Majority of users here speak English, and in main board you should speak English or use local boards:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=16.0 (German)


better.
this means since your fee was lower than others your transaction has fallen out of the mempool which means bitcoin Nodes have forgotten about your transaction.

your bitcoin is back in your wallet and you can spend it again now. this time make sure to include a higher fee.

see this site for information about fees: http://bitcoinfees.21.co

these "chapters" aren't necessarily determined based on the price. it is mostly based on the news and all the other things that are going on with bitcoin.
for example the next "chapter" can be when the ETF's fate is finally clear. or the next chapter can be when something changes about the block size. in any case the rise is going to continue but slowly without these things.

most of what you said has nothing to do with ETF then why did you put it in the title!


that may have been one of their reasons but the main reason for what Chinese authorities did is to regulate these exchanges and start fighting money laundering.


i am always a long term holder, these ups and downs you see and get excited (such as 14%) are too small for me. i am holding bitcoin for prices that are going to happen in a couple of years.
but right now i also sometimes do some short trading to take advantage of super volatility when it is happening. which for me it means selling after a spike and buy back more coins after a calm down.

the notion of ATH is a bit lost to me, we are already at the All Time Highs withing $20 more because the last time price was this high we were experiencing a bubble and for me the real price of these days is always the All Time High not only because i wasn't around back then but also because this is a genuine price and can not go down.

why do you keep repeating developers, they are just developing the code, it is up to the users and miners to adopt that code. and right now we are waiting for the miners to adopt a solution which you can follow in a website such as coin.dance to see how many of them are signalling what.

p.s. if you want to know about any of the solutions and see if it is good or bad, then read about it yourself from the code or ask someone whom you trust to explain it to you. otherwise you will get so many false information if you just read the comments around here.

the only thing you can do is to pay higher fees for the time being until this spam attack on the network is resolved otherwise you are just going to be stuck on thousands of transactions that are paying more than you.

i can't find any problem with your calculation, but i see a big problem here:


like many other hypothetical questions around here, you are making a big assumption without realizing how big and in some cases how unrealistic that sounds.

and the solution is not as hard as your calculations and assumptions.
in case bitcoin became so expensive that 1 satoshi was worth #### USD then the code can be changed with consensus and a fork to have units lower than 1 satoshi.

p.s. remember that there is no such thing as 1 bitcoin 21 million bitcoin. there is only satoshi.

litecoin price movement is so depressing sometimes when you are checking the price of LTC versus BTC (meaning 0.00358BTC in OP) but that would only work if bitcoin price was stable. because that could clearly show the movement correctly.

but litecoin price is mostly changing with USD not BTC. that is why it is best if you check the LTC/USD price like the chart in post #9 to see the real price movement and then check the BTC market. that way speculation about litecoin price becomes easier.

in short when price of bitcoin goes from $1000 to $1110 (11%) if LTC/BTC stays the same, that means litecoin also was pumped 11% and that can not happen out of nowhere.
so it goes down keeping the USD value and then rising a bit because of bitcoin.

i have had the exact same idea.
but from what i have seen in all these years, there are a couple of these guys around with some newbies wannabe like them.
the biggest ones are kwukduck and ltcbtclitecoinbitcoin and with some smaller dosage OP.

this comes from the mentality that these guys think their spam here has any significant effect. and to be honest it may have some effect but it would be only on some newbies who want to either enter with a tiny amount (less than $500) or have that tiny amount and panic sell. and in a market as big as bitcoin these newbies are nothing and their shorts will never be filled.

- that is my speculation

- buy a game on steam
- pay for my VPN subscription
- add money to my Microsoft account
- recharge my mobile
- buy something from OpenBazaar
- pay for lots of other small services
- buy giftcards that you seem to be so fund of.
- transfer money to someone else through bitcoin so that he can sell it easily all the way on the other side of the word and there is noone accepting altcoins for fiat there.

and many more that i can not think of right now (since the above are things that i have done but there are more), and none of them are possible with any of the altcoins. specially not with ETH

it is simple we need to upgrade. not just the block size but also a new upgrade to fight the spam attack. increasing the fees is not a solution to fight spam but a way to give more money to greedy miners.
this is obviously not all legit transactions! out of this 80K there is at least 50K spam transaction.


the spam transactions are no longer low fee, they actually include higher fees than normal sometimes.

when Chinese exchanges come back after 1-2 months (if the suspension is not expanded) they will come back to $1300 at least and that means they have missed a lot of chance to buy bitcoin and join in the rise and if the rules are not changed they will join and price can even go higher.

but it is also worth mentioning that Chinese are still buying bitcoin with even more persistance. you can check out the volume on any other place than OkCoin,... such as localbitcoins,...

it is so sad to see so many people here just saying the same boring methods of earning such as signature campaigns and faucets an gambling!! and you never see anyone saying "i have a business and i earn bitcoin on my own with the services that i provide!"

i say this because i use all of the above methods and trading but it has been some time that i am offering bitcoin exchange for local currency in my country, and since there were no other person around the business is good so far
i may even start an official exchange website integrating the local banks for depositing fiat if i can find out about legality of it here.

then continue using Paypal if you are satisfied with the chargeback it has and you are not one of the millions of people who have been scammed because of charge back of Paypal.

bitcointalk is just a platform that allows people to connect to each other and i don't think they are required to vet everyone that comes in.

just try to learn from this mistake and next time educate yourself before using something new whether it is bitcoin or any other thing you use.

well, scammers will be tagged eventually as a warning to others and worse cases i suppose they will be banned if proven.

but the solution is very simple. you use escrow!
you find someone who is trusted and tell him to hold the funds and you make the trade if it went through you tell the escrow to release the funds.
better yet, learn about "multi signature" and use a 2 out of 3 signature with the escrow. in short, that means 2 out of 3 person should sign the transaction for it to go through, it can be either escrow and seller or escrow and buyer, that way you don't have to put any trust on escrow either.

as long as manipulators exist in the world dumps will exist too, the size of the dump will shrink though, as the number of panic sellers shrink since they are the ones who snow-ball the dump to the ground not the real initial dump.

i am sorry to hear about your loss but trust system is put there for people like you to read: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust;u=926839

it is even written in red so you can't miss it. when opening the trust it says USE ESCROW

also why did you even trust an unknown random person on the internet and send your money to him without knowing who he is, what kind of history he had, or whether or not he is trusted?

the biggest problem in arbitrage trading is always going to be the price difference and the fees involved with the process of doing this type of trading.
and it is very easy to calculate these things too.
just open up an excel spreadsheet and put in the price of first an second exchange for buy and sell bitcoin and also check out their fees and include those too. then make the trade in excel with numbers and see the final result.

why else do you think many are talking about KMD? if it was pre-pump and was getting ready for the moon, you wouldn't have heard a sound out of anyone about it.

topics like this will always attract this type of answers. people buy into the pump and then start talking about it so maybe they can either make more profit or can dump their coins at the price they bought at so they can get out.

some people want their names to be written in the history and not everyone can be a hero, we need jesters and idiots too. and this is one of the examples of the second group. Mike Hearn is now a part of history as an idiot who was butthurt and spread some FUD.

it is one year later from that article and it will soon be 10 years and we will still be laughing at him. some of us not and some others will understand and laugh later.

China has lost their share of the market since their exchanges went out of the scene and they no longer are relevant to bitcoin price. we may see some random FUD here and there but no more inspections, suspension,.... can affect bitcoin price as big as they used to.

besides, if you really think about it with some logic. no amount of inspection or even disabling of exchanges can stop bitcoin price from going up, because as we can evidently see, people will continue buying bitcoin even if it means going to a back alley and exchanging bitcoin with cash as they are currently doing in China and on localbitcoins.