But the alt exchanges are so buggered that I don't see how you could get significant amounts of Bitcoin off. Poloniex is the daddy. You're restricted to $2000 withdrawals per day and they're so snowed under that you might be waiting months for it to be raised.

I assume whales might have their own arrangements but even then that might not be good enough when the place lags at vital moments.

If we assume leading = highest market cap, then it's very possible Bitcoin will be dwarfed at least temporarily by stuff that is marketed better, goes up faster and offers more bells and whistles to people drooling for more dollars.

The benefits of decentralisation look like handicaps until they're proven to be very much not. By then it's too late for those peoples' dollars.

Chain split is the obvious one and it's much, much more fundamental than any previous reason for a crash. All of those were third party problems. A chain split cuts to the heart of the whole thing.

Neither the protocol itself nor the exchanges can handle the current levels of demand. Just imagine what would happen if every box of cereal contained 0.1 BTC.

It's all moving up organically and that's the right way.

Bitcoin's lumbering solidity allows the alts to be the little shits that most of them are as there's always the option to return to Bitcoin.

If that goes then I think it's game over for everything for quite some time. The alt exchanges can't and won't switch to the dollar. Tether can't be trusted in my opinion.

If ETH becomes the backbone of the crypto market then I'm checking out for good.

Yes indeed, but oftentimes it coincides with the poster screeching death, followed by a bunch of wiggly lines and TA bollocks. Then they're never heard of again, or become Mr Duck, and become prime necroposting fodder.

I assume they did a deal through Bitpay or similar so the only legal questions will be the buyer's own capital gains. It'll be all fiat on the seller side. I very much doubt they accepted Bitcoin though he paid with it.

A UKIP vote is now a completely and utterly wasted vote anyway. Abstention looks like the best option or wiping your ring piece on the ballot paper.

Mr Andresen is now senile. Bless his previous acts. And this thread will be the same people saying the same things in perpetuity. Have fun, kiddies. And do something more constructive?

I've seen countless attempts make declarations and second guesses about the price. Most of the time they're miserable failures.

Secure profit where you find it if that's your wish. Don't be sad if you undershoot. Never, ever get all your skin out of the game.

They have absolutely nothing to do with setting the price.

That's ridiculous. There aren't very many of them and they're busy people and not exactly the most reactive or accessible bunch. There's a mountain of money waiting to be used to improve NEM. If an outsider can do it then it should be allocated. Ideas come from everywhere.

I have no clue or opinion about this project, but for instance the upcoming Trezor integration comes from an outside programmer. He did a deal and is being paid by developer funds as far as I know. It's a vast benefit to everyone that wouldn't otherwise have happened.

And this project isn't asking for all the funds upfront anyway.

You earned the one note poster badge a long, long time ago. Anyone engaging now must have one of those head injuries that destroys your memory beyond five minutes.

Why not devote your energy to tackling the imaginary menace of yiddisher far from here?

And people who post threads like this are pencil necked virgins.

Posted by 160kg squatting communist.

Now they're in partnership with Bitmain to an extent, Bitpay would be one of the very last groups to support a UASF. Positions will have to be taken even if it looks like only a modest amount of support.

It's going to be fairly gradual as far as I can tell. The main chain won't get it for a while after it's been activated on Mijin. Don't sell your mother just in case.

https://www.nem.io/catapultwhitepaper.pdf

Arriving some time in the next few months.

It's a blast from the past. A hark back to a time when buy walls brushed the edge of the universe. The day may come again, but traders are probably more savvy now.

It's nice, though I assume there was nothing stopping Brits investing in the ETN anyway. This is by far the biggest retail investment portal in the UK. Shame you can't put it into an ISA or I would've gone for it.

One thing it is good for is clearing up any banking worries. A bank transfer from HL won't be refused by anyone.

The main thing for me is the ongoing lack of action with the main chain and how it interacts with the private ones. It's all well and good saying the private ones can interact with the main chain. I'd like more reasons as to why they'd want to.