Yes. It doesn't get much more legit than that. I've used them a few times and extremely painless it was. When I had one small issue support was really good.

I assume this is mainly a licence for people to murder each other without any particular reason and claim 'drugs'. Due process and stuff is rather boring and unsexy but it's kind of there for a reason.

I would shake him by the hand, start crying and then slide my tongue down his ear. I think he's the type of fella who'd need some human contact and drama.

Hmm. Or they could continue growing and developing and sell for unicorn levels of money some day. If they manage to keep on top of it all their future is epic.

It's going to be fascinating to see how the first properly operating private blockchain works. If it's ETH based then presumably there has to be some mining involved. Who is going to do it and if it's not monetised who's going to pay for it?

We won't know whether it's good or bad for generations, but it is evolution and it's inevitable. Is it natural? Anything an animal does is thought of as natural. We happen to be animals too.

What is logical about commerce grinding to a halt if VAT was imposed on loans? Would you do the same to mortgages?

I think someone would be certifiable to park money in any crypto for tens of years. That goes for Bitcoin, Ethereum and even more so for everything else. No one knows how this is going to pan out.

It's easy to forget that this entire scene is only 7 years old. Who knows what the future holds? And as others have pointed out abandonment is probably the most obvious risk. People seem to have this idea that the whole world is using crypto and it's too big to fail. It's the total opposite. It's teensy and fragile.

I'm sure most people here have some money in the game. They're also watching developments like a hawk and would run away at any sign of faltering. I for one would not go anywhere near ETH with a long term mindset. There can't be more than a few tens of thousands of people involved and they seem worryingly cavalier about how it's operated compared to BTC.

Hey, that's a successful investment in anyone's book. Just not for the mindless sap who sent the coins.

The auctions they've started running a certainly a pointer towards gearing up for that. That's the same way the GLD ETF sorts its prices. It's out their hands of course but they certainly don't appear to be letting up.

Does this question even need to be asked? That's possibly the last thing the real blockchain.info would ever send to anyone. And for starters there is no Blockchain Exchange.

I've no idea whether such a thing exists, but you could easily fit it on a 128gb sd card. I've no idea whether a phone could cope with the indexing. You'd need one monster of a data package too. It seems overwhelmingly pointless to me.

I seem to remember someone ex OKcoin saying the exchange had its employees trading away with accounts provided for them. No idea whether that's just bitter lies of course.

As ever it's the bandwidth and not the storage that's the problem. There's nothing developers can do about that. Pruning of some sort would help make it a more modest download in future but it's already far more than my connection could take without coming around and slapping me.

Holy moly. Have you never checked the news? There's lots of nasty things out there looking to get at you. I think it does depend on how slack you are with what you download into it but it is very possible.

He's in the UK. He's still got time to move to Germany for a bit where he can sell his coins with no capital gains. He'd better get his skates on before Brits aren't allowed into Europe any more.

Humongous variations in volume seem to be a recurring characteristic. It was 300 and something in the previous period on Poloniex. Mainly for the pleasure of dumping of course.

It's a legit question. Hardly anyone bought at that price. An awful lot more probably paid more than it's worth now.

There was no reason for it to go so high in the first place. Just another Poloniex pump for kicks. When it's ready to deliver, it will.

I somehow don't think they have my best interests at heart so I won't be embracing them any time soon. Other than the desire to assert themselves for no particular reason I don't know what they want. The US isn't my friend either.