Good point. I should've rephrased that. I can imagine there are quite a few people with enough merit who will have quite a wait before the activity catches up. Mine happened right near the end of the predicted period.

And yet a couple of days ago the Uzbek government themselves issued their first exchange licence - https://napm.uz/ru/press_center/news/vydana-pervaya-litsenziya-na-osushchestvlenie-deyatelnosti-kripto-birzh/

I will guess that once you remove the worthless crypto press guessing it'll be the bog standard central bank statement saying you're on your own and a probable restriction on using it as a means of payment.

Is there anyone out there keeping notes on whether people rank up from hero to legendary faster from nothing to hero? It seems that the members who achieve it gather momentum along the way.

It was vandalised.

BY ME.

Once Xmas is gone I'll be warming up slightly so will spend a few days here.



But I have even more contempt for NYE so will be spending that in the sea shooting out diarrhoea.

Is there anywhere else like Reddit with a similar set up?

I find it almost completely hateful. It's a bastard to read through and most stuff gets lost in the mists of time even on the same day. It's one of shittest set ups I've ever come across. If you invented it today and stated you wanted a lash up like that to be one of the world's largest sites you'd be laughed at and have your tits ripped off.

If the merit system weren't in place I'd say there were enough ranks, but since it is it seems a shame there isn't one that can be reached only by properly earning it.

After all this time I think it's unfortunate the average newbie won't be able to tell the immediate difference between a self made posting genius and some mouth breathing fuckstick who posted 'nice project' once a day for 2-3 years.

I'm spending Christmas on my own here.



And I'm attacking anyone who comes near me. Fuck Santa.

If all of those are still alive, let alone relevant, in 5-10 years I'll take that as a damning indictment of crypto's stuntedness.

Play with alts by all means. Don't expect to do well, don't be sad if you lose what you put in and whatever you do don't get married to them.

Less than a week to go until HE GETS THE KEYS.

I retreated into a bunker at the start of the week and am now living entirely on nutrient gel like in the Andromeda Strain. I also killed everyone I know to save them from ruin. And everyone I came across on my way to the bunker. They'll thank me later.

Maybe much later.

If anyone came up to me and told me they were interested in BTC and the very first thing they were going to do is set up their own lightning node I'd assume they were fucking nuts.

It's not something that's crossed my mind yet and it won't for a long time, if ever. I haven't seen anything yet to convince me. And no one is billing it as anything other than an outlier with a potential future at present.

Using bog standard tools and the most high profile and safe services is no harder than online banking. The security aspect certainly isn't but there's enough dayglo advice about that too.

The first serious derivative salvo arrived just at the death of the last bubble and since then it's been a steady decline into poo soup.

She's right to raise the possibility. That's unquestionably where most of the 'institutional investors' will prefer to go, but everything flies out the window if there's proper a bubble on or the sniff of one.

We need all this new guff to be present for another 2-3 complete cycles before its effects can be properly analysed. Until then it's just groping in the dark.

If the price goes north I'll be eschewing clothing completely along with my own skin in favour of a full suit of carbon ceramic armour provided by insane North Koreans. It'll also be infused with Micro LEDs which screen a rotating display from Google photos of my various day trips to places like Cleethopes and Solihull. Should be exciting.

I'm out.

Much of my clothing was bought in the 1990s. It's a damning indictment of 'fashion' that I don't look any different to anyone else strolling around 20something years on. Pathetic.

These tweets line up rather nicely with the medium article published on the previous page about their shittiness - https://twitter.com/Raindropactual/status/1208241130342629376

Putting alt markets 'in maintenance' at the same time as increased withdrawal demands doesn't inspire confidence either.

I find it interesting that people always favour the fictional money option and hardly ever consider the front running option.

Exchanges know exactly how much everyone has and have complete control over the rapidity of the execution of their moves. It would be a breeze for them to upend countless trades in their favour.

Dicing with non existent money has the capacity to kill them off if things take a turn for the worst. Simply mangling the trades of their customers can continue indefinitely with no risk at all.

If such a meltdown were to happen in 5-10 years from now I'd be much less certain about Bitcoin's prospects - in a good way. If it happens soon it's on a toast express to hell like everything else.

We've been in uncharted waters for so long with so many bizarro interventions from the monetary people it's impossible to know what's going to happen with this cycle and when it'll go officially sour.

I'm nauseated at such brazen attempts to spread good cheer at such a cloying time of year.

Santa does not exist. You will all receive one, rotting, orange and nothing else. You grannies will have a 'fall' on your Xmas walk and will develop that hip infection that they can never again shake off.

Luckily I have decamped to the tribal regions of Pakistan to avoid all of it and now have rather bigger problems to address.  

The perfect time to sell is when there is nothing but euphoria flowing. That's when you know it's riding for a fall.

Since there hasn't been a sign of euphoria for several years and you've been waiting several years why would you consider it now?

There may come a time where mixed coins will be regarded with suspicion precisely because their fungibility has been restored.

Already happening albeit forced on them by their regulator - https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-returns-frozen-btc-after-user-promises-not-to-use-coinjoin

And I have no doubt that many a privacy coin will be given the boot from exchanges as condition of staying open.

I've noticed no one in this thread has taken into account the wider economy. If there's a genuine and prolonged shit I don't see a bright future for Bitcoin's price for a lengthy time. Since its birth BTC has existed in world markets that have had a near unbroken cruise upwards. If that undergoes a fundamental change then every expectation may get binned.