You can't expect people to think beyond a 15 minute period in the crypto space. It's simply too taxing.

What they should've done is stuck to that mythical 2mb + Segwit agreement that wasn't an agreement or whatever it was. Things would be rosier than a rosy thing by now.

When LBC volumes explode in a new country the first thing I normally do is check whether MMM has started up there.

This type of behaviour can't be maintained forever. If you're an overt and flagrant prick then eventually every single person in the space will turn on you. It's only a matter of time.

Well, that's the hottest issue of the last few years. It's miners who are the ones who can activate it.

Some miners can't be bothered to signal for any change. Some miners are signalling for Segwit. Others are actively trying to block it.

Some say that's because Segwit would remove an advantage they have to save power and increase profitability. Others think it's because they don't want a centralised development team to lord over Bitcoin forever. Others think it's a pure power grab so they can turn it into something even more centralised.

One thing I am sure of is that it's getting old.

Now if Bitcoin Unlimited were feeling extremely psyops ish they could sneak release a new version of their code named Do Nothing. There might be enough stupid miners to run it.

It was dollar withdrawals that were stopped first, then it became dollar deposits a while after. Crypto's still fine as are CHF and HKD withdrawals. I'm not sure what fiat deposits are possible right now.

I'm pretty sure you can't do that.

Here's some reassuring terms from here https://tether.to/legal/

"PURCHASE AND REDEMPTION OF TETHERS: The Site is an environment for the purchase and redemption of Tethers. Once you have Tethers, you can trade them, keep them, or use them to pay persons that will accept your Tethers. However, Tethers are not money and are not monetary instruments. They are also not stored value or currency. There is no contractual right or other right or legal claim against us to redeem or exchange your Tethers for money. We do not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of Tethers by us for money. There is no guarantee against losses when you buy, trade, sell, or redeem Tethers."

Would you entrust your money to something with those terms? It is however back to dollar parity.

Those terms probably aren't too far off the terms of many other more legit places, but 'more legit' is the key phrase.

They're doing withdrawals in Swiss Francs and Hong King Dollars. Stuff like EUR and a few others is supposedly in the pipeline.

Okcoin.com (not CN) chucking in USD as well. Perhaps they bank in Taiwan too. I'm not sure.

Of course they'll pour in, if only for proof of concept. There must be loads of Bitcoin projects waiting to roll out right now which'll head straight there. If Bitcoin gets left behind then so be it. However a successful LTC Segwit will also hugely increase the desire for the same on BTC.

As for a Lightning Network, I'd like to see one in action before deciding it's the greatest thing ever.

I think Litecoiners themselves would be the first to admit they won't have a capacity problem for a very long time, if ever. It would shine a light on them and attract more quality developers though.

Nah. I think it's pure Bitcoin politics spilling over. If it's demonstrated that Segwit does the job and does some new ones too then Bitmain will have lost an awful lot of face.

By hook or by crook Segwit will happen on Litecoin now. It's literally one man against everyone else by the looks of things.

The more brazen they are, the more isolated they become, the easier it is for everyone else to cut them adrift and route around them. This won't last forever. It's very slowly coming to a head of sorts.

They haven't really provided one single detail of their hack and that was multiple months ago. If I was running a place as questionable on the surface as Bitfinex I'd make it a priority to communicate properly. That's if they're not crooked bastards of course.

And here's an interesting metric - https://bitinfocharts.com/bitcoin/address/3D2oetdNuZUqQHPJmcMDDHYoqkyNVsFk9r

That's supposedly Bitfinex's cold wallet. As you can see it's dwindling rapidly.

My constituency is hideously Conservative and the last Lib Dem they rolled out looked about 13.

I think it's going to be a second opportunity for Brexiters to ram it home no matter what. All politicians from all sides have totally fucked us.

I don't think they have much to do with Hong Kong any more. Their parent company is located in the British Virgin Islands or something.

I find it rather odd that this question is still popping up. The reasons are on Bitfinex's site and it's obvious why it is how it is.

I dunno about resources, we seem to be doing pretty good on that, but this lack of space thing befuddles me a little.

Take a drive around the USA. Most of it is completely empty. The UK has ten times the population density yet I can stroll out my door and not see a sign of human activity for multiple hours.

The more developed the world becomes the lower the population growth until eventually it levels off then falls. We'll probably peak within the next 50-100 years and then start working our way down again.