No fckng way. I got a couple of bitcoins back in February, just to play and test what is this. I got rid of them last week, and I am not going to buy any bitcoins or any other crap coins anymore.  If an e-currency which is actually useful for something comes up, let me know guys.

And what can you do with your bitcoin?

Yes, this is what I meant. When little Americunt kids do not understand what are they talking about, they apply template words, which they heard from adults in a boy scout camp, to everything. Like with a "ponzi scheme" case.

I like how boy scouts apply term "ponzi scheme" to everything they don't understand dislike.

I agree with some points of OP, but would like to make some clarifications.

Many people think that mining is about printing money (BTC). But actually, mining is about serving the network. And it is absolutely fair if p2p network is served by every peer in the network, not just by few monopolies. This is evidently not happening with bitcoin.

Did anybody think about altcoin, where transaction fees are paid with hashes cracked (or flops, or other pov), instead of coins? I mean, before being able to make a transaction a peer needs to provide some amount of computing power to serve the network. Initial distribution could be made by splitting X coins equally to each peer currently online, regardless of their hash rates, every minute or other time interval.

This way, early adopters would benefit by getting more coins, while there are few peers online. Guys with a lot of computing power would benefit by being able to make transactions faster. And nobody would be put out of business.

US dudes hate their government so much. Why the hell do you happily run to vote for it every 4 years?

Хуёво. Вы заебали, боты ёбаные.

There is actually no need to go through such complications. Solar panels on sale are usually rated by their nominal power, i.e. maximum power which they produce under direct sunlight at normal temperature. All you need to know is a number of effective sunny hours for your area.

First, you need to finish a high school. In higher grades they explain what is energy and what is power. This will help you to understand what people from solar company tell you before setting up your system. And also, you will understand, that units Kw/h have no physical sense.

No, they should not use the same hash algorithm. As long as network is vulnerable to 51% attack, a cluster with enough GPUs can crack it. The fact that neither  governments nor banks attempted to perform 51% attack on any of crypto coins while their hash rates are low means that they have no intention to do war against crypto currencies.

I double this point.

To hack bitcoin network you need ~70 Thash/sec cluster. GPU based cluster with this power would cost about $70M, ASIC based - just a few million $. Not a big deal for a government of any developed country. If they seize some ASICs, it would cost them even cheaper. After that they could continue to destroy every cripto coin which pops up in the future.

I use it every month, never had an issue. Fees used to be high in the past, but now they are quite acceptable.

I seriously considered using bitcoins or other e-money for sending money to my relatives in Ukraine, but this adds nothing but complexity.

BS. Currently, WU is much faster, cheaper, safer and more convenient than bitcoins.

Sending bitcoins from address to address is easy, but getting bitcoins and converting them back to fiat is pain in the ass (at least in USA).

Two bitches at the same time.

Because some people need USD now, you stupid ape.

When somebody wants to sell thousands of bitcoins, he needs to ask lower than market price, because otherwise he will have hard time to find enough buyers, you stupid ass.

Бинго! Быстро соображаешь, даже пол-года не прошло. 

Fixed. Don't thank me.

So, instead buying bitcoins  on MtGox, a guy buys knifes for fiat and sells them for bitcoins. Not bad way of getting bitcoins.

Anarcho-libertarian looneys are so funny. Completely separated from reality. You really think that if you spam working people with moronic emails they will start to like stupid bitcoins? They will begin to hate you, idiots. You want your cripto-dreams to come true? Then go and produce something useful. Grow cattle and sell meat to Chipotle for bitcoins. Go grow some coffee beans and sell it to Starbucks for bitcoins. All these goods are not teleported from Mars into your local stores. They are produced by hard workers who need to eat every day, live somewhere, take care of their kids, and pay with fiat for all these services.