this has been suggested a lot of times before in this topic and i still don't know why they have not yet added any altcoins to their sites (last time i checked).

this was actually one of the reasons i went to find other dice sites that had altcoin betting option, not that i play a lot of dice but just to test some and dump some of my altcoins like Doge.

p.s. for some reason i though PD was a lot older

i am still waiting for bitcoin price to drop to $100 for about 3 years but still nothing!
ahh now i get it. kwukduck always forgets to use the </sarcasm> tags in his comments. now that makes a lot of sense

he should change his avatar to a duck holding up a sarcasm sign! or a Bazinga would also do.

i agree but at the same time i don't get "why".
because we are already using banks and our identity is attached with each money transaction that we make and this has been the way for years.
now bitcoin is also money, so even if our identity is attached to one of our many bitcoin addresses linked to a small portion of our bitcoin holding, separate from the main stash i don't see any problem with that.

because altcoins started it
when they want to get pumped what they say is "{put the name of the altcoin here} will replace bitcoin because we have this and this and bitcoin doesn't have it and is slow".

i've always said if an altcoin was good, it would have been used as much as bitcoin in no time and it doesn't have to replace bitcoin. it is something like USD and EUR existing alongside for example.
but the problem is nobody creates an altcoin to be used as a "coin" or "currency" they make altcoins to be pump and dumped in exchanges and never leave them.

they can ban it but they can't prevent it.
when something is decentralized and completely p2p there is no way of preventing people from using it, there is no kill switch there is always be peers who are trasferring value through bitcoin with each other.

so they choose the other way, to accept this fact that there is no stopping bitcoin and the fact that people want it. so they choose to accept it and try to regulate bitcoin and businesses using it so that they can try and prevent as much illegal activity such as money laundering through these businesses.

i have to admit it is pretty good to see price still up there, i was honestly expecting a big drop or correction and i still am kind of expecting it but it seems like the correction was the $100+ drop and we currently are above the $1700 line, strongly i should add, and this can lead to some good rise and maybe even testing $2000 is not so far away.

but i still think we need SegWit activated if we want to see any big price in a short term. we can simply get to $5000 with it.

i didn't say miners are the problem i said miners are happy about the situation because they are getting paid more, a lot more.

although indirectly they are responsible for the current situation since they are the ones who are rejecting the solutions for scaling and preventing us from any kind of advancement.

this surely sucks, and nobody apart from miners are happy about it. but there is no reason for your title! bitcoin won't die just because for the time being there is a big backlog which is causing the fees to rise up a lot.

what about it is "a lot".
yes 1800 is a big number! it is bigger than 2 smaler than 5000.

but we are not talking about math here, we are talking about bitcoin price, and for bitcoin which is being adopted more and more each day and it still has the same small amount of coins available that number aka price is too small so it must go a lot higher.

the fact that it hasn't gone up a lot is only because of traders who are short term trading and dumping it for profit but the buy support have always bought it back up again.

yeah, i am not saying bitcoin is going to get adopted because of this or i say they may even end up deciding against it.
but the fact that government is thinking about these stuff and "is considering bitcoin as a payment" is a good sign in my opinion.

i don't think this is all because of spam attack (at least not until i see some proof). this one has lasted a very long time, the spam attacks have always been ending soon to restart again not just last above 10K (currently 200K)!

are they trying to kill bitcoin with this?!!

this may be a start though! i wouldn't get my hopes up but i do believe that after what Japanese did and accepted bitcoin as a legal way of payment many countries have become softer towards bitcoin and a couple of them even are considering doing the same. so it wouldn't be such a strange thing if US finally did that someday too.

China has always been a very big market, even without all the fake volume they are still big. with a huge population and a lot of people who are interested in bitcoin and also trading they will always be big.
now that their major exchanges are closed a big part of bitcoin demand is out of it in my opinion and if they come back in June there will surely be a big rally for bitcoin. even if it is only partly coming back with much smaller volume.

off the top of my mind
/r/cryptocurrency
/r/bitcoinmarkets
/r/cryptomarkets

also when visiting all these subs or any other one like /r/bitcoin or /r/{any altcoin name} make sure to check out their sidebar or wiki page if they have. you can usually find pretty nice links there. i mostly found these in the sidebars or someone suggesting them elsewhere in comments.

it all depends on how market reacts to the news. many traders seem to be super happy about a negative news just to dump and buy much lower, the lower the better.
but of course this time the effect will be smaller. but doubt it will just be "a day" since dips usually last some time before they reverse.

how can we find out if they have already made a decision or not?

you are saying a bunch of stuff that are completely irrelevant to each other!
the wannacry ransomeware is just a ransomeware or malware like any other, and just like many other things it is using bitcoin. the amount of its usage is too tiny it is not even counted. there are small businesses out there that have more volume that it had. it is just the media that is focusing the attention on it and bolding bitcoin part of it.
also price has nothing to do with it. it has been in a small bubble and we needed a correction as everyone expected that happened.

these are very good advices but i would like to add a small thing to it if you don't mind, to anybody who is reading this.

if you have been making profit in the past couple of months it can be because all altcoins went up, you didn't need to be an experienced trader to make profit, closing your eye, choosing an altcoin, buying, and holding 2 weeks meant at least 300% profit. (not saying OP is like this but many have been like this). so in case you have been like this just make sure to not get too greedy and think you can make profit forever this way. be very careful from now on and you will be able to make continueos profit.

also thanks for the reddit suggestion, i recently found a couple of subs that are very good.

it is not always maintanance, i think they recently had an upgrade which took a long time and other than that the DDOS attacks havene't been always. and if it really is a competitor doing the attacks i think they are idiots because if i have money in bitsler and like playing there (which i do) i won't just take it out to go elsewhere just because i encountered an unreachable site once, i will just stop gambling that time and go do something else.

i have bought back when people were waiting for the price to drop down to $600 and then a couple of months after their dreams were crushed i bought more coins when they were again waiting for price to go down to <$1000 and again their dreams were crushed.

now i am waiting for everyone to start their panic sells and when they did i start buying again when people started waiting for price to drop more

if you want to be successful buy when they are selling or waiting for the price to drop, don't start waiting with them.

this is a bitcoin forum, and electrum is a bitcoin wallet and you have sent bitcoin so please take a look at the numbers and report them back to us in bitcoin not in USD. it is possible that you are getting a different price in your electrum and it is telling you wrong numbers.