Or, if some new features like the lightning network or something gets implemented and let people to pay the small amounts in bitcoin too, without worrying about the fee. Today the fees are a bit lower, the highest was after the BCH fork and the miners were hopping on and off from the BTC and BCH chains. Or, it's possible that we'll use bitcoin like gold in the ancient times and we'll have another alt like silver was for small purchases. (E.g. litecoin or ETH, etc...)

They are afraid that they are afraid of losing their influence. Their influence gives their power and that's generates profit for them, so they're afraid about losing their money at the end. They have too many people in very good jobs and if bitcoin becomes widesread, a lot of things change and that will cause them problems. If bitcoin becomes an accepted method of payment in the third world, monetary systems will face serious problems. They want to stop this this is why they speak of bitcoin in negative terms.

If you decide to send the coins with really low fee settings, you can try an accelerator to get your transaction confirmed sooner.
https://pool.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/
This it the ViaBTC accelerator, every full hour you can send your low fee transaction to get it included into the very next block. Just be very sharp, only the first few transactions are included, if you miss it, you need to wait another hour to try.

Would you please link something to that diploma you are talking about? I'm curious about that, but of course it's possible that's a new kind of scam that used to rip off people some money. Blockchain is not yet an official subject on any university

Well, at least, they have pumped up BTC price with the high demand, caused by the rush for BTC to get the BTG after the fork... Poor alts, they're suffering, but at least, we can buy them back cheaper in the very minute the fork has happened and people has not started to diversify their BTC again into the alts
To be on topic: The above mentioned advices should stand for all the forks, despite of the new alts has replay protection or not, just to be on the safe side.

It's really a question of faith, if you belive in bitcoin, you look at a price fall as a correction before the next raise that will push the price even higher than before. If you don't belive in bitcoin, you look every raise in price that it's the end of the bull and bear will start immediately. But it's the same if you have shares in the real world. Everything is based on your expectations (faith).

Just be careful... 2.6 BTC is a really high amount of money in fiat. If he has just exchanged his life savings to bitcoin some weeks before, than it won't be a problem, but if he collected the bitcoins over the years (when it has much less value), it could generate a problem (taxes). Police will start to investigate where the bitcoins went, but after, they will hand over the whole thing to the tax authorities, to investigate where that amount of money came from... so be really careful
My opinion is that starting a police investigation was maybe a wrong way (but obviously the only legal way). If the surveillance cameras took photo about the stranger, it would be wiser to start a private investigation instead. But I hope I'll be wrong at the end. Fingers crossed, keep us updated please

Something has changed already, we have wordpress and other website builder systems that allow you to set up a decent web page in an hour. What we really need is to create educative websites about bitcoin and send there a lot of people to learn about bitcoin and that will help the mass adoption... Just don't forget to be user friendly and easily understandable

The world will not care about he is fool or not, it's just his 15 minutes (fame) about bitcoin. There's no need to react on that. As long as these people are in the news and they are telling their thoughts via the TV and youtube, a lot of people will listen to them and belive them. Only a really small % of the people will read about the subject and think about the real situation. As long as people belive everything that is shown on TV and on facebook, we can do nearly nothing against it. Maybe if people got educated about bitcoin it could change, but that's not the near future...

The governments' reactions are understandable because they just want to protect their economy and their people. Most of the average joes has no clue about bitcoin (and about shares, commodities, derivatives, forwards, options etc...) They know about cash and credit card and that's all. If they start to buy bitcoin, because of the hype at $6,000 and after the first upcoming correction they panic sell it at $4,000, they will complain to the government why it was allowed to buy bitcoin.... this is only the first aspect.
The second is, governments and tax authorities can't really follow the payment chain when bitcoin is used as the method of the payment. They prefer the bank transfer, which they can trace easily. Using cash above the sum of $1.000 is also banned in most of the countries in the EU (or something similar, to prevent money laundry). It's not easy to move large sum of money in cash. If people/companies moves it via bank transfer, it's traceable. But it's easy to move a large amount of money if it's in bitcoin, and thats a pain for the tax authorities, because they're not prepared to track it yet, so they won't allow it's usage as long as they find something that can help them to deal with bitcoin transfers. Maybe it's not illegal to pay with bitcoin, but a shop or a store can't accept payment in bitcoin, because they can't legally account the income in their ledgers. Incomes which are not taxable are not good for the economy/government, this is why central banks are against bitcoin at the moment...

Nobody can be sure if it will be $10k or not although the signs are pointing to that direction yet. I'm just wondering what if governments start to ban (not to regulate) the usage of bitcoin. They have no other chance to protect their economic system from the effects of bitcoin. In that case people will start to sell their bitcoin massively and they won't consider to buy it back later on. Only a few of them will start to search for solutions to be able to use bitcoin in the future, most of the people will give it up. It's not the most possible scenario for the future, but a possible cause which can generate selling. I hope that it will never happen

The change in the mining method (it won't be possible to mine it with ASIC systems) would cause real difference in mining, compared to the original bitcoin. When it gets forked, there will be a need for miners with decent GPU support, but there's a lack of information about the details. As the mining method is not compatible with the ASIC boxes, it was told that bitcoin gold is a backup plan if China will monopolize the mining of the original bitcoin, but it's not officially stated yet...

Don't worry mining fees will exist every time. Just remember a few months ago, when BCH and BTC were 'fighting' and miners were hopping from and to the different chains to mine. This caused high fees on the BTC chain, so the miners earned the block reward and serious profit from fees as well. This amount of profit from the fees should be enough for the miners if the block reward disappears.

To interpret it to a real life thing:
Coin: Money
Token: Shares (of different companies)
Not this simple, of course, but you can understand the difference between the two things based on that.

Well, that can be done a bit cheaper, too. Buy some thin metal business cards from ebay, buy a second hand engraver and engrave your seed yourself. I won't advice to get it engraved by professional engraver, because you won't know if he recognizes that it's a seed or not...  Don't risk your hard earned coins

When you send your fiat to your bank account, try a smaller amount first, some banks in the EU are starting to stop transfers coming from Crypto exchanges, and sending back it to the exchange. You can search for the name of your bank in the forum to check if there were any problems when others were wiring back funds from exchanges.

Hi Dev,
It's good to hear that you have lowered the requirements, but as long as it's neccessary to join telegram (and use a phone nr. from the real life), a lot of people will think twice to join to your signature campaign. I just simply don't want to link my bitcointalk username to a physical phone nr., maybe this can be one reason why only a few people managed to join your campaing yet. I have joined your whitelist (thanks for the approval), because there was no telegram required. Wish you all the best for your ICO, anyway

They cannot regulate it, they can ban it or leave it. They can ban it if they want, but bitcoin doesn't cause enough problem to them yet to think about banning it. They just advice people to stay away from it, which is understandable because most of the people are not aware of the potential risks of bitcoin (high volatility, losing bitcoin because of technical problems and lack of backup, etc). They won't regulate it, they will start to tax it if they will let people use it officially.

I was also wondering if the segwit address would be OK for the bitcoin gold, but now it's clear that the legacy address is needed for that. Thanks for the info, I have to move some dust from the segwit address to the legacy, every penny counts

The weakest link is always the human. You can have the best hardware wallet if you don't know how to use it. You can have your private key hidden somewhere, you can write down your seed on a paper and laminate it, and hide it too, if you take a photo of your seed and store it on your phone (just in case if it's urgently needed...) then it's a big mistake also...
Every kind of wallet have it's own weakness and strength.
I use hardware wallets to store and web wallets to spend (and not vica-versa). You just need to know the level of the risk and act accordingly. Web wallets are also fine (despite of you don't have your private key) for a purpose of spending smaller amounts.