It is funny to see that even though ETH has dropped significantly in the last days the price of it is still higher then it was when OP was made. To be more precise it was 0.0066 BTC in February 6 and it is 0.011 BTC now. Idk what will happen in the future, there are chances it will drop even more, but for now OP was right - ETH was cheap then, compared to today's price.

You registered this account when price was between $50 and $100. Judging by your first posts however, I get the feeling that's either not your first account on here, or you've been exposed to Bitcoin before registering. If that's the case, all bets are off, depending on whether you seized the very early opportunity or not (no shame if it's the latter -- I'm just mentioning the possibilities).

Because of that uncertainty, to stay within semi-acceptable (to me ) confidence, I'll have to give a pretty wide range. Say: More than 100, less than 5000.

(edit) Your estimate is a bit off, but less than an OOM, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

We're doing a guessing game? I like it.

How about: make a guess for the poster you're responding to, who in turn makes a guess about you.

(pointless, I know, but fun )

In recent times, I have been making various attempts to avoid disclosing too many specifics regarding exactly how many coins that I hold, but surely, there is some information out there in which you could get ball park ideas.

Based on this post, and your earlier posts about your average cost per coin, here is my approximate estimate regarding the number of coins that you own.


Approximate amount invested:  4.53 x $750 = $3,400

Based on my foggy memory - estimated average cost per coin:  $150

Approximate current number of coins held:   $3400 / $150 = 22.67  ( 1/one millionth of the total BTC supply)

R3CEV is more Hyperledger/IBM related as far as I know, Ethereum is backed by other single companies like Reuters, JP Morgan, Santander and Microsoft. They have been collaborating but R3CEV doesn't have much to do with the EF.

So sub $5 coming? ... always said so, it went too quick from less than $1 to $20 ... needs to consolidate in 50cents to $2 range for a few years first.

Maybe after a few more hard forks, the Ethereum will become better and the big institutions will use it so the price will rise.

Bitcoin is too fragile to be used for 'global economic unity' or anything like that. Try to think in a timespan of beyond 20 years in which it will definitely be hacked/cracked by then or they will find some way to keep the network from functioning in some way or the other. In a best case scenario, we briefly touch something like $20,000 in a speculative bubble before crashing. That is the play here.

I see what you see in addition to other indicators. The trick is to look at the indicators and not with your heart. For those looking for an upward price tend to only see things that support this ( I too want the price to go up, unfortunately "wanting it" does not make it happen).

Below is the 3d chart from Bitfinex: Note the orange arrow with a Doji and the green arrow shows the confirmation. And the red circle denotes the "Crossover - As shown in the chart below, when the MACD (white line) falls below the signal line (orange line), it is a bearish signal, which indicates that it may be time to sell."

It seems that way, this last issue was just too much for the market really, fork after fork, attack after attack. Yes it all remains the same and they work out every one of them but it's getting tired with no real good news in the horizon. Bitcoin is also dumping, if it was close to $800 the price of Ether would be around those levels already if not below.

Face it. Slow accumulation of a nest egg is pretty boring.

nope. if someone had the private key the only thing that means is that they have satoshi's private key. they could've found it, been sent it, bought it, tortured it out of him. anyone on the planet could do that.

that doesn't prove you're satoshi by any means.

by extra mile i mean providing research and evidence you'd been looking into bitcoin's creation for years before.

No. The taxable event is the selling of some asset for governmentally-recognized money - such as USD.

So ... segwit lockin failed after 20 hours.

In May,  they were saying the same thing about how the price had touched $470 on 6 occasions over 5 months so supposedly it wouldn't pass.

We don't need you elitist logic.

MAKE BITCOIN GREAT AGAIN!!!!

You people were warned long ago that this house of cards would collapse. Long before the DAO even. Eth will never recover and it shouldn't for such a large litany of reasons that if you can't find them you deserve to go down with the ship.

Nonetheless, despite a multitude of vocal opposition to seg wit, I really think when push comes to shove, these folks (such as mining nodes) are not going to be so stupid as to sabotage their own prosperity and to continue to support any kind of opposition to seg wit, with stupid-ass, contradictory, technically inadequate, fundamentally dangerous and largely baseless objections to a largely non-controversial implementation.

Is this a possibility?

I highly doubt someone will hinder adoption or make it lower in any way. Whoever does it would be hurting himself too.