Because Blockchain is the way of the future, it simplifies everything. It's low cost, pseudonymous, secure, immutable, irreversible and transparent for the public. But for those who aren't ready for the blockchain, well that's fine.. we accept FIAT currency too. It's TRULY an all-in-one. Would it be that if it was only FIAT? Why not both? 

That's awesome news for the media to report on! Before you know it, one day they'll have entire courses on the thing itself. I'm sure they do on online schools right now, but imagine that in the old Harvard and Oxford. Crazy, huh?

Of course ICO's are a fantastic investment to work with, you just need to do the proper research on them in order to ensure everything goes smoothly. If you invest into the wrong team, you'll lose your money. But invest into the right guys, and BAM. Lotsa $$$

Probably, I mean they know they have some valuable markets to work with. But even if a country bans, you don't think the wealthiest have relatives or dual citizenship that would still allow them to invest? Of course they do. They make $$$ either way

You can always make more alternative cryptocurrencies based off of Bitcoin, but there is only one real Bitcoin. There's 21M parts to it and once they're all created and mined, you can't redo or make more. You can trade the currently existing ones or divide them up even further, but that's about that.

I wouldn't advise it, as I do have faith that most people will fail if they have little experience or aren't as motivated as they believe they are. Willpower will be very important when suddenly you're your own boss. If you have the funds to live for the next 12 months, are able to work long hours and learn from the mistakes, maybe give it a try. But have a backup plan.

Meet people off the forums, localbitcoins, paxful, through social media, gumtree, etc. Now most will be sketchy but if you do it just right (plus charge the extra 10-30% and have the correct safety precautions, you'll be all good to go). It's a lot of money, cheers mate

Buy more bitcoin, spend less time sleeping, going full out into cryptocurrency and stocking up more. Hold till the grave and then make more on interest. Screw the banks, forget the government, just go full out into Bitcoin!!

Why wouldn't governments fear such a tool? It's powerful if used correctly, but if misused then we all know what can happen with such things. There's a lot of money being pumped into it. Governments want a piece of the action too!

Could you provide links to this source? And there's so many different variables at play here, that such a small decrease really probably came from various things. Maybe it had an effect on it, yes, but not to a large degree.

There's a chance for Bitcoin to rise towards like $20,000 if the trend continues over the next year. We need to look at the annual returns instead of the monthly...
WE WILL CRUSH IT IN 2018!!

I mean it'll be volatile, so that's good if you know what you're doing. If not, I'd just place some small limit orders and call it a day. Depends on the amounts you'd be putting into and your experience

Unless you've got a low-risk business in addition to your high-risk business, it's not worth it. It's too risky, but if you want to go for it, and try it for a few months. Please save up enough though. IF you do have a low-risk business though, even if it's only bringing in $1,000 monthly, it's still better than nothing.

I'd post some more info, but generally for such things with new accounts you'll need to provide more info + only no chargeback options will be allowed. BTC would be sent AFTER payment is received, confirmed and all's good to go. Other options to look are Localbitcoins, local forums and subreddits, ask on social media and craigslist (please be safe).

A large part of the early uses were associated with such actions, and whether you like it or not at least we do understand that the Government auctions from SR did help some of the next up and coming BTC billionaires gain their bulk buys.

It's good, but I'd do 50/50. Why not? Take the risk and see what happens. Worst case scenario, you're able to trade the Bitcoin into other altcoins. And figure out what the best thing to do is

Coinmarketcap averages out of all exchanges listed. Some of the data is delayed or possibly manipulated. Also into account comes in the circulated supplies + total. Other lists are usually missing one, so even though the rates may be higher through them, at least the market caps are usually a little better.

Nothing. Just redirect them to good sources of information, and hopefully some will be motivated to educate themselves on whatever interests them the most in cryptocurrencies. There's a lot of new jobs coming out in relation to all of this, and a lot of money to be made. Most are motivated, but few have the proper obsession and willpower to go full out 

Coinbase definitely won't be helping out with these unless there's another outrage, but for these forks I doubt it'll happen. Best to spread out BTC into various exchanges that have supported forks in the past + wallets that supported. Good luck.

Maybe Bitcoin wallets will be hackable when quantum computers come to realization, but until then it's all secure. And I don't think we have to worry for quite some time  Bitcoin's definitely a lot more secure than banks though!