So anyone made some money in the US election bet? I was about to drop some BTCs in Onehash. The odds for Hillary where terrible but damn, all those damn polls were giving her like 95% chance of winning the god damn election. Im sooo glad I didn't bite the bullet. The conspiracy theorist in me makes me think that they rigged the polls in purpose to get money. I mean how the fuck is it possible that everyone says Trump will not win, then he wins by a big margin? Whoever is doing those polls is a total idiot.

Hi guys, just in case someone is interested... im one of the guys that finally ended up not betting any money in the US Elections. I was almost ready to drop a couple BTC (a lot for more, I don't have many) just in hopes of getting less than 1 BTC in return since the odds were shit...

Good news: I didn't, I just watched the show from the sidelines. I feel bad for some guys that bet a lot of money. There is a guy that lost like 30k in a hillary win bet. Some other big gambles were as big as $500.000... a lot of people lost a lot of money last night.

We are starting to see the resutls, Bitcoin going up 38 dollars in the last 6 hours, pretty good rise. Now it's correcting a bit, but it will keep going up. Overall the uptrend has been solid since 2015, early year, and we have not stopped going up since that 150 ish dollar crash. That was the time to go all in, now it's also a good time to buy since we will be 1000+ next year.

Bitcoin is still to complex and small for the average person to be used. It is still very annoying and convoluted when you are trying to buy Bitcoins from outside the US and EUR, and even in those countries people are at the begining confused with the whole thing. Only 0.01% of people in Venezuela use BTC (statistic out of my ass but I would guess it's about that)

We are pioneers, thats the good news.

It obvious that the rise of Bitcoin that we have seen lately is due the fact that Donald Trump was finally elected as US president, as we saw exactly at the same time all the markets going down.

This is GREAT news for Bitcoin, since it is now consolidated as a robust safe haven against political uncertainty, and Trump will be 4 years of political uncertainty since he isn't part of the establishment.

The only realistic chance of Bitcoin becoming a currency that has trillions of transactions per second (probably what a worldwide currency that gets used at a dollar/euro/yen level would be like) is through Lightning Network type of solutions. No amount of blocksize increases will ever get us anywhere without it.

Im not sure tehre are yet rich people buying enough BTC to bother with anything but buying some BTC and storing it themselves (or usually in Coinbase because they are idiots that can't make the effort to learn how to store Bitcoin locally)

I don't know about GBTC but I expect all those options to get used a lot once we finally have an actual ETF.

Any news about this project? I miss playing some bomberman for bitcoins, it was the best way to gamble and have fun with BTC. All the other games lack the fun and nostalgic arcade vibes that this game had. It was a perfect mix, we need more old arcade and nintendo games to play for BTC.

Damn the odds for Hillary are still shit. I was expecting the odds to get better for Hillary as Trump gains a little bit of traction through the day. I think it will be a really close fight, if Hillary loses somebody is going to lose a lot of money.

Well that would be a total disaster. The supply of ZCash is still tiny, going to single dollars this soon would mean the coin is really cheap. The supply is just too small, if the price goes too low everyone is going to sell in panic. ZCash is a coin that can't afford cheap coins.

It is already helping poor countries. In places like kenya and stuff there are people going there and setting bitcoin banks with the help of cheap computers and cheap smartphones, or even nokia type of phones throught SMS. An economy can be started with a single cheap device.

The trick is to get in early before a Poloniex pump happens. Of course, it's not that easy. In order to benefit the pump needs to have a high volume, without high volume it's pretty much useless. The volume right now is 18 BTC... it needs to grow a lot to get any where notable.

Well the idea is to get in now before it gets to poloniex. The question is, will it even get to poloniex? there's always that you buy a coin and it never gets anywhere, and by anywhere I mean getting the obligatory pump before it starts stagnating forever.

Do you really think Zclassic is going anywhere? It seems like another pump and dump scheme just like Ethereum Classic was. What happened to Ethereum Classic? it just keeps deflating, there's nothing new under the sun, unfortunately people are sheep and will follow whatever vbuterin does.

So the ZEC party is over, everything is looking boring again (except bitcoin). But we want more bitcoin, so... what the hell do we do?

Im looking at ZCash Classic. Do you think it will pump hard? ETC sure pumped big time.

It depends on what you call gambling. If you consider poker gambling then yes, there is life into gambling and you can make a lot of money in a consistent matter and make a living out of it, not by slot machines or dice tho.

There are some people that get rich from gambling. Im sure someone is insane enough to bet their life savings on something and get it right, an all in one bet and if you get it right you could become a millionaire.

Well according to the latest news, Hillary has already won. The FBI has said that Hillary is not accountable for anything of the email shit, which is obviously bullshit since they looked at 650.000 emails in a couple of days when they took 8 months to look at 30.000

Ok this is more of an speculation thread but im curious what people here think... what will Bitcoin 1.0 look like technically wise, and in what year do you expect we will reach 1.0? We will probably be wrong about a lot of things but it's fun to speculate.

I would hope that by then we have solved how to take Bitcoin to the next level in terms of dumbing it down as much as possible for the snapchat generation, and also the older people is also able to use it just like a tablet. (of course all the nice complex options can be unlocked for the power user)

People shouldn't be bothered if something goes off or onchain, it just has to work.

Default settings should be as private as possible for everyone, obfuscating amounts and ideally transactions "mixed" by default. People should not be bothered with coin control, selecting fees etc.

Sidechains are common and every relevant business has its own.

I don't know what else to say.

Nobody is perfect, including Core devs and Satoshi, but what we know is, they are the best in the game, delivering solid software. The fact that Roger Ver questions this software because of some ridiculous moral judgement that he does there, is just proof that the guy is losing it. He should stop fucking around and support Segwit already.