.

I think OP means that what will happen once physical cash is banned so everything is digital... because when that happens, it will be impossible to convert to cash since cash will not exist.

Actually you need more than 450 since you will need to pay capital gains taxes once you convert the BTC to USD to buy the house you want... so unless you are already rich, its better to hold your BTC until they are worth millions.

Just make sure that you stay alive for the next 10 years and im sure you will see more than 50k, potentially 100k+ and more as capital moves within Bitcoin.