They still work, they just have a minimum threshold of 10 sats/byte fee for acceleration, which yours didn't meet. Hopefully by now, you've learnt from the many replies on the forum how to ensure your tx gets the fee it deserves! Especially if you intend to use Bitcoin for your site's business. Though again, I still think that 5sats/byte fee would have confirmed in a few more hours if you'd just waited...

Well, it does seem like my luck's sitting pretty at the Last 16 so far, 3 bets and 3 wins, although I almost bet a draw for PSG/RM, good thing I didn't. Liverpool handicap would have taken more winnings but I'm very happy with a ML @2.24. Seems like Liverpool's average of 4 goals per away game at CL is going to stay for a while more, can't see them conceding 5 goals at Anfield, so they might even have a chance to give some of the other boys a European night next leg.

My thoughts, can't have a better result: for once, a decent return of goals, 6 shots on target, 5 goals; a clean sheet; no injuries; no yellow cards. Sadio Mane returns to scoring form with a bleeding hattrick, and of course all frontmen got on the scoresheet. Finally outscored PSG in Europe. What else can I think of? Marvelous game, a joy to watch.

What happened? Liverpool did get a bit lucky for the first goal, but credit to Lovren for the intercept that started it all. Porto tried to attack, and rested Casillas... bad choice they'll be regretting all year.

In my opinion, it doesn't get any better than this forum if you want the widest possible access to a huge range of topics and discussions on Bitcoin. The local boards are also helpful, if they happen to support your country/language.

I've been to the other forums mentioned above, nothing's made me stay like this one has (although I actually only returned here after two years and losing my original account). Here's another link from the Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Forums
If you actually still like IRC, on freenode there are a few channels... not only are they generally spam free, they're very quiet when I visit =p

I might add that the Bitcoin and crypto sections on Quora are really picking up... spam seems more controlled there, and you get a really different crop of people.

You know what, I actually think that's a good idea, or a fun one at any rate. I mean, he'd love an audience, and he might learn a thing or two from people here, I know I have! It's nice to see you think we're all low lifes =p

Come to think of it, would be curious to see other corporate types and "rebels" come here.


Think if he realises he could gain even more fame from a signature campaign, he might dip his toes. And I like having crazies around. Makes the benchmark for sane that much higher.

You said it buddy! I did win both bets yesterday (simple over goals) but I didn't even get to watch them either... domestic activities required my undivided attention. But I'm going to retire from work early today and gobble some junk food while watching Liverpool. I really miss us being in Champions League past group stages, so it's really something extra special for me.

I did bank on Juve getting the early goal, and as predicted, the floodgates opened. Credit to Basel for trying but City isn't United;)

Definitely PSG-RM Over 2.5 is a great bet but odds are too low for me. Even over 3 it's at a mere @1.6 so I'm staying away from this match.

You accidentally said Dortmund btw, but Liverpool are not going to want to disappoint their away fans so I'm going for a Liverpool ML bet @2.24.

Yeah, I wouldn't have paid! I was just about to say 5 sats/byte got me confirmed in 2 blocks but I see mempool steadily rising again (this means price is going up, in my experience haha). Fact, majority of txs right now are in the 1-10 sat/byte range, guess people all got in line for cheap fees.

Here's another free accelerator by antpool, you do need a mobile number to sign up for an account though: https://www.antpool.com/user/prioritiseTransaction.htm?m=savePrioritiseTx

Both Via and antpool's work when mempool's not bloated, though I haven't tested them in many months.

I was kind of hoping Bitcoin would just stick around at the $8k mark for the rest of the month, after flailing around 6 and 7 for a while, but I suppose that's wishful thinking. I think now a lot of people would be wary of possible bull traps, although right now moving above 9k, I guess the smart's money on a retesting of 10k over this coming week. Like you said though, if the waves break over that barrier, then we'll likely be in for another reversal before Bitcoin can gather strength.

So far the January dump replayed itself, time to see if the coming Spring will be another season of renewal.

Just thought I'd add this as I only found out recently, that for the Netherlands, Bitcoin is not considered a currency, just a medium of exchange. It (along with other cryptocurrency) itself is not taxed, much as you wouldn't tax anyone just for owning something that can be bartered. You can't even be charged VAT on them if you sell or trade them. Here's the official statement clarifying: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=170305&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=604646

But if you earn Bitcoin, whether for providing a service or product, then you owe tax as calculated on income. So this would definitely include mining, trading for specific purpose of gains and this also means that getting a salary in Bitcoin doesn't exempt you from income tax.

I cannot find all these details online (not the second bit), but this comes from a former judiciary official turned tax consultant.

A lot of other similarities actually! The media used to demonise the Internet too, saying it was a place where scammers, hackers, paedophiles and gamblers would hang out. Of course, it was probably quite true, judging from my own early experiences there, but hey, early adopters who weren't bad people weren't newsworthy.

It also reminds me of the very early people on Internet. You'd literally get people reaching out for helpful advice, technical docs, just to help a guy finding his way online - much like some of the very able users on this forum.

On scaling, Antonopoulos said in one of his lectures many years this was also a good comparison. The Internet has always been in lagging behind in scaling. And it still struggles behind the scenes... it's a perfect problem to have, if you think about it. Success breeds problems, and none come faster and stay longer than scaling!

Looks like I'm the one going against the grain. Got a bet riding on over 2 goals @1.95, Juvie's definitely got one goal in them, and I'm counting on Dele to show his usual European form to get at least one goal, if not an assist. If the goal comes within 30 mins, then I'll breathe easy. Spurs have been upsetting the big teams at Europe, much like Liverpool used to do. I have a feeling Champs League seems to be a sort of looked forward to by the Spurs and Liverpools who want to forget the pain of Premier League.

The City game doesn't have nice pickings... barely @1.6 for over 2.5 but Basel bookings -0.5 look pretty good @1.95. Am sure they'll want to attack while they're at home, but at the same time are sure to pick up a card or two more than the City slickers.

The limit of 21 million refers to the units of Bitcoin that will ever be generated. Each new block found currently will generate new bitcoins, given as a reward to the miner that solved the block. Once these rewards dwindle... As the reward halves every 210k blocks, miners will still be incentivised through fees included with transactions. So there is always an incentive to mine.

Also, blocks don't necessarily mean your txs are confirmed. They only are when/if the miner solving the block includes yr tx in the block. They're free to choose from the pool of txs... And can even choose to mine an empty block (including no txs except for the coin base tx generating new coins) if they want.

You don't see the irony in talking about facts, reality and truth (they're not all the same things, by the way, possibly related but hardly necessarily correlating to each other!)... in a post completely devoid of facts. You can hate the guys who shout FUD as much as the guys who shout any of the terminology peppered across this forum, but if you're a player yourself, don't hate the game...


Yeah, I think actual FUD is a lot more complex than the shouts of "scam" or "crash" or "bloodbath". You can spread panic easily with clickbait, but not the deep-lying fear and uncertainty that takes a lot of documenting to build. I also don't necessarily see that information is false or true... any data can be analysed into a number of various takes, positive, negative and neutral.

Take any data you want. Daily charts? The recent Congress hearing on crypto. A hundred analysts could come up with a hundred different possible interpretations. Not necessarily false (or true), just adjusted to the statement they want to make.

Few people take raw data and then form a statement from objective analysis. They already know what they want to believe, and seek validation in the data.

I'm sure I'm not overestimating newcomers when I say that they can surely find a way around registering accounts at these exchanges. There's still quite a few options available for those who can't open new accounts at the "big players", and even a 5 second Google search will show these up. Even if the established P2P marketplaces like Localbitcoins aren't available in those countries (it's virtually everywhere though), there are plenty of others to try - yes, they may not seem as straightforward as Coinbase and the like (then again, you gotta jump through a lot more hoops there with verification anyway!) but if people can open and manage online bank accounts, it doesn't take much more to get their first crypto.

Worse come to worse, at least two of any of the markets listed on coinmarketcap are open for registration. So I don't really think there's a nett effect. New money isn't restricted, I don't think.

Aguero's actually improved every season in terms of goals per playing time, and that's ever since the season he scored that championship winning goal to help City beat United on goal difference (wow, was it really that long ago?), although that was the stats I recall seeing before Christmas, not sure how it looks like now. So yes, in terms of striker efficiency, he's right up there with Kane in being consistent (or improving) with every season that goes by.


Oh, no, no. I only pick Salah for my very obvious bias... I personally think it's incredible how Benitez (Torres), Rodgers (Suarez) and now Klopp (Firminho and Salah) have really brought out the very best in these players. I know it's not like we plucked all these guys out from obscurity, but Liverpool really did well to take on unfinished products and make them shine, so I'm very sure guys like Salah aren't a flash in the pan.

All due respect to Kane and even Aguero - they're massive players and it's still early days (even if Salah has the lowest mins per goal average, perhaps when defenders get used to him, he'll find it less easy to score... but then that's what they said about Suarez).

The easiest quick way for me to find the markets for any token is just to check coinmarketcap's token page> Markets tab. So for Waves: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/#markets. If it's not on there, then the numbers aren't significant enough anyway.

As you can see, it looks pretty extensive, but of course as others point out, there's not much action going on outside of Tidex, which has got more than half of the Waves volume. The Waves DEX itself together runs up quite a bit of volume, and is slowly picking up. Yobit also as mentioned has a few pairs trading (released some months back along with Doge and LTC, if you can believe).

I'd recommend its own DEX if you want to get Waves, simplest and probably best priced.

It was the best because it had the highest volume and largest orderbooks. Sure, you see wild variances in other alts but a few BTC worth of orders would clean the slates at most of the small exchanges and dexs. Arbitrage of course works a lot better when markets are adjusting to the volatility of Bitcoin - sure, these recent weeks have seen it stabilise, but try have a peek during the next bear/bull - those variances will become larger.

It will be more difficult to arb trade now with regulations in place - the volumes of South Korean ones will now be closed off to foreigners, but you can always find people looking for a loophole (check out some of the offers for people looking to partner with locals there and on LCB, for example).

I was just going to comment on this, but Heretik's post probably better explains the other variable I feel you need to take into account, which is "number of market users/players". The timelines you use, if you include 2017/18, will have a distinctly difference in terms of market makers/users. Cambridge is the only academic reference I know of (2017) that tried to put a number to unique Bitcoin users, but I daresay this number dwarfs those of previous periods/timelines. It's an important variable because the price swings in 2011 would be much easier to manipulate or be impacted by a handful of players (or even one major exchange) than it would be today where even the largest exchange can only do so little.

You can then apply the same reasoning to your other variables, if you believe they have influence: hashrate, etc.

And yes, please share. A lot of students come here looking for feedback, I always try to participate, but we seldom get anything back.

Short answer I'd say yes.

You're going to have to refer to the actual support documentation of your wallet for a definitive answer. From my understanding, even if the wallet integrates SegWit by use of P2SH, then they can still spend to bech32 addresses. So Trezor and Ledger are two such examples, they've integrated segwit but use "3" P2SH addresses for now. I've possibly seen transactions from p2sh to bech32 on blockchain too, but then it could be spends from Electrum or Core.

Safe answer, I'd say try a test spend. As everyone says above, Core and Electrum support native SegWit so have no issues spending to bech32 adds. Let us know if the test spend works? Would love to try myself cept I only use Electrum...

Just a natural side effect of mainstream awareness - media's always been happy to cover Bitcoin, but I think the "mediasation" was apparent from November at least, thanks to the slew of regulation news beginning with Japan from April and them derivatives up in Chicago. So if we take your observation to have any meaning, it should be that the media hype during the peaking to make us pessimistic about price - as it turns out, we (you) would have been right then.

P.S. I think bubble means a lot of things, and can happen in cycles, just like real estate bubbles. They burst, and blow up again. I personally never took bubble to be a bad thing, yet another metric, yet another indication of maturity.

Advocacy! If you're a member of site or service that uses Bitcoin, encourage them to quickly upgrade to Segwit wallets. The majority of sites are still on legacy addresses. You don't have to force anyone to do it, but if enough users ask about it or even just talk about it, you bet the service owners will think more about it. As I understand, most are putting it off because of huge backlogs and unmanageable inputs, but with the mempool so low right now, it's the perfect time to consolidate wallets and just make one big move to Segwit. One site starts, second follows... domino effect.