Not sure something that's voluntary can't be viable or have been demonstrated to be such.

Bye bye BCash.

https://medium.com/coinmonks/bye-bye-bcash-good-riddance-to-bad-actors-71dd926eb38b

You sound salty.

http://p2pfoundation.ning.com/m/profile?screenName=0ye0gncqg772o

This is supposedly one of the few Satoshi's profiles.
Check his activity. He just updated his status to "nour".
Someone hacked into his account or..?

Also quite a few 2010 and 2011 addresses never touched are now transferring out bunches of 50 BTC

https://mobile.twitter.com/CryptXO/status/1067521350598885377?s=20

This is what Bryce Weiner says about it: https://twitter.com/BryceWeiner/status/1068433938387890177

Well, but we still don't believe it is satoshi nakamoto in person updating his profile, do we?

So this time Bryce Weiner got it right.

Anyway, I wouldn't be surprised if CSW is preparing some show soon. We haven't had much drama since the hashwar sorta ended.

but it was an easy chart NOW just need to see if it plays out

Bad penny much?

not out of BTC but F*** i'm totally out "rekt" of SendableMerit, need some to give some around here

 This hat will fix everything¹



Avatar-sized



N.B. the background image is of the best dog park in Fort Meyers where dog groomers are called coiffeuses

¹everything being (everything/0)^2

Bitcoin was created as a reaction to the latest recession, but have always worked in a continuous uptrend.
A recession might make bitcoin a place to run to when stocks and shares go down, in that case price will go up. Or bitcoin might be what you sell to make ends meet when your stock and shares are down, in which case the price will go down.

we simply do not know how bitcoin works in a recession, it might not reach any new ATH until the recession is over.

    $200: An altcoin is anything other than ____?
    $400: This rapper killed Coinye.
    $600: Each transaction is [in]a block connected in these digital ledgers that enable crypto to work.
    $800: This 3-letter chat app created a currency similar to its name Kin.
    $1000: Which country created the Petro?
https://sludgefeed.com/cryptocurrencies-featured-on-jeopardy/

Thanks for your well-wishes. I expect SV will be the long-term victor. However, markets are made of people, and people are largely irrational. Accordingly, I'm hedged in order to be all right regardless of whether it be SV, ABC, or even Segwit that goes the distance.

He believes in the wisdom of Calvin Ayre and Craig Wright



Which is, frankly speaking, hilarious.  

Fuck no we absolutely would not post that shit to social media with our personal brands splashed across it

No. The term is not bitcoin+cash+sv, it is bitcoin+sv. And it is trending currently at 100.

Even if it were 86, you are still making my point for me.

Most males are jealous of these rich playboys that have sluts lining up to fuck them.

That's what I'm here for, I followed booty pictures on Google images and accidentally ended up being invested into crypto and stressing about price on the daily.

Well, I'll admit I don't know much about Google Trends. But it certainly looks like my claim is indeed correct. Remove superfluous qualifier from the query string:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=Bitcoin%20SV

...and the value is 100.

More germane - even if it were 29, you are still making my point for me.

ETH now manfully engaged in the fight to become a double digit shitcoin.

Will it pull it off?

With aplomb.

None. Of. Those. Zero. Money. Making. Experimental. Projects. Justify. Ethereum's. Exchange. Price.

It doesn't matter how 'interesting' they are, if they don't make money they are worthless, and people that buy ETH just to put money into worthless projects are supporting garbage. And in turn are supporting ETH, which has no reason to exist outside of supporting garbage.

This isn’t a beginner thread so not the place to discuss the virtues of POW but you need to go listen to some Nick Szabo lectures on the topic

controlling a billion dollar market by yourself deserves an award not prosecution

^^
later on this day mic is gonna come home, his GF has read his post during the day, punches him square in the face for continuously crying @ home cause of the drop
and being on the form like a stonecold hodler that doesn't care hahaha LoL

Australian farmers market lady accepting the btc. She called herself an early adopter in the farmer market business. Very cool

just saw this one
so let that farmer money come in as well

When moon?

We're in a speculation thread...

has to be 2.5MB or less

How much do that signature campaigns pay nowadays? Maybe now that I am poor I should contemplate wearing one for f00d.

domination only grows in XRP, ETH and BCH https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/#dominance-percentage

^
THX man

Sure. We've got a deal. I've already put my money where my mouth is. And I'll keep espousing how SV retains more of the properties of Bitcoin than does BTC - which added all manner of unnecessary counterproductive cruft.

Bigblocker Jbreher loves those 2000T blocks. He wants those heavy data centers. Even if we lose Nakatomo Consensus, he doesn't care. Just tunnelvision 'centralise' everything.

Jbreher is not a profiled educated person because he copy/paste to many lines, with a lot of nonsence, he's a wannabe.

You can discus with Jbreher about all kind of subjects but when i comes to crypto do not trust him.

Of course, next week you may be looking back thinking 'I should have bought when it was below $300'. Don't be that guy.

Well, without saying anything else, you are making no case.

One example by picking a random date:

All I've been asking for is that the principles of logic, reason, and mathematics are adhered to. Which is fully consistent with 'the negative has not been proven'.

If someone is going to explicitly bludgeon me with some specious claim about my impressions of CSW -- no matter how tenuous -- I am going to insert some rationality into the discourse.

You know, now that I think about it, universality is also a good real word use of BTC.

Rather than paying your bank everytime you want to get money in another country than your home region you can simply pay in BTC! Or at least use BTC ATM.

I remember that visiting Hungary I paid about 8% of fees jsut to change from euro to Florint. Because you had first to cash out (5% fee) then to convert (3% fee).

So using BTC in this situation is actually pretty nice!

I recall that I had suggested to infofront that he (infofront) should delete some of his (roach's) posts once in a while, just to discourage a certain amount of the off-topicness and obvious desires to divert us from making more meaningful and substantial posts about bitcoin.  Can't know, for sure, unless infofront discloses regarding whether he is deleting some of roach's posts from time to time.

And just who do I need to blow to get on this list? Did JJG spam Theymos until he hit his trusted list?

Just fucking with you JJG,

Congrats to all those here who moved on up. We may be some crazy fucks in here but at least we are trustworthy crazy fucks who don't steal from people.

How about biology? Is biology okay?

Anything on Youtube that involves gay frog man

Weeee!

The dollar is very unstable today. Who's dumping dollars?

Hope you have trained her in bitcoin better than this girl


https://twitter.com/nagertherager/status/1086047277179785216

something is missing... a white russian, perhaps.

One random quote from the US State Department:


https://www.state.gov/documents/organization/210742.pdf

Gaylord Focker

Better find a job. Hoskinson says 10 years at the earliest for the market to get back to ATH.

https://www.fxstreet.com/cryptocurrencies/news/bitcoin-will-cost-20-000-in-10-years-charles-hoskinson-founder-of-cardano-201901250749

enjoy yourself
you're in for a threat man

just pay much attention to all the lines that are spoken etc

I think LFC is not here cause he's still mind-blown from that awesome movie

if bitcoin falls to 1000, then BCH will not fall lower than now

ETH may drop to $ 10, LTC to $ 4, but BCH may not fall below $ 75 because nobody bought it cheaper

Although this weekend is off to an involatile start so far, Mayne, a popular cryptocurrency trader, noted in a recent tweet that Bitcoin could very well climb higher in the coming days if it is able to break above a few key levels.

“$BTC if we break above the grey block you can add or wait until a break and close above yearly open to add,” he said, with the referenced “grey block” existing around $3,650.

Mayne later noted that Bitcoin has moved closer to this region, and if it is able to break above its yearly open at approximately $3,700 it could see a price surge up to $4,000.

Africa (the unbanked) is where we really need to push adoption. I guess the issue is not having the internet (wifi or 4G). Imagine if even 1 in 1000 people had a mobile phone & a BTC wallet or something.

in shitcoins: slow death incoming
https://www.reddit.com/r/eos/comments/abig35/the_oddly_interesting_correlation_between_dans/ ...Github activity and EOS price

https://twitter.com/TheJeffBridges/status/1089900907586826240
^
from here that BIG LEBOWSKI talk started? commercial for a Belgian beer?
I prefer a new movie ....

no.... thats a lie, I would love a prequel (but same time its very dangerous to create a worthy prequel on that classic) .....

Under $3,400 let's see what sticks or maybe the bottom isn't in.

Strictly speaking, bitcoin with segwit is the bastard child because segwit introduces changes to the code that dramatically alter the way it works. Bitcoin cash is more like your purebred, a continuation of the line with minor changes to improve performance. That's not to say that a good cross-breed won't outperform a thoroughbred however. That remains to be seen 

Let's hope it's a true compromise. Something like Segwit with BIP100 (or similar) would ensure this clusterfuck is far less likely to occur in the future. A very conservative system to increase the base blocksize over time, and Segwit to get lightning networks rolling. That's what I think should happen, but I'm bound to be wrong 

It's pretty much one of the most important films of all time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gayniggers_from_Outer_Space
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0274518/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/gayniggers-from-outer-space/reviews/?type=user

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

This masterpiece is nothing short of genius! I swear as God is my witness I honestly can't imagine why I haven't heard this film's praises sung from the day it was released. It melds the earthy, rough-hewn special effects of Doctor Who with the subtle cultural commentary of Orgazmo, and a touch of comic styling a'la Platoon thrown in just for good measure.

WO was a little bullish, which is a bearish sign IMO.

 I'm pretty sure MicG is talking about the original not the original.

Ummm thanks.  I guess.  

Wait, twitter jack jack? Hm. Maybe some of his questionable actions are just a result of being in a tough position.

'
  A simple hard fork reverting all parameters to those existing in July 2017 should resolve the issue.  

@gembitz, are you weeetching?

Nothing weird. Right after Hal Finney the next recipient was a white hacker group connected to US Military. Coincidence sure.

There is no such thing as English cuisine. There is food what you buy in England.

JPMorgan unveils first bank-backed 'JPM Coin' cryptocurrency

https://bitcoinist.com/jpmorgan-jpm-coin-cryptocurrency/

https://www.coindesk.com/jpmorgan-moving-its-in-house-crypto-to-real-world-trials-report

"Called JPM Coin, the token has been developed by engineers at the bank, according to a report from CNBC on Thursday, and is moving to real world trials in “a few months”

For the effort, JPM Coin will be used to settle a small portion of its transactions between clients of its wholesale payments business in real time, CNBC says. The bank moves over $6 trillion daily as part of that business, it adds.

Speaking to the news source, Umar Farooq, JPMorgan’s blockchain lead, posited three main use cases for the bank token, including replacing wire transfers for international payments by large corporate clients and cutting settlement times from days to just moments.

It could also be used to provide instant settlement for securities issuances, as well as to replace U.S. dollars at held internatinally by subsidiaries of major corporations using JPMorgan’s treasury services."

No. Some have figured it out. Chissakes, it ain't that opaque.

Go fuck yourself.

Yes, it is true that, had I not done so, some other would have. But I did. If some ignorant nobody is going to attack me with a slanderous claim of tech luddism, I am going to put them straight.

Incidentally, why do you feel compelled to comment upon this, which has absolutely nothing to do with you whatsoever?

re Square Cash app, i was fascinated to hear a snippet from Jack Dorsey in https://stephanlivera.com/episode/52
iirc he said 'we have a huge network of buyers'
now either that's good businesstalk for 'we have very few buyers' or he's truthful, which I buy, and a huge network by his standards is pretty large. pretty pretty large

people use it i gather to dollar cost average in (?)

LN is probably unsuitable for tips since the recipient has to be online. That's why these LN tipbots all hold your money, which I'm not a fan of. If you're using LN through a trusted third party, then you're better off not using it at all.

Here goes my take on this volume: its a bearish signal because these orders were specifically placed to draw in chart analysts. If it was sincere action these would have been purchased in smaller, measured increments so as not to catch many eyes.



Bearish for the next 3-7 days.

Yesterday's dump was because of some miner who transferred 2500 BTC in Bitfinex and sold directly. He was not a trader, because a several hours earlier, he could have sold to an ask wall of 1180BTC at 4230$. This guy clearly went above the electricity expenses and decided to take his profit. May be he read the old news article: https://coinnounce.com/cryptocurrency-regulations-in-china-the-journey-and-the-current-status/
When Chinese n00b miners read about the incoming ban (it will happen very soon indeed), I imagine how nerveous they get to sell their precious BTC's only to be able to pay the electricity and other expenses. I hope this year we will lose forever those weak hands and be able to recover in the ATH area at least. But even if these imbecile dumps hold us for another year, after the halvening we will shoot to the moon!

Obviously where we all get our information from, rumors and straight out of our asses.

Wait... you can't worry!  Don't k you know?

Blockchain is the greatest technology underlying bitcoin, and it is all that really matters!

Oh wow, if Bitcoin collapses to $800 it could collapse to $800. Be careful guys.

Map is correct, The treaty wresting the Columbia district from the HBC was signed in 1846

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_Treaty

I can name 3000 coins that literally came out of my ass that can do the same thing.

That’s the joke, except with the 3000 you don’t have to make an onchain transaction to fund your node.

You realize BCH is now BSV and that post was before the date of the fork?

Wanted to keep it quiet .... but cause you Ask.... i Will provid a few this evening

Its truely beautyfull down here, of-course the small town a bit dirty (with its charmes) but out town only green and beauty

IRL 10X more breathtaking ..... pic’s making it look more bad

(In the sea’s I saw 0 plastic or dirty things where i was) i did saw Some Holland peoples

^^
Where ever you go there are dutch
But normally they are very social and friendly ....
But you see them everywhere and still its a small sized country

We don't use bitfinex here.

I see that you have heard of bitstamp... right?  

Mmmm like this Philippine timezone

To live the pump——-> sleep the dump

Nice weather Nice green-ish btc prices
And my GF on my side
Life can be sunny and good from time to time (and away of them damn burgers... )

Haha we aren’t eating meat anymore for over 3 months or so..... my GF quitted and i followed

The arbitrage with Bitcoin to fiat is very risky. First, Bitfinex is nothing like the US exchanges (which are under the supervision of SEC) and is known with their "hacks" and "bank problems". This means your money can be stolen and you can't do anything about it. Second: if you buy at Bitstamp and transfer the Bitcoins to Bitfinex, you have to wait several hours during which time the price may dip. And finally, you are allowed to withdraw fiat only once per month a sum less than 1 mil$. Otherwise, you have to pay 3% fee. And since USDT is traded 2% higher than the USD, you are not able to withdraw on a profit USDT. Speaking of arbitrage, it is better to use ETH or other alt, because they are faster. But the premium is smaller, I think 1.5%. Anyway, it is not worth the risk IMO.

Not that I am encouraging spending BTC, but sometimes it can be nice to have possible easy access to emergency funds through BTC, especially when traveling, right?  Do you see any BTC teller machines? around manila or other cities?

Thanks.  That is the most specific on the ground BTC report that I have seen so far about the philipines.  I am considering going there later in the year.. depending on a couple of other matters that I have to research too before I finalize.  I'm thinking that I will probably know more in about May-ish.... regarding timeline or possible competing locations.

Let me help you with that.

An article about Tim Draper and Bitcoin :

Starbucks Will Laugh if You Still Use Cash in 3 Years: Bitcoin Bull Draper

Let's hope whomever mines it is kind enough to return it. It's been done before.

To learn how to use it. And to establish reputation for the future. Both of which imply a chance for passive income down the road.

(fair points)

Relevance to my observation that dishonest and dishonorable opponents are once again using falsehoods to try to taint a coin by association? None.

Btw we have trolls in here don’t join them

God bless ..... the copy paste

Credit doesn’t go to me to often, but sharing = caring

https://twitter.com/ProfFaustus/status/1106110476268830720

otherwise mildly interesting reminder thread from Pouliot, who seems to have been born yesterday

Well, what more you could expect?


https://twitter.com/CalvinAyre/status/1105762349397565440

I was reading all those comments and honestly speaking those are some interesting comments. I am not a big fan of John McAfee but he also left some wise words.

ignored

Poor advice: the bullish scenario targets 5200$, while the bearish one targets 2100$. Quite a difference, and any early clue regarding the winning scenario would be very valuable to me.

BitcoinTalk Lost A Third Of Its Users In February

https://www.ccn.com/bitcointalk-lost-a-third-of-its-users-in-february

"The BitcoinTalk forum lost a third of its referrals from the bitcoin community in February, according to available traffic data from website analytics firm SimilarWeb."

Coinmarketbook.cc is better than CMC.

BSV is ranked 16...

How do you like the TA, guys? 
(drawn chartdicks snipped)

Last 3 night of philippines, @nutildah and Philippine residence, gonna mis your true beautyfull island and to all people Reading this
If possible visit here now their is still not to much tourist (i didn’t saw to many..... )

Has there been a massive MSM outrage yet? Against the letter?

And accurate.

You don't have to like it, but it is a fact that Islam is fundamentally incompatible with western culture. They have no business here. And no place at all to play victims.

Yes. And their little children too, they are all part of the same group.

But not their dogs.

And no, I am not joking. The dogs did nothing wrong.

Can you explain, with facts and numbers and cause and effect, why I am wrong? Your personal emotions in this moment are not evidence of anything.

I disagree on this. I think a new and brilliant technology invites all sorts of crazy and it benefits from the crazy people. I read the WO thread everyday because of this reason. I have nobody on ignore because I find all these kinds of different perspectives super interesting. I wouldn't want to read the WO thread if it gets heavily censored. Let people like r0ach and Ibian make racists remarks who cares, let Bob posts pics of green dildo's, let JJG write up super long paragraphs. This is what makes this thread the best place on this forum.

Discard your cognitive dissonance, open up yourself to all kinds of crazy ideas, theories, opinions and learn from it.

Opening up to is not the same as embracing something and all of its implications. If the US hadn't opened up to even looking at what was going on in Germany it wouldn't have stopped Hitler. And maybe if the right people opened up to Hitler he would've never gone down the path that he did.

Also, I strongly believe that the way in which you interact with things you hate strongly impacts the way you look at things you love. Closing off to aspects of one I believe could cause one to close off to aspects of what you love, for better and for worse.

And then, if one can't look at things he hates with an open mind then that suggests to me that their conviction has been flimsy at best in the first place.

You don't have to convince anyone and you don't have to be convinced by anyone during a conversation. And even without doing so you can always skim off some new information or perspective from the exchange.

I also firmly believe that you can not even begin to fully appreciate reality without remaining open to and learning from all aspects of it. After all, even our biggest enemies and the worst atrocities are part of the reality we find ourselves in. As a result, we are fundamentally incapable of understanding reality without really understanding our enemies. And we can't understand our enemies without engaging with them.

Noticed it to .....

Man i do love all those quotes from that movie



Where the F*** did they found all that high class humor and let it flow in that one movie.....

Saw others were trying to keep things SFW, so, yeah, I had a change of heart

Point is; ICO's are scams.

my god nutildah
wtaf
apoplexy intensifies
can't    even  even

You seem a lot less pessimistic of ICOs than many others here, especially giving a 20% "not a scam" assessment to the top 100 (and maybe they deserve 1% not a scam rating at best?), and as an elephant in the room, you did not really describe some of the issues that ICOs have when they raise a whole hell of a lot of money up front (likely way more than they need) when they would not likely have been able to raise even close to a fraction of such amounts through traditional means (that is a significant reason why they did ICO in the first place which is a means to get unintelligent investors on board).  Once they raise their initial money, then it is questionable whether they will carry on with their vaporware (and frequently vague ass) promises because they already made a killing up front (where is the incentive to deliver, even if (WHICH IS A BIG ASS "IF") they initially had good motives?).

yea..its hard to tell at times. oh well..i tried.

Better read the fineprint and dont touch this:

https://dnafriend.com/fineprint

I met the information in the report from the philologists that the style of writing of the text of these two is almost identical.

This doesn't have anything to do with Bitcoin.

This is CoinMarketCap's scam.

I've been posting about that for a while.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121557.msg50231076#msg50231076
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121557.msg50222937#msg50222937
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg49998213#msg49998213

Those marketcap websites are listing the fake volume exchanges, that's the problem.

If SEC takes their data from CMC then they are fools. If they can't separate the fake data from real, then they are fools. If they don't have the manpower for the job... you know.

I could do without their 'help'.

And by 'help', I mean meddlesome restrictions barring voluntary action. Under color of law.

If you wanna say "Hi" to CSW, he's here :

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5120026

https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2019/03/22/new-zealand-mosque-shooters-mention-of-bitconnect-could-setback-bitcoin-acceptance/

Right.

Is it anyone's responsibility to address Tarrant's mention of BitConnect or is it something best ignored?

If you had lots of dodgy bitcoins.

A wallet that mined 300 bitcoins in the old days could be a viable "source" when explaining them at cash out


right?

I missed this latest scammery. What's he after old empty wallets for?

Thanks, appreciate it. Will look into it further
So it was the email address someone used to connect this with Craig?

I have 2 thoughts on this, maybe it takes away from BTC holders but maybe it stops retards from becoming sour BTC losers as they lose it all on shitcoins and were never in it for the right reasons to begin with.

Wow, I've been doing it wrong for all of these years.   Buying hash at nicehash to mine shitcoins didn't work out too well for me. I did wear a few sigs back in 2015/2016. But I dumped the yobit sig for some bounty campaign, not a smart move. Then when I was done with that, I didn't want to enter sig campaigns because many wanted you to post in sections that I have zero interest in and to change your avatar. I miss my hat already. But I'll get over it.

Let's just hope C-hunter doesn't migrate over to this thread. I'm sure he will find our merit cycle here quite unpalatable. When it comes to merit cycling, we do it best around here.

If some of you are interested, these are some of the places I went to today.

Little India and its temples

***ATTENTION***

Con man alert!

This guy will sell bCash scam shitcoin to you saying that that is Bitcoin.

What a fucking scumbag, says anything for a buck. Hope he loses it all.

Good good morning btw have a good saturday, do something fun

The sight is beautiful.

Yes, it the way it is. You can not do much about it. They want to suck it all LOL

^
Probably they Will not be there when you are poor, but still I also tip Some peeps over there especially when I don’t feel ripped of
Like a cab driver try to overprice me Then i’m a little harder....
Another cab driver Some road much less of the price (still only scratch when compare to EU standards) Then I sometimes tip them big time or people giving other services......
What I do hate is cause your tourist they try to charge you for anything everywhere, philippines speciality was entrance fee @every corner

Update:

Rank	User name	BPIP profile	Total Earned-Merits	Trust
Administrator	theymos	theymos	4067	204: 0 / +22
Legendary	LoyceV	LoyceV	2317	91: 0 / +14
Sr. Member	DdmrDdmr	DdmrDdmr	1987	2: 0 / +1
Legendary	suchmoon	suchmoon	1814	59: 0 / +11
Founder	satoshi	satoshi	1710	200: 0 / +23
Hero Member	micgoossens	micgoossens	1643	42: 0 / +13

A few more pics from today :

Guys like suchmoon, pharmacist META Guys fly to merit-MOON

Goes for both as us, now I know how i’m being held in the bitcoin forum books 

Still unanswered: How LN is going to help when Layer 1 is already clogged to the point of uselessness.

Incidentally, while BTC is up 14+% in the last 24 hours, BCH is up over 27% in the same time frame.

No, my whole premise is that the number of people who will be able to use BTC is hard-capped by the block size. I've been absolutely clear about this for years now. And you're so blinded by dogma that you can't even read what I am actually typing.

The number of people who will be able to use BTC is hard-capped at a ludicrously low number. Those unable to get in will go elsewhere. If for no other reason, because they have no other choice.

It is all driven by the block size, and dependent upon how many txs per day the average user makes. Any way you slice it, on chain tx capacity is limited by the block size. And inability to transact on chain also breaks LN - no opens, closes, or repudiation of stale channel state driven theft.

Daily tx capacity is highly variable upon the nature of that's day's txs, but it is well south of a million. So there's your hard cap.

^^^
I remember me being a bit rude towards him as well, and he always countered me very polite, I (already longer time) massively changed my behavior towards him cause as you say, on BTC everybody can have his own OPINION, I do hate Jbreher's thought but @the same time he does own BTC as well .... so can't be so bad, later on he will regret of not being completely in BTC alone...
But I do remember me acting wrong towards him, common Jbreher go FULL BTC    

One!

Absolute twaddle. I know you were here in 2017. Have you already driven the Blockapocalyse I from your memory? Too much "champaign" over the skyrocketing fees?

Of course it's always "what if" - the "what if" scenarios are the essence of system design.

Get the fuck out of here with your "anti-bitcoiner". Why TF do you think I incessantly harp on these BTC weaknesses? It is because I would like BTC to succeed. I don't take this nonstop, most-often ignorant and/or non-substantive abuse because I like it. I am trying to advocate for Bitcoin -- in all its forks -- to be all it can be.

OK. I mean, BTC can support a fuckload of people if none of them ever makes a tx. But that's not a usable MoE nor SoV. Not to mention the fact that to even get there will take literally decades. Like forty years for each person alive to make a single tx to buy into the system.

The next FOMO spike will be aborted due to tx capacity. We may even cap before that can take place.

Use of LN requires on-chain txs. Once the chain is full, LN breaks. We're bearing down on Blockpocolypse II, and there is still no relief valve.

Not to mention the relative irrelevance of LN in general. The average BTC on-chain tx is currently around $20,000.00.

What's LN channel max value again?

What percentage of Bitcoiners operate an LN node? What percentage of LN txs succeed on first submission? How much time does a typical LN-er devote to managing their LN node? Nay, LN is nowhere near being a suitable replacement for good old Bitcoin. It may get there some day. Far in the future.

Oh yes. The 'buhbut mah decentralization' canard. For the eleventy-bajillionth time, so-called 'nodes' provide no value to the system as a whole. But let's set that aside, as that's another twenty-page discussion in and of itself. Let's ask the question 'what percentage of LN users also operate a so-called 'node'?'

How quaint of you to claim that, when SV has processed multiple blocks larger than 100MB.

That's kind of an aside, however, as the entire point is to have capacity to accommodate the demand. Which is the economic model that nurtured Bitcoin until Blockstream threw out all the sane devs.

we talking BTC nodes here or lightning?

Can people stop engaging Jbreher. If I want to read his bullshit I'll go to /r/btc. He's beyond salvation.

well yeah then, who doesn't run a BTC node?

Even if he would.... Then it still would make more sense than owning Bcash (and surely with continiously repeating that Bcash is the real Bitcoin)

Add some salt

The Bitcoin developers, not only have to think about block size, they have to think about the whole of BITCOIN. Do not ever say they deliberately crippled Bitcoin, because that is an insult!

For sure he's a smart guy and makes some good points.

i owe you a big fat merit.

'Come back'? I've been here the whole time.

Depending upon the sequencing of things, Bitcoin Cash may be no more altcoin than is SegWit coin (which is somewhat playfully starting to be referred to as Bitcoin-Jr)

My only intent is to counter misinformation. Those that are open to thought will save themselves.

Because suppressing views is totally okay if they are your own! That can’t be a dictatorship!

What would you have me do? For the eleventy-bajillion-and-oneth time, a large number of so-called 'nodes' provide no value to the network as a whole. Of course, I'll probably continue to run a full-validating, non-mining wallet client or three for myself, as I like to be able to create txs that need no intermediaries.

What will you do when groups spam your small blocks, leading to the txs you desire unable to get included in the chain in under weeks, and even then at a cost of $thousands?

What of it? I stand by the statement. Do you find the disambiguation as 'SegWit Coin' perjorative? Are you embarrassed by SegWit? I maintain that the term 'SegWit Coin' is a useful disambiguation which makes it quite clear that one is referring to the BTC fork of Bitcoin. Though, admittedly, some (quite a few, actually) silly insecure ninnies got their panties in a bunch over my use of the term. To appease such snowflakes, I have more recently been using the term 'Bitcoin Core', which still provides the same disambiguation, while reducing the incidence of [~triggering intensifies~].

Happy?

We don’t talk about big blocks or BCH on Wednesdays.  For reasons. Instead we post pictures of ladies rock climbing.

Yeah, that's one of the big questions right?  

I guess part of the problem is that we (or at least I) don't have a clear view of what makes up a person/individual.  I mean, we know about brains being made out of neurons, glial cells etc., but have much more issues seeing how that translates to more abstract higher-order concepts such as consciousness, character etc. .

Oh-oh...someone did not take their GenBio class seriously  
remember...meiosis...crossingover...random tetrad orientation toward the poles...it is NOT half you,
but rather your mom's and dad's original gamete chromosomes (that made you) recombining (for each pair independently), then contributing half of that mix (randomly, but one from each recombined pair) to YOUR baby.

Video of Assange being arrested and dragged out of embassy minutes ago.

https://twitter.com/barnabynerberka/status/1116275982518898688

abort 'em all

conception is murder

Good morning WO's! I have a good news!
Changpen Zhao reminded that Craig Wright is not Satoshi, and even delisted Bitcoin SV from the stock exchange.

Did CSW pull some new stunt recently though or what's the deal here?

hollorith(sP?) code storage. gotta run

there is a steel punch plate for private keys https://www.blockplate.com/

Think Andreas said something along these lines, but this is not a cult and we don't have gods or dieties. If for some magical reason he has the keys to Satoshi's stash it would speak less of Satoshi than more of CSW. Not like people will turn to SV even if he could prove anything. His best case is people starting to believe that Satoshi got brain damaged and turned into CSW, oh well current BTC will live on...

Mmmm not everything is possible for example in my current state of health its not possible i'm selling BTC @these prices   

Is that kid actually running?

This is what I like about the Germans 😋

Good Morning !

Hi WO,s

This is the presentation format of the monthly statistics, it will be published on the last day of the month.

I would think the Philippines should be a considered destination afa close by possible safe havens if an embassy is not an option.

I wonder what our Philippine friends think of that?

@nutidah you okay bro? Heard news about earthquake in Philippines

I very much doubt it.  I have been watching the whole process and they were admirably frugal right along.  They used local labor, welded up the spar out in the open, not even in a shop.  Dragged it around with whatever they could scrounge up.

Elwar is NOT profligate with his money, they shopped around for their little boat for some time, and ended up buying a fixxer upper.

I would be quite surprised if there was more than $120K into the prototype all inclusive.

satoshi 'is not a happy camper'
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/john-mcafee-vows-to-unmask-crypto-s-satoshi-nakamoto-within-days

Speak for yourself or fuck off.

For the record, the following is my restatement as best I concisely can of Rizun’s ‘Five Fundamental Flaws of LN’:

1) Lightning scales txs not users
2) Friction in layer 1 leaks into layer 2
3) Routing failures are inevitable
4) Much trapped liquidity in the system
5) Running a non-custodial wallet is more cumbersome than onchain

In a limited manner, yes. For everything else, there is SV.

I guess I can't just assume a campaign is OK if it is on bitcointalk...found out they can be NOT OK and kicked out after the fact.....should  have

done my research and had the 20 posts a day ring a bell at least spam wise...whatever...know better now hopefully...

(anyway live an learn)

brad

Funny fact about the Tether FUD: governments have been doing exactly the same thing for decades, and nobody gives a shit about it.

Is Haiku Sunday still a thing?

Good day Bitcoinland,
Off to sunny Mexico
To get my new teeth.

I will update regularly to have them all in the gallery, I hope you like it.

I leave the direct link of the image in imgur.

That was a short spam attack period, you know damn well that was artificial and everyone knew it.

WARNING

Quoting the Roach below!

Giving ignorers a chance
to skip it.

Sorry for quoting the Roach, guys, but this may be worth a laugh. I was (passive-aggressively) amused.

Hey - very good spotting. But seems for BTC it's too late to fix that now.  There is only one from many 'busines case' left over: Speculation

 

then let us test  6000

Nutlildah, you do know your movies Sir....

Loved the Friday movies as well, many good quality humor scenes, Craig and Dayday just the nigga's I need to see. (don't use that word often as well, and never with a bad intention )

I always care about BTC price movements, as my bags are heavy with it. If there wasn't any upside for me in this advocacy, do you think I'd be taking the continued abuse?

And in point of truth, if you hadn't noticed, my attempts to gain recognition of the flaws within LN -- at the cost of crippled onchain capacity -- have nothing whatsoever to do with BCH nor SV, as neither of these chains suffer from anemic block size caps.

I did miss Some of those yes only high-school myself....

feel free to ignore him. i find he is a useful filter of information. ignores drama and fluff, only comments on technical stuff, with the chops to back up his views.

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Have a good Sunday and bring Some good Haiku, before I start trying.

$90 billion dollars net worth and going to kick the bucket at any second. WHY??? Talk about missing out on life.

Very useful insight into crypto. Has well thought out comments on forums. Overall good bitcointalk member.

Shopping List - permanent

tarts

Keep going.

We need to give every google translate fuckhead here a nosebleed and maybe they'll sign up for language classes.

Does he shower?

Makes little sense for them to lie about it being a hack rather than a mistake. And it looks like coins have already moved from those supposedly unspendable bc1 addresses.

Original hack - https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/e8b406091959700dbffcff30a60b190133721e5c39e89bb5fe23c5a554ab05ea

The first bc1 address on there has been emptied - https://chainz.cryptoid.info/btc/address.dws?bc1qp6k6tux6g3gr3sxw94g9tx4l0cjtu2pt65r6xp.htm

You're bored so you deem it acceptable to bore us with your unoriginal stories

Why did you go off with that painted floozy? Why, Mom?

...In 2018, Koch first created his prototype: He got plans for oil rigs and built a miniature version of them: XLII, a cabin made of white fiberglass panels, six meters wide, including a vertical steel tube with weights to stabilize. Koch set sail in February 2019. He towed the structure to a location 27 nautical miles from the nearest port, where the sea is particularly calm and heavy storms have long been absent.
...
Perhaps Koch would have been able to work and experiment on the high seas for many years, but he made a grave mistake: he told other eccentrics. "It was an advantage that the platform was consistently inhabited," he says, and because he had to commute himself for the construction between land and platform, he invited two people from the Seasteading movement. The American Bitcoin millionaire Chad Elwartowski and his Thai friend Supranee Thepdet were to live as guests on the platform. "They wanted to live there," says the engineer Koch laconically.

However, the guests shot a number of YouTube videos on board. The Seaeading Institute published it ("The First People on the Sea"). The scene was electrified: two Utopians like themselves, making champagne-drinking steep announcements! Elwartowski and Thepdet proclaimed the end of the nation-states from their sea-platform. They are now free people. If they wanted, they could do anything, forbidden medical experiments, for example.

Koch was barely visible on the videos. "I never intended to be in the limelight," he says. In the middle of April, he and his guests went ashore to tow a ladder he had constructed to the platform. Friends contacted her by phone like this: Did you hear? The Thai Navy seizes your platform and you are threatened with the death penalty! "That's how it stood in the evening in the online media," says Koch. "We had already drunk a bottle of wine or two there." The stateless did not hesitate. They drove past a beachfront supermarket, loaded the yacht with drinking water and snacks, and set sail for Singapore.

Koch thinks he has done nothing wrong and invokes the law of the sea. He had assumed that he would not have to seek state approval out in the sea, in international waters more than twelve miles offshore. Koch had not yet considered how geopolitically contested the high seas are in Asia these days: China has begun all sorts of territorial dispute in recent years. For example, the Chinese have created artificially used military islands near the Spratly Islands, but other governments are protesting.

The legal situation is now somewhat unclear. Chad Elwartowski, for example, has lost his visa for Thailand. Rüdiger Koch has not yet received any official papers on the allegations against him. He knows that his platform was towed by the Navy "for evidence". An admiral of the Navy told the local press at the end of April that they had filed a complaint with the police. The Seasteader had violated the sovereignty of the country. It is life imprisonment or even the death penalty. Up to 200 nautical miles from the coast is a UN Convention, according to which a country has exclusive rights of use of the sea, even in international waters. A floating micronation in spe does not fit in there for the Thais.

Chad Elwartowski and Supranee Thepdet have gone underground. "In no case we say which country we are in," they declared at the beginning of the week. Rüdiger Koch is sitting in his hotel room, has written to the military attaché of the Thai embassy in Singapore and wants to negotiate with the government. Ideally, he says, he even wants his platform back.

Koch is downsizing the cause of ocean-going separatism and rocket launches these days. He was just a German engineer and entrepreneur. He wanted to bring investors to Thailand and promote tourism with floating platforms. "I'm sorry, I did not want to upset the Thais."

You made bytecash?  Nicholas?  Is that you?  Is that why you hate Monero so?

I think there is a decent chance CSW gets tried for perjury.

I will drink a bottle of wine if he does.

Bitcoin up shitcoins down

Tether went as low as $0.90 before, a %3 drop is nothing unusual for usdt.

I'm now convinced Craig Wright is Satoshi.

Satoshi took many steps to stay anonymous.

But the most extraordinary step possible would be to make your real identity have a mountain of evidence _against_ being Satoshi. Which Craig has done.

#DontSueMeBro

I think the amount of BTC, BCH and BSV will come back to this line

+1 WOsMerit

I like where your going with this..tell us more.

BCH has already grown 4 times, but bitcoin only 2 times, buy BSV before it's too late, it has not grown at all

need all three bitcoins because the loss of dominance started then due to the block size limitation

Yes.  For every 2 merits you receive, you will also receive 1 sendable merit.

Otherwise those smerits do not decay.

If you are a source (which I hear you are... hahahahahaha), then your source merits decay if they are not used from 30 days of the time that you receive them.

you read inattentively, the competition was the same before, but then there was no loss of dominance https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.msg50932322#msg50932322

Who chooses who is an asshole because it it's my wife I know which camp she places me in.

^^ +1 WOsMerit to nutildah for a tasty haiku!

Keeping my last sMerit for a non-legend (or non-goose, cause he's already a legend at heart).

Aren't you afraid to become an asshole yourself? He who kills monsters should watch out not to become a monster himself.

Good, which  one did you buy

Play Railroad Tycoon, you'll learn.



Great Series of games BTW.

Even if the details and the reasons might be off by a long shot, I do think a correction is coming.

When and how big is anybody's guess, but it is due. No bull run went straight to the top, ever.


In other words

We smell a pullback
coming around the coner
bullcrap or bearcrap?

I spent half the night on RRT3 and I'm going to have to setup a DX8.1 VM for it. I had it running but after adjusting monitor overscan while the game was running the thing went bonkers and won't fire up without detecting directx 8.1. Fucking h8 DX games. I did get through the tutorial as a refresher before the crash though.

Was cruising in the City last evening after playing... and saw this one, curious what kind of guy this would be....

That den of thieves, haven't the coins moved since the key holder "died"?

It is indeed amazing what bitcoin is doing in creating wealth for people who were so lucky to have entered it at the right time and just hold it for the last 10 years. I am now wondering how many millionaires and even billionaires were created with holding and trading bitcoin so far. Looking into the future, we can be sure that bitcoin is definitely here to stay and will even be more potent in pushing wealth to more people as long as they will continue to believe with it. Though it remains to be a very volatile investment instrument, the opportunity is very attractive especially for many who are risk-takers.

"Satoshi" buying himself?

However, as the executive director of CoinCenter, Jerry Brito, points out, anyone can register a copyright claim. It’s not necessarily proof of ownership or recognition by the US Copyright Office itself.

Bitcoin is open source. You cant file a copyright over it.

According to this article, the copyright was already granted to be effective as of April 11, 2019.

https://coingeek.com/bitcoin-creator-craig-s-wright-satoshi-nakamoto-granted-us-copyright-registrations-for-bitcoin-white-paper-and-code/

• U.S. copyright registration no. TXu 2-136-996, effective date April 11, 2019, for the paper entitled Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, with year of completion 2008. The registration recognizes the author as Craig Steven Wright, using the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.

With a few unexplicable exceptions...

-1 from a Hitler reference  

I'm not taxing you, nutildah! I was just amusedly observing we are one step away (-1) FROM referencing Hitler - which in this ebullient thread happens with remarkably low frequency.

These papers are not for you to consume, all of his actions can be easily explained if you think of him as a man preparing a case for litigation. He's just preparing documents that he'll be submitting to court. Probably will try to trademark "Bitcoin" next.

Why do you think the value of BSV is linked to Wright being Satoshi ?  Isn't it merely a piece of code, like BTC, that will garner its own support/ or not, if it is useful.

Dude, don't just dismiss it right away. I think our boy is on to something here. Why don't we just make everything perfect from the start?

On the new internet the "MetaNet"
Homepage for it  https://www.agora.icu/

We estimate the website value of agora.icu is currently at $ 278 USD and reaches roughly 361 unique users each day that generate 381 daily pageviews with a daily revenue (from advertisements, i.e Google AdSense) of $ 0 USD approximately.

Yes, I am a bit new here, but not new into the Bitcoin and trend's behind it, I saw most of the Bitcoin lovers and supporters here like me, so would like to ask them.

Should we believe, the US registration and move on with Craig Wright being the real Satoshi ? Or its just another fud which will go around in some days ? What can we do to stop this shit?