Bitcoin without exchanges can't have this price and this popularity that has now, the exchanges make it easier for people to buy sell and trade bitcoin for any other currency.

The best and more popular altcoin currently are ethereum and ethereum classic which can be found on poloniex and have a large volume trading(they stay most of the time on top of the popular coin list). What you should consider before taking action and purchase altcoin is to check how often and when the price goes up and down, check the exchange price maybe you can make a faster profit by moving from an exchange to another one.

I don't have made any prediction yet about the bitcoin in the near future but I think that bitcoin price in the next year should be somewhere at 1k USD because many new businesses will accept bitcoin and hope the halving effect will be seen at the end of this year.

The value in fiat comparing that time with the current time maybe is the same but the volume in bitcoin is different which makes the early adopters to earn pretty good because that they risked by investing in bitcoin, maybe after tens of years people will say remember the time when the price was $600, which is currently lol.

Wherever you invest your first bitcoin be sure that you don't invest 100% of it because the risk is very high investing on something that you haven't tried or heard before. Currenlty there are many coins that will be out after a while so they are on the ICO phase now but if you buy at the first stage you probably will have a profit after the ICO is finished but remember that this is risky.

I saw this auction and the rules are very strictly which means that the coins will be sold only to one buyer so these will be send to only one bitcoin addresses and the minimum deposit is 100k USD, I think the price will decreased a bit if the winner decide to sell a part of them.

Seems that it is not working now, I remember the last time when the same message was showed and it was down for at least one or two days! In the meantime you can check if their website is up here: http://isup.me/preev.com

From this list here https://www.coinbase.com/global?locale=en seems that coinbase accepts your country so you can link your bank account with coinbase and buy bitcoins, It has some fees so you may check them if you can afford that. For most of the other websites you should send your ID or password to pass the verification and then purchase bitcoin.

With Gyft everything has been easier because you can spend your bitcoin on popular websites through the gift card option, but check also this thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1543450.new#new where you can buy many things with bitcoin.

From your list I don't find the best option because coinbase does not allow you to control the private key and your funds 100%, but the paper wallets seems the old and more secure one. I would suggest a hardware wallet like Trezor which does it job perfectly, it cost a little but it worth if you are looking to store bitcoin secure for a long term.

I think that kids that are on school and are good at math its easy to introduce them in the cryptography(if they haven't heard/learned before at school). I think that we should introduce them bitcoin as the new and innovative currency and about the hashes and the encryption we should tell them through the math processes.

I haven't checked his recent tweets but based on that means that Kim Dotcom has only the idea now and is looking for people to finish working on his idea, but the fact that he has mentioned the bitcoin is making me thinking that something good will happen in the near future.

Coining sometimes has issue verifying the bitcoin signed messages so I would suggest you to take a look at this website: http://wallet-2sx53n.sakurity.com/#verify , it is the brainwallet and by going to the Bitcoin-QT tab you will be able easier to put the details and verify if it is valid or not, if you have any issue with this I can assist you.

How much does the VCC should have? I have my own virtual bitcoin debit card which has zero balance but I'm not sure it will be accepted on xbox live? I can assist you and we can try if they accept it, btw how much are you gonna pay for this?

I'm not sure when exactly the new megaupload file host by kim dotcom will be available but seems that his "event" will affect the price and I think that at the beginning of 2017 the price of bitcoin will be somewhere at $800. At the end of this year the price I think will be increased up to $700.

This act from Kim Dotcom can be a good marketing for bitcoin as many people will be interested in bitcoin and probably will buy some bitcoins and considering this as an investment, I wish the bitcoin price to be increased after the megaupload launch but it is not clear enough how will it operate!

I see that many member offered you to help but Have you made any deal with anyone here? or still looking? Since my paypal is in GBP does it work or maybe will not work to deposit in your paypal account, hope you will find here someone!

This auction seems interesting, single block and all funds will be transferred to a single address. "You will not have the opportunity to view other bids. You will not have the opportunity to change your bid once submitted." This makes the auction to be high competitive as the bidders don't know if they won or not until the auction is over.

Just one line? I'm afraid that people will leave you negative trust! Check the latest escrow thread from a full member user and users are not 'accepting' new escrows especially those that do not have positive trust https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1574265.0. Seems that you offered your escrow service before but as you saw its not needed to open another one now

It is still relevant and so will be as long as the bitcoin exists. While people ignore the suggestion made by others then this will happen always. About bitfinex hack people got a good lesson but still people will leave their coins on the exchanges.