twice in the past bitcoin broke and was rapidly patched with a fork, once when billions of coins were created out of thin air in 2010 and in 2013 when mining pools had to switch back to 0.7.

in both instances bitcoin was much smaller and the community closer.

assuming something similar happened now, a possibly fatal glitch is uncovered and a non contentious fork is carried out by everyone, would that have repercussions over bitcoin's perception or would people accept it as a prudent move showing the power of consensus?

alts have the luxury of having their chains completely die for a while and no one giving a shit. would people be so forgiving when they've come to expect bitcoin to be the glue that binds everything together?

you've been agitating and whining on this thread for months now.

what are you hoping to achieve? i'm really curious.

uh, bitmixer and its automation is probably one of the prime causes of merit being invented. no one checked any posts and anyone could join. it was a shitshow.

i don't think an automated campaign would be permitted to survive here any more.

why should anyone care what the campaign manager's decisions are? he's in control of the funds. he decides. it ain't no one else's business.

this thread is stunningly toxic. i don't know where all the venom comes from but it's so over the top that it kinda nullifies itself. it's possibly the shittiest and most worthless thread i've come across.

that said there's nothing about this project that gives me any confidence.

i admire the dedication you guys have had to hang in there. i cleared off as soon BTC denominated campaigns looked sexier. you're providing a service and others are paying far more for it. hope you get some resolution.

everyone's still crazy bullish and engaged compared to that phase. that was real boredom and indifference by that point.

the definition of holding is sitting there and waiting for things to play out until the right moment instead of wrecking yourself guessing trades. if you're doing that then you should set prices where you're ready to sell and stick to them no matter what.

that also means not dumping at a loss when things are looking droopy. if you hold for long enough and you've chosen the right project then you'll be fine. people who paid 50c for ETH or 25c for XMR will concur.

for UI i've always preferred poloniex above anything else, but let's not talk about the support problems. i don't use candles, i just want a clear and easy way to swap stuff over.

all of the chinesey ones have pretty nasty interfaces, weird glitches in translation and stuff like javascript that doesn't work.

i've never really understood why most upgrades seem to wind up worse. coinbase pro is the latest one.

there is always, always fast and easy money to be made in cryptocurrency. unfortunately you're likely to be the one supplying it to someone else when they milk you like a pro.

most of the people making fast and easy money got their money hard and slow in the first place and are now enjoying the gravy.

it would be fascinating to see a full crypto society but you'd also have to get rid of governments and countries before it became possible, and governments and countries will always control and issue their own money. since in many places 50% or more of the population is employed or supported by government money that means it's not going away.  

i reckon people who believe fiat will be wiped out are as idealistic/deluded as those who think a pure libertarian society would be a great idea. coexistence is the most likely and most bearable option.

a crypto that was more realistic in economic terms such as a steady emission rather than hard cap might be a different matter.

it don't matter if some people are looking forward to a bull run. they ain't getting one if the appetite is absent, and it doesn't look too promising for this year.

people need to realise how spoiled they were by last year. levels of that madness don't happen often and even if they do happen again it takes a long, long time to recharge before it might once more.

If private keys could be discovered by a 'genius' this forum would not exist because bitcoin would be broken and forgotten.

The person who scammed you has the private keys. Unless you find them and force them to hand the money over it's not accessible to you.

those binance pumps were so ridiculous even the biggest moron could see they were hacky. i guess if you do make bank and get the money out that's one thing, the chances are they'll freeze everything as they did in this case.

it's not as if binance are gonna ban you for taking part in something they're permitting through their own slackness, but it's probably a waste of your time and you may not get the right balance returned to you.

uh, 1 syscoin was 96 BTC at one point a short while back.

that's a little more warped than the usual exchange crap. someone somewhere has been screwing with things somehow.

a cascade of mega pump and dumps wherever you look.

syscoin going far through the roof? other coins going crazy. is something there seriously broken? an API hack?

i owe bitcoin nothing. its job is to serve my purposes. if it no longer aligns with my purposes then it's goodbye. anything that requires the sympathy and charity of its users does not deserve to thrive because the rest of the world sure won't put up with it either.

this is one of the oldest tricks in the book. why's it being reported as something new and worrying?

the only thing you can trust is your hardware wallet's screen. everything else can be spoofed easily.

https://www.crypto-roadmaps.com/single-post/2018/07/01/New-FCoin-exchange-clogs-the-Ethereum-network

first i've heard of this. an apparent 17 billion in daily volume and strangling the ETh chain to do it.

we should've expected anyone from the old school chinese casinos to be coming up with impossible figures. that's what they do.

hey, dude.

open secret - virtually no one has the time to read the entirety of his posts. i'm sure many skip them entirely.

don't sweat it.

i just arrived when this happened. there were some very sad stories and i hope no one did anything stupid. i also hope everyone involved kept ahold of their gox details otherwise it would be doubly depressing if you hadn't been able to make a claim.

i've read in a few places they may be waiting until 2020 for an actual payout. that puts bitfinex's decision to force a haircut on everyone to avoid bankruptcy after their hack into perspective. actual law sure moves slow.