there will always be people who will use bitcoin for foul reasons. this is for a hack called ransomeware, the other day it was for buying drugs from the dark net and next it will be something else.

what people need to understand that bitcoin just like USD, EUR, RUR, ... are just tools evil people use and that doesn't mean that tool is also evil. sadly the media doesn't want to know this at the moment. and unless we have a media like them our voice won't be heard.

most of them are better off using a linux distribution instead, it is both safer and takes less system resources! for example there is one called Puppy linux which only takes about 100 MB or something of your memory.

or even Ubuntu flavors such as Lubuntu or Xubuntu are way better because they are exactly the same as Ubuntu but with a different GUI.

p.s. phishing email has nothing to do with OS though, you go to a similar looking website and enter your username and password and the hacker guy gets it for free.

people weren't sitting in the governments office one afternoon thinking what can we do, lets "accept" bitcoin out of the blue.
there were adoption, people wanting bitcoin as a legal way of payment, government processed the request for some time and accepted it.
now businesses are adding bitcoin payment to their services little by little.

people who are annoyed by the delayed transaction are going to come out and say fuck you bitcoin i am annoyed with you.
they are not going to come here and say fuck you bitcoin, ...coin is going to replace you because it is .... better than you. take a look at tech support board to see the topics of type 1 and take a look at this board and speculation board to see topics type 2

all these throwaway accounts and all the other old accounts like the famous duck are the living proof of the ever growing bitcoin dominance. and it is at its all time high right now.

with all the good news that are coming out one after another, like Japan, followed by Russia, then Australia and now other countries, the adoption is growing fast. much faster than anybody could have imagined.

with that came the price rise, many missed their chances to buy in, many sold in panic because they fell for a similar topic and now joined the forces.
many are holding bags of worthless altcoins which are inflated to their max capacity and are getting desperate to get out with some profit at least.

and all these will grow bigger with bitcoin price corrections. so brace yourselves, grab pop corns and enjoy the desperate topics. 

honorary mention: https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoinobituaries/

a lot of people and websites are trying so hard these days to connect this to bitcoin and use it as an excuse to affect the price and the market makers decided NO. so it won't have any effect on it for the time being.

and we will continue as planned. in a very short time SEC will reject ETF and price will fall, then the FUD topics begin pouring in and panic sells start and in a week or so whales get bigger and price goes back above current price once again!

how many more of these topics do we really need! honestly everyday i come here i see a bunch of new topics talking about the same thing. if you think bitcoin is dead then why are you poking a dead body?

don't waste your time, run to safety and use whatever altcoin or fiat you think is alive and kicking. you don't need to give updates of what you do to us.

from what i have been seeing, people complain a lot about poloniex specially in times like this when there are a lot of traders using their website that their servers can not handle.

you can also check out their twitter account and see in the past they have been having same tweets (if they don't delete them). it says "we are experiencing down time", "we are under DDoS attack".

if the problem is indeed coming from poloniex itself then not much can be done. sadly they have been performing very badly in the past 2 years, and it gets worse whenever there is a pump or a dump going on when they get a lot of traffic, they always call it DDoS attack!

now i am thinking even using API (a bot) won't help you. but it is worth a try.

your problem is honestly very weird!
usually you are logged out of these places when you are idle (although you say you were active, weird!), and there is usually a setting for that in settings that you can change the time of. i don't use polo so you have to look to see if it exists, turn it off it does.

also if nothing helped, try clearing your cookies, history and saved data,... and also make sure to scan your computer to see if you have any kind of malicious software, sometimes they can interfere with some stuff.

and in the end the only other option that comes to my mind is either switching to another exchange like bittrex or using a bot. you can only use it to set the trades, it is a pretty simple code to execute orders if you know anything about coding you can write one yourself too.

users who are using blockchain.info are beginners, which means the wallet needs to be beginner friendly. it other words it doesn't matter if you can change the fee when you are new and you don't know how much you should pay.

with other wallets like Electrum for example, the wallet contacts Electrum nodes and gets a good fee and shows it as a suggestion to user in a beginner friendly manner. but it seems like all the problems that i see from blockchain.info has a low fee (like what achow said 120 s/b)

LOL. BU support is the same as before and nothing has changed about it for months. and the nodes keep crashing, the number of massive crashes is at 5 right now.
at this rate the number of nodes continue to fall and nobody is trusting the buggy proposal anymore.

i can even say miners are not supporting BU, they are just signalling it to disagree with Segwit.

it is a train, and that train is called "let's (pretend to) hate bitcoin and hype our altcoins up as much as we can so in the end we can have so much more bitcoin from its pump". and it seems like many are on this train these days.

ok let me just ask you a couple of questions.
1. why ethereum?
it is centralized, buggy, and is not even supposed to be a currency as the developer himself has said.
+ it is a pump and dump altcoin
+ it is heavily manipulated
+ coin distribution has never been fair.
+ it had an ICO which mainly acted as its premine, so we can safely say it is a premined coin!

2. what is stopping people from doing the same with ethereum?
the blockchain size of ethereum is already bigger than bitcoin blockchain and even if the block size is not an issue the blockchain size will be.

3. who said these transactions are spam?
not saying they are or aren't but these are transactions that anybody can make. (there is a problem with this particular address that makes it spam but i want to hear your answer first)

their fee estimation is bad which makes using that web wallet bad. and not to mention all the negative things about using a web wallet.

also i am not denying the fact that fees are high and block size issue exists. we are all aware of the problems we don't need a brand new account telling us that with this tone while making assumptions that are very wrong about the adoption.

again fully agree.
but lets come up with a solution not repeat the problem. everybody at this point knows that.

the only important thing is that nobody is leaving! and they never will.
many will pretend they leave, wanna leave, left, but in fact they are hoping for a dip to buy in or many are supporting their altcoin which they are bag-holding to make profit from its pump.
this has been the story for the past 6 or 7 years as soon as bitcoin was listed on exchanges.

the board you posted your first post, has a sticky topic. go read it, that topic has a lot of good and useful information and come back if you had any specific questions.
hint: ViaBTC

price has nothing to do with that.
worst case scenario is that bitcoin stops being a currency and continues being only an investment. without being a currency it won't go to $10,000 but it will still continue to rise a lot.

and yeah, regular people getting out is actually better for price, they are mostly weak hands in the market causing the panic sells and making whales richer.

then it must have been more like the April first every day and everywhere for him to make the joke all over the forum and each day

at least include the link to the real news https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-forgotten-currency-norway-oslo-home

and yeah it is a real story and it is not the only story either.
many of us have invested back in 2014-2015 when price was going down from $400ish to $200 and if anyone have invested at $200 they have a big 800% profit.
it may not be as big as Koch story but it is still huge.

and there will be a lot more stories like Koch from people saying we bought at $1700 back in 2017 and it is now 800% higher.

mistake number 1. using blockchain.info
mistake number 2. from your first post from your history you obviously knew about http://bitcoinfees.21.co/ but yet you chose to pay less fee (less than half the suggestion), full aware that it can take a long time to confirm.


then that is a good news for us fanboys here.
regular people leaving > less transaction spam from them > lower fees for the fanboys > hooray.

"Big Time" is already happening whether "regular people" are ready for it or not.
whether they missed the train or not.
whether they chose to be a centralized altcoin fanboy or not.

some stats from bitcoinwisdom:
USD market > price = $1827 > volume 30 days = 881,963
CNY market > price = 10378 > volume 30 days = 764,432

https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins/CNY
localbitcoins CNY volume last 4 weeks > 199,466,11 (this amount has risen 30 times since last year)

you have no idea what you are talking about.

this has nothing to do with bitcoin's dominance and has nothing to do with your claims about it being decreased.

nobody is stopping you, maybe introduce your business here so we can use it when it became so much better when you switched to an altcoin.

again i am anxiously waiting for you to introduce your business to us so we can check it out and see the effect switching to an altcoin had on your business.