Well, in a way Bitcoin is over 15 years old if you consider the building blocks of bitcoin like Hashcash and Wei Dai's original concept.

You're crazy. You can't actually be serious can you?

I assume you were immunized as a child. But are you saying that if you had kids(do you?) you wouldn't get them their shots?

What does everyone think about the ban?

Too long? Too short? Just right?

Personally I think it's good. I can not stand the fact that this idiot is running around the pitch BITING people. I mean, seriously!

I bought Skyrim for $4.99 (with bitcoin too ) from the Steam summer sale! Woohoo!

When I get time to play it I'll be happy. Not sure when that will be, but at least I got it cheap and it's waiting for me.

Good work.

Thanks for the update. It looks like you guys are working hard and we appreciate you posting here to keep us in the loop.

Yeah, I've noticed that before they changed it they had everything listed, but when I mouseover the pairs it says "No" as in I can't trade those pairs on this account.

Being able to take short positions on an account denominated in BTC is great.

Oh, really? Nice. I've been waiting for that.

I haven't logged in to MT4 in a few days since all I'm doing at the moment is shorting LTC

That sounds like the most likely scenario I think.

Now if we can find out what exchange(if any, but definitely possible) they went to and we might have a chance of getting somewhere if OP can prove the funds were originally his somehow. That's assuming the exchange is willing to cooperate. Which is also pretty unlikely I guess. Although an exchange with that many LTC might be BTC-e, so they should cooperate considering the funds were stolen from BTC-e.

Only problem is BTC-e has done nothing so far which is worrying.

The most important thing right is now anyway is like you said: figuring out the optimal strategy so that the incentives line up. getting the game theory right is the key.

If ethereum is going to do all that perhaps he can just build his idea within ethereum?

No help from BTC-e at all?

That is worrying.

Here's hoping something comes up.

Cool channel. Thanks.

Yeah, I've read a book about that named Kingpin. Pretty interesting book. But in that book it seemed hackers were making their money by selling databases full of info to the real carders who would take that info and turn it in to the big money.

With all the hacks over the years I'm wondering how the black hat community thinks about this era with regards to the amount of money that's available for the taking without consequence.

I would imagine it's been a boon to the scene since I can't really imagine a better way for hackers to gain immediate results from their skills. Before I suspect a lot of those black hats dealt mostly in selling information and access to resources such as botnets, but now they can just directly steal value from their targets.

Bitcoin is the perfect incentive for black hats and hopefully and one point we might see some resistance from white hats attempting to protect the community by helping to secure bitcoin businesses before they're hacked. But until that happens we'll probably continue to see sites fall prey to hackers.

I like Bitmark. Solid name.

BTM sounds good to me too. I hadn't heard bitcoin ATMs referred to as BTMs before. Not sure if this is a trend or not, but I do like the sound of BTM.

The community has to make the push and let the dev team know how important it is to them. A lot of people do care, but I fear that it's not close to enough.

Clearly you've come to the wrong thread. If you have been following coinsolidation's ideas at all you would know that this is not about that at all.

That's an interesting idea. Established founders who have already built trust can be used in a sort of "overseer" role. They could collect a fee and build their reputation while protecting the investors.

Yeah, in general NXT seems pretty good and very much under appreciated by the community at large. I don't own any but the only real criticism I see from people is them being angry that they didn't buy any at the IPO and calling it unfair because they didn't risk any of their own money on a new technology. Which of course is not a valid criticism.

Yeah, I don't know if you all had seen the recent revelations from the SEC but Trendon actually managed to be a massive failure at being a thief. He should have had control on 200,000 btc after people withdrew 500k from the ponzi, but he only ended up cashing out ~150k usd, Meaning he lost so much day trading and through other means that he only managed to get out 75 cents per bitcoin. Which is laughable really.