Thank you sharing with rest of us but I would like to highlight a couple of things. At first, scaling debate is about core and unlimited and not classic. Secondly in the paragraphs of bitcoin wallets you didn't write anything about online, desktop, mobile and hardware wallets unlike with paper wallets which you spend IIRC about 4 pages. Imo, for newbies wallets is a crucial thing when they first coming in bitcoin world.

Citizens of wealthy countries have more opportunities to educate themselves than of the the poor ones and thus separate the religion from science. Also, we must not forget that in many poor countries people believe that their poverty is a result of God and not of their corrupt and impotent governments.

Governments accept bitcoin not because they want to do that but because the banks have told them to do it. For their part, banks are forced to accept it as a form of payment and as a commodity, because the bitcoin has a big user base, that is, has network effect. The latter also determines the future of the coin.

I'm sorry, I don't want neither to hijack the post of the @OP nor to increase my paid posts but I found the chance and I would like to ask how this happened? I mean the same time two different explorers, blockchain.info and blocktrail, to show different results?  

If most of you considering that bitcoin is currency and not only commodity, then why speaking for transaction fees with dollars and not with a fraction of bitcoins? Are you paying miners with dollars? I believe that all we want bitcoin to the moon and fees down to earth. Is that possible?

At first it depends what kind of investor you are. If you you want to invest for long term then alts like monero, ltc and maybe eth have the potential to grow up. But if you are a short term one then you ask some other kind somehow better than you gamble. Currently, stratis even though seven - fold its value from early April can climb a bit more.

Short term trading is like gambling. Therefore, you  can't say many things. But in gambling someone has some predictions too. So do I. I would go with stratis. Cheap coin which from the beginning of April presented a very good course. I can't see any resistance signs and for short term investing I believe that can climb a little more due to some development in June.

But until now all we can see that even though backlog is increased in new ath level the price of bitcoin spikes to ath too. It seems investors they don't care about it.

Do we really have to believe that is a scientific reliable and independent research? Looking at the following paragraphs of the paper

1. Potential limitations: They can't approve any causal association between health and vaccinated children
2. Conclusions: Authors admit that this study can't prove any causal interpretation
3. Funding sources: One of the supporters was the Children’s Medical Safety Research Institute

Therefore, (1) and (2) and the fact that is a pilot study means that statistical results are limited to this study only and we can't say anything about the entire population. More over (3) shows that is difficult somebody to believe that this study wasn't influenced by the intention of those who funded it.

For every interested member, let's read and another option of this kind of studies,  Science-Based Medicine site.

OP opened this topic asking about bitcoin 'digital wallets' in cellphones and not about cases. A good case protects our phone if it drops in the ground and surely has nothing to do with the safety our bitcoins.

Most of the altcoins gain value because people trust them for some reason and put their money in them. The reasons are usually different. Anonymity, speed, resistance in time, something interesting which bitcoin does not cover are some features of them. News in different sites is not always a reliable source. If someone is intrigued about the course of an altcoin, usually reading only the white paper in the ANN thread, probably knowing the abilities of the developers and personal experience can earn enough money but always with enough risk as well.

As I see you didn't read my whole post. I agree that breadwallet is a reliable and secure wallet but my concern is the option the developer gives to their users if scaling debate ends to  hardfork and two chains. Therefore, in case of split, electrum users has the option to choose their favorite chain unlike in breadwallet which they have not.

Do you really believe that real estate is a safe investment? This is not entirely true. Maybe is more resistant in time but real estate follows the development and economic progress of the country which is located. As an example look the prices in UK before and after brexit.

Because I have little technical knowledge, reading the @OP article I only can speak as a user. Increasing the block size, imo, will not solve the spam attack problem and may be will be worse than it is now. I agree with the view I recently read in the forum here.

I think that we will live again the Cold War era. I can't believe this guy. If this, had been said by the director of CIA would have some importance. But the director of FBI for what reason? If I 'm not mistaken that guy was fired up by Trump, was he?

I agree how reliable cellphone wallet is the Breadwallet, IIRC for IOS and android 6.0 users and above, but even though the last month many people do not discuss the possibility of a hardfork it is useful to know what the developers of any wallet are intended to do if this happen. That means, if they will offer the capability the user to choose the chain which he prefers or not.

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If you have specific knowledge, or you belong to a devoted, about cryptos, group there are a couple of start ups out of here. If you already have any form of business and you want to widen your customer base then be bitcoin friendly it's not difficult. Especially if your business is an online one, bitcoin is better than paypal. After that, you convert it to fiat or you keep it as an investment or buy with it other products.

This is totally wrong. There is no any safe way how anyone can double or triple his money for any currency independently if this is fiat or a crypto. The same also applies for bitcoin too. Therefore, the gold rule is big risk for potential big profit that means you can loose your funds too.

No I don't think so. Central bank of Uganda advises their citizens to stay away of bitcoin because she compares it with onecoin here. I see it extremely difficult any government of any country in the world even though it is very poor to accept is as official currency because this would be considered as a big failure for them.

People do not know bitcoin they don't also know any crypto currency. Therefore they consider it as scam and I don't blame them. They need information and education. If they are old enough it's difficult to make them change the usual way they transact, that is fiat money. It is unrealistic to believe that all people will accept it as payment system.