But reality is different. Right now you have no way of knowing whether a transaction takes minutes, hours or days - or gets dumped altogether and you have to try again. Unless you pay an extremely large fee to have it done faster..... Reality is that Bitcoin payments are either slower or more expensive than normal payments - or both

Clearly the main advantage is the thrill of knowing your life savings could be either doubled or lost in a short span of time.

I am in the exact right forum - if just one poor soul out there uses this as the final nudge to get them to sell and thereby save their life savings, then it is mission accomplished.

And this is exactly the forum where "true believers" are - looking at all the discussions in here it is clear that Bitcoin is neither a currency nor a commodity. Bitcoin is a religion where faith is the only thing that matters.

If that is your take-away from my post, clearly you do not have the intelligence to understand the point. I just feel sorry for the people out there who can genuinely not afford to lose their savings, but right now have them tied up in this scheme, and if they don't get out will end up with no savings.

Wow how this forum is an unbelievable echo-chamber fueling one big ponzi scheme. Bitcoin as a currency, give me a break. A currency where it takes days to clear payments unless you pay massive fees - fees that are hostage to whatever vagaries the miners have? And if you don't, you are left in limbo where you have no idea whether it takes minutes, hours or days to move your money? A currency which is heavily impacted by "civil wars" with rival crypto currencies? A "currency" even less stable than the former Zimbabwean dollar. Don't get me wrong - the other crypto "currencies" equally well fit the ponzi scheme.

It is abundantly clear from reading in here for quite a while that the vast majority of people speculating in here are simply pinning all their hopes and dreams on the notion that these tulip bulbs - sorry tokens - can only rise in value. Sorry to say, but some people are going to get hurt badly eventually....