Like most French, I'm afraid you're plain stupid, believing to know everything without actually knowing anything. Sorry to point it out, my apologies, but you should not suppose things about me without knowing me. I've lived in Paris, Cannes and Nice. I've hired and fired French people (loved that last part). I owned an apartment on the Riviera, and a house in Brioude (bought in 2008, sold in 2012). Are you familiar with Brioude? I was, and I'm sure there are many places in France I know and you don't. And I've also been living in Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Spain, so I repeat myself, I know France very well, and my knowledge of other countries enables me to make valid comparisons.

I've seen the news about the new prime minister from Le Havre, I've been swimming there once. He has a lot to do with Macron, and I believe they will fail, because French people are viscerally opposed to change.

Inventing something is only the beginning. With technology getting more and more sophisticated, it's getting more and more difficult to copy. Besides the invention, you need to be smart enough to produce it efficiently. Look at the hybrid cars from Toyota. Their hybrid technology is heavily patented, but even without those patents, I doubt another car company could make a car as good at the same cost.

I don't make typo errors. I can't afford it. I would lose my job if I did, so I'm paying proofreaders, people who check and correct my words if necessary. Besides, when I wrote about "low standards", I wasn't only thinking about typography. I've been in France 4 times so far this year (I'm also going to Paris next Friday, but it will be a quick trip, I'll arrive in the morning, and leave in the afternoon), 3 times before going to Italy, and Italy is cleaner, with more polite people. Believe me, I know France, all the neighboring countries, and I'm very good when it comes to comparing countries.

Back to Macron, I'm still waiting for a tangible proof of his supposed support.

This is getting scary. There's been over 100K unconfirmed transactions for more than 24 hours. When is this going to end? It's also very impressive. I can't believe there's a single attacker behind all this. This got to be a concerted effort with, many, many computers.

I guess BTC needs to protect itself, maybe with a fixed minimal fee, so that spam attack would get more costly.

Despite owning a lot of IP, I voted no.

Intellectual property was invented by rich people so that they could keep their wealth while the poor would remain poor. IP's also a recent invention. The world was doing fine before it was invented.

A peak of unconfirmed transactions is not alarming. What worries is that it doesn't go back to 0 after a while. We've had more than 40K unconfirmed transactions for 10 days. Something has to change. SegWit is probably the easiest solution to fix the problem.

I created exactly the same topic about a year ago. It's much worse now, with rising fees, more and more delays, some transactions failing to confirm, and some risk of a hard fork. What's truly amazing, is that BTC's price keeps on rising.

Typo error? Sorry, but there's no excuse. Don't they have proofreaders? Don't they check the correct spelling of a word if they're not familiar with it? I do. I know France has low standards, but failing to write correctly bitcoin on a government's document where it's very precisely the subject is telling a lot.

Proof that France doesn't know anything, nor supports BTC:

http://www.strategie.gouv.fr/sites/strategie.gouv.fr/files/atoms/files/cp_lancement_blockchain_def.pdf

It's an official document from the French government. On the first paragraph, it's very revealing. They made a mistake. They wrote "bitcon" instead of "bitcoin". If they don't even know how to spell bitcoin, I'm not expecting much from them...

What a bunch of losers!

Good. It's about time people realize Syria will never return to what it was. Come to think of it, Syria's borders were less than one century old, and those borders were invented by outsiders. It just makes sense to let the locals create theirs own countries and borders. And the Kurds certainly deserve to get their own country. They've been fighting for more than 100 years to get it.

Come on, those are all BS websites or plain fake news. There's nothing to say Macron supports BTC on his website, nor on any serious French media. A picture of the guy holding a smartphone is not revealing.

I just made a 668 bytes transaction and it took 25 minutes to confirm despite a very high 0.00120067 BTC fee (6 confirmations after 40 minutes). That's nearly $1.90. Larger blocks are urgently needed. Guess I've been saying that for years....

I don't expect anything. Why should we?
France is midsize country with terrible public finances and high unemployment, that Macron guy has many more priorities before thinking about BTC.

I invested 3% of my savings in BTC in 2013. Best investment I've ever made. The sum makes nearly 30% of my savings right now...

It's not new. Companies dealing with drugs which are legal in one state can only use banks which only operate in that state, not banks operating in all US states.

I don't understand. Some people are successful, obviously they're not related to you, but you think that their success should be shared with you? Why? If you're a loser, you have to change yourself. The winners, nor the world doesn't need you.

That's why I left actually, too many losers there. I've sold the apartment I had on the riviera in 2014. I think Ethiopia is much nicer than France nowadays. The people are nicer, they work harder while being paid only a fraction of what the average French makes, and they're also happier.

M.Macron, if elected, will have a lot to do. I hope he can do greater things than seducing a woman 25 years older than him. Is that his greatest achievement?

The risk of a hard fork is probably gone, but solutions to the scalability issue are still far away. SegWit is still months from gaining the support it requires. I guess demand is moderate, but most people are holding till the problems are solved, and that pushes the price up, but that may be a bubble.

We don't know the whole story, yet. We need more facts. I've done many bank transfers all other Europe, and suspicious transactions will be be notified to the tax authorities by the banks, but that's not enough to get you raided by police. The police must have had something else against that woman.

Macron has no merit. He's just an opportunist. I wish there could be some dose of meritocracy in french politics, but I'm dreaming. Marine Le Pen is where she is because of her father, while Macron was a nobody 3 years ago. He only got famous when the president choose him to become minister. He's young and bullish. I'm not sure he is what France needs, but frankly I don't care. I think that country is doomed. Every time I'm going there, there are strikes and street blockades...

Anyone having Swiss francs in his wallet?

I do. It's a strong and very stable fiat currency. Switzerland is a small country, and it's currency is well regarded by all investors, holding its value among the US dollar or the Euro from much larger economies.

I hope BTC will become like the Swiss franc.