Totally agree, but I should say "forget about covfefe and bitcoin, for it will rise anyway" 

Here you have a link in which it is explained how to recover your account: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

If you have reported it, did you be able to recover your account? What range did you have?
I believe it is important to report such a kind of activities, a lot more if the robbery account was one on a high rank, for it can be used to spam...
In order to can report it, you should have some private information related to your account. Just share the results if you have already done it, or at the moment you have some answers.

It looks like a good advertising campaign for a new wallet, nothing else. They just talk about common sense instead of how their security system actually works!! How does the wallet work? What kind of encrypted do they use in their passwords? What kind of security are they really offering! They don't describe deeply what are they selling, but just talk about common sense, show some famous examples of scamming and nothing else!!
Those are enough motifs for me to be aware of this new wallet. It is just publicity. Being safe in the crypto world implies study and dedication instead of trusting on anyone that looks convincing.

I don't completely agree with you. Ok, you made a point here, but, to me, the point is btc is still "too young" in the market, for you can't buy or sell stuff by using it (yet). If we see something just like an investment or saving, we are not moving it, of course, so the price will not rise soon. In that, I agree. but I don't think the heart of the problem resides just on the "hodling situation", but on the alternative uses of bitcoin. As long as we become able to buy and sell, to access to common products of need by using crypto, it will be finally into the economy. But, for the moment, we need to wait 'till enterprises take the risk and btc actually becomes a payment system.
For now, this is just being used for trading or investing, and the hold problem is just a temporary result of the December's bubble, where many people bought bitcoin as an investment, and they just don't want to lose their money.
Now, the moment btc will be seen as a tool instead of an investment, well, it will change forever the game.

Instead of those, I think we need a new section called "Newbies", where all newbies can write the typical topics related to merits and stuff.
Also, It can be the only place for them to write, just meanwhile they become JR. Members. I find it will help much more the forum rather the ones you suggested, just because currently the merit system and the high number of incoming newbies are making messy too many boards, I feel we need to put some order.
The ones you suggested... well, I just don't see such a demand from the users as the one I mentioned.

That's precisely the point. The problem is to use this kind of nasty activities in order to accuse bitcoin. This makes me sick, for it is another pathetic attempt of discrediting a new technology, but based, once more, on pure air.
Technology itself can't be bad, but the use humankind makes of it. If most of the humans suck, well, this is not technologys fault at all.

Those 70 trillion are dollars? So they existed before? If your argument resides on a previous currency, then where is the contribution? Maybe the best way is to analyze Bitcoin itself, and no base it to dollars or other economies. In order to be capable of doing so, the analysis should reside on what products can you obtain with bitcoin.
I think we should wait, for there is not such a movement yet. The moment btc becomes a payment system, the moment we will be able to speak about its contribution to the world economy. I mean: now, you are talking about dollar and bitcoin, and of course, btc has generated movement in the economy, but the most interesting part should be how it can become an asset itself, how can achieve the point of becoming something you use in your daily life. When crypto achieves this part, we will be able of speaking about global economic contribution properly. Now, of course, it has a value on the market, a great one. But the contribution to economy is still to see. Now, this is movement, on the future, btc will be able to walk by its own legs.

Every newbie can be subject to scams. There is not related to the age they have but their lack of experience. Now, why millennials? Just because they use more the internet. That's all, just statistics. The more you use something, the bigger possibilities of touching the bad part of it. If teenagers make more skate, then they can suffer more skate-type-injuries, of course; if middle-age people use more the car, the more of them can be in an accident. So, this is just based on the use of one thing and does not demonstrate anything at all.
I believe Millennials are the most common-crypto-users, so they will be both: the ones whose profits are the best, and the ones that suffer more scamming. But it is just because they are the ones who use more the platform, that's all.

Even when the article is interesting, I believe we just can't base our judgment on those who are the most "visible part" in the crypto world. There are women involved in the new technology as well as man, but if there are fewer women maybe it is just because they are less interested in technology. I don't see the crypto world closed to men, or "men only", as the article suggest. Besides, I know many female crypto-programers, as well as crypto users. The famous faces related to crypto are men? Ok, so? I just can't see the point.
Crypto world is open for everybody. I work with both male and female developers, and we have no problem related to it. Women, as men, have the same position, as long as they want to be involved. I just think most of the women are interested in other stuff, but it doesn't mean they are incapable of being excellent on crypto. If there are more men involved it is just because there are more men interested. That's all.
Now, people showing guns and so... well, the same as usual. Many men believe they need to handle a gun in order to reinforce their tiny masculinity. But this is just another pathetic act from another pathetic person, and this is not directly related to crypto world.

I don't think the best way for people to know about bitcoin is an advertisement. It makes btc looks less serious than other currencies. It is not usual to see advertisements about dollar or euro, for instance. That's because they don't need to, for they are serious currencies. If we want BTC to look as serious as it is, we can talk about it on serious platforms, like universities, for example. Bitcoin is not just an investment or a way to earn some dollars. It is the future, and we all should treat is thereby.
Now, if people begin to see crypto world as the serious purpose it is, they will no longer feel afraid of using it. We can teach business how to implant payment systems based on bitcoin; we can also teach people to use this gorgeous tool, but if we announced it like something you must buy, then we are following the wrong path. Nobody needs to buy bitcoin because of the profits but for understanding the future, for climbing the mountain of progress.
The most you try to announce something, the less serious it seems.

Ok, lets go step by step.

1.- Buy Bitcoins. For this you can use localbitcoins, open and account on that site, place a buy order, then make a bank transfer to pay for them or a bank deposit.

2.- Send the bitcoins to Poloniex (or any other exchanger), and start buying some alt coins.

3.- Wait for the bump, after that sell the alt coins back to bitcoins, send the btc to localbitcoins and then sell the bitcoins back to cash on localbitcoins.

This is the easy way to do it, but isn't the only one, there are lot of ways to do trading. But after you try this method the other ways will be easy for you.

Well, I think we all must to have a little common sense. Praying, hoping and this kind of feelings are not related to the economy, as well as luck. Bitcoin is not in a bad position right now: it is being accepted by more and more people and used as a payment system in more and more business. Even so, the price is still high in comparison with the same period last year. The problem is people looking back at the last December under the thoughts of normality. No, it wasn't "normal", it was, definitely, a bubble, and, like all bubbles, eventually exploded.
Now, btc price is expected to rise a little, step by step, as more and more people begin to use it and the miners find more and more difficult to generate more. Its normal behavior would be to rise slowly, but confident, with some downs of minor importance. It should be the normal progress of such a kind of valuable stuff. No god no lucky is related to it, but the normal behavior of a healthy market.

The whole article is completely pointless. Under the authors perspective, all fiat should be shut down. His arguments walk around the control of the crypto in order to stop money laundery and other illegal activities. His concern is basically that the blockchain is supported by the people instead of corporations, and he presumes that behind the blockchain system there are many bad people. To me, this is but a child's speech, based on the authors fear towards the new technology.
What he basically proposes is that the money, every type of it, needs to be controlled by corporations in order to have a "good use", for his arguments doesn't pay attention to the money laundery or illegal activities in general, but those made with crypto. Well, then, what happens with money laundery on fiat or paper money? He seems to forget about it.
Pointless, completely pointless and misinformed article. Even his proposal is brainless: to stop everything new, everything whose control does not reside on corporations, for the humanity, as some stupid child, needs to be taken care. His presumption is based on this whole idea: most of the humanity is bad, but corporations. Corporations are good and clean from his point of view, no matter, though, tax evasion, money laundery, even slave traffic, no, that doesn't matter, this is not even mentioned, for the most important problem is for corporations to have control over the people. Besides, he seems to forget how many big corporations are already into crypto. Are they wrong too? His beloved corporations?...
Nasty.

Good article and this was my favorite part. I am tired of trying to explain to people that BTC is not the only volatile stuff in the market. Look at the price of vegetables,  avocados, for instance.
Congrats on your article, thanks and +merit for you.
Thanks for your contribution.

Child pornography is an issue for all the internet. Even if the blockchain technology has some in it, due to corrupted people using it that fuck... way, this is not technology's fault. Even in Google you can find some websites with child pornography, and it doesn't mean the whole Google system is going to be taken down, as neither should be torrent (where, for sure, you will find some of this sick content), or many other platforms.
The fight against child pornography is not only a Blockchain issue but also all the internet platforms where you can actually upload whatever you want.
So, no. They can't just throw up a great a new technology based on a common problem.

Bitcoin being mentioned in TV series actually sounds good to me!! As more it appears on television, more trusted it becomes. I believe even when they don't speak well of crypto, all publicity is positive. Into the brain of the people, btc is going to sound normal. A progressive normalization of btc can help to the common acceptance. I don't know if you have noticed, but, since a few years, TV shows are showing as normal social activities that haven't been considered as it, and now, between teenagers and others it becomes more and more normal, as some kind of illness, like depression, for instance.
The more something is shown on TV, more "normal" become for people. Let's say: somehow television is a part of our self-representation as a society, so if bitcoin has its part, this is good news, though.

The conversion of btc to fiat is necessary for many of us, this is impossible just to stop right now and say: "Halo, miss of the fruit, please accept bitcoins". It depends on where you live.
I agree with you, we all must encourage people to accept bitcoin as a payment system, and I think we all are. But we also need stuff for living, and not everyone lives in a city. In a small village, it is going to take a while, for not everyone has even access to the internet around here!
But I often dream about creating the first-small-crypto-village in the whole world. So I never stop talking about bitcoin to all my neighbors, for, who knows? maybe it is easy to create a system of crypto in a small town than in a bigger one!
Encouraging people to use btc, though, is not so easy for the moment. They don't know even how to use their computer, much less how to buy those abstract cryptocurrencies.
So, yes, talking about btc, to try to encourage little business to use it is still utopic.

I think you are wrong, for me takes time, but not money, i spend time and get money (bitcoins). If you work for bitcoin then can be a good deal.

Of course there is a risk, that's why i always sell after get a payment, because is my main income and if i hold the money in BTC it can crash and make me lose all that money what i had worked for.

So, isn't a risk, is better to see it as a time investment.

It Must be an online currency because without internet you can't push the transaction on the network.

But... You can make an offline transaction. If you have the inputs and the private keys you can use the coin core to build the transaction. Give that code to some one as a payment and that person can push the transaction later. At end some one have to push the transaction and this mean it need a network for it.

So. an offline coin would be impossible because if no one push their transactions over the network then no one can verify them as valid transactions.

Bitcoin is dangerous, i'm agree with that, but not for all. We can say bitcoin is dangerous for gobs and banks, but why?

It's dangerous for govs, because they are the ones who decide if new money get printed, but as a wise man say some years ago: Printing money doesn't for the problem about money printed. But if now the money come from miners and not from a gov decision, then the people it getting back part of that power.

and it's dangerous for banks, because they are the business behind money, and to have a competitor can be a big problem. If people stop trusting banks because they can freeze accounts at any time they want, then they will start using bitcoin or other altcoins and that means less clients for the bank.