I think the big problem with sMerit is that it is a scarce commodity. And the big problem with upvote and downvote is that it is plentiful and at no cost to anyone who uses it.

sMerit has a hidden cost. And so people are trying to use it in the justest and rational way. That can provide the greatest gain for themselves and to the community. This results in a slow and gradual distribution and it is necessary to observe if it is not necessary to increase the number of sMerits so that they have a greater fluidity.

And I think even more important would be to redistribute those that are not used in a short time, maybe two weeks, for the merit source. Many people who no longer use the forum received sMerits, which further decreased their immediate availability.

Binance is the most dynamic market right now. But you could use Huobi too. It usually varies a lot, but there were few opportunities to buy at such a low price, as now.

I believe that this year we will see small communities begin to adopt Bitcoin as their main currency. Many people living in stable countries have no idea of the conflicts taking place around the world between peoples and the reprehensible state that represents them.

There are several places in Africa and the Middle East where a small part of the population would like to have complete economic and commercial freedom.

Bitcoin can begin to provide this on a scale and facility much greater than the dollar. With the dollar, it is necessary a physical storage. That in a region in conflict is very difficult. Bitcoin can represent a sight without weapons. A fight for freedom.

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This is pretty nasty. Someone has built a malicious copycat of the popular breach database Have I Been Pwned that will reveal your password in plaintext – unless you pay up a cryptocurrency ransom in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, or Litecoin.

Just like Have I Been Pwned, the malicious copycat will let you check whether your associated email address has been breached in the past. The disturbing part is that it will also display leaked passwords of such compromised accounts. The website then asks users for a one-off $10 donation in cryptocurrency to hide the passwords.

According to the instructions on the website, leaked passwords will only be removed after users have successfully provided proof of payment. It is worth nothing that – depending on how widely you used your passphrase – it might be faster to update your old password than to pay up the ransom.

I still find it incredible that the volume seems to be very low. That dynamic market with many buy and many sales seems to have disappeared. So this leads to a book with few orders where a whale can pick up several degrees of the book and raise the price immediately or drop a lot. It is a totally unexpected market..

Bom, eu fiz o cadastro ontem. A dica do @rafilsk é bem util e eu costumo utiliza-la. A verificação foi bastante rápida, menos de duas horas. Gostei da plataforma, bem simples e limpa. Site está rápido, talvez por terem poucas pessoas.

Não me parece que eles estão ainda em fase de testes. Parece que já era uma plataforma pronta e eles apenas trouxeram pro Brasil. Sinceramente, pela falta de nomes, por não ter clareza sobre a ligação com outras empresas e por ser uma plataforma pronta como essa eu estou bastante desconfiado.

Ainda mais por razão desses 10 reais. Ontem queria colocar uma ordem utilizando esse bonus pra pegar 23.950. Não aceitaram. A ordem minima é de 30 reais em qualquer moeda. Ou seja, mesmo ganhando esses 10 reais ainda preciso depositar uma grana para utiliza-los e é óbvio que não posso sacar. Perdi esse pump ai.

Atualizado com um print da plataforma a pedidos do @Rafilsk

Over $150 million of shorts were just liquidated on Bitmex.

https://twitter.com/BigRekts

blockfolio It is one of the most recommended and used.
tabtrader Great especially if you like graphics.
Widgets It is simple to just check the price fast

At Bitfinex many are betting on a downfall as well. This time I'll bet differently. Lots of graphics betting on the fall. Lots of news about the decline in use of the word Hodl. Many saying the bubble burst.

But 6k will not pass.


We will never see bitcoin again at 5k


LOL Production cost is always adjusted. Those who can not take it, leave the game.

China builds things for themselves. All investors say that. At least on issues related to internet services. I see these mega investments with suspicion. I do not think it's possible that they officially accept and invest in decentralized projects.

But the more money floating in the direction of projects involving Blockchain, the better. Even if it is not directly on universal projects like Bitcoin.

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Algum representante está no forum?

The only way to recover an account is if you can prove, in a crypto way, that you own that account. To prove that, you should have stacked and signing a messaging using a Bitcoin address or have a PGP in any other place.

If you can't do this. You should, before reclaiming any account or spam this section, start to read about cryptographic signature.

How to sign a message using a Bitcoin address: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0#post_electrum198
Stake your Bitcoin address here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=996318.0

I'll take my chances here. I just passed, the minimum necessary to become Sr Member. But I'm pretty far from the necessary merits. I do not know if what I have written is so good that it's worth a lot of merit, probably because I use the forum as a place for discussions and did not create any tutorials.

hackernoon

By now everyone has heard of CryptoKitties, a cute game that went viral to the point of overloading the whole Ethereum network. This is the inside story behind how we made $107K investing in CryptoKitties and briefly set the record for the largest sale ever (currently second-largest). Later, we made ~$8K running an automated arbitrage bot. While playing the speculation game at the height of the mania was exciting, the bot was fairly technically involved and will be interesting to people who want to learn blockchain engineering in general.

As I was toying with my Ethereum smart contracts on a regular Saturday night (December 2), something was clearly off: transactions were stuck and took much longer than usual to confirm. A quick investigation showed there were 10–20 times more pending transactions than usual, and many of them were going to the same mysterious address, 0x06012..66d. This is how I first learned of the now-famous CryptoKitties game.

Investment thesis
Next morning I called Oleg, a close buddy who runs a top crypto hedge fund in Russia to discuss this unusual phenomenon. While the CryptoKitties game was merely a curiosity for me, Oleg immediately spotted a lucrative investment opportunity. First, we were clearly among the earlier entrants. Second, the game looked like it had all the precursors of going viral, similar to Pokemon Go, and was in the early stage of a hockey stick explosion.

Now the question was, which Kitties should we buy? The marketplace offered 4 ways to sort Kitties: cheapest first, most expensive first, newest first, oldest first (note: the website had been redesigned since). The first 3 options are clearly transient: you can always put a cheaper, more expensive, or a newer Kitty on the market. Oldest, however, is like diamonds: forever. Thus we decided to buy single-digit Founder Cats, despite their already hefty price tags: somebody just snatched them at 25 ETH and re-listed the lineup at 50 ETH ($25K), with Founder Cat #1 trading even higher at 150 ETH.

Oleg bought Founder Cats #4, #6, #8 at 50 ETH each ($25K at the time), and I put up $5K for a 20% equity stake in Founder Cat #4. We were pretty optimistic about the mania and re-listed the Kitties at 250 ETH, 5x the purchase price.

As a side-note, we wasted about an hour because of posting a low gasPrice, and had to reinstall MetaMask (at the time it did not have the “resend transaction with increased gasPrice” feature — it was added right after). Lesson learned: if you’re making a $25K purchase, do not try to save $20 on fees.

Right after hanging up on the call I considered the chances that this was going to be my personal record yet for the most ridiculous way to waste $5K. Probably pretty high.

hackernoon

He is a professor at Stanford, Maintainer of Nakamoto Fund and founder of dcdt

And it's obvious Sirius is not Cobra. If he was, he'd just say he is. There's no point in him creating an anonymous persona just for this.

IOTA and NANO do not use blockchain. I think in the medium term, it is impossible to come up with better and safer technology. I think the debate will only take place in relation to the nodes because maybe they change, the POW PoS debate and some other issues.
But Blockchain is here to stay. Just like the internet.

I think what Roger was doing was very bad. But what twitter did is even worse. It is quite controversial the idea about what and who is entitled on the bitcoin brand. There is no clear consensus. And a considerable portion really believe that Bcash is the true continuation of the project initiated by Satoshi. The biggest lesson we could draw from this is that it does not matter who owns certain addresses or brands. What really matters is that each individual must read and study to reach their individual conclusions. Trust no one.

Always is. The market needs people who continually do arbitrage. The principle of the market is that at that time, the price will always be the correct one. For being the price people are willing to buy and sell. But the big thing is that in certain markets prices may be too far apart. This is a profit opportunity and is beneficial to all.

But is it not possible, although rare these days, to receive and use a coin, after the transaction has no confirmations? It is insecure. But I remember some discussions where zero confirmation transactions were still possible.

There is some currency, such as nano, which is based on something similar to that. There is even some exchange that operates BCH like that. Leaving transactions virtually instantaneous. It is very unsafe and risky. Maybe stupid. But it's a possibility.

Before attempting anything out of the ordinary, the first step for the Venezuelan people should be to get rid of this corrupt and inefficient government. Venezuela is probably the country with the highest proven reserves of oil. It is in a much more strategic position than any country of the midle east. Since it is quite unlikely to occur any conflict and all the neighboring countries are importers of fuels.

Parallel to this action, they could already embark on a society free of fiat money. And that includes this unsuccessful attempt to invent Petro. That they adopt Bitcoin as currency and let other altcoins circulate freely.

With the price of electricity being so cheap. This country that today is very poor could be a power in the export of oil and in the mining of Bitcoin.