Just popped up in my mind, the dangerously low levels of no return are where any altcoin could surpass Bitcoin, and there are hundred dollar coins in existance right now. If BTC falls down onto 200$ those would merely have to double up for irreversible dethroning Bitcoin.
200$ would be a level of no return. I'm glad that comes close to my buying spot from 2016.

Scaring out investors could require folding down three times, not two. Some altcoins did one tenth of the ATH remaining, but they pump up the same 10x factors. 435 USD would be a third from ATH, my floor guesswork.

"Flame Is Burning" and Balakleya depot leaves me speachless. If it wasn't coincidence it fits together well at least.
Maybe NSK's music wing can work out on that.

It's a sad ending for a formerly grandious invention. I am glad that Satoshi has not to live through this. On the other hand he may have mopped the floor with them sorry asses 

For the first time in history I would assume Satoshi (if still alive, I consider him deceased) outing himself, stepping up, would not tank the value but increase it. Just because that would mean governance and structure again.

I'm still reading but


caught my attention. Two hostile fractions sum up in total onto "no one winning". Countless war battlefields telling the same story.
Maybe one Altcoin will take the lead as most valued coin on market.

Cannot speak for "we" but yours truly here ... simply does not. I am focusing on the cheapest purchasing way. Most sorts of "anonymity" come with a premium which is totally exaggerated.

Trying to "control" Bitcoin is futile. There are mixing services that will fog up every oh so sophisticated surveilance method from any fascist state.
The trouble begins when state powers (northkorean, iran) start hunting down any known Bitcoin users. Then I will have to eat my words having neglected privacy during purchase phases.

Interesting! I've used bitcoinfees.21 mostly, then messed up on trying their recommended 100 sats/b by 1/10 doing the calculations wrong, so only 10% of the "recommended fee" got added. And it confirmed.
5$ are horrenduous, that's a killer fee which will drown the child.

Have to move to tradeblock's advise and learn doing the math right.

Sad truth, but advised to save investments. ETH beeing a forking joke, DASH a premine and Ripple not even worth mentioning but they can provide a save hedge from this BU/Core madness.
Maybe we should reevaluate DOGE even?

Changing the PoW would render all mining investments worthless. The nuclear option that would nuke Bitcoin.
There are not so many possibilities to render the first mover approach worthless. This is one of them.

Don't worry, we are awake. I would add that silver (at least in my country, central europe) gets taxated which makes it almost "untradeable" - only as a store of value.
For the smaller investment Bitcoins are faster, cheaper on fees and their forecast is also promising. Unless the forking debate escalates, of course.
Only safe heaven beeing gold bullion, as always has been.

Desastrous picture, like an altcoin pump melting down. The way this fights out feels wrong. When looking at some alts like XMR, there is the concept of variable blocksizes working since years, and very smoothely.

Now we are talking. Decomissioning a reactor in a "critical" state got me. Those Fukushima exploding roofs had been subcritical state.
Xenon-135 or Krypton-85 measurements are missing, those would hint onto a common reactor (used for energy generation) having produced the fallout.
Iodine-127 is stable (anisotop even), Iodine-131 lasts 8.02070 days (ß- decay, not a blockchain halving) so the incident could be precisely timed IF the sensor's minimal detectable amount is known. Iodine spreads easily, the others might have been detectable but knowledge about not been voiced out.

Until the other common isotopes popup I am leaning onto the assumption that a source of medical origins unlike the Goiânia accident or this crap http://iaea.org/newscenter/news/2013/mexicoradsource.html happened.

My level of interest equals that of an affected hobbyist. Would not call myself tech weary, everybody of us has some decent daily use of so many techy things we can hardly understand or built ourselfes. Nuclear power plants beeing amongst those, but I would hardly even vote for building such things anymore. This technology getting dumped by electric power industry by now merely because of production/maintenance costs.


The japanese imported Westinghouse powerplant designs but the bigger vessels had been Toshiba as source of origins. The scene is spread internationally, not so easy to say those or them doing maintenance work at the plant. Inside some silly heads whole of russia is glowing red from radiation, but quite the opposite is true. When someone is currently (l)using control over this technology it's more likely us.

This thread will cause trouble, I can almost sense it in the air 

Imagine the desaster if we would have been forced to share first lady pictures of Bill

Satoshi made a sound advise. And USB sticks come to the rescue, I have destroyed wallet copies on my laptop utilizing some secure delete procedure (program that first overwrites file with random garbage data) but still store them. On a crappy old stick that might still work, or might not work at all. The older sticks that got replaced with higher capacity newer ones.

On the long term the amount of accidentially lost BTCs should approach zero.

Just on the bold part: Most nodes / sites / people focused on Bitcoin are located outside of the PBoC's reach. And even inside their realm there are possibilities. So PBoC influence has been overated.

UK beeing influenced from the continent, and their own experience. You know from London Metropolitan Police those Bobby Whistles?
Maybe initially those just had been budget cuts, not handing out guns but just a whistle instead. Think Noisy Cricket weapon from Men in Black, just without any punch.

The statistics in the end round are speaking a clear language. There is no way back for the Unites States into a more peacefull statistical bottomline. The weapons are floating around out there. UK made that differenting experience and might wanna think twice.

So here is another opinion, of a user of sorts.

We don't matter. We usually follow the biggest hashrate, flabbergasted by big numbers. Whoever features moar ASICS will catch us. Plain simple.

This powerstruggle between developers, exchange site operators, miners clearly leaves out what joe public would want to experience.

There even is some morality pointing against that decision, unless Coinbase beeing your parents and you are not of age. Honestly, that looks like some moneygrab even from far away.

Sounds logical. Doing it that way, the privkey is not "gone" but instead "never even existed" in the new wallet.dat.
Maybe version 0.15.0 will get new API calls, or a patch can be supplied for the adventurous.

Some project out there stated there are more than just 1 privkey pointing at a single address. This math stuff still refutes my mind.

@AgentofCoin how can I delete/remove a privkey from a wallet.dat ?
After extraction and backup somewhere else, of course.
Seen a lot of detail documentation but never stumbled upon that API call. Using plain core wallet.