I guess so. It is very very hard to get one full BTC by faucets only. Doing 150.000 satoshis a day (which takes much fauceting) it would take about 1 year and 10-11 months to get just 1 BTC.

It looks hopeful, and certainly it should end in price raise.

At least, it means movement and hope in Bitcoin. This is not dying by any means!

I do not use it either, and I think I will never use them.

Mainly because I have no intention to go to the deep web. I know that there are legal things there, but also many illegal and mind disturbing things, and think it would be harder to come in and stay "clean" of all that. For my own mind health, I prefer to stay away.

Nice article, although it does not look as "simple". I got mentally tired just by looking at the pics LOL.

Yes, what hinders Bitcoin from being used by girls, or by anyone, is more sites providing product in Bitcoin.

-Girls: beauty products, fashion, etc.

-Geeks: technology, gadgets, etc.

-Film lovers: dvds, movie posters ...

For now, the worst has been investing 0.02 in a HYP then the site dissapeared.

Also have lost some (but less) investing on cloud mining sites.

There is a post around with a proposal to include the symbol in ANSI, I think. From them, it will be included in keyboards.

Very nice miniguide. I did not know of some of the methods. Thank you very much.

I would include buying some bleutradeshares in bleutrade exchange. They pay some dividends, very few satoshis, but it is quite safe I think.

It can be far from falling still.

The actual ROI is quite low, and Marcelo can easily sustain it with some trading or perhaps even investing in real mining. If we add to this that he is not paying all people, this can go on forever and ever.

Will be really nice to see it in the keyboard when it goes mainstream, and then to remember "I was there when that guy in the forum posted the proposal"...

Hope they prosper a lot so there are many places that copy their success 

Definitely most people want a block increase. But I think that that it is for no particular technical reason, but because they perceive that raising the block limit will settle things.

Perhaps a startup focused in people in puerto rico to send money through Bitcoin would be a great opportunity. Something like "Send money from Puerto Rico faster than paypal". People would be looking for paypal alternatives and keyword match would be good.

Then some will learn that they can send the bitcoins themselves.

It is refreshing not to see that much XT-blocksize increase posts anymore. I also think that people perhaps do not have much more to say.

But we can consider this post to be about the issue again, no? 

Social media is great for promotion. I only use facebook to promote blog post, wisdom quotes and things like that and goes great.

It is cool to have a crypto related network, as you can do the same (promote your faucets, your bitcoin startups, selling/buying things with Bitcoin etc.) that is, much like a forum, but without restrictions to promote your things, as that is what a social network is much about: promoting oneselve's thing and interests.

Xapo is good enough for someone that does not have anything to hide.

I would be stressed if I had to hide every movement or to maintain Bitcoins in my own means. Yes, it is safer, but would be a pain for me to do that.

Well, perhaps smart scammers will hide themselves. But dumb scammers not  

The fact that the government is pursuing scams will disuade a lot of potential "not so smart" scammers, I think.

I have not received that offer, but I think it is possible. Risky, but possible.

I use coinbase, so I do not care much about the fee. But it surprises me that it is so high. I did not know.

I have paid in bitcoins for cloud mining services (genesis mining) but not for physical goods really.

Hope I can do it soon.