just because it is using multisignature features it doesn't mean you don't have full control over your funds. you still own the signed transaction that is required to "settle the real balance on the blockchain" so to speak if the other party didn't honor his end of the deal.
maybe you need to read the paper or use LN first at least then talk about it!

when the result is 2% having a margin of error that is 1% means 50% error, and 3% means the poll was all wrong!

bitcoin has never lost 50% or more in one day and the drops never came out of nowhere. they always come after a big rise has happened. for example when bitcoin was at the bottom a couple of years ago at $220 we never saw a drop. we saw some panic push-down which didn't even last more than 1 hour which doesn't count as a drop. the drops came after the rises for example  bitcoin went from $1000 to $20000 then it had the big drop over 6 months.

I am just nitpicking about the math though. but I agree with what you said. it is the volatility that makes some people not-want to invest in bitcoin and also the unregulated situation of bitcoin market and also all the FUD.

what does these two have anything to do with the topic you started? are you trying to pile on with what you think is good news? because they mean nothing really.

aka another click bait useless news site trying to attract traffic to make money.

not really. mainly because these ads are mainly used to advertise shitty ICOs and/or scams. and when a legit company like coinbase advertises there, they are not increasing bitcoin adoption. they will only get people who already know about bitcoin. and they are not advertising bitcoin but their own service to already bitcoin users.

no we can not because it is inevitable that bitcoin becomes an investment. it is a scarce currency with a lot of potential of rising up, it is unique in the whole world and it is growing day by day. all that price rise will bring people who would want it as an investment. it doesn't have to be a bad thing either as long as we don't lose sight of what bitcoin really is which is a currency.
not to mention that every other currency in the world is being traded or invested in too. that is how the Forex market works.

very interesting information about TEE, I never knew about what it is before.

but your chosen subject here is still wrong though. the "most secure" device for using cryptocurrencies will always remain cold storage when you device doesn't have any access to the internet and also it can't be lost because you carry it around

no my friend. "signal group" is just a pretty word for the same old "pump group" and there is no difference apart from the fact that the signal group tries their best to hide the fact that they are a pump group otherwise they are not giving you trading signals. they don't even work for altcoins because of the high level of manipulation in the market itself so you can't even analyze the market and come up with a "signal" in first place.

and a pump group can also work on any coin. it doesn't have to be a small one. of course it is easier to pump smaller coins but it is sometimes more profitable to pump a bigger coin and depending on the size of the group and how much money the owners have they can pump any altcoin.

anything that is about adoption of bitcoin or is contributing to it is always going to be a good thing without a doubt. but the real question is whether these cases that you are seeing are actually about adopting/embracing bitcoin or is it only about embracing the technology and separating bitcoin from it. in most cases that I see these days it is the later  and these big institutes are adopting the blockchain technology to create their own centralized system based on it. that is not something we care about.
and many of these seminars, ... are turning into a place for ICOs to advertise and gain more gullible newbies to scam and earn money from!

some hedge fund company, no matter how big it is, saying they are looking into cryptocurrencies is not something that can trigger a big buy signal in the whole market. of course it is not ineffective either and I am sure some speculators took it as a positive sign and jumped in but it is not all the reason for the whole rise which was about 30% rise

regarding $300ish rise, you shouldn't really be looking at the number in $ you should instead be looking at it in %. for example Berkshire Hathaway price went up $5200 in a day but that is just 1% rise.

in order to "dethrone" bitcoin you need to create something that is better than bitcoin when it comes to usage and then get it adopted by people so that it can actually be used in the real world instead of just being on exchanges and being traded for profit.

so far not only we don't have any adoption of altcoins but also majority of them are a lot worse than anything that can even start to compete with bitcoin which is why it will not happen for a very long time.

this is only true if  bitcoin fees go up and stay up. for example if fees become at least $10 and stay like that forever then it is the end of bitcoin in my opinion. but the thing is fees have always gone up because of spam attacks not because of lack of capacity and that means they won't stay up forever so there is no point for anyone to go use an altcoin that is not even accepted anywhere to make payments they wanted to make with bitcoin.

bitcoin has never been about instant irreversible payments. instead it has been about decentralization and security of a payment system that doesn't require any intermediary like banks to process your money transfers. and the time it takes to transfer the money you want to someone else is not something unreasonably high. it is good enough. and there are options such as lightning network that you can use if you want faster transactions.

yeah, I agree. I actually have changed my mind in the past 3 days. I no longer say "definitely" increase any more. I think we may even see a drop although that depends on how the market reacts up until that point. the drop that I am talking about is the "sell the news" kind of drop which means there should first be a big rise prior to the statement from SEC regarding approval or disapproval of ETF.

this is a bit misleading though because you are looking at their USD value where in fact you should have checked their BTC value. most people are investing in these coins with bitcoin and don't care about their USD which is why whenever there is a bitcoin rise these coins keep their BTC value more or less and show rise in term of USD where in reality there was no rise.

for instance in case of LTC its USD value shows a 295% rise (yes it is 295% not 400%) but its BTC value shows -65% drop.

it was a fixed 5 BTC per IP per day and it was from 2010.
back then people weren't really abusing faucets and weren't considering a faucet as way of "earning bitcoin"! it was more like a giveaway to try out this new strange thing on the internet they called "bitcoin".
and it wasn't just his own coins, for example there was a couple of 1500BTC donations, multiple 50BTC, 70BTC,...
https://www.blockchain.com/en/btc/address/15VjRaDX9zpbA8LVnbrCAFzrVzN7ixHNsC?sort=1

not to mention that in 2010 you could mine more bitcoin with your PC that you could abuse a faucet and earn.

I am earning roughly that much now with my investment there

I wouldn't be so sure about that because this is not real dominance it is just market cap comparison between bitcoin and the rest of them and since there are a lot of them and it is easy to pump some coin with a huge supply and increase the market cap further the so called dominance of bitcoin would decrease soon.

as for going back to alts, there is no specific time for that. they are always getting pumped every day of the year. the pumpers aren't just going to stop because bitcoin is rising. instead they just move to another coin to pump that one then another next day and so on.

these days it seems to me that people are focusing all of their attention on what might happen in the market instead of focusing on what IS happening in the market and try to go with the flow not the flow that might come.
for example when price was at the bottom and market makers were accumulating people were focusing on what might happen if price goes lower instead of buying!
... then they complain why they have been left behind.

future of bitcoin is bright all around the world and it will make other projects and the technology itself to grow with it. the only problem is the government that sometimes in some countries they put some roadblocks in front of the adoption which will only slow things down and will force the country to fall behind from the technological revolution that is happening in the rest of the world. otherwise we will continue seeing bitcoin  grow and even in places like India people will continue adopting it without hesitation.

we still have a very long time until SEC makes up their mind in mid August and during that time we can build up a very strong buy support at the bottom and bring it upwards and when that happens there won't be any "crashes". we will surely see a drop though but I don't expect it to be that big although it is always impossible to predict bitcoin, we may even see a big rise instead even with ETF rejection because it is not something that we need for bitcoin to succeed.

challenge for who?
the government is always facing a challenge asking people to pay their taxes and this is not just for bitcoin it is a general problem because people don't want to pay taxes. and bitcoin is not yet that big to even be considered a large enough tax revenue for the tax authorities specially in most of the countries with small bitcoin adoption. they don't even talk about bitcoin since it is small and the number of people adopting it is negligible.

the most important thing to have in mind is the fact that this is not something happens once for a new technology which is being adopted all around the world and it is not yet even adopted by 0.5% of the population. in a way you can look at all the 9 years so far as early stages of the rise which we have not even reached the first peak.

the word is "hype" not HYIP which means high-yield investment program and is a type of Ponzi scheme

and I disagree none of these were hype. it certainly had traces of people getting too excited and buy bitcoin but they weren't the "reason".

this is technically a wrong statement. the correct statement would be "...none of the existing altcoins..." not altcoins in general. in the future we may see potentially better cryptocurrencies than bitcoin be created if the altcoin devs stop asking for pump and dumps, premines, ICOs,...

price volatility is decreasing and it has little to  do with whales and manipulation. it is first and foremost because of the small size of the market. and it is decreasing because that size is increasing as the adoption increases.

what you do depends on what your strategy is. if you bought bitcoin to trade it and make profit then not selling while price is dropping means you don't even know what your own strategy is. but if it is a long term investment then it may be OK to not sell although there is still good profit to sell on the peaks and buy back near the bottom.
the only case where you don't sell ever is when you buy bitcoin to use as a currency.