It's not that hard to keep alive. What will be hard is retaining any value.

No one should be buying XEM for any reason other than getting XYM. Once it's over XEM will plummet. It may well make a pointless comeback during generalised shitcoin pumps as literally anything will so I wouldn't burn my private keys just in case.

I don't really see how they're going to make XYM visible enough for it to get anywhere near XEM's position or former positions. I certainly hope they do have some impressive plans. If XEM got significantly higher than it is at present during a pre split pump I'd be very tempted to dump and walk away without looking back.



Hmm. I completely forgot there was a public vote about that. The vast majority of marketing spend happened before the present foundation. The old one is responsible for the total squandering of everything. I seem to recall it was tens of millions. I don't have particularly strong feelings about the present set up. They have a lot of work to do with fewer resources. If Alex hadn't won and the old guard got in again there would be no upgrade at all most likely. I seem to remember they were actively blocking it or simply doing nothing.

Pressing a button, baby.

How could you have missed that detail?

The Irish PM likes his fellas too and no one there seems to mind. That traditionally hasn't been a bastion of inclusiveness until recent times.

Pack it up, ladies. The verdict is in.

As ever I have no problem believing some OG Bitcoin fans are unhappy with the direction BTC has taken.

What I can never believe is that BSV or BCH are anything other than giant turds dropped from the flappy anus of pisstaking that gob all over the ideas that Bitcoin stands for. So they in theory scale better. Erm, what about the other bits?

Gigamegs don't quite make up for the one miner, 51% attacks, countless dodgy hard forks, incompetent development, miner tax attempts, 20 grand nodes and about a million other things.

I verified a long, long time ago and back then it was nothing other than ID scan and proof of address scan. I haven't heard anything from them since and have put a fair bit of money through there. Maybe they've tightened up or had a crap phase that has since passed.

Yes. Kraken has a USD/USDT market.

https://www.kraken.com/prices

On the top left hit the grey button and scroll down to the USDT markets and you'll find USD in there. I don't know how good Kraken's USD banking is. It might be crap.

Of course you should be able to do it through Tether themselves but we're not supposed to talk about that.

I prefer to leave them wondering. I know what people are like when it comes to this type of thing. There's no point in talking them in or out of anything. They'll continue to believe what they choose to believe and nothing you do or say or put in front of them will change it. I'm not going to waste my or their time.

Another pearl necklace of wisdom here. And very sobering too.



Hey, maybe there's another bunch of lawsuits brewing. Perhaps the final act will be him as 'good' Satoshi suing himself as 'bad' Satoshi'? I'll bet Dennis Rodman can get him some Pyongyang court time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a3mk9sp0oE&t=4m1s

No, sir.

My phone is pretty ancient but it's not on the google play website at the moment either. I'll see if it's back in a few days.

I don't trust any of these app/card 'banks' including Revolut. You see people in consumer moaning columns running their lives through them suddenly getting cut off completely and when it goes wrong you have one phone line that'll never get you to a real human. They're strictly toys for very occasional, and very low value, convenience as far as I'm concerned. I'll never go further with any of them.

I think I've got £24 on Wirex and £5.50 on Revolut. That feels about right.

This is a genie that'll never go back in the bottle. I expect there to be untold amounts of obscure exchanges in future. There'll always be a near infinite number of stupid people willing to take a bet and an untold number of people willing to supply their delusion.

It'll take place in largely ignored corners of the internet but they will always be out there from now on. It doesn't matter if a small number of well run exchanges dominate the world. There's always an outlier and always people who think they've stumbled across the 'next Bitcoin' hiding in the shadows.

Get used to it. It's only hotting up from here.

As long as it's cheaper and the app actually works I'm willing to sound it out. The shitcoin is stupid indeed but you don't need that any more. I certainly won't be utilising anything else they offer and won't be putting anything other than chump change through it.

The prime difference between now and then it that people and capital are infinitely more mobile.

If the same were to be attempted today they would be able to go straight to my door. They would also find it empty as I'd be in the nearest country that wasn't pulling crap like that.

Probably neither. They're going to treat it as similar to Visa or a cheque. It's just another method to transmit Swiss Francs to them. I doubt their other tax payers would be best pleased if the local budget was put into speculation.

The land border to Spain was shut for many, many years under Franco. If Gibraltans wanted to get to Spain they had to go to Morocco first and then cross the sea back again.

If it became fully Spanish that entire region would crater. It's totally broke and Gibraltar is the only economic engine in that area. Gibraltar as part of Spain is worthless other than restoring some pride.

No idea what the outcome will be but ultimately its residents should be the ones who have the greatest say.

I don't really get why it bothers the Spaniards, other than the chronic cigarette smuggling. I think it would be brilliant to have a Spanish enclave just over the road.

I'm going to give the crypto.com card a whirl. That's if it ever arrives as people seem to be saying it takes forever. Not sure what the fees are but my mystery Wirex app sluggishness is really getting on my tits now. Maybe there's a magnetic field in this valley that sucks internet time away.

It's up to users to migrate, however from what I've seen so far nothing out there really cuts it other than Bisq and no one is using that either.

It needs to be properly decentralised for starters - ie not tied to a domain name or hosting as that can be hijacked.

As we've seen time and again most people want to centralise for the sake of convenience and hand holding. The ones who want to shun it are noble outliers.

Anyone else noticed Wirex is no longer on Google Play? It's not showing up in my installed apps or library on there either. Still on the phone and tries to work when it can be bothered.

Is this a blip that comes and goes? I'm not sure I've noticed it with anything else installed on my phone. The app still takes a full 2-3 minutes before it's usable so perhaps they've run out of coal and favour with Google.

Can't remember. i do remember it was Bitcoin Gold and that took so many confirmations I had to wait several days.

Am pretty certain I wouldn't have bothered with Shapeshift if it did require KYC. Plenty of exchanges I am signed up for would've done the job. Not surprised it's different now.

I'm pinning my life on this -



You can use it for impromptu kidney dialysis, hit yourself over the head for pain relief, fill woodland creatures with orangey syrup for a quick and nutritious meal, fire it at people and wipe your arse with it or simply plug it and get the fire brigade to remove it when sanitation returns.

It's a one stop retro survival engine.

Well, that's the great unknown. I'm sure places like Coinbase would quickly get whistles blown if giant holes were found in their claimed holdings. I couldn't say the same for many of the other 'top' exchanges. We have zero idea what's going on behind closed doors.

We're still transitioning into respectability. Look at Coinbase's BCH launch. If that was in the area of conventional finance they'd be nailed to fucking the wall for it.

I expect in future there'll be 10-15 titans worldwide with legacy investment and owners that decides what becomes top tier and what doesn't. Below that I don't think the tidal wave of nothing exchanges will ever let up.

If your coin manages to blow up the world organically then you'll have an in. There'll be no more buying or tricking your way to prominence.

If I remember correctly I did have to create a Shapeshift account but didn't require KYC. I can't remember whether that was directly through Shapeshift themselves or one of these wallets.