That doesn't make any sense. The paragraph below is the definition of what's required for 100% uptime and reliability.

So Core somehow guarantees 100% uptime and offloads the work that permits it to the cranks, deadbeats and failures who litter the scene? They are no doubt control freaks but for a good reason.

Every other iteration has completely pissed all over the important back room stuff which is usually uncovered within a few seconds by real people.

I really and truly did not expect this year to end up like this. I have no expectations for next year. If it goes sideways it'll still be amazing.

Even if there aren't price fireworks, adoption and infrastructure is only going to continue in one direction.

Another factor is assuming 2X is a damp squib what's the next thing whales can scare the market with? They're starting to run low on ammunition.

If arbitrage was easy this premium would vapourise in the space of a few minutes, not stick around for months. It's a signal of a dysfunctional market that can't be reached from elsewhere.

And as Zimbabwe's 24hr volume is about 1 BTC it's even less meaningful.

Isn't this just as closed door and elitist as the NYA thing? Who consents to a PoW change? Where does the suggestion come from?

I agree that disposing of the corporate miners can only be of benefit to BTC, but it shouldn't have taken something like this to force it. And they'll be back in a different form with different gear or it'll create a new class of them.

Depending on how things pan out, someone selling at $7500 may turn out to be by far the greater fool than the person who buys it.

There's no denying that tons of people here have bought with the intention of doing nothing but selling for more, but it's likely that selling becomes an increasingly irrelevant idea as the years go on.

My own hopes are to spend it where necessary and never sell, and who I spent it with won't have any desire to sell either.

And the market drying up thing applies to every single market in the entirety of human history. I can't believe this penis thinks Bitcoin is somehow different.

There is no way in hell BTC would've reached this price level with China, or rather more specifically with the zero fee exchanges still in operation. Their closure is what started the bull run proper at the start of the year. Thanks, Xi.

The exceedingly long awaited Catapult upgrade has slowly started to emerge - http://mijin.io/en/1238.html

It could be sexy times ahead, far ahead perhaps but this is a big deal for NEM.

Barely a squeak from anyone. Shame on youse. Let's see where this is going to head. Hopefully somewhere flabbergasting.

The price would collapse, but buying would be so frenzied that it may not collapse very far. There's an awful lot of money sat on the sidelines for such scenarios. And that's before we even try to bother finding out why.

Just VPN your ass and instead of using public WiFi, which could bring on masses of uncharted unpleasantness, get a mifi hotspot instead. Public WiFi is almost always borderline unusable anyway.

Considering how sophisticated hackers can be I can't believe anyone would risk anything when there are good and cheap alternatives.

Blockchain.info has zero control over your coins. All they provide is an interface for you to access your own private keys. It's the vulnerability of that interface to hacking at the user end that's the problem.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/13c5YMqR72xaa23ohmg7M9heJbu59IvamSTQIVGFAY6c/edit#heading=h.bzax9ow35x4o

It looks like they are working on something to address this. I'm not sure how quickly it'll arrive. The only wallet provider I'm aware of who's providing splitting ASAP is Ledger.

Not safe at all in my opinion. There's nothing much wrong with blockchain.info. There's likely to be an awful lot wrong with the machines you're using to access it. Can you guarantee 100% that whatever you're logging in with is clean as a whistle? No one can. Ergo you should not be doing it.

Anyone who has your details can have your coins away. If you have 2FA then if it's phone maybe someone can hijack your sim. If it's authenticator maybe someone can find where you're storing the key for it. They may not even need to do that. They can send you to a phishing site or you might have malware that redirects your sending to another address.

Shop elsewhere.

As it's not a straightforward fork as BCH was, I'm not sure I'd put too much faith in any futures prices. If you did it right you were guaranteed to get your BCH.

S2X's intention is to make your BTC useless. If people couldn't be bothered to claim their BCH, they're really going to struggle to safeguard both of their claims on the chains on their own.

It's very unlikely there'll be two chains beyond a couple of weeks so there's no point in pricing the both of them.

No matter what's happening in cryptoland, there are always more posts about Lambos than most matters.

I get the feeling most people expect it to just sort itself out eventually, which also means them expecting their exchange or wallet provider to sort the replay protection too.

Considering what the Indian government has done with gold, let alone cash, then India doing all they can to squash Bitcoin is 100% certain.

There are only 40 nodes there and not much in the way of infrastructure so it's no great loss right now, but to shut off more than a billion people is a dick move. They're going to do it anyway.

I can barely imagine how much cream would've poured out of everyone's knickers if that was posted in any year other than this one.

As it stands, it's a little silly that a completely logical stance is lauded, but that goes to show the calibre of the average detractor.

You stick with yer wave 5. We'll see you on the other side.

I read that. It has to be one of the least informative and cloth eared AMAs I've ever read.

And he continually referred to the Bitcoin we're using right now and what his business is founded on as an alt. Fucking weirdo. His brother went virtually upside his head after that performance.

He's still acting like it's a smooth upgrade when anyone with functioning sensory apparatus could tell him otherwise.

There's always been something abnormal about the freakily low volume. I don't know what the cause is but plenty of shite that's multiple factors smaller is regularly 10x or more even during quiet periods.

Mining obviously accounts for a lot of that, but even non mineable stuff outranks it.

The near constant lack of volume is a huge turn off to traders. You can only make proper moves when it has its one annual epic pump and dump.