I also agree that growing population gives an increased ratio of criminality but there other main reasons like as poverty, social inequality lack of education and so on. Besides that, as far as it concerns the bitcoin I agree that is a solution for many people worldwide without bank status but these people must not stay with the fingers crossed. That means, they have to try to learn some things about the blockchain technology and how bitcoin works so as the bitcoin benefit them not only for investments but as payment medium in their transactions too.

I’d never really thought about it that way but I must agree with your view because the last days the transaction fees are very high and the unconfirmed transactions most hours of a day is a nightmare; so I don't want imagine what will happen after a surge in bitcoin's price. Moreover, after many conversations and debate about the scaling issue there is no light in the end of tunnel. Therefore, I see too as the only solution if someone wants to do any micropayment transactions and doesn't like the domination of miners must go with altcoins. 

First time I was deal with bitcoin I was very excited and I was thinking that all things as far as it concerns the monetary system were solved; the only difficulty would be the adoption of many people so as to be an everyday payment system. After a while, I realized the process of bitcoin transactions which depends from network confirmation. So, I understood that debate in scaling and the increased fees will be the everyday reality where I have to face it until a solution. All of these are so different from anything I had lived so as many times I feel that anyone join in bitcoin ecosystem lives in a parallel world compared with fiat money.

If i am not mistaken this is an empty block. It's not really empty because has one transaction which is the mining reward, nowadays 12.5 btc https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1085800.0. That means in this block only the coinbase transaction is included. It depends from the mining pools because there are miners who don't mine empty blocks https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/why-do-some-bitcoin-mining-pools-mine-empty-blocks-1468337739/. On the other side imo all of us we belong in bitcoin ecosystem, more or less, we are responsible because of the increased fees. Not only devs and miners but simple users we could force in order to find a viable solution with high fees.

I really disagree with your view. If you do a research you will find out that Russia is more friendly now with bitcoin and their users because the deputy minister of finance reversed the plan to ban the bitcoin usage https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/russia-reverses-plan-to-penalize-bitcoin-use/. Moreover as far as it regards China of course the PBOC has a lot of influence over bitcoin and want to regulate it  but on the other side the two third of the mining power are in their home.

I believe in maths and statistics so;

If gambling sites or casinos are unbiased (provably fair) then when you play, say American roulette there are 38 possible results. The red are the 18 of them. So the probability of winning a bet on red are 18/38, or 47.37%. So the casino will win a little more than the player half of the times.
In sports betting and the very popular soccer everyone believes that based in skills. That's true but many teams are taking money to lose or there are facts which are not known by the punters or some of them are unpredictable during the game and affect the result. So again maths, and the only sure in home, away, draw game is the probability is always 33.33%  

From my point of view, not only for completeness of this post but for practical reasons too, given that now often we see 150s/b, you could point that above estimation of fees is based when public keys are uncompressed. But when public keys are compressed (nowadays usually are) then someone have to replace the value 180 with shorter one that is 148.

Of course nobody in bitcoin world is happy with transaction fees and confirmation time anybody faces last days except miners, who earn very good profit. Besides that, as far as it concerns Alphabay or Oasis or any market related with deep web, has nothing to do with bitcoin's transactions issue but with some very important features people want when they visit these sites. These features are the anonymity and non traceability which obviously are not included in the characteristics neither bitcoin nor ethereum so their users found another crypto according to deepdotweb

Do you really believe that bitcoin is anonymous? When you buy/sell things with bitcoin and you give your real name and address; when you convert fiat to bitcoin or vice versa using as intermediary banking services are you anonymous? When you deal with trading and must send some documents in order to be fully verified so as you can process a withdrawal are you anonymous? No it's only pseudonymous. There are some methods to keep a level of privacy if you read satoshi's white paper https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf but does anyone who wants privacy he believes that are satisfactory?

The way I see it, religion and science, faith and knowledge are two basic and essential aspects of the human spirit, which move in different planes, parallel or intersecting, but not mismatched. First I should note that there is no issue of contradiction or conflict between them. Religion and science are two great intellectual figures complementary and not mutually exclusive. These are two manifestations of the human spirit that move at different levels. They have autonomous areas of interest and research.

The same story like as was one week ago. Many unconfirmed transactions, many people waiting more than 10 hours when their fees are about 65s/b and they cannot understand the reason. Some people yelling that is only a spam attack, and other quarrel in favor of one or the other solution (blocksize, segwit) without any solution in the end. On the other side people are speaking about mass worldwide adoption or what they will do if the government of 'x' country will ban or regulate bitcoin. At last, the only happy are miners they easily see good profits when fees are high and bitcoin price more than $1000.

As I saw all of your fees are more than 10,000 satoshis/kb and are not low 65s/byte but today there are many unconfirmed transactions. So I used the tool https://www.viabtc.com/tools/txaccelerator/ and I entered the tx of your first two transactions. I left the rest two for you in order to learn it when you will use it. Furthermore, I found very helpful this thread if you want to read it so as in the future you will feel more confidence when you spend your coins https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1776194.0.

Yes with segwit you can raise the size up to 4mb but the effective cost limit so the blocks will remain balanced is about 1.6-2 mb https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/. Besides that, I am not sure if the last days is only a spam attack in the network and not increased real transactions too but 160s/byte for fast confirmation is unacceptable. Thus, the only people in bitcoin world who have sure and big profit are only the miners. Aren't they?

I am pretty sure that is the main reason. They want to manipulate the price and speculation is a big weapon. All time the same story; that is, bitcoin is a ponzi, don't use it is only for illegal activities and bitcoin crashes. But  people are not so gullible as much as it used to be in the recent past. They do their research so they don't believe speculators. But the worst, which is not easy to overcome is panic selling. People they see only the price not the volume, trend, news and eventually they can't control their emotions and the continuation is known. Price is falling and some who already cash out buy low so after a while to cry 'to the moon', 'sky rocket' and the same again and again.

 I don't know what to say; I could not believe that was possible and except somebody did it by accident I don't know why this permitted. Here is the transaction (sometimes I use blockcypher because they have API to see miner preference from fees as high,medium and low like as the confidence expressed as percentage that tx would be confirmed) https://live.blockcypher.com/btc/tx/1f56b0fa6c077578dca4b1a163c2ac295af0b97eeacea8c38ba6dd0039aa77a8/. Fees are not low and maybe after a while will be confirmed. On the other side does anybody could clarify the reasons this could be happened?  

This is the same with me. I could not be one of the early adopters but surely I could deal with bitcoin in the end of 2013. Unfortunately this year bitcoin was crashed from more than $1,200 to less than $600. Mass media were shouting that bitcoin is a waste of money and could not ever used as an alternate medium of payment. Take a look what a journalist of L.A Times had written these days http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-bitcoin-crash-20131207-story.html. Therefore I lost the train; but even now I am optimistic about the course not only now but and after some years.

The governments have nothing with bitcoin. They are ordinary employees who simply perform the instructions given from banks. The banks will lose everything if bitcoin will prevail worldwide and people use it in all of their daily transactions. Therefore, banks will do nothing if people use it only for hoarding as asset; but if they start to use it very often as currency then I believe that will see the governments to impose strict measures in usage of bitcoin.

To my point of view not all eggs in one basket. If I was you I would use the same policy like as if I had an investment stocks portfolio i.e a risk policy management which implemented via diversification. Therefore, most part 50%-60% I would keep it to hardware wallets (trezor, ledger, opendime sticks, anything after a research you believe is the safest choice). The next part about 20% I would deposit to 2-3 well known exchanges (to reduce the risk in case of hacking). The rest of my coins I would convert in fiat (using localbitcoins and cryptocurrency ATMs).

There are many factors which can affect the price of bitcoin. First are the uncertain and unpredictable factors like as political and financial crisis in worldwide level, bankrun of a big well known bank with many customers and so on. Secondly, there are factors from bitcoin ecosystem like as the adoption of people and the debate about scalability. So the most, imo, optimistic scenario is a consensus and more bitcoin users where could lead the price in new all time high level

I really don't agree with your view. Signature campaign is something different from an entrepreneur. An entrepreneur must afford a capital and must risk his money. Besides that, gambling sites has many drawbacks too. At first there is the hacking. There is none gambling site or exchange can tell that has apply the perfect security measures. So, after the hacking you lose your reputation and must have enough money to indemnify your customers. Therefore, I believe if anyone have a good online store can be considered as a successful entrepreneur.