There are 100 billion coins? Someone needs to get in touch with the developers RIGHT NOW. There's a rogue 91 billion out there somewhere that they didn't know about.

Of course it won't be bombed en masse. Pakistan clearly fulfils some type of strategic purpose in the eyes of other powers. I have no idea what it might be.

Yes. Pakistani intelligence seems to enjoy hanging with the Taliban and when you look at people like AQ Khan it's clear that Pakistan will the source of any rogue nuclear Armageddon. Immediate carpet bombing for all of it.

I assume lots of people took a payout before the tokens gained their full value so it won't be anywhere near that full figure.

Do we even have bottoms any more? I can't really recall seeing a juicy one for quite some time. Maybe I'm not looking close enough.

All they're interested in is volume. XEM's volume is high at the moment but it does tend to tail off very dramatically. It would have to go up and stay to be of interest to Kraken.

Fuck the little shit. Assholes like that make life more expensive for people with morals.

More than Bitfinex? Err, just a teensy weensy bit more. Mine is a trans national institution with hundreds of years of history and insured up the arse. Bitfinex is a bunch of guys sitting around in dressing gowns in internet cafes around the world.

They were a bunch of swivel eyed criminals and social inadequates with abnormally low levels of intelligence and comprehension. My anus wouldn't vote for the type of people you wouldn't even let onto a bus.

Hmm. Let's see whether USDT survives first.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/20/labour-not-trying-win-general-election-senior-mp-admits-least/

And check this. It does feel a little like we've been in a parallel universe the last few months and it's not letting up.

$1 is a multi year ambition. If it ever did happen it won't be within the attention span of the average alt fan. Many will be long gone.

Crypto as a whole will be gargantuan in 5-10 years even if none of the current systems are around. NEM could still be tiny and far bigger than it is now.

Wash your mouth out, young man.

I did say non military. North Korea depends on China for pretty much everything in the way it used to with the USSR. If China cuts them off they're left with nothing.

Aw, I adore him. I just can't afford the electricity to read him.

By the time Gox was officially dead it had been a zombie for quite some time. It was overtaken by Bitstamp, let alone China, in late 2013 and then gradually dwindled.

I think the real killer was all the old school fools who still kept money on there from back in the day.

Bitfinex's final fuckup has been on the cards for so unbelievably long that I don't believe it becoming a reality would be much of a disaster.

The main one for me would be a properly decentralised alt exchange.

If I have a mountain of coin that I want to swap then I have to send Poloniex an explicit picture of me with my ID. They can also freeze me any time they like and they'll no doubt get hacked again at some point. Then there's site lag too or outages.

If I try to do it on somewhere like here or the equivalent then I'm at risk of getting scammed or I have to dick around with escrows.

Shapeshift.io is great but ultimately it's still centralised and they could be shut down.

Who ever said the market knows what's good for it?

It's human nature to resist change, make a huge fuss, and when the change actually happens they quietly start using it until it becomes the greatest thing ever.

If we only listened to the vested interests and followed the status quo then we'd still be living in trees.

Good question.

I would do absolutely nothing militarily. The nuclear thing is purely to shore up their own regime at home and yap for more respect elsewhere.

China is the key. I can see why the China of the 1950s didn't want a capitalist Korea at their doorstep, the China of the 2010s/20s is a very different prospect.

If everyone just concentrates on containment then eventually the DPRK will become even more of an embarrassment to China than it is already is. Once their support goes then so does the regime.

It enables cross chain transactions so you could have fully decentralised exchanges, though I presume the other coins you're exchanging would need it too. I believe dealing with the malleability thing also enables viable smart contracts.

And even if there isn't a capacity problem, a Lightning Network opens up possibilities with proper micropayments and maybe machine to machine stuff as well. Even a 1c fee and 2.5 minute wait is too much for some things.

It would all still largely be pie in the sky stuff. I'm not convinced how many people would choose to trust a smart contract for anything beyond piffling things, and LNs might turn out to be a right mess, but at least the possibility would be out there.