I am not sure about this project,but if the developers are trust worthy then they will distribute the coins if you have invested in it and normally when the ICO ends they are supposed to distribute it within a week or so,just follow their slack channel and you will get a clear picture,good to see many projects coming up in the past few years,i really missed a lot in this space.

What is the current situation,i heard that bitcoin is going to split and if that happens what will happen to my coins,i do have my coins saved in hardware wallet,hope there is nothing to worry about even if the chain splits.

Are you living in China?  Why would anyone in China have problems with that?  Not only are hardware costs here in China far less than you could find almost anywhere else, but I'm sure anyone with the need or will to run a full node in China would not find the cost to be a barrier.

I would rather manually obfuscate the key for my paper wallet.  Something you could "decrypt" manually.  Perhaps something as simple as increasing the value of each character by 1, or alternating +1, -1. Etc.

I thought at first that they suggested it was 11 million Bitcoin, and that didn't surprise me.  It surprises me that the number can be as low as only 11 million USD.

Ah well, time to move back to fiat because no one ever gets scammed out of their cold hard cash.

From a very quick google search:
Australians lost $89 million in scams in 2013
Millions of victims lost $12.7B last year falling for Nigerian scams (in 2013)
etc...

People were mining when the value of Bitcoin was $0.

The network adjusts to variations in the network hashrate. If some miners decide to stop mining, the difficulty drops and mining becomes more profitable for those that continue to mine.

Also, I know a lot of miners that don't have to pay anything extra for their electricity so there is no reason for them stop.  

I don't see any significance to this.  Does this mean that Satoshi didn't actually have any technical ability? 

It's also possible that Satoshi was not necessarily a conformist.

I've had wire transfers blocked pending an explanation from me.  ATM withdrawals typically have daily limits of between 500-2500$.

It's very rare that I need to, but now I make sure to call my account manager before making any larger than usual transaction. 

+1

Instead of saying "hey, you know nothing about Bitcoin, gtfo", it might be better to write him, welcome him to the Bitcoin community, and let him know that there are or could be solutions to the issues he sees with Bitcoin.

He seems to be taking a level headed approach with the, perhaps limited, information he has.  It's great to see someone with his profile so interested in the technology.

I think someone watched "The Interview" a few too many times and has some very naive ideas as to the real situation in the DPRK.

Secondly...

"The first objective in our mission is to supply involved North Korean defectors with the resources that they need to establish a safe communication network throughout the country."

So are we sending defectors back to North Korea to establish this 'safe communication network throughout the country'?  Only a handful of North Korean's are even permitted to travel within the country, among a huge number of other obstacles.

I think the project creator is having a laugh or else is hoping that some ignorant fools might throw their BTC at this.

This looks very dodgy indeed.

This app is also being pushed on reddit as "Bitcoin’s billion plus user base is finally addressed with Zebpay".

How about positive news with no discernible impact on price?

News of vendors now accepting Bitcoin as payment is no longer big news.  If two years ago Microsoft had said they were accepting Bitcoin, that would have been very big news indeed.  Today that is hardly the case.

On the other hand, if a major bank or company such as Paypal allowed you to convert your fiat to Bitcoin using their platform, that would be much larger news.

The barrier to entry for people at the moment is not the question of whether they'll be able to spend Bitcoin, but rather the difficulty in initially obtaining Bitcoin.

And no, this is not "the big news".

You don't doubt that he's the mastermind yet you think he should get off easy?  He's a criminal that probably deserves to spend a very long time in prison.

Based on this, it seems that in order to perform 50,000 on-chain transactions per second, we would require the blocksize limit to be increased to about 7 GB from the current 1 MB limit.

Obviously that won't happen as payment processors can keep a large portion of their transactions off-chain and confirm transactions instantly.

Maybe they're tightening up security due to the large number of accounts that are getting hacked apparently through an insecure tor vector. 

Time to get my coins away from there, which I should have done a while back anyhow.

Thanks for the update.

I don't have an email associated with my wallet, nor do I want to associate one.  Is this mandatory now?

Yeah, I'm getting the same thing.  Just says "wallet disabled" and doesn't let you log in.

Just checked out purse.io.  The site looks great and they've made the process simple.  Obviously fraud is going to be a big concern for them.  I believe they mention in their video that the item goes through their escrow service.

Looks like it's great for people looking to get a discount at Amazon for now.  On most offers listed, it looked like you could be paying a premium on purchasing Bitcoin.

This looks very cool.  Look forward to trying it out.