ohh no worries, once I will be on the moon with other bitcoiners, I'll summon magic gate and teleport you..just pm me for notification.)

omg so many good news is such short time frame. this is moon, for sure boyz!!:)

Bitcoin is taking over the world, man.

In the last three hours, we've seen:

• Ban on Bitcoin websites overturned in Russia.
• Legalized Bitcoin gambling in US.
• Factom (i.e. Bitcoin blockchain) based LAND REGISTRY in Honduras.

Tally up the evidence. Time is running out fast, bears...  

I can only think with my own brains, and yes - I am telling you that the more I think, the more bullish I am on XMR, and at some point this will mean a relative bearishness even towards BTC.

I still own all the silver I had when I was a silverbug. But I am not really thinking that silver will make me a billionaire (not that I cared so much of that literally, but let's use it as a buzzword).

I still own about the same BTC that I ever had, the conversion to Malla Bitcoin Castle and buying some XMR did not make an appreciable dent.

So, despite that the number of XMR is less than that of BTC, you can buy them for 1/500 of the price. You don't need to sell your silver, you don't need to sell your BTC, the only thing you need to do is to buy some XMR.

The whole time I've been monitoring altcoins (about 2 years) I haven't found anything else worth buying.

XMR does everything that BTC does. Its development is even more active (by number of github commits), I like the community better, the CN technology (ring signatures) makes it anonymous in a way that Bitcoin can never be, my friends accept is as readily as bitcoin, it can be acquired with bitcoins from Poloniex (or converted back) with 5 minutes email-only registration, it has mymonero.org wallet, as easy as blockchain.info, ...

In a word, it's exactly where Bitcoin was in 2010 when I missed the train. I'm not going to miss this one, I lay back and let it play out 

The long periods of decline, such as the one we are experiencing, are much easier to weather when you do it according to the SSS plan.

If I had literally followed my plan, instead of buying back at a nice discount a year ago, the situation would be even better. So folks, do what I say, not what I do Load up on bitcoins (and monero) now as the scenario universe is heavily tilted on your favor, and be strict in selling on strength when it comes, and don't buy back in the subsequent slump (and of course, never ever sell on a loss).

BTC2 buys you 1,000 XMR. BTC20 buys you 10,000 XMR. I have a very strong feeling that doing it is equivalent to having bought 1,000 or 10,000 BTC when it was available for the same price (around Dec-10 to Jan-11). Hedging and risk managementwise it is the right thing to do. SSS applies to them as well, although I would advise to start selling only after a significant runup.

I am involved in a new website that will distill my writings here to coherent articles. Launch is expected next month.

Only if you measure volume in BTC, which is nonsense. Volume should be measured in "value," in "buying power," or, to be more concise, in real money--USD. Otherwise volume will seem astronomically high when 1 BTC=$0.0001, and a dollar's worth of coin changes hands.
But that's sort of a tangent; Hpzew was talking about GBTC volume.

Far as OP's point about this shitcoin? It's true, no one wants it anymore

Here's what everyone always overlooks when they muse about stuff like this: the system only works if people believe the digital tokens have value. 
 
belief   
 
If NASDAQ or JP Morgan go make their own blockchain, it will have some initial seed value because it will be backed by a major company.  But it won't have the monstrous billions of market cap that bitcoin has, and without that inherent value, the system breaks down. 
 
It would be like me declaring that my special alloy is now as valuable as gold...  Everyone would look at me and say, ummm, good for you, but no its not. 
 
For all these applications to work, they have to be built upon a network where the tokens are valuable, and any proprietary efforts will fizzle because you just won't be able to convince enough people to use your network to create the value you need to make it useful. 
 
Bitcoin wins.  Yes, don't just pack for the moon.  Throw in a Mars sweater and a pair of Alpha Centauri slippers too.  Shit gonna get cray cray.

I own some BTC15 as of now, after converting some BTC10 to fiat during the last few weeks. Started collecting them in 2012, when the coins were dirt cheap. But lost a major part of my stash in some scams. And now I am neck deep in debt, so I need to convert a part of my coins to fiat. In the next few weeks, I might covert a few more of my coins to fiat.

You can learn trading and there are so many people will guide you in the right path. If you just buying like this you will waste all your fiat and it is good when the price go higher your value is raise too but how about if the price is drop? You are just wasting your money right? So better you stop spending your fiat and try to learn about trading

If your target is to having this 30-50 bitcoin only from buying I guess that is quite easy to get but its better for you to play a lot of trading, signature campaign, gambling or anything that can increase your own bitcoin without spend your own fiat. You can do saving and investing both of it so it will be like hit 2 birds with 1 rock 

Stop gambling, smoking, drinking and f**king. You ll save a lot of moni.

Drinking and f***ing is fine. Since we need to feel that we re human beings once in a while, but don't over do it.

Nobody ever got rich with that kind of mindset. No risk, no returns. If you just keep savings locked away it'll get eaten up by inflation, so might as well make risks.