Why on Earth would anyone use a new and unproven mixing service? That's one of the most obvious ways to scam.

Why's that a terminal problem? The price would take an enormous beating but it would also clear up one of the things that lesser minded people believe hangs over Bitcoin and terrifies all of us to tears when we're alone in bed at night.

Most of them are black holes and it's impossible to tell what goes on in there. Had it not occurred to you that they might pay their own fee?

http://blog.bnktothefuture.com/bitfinex-signs-letter-of-intent-with-bnktothefuture/

Never heard of this bunch, but they're working with Bitfinex to provide customers with equity regarding their wonderful token.

I'm not so sure a shopping site would get the results you were looking for. Yes to mixing, gambling and alts as they're core uses. People are far more reluctant to buy products with Bitcoin.

If you did want to make a go of it you'd need to commit to a set amount of time and use a proven manager/escrow. Considering how many campaigns have flaked out recently a lot of people would be reluctant to switch if they're already in a functional campaign.

The only criteria I'd bother with is that the campaign is for a long established business and the business themselves posts somewhere early in the thread. And escrow plus a known manager.

Other than that it's a cheap way for newcomers to scam. For the price of one week's payout you can recruit a few hundred desperate patsies to promote you to infinity.

Microsoft would be certifiable to introduce millions of their customers to a system that recently splintered and comprehensively fucked itself.

As for the original question, what is the definition of replaced?

Could another coin surpass it in market cap? Yes. That's a piece of absolute piss. All it needs is one pump, a fictional supply that's largely withheld and willing traders.

The only possibility is suicide. I understand that most people aren't willing to do this so we need to create a reddit sub where we can arrange to slaughter each other. I'm willing to kill eleven Bitcoiners at which point I wish to be murdered by another one.

The dollar has been one week away from collapse for somewhere around 40 years. It's still doing fine and will continue to do fine.

I bought on Circle the other day for the first time. They didn't want a shred of ID but the limits are low. They also want your card and your phone so anonymity is out the window not that I care about that myself.

I don't believe that myself. There would be a small hard core of believers who'd carry on buying. Everyone else would examine their beliefs, panic like fuck and pour into gold or just sit there and be eaten by devaluation.

Bitcoin's a generation or two away from being a genuine safe haven, if that ever happens at all. For most people this is an extreme bet and it would be the first thing they'd abandon if the shit truly hit the fan.

Everyone's got their personal preference. I tend to use Poloniex but there are other good ones too.

Apart from a good track record, which is vital, it's no good putting money into an exchange with no communication and a history of hacks, volume is very important. The more volume there is, the more opportunity to make money. If you make a huge profit you can't get it out unless there are enough buyers.

The price will balance out between the exchanges. A lot of people make money trading between them if differences open up between them which quickly brings the price back in line.

Russia probably has 50 million or more people freezing their balls off having their arses subsidised to infinity as well. Even if there is barely such a thing as a welfare state, keeping people alive in a place of that magnitude must suck up vast amounts of money.

And as others have said, there'll be a monstrous economy that never gets anywhere near official figures. Same goes for Spain no doubt.

We're in an era of bonkers pumps. There've been multiple opportunities in the last few days alone to far more than double your money if you'd been in the right place at the right time. Even if you're not, if you wait around long enough you're more than likely to catch a wave to the stars.

It's rather a shame that Bitcoin itself can no longer manage this.

It seems to be getting people ever more riled but it isn't banned and I don't know how they would ban it. I suppose one of the more straightforward ways would be to negative trust the escrows who'd quickly abandon it. Even if they did that account selling would move to another forum.

What NEM needs is more community. I hear about things going on in the Far East, but this is the prime thread in the English speaking world and there are often several hours between posts.

The nem.io forum might manage one or two new threads a day with the wind behind it and the reddit sub has less than 200 subscribers.

There are total junk coins with way, way more conversation swirling around them.

 It doesn't need pumps. It needs more interest. It must have attracted plenty of passing interest by now but it's still not sticking and I'm not sure why.

Why are certain bits of South/Central America the most violent places by far? There are considerably poorer swathes of the world where you're at far less risk of being slaughtered for no particular reason.

I think it would be hysterical to observe. First off you'd get the morons with no vision selling for peanuts. Slowly it would dawn on everyone else that the buyer from hell was on the scene. The same morons would probably FOMO and pile in again.

All the while the wise owls would be deserting the exchanges in droves until the price for what was left would leave everyone gasping. Then the buying would stop and there'd be the worst crash of any type in any type of history. Cue ten or more years of peace and quiet while some wounds were licked and others partied to expiration.



I think you need to add 2-3 zeroes to the end of your figure.

I don't think they're interested in private individuals.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/4cmzit/is_kraken_lending_out_customer_funds/

'We're using a combination of our own assets and private loans to fill our margin pool. The advantage is that we can always offer the same rate. The disadvantage is that at times of peak activity, it's possible for the pool to be exhausted. I like the peer lending approach, being able to offer clients an opportunity to earn interest, but we determined it to have regulatory complications we didn't want to deal with.'

Yes. It's fucking tedious. And I wonder how much of it is true or not anyway. I think a lot of these crypto news sources take one passing comment and spin tale after tale out of it.