Free is free when a farm doesn't have land that it's renting or paid millions for in advance, and doesn't have any other operational cost. This is more of a fairytale.

People wrongly assume that pools represent one single entity, which isn't the case at all. Pools have thousands of larger/smaller miners pointing their hashrate to them, which means that the hashrate distribution in reality is more distrubited than the pie chart shows you. How on earth do you expect all these individual miners to enjoy 'free' electricity?

Not by default anymore. Merchants now have the option to select whatever coin they want to accept. BitPay pushed BCH in your face initially, but later made it an optional feature. I guess that Roger was too demanding there. Merchants accepting Bitcoin don't want to accept something else alongside it, which may lead to bad marketing.

As long as Roger and Jihan are willing to devote their BTC mining earnings to financially support BCH, BCH will remain up and running in the top 10.

BCash has actually very little organic transaction activity. It's way less so than Litecoin with orders of magnitude less merchant adoption. They artificially inflate the transaction numbers, and artificially inflade the on-chain value volume by moving insane amounts of BCH back and forth. How pathetic.

I'm not so sure of that. People continue saying that whales want the price to remain below x level, but none of them can explain how whales are manipulating the price. I don't see an indication of manipulation at all, just organic buying and selling, where in some cases large accounts buy or unload regardless of the slippage they subject themselves to.

If there was some sort of a keep Bitcoin below x level manipulation, they have had enough time to stock up on Bitcoin below the $4000 level. Another thing is that if whales manage to keep the price below x level, that means there isn't enough organic demand to push it up, therefore shouldn't and can't go higher.

China has always been an unstable factor, plus we shouldn't discard how news outlets do a poor job translating articles (which is a big deal considering that context is one of the most important aspects), and in some cases they purposely twist words to make an article look overly negative or positive.

Chinese Bitcoiners have always had enough alternatives to continue buying and selling coins, which just shows that whatever the sanctions were against Bitcoin, they weren't effective at all.

He surely is aware of it. Craig's only way to remain relevant is to pretend to be satoshi and to trash Bitcoin. If he didn't do any of that, no one would pay attention to what he is doing.

The same applies to Roger Ver. 9/10 tweets are related to Bitcoin. He doesn't focus on altcoins at all even though they are his actual competitors. All he is doing is hardcore shill it and pump money into his BCash shitcoin to keep the 5% peg to Bitcoin.

You would expect that blockchain and crypto events stop inviting these con artists, but nope, they pop up almost on every one of them.

I have to use Electrum's desktop client to pay for goods through BitPay, which sucks. There are a bunch mobile wallet clients that do support it, but then you have to use wallets from big blockers that intentionally recommend you a much higher fee than necessary. The bitcoin dot com wallet has been doing this for a while now.

For sure. They tend to wait for the network congestion to lessen and then utilize less than half of what people paid to move the funds.

Too bad there is not a competent enough competitor in the states to knock BitPay off its throne. 

It's just a throwaway site, just like his account is. He doesn't care one bit.

OP is hoping for a noob to buy his software/script totally not understanding whether or not there is a backdoor that allows OP do whatever he pleases.

The fact that OP isn't running an exchange himself instead of selling software/scripts, just shows how unprofitabe and dangerous it is.

They're better off accepting Lightning payments and skip BitPay entirely.

If you ask like $0.10-$0.50 in processing fees just because of the on-chain fees (which goes on top of the on-chain fees people have to pay for their own transaction), which BitPay does, that's not a good payment alternative at all, and I'm sure that there behind the scenes are a few other things they charge the merchant for aside from the default 1% fee.

I'm frequently using Bitrefill and I absolutely love their Lightning integration. If merchants start adopting this, they are less likely to drop Bitcoin as payment option.

Last year there was a flood wave of news articles about people who got robbed off their coins or cash. I'm sure that most cases don't even make it to the news because the amounts concerned are too small. Don't forget, the higher the price is, the more incentive criminals have to chase after local buyers and sellers of coins. Risk increases day by day.

Stale blocks are somewhat of a risk though, so there is no absoluteness when your transaction has only 1 confirmation. If the transaction value is on the lower side, there isn't much to worry about, but when you're dealing with large value transfers, definitely make sure to pocket that second confirmation before you walk away.

Truth can't be twisted when it comes to him providing the evidence of being Satoshi by simply signing from the address containing the genesis block reward.

I must admit though, this con artist is a champion in generating publicity. Who would have thought that a simple copyright registration (that you and me at home can easily replicate) would cause that much hype. It even doubled the value of BSV, now that's a successful PR stunt, lol.

Good news till you try to use BitPay's payment form that isn't supported by most wallet clients. If you find a wallet client that does support their payment form, there is no Segwit. One big mess. It's just retarded. Instead of making it easy to pay with Bitcoin, they made it harder. And then they also charge you an additional 'transaction processing fee'.

In order to tempt people to use Bitcoin over fiat, it has to offer more convenience and not lead to unnecessary hassle.

Someone on Reddit suggested that you can top up your ATT account through Bitrefill, which accepts both main-chain payments and Lightning payments. Not sure how it works since I'm in Europe, but if it offers the same functionality, definitely use this instead of BitPay.

It's very odd actually that Hitbtc has just about 240BTC in its reserves, which can't be right unless they lost or stole the rest. I'm sure they easily hold over 1000BTC, but have done some back and forth moving (mixing) to (for whatever reason) obtain a bit more privacy. Hitbtc is a shady exchange after all, so that wouldn't surprise me at all.

What does shock me are the insane withdrawal fees. XRP for example is pure madness. +6XRP for a simple withdrawal reeks of greed. They can be sure that the XRP army that largely consists of noobs won't be using that exchange.

Blockchain.com is actually shitty. It might be an initial landing site for newbies, but they due to there not being Segwit, have to pay much higher fees. Newbies will of course not understand that they haven't upgraded to Segwit, but they will be confronted with much higher fees, and they will feel that in their wallet for sure. Not what I consider user friendly.

They publicly stated that Segwit support would happen in Q1 of 2018, but where are we now? It's safe to say that these bastards won't upgrade at all. Thank Roger and Jihan for that.

If charts meant nothing people wouldn't be able to trade this market. Traders just go with the most likely scenario, and if you follow the trend, you'll end up doing well.

In some cases there isn't much that you can do if the demand is so strong that it ignores resistance levels as if they don't exist, but these cases are exceptions rather than frequent occurrences.

I think people's problem with TA comes from how news outlets and so called experts have turned it into a meme due to how often they end up being wrong. Based on that I don't blame people for thinking TA sucks, but doing your own research and actually learning TA yourself would quickly expose their silly predictions. ~95% of everything you read related to TA is noise. Finding the other ~5% of useful TA is quite a task if you don't know what to look for.

True, but they also have a Coinbase wallet product that is a bit different. Coinbase wallet allows you to store the private keys on the device you're using, which means that Coinbase in no shape or form has any access to your funds. This wallet is free to download and use without a Coinbase.com account, which is a good thing.

I gave it a try once and it really looks like they paid more attention to how they market shitcoins and tokens than to actually offer people a solid user experience.

The list OP provided consists of the most shitty services already. Definitely wouldn't recommend people to use any of them.

In fact, you can just navigate to the coins you want to deposit/withdraw (assuming you already have an account), and if everything is working fine, you can proceed, where if deposits/withdrawals are suspended you'll get a pop up telling you that. Would have saved you a lot of time instead of waiting for a reply from people.

Don't pay attention to articles too much. Actually verifying if an exchange has problems or not is the right way to approach this.

Not sure if it's actually a big help as you put it. The increase in cash settled contracts eats up a lot of the spot demand, which isn't something we can discard when CME frequently trades over 100,000BTC a day. I hope that Fidelity and Bakkt will be able to push it back a bit, but CME's influence on the market is a bit worrying.

At first no one gave a shit about them due to how low the volumes were, but when you're easily surpassing Coinbase, Bitstamp and Kraken combined in trading volume, you have a say in this market.

Gold's market has been trashed by cash settled products, and in the long run I expect the same to happen to Bitcoin's market, especially with how there aren't enough coins available. The CME CEO even said that one of Bitcoin's biggest 'obstacles' is the lack of available supply. Obstacle for them is a good thing for people holding the actual asset. 

Coinjoin type of features will eventually completely replace centralized mixers, and I think that's a good thing for all involved parties chasing the highest obtainable degree of privacy. I'm not sure how long it will take, especially with how this will bump the main-chain fees further, but it's only a matter of time in the end.

Samourai mobile wallet will implement it too in the not so distant future, definitely looking forward to that. Having these features within our clients is a big deal.

I like that. It seems that people have gotten more bearish in the short term, which might be resolved in a powerful green candle to the $8500 resistance.

People (moon boys mainly) were full of confidence on the way up, kept drinking hopium after it topped out, and now the price has been moving side ways longer than they expected, hopium lost its effect and as result fear starts to creep in. You got to love how volatile people's mindsets are. It's more volatile than the price of Bitcoin itself. 

I'm prepared for both up and down movements, so I can sit back and enjoy how the short term price action will play out.

I can see that you're just a troll boy. Why would you choose both BCH and BSV? Someone really interested in shifting would choose one.

I don't understand why anyone would use a network (BSV) that got re-orged a couple of times recently, or a network (BCH) where BTC.TOP mining pool obtained 55% of the hashrate a couple of days ago. On top of that, Calvin is trolling BCH's network by mining empty or near empty blocks. Now that's cool.