You mean like 16M volume? because there are only 1M bitcoins in circulation worldwide and moving around different exchanges and no exchange will ever gain enough volume for SEC to approve any ETF. bitcoin doesn't need any ETFs but rather stability in performance.

Who says cloud mining is not profitable? if you invest a million in a legit cloud mining company you could profit a lot if the admins/owners stop stealing money from their clients, yes those legit services are stealing and I don't want to talk about that here.
I think increasing block size 250KB for time being would suffice to keep the fees down and whenever we have to pay a fee higher than $1 for a 225bytes  transaction and no one does anything to lower the fees is intentionally hurting the network.
I don't know where that 8MB blocks came from but for now 250KB is enough.

Because they can? I still have no idea about the differences between processing transactions and including them in a block and not doing so but still mining a block, I guess the technical details behind it is in technical details I do actually want to know if miners get hashes from TXIDs and start finding/computing the longest hash, what do they compute when there is no transactions to provide them with the required hashes?

I might have some clues about nodes not giving miners or some nodes not showing miners the TXs but miners get them regardless and they will return the favor to nodes by just solving the block.

Bottom line miners can make sure not to accidentally mine a bigger block than the 1MB limit and prevent orphaning/losing the lottery but they're still hashing and contributing their computational power to the network.

I think it's better to mine on F2pool/BTCC/HaoBTC/BitFury/KanoCKpool/Telco214/BTC.com and mostly any pool that doesn't support BU for time being.
We need to see what is their true intention, if they want to really do a hard fork and it's no longer a manipulation game play then you should avoid supporting any BU supporting pool seriously.

Here is my take on the situation of life for people living in tyranny(no pun intended) try to find a fertile small land and build a small house and start growing crops/vegetables, etc. and work hard to earn your living of course with family members and friends helping you out.
That is the way our world should work but is it really like that? I really doubt it, when we born into this world we practically have no rights and for many other people we're overpopulating their living space and many other will even try to harm and or kill us by different ways either because of ignorant or they've been misled or simply they've been paid to do so.

In every country only 1% of their population are running/ruling/owning and having power and the control of 90% of their wealth and resources and they're all blood relatives and close friends/inner circle.

Problem is from our ancestors they were stupid to live the same way and kept their mouths shut, they didn't stand up to the tyrants/bullies because they were coward and we're no difference, we've bent over and begged them to f**k us and we're enjoying it because simply we deserve it.

Nothing will change until people around the world do something about it but guess what? most of the people are somehow happy and collaborating even to help their causes and nations hate each other constantly attacking and killing each other it's like an or**sm for them when they see their governments spend their wealth and fortune to build strong military forces and violate/r*pe other nations and when the wrath of God comes down and upon them in forms of natural disasters/terrorism/sicknesses/hard forks they blame each other or blame everyone else.

We're bad/corrupted from the roots and we're just passing days and nights over and over hoping for some miracle/someone like Satoshi to bring us something new/something different and something revolutionary to change our lives for the better and when he actually came and did provide us with a miracle we started to f**k everything up by trying to have more, than others and of others, we decided to repeat and exercise the act of the miracle not to perform it better or much in the interests of the community but as a decoy to lure and trick more unsuspected and uneducated people.

This has become the longest off(on) topic comment that I've posted, sorry I needed to let it out.

I'm afraid that there are already smart people occupying youtube audience stream for their profit just like mining whales in bitcoin, but you could do some thing like spending from your pocket first to heavily advertise and then start to earn but I think that's not an option for you, there is not much one can do without any initial investment so better stick to your signature for time being.

If it is something worthwhile and not an attempt for slavery then why don't you first share this profit with your friends and family and they with their friends and families and so on, though I can't recall you being my friend or a family member. you got my point?

It says that blocktrail was acquired by BITMAIN, I wonder if this has anything to do with the blocking of your IP? however it opened for me without any problem.

No room for m*rons here in the first place, NO ONE wants the future of humanity to be a bright and striving benefiting from a technology it was Satoshi's dream may God rest his soul. people now just see money and want money, BU if I want to explain in short is just another attempt to manipulate the price and profit greatly from it, why can't you all see this as I'm seeing it crystal clear?
At some time it was PBOC
At some time it was ETF
At this time is BU HF
I'm just surprised why didn't Satoshi think about some mechanism which could automatically increase the block size after a certain amounts of transactions per second with certain fee per size was achieved. it really should've been in the protocol something like the difficulty re-targeting every 2 weeks, if fees per byte increased more than for example 300 sats then block size would've increased 25KB.

Or maybe I'm the m*ron here hoping for any solution even though I have no knowledge about the risks and down side of such an implementation.

You are unfamiliar with currencies right? just look at every and each country and see how they are managing and holding up and that should be enough for you to go hide under some stone from shame.
On the other hand if you have an open source code a solid and legit one with a clean wallet/explorer/pool/mining software/and a bit of advertising after some experts review the code and assess everything, if there is no backdoor/critical bug/pre-mined/ninja mined/insta-mined issues then after an exchange accepted to list your coin then people would pay for your coin 20% higher the cost for which they could obtain it themselves minus the ROI on mining rigs.

People paying more than what they could mine bitcoin but then it's only good if you get free mining machines not worrying about the ROI on them, if people didn't have to buy miners they would've never paid for bitcoin this much.

Yeah sure just like when you turn milk into butter with enough time and patience you could do anything, but how exactly POS coins process the transactions? just by keeping your wallet open, like keeping Core wallet open as a full node which we have already thousands of them and didn't you see what happened to BU nodes? imagine them staking and there you got one angle of vulnerability plus many more.

How are they going to change POW that won't end up making their own machines useless? what else can you mine with S9 or any other ASICs?
You gotta think like a pro business man, you need to eliminate any possible negative outcome of any major and serious action that you will going to make such actions like hard forking bitcoin with 70% of total hash power and basically start earning $5000-$50,000 daily instead of $500,000-$1,000,000/... would you do the same?
Core miners if remaining are 30% after the imaginary HF still got something worth dozens of millions as mining machines, why would they change the POW and even agree on it? looks like not every one really knows what open source means, you could run version 0.13 or 0.14 and continue mining and staying safe.

If POW compatible with ASIC was a bad idea they should've changed it immediately after the first miner came out, but having ASICs is good shows not everyone could jump on their chair and turn on their PCs and start mining, lol take a look at altcoins such as BERN or other coins which you could mine simply by your laptop.

Don't forget when price was at $1200+ people were still buying in hopes of higher prices and they weren't wrong, price should and will rise above $1200 once more and shall stay there and $1200 become the bottom, this is too easy of a manipulation played by BU whales, they knew market will react and some big holders might panic and start to dump carefully, now we're at $1000 and it will rise I promise you that.

There will be no winning or losing, there will be no hard fork, they just needed another excuse to drop the price for their accumulation I've repeated this many times already, someone earning more than $500,000 every day will not split the network to start mining useless coins probably $5000 a day will be their income of mining just please hold on to your coins and stop dumping, you are donating your bitcoins

But how about a mining method/protocol that first combines all the hash power in total and processes the transactions and reward the miners accordingly to their hash power contribution? I'm talking about a mega pool/ one pool, that way miners can still fork if needed just all the electricity will be used to secure and generate bitcoins.

If you are a miner and mining hundreds of bitcoins each week and don't want governments to link your addresses which the mining rewards are deposited in them you could pay some fees and mix them/cover your tracks by using a mixing service such as BitMixer.io that way even if IRS or any government's agency are on your tail and trying to link you to some transactions they will fail most certainly.
And then you could find buyers willing to pay in cash/gold or any item with value as long as not deposited into your bank accounts.

We all know that bitcoin won't be mainstream until another decade only then you could solely rely on bitcoin without any need to exchange to fiat.

Though good luck paying tax to your government, doing so means that you agree with spending half of the taxes on weapons and financing wars around the globe. there is no need for you to report your properties and financial activities to the IRS just turn them into bitcoins and let them stay in unused addresses for 10-15 more years to completely operate and do business without the need to pay a penny as tax.

One of the best opportunities if you ask me, because someone with more than 51% of total hash power is not insane to literally deny himself money.
Why? because they have every thing to lose if they do the hard fork, they'll lose half a million dollars every day if they do.
But no matter what happens even if they've been paid a fortune to shut down bitcoin by losing millions first they should know that market will recover after a year or two, this is actually the bright side of decentralized currency even if mining becomes centralized and they decide to f**k up the system by split the honest and friendly nodes/miners will continue to function as normal and system will regain the community's trust over time, so yes this is one of the rarest opportunities to accumulate as much as you can.

Money will speak after they see money is not going to be on their side they will back down they're not stupid to shoot themselves in the foot.
What do you think you'd wanted if you were them, one chain with growing community and confidence of people into the network or a network split in half while your half will die after a week or so? best thing is to stay in one chain and continue mining.
The whole forking thing is their new strategy to grab more cheap coins from weak hands.

Believe it or not but IMAO this is just another strategy to manipulate the weak hands and scare people to panic sell their bitcoins just so they can buy and accumulate even more. obviously price dropped under $1000 for a reason and that is the people dumping in fear of hard fork because if that happens bitcoin would worth $600 and below.

Only a fool enters the altcoin trading, it's the worst time since it's all artificial pumping and there is no actual community support behind it.

If a casino is good enough and has high payments you could attract more people by sharing what you are getting paid as commission.
And the best way is to put it in your signature, I wouldn't count on faucets because their concept is no longer viable.
You could also try bitdouble.io they pay good commissions.