Hey BitCoin enthusiasts, I am trying to figure out if it is possible or if people even want a better BTC. If so how would you go about doing this.

1. Looking for ideas including, making it fair for everyone in bitcoin possibly sending to a switch address and receiving the same amount of the new coin?
2. What type of algo you think is best.
3. How many coins?
4. other features the coin can do. (Ex. AI,science,ETC)

Thanks in advance for your ideas.

Is there any one event which made Bitcoin reach a wider audience? There was probably a time when only crypto enthusiasts were aware of it - what caused the non-enthusiasts to take interest?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-02/apple-pay-to-fuel-chatter-new-products-at-money-20-20.html

It's not that ApplePay is better than Bitcoin -- it's not. It's not that ApplePay directly competes -- it does not. It's that Apple has a tendency to absorb all of the oxygen of anything even within a dart's throw of it. Money 20/20 being centered on ApplePay rather than cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin is just one demonstration of how the show has moved on to the next fad.

The only reason the US, or rather the privately owned federal reserve can print money out of thin air is thanks to OPEC and the Saudi's (among others of course) unlimited credit card.

You need $ to buy oil. Nixon pulled the gold standard, horrible c**t - but he wasn't stupid. He pulled the gold standard and replaced it with the 'petro' standard.

Merica NEED's a war economy to survive - In concession for OPEC to trade all of their oil in $ - they got 'protection' Mafiso style. Hence muscle flexing in Vietnam far far longer than necessary. And keeping some of the most disgusting dictatorship regimes armed to the teeth.

Dollar's fly in from around the world, dollar's fly out across the world, make 2% on the way in 2% on the way out. Beautiful. Because the one thing more addictive than crack - is oil.

The late 70's, 80 boom year's - 'yuppie' traders this was amazing. The .com bubble burst, people got burnt - but as long as the main event was in full swing - the petro dollar - recession without recovery was inevitable.

Perhaps - maybe naive - double digit growth in emerging economies wasn't fully expected. Neither was the capacity for reverse engineering - from cell phones to fighter jets. A RUS/CHN collation, despite the untold trillions pumped into the US defence budget, begins to make Washington nervous - more muscle flexing. Iraq x 2, Lybia, however Syria is a different situation as are ISSS. Despite calls for the Qataries and Saudies to tackle the problem on their own door step - with state of the art US hardware. Nothing goes up in the air. Curious. It might be worth remembering that despite the cosy 70's/80's90's OPEC relationship - These guys still regard the West as the 'Great Satan' - maybe we are lol.

Because thanks to Tiny Rowland and his stripping of Africa's depleted uranium when one shell hits a depleted uranium armored vehicle and dissipates into uranium dust up to 100km2 becomes uninhabitable for a million odd years - but sure the Queen of England made a sweet £800m outta it...

The more relevant question is to what lengths the US will go to ensure that the USD continues to be the Reserve Currency
It's a push not a pull issue

Just for curiosity - what do you think?

Jim Rickards has made several successful predictions over the years. The most recent to come true is China joining the IMF to position the RMB as a reserve currency. I think he is more than 50% correct. He thinks Bitcoin will fail. I disagree with him on that. I'll BM the link and maybe watch it sometime.

Coinbase Unveils New Layout In Response to Circle Bitcoin Bank Launch
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/coinbase-unveils-new-layout-response-circle/

Are you a fan of coinbase? why or why not?

OK guys and gals, I've 80 bitcoins (did have 410, but sold most to buy a house last September. Bad timing or what!)
Anyhoo, I'm sick of work and figure if bitcoins get to $15,000 I can retire.
When do you reckon that will happen?

well this is very likely to happen if GABI start shorting bitcoins or just don't buy at all