I can not see how that should work. If the coins are on a wallet, only the wallet owner can use them.
How should a company offer interests when they can't wotk with the coins?
A btc company that offers interests must work with the coins they have (like a bank). That way the coins are not save.
So they offer some kind of investment, and that sounds a little bit like a cloud mining company to me.
I really do not trust those.

Nobody can give you a guarantee that the price will rise.
And if you accidentally send it to a wrong address, well, gone is gone then.
So, if you buy bitcoins, use just as much money as you can afford to lose.
If you can afford it, I would buy now. Because, if that recent hack could not drag the btc price down, what will?
The eth/etc fork effects are slowly fading away as well.
This makes the environment on the crypto market more predictable again, and will at least stabilize the price or even rise it.

Of course, keeping the coins at the exchanges is a very risky thing.
But a trader has to have the ability to react fast on the market. Especially here with crypto coins.
If he gets his deposits after half an hour or even later, the chance of trading successfully is often gone.
It's kind of a dilemma I think.

Might be a stupid question:
Would it bring more safety if withdrawls on exchanges would be only possible to addresses the user gives his ok to in advance?
Maybe one when he registers, and others only after a certain time period? Let's say a week after the address is applyed at an exchange?

I think it depends much on the media and picture they will be drawing of bitcoin.
Since this was not the first hack of an exchange, and the DAO attack is not that long ago, I can imagine that there will be a big image damage.
And that would scare people away from bitcoin. For a longer period.

In your position I would wait a while until the dust has settled.
I can not recommend anybody to buy coins under this circumstances if he does not exactly know what he is doing.
Personally I converted a good part of my coins back into fiat yesterday, because I am expecting a bigger drop in btc price.
But I will reinvest later this year.

Of course, bitcoin will survive.
But for the next few months it will have problems.
I do not think that the community can grow much in the near future because the media will draw a very bad picture of bitcoin.
It will take time until that impression will leave the heads of the people.

I am afraid, but I think that will happen.
The major media have not picked up that news yet, but they will during the day.
I am really not looking forward to what will happen then to the bitcoin price.

Even there the explanation could be the eth/etc investors.
Eth and Etc are second and third by market capitalization.
Maybe the volatility of those two coins at the moment scares btc investors away becaus btc is a crypto currency as well.

Bitcoin is cryptocurrency and volatility lies in their nature.
Therefore a few percent up or down are nothing special. It's simply the way bitcoins are.
Of cours if it happenes for a longer period, even small steps down could cause some crazy reactions on traders side.
But at the moment I do not worry.

Of course I use much more fiat than bitcoins.
Cash and coins have the advantage of being relatively anonymous.
But everybody needs a bank account, at least where I live.
I would say that fiat is necessary, and bitcoin luxury.

The only really anonymous way of selling it is for cash I think.
As soon as there is a bank account or paypal involved, they have your Id and you have lost any anonymity.

There are really some aggressive adds working on your site.
I decided to leave very soon again, so I can not tell if there is any payout.

"This faucet exceeded it's safety limits!"

So sad to read that here.
To me, this faucet is now scamming people. There is no reason to visit it anymore.
You let people work for you and do not pay them.
It went down from hero to zero.

It always depends waht you understand by fast.
My last transaction took more than one hour to be confirmed. But I don't need it any quicker than that. So it was fast to me.
Of course, my last paypal transaction only took a few seconds. Compared to that, the bitcoin transaction could do quicker.
On the othere hand, a bank transaction takes a day. Much slower than bitcoin.
Everything a point of view.

I think that fork scared away a lot of regular bitcoin useres from the eth/etc currency who are not so much into all that technical stuff.
And as a payment method, it has probably ruined its chances to be accepted like bitcoin already is for a very long time.
Nope, I do not think that the fork was good for Ethereum.

Implementing reversable transactions, would this mean that there had to be a hard fork?
If so, and if I look at the situatuion that is going on with ether at the moment, that would be one reason more never to implement such a thing.

Transactions are needed to create bitcoins during the mining process, right?
How could new coins be created if no transactions are made?

This might look like a basic question and I'm sorry I have to ask, but it really is not clear to me:
What use do banks have from an own blockchain? They have their centralized servers, isn't that a better solution for them?

I really do not think that forking bitcoin is a good idea.
Eth is something for people who already know a lot about the crypto world. And those are not many.
And even most of those do not know exactly what they should think of this whole fork situation.
What would happen if something like that happened to bitcoin?
I think the average user would leave the project. And most likely never come back.