it's definitely cheaper, in this regard, bitcoin has a big edge on international transfer, just take at look at this example

in my case with deutesche bank i need to pay 25 euro to transfer money abroad, and this apply to any sum, with bitcoin you will never pay a fee that big to send money to soemone else on another country

another good think bitcoin is good at is the conversion, when you convert usd with euro and receive money in your bank account they take 3.5% like paypal, with bitcoin you will never lose this percentage

I think that ransomware attacks are just a drop in the ocean of bitcoin; the recent attacks have little to nothing to do with the price boost we experienced recently.
I would be more prone to consider the growing interest into the crypto currencies of more people from all around the world as the main cause of the spike we witnessed.

In my above post itself I have answered your question (I highlight it this time). By not recommending ICOs, it does not mean I have some other opportunities where we can make big profits. I meant ICOs are not recommended for the people who are not capable of finding potential altcoin projects.

If you are an ICO hunter, could you share what are your ROI with your last 10 ICO investments. I am sure 5 out of 10 ICOs are coming into market just to suck people's money. They simply pump prices to make their investors happy but they totally do forget about their road map.

This is not a right way to enforce a reply imho. You might have sent me a PM.

Here is an interesting talk by Simon Dixon on the BitcoinMeister youtube channel. He does a good job of highlighting what is most important in this scaling debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNGzhWODF2s&t=3761

If you want to know what a real bubble is, then look into Ethereum. Bitcoin's price was overbought, but not to the extent of it being a bubble. Bitcoin has been experiencing a massive amount of growth from all over the world, and that's all legit growth. Also take into consideration that there has been a burst of good news, all in a short period of time, wich has lead to the price being overbought by panic buyers and speculators/gamblers. Overbought is not the same as bubble.

I think it is very probable that BTC withdrawals will be open on Chinese exchanges soon. Huobi just added ETH for trading and enabled ETH withdrawals ( https://twitter.com/huobicom/status/868442008402014208, http://www.newsbtc.com/2017/05/28/huobi-first-big-three-chinese-exchange-enable-ethereum-trading/). It would not make much sense to enable ETH withdrawals but not BTC withdrawals. Also Huobi most probably would not make this change alone.
If my speculation is right - what would it mean? A pump or a dump?

I fee that now Bitcoins are no more so attractive to send or received money but it is good only for investment purpose. Because I send money through bank to my home country without any additional charges and if I do a transaction in business hours then the transaction will be done less than one hour time. But nowadays even after paying highest fee sometimes, we may need to wait for few hours to get the transactions to confirm on blockchain network. I consider bitcoins are good only for investment purpose.

Well, I hope you all have fun with your Bitcoin fork. I'll be selling my Barrycoins, TYVM


Re-centralisation for the win, lol

Personally I don't think so we're going to see $5,000  Bitcoin anytime soon because currently were in a Bubble and as we have so the correction comes really quickly. Bitcoin has the ability to go up a lot in a short period of time but also goes down a lot in a similar period of time. Everything is completely unpredictable.

I would say though if a Fiat currency collapse or a stock market crash occurs, we could see bitcoin rise in value like crazy.

Kwukduck is trolling everyone here - he acts like an ultra bear, while in reality he is ultra bullish. In fact, this dude is riding the waves and increasing his stash whilst making fun of others (mostly newbies). In most cases it's annoying to read through all his trollish garbage, but you have to look through all that.

In some cases, and that's mostly scaling related, he does have a point -> we need to scale as soon as possible. We need to break through the firm grip that miners have in current circumstances, and force through a fork ourself in form of a user activated soft fork (also known as UASF).

I never recommend investing ICOs. Because it will be harder for any beginner to analyse the potential of new projects. Instead of risking to new projects, I'm always suggesting to go with well-known investment opportunities like bitcoins.

Maybe ICOs may get comparatively more profits, but a new investors should not take big risk. Based on this investment priciples, I'm always suggesting investing with bitcoin kind of highly reputed opportunities. Because making lesser profit will be nice rather than struggling with big losses.

My bad, even though I quoted it, I think misread it as "would it still have been". I think not only was it marketed wrong, the idea was wrong, and a lot of the resentment comes from the fact that segwit is forced on people (even if you don't want it, you're stuck with it if you want to use a version of Core that's more efficient than the older versions and contains bug-fixes). If you want Core, your only 2 options are something that Core knows is shit or forced segwit.

Nobody can answer that. Bitcoin has risen over the entire time of its existence, with only temporary backslides. Keep buying little by little until you need the money then cash out little by little as you need it.

No, icos are risk investment, we can lose much money investing in icos, much better to hold bitcoins, it's safe compared to other schemes. Bitcoin everyone in crypto world knows what is and its strenght was already prooved.
Ico is a good idea only if you have extra money to try, but only what you are afford to lose, like in gambling.