Well the most obvious next cryptocurrency that can surpass bitcoin in the future might be none other than ethereum, with ethereum having constant development and it supporting developers by having an open source code letting them create tokens, in the past few months the ethereum bases ICOs have raised millions of dollars proving that it is a very successful business model, and with it becoming more and more popular I am sure that more investments will be pushed into this market, and we might see it surpass bitcoin in market capital.

I would highly recommend Poloniex, i have been using it for a long time and by far it is the best one of all the exchange sites out there, not only it supports a lot of coins from newly released ones to the popular currencies, but it allows you to exchange between them with the lowest fee, so you can do your trading at anytime, as for the anonymoity you don't need to submit any personal information, you can make an account deposit your btc and start exchanging.

No none has any exact date on when it be released, the lightning network is based on trust kind of like smart contracts where users are connected to each other via paymment channels, means it connects you to another person who you are trying to send funds to it through other people who are connected to that user, so if there is no direct link to the destination your trnasaction would be refunded, as you can imagine this is a whole new concept that neeeds a lot of work and experiment before it is released to the public to make sure that is flawless, and not releasing an exact date is a way to avoid people getting hyped up and than dissapointed just like what happend woth segwit.

Last year's massive jump in bitcoin's price lead to it becoming more popular than ever, which lead to a high traffic in the blockchain network, so miner fees were high and transactions were stuck for days to be confirmed, and this has made a lot of people question the sacalibility of bitcoin and how it will adapt to the massive flow of poeple and transactions in the future, and that is where the segwit fork came from, it was trying to aim to reduce the size of the transaction to make more of them fit into one block, so they can reduce transaction time and miner fees, it was supposed to launch in 28 of august, which a  lot of wallet providers siad that they will support it, but it was canceled and than said they will relaunch it with a differnet team in december and it did, but most of the online wallets like coinbase and blockchain don't support.

Obviously a lot of poeple are here in for the moeny, and i can't blame them, ever since the price started going up people stopped spending and just holding it in pursuite for more moeny, but this not what bitcoin was created for, it was not created to be used like gold to just buyj and hold it, it is a cryptocurrency means its sould pourpouse is to be used for transaction between people, and we have completly changed that, if we want for bitcoin to go any further and be accepted it should have a stable price.

There is no doubt about thatn cryptocurrency could and will be used in our lives as a payment method, the reson why it is still not being widly used is because it is still somthing new, and people are still not sure wethere they should invest in it or not, because it is not a solid thing and it could go down at any time, as for the blockchain technology it is somthing that i hear is being expermentied with, in many sectors not in just currency, and i am sure with further developmment we will see it as a big thing in the future.

Well of course, not only etehreum in it self is seeing so many development and investments, but probably most of the ICO are etehreum based projects and we all of all people have seen how many of these have been released and raised million and millions of dollars, they became so popualr in a very short amount of time and this only proves how cryptocurrency and etehreum to be specific can bring somthing new to the investment market, and i am pretty sure that many have their eyes on it and i am also sure that we are going to see more of it in the future.

Well its easy, the lower budget project won't be able to stand in the market too long, because it will need advertisment and a lot of work in order to start getting profit from it, which can take a lot of time, bigger budget means more time so higher chances of getting any profit, but that does not mean that it is all about the money, you could have a lower budget but you work smart and know what you are doing so your project becomes successful.

It doesn't matter wethere govermments ban bitcion or not, its not like they have control over the netowrk and can block trnasaction and so not, using bitcoin is anonymous which means they will never know wich country or who is sending or reciving all is hidden behiend the bitcoin address that people use, and this is a well known thing to all bitcoin users, govermments relize this they relize that they can't prevent people from using it, so they can either ignore it or accept it and use it to their advantage just like what happend in germany.

Well no, the bitcoin mining is always going to be profitable no matter what the price is , the block  mining time and the difficulty are always chaning in order to adapt to the number of miners that are mining bitcoin, so if the bitcoin price goes down so is the mining time so means it will cost less to mine bitcoin, so as long as there is electricity and pople trying to mine even with their GPU's there will always be profit from bitcoin mining.

The real question is why ?, the whole ida behiend using the blockchain netowrk is that every transactions is veriefied and made public, it is how the system works, while the transaction information are public, the users are still anonymous because they are hidden behiend their bitcoin address and not their personal information, i don't think that anonymous addreess and transactions would exist because they would still need to be verified by miners.

Yes you are able to switch to using segwit enabled wallet and send your bitcoin to it, but it will cost you some fees, because of big centrelized wallet services like Coinbase and Blockchain who have not yet supported it, switching from them to a segwit wallet will come at a cost, your transactions may have lower transaction time and lower fees, but you are going have to buy a harware wallet like LegerNano S or Trezor who supports this technology.

Personally I recommend using Poloniex, this is by far the best exchange site that I have used between all those that exists out there,not only it has the lowest exchange fees, but also it has a wide vraity of  coins to exchange from bitcoin to newly released coins, the only bad thing is that it doesn't have an app on android only on IOS so I only use it on PC

Probably the most needed thing for cryptocurrency to become accepted and adopted as a pyament method in almost every country, it would have to be the constant and unstable price, because think about it for a minute, if you buy somthing worth 10$ right now tomorow it might become 15$, and the same goes if you are selling somthing for cryptocurrency, it won't be profitable for all members of a trade that is why most of the crypto and bitcoin owners don't use them for buying stuff they just hold it.

I can defently seee google and aaple starting to accept bitcoin as a payment method to pay for differnet appps and games on their platform, steam already started accepting bitcoin a long time ago for games on pc, and right now with the transaction's fee gowing down it will be only a matter of time before we see more and more investments being pushed into the bitcoin market.

Well we are still only at the begining of the year, and we can't really judge the whole year from what happen in the first 3 months, it may be true that bitcoin have never fallen this way before and it is not the best results comparing to last year, but bitcoin has never reached this price before last year at this time bitcoin was 900$ now its 9000$, the price is always going to change and the past at which rises could change, last year it went from 1000 to 2000 in 4 months, than after it went up to 6000 in 2 months, and than within a month it was past 10k, the bitcoin market is full of suprises and really unpredictibale, you just have to adapt to the situation .

The only thing that we can do now is hold and wait, that is the wisest solution, because think of it, if you sell now and try to cut your loses than you are actually going to lose, but if you accept your faith and just be paitent and hold than eventually the price will go up agin and you will get your profit back, the whole market requires paitience and the ability to adapt to the situation, if can't handle a little lose its not for you.

No not really, i mean if you look at the charts you will notice that bitcoin and alts move the same way, take a look now for exemple bitcoin is in the red and so as all the other coins, and this also applies for going up, see this the thing about cryptocurrency in general you can't really explain or predict how the prices are going to change because they are not affects by one event, they are not controlled by some goverment or bank, they are affected by many factors and events, all we can do i be ready.

This is an inevitable thing, and it is bound to happen sooner rather than later, as the cryptocurrencies are slowly making their way into the market and more and more investments being pushed toward this new kind of deal, such as ICOS which have proven to be a popular and a succeful bussines model, it will be no suprise that big companies will start implementing and coming with ideas to get more profit, and i don't think that this will be a bad thing, quite the oppiste because it will make lives much easier and will prove our point as a community that cryptocurrency is more than just investments and profit.

It is true that the total amount of bitcoin is not decrasing, but the amount of bitcoin being sent and recevied is what actaully determines the price, even though in theroy poeple holding bitcoin will eventually boost the price up but things like investments and politics are the ones that affect the demand which by its turn effects the supply circulating, right now most of the investments made withing the cryptocurrency market are mostly dominated by ICOs so the demand on bitcoin has gone down from what it used to be couple of months agao, and i think that impacts the price.