If the BTC-e story is true, what is the likely effect it will have on the price? Some are saying that users will get their funds back as it wasnt a hack and others are saying the funds are gone with the rest of the crew 66kbtc moved.

I am surprised there hasnt been a dump on the rumours alone yet.

Did everyone just miss this bit ?? -
The trial of MT's CEO recently kicked off in Tokyo. Gox Mark Karpelès , who accused the hackers of the 850,000 bitcoin, worth about $ 500 million, lost in 2014. According to documents that reached 306,853 bitcoins stolen after the attack on Mt. Gox entered the BTC-e purses. According to the same documents another part of the stolen from the attack on Mt. Gox arrived at a San Francisco exchange office.

So it looks like people are selling alts for btc to get the "free BCC" when the fork occurs. My guess is they will dump their new bcc asap and buy back their original Alts. Not a bad strategy except for the viabtc stage and the fact that i expect all Alts to rise pretty fast as these speculators come back.

WTF is BIP148 Coin, Jihan is tweeting about it, and i'ts a pair on Viabtc.
Is it what comes into existence if >50% miners stops supporting BIP91, or Segwit fails to lock-in on Bip91?

What percentage does 2x need in order to lock in? and when will we know if its likely or not. Also if it has 90% support or so, will core still forge on with their non 2x chain?.
I thought everything was great after the BCH split went smoothly and we were finished with this uncertainty but no such luck.

I wonder how many of these chinese officials hold bitcoin and for that matter SEC officials who make a killing shorting every time they decide to "regulate"

How will kids ever learn to be careful with their lunch money when a nanny state feels the need to protect them on every turn. And if you believe that is the reason for the ban, be extra careful with Your lunch money.

I've sold all my bitcoins, bitcoin is dead now. Sell everything while you can, I've warned you.

Completely WRONG! Bitcoin price is driven not by technicals but by fundamentals!
To trade bitcoin using TA during fundamental uptrend is totally unprofessional!

“We urge all our members to exercise self-regulation and strictly abide by laws by not participating in any centralized trading or provide services for this type of trading,” the National Internet Finance Association of China said in a notice on its website www.nifa.org.cn

BTCChina shutting down on Sep 30?

https://twitter.com/YourBTCC/status/908285586368167936

You could be very right about that. Only, I think they will just provoke the stampede by their actions... .

3500 maybe then down again if the bubble theory applies

but we'll see

Damn trading is hell i almost lose my mind these last 2 days that was painful

I really don't see how anyone can seriously take this guy to be Satoshi

Ding ding ding. It's happening right now.

I find the whole idea of people saying that it's "too late" to join Bitcoin a ridiculous notion. To me it's like saying it's "too late to get internet", "too late to join Facebook", or "too late to get a smart phone." "Damn, I missed out on that whole Internet revolution!"

A nonsensical phrase. At no point in time now or in the future will anyone be "missing out" on getting some Bitcoin.

If they mean that it's too late to make a ton of money with Bitcoin, then they need to re-evaluate their notion of what money is. Should I say, "Well it's too late to buy Gold because I can't get it for $0.10/oz. valuation like my ancestors were able to."  ?

I was always sceptical of TA when it comes to bitcoin but is that not a perfect head and shoulders in the bitstamp hourly? pls say no

https://imgur.com/3nK0IdZ

What bearish trend? Stop spreading panic.

I think he is referring to the confirmed bit

Its definitely him chaps. I don't quite understand the animosity TBH  

Charlie Lee [NO2X]‏
@SatoshiLite

My trade with Roger Ver is all set. Here are the terms we agreed to. Let the chips fall where they may! 🚀

[edit] not to mention that we're hitting a ceiling:


https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSDT/vH8p4FLI-Bitcoin-Market-Overview/

Looks like someone really believes amazon is going to throw the bomb in today...

New day, new ATH. Boring.

Bitstamp | Total bids: 118658286 USD. Total asks: 2360 BTC. Ratio: 50265.65999 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0184 seconds

I wonder how much an effect the lowering of hashing power will have. let's face it, most people who buy btc do so to hold it, and the hash rate has no effect on transfering fiat to the exchanges to buy btc. I don't think slower blocks matter at all, might actually slow down the selling it it slows people from transfering from cold storage to the exchange.


sure does

And that 's also why we should not cry victory yet. It ain 't over yet.

Bitstamp | Total bids: 103103343 USD. Total asks: 4826 BTC. Ratio: 21359.80747 USD/BTC. | Data vintage: 0.0981 seconds

Both Ver and Wu are pumping out tweets in what seems like, oh shit what have we done, this is backfiring

In a gold rush, the money's in selling shovels. Cash up front, please.

Sounds like creating a bitcoin bank with 100 reserve. Is that really new?

Tether website gone offline. $30 million "hack" last night. Not liking this

Thats only part of the potential problem. If they (bitfinex/tether) were issuing tether without any backing ($670 million remember) and using margin on top of that to pump btc, We are in a lot bigger trouble. Not only will everyone who holds tether have a worthless token but we have no idea what any coin is actually worth in the real market.
Its been 24hours since bitfinex said they would be releasing an official statement.

I might be getting paranoid here but it feels like de ja vu (goxed)

Oh my ! TIL !

They are funding the production run with the presale.

The Bitcoin bubble will burst. It's time for a 'Bitpound'

 
Bitcoin is enjoying unprecedented growth this year, but its value fluctuates widely Credit: Dan Kitwood/ Getty
As I write, Bitcoin is trading at a new high of £6,305. If you had bought one Bitcoin in September, you could by now have made £3,860.

The relentless rise of Bitcoin - a digital currency that can be used to store and save money privately, without the need for banks or names - has defied all expectations. Some have even wondered if the financial experts who have called it 'a fraud' were being deliberately disparaging to protect their own interests.

Bitcoin has given good return to investors, but make no mistake: this is not a bonafide currency, and those who buy it are taking a mighty roll of the dice.

Sweden has put serious thought into launching its own digital currency; China’s central bank is actually testing a prototype

For a start, its value fluctuates widely. The current rally comes on the back of a steep fall last week that saw prices fall to $5,500. So, in a single week, its value increased by 47 percent. If your savings were in Bitcoin, you would go to bed not knowing if you'll be able to afford a Bugatti or just a baguette the next day. The constant fluctuations also mean Bitcoin cannot be used to price goods. And it is worthless as a medium of exchange as hardly anyone accepts it and even when they do, it costs up to $12 per transaction and can take hours to clear.

So, hype aside, Bitcoins are lottery tickets. They have no underlying utility. When the music stops, those left holding them will be burned.

One potential remedy is for central banks to issue their own digital tokens, to show what a real e-currency should look like. A BitPound would have the same value as cash and be backed by the Bank of England, making it stable and universally accepted. Sweden has put serious thought into launching its own digital currency; China’s central bank is actually testing a prototype.

So what could it do for us? Our economies are moving from cash to digital transactions -  cards now account for more than half of all payments in the UK, and online payments for more than one in ten. An e-Pound could make these payment systems fairer - because private payment providers wouldn't be able to exploit their market dominance and charge extortionate fees - and better protected from cyber attacks.

With BitPound deposits, there would be no threat of savings vanishing if banks collapse because consumers would have a direct claim on the central bank itself

An e-Pound would also help the UK fight fraud. Transactions would be linked to accounts at the BoE and so there would be a clear trail of all transactions from the moment a new currency is created. Some have even suggested making e-currencies trackable. While this does raise privacy concerns, it would stop everything from minors buying alcohol to money laundering and tax evasion.

Finally, BitPound deposits would be a secure way to save. There would be no threat of savings vanishing if banks collapse because consumers would have a direct claim on the central bank itself.

The problem is that creating this direct link between consumers and the Bank of England could deprive banks of the deposits they use to create loans. Banks, then, would have to redesign their operating models by, say, offering higher savings rates or the BoE would have to recompense them with the proceeds paid back to the public purse.

There are risks and unanswered questions, but it's time to think seriously about a BitPound - to expose private cryptocurrencies for the wild gamble they are, and make an increasingly digital payment system safe and robust.

They are futures contracts which means eventually at some date on the contract, the exchange has to buy actual bitcoins and deliver them. In addition, the futures prices will move the bitcoin price by mere arbitrage.

imagine price would drop to 5k now. that was the moment in dec 2013 when the original "I hodl my btc" thread/meme was born. (when it dropped to the 400 region). well, actually price has to hit 12k first. 

uk media gotten hold of this now . front page of the financial times and other newspapers. switched radio on and they're talking about bitcoin .this is definitely gentleman

We've broken the $11k guys! This is crazy!

+114 mil tethers during the last 3 days , 20k until jan ?

To me, we are coiling up for another big move upwards. The pressure is building.
Bitstamp now has $140 million on the buy side with only 2100 BTC on the sell side.

Thanks proudhon - you can send the btc to the address in my sig.

I sold on cb at something like 3,400 and then all of a sudden it shot up to 3,800 so i bought back with some loss (1.49 down to 1.12btc) and now we're here

Koreans 

1   Bitfinex   BTC/USD   $1,421,240,000   $14,400.00   10.20%   Recently
2   Bithumb   BTC/KRW   $1,348,120,000   $18,038.00   9.67%   Recently
3   GDAX   BTC/USD   $852,123,000   $15,149.00   6.11%   Recently
4   bitFlyer   BTC/JPY   $535,722,000   $15,987.80   3.84%   Recently
5   Bittrex   EMC2/BTC   $372,419,000   $13,578.20   2.67%   Recently
6   Coinone   BTC/KRW   $322,176,000   $18,040.80   2.31%   Recently
7   Bitstamp   BTC/USD   $316,572,000   $14,715.00   2.27%   Recently
8   Gemini   BTC/USD   $279,743,000   $14,947.10   2.01%   Recently
9   HitBTC   BCH/BTC   $262,039,000   $14,573.80   1.88%   Recently
10   Binance   IOTA/BTC   $256,197,000   $14,479.80   1.84%   Recently
11   BTCC   BTC/USD   $224,580,000   $14,986.00   1.61%   Recently
12   Korbit   BTC/KRW   $219,428,000   $18,039.00   1.57%   Recently

Fontas the pumper 



Those were the days...

Holy Sh**

Didn't expect it to get this low ...

Breaking 24777$ prediction game


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The list Will be Made after This post So When a date is taking iT cannot been taken again
When the winning date is exactly in the middle of 2 each Will get .25
Oterwhise closest to the winning date wins

LIST MAKING ENDS 25-12-2012 @ 22.00 cet

I think we've pretty much hit the bottom. For those who bought at 18k, expecting to get rich quick, a drop to 9k is more than enough shock to shake those people off.

Transaction costs are also no longer an issue, and speed is up. FUD is down too, since South Korea just added some regulations. We just had over 50% correction. A larger correction makes no sense since the run-up was nowhere near as sudden as back in 2013.

Just scooped up some more BTCs near 10k. Have a bit left in reserve to buy if it drops to ~8k.

Exactly.

Yes, there isn't real signs of a consistent recovery.

I sniff either another dump or a bull trap on the track, before a recovery around 13k.

credit card has lower fees than btc, ask bitcoin conference

Good morning! Finally some people are waking up and getting out of the denial stage. So everyone is still saying this wasn't a bubble?

now THIS is the sort of capitulation talk I'm looking for

More pain coming? Is karhu not pleased?

Bitcoin is about to hit the highest daily volume since september 15th 2017 where it climbed from $3000 to $19666 over the next months. Tis a sign I proclaim

Im not scared (a bit maybe). we WILL bounce off the bottom of this channel and continue on our merry way.

The weekend is coming again, expecting to retest 7K

Steady. You will find in this august thread many fine gentlemen of the older persuasion. That said, you're right, it is hard for someone in their fifties or more to change their mental and personal financial model utterly to suit the demands of bitcoin.

I thought this was a really good comparison: Striking similarity between Ellen DeGeneres' 2018 "Bitcoin Explanation" and 1994 Today's Show "What is the Internet, Anyway?"

Perhaps 2018 is bitcoin's 1994.

Because it’s warm there and you don’t die in winter.

I'm proud for you, and I don't even know you in person.

I agree with the second part, not necessarily with the first.

there was no crypto before Satoshi
there was no www before early nineties
there were no PCs just 43 years ago

Check out Altered Carbon (read the book before watching the show) or even more original Schild's Ladder (both published in 2002). Would you be able in, say, 40-50 years, transfer your mental state to a different substrate? A fascinating topic.

Sure you will buddy. Look you just gotta realign your expectations a little bit.



Just ask Carlos Matos. There is no problem so big that it cant be solved by a positive attitude.


Soooooo did you guys see this? I was watching transactions live and the mother of all transactions scrolled by right before my eyes. In all my years of transaction watching I have never seen anything even in the same universe as this. It's was like going whale watching and seeing the occasional orca swim through I'm pretty impressed then cathulu casually strolls by. Thoughts? https://blockchain.info/tx/c875eb38c6bc141abd92a9014f985b72f5500f88e8722d29e1c8d274b738d744

It's 132 million dollars

I'd be surprised if one in ten of them is rich. Most probably sold too soon.

A legendary called arklan once had a shit load of Bitcoins, but lost them all before the price mooned. He sold ten to his brother for something like $100, and he had to sell some others for various reasons. He was here before this thread began.

Link ?

Epic BLOCKCHAINIAN RHAPSODY!

This guy is amazing.  Must listen all!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzXM2x6rQhs

I believe the price will never drop under $8000, never ever.

$10000 in April.

BLOOMBERG: Bitcoin Heads Toward $7,000 as Pain Returns on Gloomy Technicals
By Eddie van der Walt
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 16:56:59

-Drop below average price for last year could send it falling
-Price heading for $2,800 by the end of the year, Day says

Bitcoin’s in a world of pain, again.

The biggest cryptocurrency has renewed its flirtation with the $7,000 price level. The slide has helped to also send other digital assets into retreat, with Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin all lower on Wednesday.

Since failing to regain the psychologically important $10,000 level on May 4, it has closed lower in New York in 12 out of 17 sessions. The hype surrounding last year’s hottest asset class have faded in 2018, with fewer online searches and more pressure for regulators, with technical analysts saying the decline replicates the pattern seen following the collapse of the Mt. Gox exchange four years ago.

“The emotions are no different from the last time this happened, it’s just a different set of people going through it,” said Paul Day, a technical analyst and head of futures and options at Market Securities Dubai Ltd. “We could go down a long, long way.”
Bitcoin on Friday dropped below its average over the previous 252 days, roughly equal to the number of trading days in a year. This could mean that the next leg lower is already underway, with the price heading for $2,800 by the end of the year, Day said.

300 dollars will be erased by tomorrow morning, it's not indicative of anything, we've seen this shit so many times.

Shut up Hairy!  Don't jinx this with your prognostications.

I really don't get it. Why someone with 10K bitcoins would dump them with 10% loss at 7400 when they could sold at 20 000? Who are these people? Playing with futures or just morons enjoying losing and making everybody sad. May be the silk road admin or some other criminals. And what will they do with the cash? Bury it in his yard, then gets arrested and hangs himself like the alpha bay admin. I curse these peoples with all the evil to them and their families! In Jesus name, amen! We, the honest hodlers will prevail and rejoice for ever!

this is Serbia?

Mt Gox coins haven’t moved since May.  

If he had a single key from Satoshi's blocks he would sign "BCH SV FTW" message, and bury Jihan Wu.

Does anyone think he would not use such a weapon? The fact he did not do it is yet another proof he is 100% fake.

Ugg, all that money wasted to pump up Bcash ShitV.    Been scalping that crap since 70 dollars. LOL  Just went totally out at 140.   Now we know where all the money from BTC dumping went.  

This is not free market behaviour.
Theres a mad "professor" dumping his bags. More than any buyer can absorb.

Don't suppose the FCA can prosecute CSW for market manipulation, can they?

yay a 100 dollar bounce after a 700 dollar dump

 

Wow. 10160. This is completely unexpected.

WTG, BTC!

Good Call:  Bullish

A new report from crypto analytics site SFOX suggests bitcoin (BTC) could see a price hike on American Independence Day — July 4th.

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-could-see-fomo-fireworks-for-4th-of-july-new-report?utm_source=newsletter1&utm_medium=email

  ~$9450 is the bottom of the triangle.

Man loses $60M in Bitcoin when landlord cleaned the house and sent everything to the dump by mistake


He had both BTCitcoin and Drugs. All wasted now
Lesson learned: Own a f**king room atleast when you have shit load of money and keep your codes safely.

The epidemiological situation of the Ebola virus disease in the provinces of North Kivu and Ituri dated 24 Feb 2020:

Since the start of the epidemic, the cumulative number of cases has been 3444, of which 3310 have been confirmed and 134 are probable. In total, there were 2264 deaths (2130 confirmed and 134 probable) and 1167 winners (people healed, or survivors);
- 453 suspected cases are under investigation;
- No new confirmed cases;
- No new deaths among the confirmed cases, including no community deaths;
- No healed person has left the Ebola treatment centers;
- No health worker is among the new confirmed cases. The cumulative number of confirmed/probable cases among health workers is 167 (approximately 5% of all confirmed/probable cases), including 41 deaths.

Bubonic plague investigation
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On 22 Feb 2020, the Aungba Health Zone chief medical doctor was alerted that suspect bubonic plague cases were reported in the Ugunzu-Makangi village of the Aterlembe health area, Djugu territory, Ituri Province, DR Congo. Murine epizootics were also mentioned in the Makangi village. On 23 Feb 2020, the chief medical doctor of the Aungba health Zone  was appointed to visit the health center of Aterlembe for 2 days to investigate suspect bubonic plague cases. The head doctor Dr Delphonse Unen Ali reported on the same day (23 Feb 2020) on the outbreak. The nurse of the Aterlembe health center notified 2 suspected cases of bubonic plague. He reported that the index cases were 2 family members who presented with fever, headache, and painful buboes on 22 Feb 2020 at 2 health centers. After self-medicating for 6 days (16-22 Feb 2020), they consulted as ambulatory patients the Kpese health post and then the Yuku health center, both in the Aru health zone. A 2-year-old boy died on 21 Feb 2020 with symptoms consistent with that of bubonic plague (fever, painful buboes), the 2nd patient -- the 12 year old brother of the co-primary case -- tested positive for plague with the RDT [rapid diagnostic test] and is recovering. He presented with fever, painful buboes, and headaches. So far 16 contacts have been traced and treated with doxycycline, 27 households were dusted.