I, for one, thought that it should have shrunk back for a while when it first passed the 2k ATH. It just kept pushing on since then. The bear's got some life in it now likely to several factors converging at the same time: long-overdue corrections, speculating fatigue, and of course the Aug 1 happenings. With GDAX and a few others putting hold to transfers, and a few more looking to do the same, it's really just mounting downward pressure on the price.

The way the majority of ICOs are run and described now, I would almost hesitate to name them in a list for this Securities section. Even the better detailed ones lack the due diligence and auditing that would generally qualify them for a securities-type investment (only an objective criticism, since I've invested in one such gambling-related ICO myself).

In the absence of that, I recommend to go with an ICO that is backed at least by experience and reputation (again, I know only of gambling-types).

What a lovely surprise, Muguraza wins the Women's final, completely overpowering Williams but credit to the American who started the tournament an outsider. Also following your pick for today, French over English, guys?

My picks for today is the Men's Doubles. Kubot/Melo to win 6-4, 6-2, 6-3

Thanks for sharing. It's to be expected of a tether that's used on an exchange that just can't stop growing, but that kind of numbers seems to say something a bit more. I've been considering diversifying into USDT as well, given that almost any alt I've put into my basket of cryptos typically goes up and down with BTC anyway. I've been observing a bit and my USDT would have been able to buy more in the dips than had I stuck to BTC buying as I have been.

Whatever the rivalry in football, no one enjoys this kind of incidents. There was a wonderful turnout last night with hundreds of supporters at his family home. It is always a tragedy, especially with someone so young and with so much potential. We all wish the very best for him and his family.

What's really surprising is how Bitcoin news continues to feed the very hungry machine. Firstly, "financial panic", if you want to describe it like that is a daily occurrence in markets, least of all crypto which is frenetic and volatile.

Curious to know how Mow sees this outcome as users taking back back their voice though. I don't know anyone in my circle of normal users who see this as an expression of what we want.

You're right! http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170614-the-new-subtle-ways-the-rich-signal-their-wealth

There's this article that talks about some research into how the new wealthy class are subtly showing off. It used to be designer bags and clothes, but since the middle class can easily afford it (Banks offer personal loans, or buy your Chanel and iPhone with a 36-month plan, why not?), there are new ways to signal your wealth.

Crypto may very well be one of them. 21 Bitcoiners, for example?

Wait, you're saying the client can show you the tx size; can this be done before you make the transaction? I use Electrum for most of my transactions, but it's anyway of no concern since I adjust fees on per/byte and it calculates fees automatically. But I have recently startted to use counterparty (to see tokens on the Bitcoin blockchain) and while it also adjust fees automatically, I am unable to see the input/output size until after the spend is done.

Electrum makes it possible for me to choose which balances to use for my inputs, but not counterparty.

BTW guys, I couldn't find anyone else who posted a winning entry for the games played yesterday (13 July). So it seems my prediction posted is the closest one? I predicted a win but she won a straight set. Most others were betting on Konta winning but Venus Williams proved everyone wrong (again).

Edit: I saw one guy from other thread who also predicted a winner correctly! My bad

There was one loss but if you'd taken a bet every pick with the same amount, you'd be in a lot of profit! I missed about 3 picks from here (yes I need sleep and rest, unfortunately) but otherwise these two heroes have been stellar ever since I followed them! I'm always going to be active in their promos from now on.

My picks for today
Querrey vs Cilic
Cilic to win 7-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2

Never moved forward? Has it been going backwards or even sideways with each update?

Dethroning Bitcoin is one thing but displacing it is as crypto user is quite another. Even if the Flippening happened(thanks to ICOs no less) no one would just stop using Bitcoin and stick to an alt. The day I meet someone who started using an alt and never used Bitcoin is the day I will agree that Bitcoin has been dethroned.

One way we could try and calculate this is to look at crypto revenue as a percentage of global revenue.

We do this by totaling sums of wagers from known sites. Most crypto-only sites publish that, the problem is conventional casinos that don't. But my suspicion is crypto use at casinos that also accept fiat aren't big due to verification needs.

From there, the house edge will approximate the expected revenue.

Numbers are already known for "global gambling revenue", even if the methodology is not. A basic [revenue from crypto]/[total gambling revenue] can give us an estimate. It's probably quite a task but if OP is involved in doing reporting, maybe he has tools that can make this data crunching easier?

Thank you both for your responses. In short, I guess I don't have anything left to do now - except perhaps try the suggestion of downloading and running Bitcoin Core (sorry for overestimating the complexity of that!) and try understand the post on tainting. If Bitcoin Core can automate that process then perhaps it is worthwhile using - at least for a time being.

It is still at least two weeks away anyway so there is time to wait for such a post-fork guide. Thank you in advance for that!

Thank you to theymos and achow101, whose posts I've found most helpful re possible/impending split. I understand how to and will be in control of my BTC before August. Is there more clarification on how we will be able to manage coins on separate chains?

1. I will likely stick to using my coins on current chain. I expect that my wallet of choice (Electrum) will allow me to do this.
2. I understand if Electrum won't allow me to do this, I will have to find a wallet that does, and just sweep private keys to that new wallet.
3. I will end up using one wallet with coins on new chain and another with coins on original chain.
4. I do not feel I am technically competent enough to download the entire chain to tweak with or run a full node (and as am still a casual user, have no desire to be).

Are my assumptions safe enough? Or will I need to prepare a bit better? Is there already a relatively simple solution (possibly a wallet) that has already prepared for this that I might examine?

You're right on the first point, but not the second. Day traders are speculators but not necessarily gamblers which you'd have to be if you make trades you must close within the day even if there aren't any signals or patterns for you to analyse. Day traders enter and exit markets on the same trading day to manage risk, but won't enter at all if they can't see a point for entering.

Also, scalpers who take advantage of big leaps in price are also technically day traders. Their trades are executed in seconds. Gdax will remember how thousands of trades were executed during the flash crash. Also, who says you can't do day trading (or at least potential scalping) as part of overall strategy for crypto?

That can be difficult if you rely on external parameters for what constitutes a dump. 20% of current value? 50%? Some coins have shows even 100% loss in this past week.

What may be easier is this: setting up buy orders on each platform for the coins you would like to buy should they dump. That's even better than an alert, since a trade will trigger if the price dump matches your order.

Nice instincts for Sam Q, Ajax... I had predicted fatigue for Djokovic but not outright injury. It seems the bodies of Murray and Djoko are beginning to show some wear and tear. Broke some British hearts, I reckon.

My picks for today are Ladies
Garbine Muguruza vs Magdalena Rybarikova
Muguruza to win 6-3, 6,7, 6-2

Well the prediction's off by several accounts:

1. No one's going to be doing their shopping next year using only one currency.
2. Or if they did, they were already doing so online from behind their computer using... Paypal?
3. Central bank descended from the IMF? Definitely written by the elite.

Scant methodology on the original source of this 97%... but there seems to be some minor literature on gender disparity with Bitcoin from 2012-2015. I like Financial Times who suggested that men liked Bitcoin because of drugs, porn and gambling (but neglect to address that research disproves this as women are only a slight minority when it comes to these vices).

Even the 2017 Cambridge research into Bitcoin skipped over gender, so we'll have to wait for a more definitive source.

I somewhat agree that "we are here again", except that I still think "we are on the way here, just not quite yet". Once BTC drops below $2,000, then I'll firmly believe we are "there". Trade volume is still thin, I think a lot of traders were caught out this week and will not be ready to re-enter until they can see the outcome post Aug.

Neverthelses, whatever negative outcome that might happen post August seems to be slowly pricing in already and I fully expect only a matter of weeks to readjust to pre-Aug price.