and when it gets really bad:
the doors - this is the end

Just read some of Nick Szabo's writings in his blog.  One thing I can see is that he is brilliant in many different areas.  His paper on Bit Gold is truly fascinating. http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2005/12/bit-gold.html 

I think it would be in all of our best interest to just let "Satoshi" remain anonymous though.  If for whatever reason he values his anonymity more than the "bit gold" he created, we need to give him that at least out of respect.  Of course I am curious who this person is.  It is human nature to be that way, but I think the entire Dorian Nakamoto media frenzy should further cement the real Satoshi's desire to stay out of the limelight.  It just isn't worth a free sushi lunch.

Sally's flashing her 10k ask at BFX again.

Looks to me like she's only showing her stuff when the market is trending downwards and she always seems to pull out the moment someone touches her stuff.

So it appears she's accumulating. Sure makes you wonder what her position goal is, does she want ALL the bitcoins?

It seems boredum is ruling current sentiment, perhaps this might help, enjoy the show.

Joe Rogan Experience #490 - Andreas Antonopoulos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnhGlgCm4MU

they all go to da moon !

without space suit / oxygen - that´s gonna be a short ride ....

Ouch, that's painful to read.

Escrow with JorgeStolfi at 0.5% okay?

I wonder what the price per BTC would be today if the Chinese gov't never laid down the hammer with all the regulation

It's probably caused by the Chinese dumping to pay for their New Year celebrations. There was a dump before Christmas, probably a result of people dumping to pay for Christmas. Everyone needs money to buy presents, alcohol, and food. I had to dump some of my stack to pay for Christmas.

There is a setting in your profile to disable the signatures:
Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences -> Don't show users' signatures.

Britain doesn't have a constitution. We rely on fair play and the knowledge that no one will complain no matter what's done to us.

The Special Relationship with the US is deeply pathetic to witness from the British end. It's like a desperately insecure boyfriend over analysing his uninterested woman's every move.

.... but bitcoins aren't destroyed. You can recycle them.

This forum should have a maximum limit for nested quoting, this is annoying.

I just don't understand how people like this and like Snowden seem to feel so shocked when they realize that the government is not the wonderful thing they believe it is. They only have themselves to blame for not educating themselves on the world around them.

The ramblings of the guy sound like he's watched a bunch of conspiracy YouTube videos and put it all into a single suicide letter. Everything in the letter you could get from watching Alex Jones for a week.

If he truly cared about America he would stay alive and collect evidence and expose what people don't already know instead of just parroting what people have been talking about for years. Just like how Snowden revealed a bunch of stuff that people already knew. Those that didn't know already supported what the government was doing anyway, those that did know acted like it was a big deal but they knew it already so it wasn't really a big deal. Meanwhile the guy goes and throws his life away.

Name of the girl? .. I'm gonna "buy" her when BTCitcoin reaches moon!

Edit*

... Oh .. found her! ... the link in the .gif is actually her own advertising...  

Some day people will think Adam just forgot the zeros at the end of each voting option.  

We are rapidly approaching 1 BTC / Live Beef Cattle Price parity.

Food for thought.

Ok ok, let's not go down that road please!

any other UKers here holding their breath for ~$1230 when we finally hit £1000? that is gonna be when my head explodes.

very similar story here bro. so many people i know have been saying to me "mate i wish i'd got involved back then" they have been saying this since january 2013.

hats off to you! you did very well. i bought some litecoin in 2013 as well, i can't even remember what i did with them. what is the dollar value now?

Where do you guys buy/sell BTC, by the way? I get paid monthly in bitcoin and since Circle shut down BTC sells I have to resort to Coinfloor. It's not bad but still a hassle and you get spanked on withdrawals, of course.

Thanks. Looking for convenience and low fees really. Used to use Stamp but the bank fees and appalling FX rate was killing me. I've bought from bitbargain, three years ago as I was learning about BTC, but selling would be a hassle. Will look into Kraken but anywhere abroad will probably use SEPA, which incurs vast penalties. I've got a friend who uses LocalBitcoins, but I don't like the idea of waiting around and doing it all manually.
Basically the banking sector here sucks with regard to bitcoin.

Bittylicious is excellent for buying. Same deal with selling as bitbargain, though - approval process and of course you have to wait around and make manual transfers.
Will probably stick with Coinfloor for now. They're not terrible, I was just spoiled by the convenience of Circle, sending coins and having them turn up as GBP, with no further action necessary on my part, practically zero slippage and no withdrawal fees. It was too good to be true. Banksters. The day of reckoning is nigh.

I used both of those - Circle was OK. Not used Coinfloor for a while (and when I did it wasn't for long) - little liquidity.

Not sold for a while - tend to buy on Localbitcoin.

Have you tried Uphold - it used to be called Bitreserve ? As you are being paid in BTC it lets you hold your value (BTC) in various other assets ie. gold, platinum, $ etc.
Transfers out in GBP are no worse in fees than anywhere else IIRC

isn't the ceo of uphold borderline anti bitcoin? i seem to remember him saying it would be nowhere in a few years, kinda like the circle ceo funnily enough.

and they're balls deep in some weird crypto named voxels that i've never heard of.

Thank god. The damn is breaking. Armstrong recommends adoption of segwit asap.

https://twitter.com/brian_armstrong/status/817258720253988865

Hey guys,

I just registred right now, before i was some kind of observer of the observer thread 
After the actual crash i tried to keep cool. I'm not some kind of big investor. I "only" hold a few k in BTC actually.

Anyway, after the coaster ride between 920 and 970 I thought it will go straight up soon. But we dropped under 900.
Because I was wrong and never expected the under 900 drop I have had no fiat ready to buy some coins.

I really regret not having fiat ready to buy some more coins at this time. In my opinion we will be on our steep rising again in only a few days. The green candles are becoming more and more. Meanwhile I keep hodl my coins.

From my view a lot of people are to emotionally, I mean you may have "earned" 10k in BTC in the last weeks. And what is the situation now? You will still have a profit of about 5k. So keep being rational. 

Well reasoned, my friend.

It is through taking away the responsibility for information processing from the individual and giving it to the authorities, that we make the individual eventually incapable of such feats. As such they become a helpless tool in the hands of the authorities. Which is is exactly what right and left-wing authoritarians desire. Because the unwashed masses are too stupid to think for themselves, so they, the enlightened despots have to do it for them!

(not realizing that it is precisely their behavior towards the masses which provides incentive for them to remain too stupid to think for themselves)

They do see it. That laugh is a nervous one, that covers up a little bit of anger, and feelings of 'missing out'.

My Chinese friend sent me this link:  

http://finance.sina.com.cn/china/gncj/2017-02-08/doc-ifyameqr7339635.shtml?qq-pf-to=pcqq.group

You can use google translate, it means:"PBOC(The People's Bank Of China) has a meeting about anti money laundrying with Chinese major bitcoin exchanges(I translate it)"

since we are the last days on the 1000€ base what do you think regarding if it's a good time to buy or sell? any ideas where do we go from here???

This latest spike down due to PBOC FUD has some very interesting parallels with the SilkRoad take down Sept. 2013 spike before the Oct. 2013 mark-up event. Firstly it is happening at a very similar point in timing of the adoption wave fractal around/near testing previous ATH. The first waves $2-32 and $12-266 were arguably due to demand created by SR and associated activities/hype/speculation then when SR got taken down and bitcoin powered on the new meme was China ... then that topped with the PBOC bans, Mt. Gox, etc. This final spike low is the handing off the China meme and proves bitcoin doesn't need China any longer because it now has a new scale of demand coming onstream .... the ETF or institutional demand speculation meme is taking over the reins from China at the same point in the cycle in the same way as China took the reins off Silk Road. One final spike down and then everyone realise Silk Road/China is no longer the driving demand force anyway .... and away it goes.

He got kicked out of his synagogue for inappropriate behaviour. He hasn't taken it well.

do we get to pass 1000GBP today?

Here's another choice one from Bloomberg.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-03/bitcoin-is-now-worth-more-than-gold

Notice the main title:
"Bitcoin Soars to a Record High"

Sounds really positive for a change, right?

Then looks what slaps in the face you next.  The subtitle:
"How long can this rally last? After a peak in 2013, bitcoin fell 53 percent."

They make sure to pepper the negatives right away, and throughout the articles. They want to make sure Average Joe is scared shitless to stay away.

People don't realize that Bitcoin is not just the Next Big Thing. (Aka a fad that will sooner or later die off)

It is the Forever Big Thing.  That will keep on getting bigger.

What makes you think that? Im not sure what to do. I don't want to sell, only to wake up at the ETF having passed and feeling suicidal as the price goes into deep into the unknown space, and meanwhile all im holding is useless fiat trash.

I can't know what to do, because there is no way to know what will happen.

Odds are useless, anyone that saw Brexit happen and Trump becoming the president of the United States should know this already.

What kind of an idiot sells any kind of substantial amount of coins right now when the price could be literally anything ridiculously high in years to come.

So 100 bitcoins it is. How many dollars must one currently hold, as a citizen of a first world country, to be considered rich?

says the compulsive gambling addict who just quit his filthy habit for the 15th time this week

Speaking of those who hodled through the grim years of 2014/2015, I just want to say I'm in awe of you guys, your patience, your endurance and your vision.  I hope you're all rich now, you bloody deserve to be!!

Cars? I prefer the kind you don't have to drive. Driving impairs drinking.

Uhhh, I don't know if that $2 bond is more valuable or not.... but it doesn't remotely have the coolness factor of my 10 trillion dollars bank note

Reaching the top 11 searches in the last 24 hours....

it's going so fast. Ho many % in one month ?

just use a prepaid bitcoin debid card, if the limit fits the value of your card

or withdraw for a bank account and use the bank's credit card

Japan's internet proxies run out of Norway and South Africa

If it's more than £11K watch out for CGT, who knows what data from kyc/aml is passed to HMRC behind the scenes. Probably better to hold 20% for a year in reserve just in case.

This is scary:

Antminer s9
13.th/s
1300w

time to generate 1 BTC with 13.5th/s 175 days
daily power cost at 0.06 cent rate, 1.87 US/day
175 day x 1.87USD =

only 327.25USD power cost to generate one BTC!!!!

Cost of 327USD would be fine at rates like 700-1000USD but hashrate is atleast 3 times too small to support current 2200USD price.

Hashrate has no time to correct this, price will.

Does anyone else think that $2500 is likely for today?


The Chinese are back:

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I still wonder why the premium on the OTC market is this much higher than the current market rate. Right now it is enjoying a 100% premium: https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/GBTC/quote

how? i dont see anything wrong

I easily won my bet of btc passing 2k by the beginning of March. Now I'm setting up another side bet with the same person on the over under of btc hitting 3k by the end of this month. I have to choose this time because he took the under on the last bet. I'm torn because I'm thinking the under but I would prefer to lose the bet and haveit surpass 3k by end of June

If you're here to make money with BTC, don't miss the Byteball airdrop tomorrow.
You can get 0.065GB per BTC you own, that's already 52 USD value and there will be others airdrops.
You just need to sign a message with your BTC wallet.
See: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1608859.0

The most realistic near future scenario I've seen was in an anime called Gundam Zero, where 300 years into the future, the planet is powered by solar energy harvested from panels in low earth orbit, connected to three orbital elevators. Poor countries had to buy power by setting up microwave antennas. The robots (or mobile suits) were just for fun I guess, hehehe.

That's kinda still ... 300 years from now. I imagine just a few decades to maybe a couple hundred years, someone will just make giant floating solar panel arrays in the equator (in international waters)

hmm!
maybe you need to check some charts. the 20-30% dips are not new at all.
here are some examples:
-16% dip 2017-6-12
-19% dip 2017-5-25
-13% dip 2017-5-11
-27% dip 2017-3-10
-22% dip 2017-1-5
...
-9% dip yesterday!

and these are just 1 day dips . bitcoin has always been volatile like this, with stable times in between.

haha, you should have seen c-cex then. i sold bitcoin there @$2900 and am kicking myself why i didn't place the sell orders at $3100 because someone with fat fingers apparently did a cleanup buy all the way up there
i placed the sell order as a joke because i had nothing else to do and no altcoin to buy!

i wanted to test it, but they want to link with facebook. [wtf is facebook,i never use it] so no free bitcoins for me again. Will need to make some by trading

Ok thanks guys. I may be making a big mistake but I think as I am too worried about moving them about (which I have actually done in the past) I will not bother. I will keep the paper wallets safe and secure and just stay how I am. Some may say I am crazy but some wallets hold more than others and if anything should happen I would be more than upset/ pissed off. I'd probably go on some sort of rampage.

Maybe I'll just keep doing what I am doing and miss the boat this time.

Thanks for the advice but I am not as technical as most here. (More than the average person but not more than some regulars here)

Seems like a lot of work for some byte balls. What can that possibly be worth? And what's this about loading private keys? Sounds like an OPSEC disaster waiting to happen if you ask me.

AFAIK every two weeks the difficulty is recalculated, so the worst scenario would be 2 weeks with no blocks mined. After that the difficulty would be affordable for GPUS.

September 17 (2017)

John McAfee is taking bets:


https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887012614131372032

Send legal contract bet to:
John McAfee
98 Scott Street. Lexington, TN. 38351


I would definitely take a $500k bet knowing that in 3 years I can sell one of my bitcoins for $500k to pay off the bet happily. Or he gives me $500k. Win win.

I would prefer a POW change that will make useless the asics and return the mining to the gpu's and cpu's.

The share of people running node is likely higher in this thread than forum average. (would be interesting to know % share) I run it only some 4-6 hours a day though, more on weekends.
I was wondering if it would be possible to run it on virtual PC, I'll have to try that

You'd better get used to it. There is no other way of having $500000 per bitcoin by 2020.

xbt.eu

500 Internal Server Error

 

I have been telling people about bitcoin since 2013. A few friends listened and hey have made a lot of money. Most people back then had little or no interest with the exception of a small percentage.

Yesterday one of my staff told me he had bought some XRP. He said he relt the 20 euro charge for buying his bitcoin was too high. Not sure where he was looking. He only bought around 200 euros of XRP so a 10% fee does seem a lot. I told him he needs to buy more. Lol

A bus driver that comes in my work also told me yesterday he bought £250 of Bitcoin a few weeks back. He said he is still about £15 down so he must have bought at the top. I told him not to stress and all will be good in he end.

Slowly slowly it is happening. People are interested when they know I use Bitcoin. They want to hear what you have to say.

Gentlemen

It's the only way you will secure getting your new Bitcoin ABC coins.

yeah it's happening lots of info/links from here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2040221.0

Super thin volumes because everyone has pulled coins out of exchanges is going to make for some insane swings ... throw an insanely, reckless hard fork in there by the largest miner and it's a recipe for a disaster (for someone). It probably wont ruin bitcoin but it will set it back by a few years.

Jihan Wu is going to go into bitcoin hall of infamy right up there along with Karpeles ... which I suppose is fitting, Karpeles wasn't the first but Gox represented the worst of the excesses of the centralised bitcoin exchange scams of the early days and fuckwit Wu wasn't the first but he represents the worst of the excesses of centralised mining scams.

Anyone hoping for some stability and sanity returning to btc might not be too happy at least until after October or so ...

0 transaction in mempool.

Yeah it's crazy is't it?!?! Only 1500 odd BTC on offer, lowest I've seen from memory

I should have moved more BTC to kraken to dump right away.... Most of my BTC is on my ledger and I don't plan to touch before I see people posting "sucess" stories. Anyway it will probably be late by the time those BCC arrive at the exchange... maybe after the first or second dead cat bounce.

Ah...I take your point......then again I expected it to be $12 today..which is why I'm still a 'wage slave' ..

We have, gentlemen.

2017-08-08 18:55:40 UpdateTip: new best=0000000000000000008f2e3c9fbd378b02bc2c9ff088ba458a6e6a27fa9493ed height=479707 version=0x20000002 log2_work=86.90439 tx=244912678 date='2017-08-08 18:55:21' progress=1.000000 cache=176.7MiB(85216tx) warning='10 of last 100 blocks have unexpected version'

Not exactly - 100 blocks to official lock-in, then 2016 blocks before actual activation.

I knew a guy who was murdered with a pool cue there.

Anyway, if I missed out on anyone if you all take a look outside now you'll see a brand new Cadillac waiting for each and every one of you.

175BTC WALL at $3300 on Bitstamp.

In 2013 I told my friends that if it hit $2k I would charter a private jet to fly us all to Vegas.

Now I wouldn't think of wasting my money like that when I can retire instead

i made all kinds of promises to people that I would invite them to the Caribbean once btc hits € 3000 and stuff like that. it was so unrealistically high. guess I need to tell those folks I had it all on btc-e... 

Yea that sounds Nice to a porsche 911 4s cabrio is a Nice car, i Did drive iT When i
Worked for my uncle he is a rich fucker And After the Porsche he had Mercedes s63 AMG coupé And
Also Did drive that car to going 300 k/m per hour Damn Fast car

I have to admit, I love the current 50 sat/byte transactions confirming in the next block. Best time to reorg wallets with many tx's.

I need to get on this whole ledger nano thing and split my coins ready for more splitting.

I have no idea what I am doing and it's not pocket money anymore.

I've had some very desirable cars over the years. It's really not worth the ball ache. If you're not getting resentment out on the roads, then the fucking thing is falling apart on you.

They're like most relationships. Five minutes of fun followed by years of drawn out hell.

Priceless

You can always get this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Square_(painting) for just 60mln

Diversifying a little bit into some other deflationary hard assets might not be a bad thing along the way. But what most people don't understand is that holding out for longer can reap enormous upside for bitcoin, so diversifying too soon can feel like a big mistake.

For example, why convert 20 bitcoins for a $86K piece of property now, when you might be able to do that for as little as 2 bitcoins just 5 years from now? Five years from now that property is not going to cost much more, if any more. Of course no one knows the future of the market, but the upside potential with bitcoin is unbelievable. Holding out on diversifying reaps crazy rewards.

Ain't even mad it's taking me awhile to get my shit together for Tier 3 (and then Tier 4) validation @ Kraken...

With my combined BTC and BCH, at the current fiat values, I feel it would be financially irresponsible NOT to dump BCH at the current overvalued price, and continue hodling BTC.

Coming up on $1k now. Staying up on this ride a bit longer and see what happens.

Pump Roger Pump !!!

What do you recommend I use, that is friendly with the USA banking system, for dumping BCH then ?

Yeah, wanna dump BCH to straight fiat. Set 40% aside for taxes, pay off a mortgage, buy a new SUV, and an investment property with the other 60% fiat.

At least 60 000.

That would require another hard fork. Then we'd end up with four Bitcoins to play with.

Jimbo, really interested to know which company is running this and if it is a 2-way (buy btc or sell and get fiat)?

We had a proposition back in the day that you could run a network of these BTM things without ever having to manually load/extract fiat. This would greatly reduce labour costs, what was needed was an algo that could use dynamic pricing/fees that would incentivise people to buy in some areas of the network and sell in other parts so it was overall balanced fiat-wise ... if a guy was savvy enough he could use a fast motorbike or scooter and run around pulling fiat out in some BTM locations and stuffing it back in others and make a bit of cash/btc out of it. Essentially guys like this would be incentivised to do the labour of people going around loading/unloading fiat from the BTMs ... of course the btc can be shifted around by the network algo.

if we don't break through 5k later this week, i'll eat my hat

Literally got this few minutes ago in my email from Ledger:

https://blog.ledger.co/ledger-releases-segregated-witness-support-f1712f69e99c

This seems to happens a lot now. What do they want with our wacky user names. Tres bizarre  

Guys, stupid question alert here...


I want to claim my BCH and i am downloading electron cash. I click it to open it and it says "this file is encrypted, Enter your password or choose another file"

Why does it say this if I haven't downloaded it before?

I'm sure it's something simple but I'm a bit dumb.

Meanwhile back on the High-street

Burger King launches WhopperCoin crypto-cash in Russia


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-41082388

....... here it comes.

2018 -2019 is Gentleman.

(Mainstream is coming to us... user need take no action... godmode enabled)

(ps I know its silly-and gimmicky- but its attention of the MS variety.. makes me think someone somewhere in BK is a BTC fan - step right up millennials step right up.  I bet we see a lot more gimmick crapcoins like this-which will lead some to burger tokens and some to the mumma BTC.. How long before every MacD and BK and other highstreet companies have millions of newbies asking "whats all  this crypto currency all about then?")

I do not want to not be able to walk down a high street and not see the white and orange B logo on every shop, restaurant , bar, bank, taxi, bus... website...

Ubiquity

The current cost of a Whopper in Russia suggests customers will be able to get a free sandwich for every five or six they buy with REAL MONEY.

Nice give him a hint or avatar PIC

Ahah welcome back then.

Was it difficult now that there is a new process out?

Anyway send him a pm with a pic and he'll work wonders I'm sure

how did you get your account back? sorry for the OT, but i miss my stolen accnt, just for wearing a hat

Who has a lighting node pi image? I'll burn and run one tonight.

Awesome, any idea if it's pi 3 and 3+ or 2 as well?

Hindsight is all very well but there’s nothing we can do about selling nothing during the last bull run now. All you can do is try not to repeat those actions during the next epic bull run.

My mistake was that I got greedy, very greedy. Life changing figures were in my hands but I didn’t sell & they slipped through my fingers. I didn’t sell though so luckily I will get that opportunity again.

I think with the speed & ferocity that the market flew from $10,000 to near $20,000 some of us (me included) thought it was going to keep going up & up to who fucking knows what.

I admit I got greedy, very greedy.

I won’t make the same school boy errors during the next cycle though.

...and I'm all outta salt

 So... I exercised some poetic license but as always this hat comes with a lifetime¹ guarantee.



Avatar-sized



¹ lifetime of a Mayfly or a crypto-currency exchange - whichever expires first.

Who stole my Avatar?

I have yet to see a convincing argument that the current system is broken.  It’s all pie in the sky stuff.  

Lighting will keep the chain size down.  Just give it a chance.

@infofront and also ..... my GF has an amazing job @ a crypto company “my friend’s fund “
I’m the Guy living on his girls back

Sometimes I feel doubtful about my crypto decisions and posts like this helps me to keep moving on.

Compared to these guys I am just a small sardine.  

It is funny and shameful they are still hodling strong while sitting on millions, I doubt myself with my tiny stash.

^
I do not know the average age of WO. I am over 50 years old and my dental health is perfect, thanks.
I'm very recent in WO, where is the age rank? 25/60

Thank you all for commenting on the age, I wanted to know if at the party of the 100k I would be only in the luxury geriatric.

re: The bottom is in bet.
HairyMaclairy bets that it is.
Last of the V8s bets that it is not.
One litecoin.
I'd rather only bet against Hairy, but thanks for the offers @kurious, @arriemoller.
I'd want no upper limit as was suggested, as I think it could fluctuate higher than that and still come down lower.
Bitstamp low of 3122.
If Bitstamp becomes unavailable, how about preev, bitcoinaverage? some other named exchange?
I'd want a year just to keep it simple, though I do think it could happen later than that (3.7% likelihood for JJG).
Would be happy to send my litecoin to escrow if needed.
Payment in btc equivalent is acceptable. No one actually wants the shitcoin itself.
If that's agreeable...

here it is





https://www.coindesk.com/hands-on-preview-of-samsungs-galaxy-s10-phone-reveals-new-crypto-details

Is this where we shamelessly whore ourselves out to bones for merits?

Happy birthday you antique fuck 

Venezuela is one of the cheapest places in the world (on record) to mine bitcoin because of the really cheap electricity prices. Anybody feel like going to live there for 12-18 months & setting uo a mining farm with me?

I haven’t been online much the last few days. Been driving myself crazy after finding some kind of a lump/bump in the far corner of my left eyeball, my eye is red as fuck & sore. Any way I’ve just been to the optician’s (eye doctor) & I’m fine. I have an infection/inflamed bulbar conjunctiva which is basically nothing to worry about.
I’ve got some drops & antibiotics which will sort it out.

Sorry for the off topic but after my girlfriend & family this was the next place I thought I’d break the news to.

Advice - Don’t fucking google stuff & try to look for a diagnosis yourself. You’ll likely see some terrible stuff & fear the worst if you do that.

Any way, what are the chances of a massive bitcoin pump this weekend to make me even happier

My phone is looking tired, I'm not looking forward to working out how to change the 2fa to a new phone. Internet instructions are vague.

https://bitcoinist.com/gemini-backed-bitcoin-interest-account/

6.2% annual interest for a Bitcoin account sounds appealing. The idea is good and may attract many investors. But what if BlockFi turns out to be the new Bitconnect? Who cares that it is backed by Gemini?Any thoughts on this?

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8575776/billionaire-diamond-trader-ehud-arye-laniado-65-dies-during-penis-enlargement-surgery-that-triggered-heart-attack-at-paris-clinic/
fuck-you money can't buy everything

They're discussing it on /biz/
They all have different opinions about it :
http://boards.4channel.org/biz/




This might be the safest play :

Or this one of course !

I was thinking specifically of Kraft Singles, Velveeta, etc.
_____

I keep trying to explain to people here that the Cheez Whiz sold in Canada is different from what is sold in the USA.

A few years back they stopped putting real cheese in Cheez Whiz in both places but The Canadian government wouldn't let them use the name despite spelling it "Cheez". They felt it was misleading to consumers. Kraft relented and started putting real cheese back in for the Canadian market.

 

via Imgflip Meme Generator


For the real hardcore Wall experts

Morning WO's.

#Trollbox


Gotcha. Just shit and run. Do you even have an amygdala?


What an epic fail statement.


May God bless you with a single working brain cell.
There must be a reason SHE hasn't.

I doubt old people will ever understand Bitcoin.

Do you understand Bitcoin?

Yes.

Do you play games or do any other stuff that ageists wouldn't expect?

55 is not old enough. I mean, if you die now, plenty of people are going to say you died young.

An early good morning Bitcoinland. Got my tasks in Mexico almost done and flew back to Toronto for a month or so.

The price of Bitcoin seems to have followed me north (again??)... currently $4032USD/$5410CAD (Bitcoinaverage).

C'mon Bitcoin. Let's get this $4k thing done and move on. It's getting boring.

cheers WO's and have a good day in silence

I'm out too but here's an unlikely source for knowledgeable guys https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5124376.0

FYI. I need a bit of a down bart to close out the forecast competition.

60 or so $ so that's all really. Its all very close, Sunday down a bit would be cool.

My cholesterol levels shot up a full 15 points just viewing this image.

Absolutely fantastic !

I had some random point in the ocean not far from Puerto Rico.  Didn't quite get it.

I'm hoping for some news from Elwar. They're going to fucking steal his home, but at least I'd like to know he's free and safe.

The guy doesn't know where briefs go, so what ? He's still a king !

I’m saying tight as in tight around DoubleHunter’s penis as he enters it, V8. Sexual intercourse with a baby camel could possibly be an act of pleasure in some parts of the world.



Like I said though, it’s not for me

Edit - DoubleHunter - I’m kidding of course. What does it taste like please?

For the Welsh maybe
I went to Ibiza with the lads when I was younger & there was a group of Welsh guys there. Their joke motto was ‘We shag them, you eat them - Sloppy fucking seconds’

https://www.reddit.com/r/TREZOR/comments/begdhm/my_trezor_is_not_recognized_by_any_computer/
bit out of date. re Elwar. poor guy, no end of hurdles.

^^
Damn LFC you made me just look back to my first POST in here, that looks ugly

Just checked mine.

I am seriously, seriously impressed with myself.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=349698.msg3745619#msg3745619

I was just looking at the stats too, making me pretty sad seeing all the old user names, we were a thing.

I know it is really about the science, but guys had tens of thousands of dollars tied up in those big AMD 4Ps and Stanford fucked them just as other opportunities to do science were coming on the scene.  Then 7im started deleting people's posts and threads on the F@H forum.  Some pretty serious personal farms found new places to contribute and we just never coalesced around a single project the way we had around F@H.

I should dig out the T shirt and cry a little.

Those AMD 5x86 chips could be OC'd massively on 486 boards (socket 3 IIRC) like you said set jumpers and watch a 120mhx become 160 with no issues on a stock cooler! AFA crystals, yup easy as well, pop out a 33mhz and throw in a 40 crystal on most 386 chips and you were out to the races again on stock sinks and then upgrading to a Cyrix 486 with a L2 cache bump was a great upgrade on the same 386 Mobo! I remeber using evergreen socket adapters to run 386sx chips on 286 mobo's and I think the last 8088 4.77mh upgrade was a 8mh (Damn I can't remember the name anymore).

Pencilling an Athlon, never heard of it. We pencilled our miners. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=517767.0

Unless it’s the early address of an exchange or institution or something. You’d be a total tard to spend that much money on something & not look after it.

In 2017 the founder of Morgan Creek Capital Investment nailed it: "Only gamble was whether #Bitcoin would make if from $0 to $100, that was the real miracle. Going from $4,000 to $40,000 or $400,000 is easy".

https://twitter.com/RedditBTC/status/1125026735727226881

One for you, RL-loser r0ach ....

-Why don't you ignore me, would be much more easy for you.

A consensuses for such a rollback would be madness. Every stupid fuck could demand a rollback for a lost wallet if they would allow it in this case.

I think I might get a solid silver toilet when we hit $50,000 per bitcoin. It’ll feel nice sitting on it shitting, thinking of r0ach.

Is it a scene from the future "Housewives of Beverly Hills" episode?

There are currently only 2.8-3.5 mil btc owners with more than 1 BTC.
I doubt that there will be many more.
Compare it to more than 40mil millionaires in the World and about 5 million millionaires with wealth above 5mil (3.2885 mil with wealth of $5-10mil).
So, basically, having ONE btc is the equivalent (in rarity) of having $5-10mil in fiat wealth.

https://medium.com/@BambouClub/are-you-in-the-bitcoin-1-a-new-model-of-the-distribution-of-bitcoin-wealth-6adb0d4a6a95
+ google global wealth report, there is a pdf link there.

jiggle your Jaguar?

Titanium training remains as a firm morning ritual.

Does little to salve the pain of existential angst, however.

It's kinda fucked up in a way. Retire. Read more philosophy. See how partner is suffering. See how self needs are not being met. Try to reconcile all that selfish shit in my mind about what is more important: Our overall life together benefits vs my personal relationship needs not being met.

Therapy: It does nothing. No need to adjust meds, in my own mind, and therapist agrees.

Bah.

Life is meaningless.

EDIT: And NO. There is no need to worry about me. Not suicidal at all, if anyone was concerned about my state of mind. I have way too much to live for, and still so much I want to accomplish with what time I have left in this plane of existence.

EDIT2: And yeah, glad I have that fuckwit JJG on ignore. A pathetic example of an utterly impotent peacock.

If all someone requires is a lover who is moist, pliant and easily replaced they may as well get a St Bernard. At least it'll genuinely like you.

machasm : Happy anniversary Sir. Lucky day for you, lucky day for all of us.

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https://twitter.com/alistairmilne/status/1140157464320663552

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Edit

Credit goes to : hodl_2015

JPY numbers are not correct. 1 digit missing in "¥100750"

Sorry you had that experience! However the 32's are getting long in the tooth now and were always underbraked apart from the VSPEC2's that came with the Brembo brakes standard. But yes, the RB26 is a beautiful engine, second only to the 2JZ in my book. Hopefully if BTC keeps doing well I'll end up owning a 32 and 34 as well. Don't have as much love for the 35... I appreciate it but it's way more reliant on electronics than I like; but bloody fast!

I wonder where the fuck is Tyler, Tone and Leah right now. These retards caused lots of harm among their followers.

Do you guys remember the post I made back in the day where they were discussing if the bottom is in?

Naysayers were: Tyler and Tone ($1k incoming group)
Haysayers were: Puell, WillyWoo, Tuur (*I may forgot a name or two or three)

I guess it is better to know who our real friends are now and who are lying trolls. What if those naysayers were buying while telling the others to wait so they could buy more? That would double their scam.

^^ https://archive.is/YIu9J
archive of izzy's post https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2019/06/18/1560848464000/Alphaville-s-Libra-cheat-sheet/

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/uk-world/917090/everything-you-need-to-know-about-facebooks-cryptocurrency/
Dundee Courier spreads the news

it's all over my news feed thinger - never seen one story dominate like this


this is good news for Bitcoin.

Backed by garbage metals maybe?

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To add fuel to this fire, even their Github description is dishonest:



https://github.com/libra/libra

apologies again for blurting it out here, shouldn't have. but thanks to those who pm or posted. it really helped, and some good advices.
not gonna 'update' here, sorry, too mundane, after saying: me and mrs plan to muck about now as much as possible in between her treatments, like the old days. meanwhile i'll try to keep my 'contibutions' to the thread as they were before ^ , if less frequent.

What kind of music are you listening to during this pump/fomo/hodl action? I made a thread you can toss up your choices.

I always play the same thing on pumps/fomo nights like tonite 6/21/19 at 9:48 pm CDT USA. Secret Agent Man. The lyrics seem to work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIFrGv0UQaQ

for being in 'mostly' full HODL mode. (Damn, that 10 BTC I sold at $3,965 in the depths of despair are kinda hurting right now)

Anyway, a good nite with silly music. Post your links on this thread and/or listen..and contemplate my paper/tulip wealth

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5157131.new#new

whatever, having too much fun with this pump to actually do anything constructive ...so goofing off.


Yeah, I'm just living in the moment for right now, having fun, but this could bite me in the future. But for now the heck with it. Having a good time with this pump!

I have always worked for myself and still have a small company.

One of the guys has worked for me for nearly 20 years, but he has always opted out of the pension scheme 'waste of money - everyone in my family died before they reached pension age' he said.

He rents an apartment, and what worries me is that when he retires (he's in his mid 40's), he just won't be able to afford to keep paying rent on a state pension.  He told me - 'I am saving, but I can't see how I will ever save up enough - prices keep going up, but my savings are climbing too slowly'.

Last year was a struggle - but we had a big contract in late in the year.  I said "If you can help me get this delivered before the end of the year, I will give you a bonus in January."

He did it.  I then said, I want to give the bonus to you in Bitcoin, but you have to hold it for at least a year.  If it has not gone up in that time, I will simply give you the cash instead - if it does - you just might be able to actually afford that deposit on a place of your own.

The bonus was around $6000 (in my currency) and the company bought him the BTC in Jan.

At this rate - he is well on his way to what will be a very positive change in his circumstances.  

This will be huge in terms of his outlook; THIS is the transformative power of Bitcoin.

I am so happy I was able to do this. Thank you, Bitcoin.

I’ve never sold moderate to large amounts of coin before (fiat wise) so I’m a bit nervous about that in the future.
I don’t want to get caught with my pants down so I admit that last week I verified my UK bank & ID with Coinbase in preparation.

If there was a De-Merit action I presume you’d all be giving it to me right now

Here’s a beautiful gif for absolutely no reason other than me being a pervert.

I found something strange. you guys already know https://keys.lol/ . On page 1 ( https://keys.lol/bitcoin/1 ) there is an address with a 4 week old transaction:

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1LWsLyY2j2mPtYcG9yG2bDFwTWryiJL6sp

someone is stupid enough to use a wallet with a public known private key? perhaps I should monitor these known addresses and automatically transfer away incoming amounts?

And a good example for plastic surgery and/or photoshopped portrait pics 
But sex is preserving the beauty, they say.
I can second that, because after four kids with the same woman, sex becomes pretty rare, and that was when i started to look older faster (and the misses too)...

When I was in elementary school I went through a phase where I believed that the entire world was spying on me. I'm pretty sure that at some point everybody (well most liberated westerners with time to kill) contemplates whether or not the world revolves around them, and wonder if they may be the only real thing in the universe. Some have even developed philosophies around the concept, others movies.



After having your ass handed to you a few times though, it becomes apparent that we are all just typical spazzes, and that no one is actually that different from anybody else. We all exist, were born into this world crying and against our will, share 99.99% of the same DNA, and not one of us knows what the fuck we are actually doing here.

We knew it was going to happen eventually but...

It is official now.



Super golden cross is in place.

From here $50k is a sure bet, $100k is likely. $1m is in the realm of possibilities.

I remember a time of low 3 digits, where both advocates and trolls would laugh (heartily) on this very forum at the notion of Bitcoin hitting $10K, much less hovering there near a stable price. It seemed like a pipe dream to almost everyone.

Now it's here. In just a few years after. Which means that it's no only achievable to go much higher, but everyone has set their expectations way too low.

Which tonic water do you recommend with Hendricks?
Still got a half full Bottle at home...

Yes, it is already better! Facts are stubborn things, right?

The "totalitarian communist regime" in China is advocating for open borders and free trade. The "beacon of democracy and leader of the free world" USA (aka United Sanctions of America) is imposing tariffs, sanctioning everybody they can think of, building walls, and bombing independent nations (too weak to retaliate) into the Stone Age just because they don't share their cowboy values. The "totalitarian communist regime" in China pulled 1 billion citizens out of poverty and created massive middle class during the last 20 years. The "land of the free" during this same time successfully killed big chunk of their middle class and created the biggest income gap between the rich and the poor the world has ever seen.

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It has been shared a few times today, though I keep thinking of BTC logo on premier league fields!!!

Just amazing.....

the things is that given the fact that PlanB published his work, a lot more people is looking at halvening.
Lot of more professional investors are now in the arena, compared to 4 years ago.
So I would expect more people actually buying before the halvening, hence the post halvening bull run should be front run with a pre halvening bull run.
So, next months are critical!

A dark rainy night
I just shot my dear old cat
Tears rolling down my face

Commiserations to both of you. What was it Arrie, a car accident?
15 is pretty good machasm for a big dog. so sorry.

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I did this evening

Welcomed everyone with rosé Dom Perignon 2005....

Served scampi diablo with spiced tomato’s on the side

Tuna robespierre with French fries

Tiramisu

All home made with some fine white wines, gin tonics, coffee and Amaretto......

Only pics of dessert (I’m not a star chef and rarely coock myself) though all went well !!!!

Cheers and take care for one and other 

Fleeing from Coronavirus led me here:



But I am ready to to go back to Coronavirus-land tomorrow.

not saying you are wrong much, just here and there (medical care is free in China lol), no need for long inquisitions. just your narrative would be more convincing if you didn't let these glaring errors interfere.

Hopefully everyone is there.
I had to understand, within the past, we all know that Bitcoin has nothing to try  to with a stock exchange but nowadays, with the decline, many of us are writing that Bitcoin could also be tons dissolved, but I can personally say that the position of Bitcoin is formed. it's won for disappearing
Can anyone explain a touch to me or how am i able to determine more about this?

Market Cap of Bitcoin in 2025 - Trillion -??