The fact that something breaks every time there's a strong movement tells me that the Bitcoin ecosystem has a bit of growing up to do. I'm just glad bitcointalk is still running.
Yep. Bitcointalk only breaks when someone hacks in and steals all our passwords. |
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Weak Steam Summer Sale -> Excess fiat floating around  |
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Some of us long time holders have been hanging out in the bunker for a while now.  |
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Come on Bitcoin, daddy needs a new pair of shoes.
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Sick and tired of the 230s.
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If the price has stopped collapsing I guess I shouldn't complain, but a lot of the companies that have seen investment the last couple of years (not all) have products that are sensitive to sudden and massive falls in price. Which is why I would have thought that some of the people who invested in the industry would want to invest in a stabilization fund to keep the prices from hitting the customers of the businesses they have invested in over the head. I know a lot of people think that this is against the free unregulated nature of Bitcoin, but if it is free and unregulated it shouldn't be a problem to do something like that as well.
Ask Norman Lamont about trying to stabilize a currency... Or are you actually George Soros? |
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Worst time to buy.
Do you know what "worst" means ? If so, then why was when the price was above 1k a better time to buy ? Above 1 k was THE worst time to buy, obviously. Not for long. Choo choo. (In truth, could be another 12 months). |
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Legal documents and 'official' certificates now look like some kind of hokey toys or historical artifacts lacking relevance in the e-world, hard to take them seriously after seeing how much BS backs up the broken legal/political system behind them versus a digitally-signed notarised hashed-into-blockchain permanence. Doesn't even have that fancy anti-counterfeit measures that modern government documents tend to have. Looks like someone knocked it out on their HP inkjet. |
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Most games today can only be used online. you cant pirate them anymore  You'd be surprised. Personally, I just wait for Steam sales but those crackers get pretty smart with cutting verification code out of games. |
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Having trouble with the blockchain.info wallet app for Android.
Was trying to get a friend into Bitcoin. He is on Iphone so I had him download the Blockchain app. He was having trouble so I downloaded the app for Android so I could try and guide him from seeing what was going on at my end.
After downloading the app, it asked me to put in a PIN. No problem, I used a pin I frequently use for insecure things. I had to re-enter the PIN a few times so I know it had been entered correctly.
This afternoon, I wanted to use the Bitcoin merchant locator so I fired the app up. Every time I enter the pin, I get "Failed to decrypt waller". If I click on "Forgot PIN", it asks me to enter a password (which I have never set up).
I have no funds in the wallet so this is not a big deal for me. Just thought I would report this and see if anyone else had run into the same thing.
Edit: Just cleared the data for the app (This kills the wallet, of course). I'll see if it re-occurs.
Additional: Could someone provide me instructions on how to make a wallet back-up for the IOS version of the app? It seems simple enough from Android but my friend says he does not see the same menu options on his iphone.
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Any plans on adding mycelium to the Amazon App Store? I can probably try side-loading it on to a Fire Phone if the info would help.
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Is it true that instead of Bitcoin's Supernodes, LEOCoin has Hypernodes backed with Gold? Why doesn't Bitcoin have Hypernodes?  Can easily be simulated by locking three supernodes in a small sauna. |
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Wait, can we change our avatars again? |
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OMFG bring back the newbie prison already!
I'm thinking unless the new site is up soon and fantastic, jumping ship becomes more and more attractive. |
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EUR/USD$1.05!!! Parity inbound! All you Europeans, Yer-a-peein' on your currency. GBP/USD is taking a bashing too  Though GBP/EUR is relatively impressive. If only that were remotely useful to me. |
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People prefer derivatives above the real thing (because of leverage and possible additional advantages like borrowed funds)
The way I see it is that derivatives are the weapons of the bankers against the threat "bitcoin""
It will always be possible to create promissory notes and go fractional reserve with any asset. However, with Bitcoin, there is always Bitcoin at the core. If you have the private keys, you have the bitcoins and no one will be able to divest you of that value with tricky accounting or by running the presses. For those of us who take the role of evangelist, it in incumbent upon us to make it clear that these financial instruments are not Bitcoin |
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Actually i think gox was literally the case of what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Gox was pretty much THE BTC exchange, and sort of had a monopoly and could (did) even set the price. It was ironic to have one centralized exchange thus one point of failure. And it did fail, BTC price took a hit, but now we're up to what like 5 "major" exchanges, and now no one exchange failure can (stamp  ) can have such catastrophic effect...growing pains Very true. In the fiat world, Gox would have been "too big to fail", received a big bucket of taxpayer money and continued to lose its customers' money out the side-door. Instead we just pick up and move on and make things better. The way it should be. |
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Why exactly is Bitcoin rallying? Nothing has changed.
Exactly. Nothing *has* changed. In my opinion, all Bitcoin has to do to succeed is not fail. By what metric? And what do you mean when you say Bitcoin, the Software, the Community or the use as a Payment Infrastructure? Because I think it ultimately failed on the latter two accounts with The Goxxing. (or if you believe GOX the former one....) It is still here, still being traded at a decent price and still has growing infrastructure and investment. Gox was an incident but was far from Bitcoin failing. |
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