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Just because you don't use it anymore, doesn't mean those who do is an idiot. If you take enough precautions, blockchain.info wallet is a safe and useful wallet.

When I first started, the blockchain was a lot smaller. I remembered it was under 20G. I downloaded everything in 2 days.

I can see where this is coming from. It's to stop spamming. It's not going to work, people can buy accounts and they have double post quota.

Bitcoin's next halving is mid 2016, we might have the ETF approved. Cannot say for certain the price is higher in 12 months, it's looking good. It's going to be an important year in bitcoin history.

It's not the users who are against lifting the blocksize limit, it's some of the devs and the miners. Someone has got to convince them, not us.

The bitcoin network is handling spam quite well in my opinion, it is far from done. Watching fee trends is necessary irrespective of blocksize limit. I support the increase of the limit. Even when the limit is raised, we would still need to watch fee during peak times.

I think the community has accepted that Satoshi will never use his coins. He literally has millions of them. If any of those were moved, it would send shockwaves to the markets. It would be better if he indeed has lost his keys.

It is sometimes difficult for a newbie to know whether a spam attack is in progress. It's too late to do anything when the transaction is send with a standard 0.0001 fee. So it is good practice to check the network before sending. An easy way is to check:
https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC

Follow the optimal fee specified on the page, can't go wrong.

The thing that made you loose after a big win is greed. If you withdraw while you are up, you would be able to retain your profit. On provably fair dice sites, what you are implying will never happen.

May be bitcoin spent during black friday wasn't enough to cause the merchant dump to have much impact on the price.

There will always be a standard fee governed by market forces. If the fee is too high in fiat value, users will try to pay less. When more people send with less fee, the standard fee is lowered. Transactions are still "standard" if fee is above 0.00001 btc, set by a variable in bitcoin core code.

Been watching these signature design competitions. Before it's like waiting to see what medUSA can pull out of his bag to surprise us. Now, it's like watching a football game, you never know who will win until the final whistle.  

There is no need for bitcoin to be truly and completely anonymous. Bitcoin has enough anonymity to cover most users. People who need the extra anonymity will have to pay extra for mixing services, or buy another alt. I think mixing services will become cheaper in the future because there will be competing services which offer a lower level of anonymity free, like shared wallets and off chain settlement systems.

If there are massive discounts, people who holds bitcoin will spend and merchant will dump. Those who do not have bitcoin will not buy bitcoin to spend because of extra discounts. It's too complicated for newbies to learn in a few days. I think bitcoin price may drop slightly but no major concern.

If you read the ad carefully, it's only 10% off for US customers. How about rest of the world? So much for Bitcoin Black Friday. 

Get it off the ground before you sell it, it will be worth a lot more. Improve the interface and user experience, then have people to list items on it, then do a marketing push. Sell it when it is more well known, it is not worth much at its current state.

Bitcoin ATMs are expensive to buy, not many businesses want to buy them and rent expensive floorspace to operate. Breakeven is difficult if local bitcoin community is small, let alone make a profit. We will not see more ATMs on the streets until their prices drop.

Before the time bitcoin reaches $2000, we would have another transaction fee adjustment. No need to worry about that. If for some reason fees didn't drop, there will be many off chain solutions to handle smaller payments.

Wait till bitcoin becomes more successful and when they decide to come back to bitcoin, we will refuse to use Circle because of what he said today. I will rejoice on the day they finally fold.