You need some kind of connection to broadcast your transaction, so at the moment internet connection is required. However, there are works in progress to allow Bitcoin transactions to be broadcasted through Satellites.

Blockstream already has one in operation.

Yeah, altcoins price and Bitcoin price are correlated most of the time, unlike what most people think. However, I think at some point altcoins will not be able to follow Bitcoin's performance, because you need much more than speculative value to maintain a multi billion dollar market.

With high scalability, conditional payments, built-in chat and features for sending bytes via e-mail, Byteball remains one of the few solid projects. And the marketcap is ridiculously low...

If you refer to short term performance... yes. But in the long run, it's all about adoption, and there is no adotion if you don't have a good product.

The problem is that a computer have thousands of times the processing power of a cell phone, so attacking the network would not be much of a problem.

Most countries that I know don't consider Bitcoin to be illegal. What are these countries you are talking about? I guess there are some, but as far as I know Bitcoin is legal in most countries.

There are, of course, many authoritarian governments in the world, and these are the ones that would be the last to consider Bitcoin a legal currency.

I ran out before putting myself at the risk of big disappointments. This market is not only for those who have a lot of money, it's for those who stay monitoring it all day long, and yet be surprised by these rumors and strange decisions taken by different sides of the ecosystem.

Since I have to focus on other plans, there is no time left for this.

The worst thing that could happen would be if the vast majority of miners decided to mine some stupid fork, leaving the Bitcoin chain unprotected. But there are no economic incentives for this to happen

Without having Bytes you don't get those coins... but yeah, airdrops come with the risk of huge sell-offs

I would completely agree with you if there was no working product, but the potential for increasing demand is already there.

Thinking about Japan makes me think about robotics. They have very interesting technologies in this regard.

This might not be so good for libertarians, but there is a positive side, which is bringing investors from traditional markets, and this could help the price a lot.

Volume climbing again. It's possible that we have seen record levels of inactivity at sub 100k.

It would be sad if Poloniex becomes insolvent. It would make Bittrex one of the few good exchanges for altcoins.

These drops are temporarily painful, but it's better than seeing the price fall into oblivion after the last full moon.

If you want to diversify to something more stable, the way is traditional investments (gold, silver, stock market...), as someone already said. But you may not be able to get the same profits.

If you want to increase your profit potential, you can diversify a small percentage of your portfolio investing in coins with real innovation and potential to reach mass adoption, even better when these are things built from scratch. I think DAG coins, like Bytes and Blackbytes, will do great in the long term.

The market cap is not going to be too high before the end of the distribution.
Not only the remaining coins, but also witnesses are still controlled by Tony.

C'mon guys, you are smarter than that.

A rebrand would be a good thing, as long as it brings a better representation of the project. And please, improve your english @zxbball.

Recent tracking of Mt. Gox coins through a lot of exchanges shows that Bitcoin has more potential to reduce criminality than increase it. It is enough that investigators make due use of the ledger to investigate.