And that's almost certainly to Europe's benefit. They don't exactly bring a great deal of positivity to the party.

If only there was an opposition that wasn't made up of pathetic donkeys. I really can't remember a time when our politics were as chaotic and amateurish as they are now.

So program that offers the possibility of free money turns out to be a program that might get free money for the programmer. Shocker.

It's time this forum had a Russian propaganda section. That's in addition to the anti semitic one and I think a misogynist sub forum is ripe for inclusion too.

It's a bottomless pump fest and there is absolutely nothing to stop them from fucking with their own customers.

Look at how ETC was launched. If that wasn't a blatant screwjob then I don't know what is.

They may be operationally solid but I don't believe they're whiter than white in their ethics.

I don't think Bitfinex was ever due a happy ending. I also don't think there'll ever anything of the magnitude of Gox again.

But crypto withdrawals are fine. We certainly would've heard if they weren't.

I'm not talking about Kraken, it's Bitfinex. But Bitfinex certainly has a less horrible design than Kraken. I can't believe they think that UI is good enough.

A few short weeks ago it was worth nearly ten times less. Has anything changed in that time?

Neither should be trusted. But for pure usability I find Poloniex cleaner. I wonder whether they're going to eventually have a story to tell too. The pumps are so brazen now.

More fun tokens for everyone to enjoy? I'm still getting over its return to the top after a hack of that magnitude. What do/did they have that other exchanges don't? Is it the combination of volume and margin?

I've never used it but it was certainly less horrific on the eye than Kraken is.

The thousands of TPS on NEM will definitely happen on a privatised version, not necessarily the public chain.

Right now I seem to remember they said the public chain is limited to about 5 TPS. If the privatised upgrade is included it'll be high but maybe not stellar. I don't think it's very clear yet.

Read up. The North Koreans are fucking psychos who would probably fight until the very last kitten. There is no parallel with anything Middle Eastern. The entire country is an engine for war.

They're constantly finding new invasion tunnels dug into South Korea. The countryside will be riddled with hides and bunkers. Even if there's no more command there would still be guerrilla fighting everywhere.

They may be tiny and have crap weapons but they're fuelled by pure, burning hatred.

And much of his army was a bunch of tubby chancers. The North Koreans are indoctrinated from birth. They're on a never ending war footing and they believe that the US has always been the ultimate evil.

They're a short cruise from Seoul and they have enough cannon fodder to throw away to cause an insane amount of damage.

It's on Poloniex. What did you expect? And there might be plenty of oxygen left yet.

Indeed, but have you ever looked into the cost of the legal appeals and grinding that goes on before someone's actually put to death in the US? It's usually in the millions and it can take 10-20 years of housing and feeding them too. 

Until the justice system is 100% irrevocably absolutely infallible the death penalty should not exist.

If one innocent person get done in by the state then that's an outrage, of course it's probably countless thousands.

And a whole life term in somewhere like ADX Florence is going to be a far worse fate than being put down.

Checks and balances are what keep the world stable. I don't trust the miners to consistently do the right thing, nor do I particularly trust anyone else. The more nodes there are stating their case and enforcing the rules the better, miner or not.

Perhaps that's the narrative that's been fed to you by the people who want to relieve you of your coins at a bargain price?

There'll be an ever increasing number of alt surges no matter what BTC gets up to. At some point people will need to let go of the idea that they're all elements of the same market and they're all competing.

The behaviour on Poloniex and elsewhere is so shameless now that I don't really pay much attention to it any more. A coin could easily sail past on 99% speculation. Bitcoin's probably still 95% itself.

I really hope some scaling does happen, but bigger blocks or Segwit by the end of the year feels like a major ask.

The quantity of coins is effectively irrelevant because they're ultimately priced in USD or BTC as it stands. People buy and sell with those denominations in mind. The XEM to most pumpers is simply a few more decimals than other ones.

I smoked about 20-30 joints a day for 15 or so years.

I'm afraid I don't have any advice because one day the desire to have it simply went off like a light switch and has never returned. Maybe it was so easy because drugs don't have an effect on me, I just liked the taste.

I do remember what it felt like to run out. In those situations I would remind myself that it was a craving and not an addiction.

After throwing it in I did develop a slight distaste for weed smokers. Not necessarily the mind set, but more the utter waste of time and money. I refused to travel with stoners any more as they'd insist on parking up every hour and talking shit for twenty minutes.

You can look forward to feeling richer and more productive. Weed use is an utter dead end ultimately.