I would suggest Electrum. It supports segwit, and is very safe. Armory & Bitcoincore work as well of course, but you have to download the whole blockchain. Or you can get a trezor of course.

I think the vast majority of people are going to have a lot of trouble getting any merit. Thus far, the majority of active contributors haven't received any merit.

I would bet similar by the end of 2018. Just not sure when exactly

Bitcoin will almost certainly recover, as it has done in the past. It's also possible that Ethereum may take bitcoin's position. But crypto is so, so far from being 'dead'

When on earth is tether going belly up? So surprised this isn't happening already. Who the hell is putting money into tether?

Interest is definitely tied to the price in my opinion. Increasing interest in bitcoin is definitely good for the price and vice versa

Prices crash faster than they rise. If people believe a piece of FUD is important, combined with how fast the price is falling, that only encourages people to unload faster, causing a much greater dip.

There's some need for it yes, but the issue is they're vulnerable to being hacked and won't be able to reverse money stolen like regular banks do. Frankly, having your funds with the cryptocurrency bank wouldn't be all so different than keeping your funds on an exchange. The only difference is the bank may offer more payment-type services than an exchange would offer because frankly that's not part of their scope of business.

Banks are absolutely afraid. Their entire business depends on fiat money. An individual bank won't be able to make a difference in the grand scheme of things. Just will piss off their customers more.

The smart thing to do would be to divide your assets between bitcoin, a variety of altcoins & traditional assets (stocks, mutual funds, etc...)

By 2022, bitcoin will be outdated. Code is old. Just not as good as some of these newer projects. There are better projects and eventually they will take over bitcoin.

I think IOTA and XRB will do extremely well this year. People will start hearing about DAG and understand how it differs from blockchain.

Anyone can make a prediction. Almost everyone is wrong. All these predictions are just stabs in the dark. No one really knows what will happen

Depends on whether you wanted to invest in a logical safer option, or you really want to gamble 'go big or go home' with it. A $500 investment won't result in a huge return if you're investing in BTC/ETH right now, but it is a safer option.

It's a really a shame people are snapping up all the decent .com related crypto domains. Hope to see this kind of practice made illegal by ICANN.

I think BTC dying is an overexagguration. They're not in a position to call themselves experts on the topic anyways. Even if they were, lots of disagreement between 'experts' here.

As exchanges accept accept more fiat-crypto trading pairs, other than the fiat-btc & fiat-eth, btc will become less and less relevant and needed. Expect BTC to really underperform other top 20 coins in 2018

They agree to it because there are essential things that need to be built and managed for all. Roads, bridges, international relations between countries, defence, etc...

Don't start by day trading or you'll lose your shirt. Many experienced day traders don't make any more money than if they were to just buy and hodl.