As long as there is nothing around that clearly trumps Bitcoin, I do not foresee it wither away, whether going to $2,500 or $500 short term. Transferring 'value' over the Internet is simply to powerful to go away soon. This will not be uninvented and left for death.

Don't bother to register at Nova currently: registration is still blocked.

I am no technician but I have the impression that the tx/s performance is for the large part based on having less decentralisation in the network. Tier 1 nodes doing a lot of the heavy lifting (let's say, 20 of them) and then Tier 2 being regular folks like us with regular hardware.

In the end, this is just a trade off chosen differently, and not something fundamentally 'better' than ETH. Just a different choice. The market will decide what is preferred.

Nope, no '2013 bubble' yet.

Got it and upvoted.

I expect a barrage of new Wallpapers tomorrow, when divinity strikes again 

Other large ICOs are going under initial ICO price as well (see EOS, although that ICO is still running). I guess this is normal when doing an ICO without having software released already.

For now, that seems the most probable scenario to me.

I am not that worried. The fact that Bitcoin is open source and can be cloned is not a liability but an asset. So if Bitcoin fails - in the end - there will be others. Lotsa lotsa others. A different take on the mantra unstoppable.

I tend to see the role of bitcoin in the future as a reference value, not so much a transaction currency or something that will completely displace fiat currency.

The simple essence is the following:

*we know the current financial system is untenable
*we know the enormous debts will never be paid
*we know the debt must increase to avoid collapse
*we know 'infinite debt' does not exist

Bitcoin just has to represent an alternative. That will be enough to succeed.

From a technical perspective, I am much more interested in smart contracts and decentralised 'computer networks' (like Ethereum and EOS). That is what businesses are looking at.

It makes no sense to quote the entire start post. But welcome

I am sensing some strong convictions about what freedom should be all about.

But when people talk about money, brains hasten out of the back door into the woods, never to be seen again in the conversation, and everything that is considered a given and completely normal in real life, is suddenly turned upside down.

Wouldn't it be an idea to have an option in the wallet that upon a payment out, the 'change address' is the original Byteball address that is used for linking in the airdrops? That would avoid people missing airdrops without their knowledge and would make it easier for people to use Byteball more for small transactions, without running into trouble with future airdrops.

Coins like DeepOnion offer this functionality in the wallet software.

"But good lord, what we started."

The concerns about people doing ICOs seem small in terms of what the broader perspective is. An change in how we, humanity, trade value and organise one of our most important binding elements in society, our currency. But the guy cries about ICOs  

But perhaps I am mistaken and have not understood his concerns correctly.

How many large balances are dormant (and perhaps abandoned)? This graph does not mean much to me.

There should be some people receiving coins today. I assume the dev has coded a kind of mass payment script now to cover bases.

This.

Enjoy the ride 

Page does not exist?

How did you make those prints (pictures) of those Steemit articles?

The barrage of new DeepOnion pictures and wallpapers is killing me. Very well done, gentlemen, very well done.

Did you check yourself?

Virustotal.com showed only one single hit (so probably save to ignore).