The dotcom boom would be the altcoins. Bitcoin itself would be the telecom monopolies like Verizon, U-Verse and Comcast.

I'm timing the sale of my home to hopefully hit that point. 

Without a forum for it, that's not going to happen. There are off-site places, but there needs to be one here.

edit: It's not necessarily a sidechain. Colored Coin is simply metadata of bitcoin transactions using the Bitcoin blockchain.

This is a good thing. Educating a marketplace is time consuming and expensive. Ecuador is picking up the tab. When people learn about cryptocurrencies, they will discover Bitcoin.

Buys back in at a loss in 3...2...1...

You'll make up for it in the next jump. Many of us made the same mistakes. That's how we learn.

Unless you have a pump and dump altcoin like ether, xrp, mastercoin, counterparty, or others, there is no place in the forums to talk about Bitcoin 2.0 experiments. They are not altcoins, because they are 100% pure Bitcoin. I've posted in Meta that they deserve their own forum, but it falls on deaf ears. There seems to be prejudice against them because they don't benefit some VC.

That's the kind of thing Ethereum promises. We'll see.

It's a good article, but the problem with forecasting is that the future gets in the way. There are factors it overlooks. For instance, altcoins. They are a real wildcard. Fiat currencies could become hybrids which would give them some lasting power. The article is good in general in relation to the technology, but not necessarily to Bitcoin itself, though I myself give Bitcoin a 90% chance.

On the other hand Facebook can probably do whatever it wants because it is too big to fail. If regulators try to fine FB they will threaten to kill Farmville and half our workforce will commit suicide.

There probably already is a trillionaire in the House of Saud. If not, then the next war will make one.

I used to think that, but I have suspicions that there are wheels within wheels in the Bitcoin world. I think the only business qualified to buy BitPay is Google.

How would anybody know that? What is this, the Spanish Inquisition?

I would look on game developer forums instead of Bitcoin development because it has nothing to do with Bitcoin outside of being a simulator. I'm not saying it won't be fun, but it doesn't help develop Bitcoin apps. If this is to be considered a serious game involving altcoins, political and legal drama, scams and China, then I would pitch it to a major game company or make a card or boardgame. I could see Bitcoin as a Steve Jackson game.

Or they will invest in stocks, mutual funds, or even municipal bonds. I'm not invoking Gresham's law at all. This is about savings, not currency.

I am developing a game as well. It's in its very early planning stages. First, do you have a market for this game the way you envision it? Have you modeled it in analog form as a proof-of-concept? Does it have to be a computer game? Board games are really coming back in popularity. I'm also interested in the questions you pose, but it's difficult to gauge the answer without a lot more information.

I see it as an evolutionary thing. I agree that price between Black and White will decouple with Black winning. That's the same thing that would happen if a sovereign issues a PoS cryptocurrency and it is traded on the open exchange. People would shop with the local currency and save with Bitcoin. I'm not saying they are right to do this, that's just how they roll.

"I would like to buy your product. Do you take Black Coins? You do? You are under arrest."

Because colored coins are nothing but Bitcoin outputs,  they can be posted about in ant Bitcoin discussion. Agree or disagree?

"Yes, I would like to buy your product. Do you take unregistered bitcoins through Darkwallet and Tor? You do? Thank you, you're under arrest."