Has the alert key ever been used before?  Edit - saw the list of alerts and alert ids. Yup, seems like a very useful function to have. Especially in cases like heartbleed. |
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It is a bad thing that one person currently has so much influence on the bitcoin perception
him leaving should not cause more than a small dip on the news, otherwise it has become to centralized around him.
The question is why is he leaving? Opinions are divided on the blocksize limit. So it is not just one person who is branching out. |
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There are somewhere between 5 and 10 billion Bitcoin users in the world -- because of anonymity, the exact number is unclear, but one thing Ver is sure of is that it is going to grow.
Sheesh.... These people at least need to get their math right.
Number of Bitcoin users > the population of this earth?
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I think so, if facebook were using bitcoin in its messenger it would be so awesome to bitcoin spreading and enviroment
No real need, I wouldn't want anything facebook related to my transactions. If you really need to send someone money and communicate via Facebook messenger I suggest linking them a web wallet site and sending the coin to their public address. but you must admit that if bitcoin was seen a way to transmit money by the millions of users that facebook have it would be so awesomely viral Well, pseudonymity that Bitcoin provides will go out of the window if it is linked to Facebook. I hardly use Facebook these days. |
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They can just introduce an additional Bitcoin tax, which should be paid in bitcoins.
Big corporations which enter the Bitcoin space will want to stay on the right side of the law and pay up!
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Nothing special here. They are only talking about wallet services like Coinbase and Circle. These institutions would be authorised and regulated by a central authority, such as the FCA and they would be required to: Exactly. For people who trust themselves more than such institutions, hold your bitcoins in your personal wallet. I don't think the government intends to (or is trying to) freeze those. |
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It talks about money laundering, without mentioning Bitcoin.
That definitely is a positive!
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I don't think there's a need of having a Bitcoin bank. I mean what a bank can offer to the bitcoin users.
They can offer interest.  Of course, people need to trust (I know this is a bad work in Bitcoin land) the Bank enough to deposit their bitcoins. |
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Surprised by the Bitcoin ban in countries such as Sweden and Iceland. I was thinking that these countries were more "progressive". On the other hand, the bans in India and China are hardly surprising.  Badly researched article. Bitcoin is not banned in India. The article includes India just to get to a list of 10 countries.  |
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the question is what's a bitcoin bank?
An established company who takes bitcoin deposits and makes money by giving bitcoin loans. The deposits must be "reasonably secure". That is my definition of a Bitcoin bank. |
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Wyckoffian logic says that this area of low volume/low volatility in the trading range is when most of the stock is now in strong hands. Everyone who wanted out is out, the punters are all waiting for a breakout, and a few interests are building up positions, further tiring out any weak hands who have stubbornly held on.
If you look at the charts, volatility was actually lower in July 14 and Nov 14. The price went on a steady downtrend at those points. |
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Heated Debate Over Software Change Shows Bitcoin’s Governance Challenge http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2015/05/20/bitbeat-heated-debate-over-software-change-shows-bitcoins-governance-challenge/Ask people on the street what they think of Gavin Andresen’s proposal to raise bitcoin’s block size limit and you’ll almost certainly get a nonplussed look.
But inside bitcoinland, the lead developer’s plan to alter the data capacity for the 10-minute batches of transactions that form the digital currency’s core blockchain ledger is as hotly contested as any it has seen. And this a community accustomed to contentious debates.
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What Bitcoin's History Means For Its Future: Q&A With Nathaniel Popper, Author Of 'Digital Gold'http://www.forbes.com/sites/laurashin/2015/05/19/what-bitcoins-history-means-for-its-future-qa-with-nathaniel-popper-author-of-digital-gold/“Digital Gold” details Bitcoin’s colorful journey, beginning with its mysterious creation in November 2008 by a still-unknown figure who used the name Satoshi Nakamoto. The book tracks the currency through its geek phase, when it was a pet project of programmers, its libertarian period, when some of the biggest promoters were people captivated by the idea of a financial system not under government control, and its outlaw stage, during which a large volume of the transactions in Bitcoin were drug deals on the underground market Silk Road.
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Around Wednesday, give or take a day or two, a huge big crash is coming. You've been warned. Sell your worthless coins and get out of this ponzi scheme called bitcoin. Don't be a bag-holder.
And how would you define a big crash? $5 decrease? The price of Bitcoin has been in the $230-240 zone for quite some time now. |
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I haven't really kept up with what's going on in the banking side of the Bitcoin ecosystem, but I was talking with an acquaintance about Bitcoin and he mentioned something about an actual Bitcoin bank. A quick search yields results that are all over the place, so I'm turning to the members of this forum to see if anybody has any info. Does anybody offer an insured solution for storing coins that pays interest? The closest thing I can think of is Circle, but I don't think they pay interest. Any insight would be much appreciated.
Why would you want to let your coins get stored by a third party to get a lame interest rate? Bitcoin is great because WE ourself are a bank without using a third party. For long term holders, it makes sense to get a small interest rate on their holdings by depositing their coins in a bank. If the bank is regulated and deposits are insured, I definitely will make a bee-line towards the nearest bank branch. |
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The long wait to pick up $100 bitcoins or the long wait for $1k bitcoins? OP has to be more specific. |
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in my opinion, i think he expected this because you wouldn't make a currency if you are just planning to use it just for a year right?
Bitcoin could have been just a problem he had solved; an experiment he had unleashed. He would definitely liked his creation to succeed, but we won't know whether he expected it to. |
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