You cannot compare the amount of coins send in 2009 with the same amounts send in say 2014. The value of the same coins would have been totally different at the time. Gavin's faucet paid out 5 bitcoin per hour back then. A faucet paying 5 bitcoin per hour these days would bankrupt the owner within the first hour.

I would rather want someone to compare apples with apples and find the highest valued Bitcoin transaction, not the biggest amount of coins.  

You might think Satoshi Nakamoto is a single person, I on the other hand think they are a group of people. The decision to reveal them would not happen, and I base my theory on the 1 000 000 coins that are unclaimed. Money and fame are not the driving force behind this group. They decided to take on the system and to give it back to the people. This makes them a target for a wide variety of agencies and countries around the world.

The Nobel prize and the fame and fortune, is not worth the risk. ^hmf^

I think the best explanation and answers for this attack and the impact it has and a possible solution could be found here : https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/the-who-what-why-and-how-of-the-ongoing-transaction-malleability-attack-1444253640 It was also discussed in detail here : http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-bug-guide-transaction-malleability/

Hope that helps you. 

What hood? The hood he is wearing, because he is a superhero or does he live in the hood? <The Bronx>
There is so many discussions on this topic, we just have to fool around with this. As said so many times before, Satoshi Nakamoto should remain hidden forever.

Satoshi represent the people not the person. ^hmf^

I plan to convert 5% of my salary into Bitcoin every month, when the price is low and keep the 5% in my fiat savings account, if it is high. When the price is low enough, I will withdraw it and buy at the low price. I hoard every single Satoshi I earn and set 30% from that aside to trade on exchanges. I am looking at early retirement, and for me to do that, I would need to triple the amount of coins I have now, and for those coins to be double the value it is now.

This will buffer my inflation lost on other investments and would keep me floating for a while longer after I stopped working.

My vision for this is quite different from that. I think the water or liquid will dry up once the glass has reached capacity. The public will see this as a failure and stick too fiat or credit cards or PayPal. Both of these options alienate people from Crypto currencies. The developers should get their act together and sort out the mess they created with this. 

I create a separate address for every new service or website I use. I already have way over 50 addresses created for things I experiment with. There are simply too many tracking websites out there and people chasing after your money. I see no advantage of using only one or two addresses. Keep everything separated and protect your privacy. 

I doubt that over 21% on this forum, have above 100 Bitcoins. Of all the addresses out there less than 2% of the total amount of coins are situated in one address. The OP should have asked, how many people have x amount of hoarded coins. The daily total will differ, if it is used on a daily basis.

This will never be a true reflection of the actual figures. <People will not reveal the true amount> ^hmf^

I am not acctually a supporter of any of these changes now. It seems as though both sides has a bit of a hidden agenda with the BIP they submitted. The people should set aside their agenda and come to the table with BIP's that are needed. You cannot submit a BIP to take control over Bitcoin development or to further your side chains or lightning project, or whatever project you are working on.

The BIP you submit, should benefit the protocol and it's users, not your power trip or your pockets.

There is a huge difference between the time Mt Gox was around and the current situation. Mt. Gox has sparked over regulation at the exchanges around the world, to prevent that from happening again, on such a large scale. Coinbase are one of those exchanges where they go overkill on following the AML and KYC regulation. I am not saying it will not happen, but these exchanges will face huge penalties, if it does. They also take out insurance now, to help cover losses, if a incidence occur.

It is much better now, than back then with Mt. Gox  

Do not bank on that happening soon. The banks are trying their best to develop their own version of the Blockchain to trump whatever was done with the Bitcoin Blockchain. You will see a lot more private Blockchains with their own currency tokens and even some government flavors.

The main difference will be, what the people will support? A private centralized currency or a decentralized currency under no centralized control.  

Well it might be, but by then we would have seen a lot of new faces entering the rabbit hole. We should not piss on opportunities like this given by large corporations to help with adoption. It was just sad that it only applied to US citizens.

I guess a global reward program would have cost too much money and the money farmers would have gone into overdrive, if they expanded it. ^hmf^

I am a huge supporter for companies offering Bitcoin payment for tasks being done online. We need more companies like this to stimulate the industry and to move the currency. You are going to have a tough time going up against sites like Fiver. Good luck and thank you for the info. 

Woz is the King, he took over when Elvis died and then he created Apple as a part time hobby. ^JOKE^ Some people on this forum will be too young to remember him and what he did for the computer industry. Just bow before him, when you pass him in the street. ^LoL^

His info : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Wozniak for the younger generation.  

This thread also exposed the people, who do not read the whole thread and post for the sake of posting. They read the title and post, without reading one of the previous posts. Well done to Gleb for spotting the glitch in the forum Matrix, or this would have gone on forever. 

To all posters after this post << Read the thread >> It's not about the title. ^hmf^

W.t.f. are you talking about? The more you hodl now, the higher the prize will go in the future. It is all the spending that is killing the coin. Just sit aside a small percentage of your coins to spend and hodl the rest. Once the price goes up to the moon, you would have doubled or tripled your buying power and you would be able to afford more things. 

Hodl / Hodl / Hodl ^Hmf^

My plan was always to recoup my investment capital and then only to invest the profits. I have done that and I am now setting my goals on eliminating all my debt with the investment profits, I make from Bitcoin. I want to free myself from any further involvement with debt, either from banks or other financial institutions. A debt free life, will be a joyfull life. 

I have been the hamster running in the little debt wheel, it is time to open the cage! Time to live. 

We are so focus on paying debt and interest on debt, that we do not take opportunities to enjoy life. When you open your eyes and all debt are paid, you are left with a burnt out body and no energy to enjoy the fruits of your labor. 

I see the usual stabbing at Bitcoin :

" Mr. Lee of BTCC said he was not seeing much of those sorts of transactions. But he said he had seen signs that Chinese investors were using Bitcoin to move money into an international investment scheme, MMM Global, which claims to have been created by a man who did prison time in Russia after a previous Ponzi scheme collapsed.

Bitcoin also continues to be used for illegal purposes. After the Silk Road online drug bazaar was taken down, imitators quickly popped up to take its place.

Bitcoin has also become the currency of choice for online ransom payments because Bitcoin addresses can be created without providing any personal information. The Cyber Threat Alliance released a report last week estimating that hackers had collected $325 million from CryptoWall, a virus that can freeze a computer’s files until an electronic ransom payment is made."

They have to include these highlighted words in any article to offset the good things being talked and also to hype up the article. I will not get too exited by this, they just trying to sell news papers and all the negative things are a attention grabber.  

Even if you do get rid of local ISP's the government will still have control over the fiber and satellite networks. The monitoring and control will just shift and more government employees would have to be employed to do the ISP's work. This will put a bigger burden on the TAX payer and the users will suffer.

We will just have to accept that governments will always try to control communication and interception can occur on different levels, even before this traffic reach ISP's. 

I would not call it a Hero App, but rather just stay with the Killer App that could take it viral. I saw something on Reddit the other day, where a hacker created a bot to link the M-Pesa system with Bitcoin, and that could inject a whole new market, if that could be done legally. The mobile payment system in Africa is huge and integration with Bitcoin could make it easier to shift funds from the developed world to the developing world, and charities could target individuals.

Someone could make donations in Bitcoin to individuals in Africa and they could spend that in M-Pesa, which is already widely accepted in most African countries.