there is no "duty" here for anyone. people can choose to be kind enough to others to spread the knowledge they have the best way they can. that is all. there is no obligations in my opinion. people are here to discuss, learn, earn, and increase their overall understanding of bitcoin and sometimes cryptocurrencies in general. they can help keep the forum clean by reporting shitposts, reporting account farmers,... as they are already doing in meta board. but there still isn't any obligations, they are doing it because they want a better forum they enjoy participating in.

maybe you should have included a topic you had in mind although that might change the discussion altogether.
I agree with what you said here but also let's not ignore the fact that there are a lot of topics by the newbies that do deserve the harsh criticism by other members. for example those who are too lazy to do a search before posting about something that was discussed to death here a million times. or the topics that the newbie reads some FUD and then starts something here spreading the same thing. for example I personally hate those topics that start with "we all know that [blank]...." and [blank] is usually a false statement or an FUD they are trying to say is valid before they continue with making a conclusion based on that.
not to mention that most of these topics by newbies are obvious shitposts. most of them don't even come back to their own topics to read a single one of the replies! they just post something and run away, possible only to increase their post count or have their topic stay on top (while advertising their own signature like ref links) by creating something controversial.

one of the characteristics of bitcoin price rises has always been that it doesn't need a big announcement prior to the rise! it just happens and we can end up seeing the $9000 prices by the end of this week as the manipulative pressure by the accumulators lifts. otherwise this pressure stays until the accumulated forces against it  become so big that it can not contain them anymore. in which case we can see a shoot up to $9k. in any case saying it won't happen this year is as bad a guess as those others saying it will reach $50k, etc.

this has nothing to do with bitcoin minimalism but the way of thinking you are mentioning here in green doesn't come out of nowhere and based on nothing. it  comes from the fact that whenever you look at the altcoins the only thing you see is useless projects  created for pump and dumping purposes. when you go to altcoin circles like reddit boards, the altcoin board in this forum,... the only discussions you see are about how you can make more profit on your bitcoins. whenever you go to each of these circles the top posts belong to shitcoins that  get pumped the most not an altcoin that is actually good but has no pumps.
if you don't believe me you are one click away from proof: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0
none of the coins that are mentioned in these topics on first page are any good. they are all pure pump coins.

saying "all" is obviously wrong but it is not that off the mark when 99% of the altcoins (including creation of Vitalik Buterin) match this description.

since their "analysis" is only based on whether the coins have moved for a certain amount of time or not it is obvious that the amount of bitcoins lost is far less than the amount that they came up with. the reason is obviously the coins that are not moving only mean that someone has purchased and stored them for long term. and we all know in bitcoin many people do this.

"digital" doesn't have to need internet, it needs to be in any form but physical and it requires computers. for example it can be your phone. but since these methods of payment are usually not only in one place so they need internet to connect to the central database.
as for cryptocurrency it is not about "identity of the participants" but the transactions itself. your identity is not protected, your transactions are.

someone needs to tell "ccn.com" that they shouldn't try so hard to publish news about bitcoin price when the things they publish are this weird and nonsensical. the funnier thing is there is another article by them calling the same rise "unexpected" in other words they don't even have consistency

it is not a gradual rise or recovery at all when price keeps meeting the same upper and lower price levels at $7k and $6k respectively. it is called fluctuating between these prices. this may be considered a signal for an upcoming rise close by but only because this seems like an accumulation phase not because it went up 1% but still is below the resistance line.

it is customary that you choose a title that is representing what you are talking about. here you are talking about bitcoin, bitcoin market and its price not "cryptocurrencies market" as a whole! and we all know the markets although having some similarity are very different from each other.

the  cost of mining is not a fixed number. it depends on many factors such as your electricity cost and if applicable the rent, employees salary,... for mining farms and then difficulty and things like that.
not to mention that cost of mining is not determining the price. what does that is the demand in the market on exchanges.

that doesn't exactly answer my question though. it only talks about how the blockchain technology is going to used in this particular case.
my question is basically why would you use it instead of regular methods. you mentioned less paperwork and less staff. ok, lets make it digital with a database and a server. but that doesn't still have to be a blockchain.

to you and all the rest who are bumping this topic up today:
in case you missed it, this topic is already 2 months old and it was pure FUD imagination of the starter of this topic. he had no proof of funds moving and also even if there were any transaction of that size it still couldn't affect anything as you can see  clearly on the charts for the past 2 months.

I like the idea of having additional sources of bitcoin income to have more bitcoin at your disposal so that if some day you wanted to sell you have enough bitcoin to sell some of it and then still hold more bitcoin in your wallet.
although I don't personally like the airdrop kinds of methods of earning bitcoin but it is one of the ways. I personally prefer trading altcoins to earn profit on my bitcoins in addition to other micro jobs and passive income.

when you get your comment or topic removed, you receive an automatic message which acts as the warning. so you know you did something wrong. when it happens 20-50 times you definitely know you were doing something wrong. repeating the same exact thing means you don't care and receiving a "guiding PM" is not going to change that.

here is the message you receive automatically:

each time bitcoin experiences a correction there are people who start their propaganda machine to scare newbies into selling their bitcoins because they want to take it from them at a lower price so that they can sell it back to them at a higher price and make profit. that is why you keep seeing so much FUD about bitcoin.

this is not about "cryoptocurrency crash" though. that is a different beast. it is all about the altcoin pumps that we had last year. that bubble had to burst at some point and that "explosion" of bubbles has some aftershock that even hits a big coin like bitcoin.

well the only thing is that when this type of "guess" doesn't come true, everyone simply forgets the person who made that guess because he is only one in hundreds who were making such random guesses. for example do you remember those who were saying price will go back down to $200 back when price reached the ATH of that time at $1200? I don't remember single account names but I remember at least a dozen of them even using charts and tried to convince us that the chart of $1200 in 2017 looks exactly like $1200 in 2013 and price should fall down to $200.

sometimes people do these things to gain possible points in the future. for example imagine for a moment that what if price did actually reached the price what OP is talking about now. he will come back and start taking advantage of that guess he made a couple of days back and pretend that his guess was legit and milk it as much as he can.

I have seen this multiple times so far. usually people go with predicting the price in a much more vague manner than OP though so that they are not giving it away and sometimes they even predict both ways (a rise and a fall for instance) to have the opportunity to say "I told you so" either way!

that is stating the obvious, nothing is certain and we are taking a risk but we are talking about chances and potentials. unless you think bitcoin's potential has just ran out and the adoption has hit a brick wall and stopped there is no reason to believe price isn't going to rise up.
and the current price is not giving us any reason to believe otherwise. price is currently stable and looks more like a solid accumulation phase just like the couple of prolonged accumulation phases that bitcoin had in the past after each of its bubbles. each of which eventually led to a bigger rise.

of course that is always a possibility since we have had many cases of the media doing this FUD spreading to affect the price.
although I don't know how this strategy can be effective at this point. unlike you I don't think price was headed anywhere. we are pretty much stuck in this level and nonsense news, whether positive or negative, can not have any meaningful effects on the price.
based on what I have seen an FUD or the opposite of it a Hype is only effective when it is done with perfect timing. and the timing now is just wrong because the accumulation is happening and everyone else has given up on trying to do anything, they are mostly waiting for the change to come then jump in.

there has definitely been a lot of take over attempts in the past, both directly for taking over bitcoin itself or indirectly to take over bitcoin by pumping their altcoins and making people move their money there. for example Dash that was mentioned is one of the groups that funded the spam attacks of last year against bitcoin to increase the backlog and the fees so that they could advertise their coin more and get it used more.... they failed in the end though.

ok, but the real question is WHY?!!!
it is not about how it is done it is about whether doing it that way is better than how we are currently doing things.

for example take the case of bitcoin versus the banks. I have a bank account and a debit card issued by the bank. whenever I want to purchase something I use that and there is no fees involved. it is fast and safe enough. so why would I need bitcoin? the answer is obvious (the decentralization, global,...) I won't get into that. but there is a valid answer to that "WHY" question which is why bitcoin exists and is strong.
but I can't say the same about using blockchain other fields such as a hospital and its patient information.

there is nothing wrong with comparison, specially when you are comparing two cryptocurrencies. there is also nothing wrong with having a preferred cryptocurrency and bag holding it.
however, what is wrong is when your comparison is ignoring every fact there is and only sticks to illusionary hypes to fool others. for example when people that OP is talking about are comparing the two coins they only say "ETH is faster than bitcoin" they never say this being fast has created issues such as more orphans, a gigantic blockchain which makes it impossible to sync your full node with the network and on top of that this "fastness" has not solved anything, the ETH network is still congested! and that is called "comparison".