Still waiting for the correction to below 1,500 because I still felt the bull was a bit too much on afterburn. Because the longer it takes, the more extreme I suspect it could be.

However, if this blip below 1,700 is it (or was it) then Bitcoin is a hell of a lot tougher than we thought.

Hi Dev! Decided to check back in here after a few weeks of wondering where you went. Thanks to Testing Crypto for helping out here. Opened my wallet today and still syncing, hope all will be all right.

Dev: saw your updated first post, I see there are no more bounties... but you didn't reward out what you still owed from our last votes when the bounties were available? =) We worked hard for those votes!

It's just the deadline to submit petition for review. Perhaps it was even already sent a while ago. Then it will be a matter of days at least to hear back.

Likely to still be a no, in which case limited effect on price. If a surprise yes happens, will also have limited effect. Happy to be proven wrong!

I'll admit I've been way too long out of this to know how high-end those stats are (they seem at least entry-level high end) but the only mining anyone would want to consider now on a PC is for newer alts where difficulty isn't so high yet and you could look at modest returns as an early miner.

Take a look at the forums for ANN threads. For starters, an easy to set-up Minergate can help you mine the most efficient coins.

Yeah, POSWallet's a little bit slow in adding BRO. It got its 1,000 votes more than two weeks ago and we've been waiting for its listing for a while. Going to check out how much fee it charges for BRO withdrawals before I decide to stake there - not that I've many BROs now haha. I seem to get sometimes close to 1 BRO for 24 hours, sometimes half.

No, I get that now. I think it's a great way to improve the network at the same time as getting rewarded from crypto. Thanks again for the clarification - it really helps. Looking forward to movement on this thing!

Hey. I've found this happens every now and then with my qt wallets, especially staking ones. Try a few of these:

1. Download the latest version of the wallet and install then try open and sync from there.
2. Hover your mouse over the progress bar and see if the block # updates. If it does, then your internet is probably just a bit slow and it will take time to fully sync.

All right, thanks for the very clear clarification and kindness to alerting me to the term called staking. Indeed it is very new to me that leaving a wallet open to stake is the same as running a TOR Node. Your illumination on this subject is much appreciated:)

Copy and pasted from first post of ANN, it's quite early on:

First, TorCoin rewards people for running a TOR node.

NOVA works fine on Chrome BUT you have to force refresh the page completely (Ctrl+F5) to ensure you keep it working. I've not tried it on any browser other than Chrome but I have noticed Nova isn't the only exchange that gives me this issue.

Hi vega, you misunderstood my question... I wonder why you would assume anyone would assume what you thought I was assuming. As I said, several people have asked about it, and none are expecting rewards for using the TOR browser.

I'm asking, if there is any information on how one might claim TORcoin for running a TOR node for the TOR browser, as mentioned in the ANN. Or did I misunderstand that point?

Thank you very much both for clarifying this! I'd known before from reading that difficulty is adjusted but somehow failed to realise that it was part of achieving revenue equilibrium.

Now it's a common perception, at least that I've noticed from voiced opinion, that mining has become less and less profitable (at least for the hobbyist or even semi-large entrepreneur). If what you're saying is accurate (that this system ensures BTC fiat price doesn't matter) - then is this situation  merely a result of more miners sharing what is essentially an assuredly consistent value of revenue?

ie. It's become less profitable because shares are getting smaller, as opposed to decreasing value because of increasing difficulty (expressed as hashing cost). I even see people saying it's getting exponentially more difficult and costlier.

If the above is true, then it makes for interesting considerations when it comes to say, for example, expansion of cloud mining contracts. Because I see some contradicting assumptions:
1. If we can get more hashpower from pooled resources we can earn more
2. But if we get more hashpower, our share gets smaller

Thanks again.

Thanks for the useful bit of information - it's new to me. Just curious: is this the probability for current difficulty and hashpower or does that no affect the chances at all? I've only been looking at this after the last halving. Was it quicker before that (I assume it was) or has hashpower always kept up?

I know it can be tough for us regular Johns and Janes, I recall being misinformed about Bitcoin from my early readings simply because guidance and literature just hasn't caught up to a rapidly-changing reality.

I'm not chiding you here, believe me, but it's time to take more control of your coins. Use a wallet that lets you set your fees and follow closely the efficient levels suggested by sites like bitcoinfees.21.co or that very helpful tool from mocacinno: http://www.mocacinno.com/page/feechecker.

Ahh, yeah. A lot of the whitelabel casinos (the ones that use a ready-made package from one of the big providers) tend to have minimum bets that are approximated to their fiat values at the time. In fact I still see terms and conditions reflecting BTC prices from 2014.

I earned my first BTC in October or November last year, can't remember the exact price but it was well below $1,000. I'd seen a few climbs towards it at the time, and had been hopeful of it to stay lower for many months until I could buy my first.

Almost every site I know that specialises in crypto-gambling has very low minimum bets... I still refer to them as microbetting. Even if BTC were to hit $10,000... 100 satoshi would be 1 cent - still a hundred times bigger than the single satoshi bets most gambling sites allow.

So yes, caution is necessary if you bought the coin with fiat but otherwise, no difference in the amount of bitcoin you've always been able to bet with.

Not sure that only a couple of coins are using Master Nodes. I know of two quite well (DASH and PIVX) and mess around with two (Bitrad and this) for fun... then there's at least a couple more (some alt with the word money in it is one).

But point taken - this swap makes room for more development, and you've just about made the MN timeline. Looking forward to hearing more.

With you on this one. Anyone who's got a long-term interest in one of the truly unique alts which has been one of the better ones in terms of development, shouldn't worry about the price. I'm a modest holder, got some bytes without the necessary BTC. I'm definitely keeping this for a very long time.