i sold 2/3 of my stash at 465 am weak

one moon pic on the previous page and one rocket on this page.
IT's STILL GOOD
buy Buy BUY!

.. for the shorts who are running out of bitcoin supplies?

Segwit pull request in main repository -

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7910


I expect Segwit to remove from segnet testnet to the bitcoin testnet this month and enter mainnet early may for activation in June/July depending upon the miners hitting 95%

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Folks, looks like the price is heading back to 400 €

It is getting exciting, i would like to see 3000 € /BTC by the end of the year

Lightning network is a bunch of sidechains. It will almost certainly not be economically viable until Bitcoin's market cap is orders of magnitude higher than it is now. To achieve that, we need on-chain scaling and we need it before another cryptocurrency diverts the resources necessary to make it happen. This is urgent.

Bitcoin is becoming more and more like a premined coin with the existing monetary base large and growing. Coins are more distributed, but that is a limited advantage because hodlers have less individual incentive to promote adoption due to free riders benefiting who don't participate in that promotion.

Before average blocksize approached the 1 MB limit, something else prevented blocks from filling up besides fees. xactions were effectively free and blocks still did not fill up. That something was orphan risk. Large blocks propagate slower and are at a higher risk of getting orphaned. That is why fears of spam-filled blocks is overblown. That risk is always present. That is a reason why some miners mine empty blocks.

SegWit is riskier than a 2MB hard fork because it is a more radical change to the protocol.  I hope it works, but there is uncertainty that needs to be factored in.  In my opinion, it is reckless to attempt such a radical change instead of a simple 2MB hard fork because it may prevent the rally that would otherwise occur at the halving in July.  Markets hate uncertainty.  The more complicated the upgrade, the easier it is for bears and trolls to spread technobabble FUD. The more complicated the upgrade, the more things that can go wrong, similar to a machine with more moving parts. 

We are not out of the woods yet. We are just getting to the woods. 

it must happen before....
what will market do when segwit has been out for weeks and it its hit an impasse not able to gain more the 19% hashing power supporting it?
CRASH!
we must PUMP before we DUMP.

Sergei needs to start another ponzi asap. Then we'll get the price moving for sure.

Just shaking out the weak hands. 

You can pump anything and get momentum riders, but you have to keep it up indefinitely because as soon as the momentum is lost, they ride it the other way.  Sustainable appreciation has to be based on fundamentals.  

15 out of the last 20 days were green candles, but the price has only recovered about 2/3 of what it lost in the five days prior to that. That's an enormous amount of pumping, but everybody knows that some spammer can crash the market again by filling blocks any time he wants.  

well it just broke down from a rising wedge, which is forming the right shoulder of a massive h&s...

to answer your question, vitalik spoke at coinbase today, so if coinbase does ether there will be a pump from that.

vlad and vitalik have both admitted they don't actually know how to scale ethereum and scaling is still a "research project"  . (they've admitted that this year)  pretty soon they'll figure out their "idea" for scaling violates the cap theorem.  even with zero use their blockchain is already bloating.  beyond 'hello world' prototypes theres gonna be a lot of problems and a lot of drama with insiders selling off before announcing their failures to handcuff a bunch of dapps (which are not decentralized) to their platform in any way that scales.