The Segwit bit was the easy part. The 2MB bit will prove to be anything but. The entire network has to switch across to it in one go.

Their prime issue was their inability to police the market, either down to so much of it being abroad or with exchanges having no interest in supplying the info they need to do their job.

They can't approve something if they're completely incapable of doing what they were created to do. Their yes is conditional on that.  

I can't see that much has changed in that aspect.

https://coinfirm.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-CoinFIRM-Casascius-Guide-v0.11-4.pdf

This will tell you about it.

It's one of 4089 made that year. About one quarter have been opened.

I think it's a fine and necessary idea in principle but as you say it's the timing. It's ridiculously short and all parties involved, Core and the 2X crew, have now guaranteed another alt. Which one will be the alt is another matter.

In case you hadn't noticed, holding is not trading.

This forum heaves with heroes who told everyone what the price was going to do and they were the rightest and skillest trader ever. Then they got shat on and were never heard from again.

Holders take their time but they get there in the end no matter what.

I agree with the small trades bit but there's a good chance you'll either wind up down or exactly where you were had you held.

Tether has no international banking so it's pretty much impossible for you to actually buy it. Their verification is also staggeringly slow.

Use real dollars. They're accessible and actually worth something.

That sucks. What happens if you become the DPRK's foreign minister? I assume they have limits as to how far they'll pursue you.

Who's going to be suing who? What court would take the slightest interest in this? It's a loose conglomerate of miners who are free to wander off whenever they like. On the very day it was signed there were people who 'signed' it who didn't know the actual details.

If it does happen the only lawsuits flying will be against any exchange that lists 2X as it won't have repay protection, so no exchange will list it.

I'll be amazed if this fork happens. People don't bet tens of billions of value on something put together by a handful of nobodies behind closed doors forcing a fundamental change in a few weeks that no one outside the room it was created in agrees with.

Segwit was established and thoroughly tested and it was a soft fork. 2X is none of these things.

The players will gradually bail on it as November approaches.  

$20,000 in a month? Cor blimey. Even if the will was there, are the exchanges good and robust enough for that type of action? By the sounds of it even Coinbase's banking is a little bit of a kludge. I can imagine many a bank having kittens at a vast increase in money moving in and out of them.

I think my prediction for this year in 2015 was $263.40 as it's always fun to be conservative so my spider senses have proven to be utterly useless. I'll let nature take its course.

It's not an 'investment'. It's a hedge. It's also a hedge that's probably backed by nothing and will eventually implode and take most of the crypto market with it. There's over $300 million of it now, up from less than $10 million at the start of the year. That increase coincided with it losing its normal banking.

Red flags ahoy.

Before you sell anything on an exchange make sure you verification is in order. Bitstamp particularly are well known for asking ridiculous questions about the origins of the coins and your intentions. It seems going above certain amounts triggers this.

As far as I know USD via Kraken is done by a third party payment processor that seems to be pretty shitty and is another one who throws verification at you. There's also very little USD volume on Kraken compared to EUR.

If you're in the right state Gemini is probably the best option. You could also try a very established trader on Localbitcoins.

If I had no need to spend from them and it was done on a computer and printer that will never see the internet again then I don't really see where you can go wrong with them.

I'm sure hardware wallet designers are total pros and I've never heard of any losses but there is some sort of issue here, albeit one with the sound of a very unlikely combination of circumstances.

There are others.

I'm sure I've seen a few rated by this operation - https://www.pcgseurope.com/?l=en

However ANACs is the one everyone judges them by so it's pretty pointless sending them anywhere else.

Some more info and discussion here - https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6u2f26/trezor_firmware_security_update_152/

I wonder how many billions are being blindly trusted to hardware wallets. I'm sure they do everything they can to be secure, but there might always be someone somewhere ever so slightly ahead of them.

https://www.okpay.com/de/company/news/mayzus-official-statement-in-connection-with-btc-e-closure/

That's what they themselves have to say. I doubt it's that simple myself.

There weren't masses around back then. Off the top of my head the most common ones apart from qt are electrum, armoury, multi bit and block chain. Info but that  would've given you a fiLe instead.

You could always try dave and wallet recovery services if you're truly stumped.

Here's a feature people should know about - certain cards convert the full amount of your BTC into fiat currency when you deposit like Bitpay. Cards like Xapo keep your deposit in BTC and only convert what you spend when you spend it.

That's a very important feature if you're a bit lazy. If you'd had Bitcoin sat around in your Xapo card account since the start of the year you'd have a whole lot more USD or whatever to spend now.

Doesn't anyone here think he's expressing some straightforward thinking?

A company has revenues, profits and value. That can be easily quantified and justified.

It's pretty easy for someone on the outside of crypto looking in to see nothing but pure speculation, largely because it still is nothing but at this moment in time.

There are alts out there valued in the 'billions' with probably less than 5000 users.

There is of course a world of potential. Very little of it has been fulfilled yet.

Holy shit. What an utter disgrace. It's incredible the ISS isn't flattened 500 times a day.

Aye. It's an interesting but rarely aired factoid, that. Their very early plans were humming with idealism that closely aligns with crypto's ideas. Then I guess they became rich and evil like everyone else.