That's why I said it doesn't work for me, you'll be buying a pint of milk for the price of a cow.

if I understand you correctly, you will be paying the coder through the coins mined from the coder's effort, why does the coder need you? , why doesn't he develop the POS coins himself and market. Good Luck. GSI

I think the first thing is agreeing on the criteria by which a site or ICO can be labelled a scam, also talk to your legal adviser, to see how all of this will work out. Nonetheless, it is a welcome idea.

Bitcoin is just passing through a phase, expect that in the not too distant future. Whatever China does or say would have zero influence on bitcoin's value, because even if they ban bitcoin in China, bitcoin has gained a wide adoption, also expect China to come up with her own cryptocurrency.

Problem is: we will have to actually verify that you have 1 billion btc on the blockchain and know that it is all fake, so market cap is not a poor metric to gauge a coins desirability and those who use it are not idiots.

Have a look at coinmarketcap.com

A whitepaper can be well written and infused with brilliant concept and ideas, yet the project is doomed to fail and you can see some project with sketchy or no whitepapers at all yet the project is a bang. Scammers know that a good whitepaper is required, so they pay professionals to write one for them, without a reflection of those stuff in their actual implementation. So how do you find a middle road? Having the best of minds on a project team, a brilliant idea and well written whitepaper gives investors a rest of mind, but with all this if your project will not be used in the real world and gain traction and adoption it is just a fruitless effort. So there are a lot of dynamics involved in all of this. You will learn what works by experience and observation.

Buying with a credit card is a very hard option, doesn't work for me

I think as it stands today, only those who are making heavy transaction benefit from it, those making micro payments tend to suffer. The problem of the unstable value of bitcoins affects all.

Cash does not rely always on technology for an exchange to take place, bitcoins does. Volatility is the greatest enemy of bitcoins

Simple way! work for fiat currency and use it to buy bitcoins.

Imagine being stranded in the middle of a desert with 1 million bitcoins, with no vehicle or camel coming, the next town is 500 km away and you have to walk. You begin to realize that the money is worthless, why? it is what you do with money that gives it its value. So money is just a tool and since it is a tool it cannot do all things. SO there are things that money can buy and there are things that money cannot buy. You should pay a great attention to what money cannot buy, because when you lose them, you have lost a great deal. You can gain money back, when you lose it but some things cannot be gained back, like your life, your time, sometimes your health or even relationship, you are not getting younger everyday and someday you will leave this world, where are you headed to? hell or heaven ?

Has the frozen block been mined already?

How would you feel then if the value of bitcoins become extremely low? will you still be happy? just asking

Happiness is a temporary experience, the secret of happiness is contentment, whatever you have there are people who will have more, whatever you achieve, there will be people who achieve more than you do. Being content with what you have and realizing that life is a phase, things may be bad today, tomorrow they will be good.

Start life all over again

The topic is not a nonsense topic but the options may be faulty.
Hmm... You need some lectures. What i have done is pure semantics. Here ...
Rebound: definition a :to spring back on or as if on collision or impact with another body
b :to recover from setback or frustration
Source: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rebound

You may say that the options needs to be re-arranged i.e. 1. Yes bitcoin will rebound 2. No it will die 3. I don't know etc
but i am more interested in the discussion of the people in this forum on the subject, which has been quite insightful. anyway i have since edited the option. thanks

What is your most embarrassing moment and how were you able to cope with the embarrassment?

Simple rule - Keep your eyes on your money. Talk is cheap

The events of the past few days have greatly affected the exchange value of bitcoin. Do you believe this is the demise of bitcoin or like phoenix it will rise from the ashes.

Look for an altcoin