that can't help having  more Bitcoin but just more value out of coin you are holding which is not what the thread starter is asking

from my understanding the OP want to earn interest on his savings

unfortunately besides lending money there is nothing you can do to earn passive interests  on your Bitcoin

unless you check some good  pos coin with high return per year like 100%

you are not to late there is still a chance for everyone to earn plenty of coin you just need to be wise and select the correct altcoin

some of those alt can give you a enormous  return like 100x, last one I mined made me 1 btc in fee hours of mining

sure but you are forgetting that the value can also decresse, because it's unstable, instead with fiat currency you ahve always the same one which is almost rock solid

unless you get some case where the government is corrupted or the bank are insolvent and the whole country is in debt, and their currency lose value

with doge and cointelelct by abusing their account system, many other did this trick, plenty of easy bitcoin were awaiting

basically by investing 1 you could get 10 or 20, using renting website like miningrigrental, and pointing many of those rented machine, to different account, for mining

if you want to do good profit invest in altcoin not in bitcoin, there is where the real money are, you can 100x or more with some luck and good aiming at the best altcoin you can find

some new altcoin can hold a big return for a very cheap investment, don't invest in ico scam unless there is a huge hype and you are 99% sure that after it hit the market the value will increase, was the case of lisk

i'm not talking about trading here, just invest in various altcoin and wait for the pump, dump and forget, hence repeat

well the problem is that segwit2x is not segwit, and require an hard fork, this mean that we might get just an altcoin, which will carry a different value, and the value of the original fork will remain unchanged


not always like that, could be that they know but they are waiting, this make everyone wait each other, and result in a price stuck like it's happening now

then everyone start buying like a madman and the value go high suddenly, i see this many times when a bad or good news happen, so it's not always priced in

this is a bit like when the new apple store open you see all the people getting in all at once...

yeah and people forgets that this is not only worse for something like buying a cofee, but also plenty of other stuff like s very cheap steam game

now with the summer sales, i was plannign to buy a $0.5 game but to buy this i must spend $2.5 in fee, which is stupid, at this point better to use your credit/debit card, which is free from any fee for me

this will change soon when the segwit will be activate i hope, otherwise bitcoin is only good for purchase something that has at least 10-20 times the value of the fee paid

yes before or after the halving the value usually go high, and this last halving was not an exception, i remember the value went almost 2x after the halving, peak was around $800

so the next halving could help the value go even higher, but we are talking about 2020 here, still a long way to go

was already discussed, and until intel release their new 10nm cpu you will not find any new asic, so until next year or later, the antminers will remain in top position

you can still do good in profit now with this current generation of asic, the value allow a great margin on profit, for your ROI time

for now at best we could hope for a s9+ maybe? a lite version

it's also a good way to kill the value, i don't think in the remote case of a chain split, the exchange will listen both chain as a bitcoin with the same value, it doesn't make sense

one of the chain will be listed as an altcoin, or simply not listed, and the exchange are with core they said it already, so any other chain is an altcoin

any market crash is very small now and only an opportunity to buy back more than before

if you emans real market crash where the value is unrecoverable, that is another story, and would make bitcoin die or forgotten

but i don't think such scenario is possible with the current conditions of adoption and segwit activation

i'm in italy but i don't use any italian bank account, i just use deutesche bank, i find it the better choice, no fee on everything money come really fast

the limit is a bit low only 50k maximum to be deposited, maybe the only downside, is that deutesche bank was in toruble not long time a go, and still in red now...

i trust my family, they have access to my coin, so i'm not worried, they would use those if needed, they know they can't use them now without my permission of course, we have rules

also my brother is tech savy, programmers, so he would have no problem understanding bitcoin

this won't pops, because it's already happened, remember $2500 retreat to $2000 or so, that was the dumping, now again in the same range, there will be another one of this bubble and then another retreat

and for every new one the bottom will be higher, this is how you build the future value

well no one can block anythiung here, because bitcoin is decentralized and based on con sensus, so if the majority want segwit2x this will happen regardless of everythign else

but then you have that if the exchange are not with segwit2x and remain with the old fork or want pure segwit, they will not listen the hard fork and therefore it's no different than having a new altcoin

the exchange now are on the fence it seems, it's not know what they are with it

clearly the title is misleading, beacuse the blockchain in't a brand or anything, it's not something you can buy

they just invested in the project which is different and the investment look very poor, 40M isn't that much, i'm stillw aiting for serious investment from rich people in the range of billions at least

you cna mix your coin later and remove the linkage in some way, or send to an exchange dump for another altcoin and buy back and send again to a new address

still this linkage will not give you much, 5 btc are only worth 0.015 in stellar, if you link your address, you must own tons of bitcoin for this to be worth the effort...

the value look dead stuck there on $2700, i doubt it can fall anymore, so investing now it's not that risky in my view, worst case we tank to $2500 or around that after 1 august after the usual panic sell

i would buy now with a % of my total investment and wait and see to invest the other %

not much because the money they are making come from other people that did lose something, it's like the homeless on the street that beg $1 from 100k different person, and he become reach because they helped him

the money just move from one place to another, and for someone becoming rich many other have lost a tiny portion of their wealth, this translate in that some people are actually losing on crypto and only a few are making big money

centralized currency are heavily monitored, which i don't like, you can't do anything purchase, anything without "them" knowing it, also the fee are higher for some operations

then add to that all the hassle you need to have to get a debit credit card, and all the restriction per day on the withdrawals and deposit, there is nothing which is not a pay in the ass with fiat

bitcoin give you complete freedom even on fee you can decide to pay zero and wait more, maybe forever, but at least you can do it

then you have the inflation vs deflation argument, all the centralized currency have a inflation system which is going to collapse the entire economy at some point, i see bitcoin as the savior of the global economy when the current block limit issue will be solved