i just bought 100 dollars in bit coin stuff, now what?

[nanarchy]

SickleSigh said:

nanarchy said:

except of course 80% of hashing power is currently controlled in Chinese hands and hence at risk of manipulation should they choose to do so. The myth that Bitcoin is somehow immune to manipulation is riduculous, it is actually far easier and cheaper for them to manipulate bitcoin than it is a currency at the moment, The current fights over Bitcoin cash split highlight this issue.

I was under assumption the "split" was from the ledger not being able to cope with transactions, so a tweaking of the platform fixed it. The split is between those who want to remove the public ledger and later making it public and those who want to increase data per chain and leave it public. India also removed it's most used note out of circulation rendering it meaningless. Venzeuela had their currency devalued to a point where food is the new currency. Considering the alternatives at least this was public and resolved by more than technocrats.

resolved??? wtf? you call a split, that appears to be a failure so far a resolution. The split is mainly led by chinese miners and increasingly the control of the bitcoin chain is being pulled into china. the current situation is an absolute mess, you have what appears to be a failed split combined with the status quo still left with the core technical problems and limitations. And if you think that using the  strawman argument of comparing bitcoin against failed economies like venezula is smart then maybe you might want to go and look at all the cyptocoins that have failed as well. So yes it is public but so far NOTHING has been resolved at all.