There has been like a billion USD traded on bitfinex in the last 24 hours. Mostly the BTC-BCH pair. Those maybe the reason behind the backlog of unconfirmed transactions.
The miners must be holding a lot of BTC. I don't think they'll let their hard-earned investment go to waste just because BCH is rising. There's space for them both.

That is a pretty good test actually..I'll start doing that too..
In my defense, I got to know about bitcointalk.org thanks to clicking on the blocklancer ICO link somewhere. They wanted you to post on BCT some code to tell them that you are in..Invested my first few ETH in that.
Have that to thank them for getting me onto bitcointalk if nothing else really..


Examples and Evidence sounds useful. That way one can get to explore more about a topic that looks interesting but has been debated to death..Thank you!

I have been on the bitcoin forum for almost 4 months now. Much of the initial 2 months were spent in reading through the posts and I reached the Jr. Member level. The incentive to level-up fast is pretty good because of the Signature & Bounty campaigns. Due to this we have all seen the kind of spam activity that many members use to level up their accounts fast.

I too have an incentive to do that because not all of us were lucky enough to get into BTC in the early days. I have bought some BTC but these campaigns are one of the ways for those on a learning cycle to benefit. It becomes difficult to comment on any topics because almost all the posts already have like 800 posts. I am looking to ask the experienced members that how to avoid spam activity and what are the benefits of slow organic growth rather than the viral one?

1. I see a topic with 100 pages of posts. I know i want to say something about it but it feels like almost everything relevant is said and done in the first few pages itself. . One of the posting guidelines says that if you've nothing new to add then don't. What to do in such a case? Refrain or go for expressing your thought?

2. I know Signature campaigns are kindda frowned upon by some of the experienced members for the flurry of "Hey, joined" "Great Luck", "Jingle Bells" kind of posts on them. But some people do want to keep it better and not everyone in Sig campaigns support that. What are your honest thoughts on that? How strong is the prejudice?

3. Do the mods think that these groups will self-moderate or their is a need to enforce certain guidelines? Or is it still just early days of adoption to do this?

Lastly, I just wanted to say that the scholarship and idealism of the early days has slightly drowned out in the din but the work the early adopters have done is huge and I am sure it will sustain itself. Maybe force more of us to raise our standards.

The cycle creates wealth only for a niche group of investors who either know the symptoms of an impending crash or outright insider information. I know that their strict regulations against it but hugely doubt that people don't benefit from it. Not everybody gets caught right.

So, this group of niche investors, traders make their money before the crash and stock up cheap as a majority of small investors then sell at a loss. How else could you explain traders getting richer and richer, getting higher bonuses while most people keep losing their savings. Its money and it has to be a zero-sum game. Sure some of the common folks profit from it but i think the majority loses in the short term.

Stocks go up for common people only in the long term and then the returns aren't that great when adjusted to inflation. It works pretty well i think, trickle down economics. The smaller people only get the trickle..!

Was there a time before the mining boom that these cards were reasonably priced or are these like so high end that these prices are normal?
I am pretty sure that 1070ti is listed for upwards of 50K at amazon and the 1080ti goes upto something like 80000!!

that'd make a 120 MH/s rig to cost upwards of 3 Lacs!!

Any cheaper alternatives that you guys know of, please let me know too..Afterall, its all about insider trading and information in the crytpo world right now..

Learn about bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Get your post coin up. Research a new coin and put up their Sig once you are a Jr. Member. Write a few articles.
I am sure you'll make much more than just 0.004 BTC back that way. Good Luck..

You can't call this spam after seeing the flood of "Wow, Great project Sir. I see lot of potential. It will be great successful. Good Luck!!"

To your original question, I don't know why nobody mentioned ALLOY ICO. They are an India based startup and are planning an ICO as they migrate to blockchain.

Eagerly waiting for this @Bonesoul. A normal user would need to have some programming experience for this or they can use it directly. In any case, this is really interesting.
How and when do you plan to release it?

This is a pretty solid reason to not go for the block-size increase. Is there somewhere one can find proof to this. Like the work involved in syncing blocks and time a typical computer would take for that.
This way, we can know what hardware acceleration will support or be necessary to allow and increase in the block-size without these issues.

There are hundred of scams with similar sounding names and techniques. So you have to understand the skepticism.The onus to prove being genuine lies upon you. I am sorry but there is nothing in your posts yet except smooth talk.
You are basically asking people to send 0.01 BTC to some place and wait for 12 months for returns. What is the validity of the "Member Contracts" you mentioned in the original post??
Similar proposals from people with english-sounding names have been doing the rounds in India and a lot of non english-native countries. I suppose their is sufficient imperial leftover in their minds that people find an English name more legitimate.
Pardon my tone, but Its tiring to see people duping the shit out of newcomers in the crypto world.

You haven't provided any  link / attestation till now except an e-mail ID. Someone who replies personally can easily be scammed with a little smooth talk..

You can't expect people to believe you with a Newbie account? If you're legit, better to contact some respectable mods/ legendary members with good trust ratings and ask them to be your manager or something.
If this is a legit scheme you propose, then that is the best way to really gain traction. Otherwise, this reeks of a SCAM!!

Awaiting your response.

So, the bankers say that they cannot accept Bitcoin as a currency in the way it is defined by the BIS (Bank of International Settlement).

This can be seen as a clever way to lessen the potential of bitcoin/ cryptocurrencies to replace fiat and to ensure that the supremacy of central banks is maintained.
If you make it a commodity, you pay Fiat to trade in bitcoin and treat it as a good like copper, gold or petroleum. But nobody uses copper to go buy a car or buy a coffee right? Is this what they intend to do??

What do you think would be the impact if bitcoin is treated as a commodity vs a currency? I think it has reached a stage where it does matter what bank/ regulatory authorities say about bitcoin.
https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/south-koreas-central-bank-chief-bitcoin-commodity-not-currency/

I am really sorry for your loss. It sucks that new people lose money like this. Also, if you are from India, Please warn yourself and others you know about the scams being perpetrated in the name of MCAP token and Bitcoingrowthfund.
Their dubious history can be seen in this post in the India forum:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1440600.0

Now that you are on bitcointalk, no scam should be able to get you but please educate other you know about. Its a technology with so much potential but unfortunately, its mainly being used for perpetrating scams in our country.

These are the few early addresses:
1BBz9Z15YpELQ4QP5sEKb1SwxkcmPb5TMs contains 11 out of the 32 (Not touched since 14-01-2009)
1BDvQZjaAJH4ecZ8aL3fYgTi7rnn3o2thE contains 1 out of 32 ( Not touched since 12-01-2009)
1DUDsfc23Dv9sPMEk5RsrtfzCw5ofi5sVW contains 10 out of 32 ( Not touched since 12-01-2009)

Here's a link to an awesome topic about Satoshi's and Hal Finney's first transaction: (You'll have to scroll up as the link i found from my post history will only take you to my post)

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2346992.0

EDIT: Corrected the link to point to the actual post rather than my message, now that i know how to do it..

This maybe completely irrelevant to the original topic but the "waiting for the dump" strategy never works. It never goes down long enough to time it. Now the dips will be much harder to time because of the futures trading announcement. So, the best way is to fix some amount per month. Divide it in a total of 8 days for 2 days/ week.
Buy that whenever there is a dip. Of course put some buy orders at coinbase and other exchanges if you're in the US and can afford to lock that money.
Finally, Hail Satoshi. That must have been some man to leave those BTC untouched all this while and be completely anonymous. We'll never know.

They can start anytime i guess. There are a lot of mega holders who I guess do spend them. The problem is till it has not reached some sort of peak and plateaued out, the cost in spending it right now is too much. That is what bitcoin has taught HODLers time and time again.

Those who adopted early and got 100s of them free can talk about it being a currency and some sort of harbinger of revolutions but what about the people who got in at say 2000$, 3000$ and even now getting in at ~8000$. These people are doing it in the hope that it'll hit 100,000$.

They will possibly never spend it for real-world products. For ETH and some other crypto, maybe yes, but highly unlikely to buy a coffee or pizza. (never pizza of course// )

I have decided to use Electrum. Its easy to install and you won't need to download the blockchain.

It provides easy options to save your private keys in JSON or CSV format. The files would be safer if you copy them and keep in an offline media.



Delete them from your PC once exported and keep in mulitple offline places. 2 cheap USB drives and writing a CD just in case should be enough.

The Mother of all FUDs going on in the form of S2X and a futures price of 1000 USD for S2X. Core has tried to warn about deficiencies of S2X to everyone but everyone wants their free coin and don't want to lose up on the potential next bitcoin.
So buying spree of BTC and BCH..leaving everything in dust!!

You probably know this but It'll be great if some original devs come back to the project, and fast. The whole business about anonymizing transactions has been giving headache to people and some of the recent coins already have plans to use SuperSend as DeepSend. Its the DeepOnion Coin that I am talking about.
There is a lot of people already who know about Supercoin through Deeponion.

Now i feel bad about my post. It feels unnecessarily sensationalized. I apologize.. Just wasted that time to navigate and come to a stupid conclusion. Hope everyone in the family isl doing good.