In depth knowledge should not be targeted for on a newbie introduction. There is some footage on Youtube that is presentable, and flipping through some several websites like Bitfinex et. all. should transport the picture of "something big incoming"

For the curious some Question & Answers section following days afterwards makes sense to me. Learning curve, timespans and all of that.

There is good communication between law enforcement at least inside western culture sphere, that 3rd world exchange mentioned above icks me. I would not support any tradesite that somehow dodges the community for a small gain in trade fees on stolen BTC.
Regarding Real Time Observation vs. Justice is Sloooow well recording the datatrace and collecting evidence takes time. Once those people are dangling on a hook facing some lengthy court time to defend their case we can watch this in slow motion on repeat.

How will this cryptosphere change once Zcash got stolen in big numbers?

Which sincerely sucks a lot, a french bastille would offer quite the more amidable nouvelle cuisine. Beeing incarcerated north from the English Channel almost guarantees prison food that comes close to a "healthy" diet.

That would equal some Marketcap of 10 500 000 000 000 USD which is "tons of money" and take a look at the downside on the other end: The value of a single Satoshi. To my knowledge they are implemented as integer data type so no more then 8 digits.

Strange fact: Kraken internally knows about 10 digits

You would want to preserve some smallest denomination valueing cents. Think "grocery shops".

Add more data output into the API interface, like post trades. For transparency, and data enthusiasts. You know like on Poloniex where you have that trades history at the bottom of their page.

Seen those insane leverages above, like 200x or 100x did you tried smaller leverages and doing more trades on a day?
I have peeked a glance across the webpage, realising that Fees will affect long time running orders quite steadily. So short & intense prefered from that point of view.
But I am into this to reach out into the commodities, arriving from Bitcoin.

They allready own that "reliable money" it's called "cash". Try to change your perspective, there are several use cases in payments and there are several currencies fluctuating. Bitcoin serves a niche market where classical cash cannot prevail. One currency cannot replace another by some sort of superiority. Never happened in history, only by governmental order. If there is just some use case surviving in a niche, parallel existance amongst other methods seems the most likely outcome.

Seems to be a fraction of the whole booties. I would announce doubts about the exchanges reacting in a way that is satisfying for the thieves, which will just drain that flow again. Evading further observations. This time they just got caught, next times not.

This is just how it goes usually. In a way that's our own fault we could have a more ballanced altoin tradesites landscape out there, like fifty-fifty between Bittrex and Poloniex.
Would I buy in now?


This ^^^ would mean giving a try to redeploy these old ASIC USB-Sticks again? Would love to see some numbers on exspectable revenue. It's still cold outside and the dissolved heat would not be wasted inside my home.

You know what's funny? Their daily volume beats HaoBTC by 3898 Dollars! $202,996 vs. $199,098
which is strange, since HaoBTC is heavyweight by their associated BTC mining bussiness.
Now ranging on a 44th place in comparison to all trading sites. This Chinese Fees change is rolling over Bitcoincountry like a thunderstorm.

Just the poster right above you did. But this still applies:


Pure inflation leads into a definitely deadly downspiral, like some airplane on fire. For comparison reasons: Bitcoin

Should expand that Merriam-Webster Dictionary by

I am actually fearing that effect. Imagine the aftermath, best depictured by a wave rolling over a small vessel to turn turtle.

On the other hand there are no braggers touting their biggest losses archived by acting against the trend
Taletelling, isn't it?

Currently a whole team, not a person. The current picture is looking more so like two teams, diverging into slightly different directions, not that good! End of 2017 some sort of democracy will kick in either activating Segwit or just let it time out, which would be the wrong decision in my mind. Not for Segwit's purpose, but for change and progress still beeing imaginable.

Looks like a random walk, but isn't. Since january 2015 we are trending upwards. Last year featured a halving on fresh supply. Last Christmas excesses might cool down a bit now, but dont exspect a trend reversal there are no events pointing at that.

I am seconding that. For a bunch of reasons not all related to Byteball or IOTA distinctively. It's about variety and freedom of choice.
The more sites the better, that simple. "Size matters" will kick in anyways, so the small only have that small chances. Unwise to miss out on that.

"The herd instinct among economists makes sheep look like independent thinkers." (who said this?)
However as often as I've tried to bark them into this or that direction... The trend is your friend. You cannot trade against the trend and believe there will be just one successfull chart analyst still standing in the end. Will just flatten you.

Not a science, of course, just watching chart patterns has some solid tradition ranging back into the early stock market stone ages.
Those patterns do repeat, resistance and support levels are for real

Chart movement at least from last eight days timespan
( have a look at https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/bitfinex/btcusd on 1h scale )
should be reflecting Dotcoms Megaupload 2.0 announcement,
and the most recent development delays over there. MU2 now beeing a Q3/2017 away!