Is there a way to short XRP? 

that's ethereum not ethereRum 

What is the possibility for some bitcoin 2.0 technology to thrive if bitcoin fails?

I don't think bitcoin has reached the tipping point, rather say that crypto currencies has reached it.

Blockchain technology is here and it is not going away, ever. Bitcoin on the other hand probably will be replaced with 2.0 coin/share/asset.

and what the hell is ethererum lol 

China has large growth of middle income population layer. This means they have bigger salaries that enables them to buy more expensive products thus making demand for higher quality.

This demand forces product quality to rise to meet demand. Whole process is slowly rolling to higher quality of all products.

Strong middle layer makes country strong. China is growing rapidly with some bumps on the road but evenutaly there will be tipping point when it passes US.

Everything depends on the future actions of US though. Only time will tell, but I am almost certain that we should start learning Chinese

These are great news, congratulations!

I was waiting a long time for something like this. Also have few friends that are music producers that are also interested in distributed service for music publication and sharing.

Great work and keep it up 

There is one simple solution though, what if you mint physical coins each with QR code that represents bitcoin address

Private key of all addresses on coins may or may not be held by central organization ie. government thus having the ability to make coins worthless if bitcoin is sent to another address. Central organization can verify if their minted coins are being counterfeited.

This approach has some unique properties:
- coins that stand for 1mBTC can each have 1mBTC on their addresses. No one is silly enough to send for example 1BTC to 1mBTC coin address. That would make him directly send 1 BTC to central organization
- coins have physical form which means no Internet or electricity is needed
- can be traded like exchanging cash with no waiting time at all to for confirmation making it possible for everyday use
- central organization has the ability to retrieve coins in the circulation by simply spending amount from coin address
- anyone can check if coin has the amount of BTC that it is claiming it has
- maximum market cap of all coins in existence is defined by BTC market cap which controls deterioration of minted coins via inflation (no inflation that steals value from holders can be implemented, only minting more coins that are directly pegged to BTC value)
- central organization that mints the coins do not need to be centralized
- private key of minted coins can be destroyed which means that destroying coin you lock forever BTC value attached to it (making it more deflationary)

Bitstamp owners have become the most wealthy people in their country, that tells you all 

almost all of coins listed on coinmarketcap that are not in top 20 are shitcoins,
thumbs up for dogecoin, no spectacular innovation but great in marketing and donation strategies
mastercoin WTF 

others will die out eventually with large probability of pulling litecoin, dogecoin, peercoin 

Most of smartphones does not have NFC built in but have cameras that can scan QR code for BTC payment.

I think applepay will stay exclusive for rich and banked 1B, but for the rest there is BTC, they can't do anything about it 

absolutely nothing, it will die a slow and painful death 

maybe few more pumps when bitcoin goes up, a chance to get out 

1. Bitshares ecosystem
2. Bitcoin ecosystem
3. Ethereum ecosystem

Remove those shit coins like FTC and TRC and add some with real value: Next and BitsharesX

This is going in great direction. Every day there is more and more decentralized technologies that improves our lives and makes it easier.

Great work and keep it up! 

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Also interested, count me in too