That's an interesting statistic.

I often wonder what the ratio is of private vs institutional/governmental buying when it comes to gold.

I only know of one person who admits to any involvement in gold.

Although the devices will be spread far and wide, all of them will be pointed to 21's pool.

If it really goes enormous and they make themselves not too far off the google of BTC, I wonder what happens if they decide they don't like the halving schedule so much...

At that point other Bitcoin users and miners might be in a significant minority. 21's Bitcoin might waltz off into the sunset while everyone else chugs down their modest little path.

All miners at present are 'conscious' and can point them wherever they like. 21 locks a huge amount of machinery in and most people aren't going to know or care what it's actually up to.

I know plenty of first world folks who wouldn't be able to spare that type of money for something that isn't of immediate benefit to them. Huge numbers of people are out of cash before the end of the month.

Not everyone is a virile success with money socked away.

The poster could easily get into the one coin club with a sig campaign. Depends what their ongoing expense are.

Agreed. Large swathes of the planet do not feel that way.

There'll need to be some eagle eyes to keep a count as they're primed to be deleted. I think there are more meaningful things to do with one's life.

Silkroad was the posterboy for Bitcoin's perceived depravity. There are a ton of other markets out there and always will be but that's the one that people who want to hate it fixated on.

Good god. I'm trapped forever. Ah well. Thanks for the answers.

Already done that. It makes no difference. They still keep popping up.

I never use the watchlist feature, just the new replies to your posts. There doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of any of them.

Is there any way of doing this?

I've contributed to threads in the past that I'm no longer interested in and seem to drone on for all eternity.

I've deleted my posts from them but the threads still keep on popping up time after time. Removing them from my watchlist does nothing either.

Am I missing something obvious or is this not possible?

This is an interesting read. I'm not sure whether it's been updated since it was published.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-customs-brief-9-2014-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies/revenue-and-customs-brief-9-2014-bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies#ct-it-and-cgt-treatment-of-bitcoin-and-similar-cryptocurrencies

"As with any other activity, whether the treatment of income received from, and charges made in connection with, activities involving Bitcoin and other similar cryptocurrencies will be subject to CT, IT or CGT depends on the activities and the parties involved."

"Chargeable gains: CT and CGT - if a profit or loss on a currency contract is not within trading profits or otherwise within the loan relationship rules, it would normally be taxable as a chargeable gain or allowable as a loss for CT or CGT purposes. Gains and losses incurred on Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies are chargeable or allowable for CGT if they accrue to an individual or, for CT on chargeable gains if they accrue to a company."

So the future of crypto is as an inter bank payment network only accessible by a few hundred or thousand players?

I think he'd be out of a job pretty rapidly then. Once it's ticking away nicely that's that.

Yes, that one gets my goat too.

What an exhausting place financial markets must be if every single rise can only happen off the back of every single person being involved in each item reaching the edge of suicide.

Then, just as the final noose is wrapped around the final neck, a young orphan fights her way out of the rubble. Still clutching her teddy she struggles to the nearest Bloomberg terminal.

Her fingers shaking, vomit foaming at the edge of her mouth, blood trickling out of her nose, she places the first order that has happened in over 43 months. At that very moment the sun emerges from behind the clouds and the birds start to sing.

Cos their asses are leveraged to the hilt.

Those who are not ain't gonna care.

You wouldn't even have the slightest poo poo of excitement if the ATH was ever broken?

There's no great desire for any crypto right now. The only people buying anything are probably the same old suspects and they're no doubt pretty worn out by the alt scene in general.

NEM in general has been much classier than most alts. It's still stuck in the same rut as all the others though.

I doubt the average Chinese bot gives the tiniest shit about good news or lack thereof these days.

Due at the end of the month so they say. Considering how much noise he made about it, I assume he signed it off before setting off. There still seem to be plenty of gripes though. Dunno if they've been addressed.

I remember his eyes glittering during the streamed crypto hearing things he attended as more was explained to him. I guess he's now 'outed' himself.

An interesting detail from here

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-20/bank-regulator-lawsky-to-exit-with-new-york-6-billion-richer

Ben Lawsky stands down as New York's financial supernintendo

'The 45-year-old regulator plans to set up his own consulting firm in New York, advising financial institutions on matters related to technology, cybersecurity and virtual currency.'

Teensy conflict of interest there. He creates the problem and then charges for the solution.

Copying and pasting the code is a bit cumbersome. You have to scroll for miles to catch it all. It's easy to get it wrong.