so far as i know all this drama is to activate SegWit and it seems like SegWit2x is going to do it and be compatible with SegWit that was first supposed to be activated.

with that said it has 75.7% support so far in the last <24 hours according to https://coin.dance/blocks and all the things you said are only going to happen in case of a split and from what i am seeing with a high hashrate aka majority support no split would happen. and remember than there is a lot of the hashrate from smaller miners who have not yet signaled, they may be waiting to just join in with the majority.

i stopped reading after the first paragraph!
Craig Wright is a fraud, i don't care about criminal record and whether or not he has it. the only thing that i, as a bitcoin user care about is that he performed an Identity Theft and that is why he is a fraud as far as i am concerned. and by extension anything he says is moot.

i am not an expert but i believe it is. at least now it has turned into a more compatible solution than the it was before. i believe they have implemented BIP91 which makes it compatible with what you are caling "regular SegWit"

you can also read this comment: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1928093.msg19646403#msg19646403

umm, this doesn't make any sense!

litecoin already activated SegWit and it released the keypairs, i am not using it to talk from experience but i know people made SegWit transactions in early days to test and show how SegWit works,...
so why do you say it is any different in bitcoin?

and the sad part is that i started searching about "SegWit keypairs" and all i could find was topics, posts, articles of drama and attacks only!!! i didn't go deep though, maybe page 10 has something valid on it.

check out the Goods boards, i don't know if you can call it a "business" or a "store" but there are certainly a lot of people there who are making good amount of money from selling all kinds of physical goods for bitcoin.

bots aren't just for automation. they are also for making things faster, doing some special strategies, doing analysis and a lot more. in short you get additional features in a bot that you can not get from an exchange.

if you want to see examples just check the two links above, these two bots have so much examples in their announcements.

find another irreversible method of paying the money then. fiat and paypal are not the only valuable things you can transfer!
because nobody will trust a random guy offering paypal for BTC, and you can check the currency exchange board to try your luck!

and also it seems like you have already try to "buy trust" and that doesn't look good in your trust history...

but effects of these "random events" have always been short. for example the latest panic sell ended as fast as it started. or as an older example i remember all the halvening hype and the big rise of that time followed by a very similar drop like this recent one. and again that lasted very short.

so it must be something else that is driving bitcoin price. like the growing demand. and as Torque said it is getting easier to buy bitcoin these days with all these services such as Coinbase which only need one click!

that is just your opinion!
i have been using bitcoin as a currency (in addition to investment) for some time now and i have never experienced any "sucking" in it as a currency. the network is the strongest in security and code. and i am keeping a very good level of privacy when i am using bitcoin.
also i have saved up on a lot of money using discounts whenever i find them.

in bitcoin whenever there is a drastic change in price that is a sign to make a move. if you are a short term trader then both up and down movements are your signs but if you are a long term holder just investing (buying) in dips then only big dips.

when price rises fast and big, start thinking about selling. => $2900
when price drops fast and big, start thinking about buying. => $2100

take a look at the bitcoin wiki section for merchants, it gives you some pretty basic but good information about what to do. there is also some additional links at the bottom which you can visit and see what each of them offer:
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Merchant_Howto

another link: http://www.coindesk.com/information/bitcoin-retail-pos-systems/

it is just a cycle, altcoins get pumped then they enter a bubble because a lot of newbies rush to get rich and then when things become critical the bubble bursts.
this incident was intensified because of bitcoin drop caused by yet another block size drama.

and here is a nice little photo for you:

yes you should absolutely do that. make sure to do it as fast as possible.

because there will only be 21 million bitcoins and you are holding some part of it which is preventing the rest of us from holding that part.
there is no limit to how many ETH will be though!

i think kwukduck might have been hospitalized or something!

for the first time in history of bitcoin, the price has dropped but kwukduck is nowhere to be seen. his last post was from 3 days go
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=654;sa=showPosts

- get well soon buddy, we miss your FUD in this board if you go away

these days it seems like bitcoin investors are all a bunch of trigger happy people who have their cursors ready on the sell button whilst shaking in fear

- i have no complaints though, it is more cheap coins for me, um num num

a whale is just someone with a larger amount of funds who acts faster/first because they expect a move in a certain direction.
it can be expectation of a drop because ETF was rejected, BU is threatening split, Mike Hearn says bitcoin is dead, or bitfinex gets hacked.
or it can be expectation of rise because ETF is being considered, halvening is happening, Japan said we adopt bitcoin,...

then this move starts the ripple effect, bots are alerted, the watchers start sending signals and the first wave join in and do the same and that move becomes bigger.

then the sheep come in. here you don't really need to translate that news (FUD or whatever) they will find it on their own and do the rest. they visit reddit, bitcointalk, or their favorite twitter bullshitter and find out what is going on and run scared to exchanges to jump in the river and follow the current.
this is incidentally the same time those "whales" are starting to do the exact opposite of what they did in the beginning.

this is my observation of what people call "whales manipulating" bitcoin.

this raises a lot of questions that i don't even know where to begin!
- first of all github is not a file sharing website that you put the .RAR files there! it is for sharing code and unless you remove all the rar files and .exe files nobody will even look at it

- secondly do you want to explain why you are copy pasting an old, dead project and posting it as your own here? https://sourceforge.net/projects/btcetradebot/

- also remove the .git from the end of your github link. that is a download link not the link to repository!



i didn't bother to download and check because i am away from my sandbox. but there is a high chance that the binary files (.exe) and the archive file contains some malware, probably keylogger or the famous clipboard BTC address changer thingy.

the code however seems to be the copy paste of an old project as i said above. but it is still best if you stay away completely!

it depends on how much balance  you have in your exchange account and also how much profit you are making each day and also depends on if you want to open up positions or not!

for example if you have a small amount that you are playing with, then it is not profitable to withdraw and deposit with high fees (each time paying 0.001BTC exchange withdrawal fee!). but if you have 10BTC for example and making 0.5BTC profit then it is mandatory to withdraw.

and as for positions, you sometimes have to open up some orders (buy or sell) to be able to catch a good price so you HAVE TO leave money on exchange wallet.

i think you need to check the price buddy.
it has already gone down to $2540 (current price of bitstamp) a while before your post and that is because of the latest drama that bitmain caused!

as for bitcoin i suggest waiting a little bit to see what the current trend is headed to because it seems like we are going to see some more dips which started today again!

and as for ethereum i would think twice before investing in it at this point. read this https://medium.com/@WhalePanda/i-was-wrong-about-ethereum-804c9a906d36 it has some good points.