Um, I can't remember. The fee was about $16 on the normal fee, yes really, on 2 or BTC but that made up of about 25-35 ish inputs. It seems to be rather excessive even with far fewer inputs.

A few days back. No improvement in fees indeed. I paid a pretty stunning amount to move an input heavy one but I'd already steeled myself for that.

I thought you'd been reborn as a die hard holder? Don't depend on a third party's timing if you've got money on the line.

They have a banking charter which I believe will include insurance for your USD in case they fail. Not too sure about the coins themselves. I doubt there's anywhere more legit than there but that isn't really saying too much when it comes to Bitcoin infrastructure.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Butterfly-Labs-Bitcoin-Miner-10-GH-S-Processor-USB-2.0-BF0010G/34952957

They did. And not an April Fool either.

I wonder how many suburban moms picked one up right alongside Junior's bullets.

Hey, I helped pay for them with the tax on my hot take out food so I'd like to keep them. They're lots of fun for everyone and spawn cool James Bond esque facilities.

It's a very interesting question. I get the feeling he'll slowly become more bored and stick to watching TV while other people come up with the stuff to sign. Plenty of swamp dwellers will delight in having someone so stupid and unengaged. Feed him the right outrage and he'll do what they want.

It's a great idea, but if you can mine at home then that also means someone else can fill a warehouse with the same home mining gear.

He's probably tweeting from a Chinese death van so I for one don't blame him for sounding a bit moody.

He could certainly do with brushing up on his PR skills. Many, many people are itching to find a way to dispose of his influence.

I think it can keep chugging indefinitely but won't advance much or any further than it already has. If it does continue to breathe I suppose that gives time for its supporters to come up with more ideas. Dunno what they'd consist of.

I think it's a genuinely pathetic and shit metric, but it's hard to know what might replace it for simple reference. Perhaps some balance of trading volume vs supply but that still wouldn't be soundbitey enough for most people.

I would be jolly nice to everyone, give presents on a monthly basis and make sure everyone lived happily ever after. The end.

Some impressive alt blood right now. Does this mean Bitcoin isn't 100% completely dead at this particular moment?

So is signalling.

Japanese 'dominance' is down to the zero fee exchanges. We all saw what happened when that came to an end in China. As far as I can tell no one in Japan has much or anything to do with Bitcoin.

Maybe this might produce a wee boost, or squash any innovation there completely.

Seems like utter bilge dating from around 2012. I'll carry on being unfashionable and use it for things that aren't nefarious.

Yup. You're as mad as a Ford Focus being driven by a pheasant wearing a Batman costume.

Much of trading takes place on places with even less regulation than your average Bitcoin exchange. The SEC doesn't care about centralised development, just the trading. And that's probably a convenient umbrella for all the other stuff they don't like or understand.

I don't think Scotland has the slightest desire to be powerful and dominant. Happy and prosperous sounds like a much more cheerful plan.

I'd rather be living in somewhere like Iceland which has zero desire to fuck with anywhere else than Russia or the US.

Tech like this will arrive at some point. It won't be possible to uninvent it either. Never in human history has everyone agreed to not research and create something potentially advantageous. Someone, somewhere will do it.

Then what's the point of mentioning it?