what the actual F** is going on in US?!
the Copyright office is just accepting any bullshit! where i live you have to jump through hoops and literary bend over backwards to submit a copyright claim. something like this would take years of work to prove you actually are the real person you claim to be and that is only if they don't laugh in your face!
not to mention that this is an obvious scam that even the stupidest person can tell!!!

it sometimes is because of the changes they make in the application and add or remove certain functionalities and sometimes it is because those changes are creating certain hashes in the signature of the files that resemble a virus signature which then is caught as "suspicious" by the antivirus program.
the other possibility is the upgrades in the AntiVirus itself which adds new virus signatures so it starts detecting these things as Trojan,...

it should not matter to us. people with large amounts of bitcoin will always exist because bitcoin is still very young and anybody who got in early already has a large sum of money. and big services like Mt Gox from the old days are obviously having lots of coins.
the important thing is that they are not affecting the price specially when they want to get the most amount of money out of their sales (not that there is any sell happening now from Mt Gox)

that can not be called a gain though. it is only green because after a big drop everything comes back up a little. not to mention that once again you are looking at the USD value of the altcoins so they should show "green" since bitcoin price has been rising after the big drop!

i disagree.
that factor is not dominance and the only thing that it is showing is the fact that bitcoin with its ~17 million supply is shaping up 50-60% of the total market cap which consists of about 2500 altcoins with a total supply in quadrillion space.
as more coins continue to be created bitcoin's percentage which people call dominance decreases.


the thing that clearly indicates "a high confidence in bitcoin" is the fact that every time bitcoin is rising or falling, every investor dumps altcoins without hesitation. otherwise bitcoin dominance might reach 1% and people still do the same with altcoins and dump them because they don't care about "dominance" they only care about potential of bitcoin that is not measured by its market cap but by its utilities.

bitcoin-core is the name of the client that bitcoin uses (the full node implementation of bitcoin) it is not like bitcoin-cash which is a poor copy of bitcoin and is considered an altcoin.

the term for them is not "sub part" since they are not "part" of bitcoin. they are just "forks" which basically means copies of bitcoin. and as you can see from their low declining price and lack of transaction in their blocks, they are useless.

how many will there be?
it is not possible to predict. bitcoin is open source (means the code is open to anybody to see) and anyone who wants, can very easily create a copy of it and create their own altcoin.

the reason is actually pretty clear in my opinion it was a simple correction that was followed by some panic from weaker hands. or in other words the same trend as always whenever we have a rise like this after a long drop.

as we saw, the drop was sharp and unexpected, and more importantly it "bounced back up" instead of slowly recovering which is the clear proof that it was a panic move not an actual sell by traders.

as for selling, i have to say if people haven't made up their mind about their investment in bitcoin and keep panicking at obvious scenarios like this then maybe they should sell and save themselves a lot of sleepless nights.

i don't think you can find that kind of list anywhere at all. your only option is to search each coin individually or ask on their topic or reddit sub if they have any and hope for a developer or someone familiar with the code to answer you.
the only list-like thing i can think of are the libraries that support multiple cryptocurrenices. for example nbitcoin has some altcoin versions and in those it includes ports each of them use. you can find its source code on github.

i completely agree that each bull run is unique and every time it only grows more because of a lot more adoption but there still are a lot of similarities between them. with that in mind this is like the last bull run but we are not in the end of the bull run to be comparing it with 2017, we are at the very start of it so it should be compared with 2015 instead. now you can see more similarities.... stable accumulation, sudden giant drop below strong support, lots of sad people who gave up on bitcoin calling it dead, the big recovery, initial FOMO jumps and the slow rise afterwards with the bull run of about 2.5x by the end of that year.

because bitcoin is not some pump and dump altcoin that can simply rise up 100000% in a short time just because the pumpers wanted it! even the FOMO that we saw has its limits and at some point in the market we reach that point where the fast rise slows down.

this here is partly because of FOMO buyers calming down a little, partly because the day traders are selling now to take their short term profit and get ready to buy back more with the excess money they just gained and partly because $8k is one of the smaller resistances before the major one at $10k.

i disagree because first of all there aren't that many whales to fill all the blocks and cause a fee spike! since there are on average 2000-3000 transactions per block which is ~300k tx/day. how many of it belongs to whales?
besides how many transactions does a whale create every minute anyways? they have to create lots of them to actually fill a big part of many blocks and cause a spike. otherwise one whale making one tx every couple of days paying high fees (even $100000 fee) is not going to change anything!

the problem comes from two sources:
1. bitcoin is not yet capable of handling this much adoption and with price rise that only increases so the fees go up since there is no enough room in blocks for everyone.
2. spam attacks are still a thing. they can be from enemies of bitcoin or even idiotic projects that rely on pushing nonsense data on bitcoin blockchain to get their shitcoin mined! like this crap: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5129187.0

everything is good and dandy as long as we are only talking and there is no "big profit" to be made by the investors. but as soon as there is some hype and pump you can see everyone (including all those who agree here) will rush to join that pump and basically enable scammers to continue their scams!
why do you think ICOs became big in first place? why does the pump and dumps remain popular to this day?....
all of these are because people care more about making money in the market than they care about actually good projects!

it will all come down to the usefulness of bitcoin. when it has usages, then it has value. bitcoin is a decentralized money that nobody can control, censor or reverse. it has high security and provides the user with a good level of privacy. the financial sovereignty achieved by using bitcoin is more than enough intrinsic value for bitcoin.

i liked your brick analogy though.

there are hundreds of reasons why Yobit is a thief and the fact that they have pump and dump shitcoins falls at the bottom of that list because if we was to brand every exchange that has a pump and dump shitcoin listed (even those that own that coin) then all the altcoin exchanges become "thieves".
for starters you can just open Yobit website and look at the market for a little while, the fake orders that flood the chosen markets of that day is too obvious to miss.

bitcoin surge happens when fiat moves to exchanges and if whales were behind it then you had to look at their bank accounts where they trasfer fiat to buy bitcoin increasing its price, not the bitcoin blockchain!!!

ps. we had 4 huge news today leading to this rise. 5 if you count the price rise and the FOMO itself:
1. Microsoft launching a tool on bitcoin blockchain
2. eBay supposedly planning to accept bitcoin
3. BAKKT announced futures
4. Starbucks, Nordstrom, whole foods now accept bitcoin payments

p.ps. the drop below $6k was whale manipulation months ago. this is just market going back to normal after that manipulation was over.

unfortunately this is like accumulation for most people which means instead of buying when price was stable and low at $3100 to $3700 they kept on waiting until they were sure lower prices like $1000 is never going to happen and then started FOMO buying bitcoin. these people aren't going to sell so this type of fast and big rises that look parabolic is not really as "dangerious" as you say it is.

also lets not forget that the drop below $6k that happened about 5 months ago was more like a detour. or in other words we were ready to break $7k resistance 5 months ago and with that much delay it happened recently! it is perfectly normal to see this type of shoot up.

the next phase of  the FOMO has begun.

the first FOMO steps were the $500 to $1000 rises that happened as soon as we exited the $3k range into $4k price range. that initial step i suppose were the investors with more  grasp over the market and bitcoin's history who jumped right back in giving up their greed for drops.

this new phase is the rest who still were waiting to get their wish of a big drop but were eventually disappointed. this is the bigger FOMO phase.
now i am wondering how big this will be before the market calms down. 10k maybe?

adoption! like it always is.
more users, then more price rise then that big price rise creates a lot of hype that everywhere in the media they talk about bitcoin so it attracts even more users and maker being small the price shoots up and enteres a big bubble.


but almost all of the ICOs required ETH to participate in them not bitcoin so how could they be the reason for the bubble?

it is becasue you are not considering the fact that Binance has nothing to do with bitcoin price because only altcoins are being traded there. so even if it closed down today it still wouldn't change a thing in bitcoin market, bitcoin traders weren't there to begin with.

also you are not considering the fact that bitcoin price has been in an undervalued state for a long time and people were willing to buy it but were also greedy enough to wish for a lower price before they started buying. since that didn't happen they are now entering. otherwise without that greed they would have entered during the stable accumulation phase!

the problem is not from lack of authority to control the project creations and fund raisings. the problem is in the projects themselves.  there are no decent projects worthy enough to be called a 'crypto-currency". all we have are either copycat coins or low quality projects that the developer half assed some idea together. and then there is this horrible thing called fund raising or ICO which no matter what you do, it will be a terrible idea.