I was reading about it when people started talking recently about bitcoin having big chances to face it. As far as I understood, we have now 1 unified blockchain which is, as we can see from the word itself, the chain of blocks of btc which come all from mining. Miners and btc users confirm that the btc is used in this or that transaction and also can't be used twice this way. Fork is a case in which the chain splits into two chains and thus they both exist for some time and it's up to miners and users to choose one of them. And for bitcoin this would mean a threat of price going down for quite a time till it manages to recover.

This of course makes sense. However, the reasons for people to stop using it may differ a lot. It can be some better technology appearing or bitcoin facing huge security problem that will destroy it. It may also happen in case something really bad for humanity and Earth happens, because people are likely to stop trusting what they can't percieve immedeately by senses in such a situation. I think btc will never die just like gold doesn't. Or, rather, it will die along with humanity.

As some altcoins are not only dependent on demand and offer but are also regulated in a way by different campaigns, it is quite possible for some coin to reach a 'false' $1k. And I think that in about 5 years a couple of the best altcoins may reach the real $1000 price. I bet on Ethereum and Bytebal but who knows what the future will bring us. What can suddenly change the price of alts (but not THAT much that they reach $1000) is bitcoin suffering from a hard fork (if that will ever happen).

Yeah, I think people should stick more to their views. I believe in Ethereum and don't think it is likely to die ever.
And I guess nowadays it is not correct to say like OP that ltc and btc are the only true coins. Firstly, litecoin is more like a btc clone, so maybe it is not one of the 'real coins'. Secondly, eth, byteball, dash and others have already gathered trust among bitcointalk members and the trust is one of the most important things since it produces the demand.

Ethereum is green already if we compare it with dollar ($50.60 (+0.74%) ). I think there is no good time to dump eth, because it really is a good currency. However, even if one thinks that eth is 'pump and dump' I think now is not the right time. The price is high but stable, whereas bitcoin is not very stable now and there still is a threat of hard fork as we remember. Maybe I just panicked but I sold all my btc today (didn't have much, though), because I don't want to end up with a lot smaller sum in USD after the fork.

Well, 12 million people is really not too much. However, everything is changing faster and faster as the population and collective learning increases. So the number can end up around 1 billion in 10 years if no big catastrophy concerning the whole planet won't occur. At least, for now cryptos are good for investment and earning money, so in a way they already are the better future for many of us.

I think now is a very bad time to invest in bitcoin since hard fork is likely to happen. I suggest you wait till the huge risk is gone and then behave according to what has happened. I'd rather hold my money in USD and wait till the situation clears up before deciding in which coin to invest money. Or you may try some alts now (Ripple coin, for example). But don't buy btc now!

I would say it is rather the opposite. When bitcoin's price goes down, alts grow up a bit (like ethereum and bitcoin now). But yes, like others say, there is no strict connection between btc and alts. Btc depends purely on demand and offer, whereas some altcoins (Decred, ETH, XPR) depend both on that and on companies' regulation of it.
I'd advice you to look at different coins on coinmarketcap and choose those which cost at least a couple of dollars and grow in price now to invest in.

Yes, I've been reading about hard fork and, unfortunately, it is very likely to happen. And surely the price will go down since people won't be able to use btc for some time + some will lose faith in bitcoin after it. As eth is second best now, it is sort of likely to grow in price. However, we have to take into account that eth may also suffer from hard fork. SO perhaps people won't demand the coin which can experience the same problem as bitcoin will (I hope it won't). So, maybe they'll decide to put money in Dash as with it only 'big users' can decide which blockchain is true.

Yes, bitcoin is losing its popularity as people tend to look more closely at alts and invest in them. And the problem is that bitcoin doesn't seem to be a flexible coin which can really evovle in a serious way. And yet I don't believe bitcoin will once be abandoned. I only think that eth will be nearly as good as bitcoin and we can see from the price growth (although some say the price is that high, because someone keeps it high) that ethereum is becoming second best already.

As you are talking about 10 coins, the easiest thing to do would be to see the rank on coinmarketcap and invest in the first to there. However, I think that you better do it with some corrections.
Very good coins to invest in are Ethereum and Byteball. They really are innovative and look like strong alternatives to bitcoin. And the coins are now very new, so we can see they managed to survive and become popular already. So, there are 8 coins more to choose. Ripple looks like a great investment but perhaps for a short time. Litecoin was said to be nearly dead years ago but it is still on the stage, so I would consider it as a long-term investment. And I would also invest in Waves, Melon, ZCoin, Radium and Unobtanium. The tenth should be bitcoin, of course, although you want to invest in alts.

I agree with the first part of the sentence and disagree with the second one. Trading is quite risky but one still has a chance to earn money this way even without good skills. All one needs in coinmarketcap to see the price charts and bitcointalk to see what others write about coins. But as for the lowest price coins... I think this is wrong. If the coins is worth a couple of cents why should one think it will cost more later? I think that the price has to be at least around $1. Because this means that coin at least has a chance.

Yes, I understood this when I found out how long it will take for my money to be returned in the best-case scenario. And then if one invested in some very popular casino's bankroll, say, 0.1btc, one will earn around 0.06 per year! So, it's a lot better to learn some trading stuff and try buying and selling currencies. The money can be returned in a few days if everything goes well. But you have to spend some time regularly on checking the prices. And, of course, it is a lot more risky than investing in known casinos. So, I guess, if one has at least 1btc to invest or trade, it is better to invest.

Yeah, that's what I wanted to say as well. The price is very small now, and I guess this can be a very good investment for a few days. I wanted to buy some and than sell in about a week but I found out that there is no online wallet for them (I've never dealt with any other wallets) and there are also some news that "Ripple Trade is no longer available". Although perhaps it is possible on a site like this:https://changelly.com/exchange/btc/xrp. What do you think? Is XRP a nice chance to earn money very fast? And will it be possible to sell ripple easily when the price will start falling?

Why did you sell ethereum? I consider this currency rather like a long-term investment since it really has its own advantages upon even bitcoin! I keep my eth but check the price every day. I think it is okay to withdraw only if it drops to $15 or so. Otherwise, if you people see the currency growing, why do they want to sell it? If you chack the price regularly you aren't likely to lose a lot anyway...
MLN is too young and unstable, I think, to be even compared with eth in terms of investment.

If we talk about long-term investment then it's better to put this money in known currencies but which don't cost too much. As ETH is $50 already and Z-cash costs even more, you better choose something like Monero which is only $20 now. Another nice option (but, perhaps, for a short-term investment) is Factom. The price is only $3 but we can see that it looks like it will be growing soon. And Waves is not having its best time, so if you choose short-term investment (and I think that with $100 it is better than long-term) you may invest in it today and withdraw in, say, 5 days. Good luck!

Well, some are traders and so they buy and sell coins regularly. Others are looking for some long-term investments. And these people want to know whether this or that coin is likely to become famous and be stable in, say, a year from now.
Another thing people care about is the wallet, of course. If the wallet is hard to use, the coin is hard to trade (inconvenient).
So, I guess people do care about useful features here.
I voted for byteball, because at least it is very popular, expensive and stable now + smart contracts can be performed easily with it.

Okay, so you created the currency and it is in TOP 100. Are you just trying to advertize it here? Perhaps it is better to create a thread in announcement section then. And if you want more people to use it, you have to make agreement with some casino that they'll accept the coin or you should make some kind of a giveaway.
And where is the main info about this coin? Is there any mining? Halving? Finite number? How does it work?
And why do I see this coin being active from December (http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/veros/)  since you say you launched it in January?

There is an obvious benefit here due to the price dynamics. We can see that mthe price is mostly slowly going down. This means that if you have, say, 1 bitcoin, you may spend around 20$ on something and as the price is growing you won't notice the difference in the price. Moreover, you can slowly earn some btc as well and thus you will be able to spend some money regularly and at the same time have only more and more of money.

That seems reasonable in a way but I think that even having about $40 for trading it's okay to try with those worth around $20. So, you just buy 1 or 1.5 of a coin which is starting to grow in price and has been quite stable over the last month and wait till it becomes twice as much. Then it's up to you whether to make it a long-term investment or withdraw, earn some money out of it and try with another coin.
For me there is a big problem with trading that you need to create new wallet for each currency and spend some time finding out how it works. That's what stops me from being a trader.