Most people use it as a stock or a commondity. But since it can be used to pay directly for many things, it is still currency/money.

You cannot really pay for a digital download (for example) with a fraction of an Apple/Google/Coke market share.

I agree that the Bitcoin logo made up of many different coins is the best image. The Bitcoin swam also looks good to me.

I am not sure if they can be compared. The dollars when Internet began had different value than they have right now. Internet has developed a lot because it really has many many uses. Bitcoin does not. There is nothing really comparable to Internet, but Bitcoin can be compared with regular money and lots of different altcoins...

First time I heard about it, it was around 300$ as I recall, and I thought the price was stable at that time... How mistaken I was LOL

I own a forum too, and can see things from the other side. If one post is deleted or moved, being I the owner of the forum, I would not consider it censorship.

However, there could be a discussion about why I delete such and such posts. That is natural.

Really it is as easy to sync the wallet?

For me, It has taken more than one week to sync wallet for other altcoins. I understand that with so many bitcoin transactions you need to maintain the wallet open to keep up with it.

The idea of using the blockchain for tracking other things does not seem too interesting to me.

I think that things should be designed with an end in mind from the beginning. It is one thing to create an alternate blockchain with additional features to accomodate those new inventions, and other to use the actual blockchain to do it.

Thanks for the interview, very interesting.

Is nice to see a person so enthusiastic, but I feel she is too optimistic in saying that the blockchain can be controlled etc. I think that it can be used to control instead, if governments end having a way to identify wallets with persons.

To really grow Bitcoins, you need to take some risk. I do not think there is a way around that.

We can argue that holding has a better risk/benefit ratio, but the growing rate of holding is 0. Buying a certain amount each month (for example) and holding ... is not really growing, is just buying more, as I see it.

But if by growing is meant "using your Bitcoins to get more bitcoins" it will always mean some risk.

Looks like he is in Bitcoin from the beginning, that would explain the car.

Congratulations! I hope to earn some as well.

It would depend on how much I will need money. Probably would sell and cut some amount from my mortgage payments.

Perhaps a lot more company will appear in the scene if we keep or eyes open.

It might be that it is due to that. This world is connected in ways that is hard to see clearly.

Sometimes it is easy to see some connection, but not to predict how much or how little will it affect the prices.

Is xapo card working already? They invited me many months ago and applied, but did not arrive...

I would advise not to move anything unless it is an absolute neccesity until the stress test has passed.

Well, but there is a big difference between expecting to be rich and mining only 8000 litoshis 

I am not complaining or using sarcasm. I really do want to know if mining more than that with an "old" two core computer is possible. I also use faucets, so I am not expecting a lot, but ... maybe about 100,000 litoshis?

So nice of them to experiment slowing all other people transactions down 

I'll never understand things like this. They convince themselves that they are doing this for the public good or something?

Very funny video 

It took me a while to really accept that it was officially from DELTA airlines.

Mine in home computers? I tried some time ago, but did not get more than 8000-9000 litoshis a day. Perhaps I was doing something wrong?

As I understand it, it is not the pools who vote, but the miners inside the pool, right? I mean, a miner in one pool can vote distinct that other miners in the same pool?