Are you sure about that? Vast riches aside, it would probably be living nightmare of paranoia about being unearthed some day.

That's the eternal question.

It's hard to class NEM as an ICO as it started off free and then became pretty nominal after that. I think they only raised something like 63 BTC in total.

I personally wouldn't be bothering with anything ICO related myself. They have too much inbuilt market weirdness from the offing.

Something that's already available that can be researched but isn't a huge deal at present is a more practical option. I really don't know how many worthwhile options there are like that with things the way they are in these bubbletastic times.  

I would very much like a proper hardware wallet.

Does anyone know how technically difficult it is to integrate for companies like Ledger and Trezor? I couldn't give a toss about harvesting et al. I want safety first.

I've been spending loads recently. I don't really give a shit if it spirals upwards. At some point you have to put it to work giving you some enjoyment. It can't remain as paper profits forever.

My personal record is a piece of shit phone that was 0.3 BTC second hand. I would now get about $30 for it.

Other than the obvious ones such as not piling in during 2010 I don't have many. I should've bought more during 2014/15 but I'd already spent what I planned to spend and wouldn't let myself go over that no matter how tempting.

I do have multiple regrets with alts. Every single time I have the fleeting thought 'hmm, maybe I should allocate a little something to xxx' xxx goes up 4x. It happened with Stellar a couple of days ago and I knew this would happen. I think I'm going to stop looking at alts now. It's too daffy.

XEM has no mining and no inflation which probably accounts for its very different trading behaviour. There's also nowhere to play margin either. Its volume has gone from thousands last June back to 50-100 per day at various points.

An awful lot is being held back by the developers though I assume it'll bleed into the market eventually. Also people who run super nodes have to tie up 3,000,000 XEM which takes plenty off the market.

Lack of hype is one of the slightly mysterious things about it. Utter shite has garnered 10-20x more attention on here. It's been very stealthy so far. Much more appears to be happening in Asia with it rather than here.

So was the entire planet until a few hundred years ago. Assuming you were settled in a relatively safe community why aren't the history books heaving with multiple hundred year old people and where did it start to go so wrong again?

Let's give it a few weeks or months and then see what's what. The stars are very slowly aligning or colliding for something to be done. Segwit is the prime option for now.

I think it was January 2014 or somewhere around then. I have no doubt there are similar opportunities out there right now. I wouldn't know where to find them any more. The alt noise ratio is peaking.

Weirdly enough I really think they should. The British system is a piss take too. There are parties that can get 20% or more of the national vote who end up with one seat out of over 600.

Where I live my vote counts for absolutely nothing because it's a crushing majority. My vote should count on a national level.

Anyway, Macron is just another empty zombie who'll tell people what they want to hear, achieve nothing and store up even more problems for next time. Still better than Le Pen though.

I keep it to myself in general. No one's going to understand it in the course of a few conversations and I wouldn't want to get anyone involved.

If they're sceptical then fine. More coins for everyone else.

I wonder what the thinking is behind it. I presume it's a face saving measure where they can say they're fulfilling the will of 'the people' despite their own misgivings. A neat out for them.

You may as well get used to the idea. If you're anywhere near the Internet and you have some importance then sooner rather than later Russia will come calling. Up your methods or quit online communication.

What good news? The most stunning run of good news in Bitcoin's history occurred when it was spiralling down the toilet in 2014.

I assume it means more people with access to Taiwanese bank accounts are piling in. That could reduce the spread with no announcement on the horizon.

I will think considerably less of this market if it isn't. It's about the most guaranteed no imaginable, but perhaps there are enough silly sausages out there who might fall for it. Their loss.

Yes. So that's why I'm not feeling exactly cock a hoop. It's just the usual Bitfinex crap that ultimately screws everyone over. A rise based on one exchange's dysfunction is going to blow up in everyone's face sooner rather than later.

But perhaps I'm overestimating the effect. It's hard to tell.

Coinbase and GDAX are the same company of course, but they're also separate markets.

GDAX is an exchange so buyers are meeting sellers. All GDAX is doing is hosting and facilitating it.

With Coinbase you're buying from that company and selling to that company. By that definition it's not an exchange. Still, it's interesting that it's never included in any market statistics but perhaps it's not considered to be an active market. They may also want to keep that info confidential.

What is Russia's own interest? Why can't everyone be happy sitting at home being nice inside their own borders? Same goes for the USA and many other places too.

I used to sell stuff to Cex, which is a UK second hand games and things chain.

Most of the selling was done when BTC was in the endless $250 range so that pile of shitty old PS2 games and manky phones provided a very handsome return. I think I raised about 1 BTC or so by getting rid of stuff I barely remembered owning anyway.

They dropped BTC a while back which is their loss as I'd be splurging now.