currently you can travel to countries like Japan and bring millions of dollars with you in and out of country without anyone even noticing and then when you get there you can easily spend bitcoin in thousands of shops and don't even worry about taxes because Japan has also removed taxes on any purchase that is done with bitcoin. so it will be even cheaper to buy with bitcoin.

this is actually a good point.
with atomic swap all the altcoins that has implemented SegWit and lightning network become viable options but (if i am not mistaken) the place that you are spending them should have an open LN channel not the traditional way of accepting just bitcoin deposits.

but if LN becomes popular and used by most services that are currently accepting bitcoin, then coins like LTC become a very viable option and will rise up in price.
it won't necessarily be based on their supply though.

so you just multiplied two numbers and then concluded that it is impossible. well done my friend. well done.
i am not saying 1 million is possible though, but just saying it because some number (which is market cap) becomes big is not a reason for why not.

the issue with blocks and block size is that no matter how much you increase them, they will be filled at some point. and then you will be forced to increase it again and again,... and this will cause an issue with the total blockchain size and how nodes will eventually struggle to be a full node version and operate.

as much as i hate off chain solutions but in some cases they can reduce the pressure on the main chain so that it may lead to emptier blocks.
in any case we need to wait an see.

just blurting out stuff without thinking is easy, you can fill the internet with them too. and that is what these links you quote are doing, specially those that are on steemit which they also get paid for putting up bullshit.

think about it a little, how do you use x and y instead of bitcoin?
lets say i want to purchase a game from Valve (steam platform) with bitcoin, how do i use x and y instead of bitcoin? now you see how idiotic people who say use x and y instead of bitcoin sound like ?

in case you have forgotten, the "difficulty bomb" was introduced in the code in the very early days of ethereum's release. this thing is a very long con that has been playing out for ages. in other words since ETC has happened recently (a long time after the diff.bomb) it also has the same issue.

FACT: there is a very good chance that you have always been a desperate person shorting bitcoin.

not it is not. nearly 9 years of existence has proven that.
bitcoin may not be perfect but it is far from being "flawed".

no they are not.
there is a 1 million dollar reward in form of a litecoin segwit tx you can feel free to rob it and it has been available for months.
there has been a lot of SegWit transactions so far, you can feel free to rob any of them too while you are at it.

it will be the same chaos we had 10-15 days before August 1st. nothing new to bitcoin world.

nice joke buddy

if someone is doing it then they are the idiots who deserve to lose all their money. it doesn't have anything to do with November, S2X or whatever else

i say lets not jump to any conclusions this fast. bitcoin is still young and currently it is experiencing a year of crisis after crisis with the spam attacks and all the fork drama and the hashrate drama,... they seem to never end.

give it some more time, let the price become more stable, let the drama of scaling subside and then see how it does do things that a currency is supposed to do.
and by the way bitcoin has been doing fine before 2017!

its just a thought but maybe you are doing something wrong
bitcoin is great and all but the anonymity it provides can be abused too. specially by someone underage. so you may need to think again about what you are doing with bitcoin and see if they are really not understanding bitcoin or they know "you" too well!

actually in my opinion EDA or Emergency Difficulty Adjustment is what keeps BCH alive not what kills it. that is the whole purpose of its existence, to make mining it possible by changing the difficulty drastically and fast, not in the default and more logical way of 2016 blocks.

and there is always going to be pump and dumps that can keep it alive. specially with the SegWit2x drama on the horizon i am sure a lot of whales and speculators are keeping their eyes on BCH and may very well pump it to much higher prices.

you are confusing two different things here:
- the technology
- shit pretending to be technology

the blockchain technology is actually something that many are interested in. many big corporations are currently working on it. many good coins like bitcoin are using it. and it is pretty useful.

but what you have been seeing as ICOs are that shit that is pretending to be "technology" but it is a cheap rip off, created for a quick profit making and nothing more. they don't care about anything, it is the simple copy paste of code around an abstract idea with no real usage.

$10000 price has never been impossible, even when price was dropping back in 2014 down towards the $188 bottom it all seemed possible to reach $10K. nothing has changed from that day apart from the speed of the rise.
in the end it will all come down to the adoption, and as time goes by the adoption rate increases too. so for example if we used to have 2x rises each year now we can have 4x rise easily. and more in the future.

i keep seeing everyone repeating electrum and paper wallet, but you should remember that these are not safe on their own. for example if you open bitaddress.org right now and create a new paper wallet and print it, that is not safe because you just made it while online and it may have been compromised.

there are certain steps that should be taken for a secure offline wallet like these:
1. downloading the wallet, code,... from trusted sources.
2. verifying its signature to make sure you have not downloaded a compromised source
3. running it in a clean and offline computer to generate your offline wallet.
4. never connecting that computer to internet ever.

LOL, you do realize that signature campaign is not the only source for earning bitcoin right? and i don't think OP meant it like that either.
there are numerous ways that you can earn bitcoin, from trading to selling stuff and to freelance jobs. signature campaign is like the least amount you can earn.

the difference that earning bitcoin has with earning fiat is that when you earn fiat it doesn't appreciate in time, but when you get paid in bitcoin it will gain value over time too. so if you hold a part of it after expenses it will also become a good investment.

it has been happening from day 1 in the altcoin world. it is actually the main reason why 90% of the altcoins are created and will continue to be created in the future too. it is a small market, susceptible to manipulation. and there is a lot of money to be made through this.
it is nothing new.

although i have to add, some people mistake bitcoin rises, specially when they are fast, with pump and dumps. they are not at all like P&D simple because there is nothing fake about it and they stay around and there is real demand for bitcoin!

it is not really a "currency"!

there are lots of interesting "mechanisms" out there but simply being different doesn't make the better investments.

there is no way in a million years that ripple appreciates as much as bitcoin! it is a very simple concept called supply and demand it is a 21 million bitcoins versus 100,000 million (100 billion) ripple supply.
at the same time it is a growing demand for bitcoin versus 0 demand for ripple

not at all.
even if we ignore the huge supply, this coin is currently in a huge bubble and it has been falling slowly down back to 900 satoshi range.

of course it is cheap. we all know about the small supply of bitcoin with the growing demand, but it is all about the time-frame. $15,000 will be the value of bitcoin at some point in the future but to say it will happen this year (in about 4 months) is absurd unless he is predicting a huge bubble and that is not possible either.

this was a backward compatible upgrade which means everything that was working before should continue to work after the upgrade (fork) too.
any paper wallet that was created before this fork is using the old keys and those keys are and will be valid forever. so the wallets should continue supporting it.

not necessarily.
after many years of not being present (6 or 7 years?) and not once break that anonymity, it is fairly correct to assume Satoshi Nakamoto will not come forward and break the anonymity in the future either. and the reason for that can be anything.
and CW's attempts were mostly a public stunt that the community caught easily. so again he can be fairly sure Satoshi will never come forward to put his claims down since we have already did it instead of real SN.

the issue with some people is that they think bitcoin is the only thing that can give such profits. there was actually a topic here about a stock that is currently 200,000 dollar and Warren Buttett is involved in it and that was once less than 1 dollar.

you see he is making a lot more profit in a lot easier way than bitcoin.