I think so too, the existing visual novels (I'm assuming graphic novel games are the same thing) will be hard to beat in terms of production quality, these guys have really high production values in their products, but I personally feel you could still beat them in terms of original content.

Yeah, I know, it almost goes without saying, but I think there's still a lot of room to explore in diverse storylines (culturally and geographically) that readers haven't had the chance to glimpse in popular titles. Writing styles are also still pretty much North American, or with Japanese/Korean influence. I bet you'd find a huge market in Latin America, for example.

Before we get all excited, other than your connections with networks, do you have any solid ideas about the actual products you're looking at? Any experience producing or are you only a partner? Am asking because am exploring media diversification for a project I'm working on. We haven't done anything remotely broadcast related but have toyed with the idea.

PM you?

Think I somewhat agree with this. Just like all our presumptions about big banks, Wall Street traders, institutional whales... we all think we know how and what they do, but we'll never really know. I wonder sometimes that if we were on the nail, wouldn't others be able to gang up and act like whales, and therefore, nullify their strategies? I've read a few posts about so-called Spoofy too and I buy quite a bit of the logic behind it, but I think the whales are far removed from these discussions and probably work in ways far more complex than what we're able to discern.

But cycling of profits makes a lot of sense. I think we see it in Bitcoin also - whales just doubling, tripling, cycling profits.

I'll keep it short. There are, at least to me, two prevailing patterns. Altcoins in general, across the board move in tandem with Bitcoin's fortunes. It's no coincidence that 2017 saw the crypto "boom", all this fueled by Bitcoin's rising prominence. Also no coincidence that alt all time highs coincided in the same period that Bitcoin did.

There are also periods where alts do well while Bitcoin moves sideways, but this is only the alts recovering or gaining back ground while Bitcoin consolidates. This is only after they wither during Bitcoin's downturn. When BTC falls, alts fall harder. When BTC recovers, alts recover quicker.

I don't think it's a bad idea at all... any sort of effort aiming to help newbies gain some ground, especially in forums like bct where it can be daunting for the new (still daunting for me even after a year and a half in the technical sections!), but I'm not sure if it isn't a lost cause. Maybe I'm overestimating people but those willing to learn and honest about trying to contribute make the effort to find out what's acceptable and what's not.

I also don't know if there should really be a guide to what's good and what makes for good reputation. Part of the appeal of this forum is the diversity of people. I enjoy some of the trolls, some of the less serious banter, but also some of the "techno nazis". If we all followed some kind of guideline, it might kill that diversity, no? You said it in the post yourself: your identity, your personality, your motivation. That's really precious for the community. I think that should be allowed to grow and develop organically.

Oh goddamns it. Took a long parlay today and the first leg already failed (needed Liverpool to win at a -1.5 handicap) so I've lost the day without the rest of the games even starting. Suppose they've got all their eyes on the follow up in Rome for CL but their 2nd place bid looks really week now. All depends on how Spurs perform I suppose. Two points from 2 games. Oh well.

@Lionidas: I did feel like Stoke finally found a way to close up Salah, but then others have tried the same without success. He seems to be one of those players everyone knows how they play and yet can't stop. Pool had Suarez in that same mould, Bayern has their Robben also exactly the same.

Guys like these are actually just so pissed that they stayed on drinking the kool-aid, while others sobred up, opened their eyes, and moved away to their own digital money. Others have softened their stance, others have completed 180 degree turns. Over the past years, we've seen bears "convert" to Bitcoin, but it's difficult to concede/admit you were wrong, especially on something so fundamental as Bitcoin vs traditional money. So he continues to down his kool-aid, pretending the bitter taste is all he needs.

I didn't read the whole thing but if the headline is accurate then this is no small victory for the two exchanges. It's really been only a week or so since their accounts were shut down, and made perfect legal sense for them to appeal, there was no legal grounds for the central bank to act as it did.

Maybe this will result in tighter controls for future exchanges but that's actually still good news all round.

Always, always hard to say. I think the sending offs were another example of poor refereeing I've seen this season's edition of CL and Europa, and that forced Athleti to work really hard - that draw and away goal were massive results but could work either way for/against them. If they maintain that psychological edge and match it with energy, then the final is very much theirs. But Arsenal are typically the type of team that shows up one side and disappears the next. This time they were anonymous in the first leg, so I'm thinking they'll turn up for the return leg.

I suspect the bookie odds on them to progress will only go up so I'll wait a week before putting my bets on them. Should be really tasty odds.

Well, everyone has the right to invest as they wish, no one is pointing a gun to your head. God only knows that people "invest" with all kinds of intentions. No real right or wrong. Without the panic sellers, the fomo buyers, the day traders, the Sunday investor and the Wall St futures trader, we won't have a market that is what it is today.

I don't check prices every day for sure, but it is always curiosity that keeps an eye on it. Can't say I wouldn't sell at 100k. Can say I would.

Using the last actual research by reputable academia would be using Cambridge's estimates in 2017 which puts ownership of wallets at less than 0.1% of world population. I would add a specialist estimate like from Elliptic, which would put it more conservatively, though probably accounting for the same 0.1% today after last year's thrust into the public eye.

So that depends how you see mainstream. Is 0.1% mainstream enough? It is to me.

Almost put a bet on Bayern last night and but for a couple of glaring misses from Lewandowski, might have regretted missing out. Still can't count them out, though, even if it looks like the stage is all set for a showdown between Champions League royalty.

No bets for me tonight. Keep losing in Europa and don't want to jinx my team til the finals.

Anyone without any experience should easily be able to predict from the weight of historical evidence that this wasn't only expected but inevitable. A bit silly to still be talking in terms of 20k so soon, but even if you wanted to, trace the previous road to ATH and it wasn't dissimilar at all. I do wonder what the benchmark is now for patient long term waits. People still refuse to think in months, much less years.

A sub forum for academia is a really good idea, especially if it doesn't exclude non-engineering types, I suspect your desire is for technical aspects of whitepapers be broken down for layman consumption.

Think you might find more than a few people would be suportive of that idea, but you might have trouble finding the balance between toning down on technical complexity and simple comprehension, while maintaining quality.

Ironic nick for the OP. Scheduled a nice big necessary sell to afford a few weeks delay and was glad for the hassle as this unexpected boom came. Anyway, I made a 50-50 gain/loss on this current spike, sold a bit when it was on the rise, sold the rest right at the peak I felt it was at (temporarily anyway). But no due cause for concern, small corrections bound to happen just as small spikes.

What else is new, and what else is exciting? Even 11k or 6k in the next few weeks are both equally expected.

That seems to be the issue with this so called decentralised exchanges, that people have so many complaints about centralised exchanges yet move impossibly slowly to adopt actual solutions.

Is it difficulty of use? ED and Waves don't come any easier. Is it the forced use of another platform? Perhaps. Maybe atomic swapping... Easy and simple... That would be the thing making DEXs take off.

Can't say much more than what's already been said but I still can't get over my team having one foot in the final in Kiev! Beautiful wins on over 3 goals and the handicap win, I don't mind the away goals at all because we can get as many at least in Rome.

But yeah, everyone should thank the teams and the underdogs for really lighting up the Champs league this late into the tourney. Had the mourinhos or the guardiolas been here, we'd get the same cagey affairs we are used to seeing.

Walk on, walk on!

They're not directly linked, for sure, but there is certainly some correlation. Fees are always going to be in terms of satoshis paid for taking space taken up by data of transaction, that is what is generally fixed and depends on efficiency and network demand. Then Bitcoin price affects what people see as fiat value of that satoshi fee.

Price also affects demand, as you just explaines yourself, both in bull and bear conditions. Demand generally leads to congestion, though with LN upcoming, we may have seen the last days of congestion.

@Wendigo, of course we're ready! I can't believe I've to miss the first half though (family and all that). My prediction is over 3 goals actually, haha. I also took a handicap of -1.25 @2.1 but only because better odds weren't available earlier. Fiat bets on bookies have Salah to score at 7/1 so definitely worth $10!

@Trofo oh hell yeah, the last person to remember how to park the bus at Anfield was Lucas Leiva (god I feel old).

@tokeweed Dzeko to score maybe! But the match can't end 1-0 =p

I immediately called my former boss up in Georgia this morning when I read this because just last year I was telling him I wouldn't be surprised if Georgia were to silently become some kind of power in crypto. We're seeing Eastern Europe trying to become crypto friendly regulations wise.

But in Central Europe they're a bit more discrete. Yet quietly building really tight foundations for economic diversity... Mining may not be the brightest idea for the long term but it's certainly helped flagging economies for the foreseeable future.