When can we expect to get paid?

You should as a matter of principle keep the bulk of your holding in cold storage. The last time we had a serious run-up, we lost MtGox. We could see another exchange go down in this bull run. Be cautious.

I have never believed more in BTC and its future than I do now. The recent upheavals including Venezuela, China debt, Brexit have only confirmed my belief that BTC is unstoppable

What always bothers me about LTC is that I am unable to figure out what would drive price rises in a primary sense? LTC always seems to go up in line with BTC but seems to lack primary drivers

I respect the Counterparty project and the folks behind it, but there has been no really uplifting news from that camp for months now, no?

I use shapeshift to move small alt positions around. I have used Poloniex before with good experiences. Have heard good things about Bittrex. Never used Yobit to trade, so not sure how good they are

I agree, much of the value seeking altcoin alpha is actually BTC (or more recently Ether) gains looking to diversify to other sources of profit. This is good for the ecosystem and a further run-up post halving augurs well for price performance of solid alts like Zcash that are coming on stream later this year

I use shapeshift.io to efficiently move small amounts of alts into BTC without any hassle. Poloniex and Bittrex are also decent if you are comfortable with some degree of centralisation

I expect BTC to hit 4 digits sometime before the end of the year and to be honest would expect 2017 to be an overall good year though maybe more of a consolidation year in price terms ($1000-1500 range) with some vol

My guess is that we are largely looking at tech-savvy millenials, so 21 to 35 would be my intuition. I myself fit into that range.

A couple of years ago, I received 0.3BTC out of the blue that to the best of my knowledge nobody owed me  . It's still sitting in the same wallet!

My intuition tells me it is either going to be Lisk or Zcash when it finally releases

I focus more on earning well in the fiat world so I have the resources to add to my BTC. Given scarcity of high RoI BTC earning opportunities, that has always seemed smarter strategy

I think it's premature to ascribe the safe haven moniker to BTC. Even after Brexit, the price only shot up 7% which is miniscule relative to total flow of capital into safe assets. Long way to go yet.

This is encouraging news, but it would be great if the Indian government could finally end the legal ambiguity around BTC and how it will be taxed as well. Blockchain tech minus BTC is such a fad now!

Why on earth would miners stop supporting the network given the recent positive price action? I predict that difficulty will temporaily fall but recover pretty fast

Long-term as far as I am concerned would be at least until ~2024 or two more halvings after this one. That would also be ~ 15 years from the genesis block

Add up declared number of wallet downloads/holders on Circle, Coinbase and Blockchain and divide by 2. That , in my view, gives you a fairly fair picture ~ 7mn currently

I think Ether will settle at around ~ 0.02 to 0.025 BTC provided there are no negative supply shocks in 2017 when Casper goes live

There is just no way to accumulate that kind of size off exchanges without moving the price significantly, and that's going to get even more pronounced after the halving kicks in.