Not really a good point... just the way Bitcoin's supply mechanism has worked every since the first block was mined all those years ago! I think the point here is that the mining "industry"'s impact is overthought. The mechanism's been in place for a decade now and has proven to be very well thought out. Dynamics have changed, pricing has also caused that dynamic to evolve, but bitcoin supply is on an extremely predictable trajectory.

Stamina: yes. You've been here two years, that's actually longer than I have. I'm very used to the volatility, and recognise that I've been here a fraction of the time of the early adopters. It's a long, long ride, to a finish that none of us will be alive to see. So relax!

Feels nice to do better than the current leaders... though 70 points on you guys isn't going to do much with the gap I still need to cover to reach Top 5. Just realised now also that the next games are two weeks away (what anguish!), but I've already logged in to BBC to enter my predictions. I'm going for mostly away wins, two shock draws for the Manchester teams and a Chelsea victory over their London rivals. Lots of days in between to change my mind, but I'll probably just let them ride.

P.S. Guys, I'm thinking of doing a World Cup mini pool with a knock-out/survivor format... would any of you be interested? A quick one-month competition with only the last one(s) standing winning the pot.

There'll always be thoughts on both sides of the great divide - but yes, it is good to see some attempts at maintaining objectivity amongst the current trend of selling what sells. Pretty decent research, if you believe in the bubble comparison, but I tend to see less and less resemblance now. Bitcoin's continued resistance (yes, I actually think its ability to maintain this price under intense pressure says a lot about its resilience and growing imperviousness to bubble optimism) says a great deal about what we could expect if things actually start going well for Bitcoin.

And that shakeout can't happen soon enough. This is the first year of many roll outs and product completions by all those ICOs from last year. I expect the majority of them to prove themselves to be the vapourware they are.

Good point in overall lower demand. I recall two weeks back there being quite a lot of enthusiasm in trading channels when buy orders increased for the first time past $10k, amd even picking up pace towards 11k, which seemed to indicate that the appetite for bitcoin had returned. The failed breakout put an end to that and we're back to a market that seems to have had its fill.

Those who support the Mt Gox trustee effect will say that his sells alone have satiated all those demands, but it doesn't make sense that they wouldn't buy back in at current levels.

Fatigue should take hold this month, psychologically, traders will want to strengthen up buying support to clamber out of this hole. Every week below 10k will mount that pressure. I'm also banking on this new week ending above 9k, though I'm actually thinking 10k will be the Sunday target.

Won't be the first crypto/token to attempt a pegged currency. Tether's dominance might have showed the way to all these projects but its spectacular failings should also present a strong case for saying that they simply don't work and cannot be sustainable.

Volatility is probably something that can't be avoided with something so new. It will take many, many years for bitcoin to mature as a "store of value" - this volatility will always be there for as long as the majority of bitcoin and crypto users continue to see it first as an investment asset and as a speculatory trading commodity. The same patterns can always be seen with new currencies. I myself was very familiar with using one of the world's newest fiat in the South Sudanese pound. It was enforced as a means of payment but ultimately fell victim to trading speculation, with people still preferring to use other currencies, even preferring bartering to paying/receiving it.

Not a bad list of updates, I know that most, if not all of that information is already known so status quo is maintained. What the G20 outcomes would really have impact if some of these countries changed their stances, or if any would form cooperative partnerships - that would affect the way cross-border commerce with crypto.

To me ICO prohibition means very little to Bitcoin itself, it's hardly even used by ICOs anyway. If anything, fewer ICOs should stunt the current proliferation of nonsense tokens... yes it would mean a halt to the global crypto market cap, but we all know it's been a rubbish metric anyway. Worst case scenario, it goes into negative growth, but bitcoin retains or even recovers some of its domination (again useless metric but psychologically positive).

Christ, what a bad showing from Athleti, even needed Griezmann's penalty to make the score look more respectable. And did they have to go get the red card in the last minute too? I know they're doing well in Europa, but this isn't exactly the best way to make Barca fight for their title. It's all slipping away for the underdogs this season, 11 points is too much too far to catch Barcelona.

P.S. Real Madrid tied 1-1 at home almost at the halfway mark. Whoever thought losing Neymar would only have served to make them Barca even more dominant?

First of all, bullshit. Bitcoin price alone has been profitable ever since it was at $1k or so, and yes hashrate has been doubling every step in move with the price, and it's still profitable now. This isn't even taking into account all the alts they're merge mining. Are miners trying to rake in some pity? Not likely. They're just trying to make it seem like they're less of the bad guys some of them are.


More or fewer miners will have no impact on the supply... Bitcoin will always be generated at more or less every 10 minutes, whether there's 1 miner like when it all began or thousands like they are now. Tired of the bear move? You've got to get more stamina into you.

That's the thing, though. Everything we know about Bitcoin now is marked only by an almost 10-year history. That's an incredibly small timeframe to work with, limiting analysis (which is why every TA seems to be good for only as long as it's debunked by the next swing). Every insightful article we read is hindsight. From regulations, to Mt Gox trustee selling off now being the main scapegoat... the thing people need to accept is that we can't predict where it'll go.

Even all these AI platforms and machine learning have limited success, if any. Those that dare to do live sampling of their calls are now finding that even the last two months are showing them up.

Yeah, I was saying I never got any notifications from Bittrex, ever, about wallet removals. As I stated, I've only been affected once when they delisted 1stblood, and I only found out about it when I was just doing manual spring cleaning, the wallet icon had an alert next to it (exclamation mark) and only after hovering over it did I see it was about to be delisted. Sold it all off 4 days before the deadline.


Since when do exchanges do us any favours? They list coins for a huge fee, so if you think about it, they're doing the community a huge disservice by listing those damned coins who can afford to pay.

Nah, I know Liverpool don't have the most inspiring defence, but Watford doesn't exactly have the most prolific strikers either. Anyway, Salah scored his first hattrick just right now, taking away my 40 points from my usual 3-0 predictions. They might as well just score another 2 or 3 and heap on the goals.

I did well today with the few matches, will end the day with 90 points. Turns out I was right with both 2-1 victories for Everton and AFC, wrong about the Crystal Palace draw. Guess we know who's in team of the week for EPL. Hearts Salah finally leading goalscorer!

How is it I didn't get that alert? Come to think of it, I don't recall ever getting alerts about delisting coins, I even had to sell off all my 1stblood coins last week when I suddenly noticed that the wallet had gone offline and I just traded them at the nearest buy offer. Not that it was anything more than a funbag among many funbags I seem to obtain every now and then.

On one hand, we all know the risks of holding coins on exchanges. And we know even better the risks of holding some of these "shitcoins". I would say, though, that as long as exchanges get away with it, they'll be happy to continue doing so. Can you imagine all the "dead" coins guys like Bittrex must be holding? Imagine if, like others have, these dead coins suddenly get a revival years from now. Think they'll ever give the coins back?

Also, lesson to alts that show off successful listing on Bittrex. I recall late last year they charged $10k for a 3-month listing fee. Maybe some projects just thought to pay that fee, do their pump and then forget all about it.

Can't speak for OP or the content of the news, but any sort of retardation of the mining industry's growth, which I feel is still too fast, motivated by quick profits and outpacing actual adoption, is somewhat of good news to me. Think mining needs to be brought down from its highly centralised, highly corporate monopolies.

On FB and Google, the crypto-related ads I've seen have very, very little to do with actual crypto development. Half of the ads are outright scams and HYIPs, the other half ICOs for the most dubious projects ever to have graced my browser pages.

But yes, on the same page with you re Wall St. Big banks and big money loving crypto just stirs something really foul-tasting.

Anyway, loving this FUDing. Helps me amass more.

Tell you what, eight games is 24 points. Forget Chelsea alone, even Arsenal have a chance to turn their season around. Apart from City, who seem to have found a formula for consistency, every team in the top 6 or 7 have been struggling to maintain form, every one of them are stumblers. Even Liverpool who matched City in January for most points gained now find themselves in a rut of their own doing. Funny how one game changes everything!

Five matches today, most of television will be tuning in to FA Cup where the good bets also are. Remember upsets are what that cup is all about so I won't mind betting small on draws there.

Liverpool should make the gap 7 points temporarily, meaning Chelsea have that mountain to climb for 3rd place... Conte and co are battered but Willian will carry his team for the rest of the season.

I'll be honest and say right off that this is probably out of my depth - got little understanding of how regulation would or should work with these, but am aware of several bodies already attempting self-regulatory models, all related to cryptocurrency and/or blockchain, depending on their definitions. We've got Croatia's UBIK just last month, I think also one in Gibraltar - both EU centric. We've got China-based "Int Digital Asset Exchange Council" (idaxc.org) who made clear some motives for self-regulation at the last World Economic Forum (not as well as it could have been, in my regulation-illiterate opinion!).

But to be honest, I'm with Patatas here, even if only for the simple reason that I'm not comfortable with all these players trying to take charge. I think we really need to rethink a lot of the things we're doing. Do we really need to comply with a structure we don't agree with?

Welcome back to Week 31 guys! Looks like a really sleepy Saturday, to be honest. I'm not even that thrilled that Liverpool's playing (still somewhat numb from last week's loss to our old friends Utd). I'm going for slightly dull results as well, hoping that the mood and weather, compounded with lethargy for all the teams in the final week will lead to 1-1 and 2-1 results. As usual, backing pool to hit 3 past Watford with no reply.

@hilarious: well done on regaining top spot. You've been making really good calls of late, well deserved!

Not that it matters here, but I sense at least 1 full-time draw result for either Spurs or United, that's where my betting is. Can't believe you'd have to bet Liverpool's game over 4 goals just to sniff odds above 2.0!

Sure! The Reddit link I provided above is a direct response from Jaxx CTO (Vyas). I'll quote parts of it below.


This comment is their way of saying they can't find a way to engineer the appropriate security levels without compromising ease and portability. They admit to the flaw (never denied it) but say this is a necessary trade off.


This is the developer saying don't use Jaxx for cold storage or large amounts. Pretty sure they mean exactly what they say, unless I didn't understand what they were trying to imply.

Right on, I know there'll always be those who treat these kinds of threads with disdain, but when I first properly "came onto the scene", it was partially because of the old threads I used to see... early adopters were a pretty relaxed bunch of people IMO, reminiscent of the mid 1990s chatroom scenes. Even the thrash talk was somewhat... friendly.

Only a year and a half of hodling experience here (and even then, not quite the stash I'd have wished for) but I think there ought to be some kind of experimental study on this holder mentality and the entire experience. I'm certain there's a lot we take for granted.

That all said, extreme sports is all about adrenaline. And I think stock brokers sweat a hell lot more than crypto holders. I mean, unless you bought in at Dec/Jan, of course. Everyone else pre-2017 are still sitting on a lot of unrealised profits.

Yeah man! At 2-1 down, Arsenal had every chance of collapsing and the way Welbeck dived... Yes he did... Perfectly demonstrates just how fragile they are as a team. Gattuso cut such a sad figure... He said before the match they could play with "tranquility" strange coming from one of the last genuine bulldogs of his era.

Anyway, as usual, Europa didn't do me favours. Lost the Dortmund bet, gained the Athletico ML win luckily, but still ended up with a slight 0.2 stakes loss.

Always said Athleti were my favourites. One last hurrah for Torres, please!

This is just so remindful of bureacratic machines wasting their time without proper knowledge of cryptocurrency. If there's a government job that pays me to list out hyip sites for PSAs, I'd love to have it. I can give them 15 sites every week with an hour's work.

That list is nothing but HYIP sites/ponzi schemes, just dressed up as cryptocurrency investments. Didn't even need to check them out (I still looked at three) to see from their names that they're all right and proper crap. Every single one of these HYIP sites already contravene OLD regulations, nothing to do with the new enactments as the news article mentions.

Instead of giving advice to people about investments, they should tell people: guys these are scams, here's how to tell: A, B, C.


Maybe if you actually bothered to read the news item, you'd see the exact names and website links in the press statement: http://www.amf-france.org/en_US/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/AMF/annee-2018?docId=workspace%3A%2F%2FSpacesStore%2F3f85fe88-fc1f-45b8-a55e-0bc5aeb298ce&langSwitch=true