Something tells me that The Man helping scammed dark webbers might not be as altruistic as the scammees first think.

And here we have the solution to the scaling strife. He who hands out most beer wins. I'll bet Blockstream never thought of that.

Or your doom.

https://giftoff.com/gift-cards/skype

There it is. It's primarily a British site but the Skype credit is priced in dollars so I presume anyone can get it. I've used them plenty of times for Amazon vouchers and it's always been very smooth.

Nah. He really, really, really wants to vote for RuPaul but doesn't have what it takes to admit it out in the open.

Perhaps there'll come a time when they tell all new prospective crypto related wallets to bugger off. There's nothing much in it for them and it's a ball ache.

That's fine if you have a shed full of GPUs. You're not going to get much enthusiasm from backers if you're buying miners by the square kilometre and leasing warehouses. These guys are either hoarding or cutting deals with OTC buyers.

I'm not so sure there are many OTC buyers for Potcoin.

By hanging on to 10 bitcoins you eventually end up with 10 bitcoins. By 'investing' or, god forbid, loaning them you can subtract 10 from that figure in a wonderfully small amount of time.

I'm not implying that it's a crime, but it does seem like a strange thing to do especially when you have a bunch of people watching what you're up to with their money. Then again I've no idea what the terms of crowd sale were.

https://blog.mass.network/mycelium-ceo-acquires-mass-network/

What do folks make of this? Did everyone crowdfund this buy of some operation I've never heard of?

I think the consensus is that the trollbox might not be the world's most authoritative source of information.

Barclays has some BTC track record. They were Mt Gox's UK bank and Intersango's. I think discovering that they were in the Bitcoin business came as a surprise to Barclays as they shut them down.

They've also been talking about doing stuff with Safello in terms of handling charitable donations. I've used Circle a few times now. It's miraculous compared to many UK services.

They'll give you that option in your user area. Some people stay all Bitcoin, others USD, others a combination.

You may want to check whether there's a threshold you have to cross before they do a bank transfer in USD. Bitpay keep raising theirs to a level where it's not very practical if you're not turning over large amounts.

It is our cuddly friend Hilary of course. But it's an interesting reflection on gender perception. Nothing more.

Other than puff pieces I haven't seen any other hard metrics to back up India's growing excitement. Considering they love gold, have lots of IT expertise and growing prosperity in certain areas you'd think it would start to fly but I'm not seeing much evidence.

You'd need totally different machinery. I don't think there are many other alts that can be mined with a Bitcoin ASIC's architecture.

And considering how wobbly even the biggest alts can be in terms of demand and liquidity, let alone whether any of them have a future, I don't think serious investors would go for it. There probably is more money to be made but there's also a lot more risk.

Pretty much. Even the people talking it down are already secretly shopping for their ideal sexbots.

i think this rather neatly sums things up. There be some slight double standards in operation. Quelle surprise.

There've been countless other pumps since XEM's peak. I think this is simply the final deflation from XEM's pump and dump. It'll have a nice rest and then head back into action next year maybe.

They made me wait right until the bitter end for my enthronement. They'll get theirs. Oh yes they will.