I dunno about cockblocking, but I cannae believe how woolly the entire process has been and it's something that needs hardened clarification. This court thingy moves towards that.

People didn't vote for a secretive inner circle to have carte blanche over an entire country. They voted for Brexit. It's parliament's right and job to decide what form that takes. People voted for that too.

We are now fully rounded individuals who have been like battered housewives for the last three years, too afraid to express our true feelings. I might grunt approval if we hit $1 mil by Christmas, but probably not.

That's an interesting idea. I think Node was planning on doing that until the developers gave up on life.

But people like exchanges and they like seeing walls to play with. I think that's a major part of the thrill of trading even when the risks of losing your coins are there and it's the overlap from all the different coins that causes the markets to ebb and flow. One pump feeds another. The DAO failure is probably the main factor in XEM's journey to the stars.

Gawd, I think I'll be more pleased to see the permanent back of $666 than the arrival of $100,000.

Yes. I think there's a real chance. Brexit was the major political earthquake of the year. No reason why it can't happen again. He's appalling but so is Hillary. I think there are many people out there who won't be telling anyone that they'll give him a try but they just might.

Tera was calling out major falls back in the day while everyone else was blithely trundling along with their high prices and dissing the call. You can't nail it every time but there's some track record there.

It'll be an object lesson in who truly pulls the strings. Governments are filled with behind the scenes lifers. One guy spouting blag against thousands of hardened bureaucrats and vested interests won't achieve very much indeed. He'll be a lame duck, albeit an extremely loud one, before his inauguration's over.

I think the same goes for almost every single alt out there. New 'users' arrive on exchanges and stay there. They're parking the coins for a bit and then moving them on to the next owner without ever meeting the real chain.

The ones that do have some action in terms of transactions and increasing users are mined in the main.

I don't see how that's possible. Everything's related to Bitcoin when it's still the primary entry point into alts.

NEM as a platform is leagues ahead of most, but it's traded in the same exchanges as everything else where it's just another three letters for pumpers to latch onto. That's what happened.

It'll be in the doldrums for a while like everything else and then perhaps people will start to take a proper look at the fundamentals of what they're putting money into. Cue a justified rise.

Brexit seems to be his chant of the moment and he may well have something there. I'm sure there are plenty of people who feel like throwing a spanner in the works but aren't going to say it out loud to either pollsters or their nearest and dearest. When you're in the privacy of the voting booth you might spring a surprise.

Why is the OP wasting its time on here? It could be out on the campaign trail persuading the laydeez and mud people to vote for it so it can feed them into a mincer on the white house lawn. If the argument is that compelling then let's see you deliver.

My beautiful thread was turned into smoking ruins. It was a genuine question. My curiosity wasn't particularly sated by the quality of the answers.

I see this suggestion a lot. How would you propose going about doing it? Who is account farming and who is just an occasional and crappy poster?

If account sales were banned on here, they'd simply move to another website and carry on there.

As a thought experiment perhaps all sigs should be shut down for a week or a month just to see how it impacts the forum overall. If enough people realise that prospect is permanent if the tsunami of crap continues, maybe they'd start to shape up.

Considering you can't vote if you've been convicted of something and the American fondness for jailing people of a non cracker ish persuasion, give it a couple more decades and Donald may hobble back into action when there's only creaky old honkies left eligible.

OP, send me your money. At the end of the month I might give you some of it back if I'm in the mood. Otherwise I'll probably keep it. That's a far better offer than you'll get from any investment company and the offer stands. Call me.

Down for me in the UK. I assume this is somehow related to the current strife with the wider internet. I can't say I'd miss the Guardian if it was gone forever. It's filled with whining, unworldly pricks whose mission in life is to leave you feeling more guilty for things you have no control over than when you arrived.

Had you put it 10 BTC each into XEM, XMR and ETH at the start of the year -

XEM - 933 BTC at the peak.

XMR - 200 ish.

ETH - 150 ish.

So 30 would've become nearly 1300. And all you had to do was go to hospital and come out at the right time.

Silly, but possible.

I get the feeling he wasn't too savvy when it came to internet security or account security so there won't be an address to sign. He certainly wrote like the man himself. There's no one else here quite that irascible. The 'new' matthecat writes like a typical google translate moron.

Cashless implies total control. That being the case they could cut access to every bitcoin exchange, buying service and private trader with a few clicks.

Bitcoin would prove why cash is needed. It would also be a prime victim until the fiat out is unnecessary and I'm not sure it ever will be.

He's like a Trump but actually in power. I approve of this mischief. He's going to go to some interesting places I think. I'm not sure whether the Filipino people want to come but they don't have much choice.