OP wsa swift in creating a domain under the email address I gave him. Interesting.

I've just gotten a domain under my account and it was exactly what I told him and there seems to be free hosting too. He did what he promised nevertheless.

Either of those. Just one of either. You must go first*, so make an offer.

I'll pay in BTC once I check the good I receive. BitGo instant payments available and preferred.

*If you know some trusted escrow that could handle quickly this I'm all ears but I don't think it's worth their time so going first is a requirement.

Put simply, bitcoin can't die. Perhaps speculators are no longer seeing potential in a further price rise for now, and hence profit taking has started applying selling pressure. However, bitcoin doesn't cease to be a useful utility with quite a bit of demand from real users backing it up. Even if the price falls a great deal that doesn't mean that bitcoin would die.

This is going to be exciting. Most bitcoiners thought this coin as dead but its futures are picking up in exchanges right now with considerable volumes. It's far from dead and if the launch is successful it'd have a sustainable future. Bit of a rushed launch announcement if you ask me though. The devs didn't wait a day or two after the announcement in order to launch the network. Either way, this is currency competition in play.

I'm a bit surprised we aren't seeing many complaints about Bitcoin Gold being premined though. With current prices its developers have secured millions in reserves based on their stats for the number of premined coins. Although a price drop would be expected from the actual launch and mining.

The 2x event might not even be canceled yet but the reality is that we'll might be seeing bitcoin gold coming live in terms of mining and in markets. I don't think that what's happening with bitcoin's price is all that related to real world events though. Cryptocurrency markets are unregulated and driven by speculation so the selling pressure might as well just be profit taking form the last few weeks.

Bitcoin Cash is a hedge against bitcoin. If we're going to talk about real world events other than correlate everything to pure speculation (the latter is the likely case since we're talking crypto) then it could be relater to either the Bitcoin Gold fork, or the 2x madness or perhaps even both.

I think that this might be a trick to force exchanges into handing out 2x stake coins, in a motion to give out a financial incentive for the release of a 2x coin. Under current standards, and after watching the releae of bitcoin gold be pushed further away than the developer's own set deadline... Perhaps they think it'd be accepted.

Bitcoin gold announced it'd be released later with a premine too, perhaps the people still in support of 2x are looking tot est market interest before a full scale release.

Recently, large portions of mining hashrate have been moving away from bitcoin right into its direct competitor due to the increased profitability it offers. This has resulted into the average number of bitcoin blocks per hour dropping well below 6 (under the 1 block per 10 minutes long term average) while the other currency's chain gets multitudes of that. So at a time that many people are seeking to move bitcoin, there are no blocks to include transactions into.

My question is this: If miners have good incentive to move their hashrate to the chain of a coin other than bitcoin frequently, doesn't that destabilize its own blockchain and subsequently entire economy?

How could this instability be fought if miners are just after profit instead of network infrastructure and stability?

According to https://fork.lol/, Bcash is arounf ~60 more profitable than bitcoin. This is due to a multitude of factors bout will undoubtedly change after its network's upcoming fork. Jumping hashrate between the two will become harder to to the fork allowing the Bcash network to finally stabilize. Right now it's producing an average of around 40 blocks per hour due to its inability to adjust hashrate properly.

Your transaction likely had a low fee. If you want a more extensive look provide us with the TX hash and let us know which client/service you used to send it.

Here's a calcuator for bitcoin fees that you could use: https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ It displays fees depending on how fast you'd like the transaction to confirm based on current fees. 

Well, it's just a matter of time until hashrate jumps back again. Bitcoin has a more stable network but the instability in the BCash one along with its rising price and lowere difficulty make it more profitable.

DO NOTE THOUGH: An upcoming fork in BCash will change the instability in its network that allowed for more blocks per hour due to the rapidly moving hashrate. See here.

Things are about to change and profit taking from mines will litely set the price rally of BCash to a halt.

Bitcoin fees are based on demand. There's only a limited amount of space in each block and miners decide how they're going to prioritize transactions. Of course, transactions with the higher fees are given priority over other transactions so they're included in blocks faster. But as lower fees transactions mature they also have better chances of getting into a block.

I did invest in Ethereum. Arguably the best ICO of all. Sadly, I did sell a bit early on and prior to its great bull run but thankfully went ahead with mining and holded some later on.

Later ICOs have in my opinion been based a bit too much on speculation rather than providing a minimum viable product from early on. Infrastructure in the crypto space is in my opinion worth investing in, but speculative ICOs are too risky and could potentially leave nothing behind if the ICO bubble pops. So I haven't invested in any later ICOs.

Bitcoin Cash keeps rising close to 2000 USD. It's worth noting that it's something mostly based on speculation but still rather than just real world event. It's such ways that cryptocurrency markets function under. Some people will try to play it as markets are pricing in the neglect of the New York agreement but speculators know no better than speculating.

Cutting the losses through BCH isn't a bad idea but for those that came into bitcoin after the fork it is not that of a viable options in reality. BCash was distributed to bitcoin holders and now it's soaring but buying right at the top it's experiencing right now doesn't sound like all that of a wise plan.

What is it that is not working? Let me know if you tried a website and it didn't work, I'll have it removed from the list.

If you are referring to cards not being available outside of the EU though, that's something many providers had to deal with due to the issuing bank of most of those imposing that rule.

1.3% for a risk free investment isn't bad. It's considered risk free with guaranteed returns because its government backed but that's still a trust based sentiment. Investing-wise, it's not great returns, but it's the base you should use to calculate the risk/return margin. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe_ratio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_free_rate

With the price falling and BCash mining now being more profitable, we could see an even bigger downward spike in mining difficulty. It's just an odd time to coincide with the difficulty re-target because both those factors could contribute to it.  

Nicehash is a very easy to use miner and also has profit switching. Claymore is good if you're only interested on dagger-hashimoto coins and their dual mining counterparts and a bit more specialized but you could also run it through Nicehash only when most profitable. Nicehash can't help you optimize it all that much though. Also there's the fact that Nicehash has an efficient autotrading method that will only yield you BTC at the best market rates while claymore's miner will leave you with the alts you mine for you to trade or hold.

It's a matter of preference in the end, based on this multitude of factors.

Bcash isn't the new bitcoin but it's be safe to say that its markets are currently going through yet another bull run. https://fork.lol/ also indicates that due to the recent price rise, Bcash has become more profitable to mine, which as a result should lead to quite a bit of selling pressure sooner or later after the coins from the first mined blocks are out in the markets. Bcash still has an unstable network however, the fact that its block release speed can't stabilize is something manipulable and doesn't contribute to its longevity.