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I was not aware of the Byteball wallet on Cyptopia being offline. How long has it been offline already? I have bytes parked there from a lot of time but of course I too would withdraw them before March.

Did you really hope to be more lucky than others? LoL  Most of us will now raise in rank much slower than before, but this is the price to pay to keep this forum a place where it still makes sense to go. The demographic explosion of accounts and shitposting would have killed this forum in another year or less. The new rules will not stop shitposting, but at least they will not reward it - and this is a sensible progress in the ecology of this forum.

Such a pity that the account of the top developer of BTX has been hacked. Is there no way to get back your account in such cases? Especially if you are the main dev of an important coin like BTX it really sucks if such a recognizable point of reference gets obliterated.

This is indeed a very smart remark. The only difference is that there is still only one World Wide Web while there are already thousands of cryptocurrencies - so perhaps I would use the word cryptocurrencies instead of Bitcoin. Bitcoin may disappear one day, but cryptocurrencies won't.

Let's say that the best moment to buy it is for sure not when it is ATH. So december was not a good moment. Now the best moment is approaching, as Bitcoin in correcting and looking for its bottom.  To try to catch a falling knife has its own risks, of course, you just have to try to catch the bottom.

In the mind and in the wallets of someone it surely has already replaced gold. But generally speaking and long term there is no way it will replace gold ever IMO.

Legally Bitcoin is not money, at least not in 99% of the world. Practically, if it ever was it has stopped to be when it has become an asset, a store of value.

I would rephrase the OP like that:

"That moment when you buy 1BTC at $2500, and then 7 months later later someone buys it at $20000."

Your formulation had the wrong time-frame and one zero was missing from the final sum

A dating topic where crypto enthusiasts could look for their crypto-matches in the off-topic category would be quite funny, if the likely disproportion between males and females were not so big.

Lucky you who is having fun. I was having fun with this swings too when the value of my assets was laughable, and I would have fun too if its value would be so high that I'd be rich anyway. But these days when I look on my blockfolio I'm rich, and the next day I am not rich at all - when your find yourself in the threshold between relatively rich and relatively poor, it is NOT funny.

This is a very smart way to look at it. I share the same positive view on Bancor, and for the exact same reasons, but you have phrased is in a very cool way, worth remembering.

The price in dollar had already rises over last year's ATH, before the current correction (which is affecting most coins these days). I am rather sure also the price in BTC will at some point, and in a not too distant future.

What has the Temple coin post about bonus tokens have to do with Ankorus? Is it only a sort of spam? (just to get things straight)

I am planning to update it soon, especially after your remark And it is good to see the adoption base rising week after week, the rise of the people applying for the airdrop is telling us so.

The ICO has finished already two months ago but it seems the bounties have not been paid yet... am I right?

Once we have established that merit sent to these old posts would be totally useless for the finality the merits have been created for, let's agree on the fact that this list has a great historic value and the fact of listing all these posts in one place makes that/this place a sort of museum which has a value by its own. For example I was very happy to find this list in one place - I knew many of those posts, but not all of them, so I have really enjoyed my little visit in this BCT museum, not to speak of course of the nice Clash of Legendaries - the aftershow which has then followed the OP

I have just given a look and the first post which caught my attention because it got 10 merits is this one:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=857670.msg29273301#msg29273301

Hm, left me quite speechless. So I've checked further and the next big deal was this 50 merits post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=857670.msg29212439#msg29212439

Ouch! I went on with the next two digit merit - 10 merits for this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2047435.msg29272347#msg29272347

Well, you can judge it yourself. I find it totally average. Let's see the next two digit post is a 10 merits + 10 merits post:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.msg29262972#msg29262972

Ahem...

At which point I gave it up.

Conclusion: I am still optimist about the new system, because at some point people will run out of zMerits and people who make a bad use of them will not become merit sources for sure. But will the merit sources be able to keep the merit flowing? Will they be enough? That's the next big question and challenge.

The 10K support is under stress right now, BTC made a dip below just one hour ago or so. Big war between bulls and bears. I guess this could be one of the important battles to discover which will be our near term destiny.

I am starting to think if this thread would leak to mainstream press I would well imagine a huge polemics about Bitcoin being a sexist environment discriminating women, is spite of the fact that the absence of any authority in this community makes it completely free for people of whatever sex to be part of the community or not - and nevertheless women are close to absent here. My guess is that the Western society now is not really able to handle the implications of this fact.