I think cyber cafes are probably on the decline since pretty much everyone has access to the internet in some form on their phone or at home, maybe I am wrong but in my country they have all but disappeared, maybe in some poorer countries they may be more prevalent.

In terms of cyber cafes / internet cafes accepting bitcoin and pushing the price up x 2 this is unlikely, it would take a lot more adoption to push the price that far but for the cafes to accept bitcoin this is reasonable.

Bittrex did warn everybody yesterday or the day before about deposits being suspended while they did their snapshot, everything is back online now so if it hasn't already your transaction should be on it's way to your account, it should become a habit to check the status of the receiving wallet if you own it when sending any amount to ensure things like this you are aware of but don't worry it will all be okay.

I think IOTA has great potential and could really go well if it works without any major issues.
Ripple although it will increase, I can't really see it going crazy and giving anything like x10 but I could be wrong.

Stellar and SIA I have heard many talking about these but I haven't yet looked into them.

It's always a dangerous game when you start chasing your losses, sometimes it's better to take a break and come back another day.

I think you may be too late to send your bitcoin to many of the exchanges as they will have or will be suspending deposits, your best bet is your own wallet like Mycelium or any wallet that gives you your own private keys and then you can do the split yourself.

Universal basic income sort of fits this but it is still money.  I don't think we can ever do away with some form of money system until we as a race get to the point where we can replicate what we need from he fabric of space.

It is definitely worth it, you migjht buy €50, someone else might buy €500, if the price goes up you both will get the same increase relative to your investment.

Your €50 could turn into €75 for example, you could then take the €25 profit and maybe buy some promising altcoins and make some more that way, we all started somewhere, I was buying the odd 20 here and there at the atm starting off.

Of course you could also make a loss but if you don't take the chance you will never know.

That really sucks, your friend was obviously pretty new to bitcoin if they handed this information over, as much as we can all say how silly that was this highlights a problem that many newbies could face.

If somebody just buys bitcoin without any knowledge of how it works and then an issue arises they are more likely to put trust into somebody with more knowledge than themselves to help fix the issue and this is where a problem like this can arise.

I know most wallets warn you whem setting up to never share your keys with anyone as they contain your bitcoins etc.so there is a lot of responsibility on the user to protect their coins.

I think it is fair to say that your friend will never get their coins back sadly.

A major reason behind this is the upcoming bitcoin gold fork, people know what happened last time and don't want to pass up the opportunity for free cash.

Rest assured this will change once people have got their gold and start moving back to their alts.

I understand your thinking completely, altcoins can give a far better return than bitcoin can in the short term, you should also hold some bitcoin along with your altcoins to get the best of both worlds.

No idea it was a manual process wow that would be very time consuming to do that daily, I think just the Monday would be enough to do.

I was thinking the same thing recently, I guess the safest way would be to put it into your will, we should be able to trust this right? I am sure people have left keys to safety deposit boxes and valuable items in their will I would assume you could also leave your private key with instructions.

The November fork has been talked about quite heavily over the last few months so everyone should be aware of it, perhaps the upcoming bitcoin gold has overshadowed the November one, the one in November at least has something decent in it, the bitcoin cash and the bitcoin gold fork are just senseless to me anyway, If I was a gambler I would put money on us having at least another 5 or 6 forks by this time next year, it will get to the point where it will become a joke.

As much as people want to keep their bitcoin in order to claim bitcoin gold, I think the best time to invest in alts would be now before the fork as they are all pretty much in a decline, after the fork it is assumed that alts will be back in the green but at what point we do not know, myself I have picked up a few that I have had my eye on for a while but not as much as I would like as i am also waiting for the free bitcoin that bitcoin gold will get us.

I haven't picked up any of the ones you mention, instead a couple that I have gone for are SHIFT, BNT, TRUST among a few others.

This is similar to what we have heard many times by the same people, I don't think there are too many people hoping that the banks and government would welcome bitcoin and start dictating what people can and can't do, even if they wanted to they simply can't and this is where the fear mongering comes from.

Many if not most banks have already starting looking to use the blockchain to speed up processes and save money, they will eventually create their own digital currencies but bitcoin will still be at the forefront and there isn't much they can do to turn people away from bitcoin.

Pretty much what he said, it always raises red flags when there is a chunk reserved for the developer for the simple reason that the developer at any time can dump their coins and then take their money and move on.

This has always been an issue with altcoins and many times the developers have run away with their profit and left the community behind.  I don't see any real reason for these pointless forks.

I have often wondered if it was a group or a single individual, I would like to think it is just one person.

Hiding their identity I think is a really good move on their part as now a few years on from it's creation we can see how desruptive bitcoin is and how it is worrying governments and the banking cartel, could you imagine if they had a figurehead for bitcoin, his or her life would be extremely stressful.

ICOs are extremely popular now, you will see tens and tens of different ones popping up, you need to spend some time and look deeply at each one, are the developers credible, is the project bringing something unique to the table, is the ICO target reasonable and the community supporting it, what is their feeling, is there a lot of negativity and questions.

Hopefully you will find one that works out and everyone benefits but do not be upset if it goes in the opposite direction, they are risky.

It could go as high as that, we only have a few days left but as high as it might go it will drop a significant amount also, will that be 1 day after or a week? who knows.