Latest posts of: gentlemand

Quote from: hilariousetc on July 21, 2017, 07:47:16 AM

It'll disrupt the marketplace in as much as the users will just flock to another one as what happened when alpha bay went down people just emigrated over to Dream and Hansa. When you take a marketplace down at least one more will pop up to replace it and they know this but continue with the charade any way. The only way they'll ever win this war is by legalising or decriminalise drugs or these sorts of marketplaces but can't see that ever happening.

It looks like the Dutch police got on Reddit and elsewhere and actively encouraged Alphabay lost souls to join Hansa so they could be nailed. Perhaps they've fatally holed trust in the concept until something P2P comes along.

Quote from: MinermanNC on July 21, 2017, 01:39:59 AM

476772 (Main Chain) 2017-07-21 01:29:47 Unknown 0000000000000000003e57096245e1ddd4b92a9be0e8efadf0d0d74bc20ccb6e 522.87

the Block that hit after an hour. unknown? and notice the block size, about half of all the rest... weird indeed

anyways all seems to be flowing, the block after this one had a butt load of transactions packed in it....

It's three unknowns in a row. I think this must be Craig Wright's supercomputer coming to get us. Time to die.

Quote from: the_lobster on July 21, 2017, 12:14:27 AM

I will not use it no.

Are you going to enlighten us as to why not?

Quote from: d_eddie on July 21, 2017, 01:29:19 AM

Let me contribute some FUD myself.
What if they're mining a different chain, ready to uncover it when they feel it's time?

Every single miner in the entire world? Wow. Looks like they've upped their cooperation. I'm firing up my Sinclair Spectrum right now.

And here's a block.

No blocks for 43 minutes. Have all the miners gone home or switched to a secret new coin?

Quote from: chichigirl on July 21, 2017, 12:57:16 AM

Lets just wait until August 1 then we will know what will happen.

No need. Split worries are now officially over. BIP 148 isn't going to be needed.

Quote from: Torque on July 21, 2017, 12:57:55 AM

You should also get some 90% junk silver coins if you don't already have some. In a worst case SHTF scenario, would be great for barter.

Toilet paper and porn mags.

Quote from: bitserve on July 21, 2017, 12:32:38 AM

Predictible profit taking. Let's see how low it goes before resuming the rise.

Who gives a shit? No doubt it'll have a well deserved break. Now we wait for some enforcement FUD.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6okd1n/bip91_lock_in_is_guaranteed_as_of_block_476768/dki17oc/

It's the future, bitches.

Congrats to Bitcoin for growing up a little and all the people who made it possible. It may have been a bit scrappy but at least it's fucking happening. Now the price can dive.

https://twitter.com/barrysilbert/status/888192324613832704

How does everyone feel about Goldman Sachs making the right price call? It makes me feel somewhat icky.

Quote from: Ted E. Bare on July 20, 2017, 11:10:21 PM

IS THIS THE REAL PUMP?

There could be quite a comedown afterwards but who cares? Once the price has become sober again the really interesting projects that've been held back for an age will emerge.

Well this is interesting. Let's do a last minute rewrite of the code and go for 50GB blocks instead. More scale clearly = more price.

Quote from: cryptosecurity on July 20, 2017, 10:29:53 PM

I remember back in the day there were many and some hardcore trolls in the NEM thread. Nowadays it's all smooth and quite, I've been observing it for a couple weeks.

By the way is there a statistic on how many original genesis holders still hold their nemstake today? I would be interested in this.

One of them reporting in.

There's still a lot of dormant stakes on the rich list. As ever it's impossible to know who can still access them or not.

It's limited to 0.042 BTC per transaction. Because I'm so goddamn high rolling I never spend that little.

There should be some interesting new use cases. Maybe I'll find something then.

So what's going to be the deal with this?

Now it's all sweetness and light as Segwit smiles upon us, what do you reckon will become of the 2MB hard fork?

Will everyone who agreed to it fall away and wait to see what Segwit does or will they follow through?

Hard forking seems rather more fundamental to me.

So is it safe to say that scaling makes buyers feel jolly?

And here's an interesting titbit -

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/business/dealbook/alphabay-dark-web-opioids.html?mcubz=1

'Officials said they had found Mr. Cazes because he posted his personal email address, Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com, in some early messages from AlphaBay.'

Exactly the same balls up as Ross Ulbricht. What is it with these people?

Quote from: hatshepsut93 on July 20, 2017, 08:07:48 PM

I think the price skyrocketed because the possibility of fork lowered, not because major exchanges said they won't support the altcoin. If Coinbase and Gdax won't support Bitcoin ABC, other exchanges will, because it means more volume and more profits from trading fees.

Whatever their feelings are about it, I can well imagine it'll end up tradable on GDAX. Exchanges are there to make money and nothing else.

There'll be millions of people with some of it. They'd be daft to turn them away.