Thanks proudhon, it worked. After months of lurking I finally subscribed.

Taxes help too:
Sell too soon: -> "trading" -> income -> 52% tax over profit. (and 1.2% property tax)
Hodl: -> "investment" -> interest -> 1.2% property tax over the Jan 1st Euro value of the bitcoins.
(a good nick helps too.)

Nice. a large Dutch bank decided that the only way to do software upgrades is by closing all payments during the whole night. Can't get at my Euro's for another 4.5 hours (with a bit of luck). Bitcoin turns out to be a whole lot more reliable than my local bank 

Bash alarm script in case you have something that runs Linux:  http://pastebin.com/iRYM4iZg
(I now have a cheap coin   )
edit: added missing last "done" line to script

It's anyone’s guess what this man would do with the donations, but everyone here would agree that a donation from anywhere in the world to this Ukrainian man (in a country with a bit of a situation) would totally work, work quickly, at low transfer cost, and not end up in someone else pockets along the way.

He made 1000's of posts, all exactly 1 hour apart, 24/7. If he isn't a bot, he never sleeps...
(have you clicked the "explanation" link?)

4) Profit from investing is taxed differently from profit from day trading in some countries. (0% and and >40% in my case)
    (I also pay an additional 1.2%/year property tax over my bitcoins, but that's peanuts)
5) some people trade through websites that provide instant exchange between national back accounts and BTC, but have a relatively high fee of 3 to 5%, both ways, making day trading too expensive.

HODL'ing (and buying 1 BTC or less, if the price drops more than $30 below my last buy).

The 600 wall at stamp was pulled, so just a smooth ride up :-) (looked at wrong exchange)

sorry, I somehow switched my graph to a different exchange.
(360 seconds over yet?)

If I read it correctly, the purpose of the EBA was to mandate regulations, to prevent that banks needed to compete with cheaper banks in countries with less regulations. They would have named it European Banking Cartel, but then even the name would have been almost the same as the ECB :-)
It's these guys job to discourage bitcoin, I don't know what took them this long.

Probably German-Marks. The German Mark was used far outside Europe, and many of these users have followed the switch to Euro's. (Or dollars, since most people will make exceptions for money)

The switch to Euro's would have been the perfect event to get rid of all existing black money, I don't remember that having happened. I even read somewhere that converting all black-money to euros (unreported savings, plain money-laundering but also large criminal assets) was crucial for making the switch a success.

If Obama had a switch to instantly prevent the use of dollars in illegal activities and unreported savings anywhere in the world, would he touch it? I think the result would not be pretty.
It's well worth trying to minimize questionable use of a currency, but in the end, currencies need to be exchanged more-or-less without restrictions, or it isn't a real currency any more.

I read the ChartBuddy posts like this: When there are two ChartBuddy posts in a row, it's a slow news day :-)
(When I registered, 2015 was far away. maybe I should change my nick.)

I changed it to 7 days, and Ghana is still the 2nd result, all from a single city. Someone in Akkra has a stuck F5 key, or is it a popular VPN end-point ?

Same here, bought from $800 all the way down to $200. Now nearly at break-even again. I'm fine with a slow rise, but this is ok too.

After buying all the way down from $810 to $216 (and hodling), this gentleman just reached break-even.

Can we please NOT peak on jan 1st?
I pay 1.2% property tax over whatever bitcoin is worth on that day.

Yes. (in my European country) Used to be average of jan 1st and dec 31, but now it's just Jan 1st.
The tax rules are not clear on time of day, only the date, so I just make a couple of print-screens during that day, and pick the most favourable one as "proof"    I'm still waiting for the tax office to publish "official" exchange rates for jan 1st. That would be cool.
It's only a few euro's in taxes, so I'm playing by the books. 1.2%/year is nothing when talking about bitcoin.

Well, they certainly aren't going to trade there Yuan for Dollars after seeing that graph.

Only 33 weeks to go!

I had not seen that letter until now, but it looks like a lot of vague bla-bla without even a hint of a technical argument.
I'll eat my hat if that was written by any of the very skilled mathematician/cryptographer(s) that designed bitcoin.

Yes. That is what technical people do. As a first public response in years, they would write a detailed and (mathematically) well supported response about why there orignal design is still good, or why and how it should be improved, not a short note without any technical support of there opinion.
Study the original paper and learn how cleverly all technical aspects fit together, and ask yourself if someone who designed that would write such a vague letter without properly substantiating and supporting his opinions.

I did'n follow the news. I thought there was a problem with bitcoin, not some social thing.
Looking into this, the first thing I see is a link to one of the first e-mails by the real Satoshi Nakamoto, which contains:

Which is contradicting the recent letter:

Stop wasting time on this hoax.

The peak in total output disappears if you exclude returned change. Someone is buying ice creams directly with a multi-million wallet:
https://blockchain.info/charts/estimated-transaction-volume

Try that with dollars :-)
a) getting the transfer processed 500 times in one afternoonen, and b) have anything left to transfer after 499x transaction costs.

What is a currency that you can only spend on a selection of government approved products and services really worth?
The switch to Euro's was well planed to include all "non registered" businesses. They didn't want half the economy of some countries to keep using the German-Mark, or worse, switching to Dollars.

It's actually very simple, see this info-graph:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Supranational_European_Bodies_with_NATO_members-en.svg/2000px-Supranational_European_Bodies_with_NATO_members-en.svg.png

And no, none of the European politician know that whole graph.

Bought one at $810, in Jan 2014, and still HODL'ing it.

I doubt the pound's going to take much more beating. Dollars and Euros are being printed at an alarming rate, and both can't really stop doing that, only try to not print faster than anybody else. The UK books are more in balance than the EU books, therefore the UK has the option to slow it's money press a little. I don't think the pound will have a large effect on BTC.

But there are other interesting things: UK citizens may face higher transaction cost to/from Europe, and especially small consumers will get more trouble with import taxes, i.e: a maximum amount they can spend tax-free each year.
(European consumers can now spend a relatively small amount in the US. Pass that limit, and substantial taxes (~20%) are added.)
UK citizens may also spend more in other countries in the world, now they are similarly priced to products for Europe (especially from China)
More worldwide payments that need to be cheap and fast for small payments, is good for bitcoin.
I think these 3 have more effect on BTC than the rate of the pound.

Large UK and EU companies will make sure they are well represented in the negotiations for new trade agreements, so they will be much less affected. The UK was in favour of a trade agreement with China, but the EU has blocked that until now. I don't know how good this would be for the UK, it would definitely be interesting, but maybe not affect BTC much.

The remaining countries in the EU are facing a hard choice: a few countries will need to make up the membership fee of the UK, or the EU would need to cut spending. The first will mean speeding up the money press, the second has never happened before, a may cause trouble for some of the EU countries that are depending on EU cash to survive.

last 1000 blocks until halving... (which also marks 75% of all bitcoins mined!)

Every time a bank or something else is talking about the blockchain, you can be sure they are working on bitcoin and use the blockchain as a coverop. If they would really be interested in blockchains they would have said so 7 years ago. There is absolutely nothing new about blockchains 7 years later. the blockchain has not changed in any way, and anything financial should have know about it and looked into it about 6 years ago.
What is new is that bitcoin has grown up. If they are interested NOW, you can be sure that they are interested in bitcoin itself, as a currency. They may experiment with there own blockchains and there own alt-coins, saying it will improve the services for there customers (like they ever cared about that), but in the end they will go to the coin where money is to be made.

The EU doesn't want to put an end to all corruption, they just want a monopoly on it. they will praise this fully accountable Auction system, fund it, and then make sure it will go nowhere.

Since rockets are on-topic, SpaceX launch in about 11 hours, landing +/- 10 minutes later. countdown: https://spacexstats.com/missions/spacex-crs-9 , info, live-updates, links to streams to and from the rocket, and landing: https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/4t2umd/rspacex_spacex_crs9_official_launch_discussion/ (streams start about 20 minutes before launch)

I feel like switching bitcoinity back to mBTC. see u at 2.0

Right-click -> Add to Dictionary. It is good practice to add (company) names you use to your personal dictionary because only then you will notice spelling errors when you communicate with them. (I know, not really a problem in the case of Satoshi.)

Bought at $600, rolled the dice and bought few more down to $200, and last 2 year looks like winning to me.

I have no US Dollars, and the SEC is on the other side of this blue marble. I bet I don't really care about this. It's not going to drop enough to buy more bitcoins, so I'll just watch (and HODL, I choose my username when 2015 was far into the future)

For tax reasons, a very short dip to $100 every new year would be nice.

Me too, but buy price at bitonic.nl actually went up during the dip because there margin is increased when price moves a lot. This dip lasted way too short for me to be useful.

I bought 1 BTC at $1010, after hodl-ing for years, so I'm 100% sure it's going to drop like a brick now :-)

I like these steady +5% sideways days.

What's wrong with a software wallet? Mine is password protected, stored in a veracrypt volume, which is stored on my encrypted /home partition, and included in several backups stored in different air-gaped locations and only ever connected one at a time. (and most importantly, I'm not running a toy operating system.)

"NYXBT will represent the daily US dollar value of one bitcoin at 4pm"
So it basically tells you what a bitcoin was worth yesterday? How nice.

Some lucky few will get some real cheap coins if it doesn’t. Will it matter?

And you created an account on bitcointalk.org 5 years before that? :-)
One thing you will have to explain is how you where able to pay (cash) for all these bitcoins last month.
I just report my bitcoin holdings so I can spend them later without running into issues. The 1.2%/year in taxes is less than the price swings in a single day.

I could pay through bitwala, so I would not need a Euro bank account and still be able to pay my taxes, but I still would be paying in Euro's.

1 kg is disappointingly small (edit: unfortunately I don't know this from experience) due to the high density of gold. When do we reach parity with a standard 400 oz (12.4 kg) bar?

That would also mean I now have twice as many bitcoins.

I'm a bit out-of-the loop with all the (proposed) changes, but that makes total sense. Thanks bitserve.

Blocks will always be "full", even with 20MB blocks, because everyone would like to add things to the blockchain if it was free. If you want to add an animated gif of your cat, or mix a bitcoin through 10.000 different wallets, that is fine, but that _should_ be expensive. Once bitcoin gets used for larger and more serious transactions, it should be (relatively) expensive to use bitcoins to buy a single postage stamp, lollipop or ice-cream.

First time I kicked a "Sr. Member" into the ignore bin. Goodbuy FU.

And on my 486 CPU it took 16 hours to convert 1 hour of ripped WAV files to a stereo MP3. None of this real-time encoding 4k video from a cheap phone.

An (otherwise) healthy human body is surprisingly good at getting rid of toxic substances and recovering after you quit smoking. Many cells get completely replaced every few month anyway. Long term health effects statistics are mostly if you keep smoking, but are reduced to almost normal a couple years after quitting.
Quid smoking today, and if you must, delay seeing the doctor. If you still have not made up your mind a year later, you will at least feel a lot better already and not worry about seeing a doctor.

If you want my non-medical, non-smoker(ever), but computer programmer opinion, I would first stick to a fixed number of cigarettes per day/week, then cut it down slowly, maybe even 1/4 cigarettes at a time. And definitely find something else to chew on and play with, maybe get a huge box of wooden dowels at the hardware store. The habit is more addictive than the chemicals.

Bought when the price halved from the $1200 peak in 2013 to $600. Created this account when 2015 was far into the future. Bought some more on the way down to $200. hodling worked out for me. Bought one more at the $1000 dip, which was only march _this_ year. Bitcoin is anything but boring.

South Korean BTC's trading $1000 above rest of the world was end of may. I suspect N. Korean BTC volume is minimal, unless the government started trading in BTC.

Just 6 new bitcoins / 10 minutes after June 2020. (does a $3M block reward sound reasonable?)

1 satoshi is also the minimum (sensible) transaction fee, but I'm not complaining at 1$B.

At least in the Netherlands, you still have to pay 30% income tax on a fictive 4% gain, which works out as a fixed 1.2% tax per year, based on the total value of property (excluding one house and car, but including bitcoin, gold, cash above a few hundred bucks, etc.).
The 4% is fixed. Even if your savings account pays 0.1% interest you have to pay for a 4% gain. if bitcoin is going up or down 99%, you still pay for a 4% gain. Value is based _only_ on the value at jan 1st, which kind of sucks if bitcoun peaks around newjear.

Short-term hodling is seen as speculating "work" and full income tax (upto 52% here) is due on the actual gains.
Long-term hodling is seen as investment and not taxed, except for the above 1.2% / year.

We still pay 21% sales tax if we spend any money, but conversions between bitcoin and euro's are not counted as spending.

Doesn't that just increase the mempool, raising transaction fees, raising profits for any miner that does process these high-fee transactions? Unless he mines nearly all the blocks, I don't see a problem. (low-fee transactions not getting processed is not a problem, transactions are not intended to be free.)

Don't know much about trading or taxes (in any country), but maybe keep the bitcoins you regular trade with on a different bitcoin address? (which would already be the case if you keep them at an exchange). Then just call one an "investment account" and the other a "trading account".
Or just look at the lowest amount of BTC held in a year (or whatever the term is), and call that "savings/investments" and the rest trading stack or something.

We just dropped to 31% above last month price. A typical bottom in bitcoin logic.

Bitcoin has has several good reason to die every year since 2009. This isn't even a good one. Is bitcoin more dead this time than when silkroad was closed down? or the mtgox thingy? And those where real actually happened things, not a rumours mill. China is a very big place and the importance of federal rules varies a lot depending on where in China you happen to live. Even in the EU the "interpretation" of new EU rules varies a lot between member states, and some are running years behind others. Especially the financial EU rules are broken by almost any member, and also by the EU organizations themselves. China needs to export, they would never ban any form of payment, unless they are suddenly concerned about the profit margin of paypal.

I'm ok until someone eats the 5000 btc wall at $2000 on stamp.   (that's some serious fiat to throw at an exchange, and I bet the 10k btc wall at $1k is related)

(getting totally off-topic, but I'd like to add a positive note in light of the current prices)
Most of the problems you describe result from too high density of people because people all want to be where the most natural resources are, and then having conflicting ideas about who those resources belong to. (your link is the opposite of reducing population density)

I hope both will improve with renewable energy. It's one of the most important resources, and makes _many_ more location perfectly habitable, resulting in a lower population density. In case of solar, the resource is not bound to a location, so land-grab won't get you the resource, the owner will take the panels with them when you chaise them away.
Water is also an important resource, but anywhere near the coast it is easy to create when there is almost unlimited supply of energy.

You have a good set of random words as your wallet pass phrase. But why post it?

Wall observation at stamp: nothing happening (yet)

I'm hoping for an even lower bottom January 1st (for tax reasons). ATH's around new-year are expensive in my country.
Fortunately my tax-code doesn't specify a time on January 1st, so that gives quite a bit of wiggle-room in the case of bitcoin prices.

This is bitcoin. It's going up because it's going up and down because it's going down. That's by far the biggest thing driving it.
Hodling and planning to buy some cheap coins in a week or 2.

After a temporary stay in the UK, I could not remotely close the account, so they kept sending regular mail and new cards to my current country. After many years they gave in and closed the account, and send me a UK check for the final balance: 14 cents, which will cost me several euro's to deposit at my local bank. I told them they could keep it or donate it to charity, but that wasn't possible in there system.

Special jan 1st tax discount dip, get you screen-shots ready! Tomorrow we can go back to 20k.

You registered in 2014 and deicide to go all-in during the last ATH? I'm kind of lost for words here. If you are now renting, I suggest to keep doing that :-)

I was ready for that last week but it did not happen then. Funny that I don't even care that the btc I'm hodling drops just as fast as the buy opportunity.

(edit: I now see the Euro sign. I was hoping for $9000)

It's perfect, in fact it's even better than hardware raid because you can replace the computer with anything else, plug in the raid drives and it will just work, no need to hunt down an identical raid controller to have even a chance of accessing the data.

I ended up using Raid 10,f2 which stores odd and even chucks of a single file separately. If you are reading a single large file sequentially, this makes it possible to pull the odd chuncks from one drive and the even chuncks from the other at the same time, resulting in double read bandwidth. Normal raid 10 will only reach double bandwidth with two drives when you are reading two files in parallel or many small files (like a webserver).
(this is assuming your workload is reading one big file sequentially, like a file server with large files and few concurrent users. f2 doesn't help when randomly reading small parts of a file.)

With a bit of luck you will drive to Mars tomorrow (18:30 UTC)

I lost the bid wall line, found it after zooming way out :-)

Exactly 1K BTC wall on stamp, at $8800.   (yes, I made an on-topic post)

It is on the bid side (and still there)

It's mostly a cultural thing. history or the (very near) future is just not a thing. Maintaining or even cleaning stuff does not happen. If it breaks, don't fix it, just keep using it. When it becomes absolutely unusable, leave it where it was last used, buy something new (or less broken) and repeat. Or simply stop doing whatever it was used for. Car breaks down? Stop going to work, problem solved.
"Why is Everything in CHINA FALLING APART?": https://youtu.be/o9eXi3RL8q4

Also lacking (inflatable) tires, mudguards, and I would not even want breaks that high up. If anything, wheels are only getting smaller on recumbent bicycles.

In a place with nice weather, power is easy: solar with decent size powerwall for 2 or 3 clouded days, done.
For internet Iridium NEXT ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation#Second_generation ) is nearing completion, and the future SpaceX Starlink should provide a massive amount of bandwidth if you are one of the few users in the area.
The island looks like a bargain compared to a decent sail boat, but is still outside of my budget with current BTC prices :-(

After 4 years of bitcoin, I recently added some cold hard stock into the mix, to at least have some appearance of financial responsibility. All I can say is that it is even more boring than I feared. There is only traded going on a few hours a day and most of that doesn't overlap with my spare time, and weekends really test my patience since there is NOTHING AT ALL going on until Monday afternoon, or even Tuesday because NASDAQ computers take some Mondays off.

Nice, but my favourite rocket is 3 times as nice: https://i.redd.it/q744askfdue01.jpg Next launch is expected for September.

Hilarious. The scammer not being triggered by bitcoin/BCH makes me think this is even real, on the other hand any Nigerian would have gone for the ICO :-)

Edit: The bch address lacks entropy. It looks suspiciously like someone used two hands on a qwerty keyboard to make a "random" key. A Bech32 key encoding (without capitals) should also have started with "bc1".

Euro's (as long as scrap metal prices stay above zero)

I panic-bought TFD at $8340 so I can sleep better this weekend. Not that it matters a year from now.

I seem to get quite good at calling the bottoms. And then totally fuck up the tops :-)

Depends on mood of Asia when they wake up. (do they sleep at all?)

Finally some volume. Don't care which way, just do something.

My paychecks are irregular but I have some buffer to handle that and very little fixed expenses. For the rest I'm irresponsibly far into bitcoin and can't buy any more of these cheap coins.
Living paycheck to paycheck sounds very stressful. What worked for me in the past is listing all my fixed and regular expenses, converted to cost/month where needed, order them largest to smallest, and starting from the top of the list, try to get a better deal or consider cancelling the expense altogether. One that is often overlooked is food. Supermarkets have huge margins and you can often get much better deals if you order larger quantities on-line. Electricity usage too. I have natural gas heating and use about 1100 kWh/year using good LED lights, net-book computers and fridge, freezer and internet modem as the _only_ permanent loads, even the microwave has a plug-in switch since I don't like to spend 8 Watts to show the time when not in use. It's a bit of time to sort out but small savings on regular expenses keep adding up in time after that.

If there is anything I have learned about bitcoin is that often the price doesn't move an inch when there is major global bitcoin news (not just UK) and that there can be very large price movements without even a trace of bitcoin news to be found anywhere.
My conclusion is that most bitcoin trading is done based on the bitcoin chart and nothing else.
Since bitcoin is spread over the globe pretty evenly, the bitcoin price seems to average out price movements of major fiat currencies, With maybe a bit more influence to the US dollar since Europe still trades a lot using the USD/BTC charts.
We dropped about 12% over the last 7 days, which I consider relatively stable. (more than 2% per day, averaged over several weeks is still quite normal for bitcoin).
To me, the next days and weeks are just a guess, but I'm all in and trust that bitcoin will be useful for many years to come.

The usefulness of these coins is mostly limited to buying bitcoin, that is why there value follows bitcoin.

Sounds about right. PDP-11 Power Requirements: 6kW each.
They could run there banking software on a more efficient raspberry-pi using a PDP-11 simulator, but I doubt they would bother.
Don't even start on the forests destroyed for making punch cards.
off-topic: I'm scraping together every last fiat coin if it does another dip.

Bought my last 0.2 BTC. Job done, fiat depleted.

This is actually very relaxing. I don't need to worry about BTFD because I'm flat out of fiat. I'm not selling below 10k so don't need to worry about that for at least a couple weeks. Invested an insignificant amount into stock just to have something to play with in the mean time. (only bothered with tsla and irdm so far, but it's quite fun, except that exchanges with trading hours are lame. I don't know a single btc exchange that isn't open 24/7.)

Peanuts suck as a payment system. Since today peanuts in the US have dropped in value and peanuts in Europe have become more valuable. I'd stick to bitcoins.

If would choose the Tesla if they where the same price, and that's for all the clever design work done on the car, not just the much more reasonable maintenance cost.

Right now you could buy 4256 BTC at stamp (paying upto $60k). Selling 4256 BTC would drop the price to just above $5k.
Has it always been this asymmetrical?

When did you buy? 2012? 2014? 2016? less than a year ago? patience.

Shouldn't the bottom last a bit longer to be useful for whoever has an interest in a low price? maybe tonigt will be the bottom, but this wasn't it.

So in 6 days these miners will switch back to BCH, and we will be stuck with a high difficulty for how many blocks?

Bought TFD. (not nearly enough so I will need to HODL a little longer)

Sane people are enjoying the end of the weekend-dip and have all insane posts on ignore.  This thread is quite nice with half the posts hidden.
Oh, I randomly un-ignore, everyone deserves a second (or tenth) chance, but it usually confirms my original choice very soon.

The part about C++ is hilarious. The writer has learned the language from a (very short) book and never actually implemented anything serious in any programming language at all, or else he would actually have something interesting to say. Probably cheated using google to write a 5-line java-script assignments for class.

Mortgages are not that bad in moderation. I paid about half my house cash from savings (this was pre-bitcoin) and a mortgage for the rest. Interest was low since the bank didn't take much risk financing half while getting the whole house as security.
I got the simplest possible type of mortgage, which was also the most flexible. I had to pay off spread over 30 years but am allowed to pay off upto 20% of the original sum per year extra to reduce my interest payments. If I would loose my job or get sick I would get a much smaller social income and could do less extra payments but could still have made my normal payments without breaking a sweat. Interest was fixed for first 7 years, I planned to pay off everything within 10 years without much effort. (Thanks to bitcoin it took even less)

I see the mortgage as an investment since it allows me to buy a house sooner and stop paying rent sooner. Renting is worse than mortgages unless you plan to move around a lot.
I bought a well insulated stone house that has plenty suitable roof area for solar, which is a reasonable investment if I also want to heat the house using an electric heat-pump on short winter days. That would reduce my fixed expenditures to almost nothing.

Debts that do not result in some financial pay-back are generally not good and should be an emergency solution when savings turn out to be insufficient to cover unexpected expenditures. Insurance should be kept to a minimum, only things you can't realistically plan savings for, like the house burning down and medical insurance (which is mandatory but affordable here). Lottery's are voluntary taxes for people who can't do maths.

No need to sign up, this thread is 99% pump signals and it's all free.

If you test all possible combinations before finding a block. Best case, you immediately find it, worst case you find it on the last combination, average, you will find the block in about half the time of the maximum.

But no single miner searches all possible combinations by itself and as far as I know there is no decided range of combinations tested by each pool so different pools may end up testing the same combinations. and different pools include different transactions so operate in a different search space. This means that the upper limit is a lot higher than twice the average block time.

Random results do included things humans don't find random at all. 100 slow blocks in a row is less likely that 10 slow blocks in a row, but not impossible.

Owning whole bitcoins should put you in the top 1%

What an inconsistent mess of numbers. Don't drink-and-trade!

Cryptocurrency magazines with a page limit? I expected all of them to use a digital distribution.

Classical bitcoin L-formation in 24h chart.

300% growth in almost 40 years. I am clearly too impatient to invest in gold.

I smell fireworks (and BFRockets).

If TSLA hits $420 exactly when BTC dips to $5900, I could see myself hodling some more.

From the "related stories" from that same link: "Indian airport stops 29 passengers using ‘rectal concealment’ to smuggle gold"
And people still claim gold is more "practical" than bitcoin...

Was playing around with 0.3 BTC and nailed the "bottom" at 6200 1.5 days ago, now 6100. current loss: $30. (plus 2 or 3% fees since i'm not on an exchange) I'm not really playing the market since I never sell, I just BTFD :-)

Rest of my bitcoins are still worth the same amount of bitcoins as in December. I don't really track the $ numbers for these as long as it remains above $200.

Based on the 5 and 10 intervals, it should be a 1mm grid in the background.
Making the eye transparent would not work since it would collect stray light from everywhere, so it opted for the next best thing: make as reflective as possible.

edit: No one is selling at stamp. buy just 3400 BTC and the price will be at $20k.

Some sell and buy a lot more than others. Even when they use multiple exchanges, it does move the price quite a bit. Exchanges (thankfully) also run 24/7 but at some times of the day or days of the week the liquidity is less than ideal. Manipulation depend on what rules you follow. I do reasonably thrust (but never used) exchanges, as in not allowing buy orders without pony up the fiat and not allowing sell orders without having the coins, and also executing order books in the order of bid/ask price.

Also, there is always a bigger fish, so trying to manipulate the price when you think you are big may backfire when it turns out you are not.

I propose:
abcASH

What? Goldman sachts isn't trading based on the Wall observer poll results?

I sold my couple BTC around $260, well before the jump to $1200 in 2013. bought again when it dropped to $600 after that. It went all the way down to $200 while I kept accumulating (and loosing) more. didn't sell at $19000. after all that, I'm still ok.
bitcoin exists almost 10 years and every year more people know what it is and more people use it. it has not been replaced by any alt-coin. The only practice use of any alt-coin is buying bitcoins.

http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD choose the "all" timeframe and select the log-scale (top-left in graph), change mBTC to BTC in the options if you prefer. The drop in the last 10 months doen't look that impressive. People still trust bitcoin and are ready to buy when the trend returns to upward. $20k is not an insane price any more.

Good morning! 600 days until the supply of fresh BTC is halved.

More than $3 for 12.

585 days until supply is halved again. Will bitcoin be the most stable currency of 2019?

It also went from $2.50 to $6400, no surprise it went up more often than down.
I like the volatility (especially if up) but it may scare a lot of people away. Some stability before the 10 year anniversary followed by a slow and steady clime would be nice too. 571 days until bitcoin supply is halved again, but that will be priced in a lot sooner.

That headline makes it sound like there will somehow be less bitcoins if large miners quid.
I think it's good to have more smaller independent miners.

Time to make the print-screens from your favourite website for your 2019 tax report! (favourite as in: assigning the lowest Jan 1st fiat value to your bitcoins)

That long? that's just 0.23% per day.

471 days until supply halving. Getting priced in already?

- supply halving in 15 months.
- at that point almost 90% of the 21M bitcois will be in circulation, the rest of the world has there eye on the remaining 10%.

The morality of taxes depends more on how it is spend than on the numerical amount.
It is a form of mandatory charity, which affects the amount of voluntary charity, even if the mandatory charity is mostly wasted.

And that is my favourite currently flying rocket, hopefully soon to be replaced by a 100% reusable spaceship, like the future intended.

I hope he is wrong and it gets delayed to Jan 2nd and save me a ton of taxes.

BTFD (if you have any fiat left)

14 months until bitcoin supply is reduced from 3.8 to 1.8% per year.
Will be interesting, no country runs there fiat press that slow and steady.

Recover the BCH value?

I want demands priced in BTC before I take any extortion letter seriously.

So far I have only seen UK companies (including banks) opening a letterbox inside the EU, UK companies stocking supplies in the UK and stocking produced products outside the UK, and EU companies doing the reverse, to handle extended custom checks for a few weeks. No major moves of headquarters or factories, even with EU countries offering huge tax breaks to lure companies in.
I'm sure the UK will face some problems, short term those could even be more expensive to handle than the savings in contributions to the EU.
But everyone is completely ignoring the problems in the EU itself, especially there financial problems, and those will definitely affect the UK if they stay in the EU.
It is impossible to predict which problems will be worse and even impossible to know after the fact, since we cant do a double-blind test, but I don't think it is necessary bad for the UK even if the have some brexit problems. Even a hard no-deal brexit, followed by trade negotiation starting from a level playing field, could actually be better than the current deal options.
So far, the EU has not lifted even a finger to try and solve these (financial) problems to make the UK change there mind, so I'm not hopeful about that side of the equation. Instead of adjusting there budgets to a large (and large contributing) leaving member, the EU inflated there budgets even more and will have to sharply raise the contributions from the remaining members.

None. The Saudis already know that electricity from solar (in that region of the world) is cheaper than electricity from a powerplant running on natural gas, even when you get the natural gas for free as a by-product of oil extraction.

My cat is no vegy but eats (in small amounts, just for the taste) spinach, hop sprouts (maybe tastes like grass?), cooked carrots, pineapple, mashed apples (but absolutely not non-mashed apples) garden peas, baked mushroom and ketchup (and mayonnaise). And in larger amounts: mashed peas(soup), tomato soup (try to avoid garlic and unions, which harms cats), tomato (pasta) sauce, preferably with ground beef. It usually doesn't like any other beef or anything smoked. It mostly eats chicken and fish, but not too fond yet of mussel. curry with chicken is good too. All traces of cheese have to be removed before salami is edible. Doesn't eat bread, potato, or anything that smells funny (with exception of mayonnaise). Doen't eat his cat food until he has figured out what's for dinner that day.

What is happening April 1st? I hope I can still get ✅ Verified tomorrow. I filled in all the forms, but don't know how much postage stamps are required for 145g of fiat.

looks like two green months is almost guaranteed to be followed by a 3rd green dot.

$5k will take a while, possibly multiple one whole minutes.

Don't think it is hacked, he has been trolling with twitter and twitter profiles for years.
Elon knows a thing or two about crypto (see also answers on what money Mars will use) but claims to currently not own any.
(all total speculation below:)
In fact, I think he doesn't have any cash at all, except for some fund for his children that hopefully isn't in his own name.
Except from some toys and pocket cash everything is invested in his companies, then borrowed against his shares and invested that too. He is in well over 100% trying to remain the largest shareholder, and I think that is the right move with his work/home balance. TSLA stock is almost as much fun as BTC and the only stock I own. About 25% of tesla stock is currently shorted, in my opinion without good reason, so it will be fun to watch how that pans out. But stock is totally boring in weekends, that is what I have the BTC for.

I'm observing the wall at $4320 (stamp). That is quite a lot of fiat, and it will never do more than just looking very silly down there.

Only single-digit % in the last 24 hours. I'm getting bored too.

And we very recently where added to the official EU tax-haven list (anything the EU does is more based on politics than factualities, but still a nice accomplishment.)

$20k is just seven 20% jumps away.

It could eat though half the wall at $4600 and not drop below, but then your order depends on which of the $4600 orders are processed first by the exchange. at $4601 yours should be processed before all the $4600 orders.

That is what abandoned websites do. I once looked up the local Chinese restaurant in a small village, They had an extensive website with route description. We also looked through the on-line menu and already made our choice before we got into the car. When we got there we found that the restaurant didn't exist any more. Current owner confirmed that we where at the correct place, and that it was indeed a Chinese restaurant several years ago.

The 2nd Falcon-heavy launch (now planned for Tuesday) will have 10% improved engine power, all 27 of them. With that kind of thrust-to-weight ratio, it will jump from the pad like a green candle.

The large buy-wall also moved from ~$4400 to ~$4800. (stamp)

The nibbling on the wall (@stamp) is about to begin.

1200  http://bitcoinity.org/markets/bitstamp/USD
At first I thought support was a bit lower than usual, but it was just the Y-scale that was a bit unusual :-)

Work is a lot less stressful when you know you don't need it to pay for the next months (or years) bills and fully own the house you are living in.

Yes, dangerously insufficient amount of duct tape, by any standard.
That type of plug is only for such low-power equipment that the wire gauge will be fine.

Having 1200 BTC to sell doesn't sound like being short.
It could be longs trying to keep the price "low" until there fiat funds arrive on Monday, so they can buy more. If someone starts nibbling on there wall they can buy back for a similar price on Monday. That plan could back-fire when the whole wall gets eaten en the price moves before they can buy back. At some point they would have to cut there losses and move the wall further up.

I agree, in 2022 the price will drop all the way back down to just $100,000.

"it is highly questionable that he can in fact code."
That's a bit harsh. Anyone should at least be able to copy-paste something together in Visual-Basic.

That's not sad, at least my cat doesn't think it is.

I hope we can eventually get rid of this whole countries and borders nonsense. The internet is a good start and hopefully future space-based internet providers will eventually put an end to surface based internet filtering. And of course a global and distributed currency.

The EU is just shifting the problem to the edge of the EU instead of trying to make borders less relevant.

Not specifically refugees (there are hardly any refugees, it is just immigration), but especially import tariffs or just plain blocking imports for silly reasons, forcing a single currency without enforcing responsible budgeting by member states or at least trying to harmonize wages and taxes, setting up EU police forces and army that is out of control of any member state, actively seeking confrontations with surrounding countries, etc. The EU in no way trying to make the EU border less relevant.

People only think they need adsk products.

https://www.usa-proxy.org
Filtering based on IP address is not a legal solution. The law applies also to EU citizens travelling all over the world.

The answer is completely public for everyone to see, all you need to to is press "previous page" a couple thousand times.
BTW, we are closing in on $6244, twice the 3122 bottom on stamp.

SEC doesn't have time to go after real criminals, they are too busy with Elon's tweets. I see you left the NSA out, since they made bitcoin :-)

From wikipedia, his main complaint seems to be that some people are getting wealthy while doing very little work. Does he realize how strange that sounds when told by a Congressman?

Stamp order book is clearing out. Just 1000 BTC left below $9000.
$4800 wall still HODLing.

I like the adds on that site: "This New Method Earned This Man Over €6K In A One Day"
Yawn, not interested to get out of bed for that.

More buying than selling in the Netherlands: bitonic.nl seems to be out of coins (or more likely, fiat is stuck at banks, somewhere between buying customers and being able to route that fiat to the exchange(s))

I hope the banks get the promised "instant" weekend payments sorted, so we all can trade bitcoin like the rest of the week.
(finally sees a good use for centralized crypto's issued by banks)

2-year chart (bitcoinity.org) looks healthy. Selling now is maybe not wrong but definitely gambling. I'll wait and see what happens in the 12 month before halving. I like the next halving because it puts the yearly printing of new coins below that of most fiat's.

Some media outlets don't even update there economy section on weekends. Mine is still showing an article about BTC reaching $6000.

If real, he got some help getting that bed there. But do try "cliff camping" in google images.

Based on the combination of Dutch government and computers, these intelligence packages can only mean 270KB  5 1/4 floppy disks.

ONE year to bitcoin supply halving. Every dip in the next 12 months could be the last chance!

Tax in Netherlands is just 1.2% per year of the Jan 1st "value", nothing on actual gains. Never used a mixer but I assume they charge more than 1.2%. Looks like they spend a year collecting information about really dumb people.

On a ULS(Boeing) Atlas-V rocket? I think I'll pass and take a SpaceX BFR.
BTW: starlink.com just went live.

Starlink revenue is estimated at $30 billion / year. SpaceX will need to be more efficient than NASA, but a reasonable Mars colony should be possible from that.

Apparently, it is 3% of global telecommunications revenue, which does not sounds unreasonable to me.

Improved bandwidth at good ping times for every home that is not yet connected directly to glass-fibre. Plus anything without a fixed location.
Similar to the Iridium network, but with many more satellites at much lower altitude, to provide more bandwidth and lower latency.
The first 60 v0.9 sats only relay via (local) ground stations, but Starlink is designed to have laser-based communication and routing directly between sats, so it doesn't really matter where the ground stations are and laser in vacuum travels faster than light in glass. Internet via geostationary satellites need to go 38000 km op and down (and always route via ground stations), Starlink just 400 km up/down.
The phase-array antenna chips and rest of the satellites is designed and build by SpaceX, and they use there own (re-used) rocket first stages and recovered payload fairings. Will be a while before competitors reach that level of vertical cost reductions.

The ground stations are only for connecting the satellite network to the rest of the internet. SpaceX is aiming for a "pizza box sized" phased array antenna for end-users. The phased array tracks satellites without moving parts and uninterrupted switch-over. If you have ever spotted the international spaces station with a similar altitude, that is how fast the Starlink sats will move overhead.

If you are a miner and make sure that transaction is only in the blocks you mine, you always get your transaction fee back. (This does not remove the possibility that someone just fat-fingered it using very unrestricted wallet software.)

7.000.000.001 (my cat has a facebook account)

I'm observing Powerwalls too. waiting for solar but have already prepared most cabling. Natural gas to be replaced with heatpump too.

If a full Powerwall doesn't get you through the night you need to seriously look at your "base load".
I have seen radio's pulling 18W in standby (157 kWh/year) and microwaves using 8W to show the (wrong) time, Desktops using > 5W when off and floor heating pumps drawing 95W 24/7, even when not used in summer.

At night I have:
12W 12V outdoor LED lighting (9 x 1.2W running from a single high-efficiency adapter) [edit: corrected]
4W internet modem/wifi (with all status lights disabled)
18W freezer, 75W with about 25% cycle time.
10W fridge, 65W with about 15% cycle time.
8W standby central heater (I turn this off in the summer unless I need warm tap water)
5W phone charger (10W for half a night)
Total: 57W night-time usage.
a single 13.5 kWh Powerwall would last a me a 236 hour night.

Safety comes primary from a good battery monitoring system, and secondary from how the cells are packaged. A shorted cell should heat up but heat transfer to the next cell(s) should be slow enough so the whole pack can't do a cascading runaway. Powerwall should vent some hot gasses but nothing more. Mine will be indoor and I plan to not store very flammable things like cardboard/paper right next to it. It's not a Chinese pouch cell, with just a thermal fuse, shrink-wrap "shielding", and very limited monitoring of charging and discharging conditions.

Better question: will we every go below $8k? And if yes, when will be the last time?

Yes, heating an AC are the big ones. I don't have AC, if needed I setup camp in my garage which always stays cool in the summer.
Off-grid with heatpump is almost impossible in the winter, I would need about 1/2 a Powerpack or 7 Powerwalls to handle a cold week without much sunshine, and ridicules amount of solar panels.
I am planning a 2000L hot-water buffer, connected to a back-up wood stove. During the day an air-water heatpump could slowly heat up this buffer using higher outside temperature and available sunlight, and I could then pump that buffer through the house after I get home and at night. 2000L of water is a very cheap battery  
I don't really care about break-even, the "ridicules amount of solar panels" only depends on BTC price.

There we are :-) so 5 hours. but will it be the last time?

Look in 6 months graph what happens after dropping volume. To the moon!

Don't know what to make of "black head eraser scrub". It sounds like something Michael Jackson would use.

It's a shame, but some things in life are quite simple.

Seems we are not seeing 8,5k anytime soon :-)

Good morning Tokyo.

I don't think gold is proven yet as a permanent store of value. At some point in history French kings had aluminium plates, while lower ranks had to make do with just gold plates. Aluminium was the valuable metal at that time. This could easily repeat with cobalt and related metals, which may turn out to be more technically useful than gold. (if you consider electricity storage more important than oil)
Gold jewellery must compete with many otter materials, including recently 3D printed metals and ceramics, and the use of gold jewellery is very dependent on country/region and fashion fluctuations. If cobalt keeps being more useful than gold, cobalt jewellery could could become more fashionable than gold jewellery.

I'm switching to the 30-day graph  
Still well above 1%/day, which I consider to be normal steady rise.

Bitcoin has taken all the fun out of smuggling gold bars. Just smile while nocoiners try to detect crypto-keys with a metal detector.

It's not an old wall (including the Berlin walls), since it's quite modern concrete material. It's not a famous mural because those usually extend all the way to the floor.

The gaps or glass in the wall is lined up with the pavement tiles, but the pavement tiles look less more than 0.5 meter. I don't think it's a metric country.

Not enough gum for a (train)station, so maybe a museum or a bank building. The narrow windows would work well for bank security.
(Banks have always had the most impressive façades, since that is all they are.)

Edit: EU buildings in Brussels would fit that just as well as banks.

scarier than Theranos! (I just don't see how people could invest in someone that looks so disconnected from this world)

$600 and 3 days remaining for $9,251 17 June. (poll)

Why are the WO polls always so pessimistic?

JPY is now worth 10x as much?

Looks like the quoted Y100750 is missing a digit.

Last chance!

Does that site even work correctly?
I would expect to be better off with $9 a day during the first year, then hodl for 8 years.

Tesla is actually working towards 1M miles lifetime on drive-train and battery. They also provided battery upgraded for the original Tesla roadster, long after it ended production. They are not there yet but at least they are trying to build long lasting cars instead of frequently selling replacement cars.

Could have been my exact words. Why would you want the complexity, heat, weight, cost, maintenance and lifespan of a gasoline engine in a car that does not need it? And don't even start on hybrids that can not be plugged in to charge, only charge using the gasoline engine. That got to be the absolute most expensive electricity you could possibly use for charging.

Countless images from space proof that Earth is round. Like a pizza.

$9,251-$9,500, which basically describes today.

Next level seasteading: https://hackaday.com/2019/06/21/retrotechtacular-this-boat-isnt-sinking-its-doing-research/

I have a feeling fiat-banks won't be in the “virtual asset service providers” category.

Bob on his ranch: https://youtu.be/MWWkysK7FGo (It's an old TV add for the state-run lottery, back when I still owned a TV)

We are still less than 1.5% per day, over the last 30 days. 1% .. 2% is pretty normal.

Observing with my cat in a sunny garden, on a long LAN cable because the wifi of my cheap-ass laptop broke and as usual I'm at flat-out-of FIAT.

opsec. If Facebook AI worked on more than just faces, do you think they would tell anyone about that?

edit: Wait, I just figured out how libra can enforce fixed exchange rates.

It would not be unreasonable, but if I look at the order book (stamp) I see a lot of people gambling that it will go below $10k, but also a lot of people not taking that much risk and betting on just above $10k. I think so many people are betting on a correction that it won't happen. ever.
It is possible that a large holder dumps the price below $10k, but with all the people around that are waiting for this, it would be very short dip, with the bottom being the last sell of this large holder. There is no profit in a move like that.

We will see what happens, but I'm not gambling on a correction in the current situation.

Not Amazon, but I do buy my bread ingredients in bulk, on-line. I have not bought supermarket "bread" for 7 years.

stamp order book: 1000 coins can be bought below $17700
and that's before the supply is actually halved.

It looks like the marked has decided that ATH was a fair market price, so get it over with.

Unless they want to get rekt by banks, they should keep reserves in whatever people use to buy and sell LIBRA. That would be more than 0.1%.

If you have no strong preference either way, you could ignore the offer and start asking some questions July 30, and see if they can do better.

(we won't tell anyone)

Time to HODL, watch some TSLA shares for a week, then see how btc is doing.

11k...

80% of 4 year interval now.

984 BTC left below $12k (at Stamp)

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The whole point of switching to fiat currency is full control of reducing or increasing the supply. Name one fiat currency that is not manipulated.

I assume this is before the "$100,000 BTC in one hour", else it would be quite a big drop.

With some funky color curves in Gimp I can still read 95% of the address in your version :-)

Most won't even know which group they are part of, just there for there weekend workout.

The same day my (Dutch) government secretly took over one of our largest banks, after a silent bankruptcy, they were still telling the public the crisis would not hit in our country.
The EU government is also consistently overoptimistic in all of there predictions:
https://voxeu.org/sites/default/files/image/FromMay2014/mody11febfig4.png (chart)
On the other hand, governments completely underestimated bitcoin :-)

observing $10,111

The EU membership is not really an advantage for some members, as the free trade and strong Euro (compared to there old devaluing currencies) is killing there economy. This is more-or-less compensated by the EU sending lots of fiat there way, to make them stay. Then there are several small and large members that end up footing the bill for that. The small members don't really have a choice as they are small and the EU isn't even very democratic in the first place. The big countries footing the bill get somewhat compensated by killing the economy of other members, and they get a lot of political power, because in the end, the one who spends the fiat decides. This whole situation is very unstable but somehow managed to not really go anywhere. Now a big to middle-sized nett-paying members leaves. What is remaining is France and Germany being the only remaining big members, and without the UK write the law, as long as they can keep the small members divided. Financially there is a big hole as the EU seems incapable to adjust there budget, so everyone will have to pay more, most small members get much less influence, and the biggest problem: some members will for the first time have to send fiat to the EU instead of it only going in the other direction. If you think the UK is making ridicules demands, just watch what these last group of members are going to do.

I think the EEG trading agreements and open markets, with shared product standards was good. A single currency was not good, and many members would never have been allowed to join it if the rules where strictly followed (and the agreed financial rules are still not enforced). Giving the EU a budget and the power to spend it (and demand budget increases) was the biggest mistake. If leaving countries go back to something like the EEG and have linked currencies that can be uncoupled if needed, we would all be in a much more stable and long-term situation than now.

Wikipedia is seriously lacking list of worldwide plaza's, indexed by pavement patterns.
Surprisingly, Google AI also isn't autistic enough to care about the patterns.

EDIT:
This one in Spain looks very similar, but not beg enough:
https://www.google.com/maps/@40.4588189,-3.4790733,3a,18.3y,232.07h,80.69t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s01FQ2rPFSG0LW3c2SoMvQQ!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

I'm a bit worried about the big limit. It would be the perfect opportunity to include house and pension, which are now exempt.
Paying taxes over actual gains instead of fixed 1.2%/year is new for the Netherlands but brings us in line with the rest of the world. I hope the free limit is also for investments, not just savings accounts at government mandated local banks.
Anyway, I hope to hit that limit with just 4 BTC  soon

Still up 8% over the last 7 days.  1% or 2% a day is plenty, no rush. (252 days to supply halving)

I was thinking about a new company logo and this would be an interesting feature....

boom

Bullets kill people.
https://youtu.be/VZrFVtmRXrw

Only the state and banks where bankrupt. The population was enjoying the low taxes and early pensions.

Legendary status correlates to making many posts, so legends are more visible which skews your observation :-)
But not everyone has time to make that many posts and this place treats new and old readers equally for the most part. Even if you post really dumb shit you will need to be very persistent before getting put on ignore. Have fun!

We are almost at 92% of the 4 year cycle. I find this halving particularly interesting because from that point less than 2% of new bitcoins will be created annually.

There have been very few halvings and the circumstances in the precious ones where quite different. I think this means we have plenty of excitement ahead that is not priced in at all.

Bitcoin is very real so "virtual currency" must be fiat.

Deserts have snakes. If you want high radiation without bats, snakes or other wild animals, Mars is a good option. The low atmospheric pressure and therefore the need for pressurized spacesuits also help keeping bad stuff out, unless you share habitats, then all bets are off.

This is getting boring. The usual slow and steady +1%/day over the last 30 days and 100 days to reward halving.

Forget about fiat, gold and bitcoin, face masks are the new currency!

When your team does it, it grows the economy (sure, measured in that currency) and creates jobs (and hides that banks are bankwupt).
When the other team does it it is keeping a currency artificially low and causing a trade deflect.

btc slowly dropping is probably because everyone buying TSLA. I'm hodling both

What if we cross it once and never go back to 4 digits? I suggest a shot at every mined block while above $10k.

That site doesn't look very independent. Still, from technical analysis of the virus it is clear that a natural mutation is very unlikely. It is also likely that it has been going around for much longer than claimed, so rich people could have been aware for much longer that the shit hit the fan. That still does not prove the release was intentional. It is also pretty clear that any official numbers could be off by a factor of 100 or more, based on workload at coroners and that people passing away at home are not counted, not tested and not picked up by a coroner.

The rest is just speculation and does not really matter as what we do know is more than bad enough. for humanity, the world economy and especially the Chinese exports. If the virus can really survive for months depending on circumstances, expect countries to lock down imports in ports for a year or two while the virus lifetime is investigated. people don't like it when there shipments stay in ports for a year with a high likelihood of being incinerated after that anyway.

I really hope the infection spread slows down when people learn how bad it really is, and become more careful. And that more effective treatments are found.

Similar issues without Tor.

"the end goal was to have one node controlled by Calvin Ayres" Just cruel.
On the bright side, with two nodes a 51% attack is not possible.

If they try to make bitcoin useless for those things, does that make the value zero (so no taxes) in those situations?
Or are they promoting bitcoin for those use-cases as a valuable payment system, so it can be taxed accordingly? confused now.

(on topic) Someone on stamp decided $10.300 is the magic number.

(after some googling) it was almost $3 on jan 9 2018, and has been a few cents since then.

Google interest is already just above the 2016 peak, and the last 2 years a lot more than the 2 years before 2016. People are interested, mainstream media need to fill there pages and there is plenty of content from the previous halving that they could copy-paste. Unless there is other news that simple to write about well in advance (like elections) this halving is not going to pass unnoticed.

Another important factor is that in June 2016, interest rates on savings accounts peaked at about 4.5% to 5%, and this halving you would be lucky to find an interest rate that is at least positive. People are looking for alternative ways to handle there savings.
Oh, and the annual supply of new bitcoins is also halved, from 3.67% to 1.8%, comparable to annual dollar and euro printing.
And bitcoin has been around for another 4 years. Teens and early 20's hardly remember a world without bitcoin.

I was always in the halving-is-probably-good-for-price camp, but just now thinking more about the current situation compared with 4 years ago, I'm starting to feel a lot more positive than usual.
As an example, back in 2018 I had scripts running that polled the bitstamp price JSON data and started an MP3 to wake me up in case of price dips at night (BTFD), have not done that for years but now any old app supports BTC alarms, and I just started enabling them.
I sold upto 20% to pay bills and debt every now and then, and bought back in the dips, still holding about the same number of BTC. Not many, but debt-free and a few BTC helps a lot in retiring a few years early.

Yes but 2 Bitcoin better than 1 Bitcoin.
I'm getting way too nervous for my health, so I BTFD at $9870. First buy this year, and the highest price I ever payed.
For some reason I sleep fine when I'm holding BTC and the price tanks 50% but get very nervous about missing the train. Anyway, that's taken care of now.

Keeping Nasdaq closed on Washington Day is just a sensible precaution. George created both the first bank and the first financial crisis  
that can't be a coincidence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#National_Bank

Seen that poster last week and was disappointed bitcoin didn't make the cut. Maybe the maker was as clueless about digital currency as they where about cyber criminals.

Tor sounds useful when you don't trust your ISP but do trust the NSA who operate most of the exit nodes. (i.e: not very useful)

If there is a demo version that shows a 3D preview of the generated toolpath, use a GPU dump tool (designed for dumping 3D characters from games) to dump the toolpath, then convert the 3D lines back to gcode.
Obviously not speaking from experience here, and nowadays its well worth exploring open-source options.

I find an alternative theory more likely: China has know for a long time that Asian people are more susceptible to corna viruses. They where doing extensive research and accidentally infected one of the researches. Bad luck, it turned out to be a nasty one, having unexpected propagation abilities and long incubation times, rendering even extreme (but too late) countermeasures ineffective.

The USA is not that stupid, thinking they could keep this outside there own borders and they are as much affected by reduced international trade as anyone else. Even Trump knows that even the "made in America" stickers are printed abroad. There are no winners in this case.

Was already in bed but had an alarm set for $9700. BTFD!

I'm ready for the next dip. if it doesn't happen, that's fine too.

I kept the btc but continued the BTFD practice on TSLA stock, and did well. If this crypto-winter lasts any longer, I may be forced to look for a 3rd project.

Shipping from China has stopped, while large container ships have less than 1 crew person per 1000 containers, The ships are practically unmanned.
Yet tourist keep flying around the world meeting other large groups of tourist from other parts of the world in very confined tourist attractions.
It's the perfect way to spread a human virus as fast and far as possible.
The average age of tourists, traveling to a climate they are not used to and eating food they are not used to all does not help there immune system.
They are praised for giving out a warning on the sabbath, yet I read nothing about (temporary) halting this perfect way to spread the virus.
It may have worked in this case but I think we are close to passing the point where halting tourist from specific countries would work.

It looks like the virus can not only be transmitted before there are any symptoms, but also quite long before the medial tests can detect it. These situations could also be explained by the tests just not being very accurate, which is equally worrisome.

Hospitals seem to be a large source of new infections, also outside China, but screening of medical personnel is not implemented yet or is not very effective. I hope hospitals and researches will work together to figure out how this virus behaves and how to best deal with it soon. For now, staying healthy and having access to pure oxygen when lung problems develop seems to best remedy.

And don't forget to pass on your private keys!

I trust these guys to know what they are talking about, but I don't trust anything they say. I'm not worried for financial reasons (btc feels ok and already reduced my exposure to stock markets) only about health, especially for the age brackets above me.

Maybe news traveling fast over the internet is a blessing in this case, if people take this a bit more serious than whatever there government is telling them. Even people normally putting 100% thrust in there government and not beveling anything on the internet, get a lot more careful when there own health is involved.

I just found out I must be BSV infected too.
edit: wow, almost $300!

(off-topic) the $10.300 wall at stamp has finally disappeared.

Accumulation phase.

New French virus case, 18 days after traveling from China. There seem to be a lot of outliers to the maximum 14 day quarantine rule.

I'll forgive Trump for being 1 day off.

US gold reserve scrambled and stalled for weeks when Germany asked to return the gold they stored there. There is just thin-air bars there.

Finaly.

Nicholas William Leeson's birthday was Tuesday last week. But it's still a nice number.

70 days and counting. +3.5% a day would end up exactly at $100k (warning, optimistic timeline here )

Printing your own fiat is a rare but valid reason to have no use for bitcoin. I'm sure he will do fine without it, at least financially.

I think the math is off by 6 zero's. Everyone would get just $1. (the footnote should read: "calculated with my iPhone")

For now. Low oil price means all investments in oil production are canceled, resulting in oil shortages later. Your only hope is unexpectedly high electric car production numbers, to offset a shrinking oil industry.

Just a subject that I find fascinating. These days oil is mostly used for transportation. I think a reasonable percentage of that will go electric in a shorter time than the time it takes to generate a return on new oil investments. Media gets all worked up about a couple percent changes in worldwide oil production, but turns a blind eye to demand that could fall faster than the oil industry can adapt to without big write-offs.

I'm on the lookout for a second-hand Tesla, and unfortunately they have a very good resale value  

Tesla also does not support the Nokia N900 running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo 5 (still a better interface than both apple and android) Anyone else still using a phone with a battery manufactured in 2009?

There are no spare strings, only some models have a software-caped battery capacity that is temporary lifted in disasters. The battery management is closed but it's not too difficult to find a bad cell. The problem is that all the cells are glued to the cooling system and replacing a cell is next to impossible. They do put many cells in series paralel, with a fuse wire on each cell, so a misbehaving cell does not kill the battery, only reduces the capacity. (basically, if it shorts itself, the fuse of that cell is blown by the charger or all the other cells dumping there load into that cell.)
Tesla 3 has just 4 battery modules that could possibly be replaced, 2 long modules in the middle, and 2 shorter modules on the sides to give the front wheels some space. The trick to long lasting li-ion is keeping them balanced, both by tight manufacturing tolerances and good battery management electronics, and careful regulation of battery currents, voltages and temperature while charging and discharging.
Current Tesla batteries won't last 1M miles but that is what they are aiming for, including the batteries. How many car manufacturers are aiming for that kind of lifetime without major maintenance?

At least in Tesla's sold in the EU, they don't send any statistics to Tesla by default, just download software updates which you can deny. But enabling the sending of statistics does help improving the software (safety features and self-driving) for EU roads.

It runs fine off-line, obvious without streamed music: https://forums.tesla.com/forum/forums/no-navigation-map-without-cellular-signal The car will usually wait for a wi-fi connection before downloading software updates and sending statistics, to save data bandwidth on the SIM. It does call Tesla directly in events like airbag activation.

Tesla thought of that. If you get in the car and don't enter anything in the navigator or give any speech commands, it will check you schedule (if linked) and else the navigation defaults to driving home. All we need now is full-self-driving to get your drunk self home.

or wait for the Tesla Semi truck.
(getting bored of this 9100 here. do something!)

It just looked off, and it is. that's 17 grains of rice. didn't check the rest.

All things being equal, which of course they are not, 1 year closer to the supply halving.

I do hope they all wash there hands after this. I wouldn't take the risk of this much physical contact over a bit of paper.

Not even taking the symptoms like high fever into account. This is either fake or they are talking about air humidity and somehow (unreliably) relate this to climate temperature.
On a related note, a Dutch hospital ran an experiment: replace all stainless door handles and metal surfaces with copper or copper-plated metals. It worked really well but was not implemented further since regular good cleaning (which is never done well in practice) was expected to be cheaper.

Volume. People trying to sell high and buy low, and people being tricked into the reverse. Don't fall for it, ride along.

My nick was not created in 2015, 2015 was that horizon but it still took 3 years to get back to $1K. And look where we are now.

I buy massive unreasonable amounts of TP, but not out of panic. Together with home-baked bread, it drastically reduces my supermarket volume, so I can just about manage with a tertis-level over-filled shopping basket instead of needing a shopping trolley for the rest of the year. Saves a lot of time every time I visit a supermarket. Both in time navigating a busy supermarket and returning the trolley from the car-park.

If $8400 is reached maybe. there also is a wall at 8250 at stamp, small but its been there for a while.

Anyone selling 100's of corn now is not planning to invest that in the stock market on Monday. They plan to buy back in BTC before the price shoots back up.

According to google, the US had a total of 94,837 ICU beds in 2015, 20 times too few.

from this week: "Iran has temporarily released more than 54,000 prisoners in an effort to combat the spread of the new coronavirus disease in crowded jails."

Out of my two remaining options, this is by far the most attractive one.

Oil up 3%. TSLA up 4% after-hours, bitcoin: not moving one satoshi. This is going to be an interesting day.

If they round it up to $450,000 it still won't cover fixing the permanent damage to internal organs and immune system. I'm not talking about whatever drug they want to test, just the drugs your own body generates when it switches to survival-mode.

Al we need now is clueless newspapers writing that bitcoin is going to be halved in two months.

LoL NFS has almost zero security. if the IP address of a client matches, they get full access.
(but maybe it does not have remote code execution and it could be routed over an encrypted tunnel or VPN to add decent security.)

I have nothing stronger than 2% in the house and have to work tomorrow but I'm making an exception.

About 30k volume on stamp during the up/downs, yet only 1k coins on the book before we reach $8k, so not that much to scoop up.

NOW there is something to scoop up. 1K coins below $6300.

That's a really depressing image. just look at that TP.

It looks like exchanges are still functioning well.

My guess: at least 90% of whats now selling is doing so with the intention of buying back the same or more coins later.

American media will go 100% election-mode before the end of 2020.

I received a letter from my Dutch bank a few weeks ago that they changed the TOS so they now have the option to charge a negative interest on all accounts. (was +0.01%) As far as I know, they already are doing this on commercial accounts. Denmark has been doing this for a long time and even has had consumer mortgages with negative interest rates.

Google reverse-image-search: it's from http://sa-news.com

edit: reading that site clears up my uncertainty about how Africa will handle corona. They won't. At all.

It's a single-strand RNA virus. It may be relatively stable, and the mutations may be unlikely to have much effect, but it still mutates quite a lot.

In the Netherlands 80% of hospitalized cases is overweight, while "only" 50% of the population is overweight (by Dutch metrics). It's just one data point but it could mean the US healthcare system will be hit harder than what we have seen in Asia. The US does have the advantage of having more time to prepare and start earlier with testing, but that was true for Asian countries outside China as well.

Edit: for reference:

Have been baking my own bread for years (thanks Panasonic) and it also makes pizza dough. Since a few years I'm ordering breard flour in 25kg bags. (I put 1/2 in smaller bags in the freezer). I keep graded cheese in the freezer too. Together with canned/frozen vegetables I did shopping every 3rd week and can now stretch that to two months without much effort. Supermarket is fine here but I try to minimize the number of visits anyway.

Will collide with oil becoming a less crucial part of running ones economy. Countries don't keep reserve currencies to ensure there economy has an ample supply of MS Office licenses.

Interesting. Most countries have only samples of a few strains while the Netherlands has many samples of all 7, only the US mutation was not sampled here.