All he is saying is: " Is the world of cryptocurrency filled with Scammers or not?"

OP: look at every different kind of economy, there will always be scammers around. The difference is, there are no governing bodies around bitcoin or any cryptocurrency today. If they would "enforce" Bitcoin's markets, mining farms or trades, there will be less scammers, but this will surely cause some implications.

If you're just starting or just have a lot of time, yes.
You can play with a couple of satoshis you gain there in the lottery for a fraction of chances of winning.
Win-win, you don't need to deposit to join their lottery.

Not to mention buy I'll say it anyway, there must be a couple of accounts there that won the lottery but are inactive or was left by the user (inactive account with referrals are still getting tickets from their recruits), that's what giving the site more balances to operate. ~Smart-ass.

-edit: removed quoted referral link-

Have you tried running a full node? You can make your own paper wallet there as the receiver.
And how much "anonimousity" do you need that you're not trusting the top alternative clients around?

Voted for Yes, it's inevitable to fail as a currency with the current fees.
These transaction acceleration services are giving me an impression that is is being used as a workaround for them (miners) to choose transactions leaving the mimimum fee transactions unconfirmed for days.

It's clearly a low quality converter!
Believe me, I have a good eye on catching knockoffs.

The Plastic used for the 4pin - Molex has too many sharp-edges and untrimmed excess plastic around the sides.
The 8-pin PCI-E Power too, it's too sharp, I can literaly cut my skin with that.
I highly doubt the material used for the wires.

But you were right about using a bigger PSU.
If the rig is dedicated for mining, make sure the total power required by the whole system (at stress) is at 40-80% of your PSU's.

After those news in the internet lately, more will likely to follow.
These guys should stop their business increasing the hype, instead they should provide a warning and general idea of "smart investments" while providing the best assets of bitcoin/digital currencies. At least a link to the forum is good enough. People doesn't have the same point of views, knowledge and intelligence, most of the unwary will be the victims of these "news".
Coins/Coinbase did a good job sending emails to their users since they are the most "hype-susceptible".

You think just Americans? Some people here in PH are "investing" by selling their items in order to hoard a lot of BTC.

We're talking about 4 days delayed transaction here, I usually pay 10sat/b for my "slow transactions" and it always getting confirmed within 2days without even using those "accelerators".
He payed 50sat/b for his.
You should go to Marketplace->Services and find some threads that offers free Transaction Acceleration Service. Post your Transaction Add there. Just make sure you won't say "I will give a Tip" if you're not really going to.

While the wallet.dat can't be cracked itself, there are some silly methods to get your wallet password if you are an unwary Windows user.
In Windows there are more security risk to look after, example:
->The hacker might already included a KeyLogger before stealing the wallet.dat.
->Some are producing "activators" which are available all over the net (these activate paid versions if windows). There are other Computer Technicians that blindly using these to "format" PC's they are servicing, making the whole operating system compromised.

But the wallet.dat doesn't expose your pvtkeys since these are encrypted with you password. Bruteforcing works but requires more computing power (supercomputer) the longer the password.

Your sarcasm was straight to the point
Scientists nowadays are:
"Hey this should be researched, I need a lot of funds"

We're going back to "Earth as the center of the solar system" in the field of "Quantum" physics because of these kind of researchers.

OP: Looking at the current development in Qcomputing, Quantum computers will not be a threat to Bitcoin. There are more threaths than that to look after.

There's no such thing as "free bitcoin", you're saying it like "where can I get Free Dollars?"

The right Board to look for those services is: Services->MicroEarnings where you can find Low-paying Faucets or "Scammy" Mining Pools.
It's up to you to find out which are the legit ones. (you can cram the comments in every thread)

Off-topic Advice:
Since you're a newbie, learn to Close threads you started (like this) if you got the answer to your question to discourage necroposting or signature spamming.
(There is a "Close thread" below the page, it's too small to notice for newbies)

Pool mining, but will be considered as micro-earnings.
They mostly target regular or casual smartphone users who want to experience "cryptomining".
there are too many possibilities. But the Team, I think, aren't good enough.

Not that I care a lot, I only solo mine ETN at the first and second day then never continued because of this "short delay".
I'm going dump all my coins right after the launch their mobile wallet.

Edit: 12-18-17
I kept some of my coins, the re-launch feels like a "decent company" now.

BTC is still the best choice, maturity and popularity wise.
When you think about it, the whose system can be "layered" as the main wallets (Core or 3rd-party) as 1st layer. Next would be the addresses in it. It will depend on how the majority will adopt to it.

High BTC with high value without any uses will crash if it stays like this. Just Supply and Demand in the pseudo-markets?
This is not Gold which you can craft, fueling the demand.
This is not Diamond that is scarce, even against low demand.
This is a "currency" people.

They should take the right action for the best result.

Are you using a third-party service like coinbase or coins? These services usually take a percentage from your every transactions as a fee.

If you're using a "semi" 3rd party client like Electrum, you can choose how less you want to pay, in return, the more time you're willing to wait for the confirmation.

Look at the Ethereum's transaction (right now), it's filled with "Kitties".
And we all know that it is slowing the system.

I think this is affecting the ICO in some degree.
Some people loses their eagerness to join when seeing a slow increase in the progress.

Just sharing my insight.

Coins already doing that except the service is limited to some countries only. And it's undirectly integrated with facebook which contains the profile of the users. It also requires you to verify that you're the real person associated with your account for legal purposes.
That way, it's easily acceptable by the government.

Did you really mean February 1st, 2019?
There are a lot of things that will happen before that date.
Is it 2018?

Anyways, I voted for "have no clue". The trades are as quick as one step indicating that there are too much traders in the markets and most of them must be regular users who just taking every available supply to hold.
It's so unpredictable unless you know what those whales are up to.

The thing that we can't accurately speculate what's happening to the price gives me chills.
It grew from 14k-15.7k (at the moment) in just one day!
Astonishing and scary at the same time. It looks like a bubble.

I don't think 2 minutes is considered "real-time".
We like it as lightweight as it is which is preferred by users. Adding a repeated pattern as background makes the Page neat but will not make the site heavy.
And as a rush upgrade to the "User-friendly" UI, change the Fonts, and add favicom to the page. (I doesn't take more than 5minutes to do).

Guys, I saw a post regarding electrum having two websites.
These two:

• Electrum.org (owned by electrum)
  
• https://www.electrumsource.org/ <!--- WARNING: Fake Site! -->

if you downloaded your wallet from the fake one,  it might be the cause of this.
I'm not accusing the other domain or anything.

Can anyone shed some light please. <edit> Thanks for the info, pooya87.

I'm afraid it's not going to happen with that kind of thinking.
How is this going to be a valuable asset if this stays the way this was forever?

There are too many ways to regulate this like:

• The Government will act as the main wallet holder, the addresses will be issued to the holders (users/consumers/merchants) with licences at the same time.

At this point, us at the moment will either register their wallets for licences or stay under the radar.
Its our choice... at the moment in that point.

• The Government makes their own Digital Currency as an alternative to fiat as the future of banking system. Making Bitcoin still active but with lower number of users.

Either way, they will make an action to whatever that will benefit their county.
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