You can have Electrum accept Bitcoin payments on your website. Give a look on their documentation, they've got it all there.

The biggest struggle is getting jobs paid in Bitcoin... That aren't all that many and those that exist aren't really for my set of skills.

Yes, the pseudo-anonymous nature of Bitcoin is enough for me. It is the perfect equilibrium between having enough privacy in my personal spending and having a transparent address where it can be seen how much and when did I receive funds.

Someone is playing with the halving...

He bought low and sold high. He won quite big, in termos of profit and in terms of curriculum when he passed through the Bitcoin community. Beyond that... Selling was his option, so he has to live with that now.

Why disable BTC when they make BILLIONS of USD by accepting debit cards + MILLIONS of USD accepting Bitcoin? What you said is basically saying "let's disable something that allows us to profit even further and that makes it easier on people who are returning costumers".

From thinking that this Bitcoin stuff is no fun at all after falling upon him, refusing to be associated with anything Bitcoin related to being some kind of "meme" within the community and enjoying such status? Wow, some things do take a wild turn...

Can't blame him for "cashing in" on easy, legit money, I guess.

Did not receive anything... For once spammers seem to have forgotten me, finally

As answered, the infrastructure isn't ready, but there are plans to make it able to handle high transaction volumes. As for transaction speeds they won't change: they've always been instant and will always be instant. Confirmation time is another topic and that's the one you're referring to.

MMM didn't move the price this much, highly doubt it was something similar. I sure do hope it isn't something similar, weather all this buying has been from China or elsewhere

All of them probably aren't bugs, but features. Even if they're bugs they're not going to be fixed on this forum

OP has pretty much said everything, but you can find something useful in being constantly paying attention to price... Accumulate more coins

Then people wonder why Bitcoin has such bad reviews from mainstream media This is two in one: stealing and funding war. We already have enough of that courtesy of our governments. This is what we're trying to fight with Bitcoin. Unfortunate to see people having an opportunity to do things differently and yet they still do the same terrible things that are done with fiat.

Why is Armory so low on the chart? Also, I don't think that hardware wallets should be mixed with software wallets... Sad to see Electrum so low too.

This was to be expected... After they started to delay miner deliveries and fooling clients they were bound to be bankrupt or even to become the next BFL. I guess they gave a step too big for their legs and thought they could outrun everyone. That's what you get...

They really don't. Altcoins stand on the technical side. They all share the same common basis (Bitcoin) and try to improve over technical aspects, protocol, aspects, etc. These coins aren't really after the ecosystem and commercial side of things. Their purpose is to give ideas for Bitcoin development and to try to compete with it at the technical level.

It's a bit rare to see a website accepting some altcoin and not Bitcoin. Exceptions are websites who are closely related to the altcoin in question or even ran by someone deeply involved with it, or by the developers.

And finally, a nice wallet with a Watch app! Thanks you! The app is pretty interesting, seems to be well made just like the iOS one. I've seen an "early access" option on the update changelog, but I can't seem to see how to activate it...

Just check the Bitcoin Core roadmap which still includes SegWit... So no, it isn't cancelled.

No issue for the banks, as this was only done on the IT side of things and they can simply reverse the transaction order... But this is definitely a nice thing for Bitcoin. Laws of math protect us, banks are on their own...

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