If you have a vanishingly small budget and correspondingly high time preference, Bitcoin isn't really the best fit for your situation.
comments like this is why bitcoin has lost 6% market share in 2 months
NO bitcoin is NOT ready to take over central banking, get over it,
we are small potatoes, and we best realize that before litecoin ( or ETH ) steals all the TX vol.
Your
concern is duly noted. Please file your Bitcoin Obituary with the appropriate departmental clerk.
Fear. Uncertainty. Concern. Doubt. The four hoursemen of the blockocalypse!
Don't worry, it's just the Gavinista media campaign pushing the price down.
Have you noticed when Brian Armstrong speaks the price retreats? He's like Hearn 2.0.
already banks have turned away from bitcoin in favor of dev.ing there own private chains.
bitcoin isn't the only game in town, and bitcoin's network effect can't shield us forever.
the clock is ticking, and Vitalik Buterin is writing 1000's lines a minute trying to takeover, please do keep arguing about exactly when and how we will roll out the inevitable block size increase, do we even need a block size increase? let's go back the drawing board 1 more time to make sure we are not making a BIG mistake.
get a grip!
If someone makes a better mouse trap, then why should we give a fuck? We can just move over to using that better mousetrap, no?
In spite of all the FUCD spreading... bitcoin is still far and above the best regarding various network effects and also security.. so what it is not the fastest or the cheapest.. in the end, it's technically sound with a bunch of screamers misappropriately suggesting it's FUCD, in part in order to attempt to get their way in various regards.
One of the problems with identifying a better mouse trap is that we better begin to move over our assets before our bitcoin investment depreciates too much (or so long as we are not too far in the hole or leveraged regarding bitcoin), but that is the case with any investment, we gotta both diversify our investments and not invest more than we can handle into any one thing... otherwise we will get too EMOTIONAL about it, right?
Regarding ETH... at this time, I have no inclination to move any of my BTC investment over there.. .Surely, maybe others do, and good luck to them and their predictions about the short-term future of ETH as compared with BTC.