Yesssss.

This shit has been purely science fiction since its inception. Black hats, white hats, wielding money at each other via computer code. All while summoning child programs from parent programs with hard and soft forks looming. Sheer fucking madness.

So now I'm along for the ride.

Honestly, ID pick one of these, the ETC or the ETH. It's gonna be a gamble man, but if you pick this binary right, I think you will most likely profit at the end of all this.

I'm team #ETC. I figure miner profit motivation will keep ETC around a little longer than we expect. And if they try to attack the chain, I can pretty much assure you some group is going to take offense and spring to defense.

The more people concern themselves, the more I will most likely profit.

Any investment in ETC is speculative at best, at the moment. This thing is so in flux now, that even if you care about the coin, the uncertainty makes the risk completely over the too. I'm holding a few ETC at the moment (less than ten), and it's purely a gamble. I may be better off simply flipping a coin. But I have a hunch I intended to follow.

Agree. The liquidity provided by the two other exchanges with probably make the price dip a bit, but I don't know, I think the people are embracing the unmolested chain for ideological reasons, and most importantly, because the difficulty is shit right now on ETC. Easy to mine, and people are.buying it? We will see how this turns out  

Who could have possibly called this? And for the love of God, please someine make this a book.

Source? Seems like this would be shooting himself in the foot, and the guy is obviously a competent trader, that short was a work of art. Why would he supress the price of an asset he is a major holder of, when there is an obvious uptrend in progress? And what books would he even dump on? Polo? I think they would see the incoming deposit and figure out who it is.

So now this this drama has to be one of the zestiest things that has happened in crypto in a while. I'm intrigued, and finally, I'm purchasing. I have a feeling this ETC/ETH thing is going to play out in a very interesting way.


Gox wasn't even this juicy. Hell, GAW didn't have shit on this.

Every other alt except the top 5 or so. It's not hate, it's just getting complicated with all these essentially identical but differently named assets floating around. I wish people would issue tokens instead of whole coins when they get the itch to field one of these..

But there is always inherent risk in accepting 0 confirmation transactions as proof of payment, there is always the possibility of double spend. But, I admit it would be hard to launch a double spend attack while checking out at a register.

Well, how ETH rebounded back should be a teaching moment for btc. This was the best marketing, besides NEOBEE, that has happened in this space so far. If bitcoin focused a little more on people, instead of technology, we would be much better off. A lot of people still don't know what a bitcoin is.

Fuck the bullshit. I like that, carry on.

Here we are quite some time later. Have we still not had a single shred of mainstream media about this? I have seen more about Karpales recently than I have this.

But please, make sure to pay your taxes (if your country requires it, most do). It seems like the taxation is the vector a government is most likely to harass a bitcoin user with, along with regulation (you don't have a license).

For the record, in the  States bitcoin is considered a commodity. Unless it is proceeds from an illegal activity, they are perfectly legal to possess and distribute.

Now, not paying taxes is another thing..

Terms of service usually dictate that a platform has this option, so I wouldn't be surprised at this. I'm glad they aren't denying you access to your funds, and that means you probably weren't doing anything illegal, just something they don't like. Lesson learned, manage your own wallets offline, and use wallets that only you hold the keys to.

Take this to Reddit if they keep ignoring you. They are sensitive about their brand; someone will come out of the woodwork to respond.

That we have invested so much specifically into bitcoin at this point, it seems to me some of these alts are kind of shooting the ecosystem in the foot. They are novel ideas, but the money they take out of the equation would be better spent fixing holes in the parent technology, bitcoin.

Ability to quickly move money with a few clicks.

Ability to participate in trading markets without account minimums or extensive verification.

The ability to divide my funds into different accounts without a lengthy new account creation process.

The ability to speculate against an asset with extreme volatility, but general upward growth.

And to top it all off, it's cool as shit. It's science fiction, people.

There is no limit to acquisition. When I earn more money than I can spend in a lifetime, and my children's lifetimes, and possibly those of their children as well, after that, you earn for those that need. Put that energy in a charity. You can amass that same value for others outside your circle, and improve life for people that might need a little help. Or whatever charitable endeavor you deem worth it. You could save the whales if you feel they need saving (they'll be alright).

And this is why, since they got their exchange up and running, I'm optimistic for the future of btc. They have reputations in finance that precede this bitcoin thing, for them to go all in (apparently with the blessings of experts) is a good thing. Also, they attract more of traditional finance to the party, which is the opposite of a problem.

Was a decentralized currency. The mining (or how it has become a monopoly) is now the point of centralization. If China stopped mining collectively (thought exercise, bear with me) the network would be crippled with congestion. That sounds like a form of control to me.

Coinbase should be fine for this. They don't seem to charge a fee, and I've been paid faucet earnings via coinbase (not a direct receive to wallet, the email to email thing.) You could also consider having them make a coinbase account. Pretty quick, and you know you'll be able to pay them with minimal fees.

Specifically that pay in bitcoin, or period? The ones that pay in bitcoin are always bitcoin related, and subsequently slim Pickens. General freelance work is available on (of course) freelancer.com, upwork, and people per hour. Mturk is kind of freelance, but meh, it's a headache.

You can always post your resume on the forum, but, they will ignore the shit right out of it.