BTC is still an ALT, its still in TESTNET after 8 years, ppl are still feeling it out,
It's a pyramid with BTC at the top, and +2,000 other crypto's trying to crawl up, will BTC get knocked off the top to be replaced by a shit-coin?
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I know its just about making money, but that is only a concern of people that don't have any money,
Once you have money, once you are rich, then U become concerned with KEEPING YOUR MONEY
The lack of privacy is an issue but the reason that is not at the top of the list is because we have bigger issues, if we want that bitcoin is used by billions of people around the world we need to find a way for bitcoin to deal with that, and not only that, it needs to be relatively cheap if that fails everything else is going to fail since bitcoin will not be adopted if that is the case, after that the issues with anonymity can be addressed.
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The cost of transaction say $5, to send $10, BITCOIN will NEVER be a casual transaction currency.
Everywhere on EARTH the POOR use their mobile phones as money, they send phone-credit pay their bills,
The correct way to look at your problem is to integrate the phone-credit system at low fee to the end user in third world
BITCOIN is currency of the RICH, and the RICH don't want anybody to KNOW THEIR BALANCE.
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Perhaps what needs to be Done is more PRUNING, and focus on Satoshi's which are worth micro penny's then BITCOIN would be manageable by the poor, but SERIOUSLY why must every transaction ( purchasing condoms ) on earth be ran through one central block-chain? That sounds to me like an ORWELLIAN WetDream.[/size]
Hi bitfools, what is the best way for a country to make its population more poor? Just two things, ban their ability to keep Bitcoins as savings and inflate the fiat currency.
What poor people do you know are investing what little they have into a pieces of stocks? or pieces of gold? or pieces of coastal real estate?
None.
With a mobile phone, these poor people can invest what little they have into Bitcoin.
Bitcoin has freed, continuing to free, and tomorrow will still free many people globally from the centrally controlled debt-based fiat system that confiscates your wealth with inflation and tax. Bitcoin is a
TRUE savings vehicle.
Buying Real Estate, Hospital healthcare, Global traveling, College Education gets cheaper as you hold Bitcoin.Bitcoin is about 1% adopted by world by now and in a few years it'll be
easily 2% to 3% adopted. LOL, its apparent your figures for fees are outright misrepresentations. I've sent many small, large, and also very large transactions in the last 6 months (and this week) and there never was a transaction fee costing more than $1, and most of the fee was less than $0.30 cents. These are INTERNATIONAL and domestic transactions.
Bitcoin is ultimate store of value and its popularity has strengthened over time and maximizes value compared to any other altcoin...why?:
If it can be shutdown, and have assets frozen by a bank or government, there would be no value
If it wasn't secure, there would be no value.
If it wasn't immutable, there would be no value.
If it wasn't globally distributed, there would be no value.
If it wasn't so strong, open-source decentralized and unstoppable, there would be no value.
If it wasn't so scarce, there would be no value.
If it was easy to spam transactions, there would be no value
If it was stopped after all major banks on Earth banned in 2013 to today, there would be no value. (say "bitcoin" when transacting and watch the block of the transaction. simple fix=never mention "bitcoin").
If it didn't have the history of 8+ years (and still no hacker can exploit bitcoin blockchain), there would be no value
If it was exactly like fiat and only did transactions, there would be no value.
Bitcoin's value is worth over $110 billion USD today. Altcoins however are scams, weak, pyramid schemes not offering these values.
Bitcoin has all the characteristics needed combined to make the most value and increasing more than any other financial-asset option coming from the manipulated fiat central-banking debt-system.
Also, when you can, try to help others in learning, you have this talent for education, right?
Maybe you can see these links (I try to currently put in my signature):
Hacks & puppets & forks - how to destroy bitcoinHow to Explain Bitcoin to a 7-Year-OldAmazing to see global trade growth on localbitcoins as well (scroll down to see all the individual countries):
https://coin.dance/volume/localbitcoins :
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Be mindful of the Bad Actors - Avoid these:
DCG = DIGITAL CURRENCY GROUP (Barry Silbert, Jeff Garzik, coinbase, coindesk, blockchain.info, bitpay, bitcoin
.com, etc) supports FUD & have/will try to infiltrate & eventually shutdown bitcoin.
r/btc reddit thread and (the other) company-controlled bitcoin website (bitcoin.com) also spread FUD but then try to accuse others of spreading FUD, LOL? Why do they push hard on altcoins (bitcoin cash, ethereum, FUD?) Why do they push for forks?
Forks creating scamchains are a courtesy brought to you by DCG group of companies led by Barry Silbert with his fellow minion Jeff Garzik and friend Roger Ver. Central banks love to fund their seeders who in turn fund DCG operations so they can get inside the community to circumvent Bitcoin's progress and try to destroy bitcoin via forks, code, media (see coindesk) articles and social posts, funded startups, and flow of funds into exchanges (pumps & dumps).
Luckily their attempts have been marked by continuous and grand failures - altcoins...
"Bitcoin Classic" failure
"Bitcoin XT" failure
"Bitcoin Unlimited" failure
"Bitcoin Cash" failure
"Bitcoin Segwit2x" (BTC1) failure
ALTS = scams
The real Bitcoin, on the other-hand, has the highest value because of the totality of what it is - if it lacked the features of what it is, then there would be no value.