No, this is what some foolish governments do to their fiat, its called (dirty) floating bands, and it doesn't work. You shouldn't fear the market, this is Bitcoin not some little altcoin, it cannot be crashed anymore, no matter how much and how hard you dump, others will flock to buy it at those cheap prices even faster, because bitcoin is that valuable to people (that even countries are putting their reserves into).

An Austrian economist would tell you: The best thing to do (regarding intervening), is do nothing. Let them do whatever they please. Its their lose and our gain. Don't fear the free market embrace it.

Oh, and such thing as "whale alerts" do exist, i have seen it in Telegram and some other social media (Twitter?). There are bots constantly monitoring the blockchain to give out those alerts.

As far as Bitcoin is concerned, whatever people are willing to give or not for it, none of its concern. The code has nothing to do with what arbitrary price the  market assigns bitcoin. This is remarkable, and even more reason to make it valuable.

In fact, your suggestion would subtract value. Why would Bitcoin be tied to whatever non bitcoin thing there is? This is outside Bitcoin realm. Also think, just what is much, what is little? In the beginning 10k BTC bought two pizzas, that would be considered a whale movement today, you expect the code to distinguish between now and then, exactly how?

Well it was about time. This will set an example, perhaps more countries will follow.

I'm not sure how they will count those reserves (against fiat or commodity), but one thing is clear, if they are used as such (ie. never) just by holding they are going to multiply its equivalent value over the years.

At the same time it is far easier to keep them safe, if they do their homework, and make a multi sign wallet and keep the seed words very well protected.

No matter how many tons of gold, a little piece of paper can hold as much or even more value. It is easier to secure a protect that sheet in a bank vault than tons and tons of ingots (but those are heavy to move).

What other countries have reserves in bitcoin, and in what approximate amounts? I think this deserves a section in the Bitcoin wiki.

Actually no, politicians are incredibly stupid. Someone will be blatantly making mistakes and be arrested, and they will make an example of him and how wise of them was to adopt that policy...

But yes you have to be very low profile, preferably avoid fellow Indians regarding that matter entirely. When you sell your bitcoins and when they deposit into your bank account they can fake the comment field with things like, service fee, or debt payment, for repair bill, handy work, etc.

As for electricity, yes, its possible to hide a miner or two, IF you have something that consumes a similar amount, such as an air conditioner you never actually use. But nothing even remotely resembling a farm.

That's not even the name of the place, but why bother. In the cold war they had the SR-71 stationed there, of course its of limits, its a military base with classified stuff. You can learn about it online if you stick to the real stuff and ignore the myths.

They are probably still using it for testing experimental aircraft and weapons.

Must be that neighbor business in Belize. That guy lives in infamy, his life is very strange. I don't even know if he likes it that way, its best to ignore him...

No i would hold it for as long as possible, only to be used for something that can produce even more money (investment), and even then, only a part of it.
I know for many here 10k doesn't sound like much, but in my country it takes a full time worker more than 2000 (5+ years) days to earn that much, if food and expenses were magically free (they are not).

Bitcoin has a good chance to become world's currency, and overcome all its opposition. It comes with tremendous inertia, it simply cannot be stopped overnight after 10 years of energy being put to it.

For a true contender to challenge it, it would need first to overcome all the other altcoins. No altcoin has kept the first place among themselves for long.

Such contender has to be a better Bitcoin, not a worse Bitcoin. this is difficult as Bitcoin itself can, and has been improved (albeit slowly) over time. Also Bitcoin does have a big prestige, no altcoin or even Bitcoin wannabes have managed to snatch for themselves, no matter how much money they invest.

As any other Free open-source software project, it IS possible for a better alternative to emerge, but it still hasn't happened, or has failed to convince the market.

After 10 years it is clear to me that Bitcoin remains reigning supreme.

Something like this?

That's rather silly. What destroying? You must never print, scan, take pic, or digital copy (ctrl c) the seed words, ever. As for "USB", if you used a live distro from a dvd, there is no writing anywhere, if you are ultra paranoid. But booting an iso from an usb stick usually won't write to it unless you made the persistence thing or some extra partition.

Keeping the seed words you wrote with your own hands in a piece of paper secure is the most critical part. People should not be handling private keys directly for various reasons, which is why the old concept of paper wallet should be avoided. Just store and protect those seed words, nothing else matters.

The process is identical for 1 satoshi or thousands of bitcoin. Practice with a satoshi and when you are confident do it with your fortune.

Indeed no one knows the peak until after the fact, otherwise all traders would be rich, but in reality only about 10% manage to hit it right...

Obviously the peak is a point where it didn't go further and then started going down. Doesn't matter if there are other peaks later, of lesser or greater magnitude. Just like mountains, each have their own peak, regardless of other mountains being taller or smaller.

Since you stopped at 52 lets assume 50 comes next, then 40, etc. 52 was the peak in that period. Doesn't matter if later goes back up to 60, that's yet another peak if it doesn't go further up.

So its just a way for naming an event after the fact. There are also valleys...

Exactly, and his little "threat" to the community will end, the sooner the better. Get lost Wright, burn it all in your altcoin, what could possibly go wrong? Ask your colleague Jihan Wu...

What would be the consequences in the region of Erdogan passing away? Who is next in line? And who would benefit most with him going away?

KyoAni is a very good studio, I'm familiar with some of their work (Ie. K-On). Its a shame security was so lacking, because in Japan crime is so rare they don't think too much about it until it happens (and yet its still rare).

Also something could be said about the building poor design regarding fire prevention and escape.

This type of thing, arsonist and many deaths must have shocked Japan, regardless of place and motive.

Not in your wallet, not in your control. Any type of online wallet, including that of exchanges, puts your money at risk. Its the same as a bank, you trust a third party for them to keep your money safe...

This is one reason why holding is so much easier, but you can potentially make more by trading it in the exchange. Its a matter of risk...

Japan has plenty of regulations for exchanges, but i guess that is still not good enough...

Why would they find out the use of a mixer? You might as well just exchange it with monero or such and back using a decentralized exchange...

You mine to a pool, the pool doesn't know your real IP address if you use something like tor as router for your miners. It pays to your address which is controlled using an spv wallet also connected via tor. Once you decide to sell, move the exact amount to another address and send from this address once, and only ONCE, always via tor; preferably from pc running Tails (which bundles tor by default) or similar live linux image.

This is very useful, and it shows my lack of knowledge of the SMF bbcode dialect. Online i found a solution involving a zero width space which i tried once on this forum, it works but some moderator didn't like it. [nobbc] is cleaner, thanks.

I found by myself about nesting lists, but its good to know how to make them display numbers with the type=decimal attribute.

Hardly, you are giving too much weight to American holders. It is known that in this world the most holders live in China. If all Americans sold their Bitcoin, it would temporarily go down as you say, but never nowhere near $50. I doubt an American dump is able to manipulate the price beyond a few thousand.

If Trump does the same to Bitcoin, the net would route around it, exactly as designed. We are here in this very forum telling people in India how things would work in that case, USA is no different, same thing would apply: Use Tor, and be proud its an US Navy project, God Bless America.

Always carry a dvd or thumb drive to boot Tails from in any computer you use, and you will be much safer this way. Especially important when handling money, or cold (paper) wallet creation/handling.

Proof that Bitcoin is already worth more than Facebook. Zuckerberg would do well to give up on that useless Libra thing already...

At least OP made an account, i only lurked, but didn't pay enough attention...

I think there is a small chance MtGox people get paid after all these years, would explain the recent offerings...

Well the fear is quantum computers can crack classic crypto, but there is a catch: There will be quantum crypto, so things go back to the same again. There is a transitional moment where a select few would have the massive early quantum computers (remember the old computers) but as with everything, technology gets mass produced and cheaper and will find its way to everyone's hand, and at that point quantum crypto will be common.

In the meantime there ARE quantum resistant crypto algorithms, and one of those is proposed for soft-forking Bitcoin way before this ever becomes an issue.

More than "replacing" i think quantum will become an add on, i think at some point there will be quantum co-processors available. There are things general computing can do better than quantum, and vice-versa. I imagine a century later the same cpu will have both things integrated.

Right now a 7qubit computer is several stories tall so, no, not quite there yet

But there are reported experiments with around 50qubits, a general quantum computer is yet to be built (publicly). I can imagine the NSA will build and operate one secretly so they can spy everyone's encrypted communications for a while until the technology reaches the masses. So its back to a 60ies style era where the State (and others) can and will spy on you until computers got good and small enough for common people to use cryptography.