The whole community has seen it: BTC has a problem. The world's markets are in turmoil and BTC, which should be some kind of a safe heaven to store your cash, pretty much like gold once was, isn't performing as hoped. Far from it actually, it's sinking because of the blocksize debate and the recent fork.

A solution would be a moral authority to take the difficult technical decisions, and that was supposed to be the role of the BTC foundation a while ago. Today unfortunately, many folks don't even know the existence of the foundation. Well, it still exists, right?

I hope the BTC foundation could help the community to put the blocksize debate behind us.

Interesting idea. I wonder if anyone owning a beach front property in Malibu with a Ferrari in the garage has signed up. Because when the guy dies, I could go live in his house and drive his car to make anyone believe he's still alive. And I wouldn't ask much money to deliver this service.

Poor topic title. I'd wish OP would have gave us ideas instead of asking others to give their ideas. Well, I already have an idea anyway. Don't want to share it though, as I'm still working on it.

Times change! Are they going to stop American teenagers from going to Mexico to buy the alcohol they're not allowed to get up North? I've crossed that particular border, and I remember one American patrol man asking me to open the trunk of my car when I left Mexico, but nobody asked me anything when I entered Mexico. Actually, it was me who had to go the Mexican office to get my passport stamped, since I'm not American, and not Mexican either.

I guess Google doesn't like BTC because it doesn't control it. I'm pretty sure they're working on their own crypto solution. I'm expecting them to launch some kind of Apple pay or Samsung pay competitor. The huge risk to BTC is that they could make it as a native app in Android.

Altcoins are just too small, only a handful of people have interest in them. Check their market caps, BTC's the only one above a billion.
Ethereum is interesting, but I don't see it as an altcoin, it's very different.

I suggest that guy to get into mining, to make another fork with smaller blocks and see for himself if that raises BTC's price. I'm afraid this isn't going to work, but that expert probably won't believe it unless he sees it with his own eyes.

Price is fixed by market, which doesn't care at all about block size. The only thing which matters is demand, now and in the foreseeable future.

I thank all the people who wrote me, but I haven't found what I want yet. I'm looking for something quite substantial. If you're a blogger writing articles about BTC, this is your website, and it's personal. That's not what I want.

I believe most exchanges have had a negative cash flow for most of their existence, but that's the case of many companies offering new services or technologies. Launching a start-up is tough, especially if they've written their business plan when BTC was over $1,000. I guess they've started with little capital though. They were miners and the first BTC they've sold were those they've mined.

I haven't given any BTC to anyone yet, but I would like to. I encourage non commercial website owners to insert some code to allow tipping with BTC. There are a few websites, where I'd be happy to give, say, 0.05 BTC.

3 offers yet, but no deal. So I'm still looking for opportunities.
By the way BTC only, sorry I have no interest in any altcoin.

I can pay with BTC, Paypal or Skrill, as you like.

I don't care at all about the price. That doesn't matter. The real issue is with the future of BTC, and its scalability. What is going to happen is the number of transactions grow ten-fold? This is the real problem.

BTC as a career? Is this a joke?
As I see BTC as a currency, this makes no sense. Would anyone talk of the US $ as a career?
You can have a career in blockchain technologies, or in services around BTC, but not in BTC by itself.

No gambling, no faucets, no webcams! I have no interest at all in any of those.

You've started a website offering some kind of service around BTC, but you don't want it anymore. Because it's not profitable, or it's taking too much of your time, or for whatever reason, I may be interested in buying it.

Give me the hard numbers so I can check it out (annual gross income, number of customers...). Websites with negative cash flows are OK.

No partnership, and no financing. I buy only entire websites. Your will transfer your domain name to me, and you will cancel your hosting plan, as I will move the website to my own server.

Sounds nice except that a JCB card is nearly useless in Europe or America, and totally unheard of in Africa. Russians travelers will still need a Visa or a MC if they want to pay with a credit card outside of Russia or Asia. This is what the Japanese do...

Let's be honest here, I haven't voted.

I just don't know what to choose. Sorry but I'm not enough of a techie to make a clear choice. I've been using BTC for 3 years, I've been writing many posts here and elsewhere, but that doesn't mean I'm fully qualified to decide about what's best for the future of technology. This isn't a free vote. Very few people fully understands what's at stake here, and I'm not one of them. I think I know what's good for BTC: faster confirmations, the ability to handle a growing number of transactions per second, etc... But I can't say what's the best tech to achieve those aims. And I'm surprised there's so many people who think they have the knowledge to answer.

Exactly what I'm thinking. He should give numbers. How many illegals in the US right now? How much would it cost to move them out? Who will do it? It's easy to speak but when you're talking of over one million people, you need more than a few words, you need a plan and a budget (both large and detailed). Otherwise, it's BS.

If this is real, which I doubt, I'm sure he has a way to identify himself. Unfortunately, it's very easy to set up an account somewhere with a false name.


It's psychology, waiting is terrible. Will there be a fork or not? Not knowing what's going to happen scares investors all over the world.

The blockchain was very small in 2015. That's what we'll say in 2025.
The only thing I don't like is that fewer and fewer people will take hassle to download it. I gave it up in early 2014, and I've used clients who don't require to download the blockchain since then. When it will be over 100 To, and that's going to be soon, who will get it?

I'm surprised there's still someone scaring people with the risk of a 51% attack.
I wish someone could calculate the probability of such an event. What's the likeliness of a 51% to occur tomorrow? What's the likeliness of this attack to be successful? I don't deny the risk. It is real, but it's a very small risk.