They're all zombie scum so I'm not massively arsed who wins. I'm rooting for Donald for pure comedy value. Maybe it'll teach Americans once and for all that being famous isn't quite enough to get the job done.

That's odd. I assumed scammers got infinite returns as they pay nothing to deprive lenders of their money. I haven't heard of many lenders actually getting their money back, let alone make a return.

Hmm. I thought everyone reckoned Segwit was a fine idea. It does clear up a bunch of things that stand outside the scaling bollocks.

So politicians and regulators are the will of God on this Earth? Are you absolutely certain of this? I can think of at least one or two, maybe even more, who have a small problem with morals.

I find localbitcoins premiums waver all over the place. When the price is on the rise they tend to become vomitous, when it's going sideways or down I've noticed it was very closely priced to the exchanges. It's something worth keeping a regular eye on.

Hell no. My Bitcoin's done fine since buying much of it. My stock market fiddlings have done considerably better. I sat there like a sack of potatoes with both of them.

Yup. Coinbase does Paypal since fairly recently. Don't fuck around with attempting to trade with crappy websites or people you've never met. Coinbase will do the job best.

Toilet paper, bullets and of course an offline download of Pokemon Go is all you need to trade with when your neighbourhood is smoking rubble.

The only surefire way is to be on the inside of a pump team. Everything else is pure guesswork. There are great projects which are ignored and utter jokes that soar.

Make sure you have a backup purpose? I think the modern world is geared to keeping us feeling inferior by insisting we all have dreams that can only be achieved by endebting yourself or buying shit. Maybe contentedness is a lot closer to home than they would have you believe.

No. It's purely the amount of coins they've mined so far. I seriously doubt they'd be in profit just on running costs, let alone initial outlay, but I'm sure they're better qualified to price it up than I am.

It was a tad agonising. I've never been much of a torrenter but i could've been related to that as I've done it a handful of times. Where I'm at in the UK unlimited bandwidth usually has 'fair usage' written below in small letters which covers every possible base.

The article says late June, but I'm not sure whether that was the actual turning on of the machines. And it's $50,000 to date, not per month.

Did he mention what his motivation was? That seems like a monumental waste of time and life to me.

I did a couple of years ago. They didn't even tell me how much I'd used, and it can't have been very much as I don't really download very much at all. They kindly reduced me to 100 kbps for several weeks. I'm rather rural so don't have much choice in terms of providers.

What the actual fuck? Can I claim my prize now? All I need to do is point to the two Ethereums and how it came about and wait for the cash to roll in.

Obtaining it might be. I've known people with supposedly unlimited broadband who got throttled after downloading 30gb in a month. Maybe they had shit providers.

A coin's starting price can be decided by several different factors.

If it was created by an ICO, pre selling the coin before it's actually been made, the first price on an exchange is often more than what people paid in the pre fund in an attempt to profit. Often the price then collapses when everyone sells at the same time on launch day.

Other times the very first price is set by the first buyer and the first seller. It's pure guesswork.

The only coin that ever started off at absolutely nothing is Bitcoin.

The best source for finding out about new coins is still the altcoin announcement section here. That's where most of the action takes place. By the time a coin is on an exchange it's likely to have been announced on here quite a long time before.

I do not get what they're trying to do. $50,000 probably doesn't cover their PR bill, let alone electricity, equipment and premises. They must know something the rest of us don't.

Well, I think in the altcoin markets they're all artificial pumps but maybe I'm being cynical.

I'm not sure how you could ever be certain whether something was totally artificial. It might be genuine excitement from a large group of people.

I'd say the worse and more pointless the coin, the more obvious the pump. So if a big coin like Ethereum pumps that might be down to thousands of individuals, if something that's low down on coinmarketcap.com suddenly goes from $100 in daily trading volume to tens or hundreds of thousands then that's likely to be a pure pump and dump.