I think it's relatively easy to figure out that our ISIS friends may not be interpreting Islam in the way many people would choose to. And it's rather revealing that many of these Islamic terrorists usually turn out to be drug taking alcoholics who are busy trawling gay dating apps in between munching bacon sandwiches.

They're charging full bore into it and hardly anyone has piped up about it not being the best of ideas. I think we'll find out in a protracted and agonising manner that early optimism might have been unjustified.

Most people polled said they wouldn't vote for it if they ended up worse off. Well, it's bleedin' obvious you'll end up worse off. And the stat about 'what is the eu' being one of the number one searches after the vote says plenty.

The referendum question was purely about being in the EU. It said nothing about leaving the single market or customs union or even immigration. And another thing I find a tad mysterious is that non EU immigration, which is something the UK does have far more control over, has usually been higher but no one seems to have done anything to address that. That probably includes students, but I assume the EU figure does too.

The sum of it will probably add up to broadly similar immigration than before, more expense and hassle operating abroad, humongous expense in terms of disentangling and the country plenty more divided.

Result.

I'd say it was partly inspiration for an outrageous overshoot that was inevitably going to deflate horrifically anyway.

Anyone offering odds on an ETF approval is just pissing into the wind. Still, if people can make money then why not?

This upcoming deadline is the final one. There can't be any more delays. It's either a yes or a no by then. That's why people are getting ever hotter under the collar.

Interesting. It would be a better punt if that  bet didn't single out the Winklevoss ETF. In some ways the SolidX one looks like a hotter prospect.

People here sometimes act like Bitcoin has already won. In reality it's a dot and right now it needs as many people coming on board as possible, not pulling up the drawbridge before it's occurred to the vast majority to approach it.  

There still doesn't seem to be anything other than gridlock when it comes to scaling. If it can't be pulled off now when it's still so small then it's hard to imagine anything'll change further down the line unless it's developed 100% on top of BTC and does nothing to change the original chain.

Only because it's zero fee. The Chinese refugees will be heading there so they'll mainly be foreign. Still, hopefully it'll inspire some Japanese folks. The government there seems to be moving more positively towards crypto than the actual population.

What does price have to do with anything? There are tons of ETFs that have lost shit tons of money. What they care about is safety and viability. The price is someone else's problem.

NASDAQ were the ones who were denying them as far as I can tell. They were the ones who couldn't be arsed to implement the rule change that BATS is.

And this is how real world finance works. If I remember rightly the first gold ETF took considerably longer than four years. This is probably the world's first financial application rabidly watched over by a bunch of brats who live on the internet.

I don't buy the mining chart. All a miner has to do is start a second pool and point towards that. They know perfectly well how sweaty people get when the proportions get too high. You wouldn't stop mining, you'd disguise it as someone else. They don't care enough about decentralisation to sacrifice profit. They'll assume that they know best as long as no one else does.

I get the feeling that if we had a glimpse of who's really in charge of mining and how they can all fit on the back seat of a family car we might all cream our knickers in horror.

Forget BTER. The Alcurex guy is very helpful. I'm not sure whether they've retained any Node infrastructure though.

Why is anyone bothering with this? I seem to remember a lot of scepticism from other projects regarding the near instant transactions. It might all have been utter bilge as they never released any code.

You can still get money out of those exchanges by selling your BTC. Who wouldn't do that just in case? And there certainly won't be as many buyers as there once were on there.

It's not about decentralisation as such, it's purely usability. If you have to go to a third party to get something done that you could previously do entirely on your own with Bitcoin, then that signals that something's broken somewhere.

Why would anybody find this surprising in any way? I would class it as growing pains as opposed to a disaster. Something like this was wholly predictable, Bitfinex wasn't, then again considering their numerous failures in the past perhaps it was.

US police seem to believe they're at war every single day of the year. I love spending time there. I certainly wouldn't want to live there because of the sheer boneheadedness and corruption of the pigs there.

Any country that cheerfully supports civil forfeiture doesn't really strike me as one up from any other third world toilet.

I wonder what it is with Southern America and violence. Isn't it something like 40-45 of the world's 50 most violent cities are located there? There are poorer places where life isn't anywhere near as cheap as it is there.

The block reward pays them plenty. Its up to the users to decide whether they want to carry on once the reward is borderline negligible. I have a feeling they won't be too keen if each transaction is ten dollars plus.

At a certain point someone's going to bail, either the serious miners because it's no longer worth their while or the users who go off in search of something cheaper and less crippled.

And as is often pointed out more nimble miners will take their place, but if the users are gone they'll probably stay gone.

I've heard of a fair few people making use of it. It kind of feels like the tip of the iceberg to me though.  Unless summat gets sorted out bitcoin will be smothered by 'bespoke' blockchain services doing what the raw chain should be doing itself.

An alt, yes. Bitcoin, forget about it. You'd probably need 300,000 PCs to match one ASIC or something. And it's something increasingly prevalent and increasingly frowned upon. They'd nail you to the wall for it.

The PBOC is just trying to get on with their job. If you want to get arsey with anyone then blame the hair trigger pussies on the exchanges.