After all that time you've only just figured that out? Off you go then and let me offer a friendly pat on your silky buttock to help you along. If you find a cheeky finger in your crack then I hope you take it in the spirit it was intended.

Er, this has been going on for years to unlock accounts. Are all the conspiracy hysteria sites grasping for news today?

And government ID is nothing compared to what people already give them by using it 'anonymously'.

That discounts the possibility that our annoying mining friend personally controls far, far more mining firepower than he's going to publicly admit to. Bad for business too. He probably operates more than half the pools to give us the illusion that centralisation isn't an issue.

Condoms and dental dams for all too.

There's a world of difference between squealing and actually murdering your own cash cow. Let's see how Satoshi's careful balance of incentives pans out.

I'm not so sure about this. They may have to put together a completely new application. And this deadline isn't the ETF application anyway, it's the BATS rule change.

If that rule change isn't implemented then the Winklevii will need to find a new exchange.

And there are two more applications coming along in short succession.

The sooner Chinese miners are sold for body parts by their government the better. They shouldn't have the power that they do. Let them fork off but it would be a worry unless there was some way of truly disposing of them with a PoW change. That may well invalidate the non BU miners too though.

What do important economists know about the ins and outs of Bitcoin? Can they get inside the minds of the people demanding it? It's still a brand new arena. No one knows where it's going to end up.

Other important economists predicted $10 two years ago.

Not rejected. The decision deadline has been postponed repeatedly.

I don't understand why anyone's devoting brain power to trying to predict this. 

Indeed. It's nowhere near bubbly. The people shouting bubble sure as shit weren't around the witness the last real one in 2013. That was quite stunning to see.

I'm going to guess that due to the nature of this forum, there will be a lot of comic book fans.

What I don't get is how they've managed to absolutely dominate Hollywood when I genuinely have never met a single human being who reads them.

Everyone knows Superman. I doubt 99.85% of my fatherland's population would've had the slightest clue who Doctor Strange was before he was shoved down their throats.

I've attempted a few but it's never going to be a medium that'll ever work for me. And when I look things up on Wikipedia I start getting a headache trying to wrap my head around Logan being in Hell after having died 762 times before he was born, but that's before he splits off and becomes 17 different bus conductors who all turn on him or something.

Are you voracious consumers of them? If you do, do you have the slightest clue what's going on in them most of the time?

If it is a scam it's a very patient one. If there was going to be an epic dump of gamed coins, it would've happened by now.

I think the initial distribution was messier and more complex than it needed to be and it's very possible some deserving people missed out, and some undeserving ones made bank. Many of the gripes though are from people who ignored repeated bellowing about redeeming their stakes over a considerably lengthened period.

When O when will we see the public chain actually being used by someone? This private stuff is all well and good but it's also tangential. I'm not sure I've seen a single publicised project on the public chain.

Were you around at the time? The guy didn't give a shit that the whole thing was dying despite countless and persistent offers to help out from all angles. I doubt you'd get one twitch from his catatonic stare if you laid a billion tons of gold in front of him.

What could the PBOC possibly do now? Bitcoin trading has effectively been banned for the last few weeks and the rest of the world appears not to give a shit and rightly so.

Is it wise to have named this fella in public? He might end up in a shipping container in Poland somewhere listening to the Barney song.

As for the revelation that there is a WOMAN amongst us, I can't quite believe what I'm reading.

Is everyone on this thread living on Mount Athos? You realise they're half the global population, right? There might be one within 5-6 metres of you RIGHT NOW.

Blimey. Just goes to show how far up Bitcoin has risen. I wouldn't even have noticed that unless you'd pointed it out.

Every central bank in every country in the world has said the same thing. The difference with China is that they actually do something about these things.

Whoever uses those three letters automatically outs themselves as a distended, knotty penis whether they're an alt of someone else or not.

It's a huge unknown therefore an absolutely huge risk. Anyone going all in on a bet on this particular moment may well get their arse handed to them. If ever there was a time to reduce your bet then that would be it. Good luck to the bold ones all the same.

Gosh. This is really scary. I just done a piddle in my panties.