nobody can ever block bitcoin usage. they can restrict it and push people away but nobody in the whole world can prevent us from continuing to use bitcoin you just need pen and paper at the very least to make a private key for yourself with something like a dice and then convert it to a public key and give it to others to pay you or transfer bitcoin p2p.
and even for broadcasting trasnactions you can use any type of online website to do it easily.

check out http://coinmarketcap.com/ it has all the "alive" coin. for dead ones i am afraid you have to dig through the announcement topics.

the same http://coinmarketcap.com/ click on any coin that you like and go to the markets tab and see all the exchanges that have that coin currently.
again if an exchange delisted that coin you can only find it in the history of the ANN topic.
example http://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/ethereum/#markets

go to Poloniex (it is an altcoin exchange) then visit their API page (don't have to sign up or anything) look up their chart API call (i think is called) it gives you the history you can set it to 1440 and get the daily OHLC points.

e.g. https://poloniex.com/public?command=returnChartData&currencyPair=BTC_ETH&start=0&end=9999999999&period=1440

usually coinmarketcap has the link to the ANN topic but they are all here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0

some coins like litecoin, ethereum, Reddcoin and lot of others have their own forum that is specific to the coin.

can't think of anything but make sure to share the results with us when you finished your project if it was possible.

check out Ethereum for the biggest pump coin of this year.
you can see the most recent pumps in ETH, Dash, ZCash.

p.s. FTC (Feather) is one of the biggest pump and dump shitcoins of all times that hasn't yet stopped pumping and it has at least one major pump each year for no reason.

open any of the bitcoin exchange services website and go to your trading area where they have orderbooks and charts and you'll get the livest feed you can get

but also there are third parties such as preev.com to get the price quick but updating slowly. or use bitcoinwisdom.com to see live (updating every 1-2 seconds i think).

or if you are a programmer, use any of these exchanges API service to get the price

is there any particular reason that you want something like this?

just like other million and one topics asking when we reach $XX price this one has the same answer. NOBODY KNOWS.
the only thing that we can say with a high certainty is that we will see it and with less certainty we will see it this year and with less certainty withing 2 months.
and there are always unpredictable events such as bitfinex getting hacked, Chinese dumping FUD,... that slow the rise down.


we saw $1350 reached on all the major exchanges less than 24 hours ago

you have some major mistakes. in my opinion.
- bitcoin was never supposed to be a store of value. it was always meant to be a digital cash, and i believe this is one of the reasons it is being adopted. if it becomes just an investment that means we are trading numbers on our screen and that is pointless in my opinion.

- also the biggest mistake you made is that you are assuming it is not possible with bitcoin. but it is! if scaling was something that was 100% impossible then you were right we should have thought about alternatives but it is possible and everything was fined a year ago and before that. things are messy these days only. and i hope we again see fine days after we are past this period.

first of all post speculation in speculation board not here.
secondly there was a "downfall" as you lot like to call it! and it bounced back up, and it is even visible in your chart that you included.
finally if you want charts look at the charts from bitcoinwisdom that come directly from price. coindesk and similar services report an average price which is not accurate but good enough to see what is happening.

there is a big difference between prediction/speculation and bullshit. saying price will fall down to $800 or rising to $2000 in a week because of ETF rejection or approval respectively is bullshit as i have been saying all along in previous weeks.

no actually not all coins can be pumped to the moon. unless by moon you mean a 10% rise then yeah any altcoin can do that.
but if by moon you mean the real meaning such as increasing at least 100%-200% then no not all of the altcoins can have that. there needs to be some real thing there so that people come and invest in it so that the demand rises at least temporarily and then there shouldn't be such a big sell pressure and doge has this sell pressure and also its demand can not go up at all.

in my opinion day trading is profitable and it actually is more profitable than doing it long term.
because altcoins are usually dead in the long term or even if they are not dead like the top altcoins, they have very lengthy dead times in between their pumps.
this means in the short term when they are getting pumped or even having daily fluctuations you can get in and make some profit.

your problem is thinking there is only 21 million bitcoins available but in fact there is 21 million * 10^8 satoshi available.
how come when you are comparing gold you are using the smallest unit, you should do the same with bitcoin too.
also on top of that you should consider the history of these two. bitcoin has only an 8 year history (practically a toddler) while gold has been around for as long as currency was around and even before.

short term it is not possible at all to predict what is going to happen, there are too many variables to do it at this point.
the ETF and China alone make it hard, now that there is a new FUD about fork and splitting bitcoin (which is all lies) is causing some panic it becomes even harder to predict.
which means you have to wait and see what will happen and then decide.

but in long term you can easily be sure about the rise which means buying now is a good time because we are technically in a dip.

read what you just said once again and you see where you have been wrong.

you yourself are saying mining equipment is expensive and in the hands of those who can afford to invest in equipment then say bitcoin is centralized!

and besides nobody is preventing you or anybody else from starting to mine bitcoin, if you want to earn the reward or just as a hobby you can mine and fight the centralization of mining.

that's right.
i am actually starting to like news FUD like this because it always means a big dip and in these dips everyone gets a lot of money to buy even more bitcoin and make the next accumulation like a piece of cake leading to an even bigger price rise.

if ETF is approved i'll see you at above $1500

that is correct.
although different wallets may use different ways of suggesting appropriate fee but they usually are in the same range. you can also always use this website for more information: https://bitcoinfees.21.co/


your wallet should do that for you. it automatically makes a guess of transaction size then makes an estimate of current fee and gives you final result to make it easy for the end user.
although they usually have an advance section to show you the size and fee in satoshi/byte
i know electrum allows you to set it with an slider and if you preview the transaction before signing it shows you size of the transaction also.

look at your transaction like this: https://blockchain.info/de/tx/1defc8711cfc0492f0bc84a56cf4c9e747fe785a6d23d1d4b914448086e0e034?show_adv=true

do you see on the right side those lines saying "Ausgabe" or in English output, those are outputs or in other words transactions you received. and when you are sending bitcoin you are in fact spending these.

when you spend multiple outputs your transaction size grows with the number of these you spend. you have 6 of them and you are creating 2 new outputs hence your transaction size is 961 bytes.

with current fee rules you need to pay 961 * 200 = 192,200 satoshi as fee

and this has nothing to do with blockchain.info wallet, it is how bitcoin have always worked. the only difference is the higher fees these days

crash or in other words price of bitcoin going down doesn't mean bitcoin dying and you should move into an altcoin!


have you even checked the price history of any of these altcoins?
they get dumped a lot and the swings are as big as 100%-500% up and can be as big as 90% drop


LTC has been stable but not by a lot and it certainly is not 99% stable you are making stats up!
and the chances of drop of all these altcoins are 90% and more.

then what are you doing here?!!!

also everything about bitcoin is open source you can use that as your starting point and create whatever you like. whether it is an altcoin with other names and other differences or it is bitcoin from scratch as you suggest!
here is the link: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin

let us see how you handle things. don't forget to update us...

what are you talking about? not being sure doesn't mean it is a gamble! some things are sure. for example the fact that bitcoin price will rise in the long run. and yes some things you can not predict like whether you will be hit by lightning if you go out of house today but it doesn't mean you are gambling when you go out of the house! and the same thing is true about trading specially trading things such as bitcoin which has a pretty solid history and a very solid market.

there is no "best currency" specially if you are calling it a "currency" because it is not. ethereum is just something that we invest in when it is in a dip to sell on top and make more bitcoin as profit!

and ETH and ETC are the same code only without the DAO rollback. they are both with many other bugs that needs fixing and it has lots of other problems. the only reason why ETC is cheaper is the fact that ethereum whales have been dumping ETC to prevent it from rising.

then that just proves my point! and why would you suggest others to start trading if you have lost "more money". as i said it is not easy to trade and be successful in it. specially if you are new to this or want to trade altcoins things become hard all of a sudden.
it is best to invest 80 to 90% of your money in bitcoin and trade with 10% or less to learn things and if you were successful then increase that amount.

i am always saying the same thing and it is a perfectly good thing to say. but what OP is suggesting is that "young people" who are living with their parents still and get an allowance for example and are not going to starve to death with no money in their pocket can go all in bitcoin.
for them this is a perfectly good strategy in my opinion since bitcoin is rising and it is the money that you are not going to miss.