As long there are people willing to tip, there will be such market

Now everything is back up,  eventually the ATH's will be broken again.

I've never heard about it, sorry.

But they cloned Ether name, for a bad first impression

The same as all the others syncings if you ever close your wallet. Only difference is the process will start with the first block

it is forbidden in China and may be forbidden in other pars of the world

It is not dead what may eternally lie, and with strange aeons even the death may die

Like a referral scheme?

Where did you get your code from?

   One of the eurozone’s most senior central bankers has waded into the debate over bitcoin, dismissing the cryptocurrency as “an instrument of speculation” and saying its sharp rise in value was akin to the 17th century tulip craze.

The views of Vítor Constâncio, the vice-president of the European Central Bank, echo those of JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon, who has described bitcoin as a “fraud”.

“Bitcoin is a sort of tulip,” Mr Constâncio said. Tulipmania, which erupted in the Netherlands in the 1600s, is often cited as one of the oldest examples of a financial bubble.

“It’s an instrument of speculation,” the ECB vice-president told the audience at a conference in Frankfurt on Friday. “But [it is] certainly not a currency and we don’t see it as a threat to central bank policy.”

Bitcoin’s value slumped last week after Mr Dimon said the cryptocurrency was “worse than tulip bulbs”. The phenomenon was a “fraud”, he added, saying it was only useful to drug dealers, murderers or the inhabitants of North Korea.

Bitcoin was trading at an all-time high of $4,911 at the beginning of this month, before falling to $3,899 after Mr Dimon’s comments. On Friday afternoon a bitcoin was worth $3,299.

Mr Dimon is known for expressing strong views but the outburst against bitcoin surprised some peers in the industry. Many banks are embracing both bitcoin and the blockchain technology that underpins it.

As issuers and guardians of official currencies, central bankers have faced questions about whether these private-sector rivals threaten their ability to control the supply of money.

Earlier on Friday ECB president Mario Draghi said in Dublin that the central bank did not think cryptocurrencies posed a threat to the euro or the bank’s monetary policy but said cyber risk posed one of the most important dangers for the stability of the financial system.

Mr Draghi this month hit back at a paper by an Estonian government official that mooted the idea of the Baltic state — which sees itself as something of a digital pioneer — creating its own cryptocurrency. “No member state can introduce its own currency; the currency of the eurozone is the euro,” the ECB president said.

Speaking on the same panel as Mr Constâncio, Huw van Steenis, global head of strategy at Schroders, an asset manager, said: “As cryptocurrencies grow, we should expect more central bankers to look to outlaw or crimp their use.

“This will be most acute in markets which are worried about capital flight and organised crime. This won’t stop speculators and enthusiasts, but will limit their potential to create the powerful network effects which would make them a useful parallel currency,” Mr van Steenis said.

https://www.ft.com/content/18507a26-9fb4-11e7-8cd4-932067fbf946

Strategist predicts bitcoin, digital currency trading volume will 'soon surpass' Apple's


Digital currency trading is exploding and daily volume could "soon" surpass that of Apple, according to a strategist closely followed by hedge funds.

"Cryptocurrency trading volume is now more than of $3bn/day on average, and will likely soon surpass that of the world's most liquid stock: Apple ($4bn/day),"Jens Nordvig, founder and CEO of Exante Data, said in a note Friday.

Nordvig said global daily trading volume between the two largest digital currencies, bitcoin and ethereum, into traditional currencies has multiplied eight times in the last year.

Bitcoin has surged this year, briefly increasing fivefold before tumbling amid a Chinese crackdown on digital currencies and criticism from JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon this month. Bitcoin traded slightly lower near $3,524 midday Friday, but it is still up about 260 percent for the year, according to CoinDesk.

Many digital currency enthusiasts have noted that bitcoin is a way for new investors to access the growing number of digital currencies. Industry website CoinMarketCap lists more than 350 cryptocurrencies with a market value of more than $1 million each.

The total market value of all digital currencies was $121 billion Friday, according to CoinMarketCap.

Ethereum traded mildly lower near $256, but was still more than 2,500 percent higher for the year, according to CoinDesk.

While digital currency trading volume has taken off, average daily trading volume in U.S. stocks fell in August to its lowest in three years, according to market researcher Tabb Group.

That said, Nordvig is still cautious on the often volatile digital currencies.

"We do not believe that one can predict with confidence at this point that any given cryptocurrency will continue to thrive and gain status as an alternative to traditional currencies in the long term," Nordvig said. "But we look forward to using the information from an increasingly active cryptocurrency market in our tracking of global capital flows, when appropriate."

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/22/strategist-predicts-bitcoin-digital-currency-trading-volume-will-soon-surpass-apples.html

Jamie Dimon is being accused of market abuse in Sweden for badmouthing bitcoin


Remember when Jamie Dimon called bitcoin “a fraud” a week ago? Well, it turns out that the JPMorgan chief executive could have been flouting European market abuse laws by shooting his mouth off. At least, that’s what one complaint to the Swedish financial regulator alleges.
The complaint was lodged by Florian Schweitzer, the managing partner of a London firm called Blockswater, a bitcoin market-maker that trades about $25 million a month. At issue is an alleged link between Dimon’s comments and, a few days later, JPMorgan emerging as one of the most active buyers of a bitcoin tracker fund called Bitcoin XBT. Bitcoin XBT is an exchange-traded note that’s listed on Nasdaq Nordic in Stockholm. It effectively lets clients hold bitcoin without worrying about how to store it securely.

The price of bitcoin fell as much as 24% between the day Dimon verbally thrashed it and the day of the XBT trades. Widely followed finance blog Zero Hedge seized on this and accused JP Morgan of either buying bitcoin on the cheap for itself, or helping its clients do so.
But before we get carried away with notions of Dimon playing the media to pick up bitcoin on the cheap, there’s a less nefarious reason for the XBT trade: JPMorgan told Reuters that it was just acting as a broker for clients who wanted to buy into the fund. “They are not JPMorgan orders,” a JPMorgan spokesperson told Reuters. “These are clients purchasing third-party products directly.”

In any case, Schweitzer has presented the facts to the Swedish regulator and asked them to investigate. He notes in his complaint that market abuse in Sweden is punishable by up to two years in jail. The Swedish regulator said it does not comment “if we are looking into matters like this or not.” We’ve contacted JPMorgan but have not heard back.

https://qz.com/1083781/jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-is-accused-of-manipulating-the-bitcoin-btc-price-in-sweden/

Even as Bitcoin fans attack the J.P. Morgan CEO for his views on the cryptocurrency, Jamie Dimon is doubling down once again on his call that Bitcoin is a "fraud."
In a CNBC interview Friday, Dimon labeled Bitcoin a "novelty" with no real value.
"Right now these crypto things are kind of a novelty. People think they're kind of neat. But the bigger they get, the more governments are going to close them down," the CEO told CNBC. "It's creating something out of nothing that to me is worth nothing."
Bitcoin's price is now hovering around $3,600, down from an all-time high of $5,000 earlier this month. The cryptocurrency took a plunge after Chinese officials cracked down on bitcoin, banned ICOs and closed down cryptocurrency exchanges.
Around the same time, Dimon also reasserted his view from 2015 that Bitcoin is a fraud that will "blow up." He reasoned the cryptocurrency was best suited for illicit uses, likely triggering crackdowns from world governments.
Separately, London-based Blockswater, which trades Bitcoin, lodged a complaint with Swedish authorities Thursday in which it accused Dimon of manipulating the price of Bitcoin. The allegations were made after Reuters reported that J.P. Morgan (JPM, -0.26%) had been routing customer orders for an exchange-traded note tracking Bitcoin. Notably however, the trades were not directly made on behalf of J.P. Morgan—making the case a little shakier for the London firm.“They are not JPMorgan orders,” a spokesperson said Friday. “These are clients purchasing third-party products directly.”

http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/jamie-dimon-bitcoin-price/

Call me a cryptoskeptic. There are too many unanswered questions about cryptocurrencies and they are not immune from the perils of speculation and fraud.

I've been interviewing people who are not only tech savvy, but considerably more optimistic than I am about the future of cryptocurrencies. Although I believe the idea of alternative currencies is a good concept, we need far more oversight before they are legitimate.

Let's start with the harshest criticisms:

-- Fraud is Rampant. We have no way of telling what's going on since Bitcoin and its sister cryptocurrencies aren't on exchanges and are completely unregulated.


Since transactions are encrypted, it's said that bitcoins are used for illicit exchanges, although I have no good way of proving that.

Although Jamie Dimon, JP Morgan Chase CEO, said "bitcoin is a fraud" last week, his bank is apparently investing in the cryptocurrency, so they're hedging their bets.

Big banks, we should note, have a vested interest in the old money system. Their business is highly regulated and they bet on currencies, stocks, bonds and commodities every day. Those are all regulated and traded for their massive portfolios.

Can you game any of those markets? Of course. Lot at the massive swindle of betting for and against mortgage securities during the credit bubble of 2006-2009.

That's all the more reason you should be wary of any virtual currency. If you don't think it can be manipulated, you're not paying attention to history.

-- The sky's the limit on price. Bitcoin hit $4,000, then receded after Chinese officials said they were going to shut down some Bitcoin offerings (along with Dimon's comments).

But it's not hard to find pundits who have declared Bitcoin could rise to $5,000, even $25,000.

Do the people making price predictions have a financial interest in seeing Bitcoin climb in value? Absolutely, but whenever anyone says a price could rise infinitely higher, I worry about a bubble. It's happened frequently in the past.

-- The Valuation Dilemma. How do you value something? With stocks, you can look at past and future earnings, dividends and sales. With currencies, it's what they are worth relative to other currencies. With bonds, it's the ability of an issuer to pay back investors.

What about cryptocurrencies? What is the benchmark to value them? They have no earnings. There is no regulated exchange gathering market bids on daily valuation. There are no price/earnings ratios.

That doesn't mean that linked computers and users across the world can't create their own market. But no legitimate market works without price discovery and transparency.

As thestreet.com noted in a commentary:

"Outside of some limited use as a means to buy goods and services, Bitcoin's $61 billion market cap is linked to the perception of value.

That is, Bitcoin is bid up out of a belief that others think it's worth something, too, or will do so in the future, even if (unlike traditional currencies) there isn't much demand for using it to buy things."

-- Bitcoin is the next world currency. I couldn't agree more than we need some form of universal currency. Maybe Bitcoin is that vehicle, maybe not.

John Maynard Keynes, the great economist, advocated for a world currency back in the 1940s.

But in order to get banks and governments out of the currency business, there has to be global agreement on the rules of how that currency is valued and traded. Bitcoin has a long ways to go on that accord.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwasik/2017/09/22/4-reasons-why-bitcoin-may-still-blow-up/#53367191c23a

who is better for GPU mining, AMD or Nvidia?

1 - Get infinite wishes
Then think about all the other

Como esses investidores conseguiram sobreviver até agora?

E como eles conseguem tomar sorvete sem lambuzar a testa? Se é que conseguem.

Já conseguiu a conta?

ericcartman

thank you

Who is involved in something even remotely related to cryptos and isn't Satoshi?

The rules will remain the same, only the block reward will be 0

If you want to gamble go for a casino.

Altcoin investing is for long term