I remember a day where BTC was king and all altcoins were lousy. They would all fail soon, and only BTC would survive. The market capitalizations of all altcoins was less than a tenth of BTC's. Times have changed! Today, the market capitalizations of all altcoins is more than 40% of BTC's.

Obviously, there is more and more money going into cryptocurrencies. BTC is still leading by far. BTC also remains the one and only crypto you can actually use to buy things, and it's the easiest to buy with a bank transfer. But it needs to get better quick. Investors now have a wide choice to put their money in, and that shows.

10%? And how much has he invested to reach that?
I invested about 3% of my fortune in BTC, a while ago. Now my BTC represent about 20% of my fortune.

Yes, we've all seen it.

Altcoins are also moving forward. I remember not long ago, when BTC market cap was ten times larger than all the altcoins put together. Now the altcoins are worth half of BTC's market cap.

We may fear what's coming next.

In all North Africa countries, remittance is big business. The problem being that in Paris or Brussels, it's easy to buy BTC, but in Algiers or Tunis, it's difficult to exchange BTC into local currencies. Someone should create an exchange there to help.

Well, that depends. Do you need the users to be localized? Do you need to know their true identity? Phone number, etc...?
I'm surfing through many more websites each day, than I'm using different apps on my smartphone.

I guess M.Wright has a twisted mind. But Satoshi Nakamoto probably has a twisted mind, too. So Craig Wright certainly fits. He has the right age and the right background. I'd be happy if he could prove he is what he claims to be. If I were Satoshi Nakamoto, I would plan for my identity to be revealed after my death.

If true, coinurl is partly to blame. I know how easy it is to buy advertising through that service, but they should check that any malware isn't included in any banner.

Well, that's not much. Come to think of it, I've never talked BTC with my Italian friends. I'll bring the subject when I'm going back, this Wednesday, but I'm not expecting much. According to the number of posts in different languages on this board, Italy is in front of France, but behind Germany.

Really? I left Italy this Wednesday, and I'm going back there next week, and I haven't seen any sign of BTC activity. What I've noted is that McDonald's used to offer free wifi in Italy, but that doesn't work any more. One guy told me that the places were getting crowded with African migrants who spent there hours, to get the free wifi but without ordering anything.

Do you have any link of an Italian website accepting BTC?

We've all seen that BTC is getting more and more centralized, and I wonder if the people behind this attack could be trying to push even further into that direction. There are still some lonely individuals running a node at their home, and the attacker may want to make this next to impossible, as running a node should now command close and regular monitoring. So only large teams, or mining farms (from some large eastern country), with staff on guard would be able to run nodes efficiently. See what I mean?

Does that make sense?

What? A blockchain powered Internet makes no sense.
I don't even think a DNS resolution service on a blockchain would be better than what we have now.

Yes, this is just the beginning. We all know that. I've asked one of my customers to pay me with BTC, and he didn't want to. I've tried to buy a used car with BTC, but the guy wanted cash. And my mother still doesn't believe in BTC.

There's a long way to go before all those people will change their mind, but I don't see any action coming from SegWit activation (if ever). The network will work better, and there should be no more delays, but the average user won't notice anything.

I don't understand the young generations.
I certainly don't support it, but I somehow understand how a man could want to rape a woman, but why filming it, and streaming it?

I hope that when in jail, there will be people to teach him what's a rape is really like. From the other side, I mean.

You only need to do something if you think you may need your money sometimes soon.. If there's a hard fork (that's a big IF, actually), I'm afraid quite many people would be in a state of panic, sending BTC's price up and down, so you'll have to stay quiet (HOLD) for quite a while.

I don't see this as weird. All users will have the choice, and that's good.
The bad side is that it would take probably months for things to settle, so you will have to freeze your assets for a long time.

Very poor article.

It doesn't explain anything about how this is going to work. Were all landowners given a private key, so that they'll be able to sell their land freely? Who will have the right to write on the blockchain, to register a transaction? Some kind of a lawyer? Government agents? At what cost? How many computers will host that blockchain? Is it centralized, in the hands of the government?

There are many questions needing answers before we shall rejoice.

No. There will be one BTC, the only true BTC, supported by a majority, and a new altcoin supported by a minority of BTC users.
A hard fork, if it happens, would sure hurt BTC, but I don't see why it would kill it.

The blocksize debate isn't the issue here. It's been going on for nearly 2 years and BTC's price has been rising most of the time. What's scaring everybody is that we've finally come to the point where real decisions may be taken. Some people are talking of a hard fork, while some others are talking about updating the proof-of-work algorithms which are at the roots of BTC. These are major changes, and investors don't like change... Even when most users agree that changes are badly needed.

You have to think long term. Price may keep on going down before the future is visible.

For the sake of BTC and to protect what I have invested, I'm totally opposed to a hard fork. BTC is quite famous these days. A hard fork would bring a lot of headlines and terrible PR for months.

Trump may have a made a mistake by doing things openly.

He could have ordered an unofficial travel ban as well. Visas for Syrians or Somalis have only been delivered on a case-by-case basis for years. Trump could have discreetly ordered to make the scanning process even more rigorous, actually blocking all demands, and nobody would have noticed.