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12161  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: @RogerVer lets make a deal. At least 60k, my BTU for your BTC. on: April 03, 2017, 11:48:30 PM
Noticed the date of his comment?

Doesn't it only count before midday? Then again he could've been in any time zone in the world in one of his secret lairs.
12162  Other / Politics & Society / Re: How do you think about the housing price in China? on: April 03, 2017, 10:22:31 PM
Aren't they going to build another $1.5 million vacant city? Just read it in the news.

Cool

According to a few recent articles I read about the Chinese ghost cities, they're actually slowly starting to fill up. Maybe the Chinese like to build it before they come.

I think that's a far more appealing idea than the city imperceptibly growing around you. I'd love to move into an entirely empty place and see it slowly come to life.
12163  Economy / Speculation / Re: People selling alts to go back in BTC on: April 03, 2017, 10:05:25 PM
You will see next redcandle in the next week. Expecting there will another attack from the BU shills and it will give another panic feels to the market.

They're out of ammo for now. It's not the type of thing you can muster up week in, week out. To get the momentum they'd need you have to capture enough attention and hold it. That's now gone.
12164  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Campaign - R.I.P. BUg Unlimited on: April 03, 2017, 10:00:23 PM
You going to start shilling for BitcoinEC now? OH LORD, when will this end...  Cry

When his funding runs out of course. Or maybe you can put in a counter offer for his services if you can't take any more of it. It may be surprisingly reasonable.
12165  Economy / Speculation / Re: My take on BU's long-term impact on the price of BTC on: April 03, 2017, 09:58:16 PM

It was never about number of Nodes as they don't hold any serious power. We were always had more than 75% nodes supporting Core.
That is no determinant at all, the system we have now is focused on hashing power as only way to determine scaling solution.

So the real difference in BU vs. SegWit support is not that high: https://coin.dance/blocks merely 7 percent.

The real dark horse is the army of undecided. I would assume the undecided are stupid, lazy, perfectly content with things as they are or afraid. In all cases BU will be even more of a turn off than Segwit.
12166  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Campaign - R.I.P. BUg Unlimited on: April 03, 2017, 09:44:39 PM
Certainly not me. I don't see anything wrong with supporting a different version that achieves what you want and is good enough to get most other people to agree.

I do see something wrong with the unworkable shit they attempted to force on everyone else. I guess it's back to blockchain spamming until the next attempt.
12167  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Best trading exchange for privacy? on: April 03, 2017, 07:26:01 PM
Poloniex only require ID if you're withdrawing more than $2000 value a day. Other than that you can feed them a fake name or whatever. I don't know how long that'll last though.
12168  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Tulsa area Police Officer shoots suspect...who do you side with? on: April 03, 2017, 07:20:11 PM
It seems like cops are too scared and just shoot "just in case"

Erm, wouldn't most people? They're not bulletproof and they're an obvious target for the ire of psychos and scumbags. Being a piggy would not give you the most balanced outlook on humanity.
12169  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Project Heaven - head transplant on: April 02, 2017, 04:24:09 PM
To connect nerves is the most difficult thing in such an operation. During the operation on monkeys, everything went well. And what will be in doubt on the person. But the monkey is like a human being on the side of the body so there is a chance of success.

The monkeys were paralysed though. In that case you may as well stay with the body that's already attached.
12170  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 02, 2017, 03:41:49 PM
Why is ripple of all shitcoins getting pumped??

Why the hell not? In present conditions my clinkers would get pumped if I could get them on there. Just goes to show we have rather a lengthy way to go before any actual rationality prevails.
12171  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Project Heaven - head transplant on: April 02, 2017, 12:17:37 PM
So if you can't reintegrate a head into its existing body you glue it to a new one? How would that work? You wouldn't have to just dick around with a handful of dead or damaged nerves, but every single one of them. I assume they're more qualified than myself.

Personally I'd rather go for a mechanical body. More fun. Probably less freaky in the long run too.
12172  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: things are reaching a boiling point on: April 02, 2017, 11:24:53 AM
Core hasn't been keeping the system updated,

There's a very steady stream of updates from Core. They've also provided the protocol change that they think is best. It's sitting there waiting to be used right now.
12173  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 02, 2017, 10:20:56 AM
But for the same reason I would love to keep my heavy weight transactions off the grid.

Then we need a middle ground. Perhaps sandwich purchases are the sweet spot so our descendants can check what we ate. Everything above or below that needs to be in the dark.
12174  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: @RogerVer lets make a deal. At least 60k, my BTU for your BTC. on: April 02, 2017, 10:04:36 AM
Communicate, lay out the rules of the exchange for open discussion, sign a wallet and his intentions, take up bets from other people who also have shown an interest.

Instead he didn't do anything, just saying how busy he is and waiting it out to buy time.

Why the hell should he? He said he was ready to roll and that's all he needs to do until the other personage supplies more details. I wouldn't bother to personally satisfy the feverish desires of every reader here either.
12175  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: things are reaching a boiling point on: April 02, 2017, 09:59:28 AM
Bitcoin will never scale without Litecoin. No significant protocol changes will ever be made to Bitcoin. Bitcoiners need to get this nailed into their thick skulls. Read the following:

Bitcoin will achieve maximum value by enabling SegWit on Litecoin. There is no other option going forward. The above linked post explains why in detail.

How would this be possible without some type of protocol change that allows stuff such as atomic swaps? Without that the chains are stuck as separate entities.
12176  Economy / Exchanges / Re: Can the Gemini Bitcoin Exchange be trusted with my finances? on: April 02, 2017, 09:31:07 AM
Not sure why they don't offer insurance for coins as well, but that's what the situation is right now.

I'd like to see any of the supposed coin insurance policies put to the actual test. I've a funny feeling that not a single one would actually pay out but then again any losses are almost certain to be down to human slackness rather than an ingenious cold storage hack.
12177  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: things are reaching a boiling point on: April 02, 2017, 12:50:30 AM
Let's get April Fools out of the picture first and then reconsider.

I'll only be well and truly impressed when it's 95% signalling for both of them. Come on boys, I know you can all get it done.
12178  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Scottish Parliament voted for the new referendum on independence on: April 01, 2017, 10:00:27 PM
Why if? The UK has already launched the brexit. It seems to me that to stop this process is no longer possible. Those who voted for brexit not thought about the consequences. It seems to me that politicians have played in democracy. This may lead to disintegration of the country.

I think the consensus is that it might be reversible in theory, which of course would be vastly controversial.

However as time goes on it's going to become clearer and clearer how many lies were dropped during the campaign and just how fucked the UK will be. And there's no way it's going to be done and dusted in 2 years. More like 5-10. That's a lot of time for the smoke to clear and dissenting voices to increase.

Most voters declared in a poll they'd only vote for it if living standards didn't drop. They already have and it hasn't even started yet.
12179  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion on: April 01, 2017, 08:34:12 PM
BU hashrate now 50,7%
 Sad

That presumably includes the F2 pool thingy April Fools, let alone variance, in which case there's zero point in paying attention to it. Give it a day or two and then look again.
12180  Bitcoin / Mycelium / Re: Mycelium Bitcoin Wallet on: April 01, 2017, 08:12:09 PM
At first glance that shocked me, but I recently paid 50 cents for a transaction with one input. Scaled up to 25-35 ish inputs that might result in a fee comparable to yours. I tend to think in human terms of how many dollars it will cost me, not like a computer that's only interested in how many inputs there are. A fee of $16 is still outrageous in human terms.

Yeah. I think people still are thinking in amount terms, not size/byte terms. It could've been worse. At one point the wallet wanted about triple that for the same transaction. I sat and waited but wanted to get it consolidated before it became genuinely ludicrous.

I remember reading somewhere that with fees as they are 30-40% of balances are now unspendable. I can well believe it.

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