Well miners could dump coins onto an exchange, and open a geared short position just before they do it. That'a an alternative way for them to make money, and repurchase their coins when the price has dropped if they want to keep them.

I've seen a few people try to produce these reports by checking wallet addresses, but that seems to be quite difficult, and subject to manipulation. I think the really interesting graph would be the changes in the use of Bitcoin for retail purchases. I've accepted Bitcoin for domain name sales, but it doesn't seem to be very common.

Miners have to cover operating costs, and one obvious way to do this is to sell some or all of the coins they receive for finding blocks. Without sufficient buyers, these sales would depress the price of Bitcoin, if they were sold through the exchanges.  I know of at least one miner who sells his coins to an ATM operator, and that raises the question of who is buying through the ATMs. I suspect that other miners sell directly to large investors and exchanges, and these sales are kept out of the trading stats. There are people buying from exchanges to purchase goods, or for small private investments, but I haven't seen any stats reporting the characteristics or motives of Bitcoin buyers. Does anyone have any links to current analysis reports?

The deep state needs a major war, or wars, to realign the world banking system. They also need to "rescue" many countries with social ranking systems to enable them to create a global state. There will be more wars arriving, and they will merge into a great war.

The deep state is the morphed British Empire as proposed by Cecil Rhodes, and is based on wealthy dynasties, bankers and media tycoons. Much of it's planning and infrastructure comes from the City of London and the Eton/Oxford elite, and representatives of the ruling dynasties attend conferences such as Bilderberg. The 3 dominant dynasties are the British Crown, The Vatican and the Rothschilds.

We had Cromwell, Guy Fawkes and a few others.

Elections are never truly democratic. You can only vote for candidates who are selected by a ruling elite. This is true for both America and the UK. The EU is slightly different, the elected parliament has no real control, and all the major policy decisions are made by a secret unelected elite. There is also massive control over a country by groups who are not elected. These include judges, civil servants, teachers, and owners of the mass media. Almost all of the members of parliament in the UK are bankers, lawyers and/or politicians, and are products of the Eton/Oxford elite.  Just as an aside, The Eton/Oxford elite has massive control over the US, for example Clinton was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford.

One of the problems with referenda is their binary nature. The Brexit vote was very clear - leave or remain, and the membership articles are very specific about the method of leaving. On submission of the resignation notice, you leave, and there should be a 2 year period to negotiate trade agreements. This period was squandered by Theresa May ( an Oxford banking remainer ), who attempted to reverse the results of the referendum. The mass media has tried to push the concept of shades of Brexit, but there are no such things, Brexit is a very specific and legally defined operation, and it was described clearly at the time of the referendum. Everything else that has been discussed represents various shades of remain. The so called "cliff edge" represents a refusal to utilise the 2 year withdrawal period for the benefit of the EU and the UK, and is not the result of the Brexit decision directly.

Voters in the UK, the US and Europe should be grateful for Brexit, as it is revealing the depth of control exercised by the Anglophone empire that morphed out of the old British Empire. Quiet reflection of the real international news will reveal the difficulties that Donald Trump has in combating the vice like grip it has on Washington, and the same is true of the control the City of London has over Westminster.

I don't believe there will be a deal. Deals include a whole load of political stuff, and we voted to get rid of that. I think there will be a number of trade agrements, and if the EU doesn't change its attitude, then most of them will go elsewhere. The UK dropped its food standards when it entered the EU, and hopefully we will be able to regain those. Much of the quality food at the moment is still produced to the old standards, and if this continues, then the EU farmers and producers will be the losers.

With regards to Southern Ireland, there is an enormous trade with the UK, and they will have a severe economic downturn when we leave the EU if they are not allowed to continue to trade with us. The EU hasn't done them any favours, and in my opinion, their best option would be to leave the EU, and to become a self-governing country again. There is a wealth of talent and resources on the island, and they are quite capable of earning their keep in a competitive world.

Some of the technology is old. I was using linked blocks in a chain on an IBM 1401 in the late 1960s. What is revolutionary is the linking of all the old technology into a package, and using the Internet to create a distributed payment system.

I don't agree, firstly this is a Bitcoin orientated forum. That aside, Bitcoin is one of the new phenomena that are highlighting and revealing a lot of the activities that the bankers and the powerful are using to test and manipulate the future of currency payments. Another bellwether is Brexit, that is forcing the puppet masters that control so many countries to reveal their activities. Vaccination and climate change discussions have become redundant, because very few people seem to look at the funding behind these movements, and their purpose, and it isn't to improve health or the environment.

I understand that the Lib Dems are partially funded by the EU, and they are compiling a register with scoring of the UK voters, rather like the Chinese social ranking system. The Lib Dems is a minority remainer party in the UK. Just to help them - here is my likely voting probability.

Brexit party - 100%
Conservative ( the Eton/Oxford elite ) - 0%
Lib Dem - 0%
Labour - 0%
EU remain - 0%
Clean Brexit ( as described in the original referendum) - 100%

Now one wonders how they will use the information they collect, and whether my opinions will have any repercussions. Also, I believe that many other governments are compiling similar social rankings without alerting the voters in their countries.

CoinBase has reintroduced faster payments for UK residents, and, although I haven't withdrawn fiat, I have no reason to believe that they don't offer the same fast and efficient service that they offer for Bitcoin withdrawals. They do report fiat withdrawals to the UK inland revenue though.

I think you are more at risk using Windows 10 with its Cortana keylogger, than you are using public WiFi. If you are worried, then keep your coins in an offline wallet, and only spend coins from a trading wallet using a Linux based system.

I wouldn't withdraw fiat from an exchange via a bank. So far I've only withdrawn Bitcoin to my own wallet. I have funded my Coinbase account using faster payment from my bank, and I am mildly concerned that that is on record.

Gibraltar is part of the UK, and it has a land border with Spain, which is part of the EU. It will obviously need a customs agreement with the EU once we are free of their shackles.

I'm not sure that I would purchase a coin, but were I to be awarded one, then I would keep it, and not consider selling it. It could be used to promote Bitcoin Talk, and to make members of the financial communities aware of the forum.

Once again the Irish border is back in the limelight, and it seems to be a major topic that the treasonous remoaners are using to try to force the UK to stay in the imploding EU. They keep saying that the Irish border is the only land border between the UK and the EU, but once again they are ignoring Gibraltar.  One wonders if there is a secret plan to give Gibraltar to Spain.

Would it be worth trying to get services that block the Bitcoin node port to open it for their public WiFi. I am aware that I can use online web wallets, but I would prefer to use my own node for transactions. If I am purchasing Bitcoin, then I can check my wallet address with a blockchain report tool, but what about a payment? McDonalds is a bit slow, but it supports Bitcoin nodes. My library, and the sports centre where I am at the moment block the ports, and so do many supermarkets. I could run a node on a server, but many shared hosting plans block the Bitcoin ports.

If Bitcoin is going to gain wide and secure acceptance amongst the general public, then we may need to increase node use in the "wild". Mobile 'phone tethering is a way round this, but this is not always convenient.

That stupid girl that has gone to America in a carbon fibre boat to pretend that she has a zero carbon footprint sums it all up. She is funded by big money. Carbon fibre is an intense user of resources and creates large amounts of emissions in its production, and the crew is flying home by plane. That just about sums up the whole of the mentality of the climate change sheep.

Embrace the doctrine of Amor Fati. Fate has led you to Bitcoin Talk for a purpose, and you should embrace this good fortune. Obviously trading is not for you, but you can sell goods or services for Bitcoin, and save the proceeds as an investment for your future. You have made a start by obtaining a Bitcoin address, but remember, if you don't own the private keys, then it is not your address.