Curecoin's distributed computing work for cancer and disease research has been active for 14 years, and has already led to new medicines and treatments in multiple fields.  

So it will be around for a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding@home

Coin age has to be 2 days to start staking

lol ok "winstrol"

The plant is not for smoking, any dev worthy of Fractal knows what's up

People panic.  If you buy bitcoin for $1000, hold it for 5 years, and it eventually goes to $5000, then you made a good investment.  It doesn't matter if it temporarily went to $200, if you were planning to hold it for 5 years anyway.

So you had to wait more than a year, which OP is unwilling to do

Another thing that's very important - it took Bitcoin 4 years before it went to the moon. 

If you want to have the opportunity to spend a few dollars on a coin and sell it for thousands, you will have to wait.  Not days, not weeks, not months, but years.

And if you're going to keep some of these coins for years, you cannot trust any exchange to stick around for that long and keep your coins safe. 

So if you think there's a 1% chance that a coin could go from $0.01 to $100.00, then buy some.  But withdraw some of it and keep it in a wallet.  You might not even be able to sync the wallet for some of these coins, so that may be a sign that the coin doesn't have a good future.  But for the coins that do have a working blockchain that you can connect to, learn how to store the coins in an offline wallet, encrypt the wallet, and make secure backups of the wallet.dat file for each coin. 

Then why do they list them in the first place?  While Bittrex gives advance notice, "This coin will be delisted in 2 weeks if the daily volume does not exceed .2 BTC", Poloniex sells you a coin and the next day they say they're delisting it, no discussion, no warning.  In December Poloniex announced 17 delistings in one day of coins that apparently weren't worth having - which was over 10% of all their coins.  And why?  To make room for new crap that they will eventually delist.

#1, nobody got rich quick in Bitcoin.  Not even the earliest adopters.  They had to wait longer than you've been waiting. 

#2, people paid $1000 because they saw the future potential.  That potential is still in the future, and the only thing that changed is the current price.  Mass adoption and block reward halvings will still increase the price dramatically.

LOL!  Some of the best jokes are the most absurd.  It's funny because it's the opposite of real life, where women spend men's money and don't offer to pay.

Maybe you're right about port 8333, the map doesn't show my residential Bitcoin Core or the one at work on a commercial ISP.  There are none anywhere near my city.

I think there's a link for a btr/usd market, but I assume you have to do some registration and/or deposit some usd to even view the usd markets.  When I click to trade bter points it just redirects me to the ltc-btc market.

I don't seem to have any Bter points, and apparently you can only buy them with USD and not BTC. 

Yes, it's all over.  

Just as you can never step into the same stream twice;  that water has gone somewhere else.  The Bitcoin of yesterday is gone, and only the Bitcoin of today remains.  Well, except for the entire existing blockchain that has remained the same for years, but then new blocks get added every day.  So it stays the same, except for the new parts which make it different.  Except that the previous blocks never change.  But other than that, it's all over.  And also it's just beginning.  Bitcoin is dead, long live Bitcoin.

Anybody get yours?

My parents were happy to update their node to the latest version before the fork.

jk i did it for them

It's true, he only cares about Bitcoin because the government stole his billion dollars.  And that's a better reason than most of us have.

Speculative inflation just means that a lot of people saw Bitcoin's future value.  After the next block halving, it will be worth more.  After millions of people start using it, it will be worth more.  So people started buying based on what it will be worth in the future.  If they hold their coins into the future, I think they might be glad they paid $1200. 

But then other people realized that it's not worth that much yet.  The next block halving and the millions of new users are still in the future.  So the $1200 price is still in the future.

If Bitcoin continues to exist, and if the number of users increases, then the price will increase.  It is a mathematical certainty.  The uncertainty is whether it will continue and gain adoption.

I did not receive a payout.

It's a humour-joke, referencing a previous post in this topic

All that, and without the CIA 's involvement?  Every coin should have a dev like Crestington!