The non BTC Segwit pumps were all about them becoming 'Bitcoin killers' as the daddy didn't have it.

I'm not sure how much traders actually care about scaling so the price effects may be underwhelming despite how important it is. And we're still not 100% sure in what form it's going to be implemented.

Anyone with a significant amount of crypto profit and a modicum of sense should be selling OTC.

I certainly would not trust any exchange with large sums. And I wouldn't trade any alt into large sums. I'd dribble it and only places that worked properly.

There are enough reputable brokers like Grayscale and Cumberland Mining. I assume there are some for ETH too, but not any other alt.

As for the banking bit, I'd sound my bank out first. If they had a problem I'd take my business elsewhere.

Yup.

If you can't take it then park yourself at the sidelines. The price always goes in cycles of hype and despair.

You didn't think it was going to continue going up for all eternity did you?

Aye, I'd say that was easily the biggest driver, especially on Localbitcoins.

I wonder what the aftermath of this alt bubble will look like. Essentially nothing much has been proven or established by any of them still. It's even more empty hype than before with the added extra of a potentially humongous price collapse.

I don't trust the USA. But it's clear there is no actual government opinion there. The US government does what transnational corporate interests want it to.

I don't think anything at all guarantees a big rise. Perhaps segwit is now so expected by everyone that it's already been priced in. It was always going to arrive somehow or other. It's just been stalled relentlessly.

People probably underestimate the effect of an ETH plummet. People will look to escape and a regular route is BTC to dollars.

If we assume a decent number of people end up using Bitcoin and friends then there are gobs of money to be made by banks in that space. The need to interact with fiat is never going away. There's money to be made processing it, storing it and converting it.

I do wonder whether they'll have the balls to acknowledge that Bitcoin itself isn't going anywhere though. Someone will eventually.

Ah, Jew talk. What a refreshing surprise for this forum.

I remember reading somewhere that a few Israeli nutters wanted to develop an ethnic biopweapon that would target Arab populations.

They felt sad when it was pointed out they basically had the same genes.

I dunno. Poloniex underpins the entire alt bubble. There must be more BTC tied up there along with the majority of certain coins. It would be like an entire section of the crypto economy disappearing down a black hole.

That would have repercussions for BTC.

I do not.

This type of thing is a gift from heaven for the standard humans to get up to horrible and nefarious things while others obsess over utter lunacy.

I'd be slinging my shit out of the window of my monster truck at all the plebs out there who were too risk averse to give BTC a whirl when it was on sale.

What extra regulation is required? There's the usual KYC/AML stuff. Perhaps it'll be something to do with custodial requirements for exchanges and so on.

It is a little odd that there isn't one single bit of crypto legislation in the UK considering the efforts elsewhere. Perhaps that's a factor in banks being so crypto averse.

Poloniex is the obvious one. That's where the volume and the action is. However I would not choose to actually use it considering its current unreliability for certain people.

Bittrex is the one that operates with the least problems as far as I can tell.

However it's easy to forget that the fiat exchanges have alt pairs as well like Kraken, Gemini, Bitfinex et al.

What the hell is Livecoin?

If 19 billion was spent on Bitcoin over the course of the next week the price would probably rise to far over one million dollars each unless enough people broke out their BTC to sell. Don't confuse market cap with real money.

No. I'm sure no one in Cyprus or Greece bought any Bitcoin out of necessity. It was an excuse for the same old pumpers to have a nice pump.

If anything comes of this it'll be the same. The EU isn't like Venezuela.

Pah, terrestrial Uk TV used to broadcast full on peado fodder in the day time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqNAIyLPsb8

What is 4chan's record for social good? I though they were just a bunch of piss takers.

There's no particular rhyme or reason to any of it. I wouldn't want to be in the mind of someone heavily shorted or longed at present. I assume there's not much going on in there other than screeching.

I think Bitcoin is likely to have a rather sexy winter if we see some real technical progress both proposed and happening. Until then it could be pretty sporty.

All bets are off for the alts. I have no idea what any of them are going to get up to. Reason checked out there many moons ago.

Panic begets more panic. All it takes is a handful of people to get the ball rolling.

Is Bitcoin any worse than it was yesterday? Nope. It also isn't any better than it was when it was under $1000.

They are desirable, but definitely not 14 BTC desirable to me. Even more so when future BTC appreciation is taken into account.

How many gold ones are out there in total?