China will ignore this ruling just as the US has when it doesn't like the way things go for it. Everyone else will 'apply diplomatic pressure' which China will shrug off. They're too big and too rich to risk going to war with.

What's everyone's definition of 'trust'? Others such as Litecoin and Doge appear to be just as technically solid but I suppose they've never been put to the test in terms of transaction volumes.

Bitcoin is trusted by the most people and that's what really counts. Exponential trust is just as important as growth. I think the window for the 'Bitcoin killer' is closing within the next few years, not that it was ever really open in the first place.

I've memorised a couple of lengthy passwords, but probably not above 15 figures. I did notice that they started to fade after time so I'd need to keep practicing them.

I seriously doubt I'd be able to manage a private key. At my age my brain's starting to go. In a couple more years I won't be able to dress myself.

If I was committed to doing it I'd do it through reminders somehow or spread it around the house.

No. I'm very meticulous about these things, but you never know. If I did at this late stage I'd be rather unimpressed with myself.

All of them are human. And it's human nature to favour a contribution from someone you know or yourself even if it's technically inferior.

I'm not technically proficient at all, but I've noticed Core types being very quick to pick apart any ideas that don't come from the inner sanctum. It seems to be a knee jerk reaction.

I think it's naive to assume that Apple and Google aren't looking into Bitcoin. Whether they like what they see is another matter.

The payment processing thing is going to trip it up. To get into that market they'd need cast iron banking relationships. Bitcoin might threaten those relationships. Microsoft don't have anything to do with that so they had nothing to lose by taking it on.

What will it cost you to integrate it? If it's a lot of money then I don't think it's going to be worth it. Only a minority use Bitcoin for shopping. The rest horde, trade and buy naughtier things.

If all it needs is a few plugins then why not? Don't expect a sales boom though.

I often read 'it's open source, anyone can contribute'. I'd love to know how many contributions from total outsiders have been integrated. I'm going to guess it's not very many.

Bitcoin will be way, way down the list of priorities if the internet went tits up. You could write your private keys down and wait for it to come back to life but you'll probably be starving and the personal bitch of a bodybuilder wearing antlers who lives in the desert by then.

So that's what every single Jew on the entire planet believes and they've rubbed it in your face repeatedly? I myself struggle to condemn every single identifiable member of a group because of my own sweaty little generalisation.

The majority of real gold trading is retail I presume so it's never going to show up in any type of official metric. Still, a cool little statistic.

How many voters give the slightest shit about 'blockchain'? If I was your average trailer dweller I'm more worried about my juicy young daughters being ravaged by Mexicans.

I am willing to pledge allegiance to Satan if He helps us lose this 666 fixation. It was fucking boring in 2014.

There do seem to be a large number of people on this forum with a problem with Jews. I really don't get it and it's deeply pathetic.

I think the Israeli government's actions are certainly worthy of contempt. I assume no one here feels responsible for the actions of their own government and might feel unhappy about suffering because of it.

You didn't notice it more than double beforehand? I think that was the action and peeps should be satisfied with that.

I certainly wasn't expecting anything post halving nor should anyone else. You'd have to be a fuckstick or maybe a shitheel to believe anything would. It's a long term deal.

NEM/JPY is far more important and not a lot happened then. Don't toss your cookies if it's more of the same.

Equally it is very easy to forget how rare they are. There's only 483 or so silver/gold 1 btc coins to share with the entire planet. Whether the rest of the entire planet cares is the important question.

As far as I know there's only been one group of people in recent times who hadn't figured out the link between sex and pregnancy and that was an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon somewhere.

Everyone else should know the score by now.

I think you'd have to be all the way down the rabbit hole not to care about the USD equivalent. At present I'd happily part with a few hundred extra dollars to get my mitts on a nice coin.

Let's say you'd pay 2.5 BTC for a silver 1 BTC coin today. $1000 or so on top of the current BTC price which is significant but manageable.

At 10,000 that becomes a $15,000 premium. That's a large amount to give up and premiums will always be speculative and illiquid to an extent.