https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-put-defense-uk-parliament-blockchain-hearing/

some people being nasty about ripple in a british parliament committee today. it looks like a pretty pathetic lineup of non entities they have. the main hatemonger is some guy formerly from the R3 consortium which i didn't even realise was a thing any more.

BCH had far more proof of work for quite some time because of the broken difficulty mechanism. i didn't see a mass defection then or a zombie-like pivot when all the users realised there was more work.

most people don't understand that and certainly don't care about it.

bitcoin is the bitcoin that people decide it is. it doesn't matter about technical stats on whatever chain.

there are now millions of people who didn't get this for free. that's a whole lot more convincing that'll need to be done and it can't be done.

it looks like BCH has an increasingly interesting future.

as bitcoin? nope.

he's done a great job to convince anyone or anything that a few seconds of tapping is 'worth' more than several annual salaries. i'd love to know how many times he's been fully paid and it certainly won't be in whatever shitcoin he's told to shout about.

still, it can't do any harm for nothing but you can bet this will be botted to death.

this has to be the most worthless thread on the entire forum and that is truly, truly saying something. the mods need to put this out of its misery. it brings nothing to the table. this coin will do whatever it's gonna do regardless.

the 10k thing was stupid and it was probably a reaction to getting swamped by new users. now all the new users have fallen off it's back to milking as much as they can by other means. the elitism stops rapidly when there's no one there to look down on.

i wouldn't take it as an ominous sign. seems like a standard money hungry one to me.

quite incredibly this coin is soon on bitfinex which seems nuts to me as it hasn't even appeared on any coin listing sites like coinmarketcap as far as i can tell.

since it's on there you won't have to bother with a total hole like hitbtc.

how did this happen?

i've noticed you listed united bitcoin.

how do you manage to extract this? as far as i can tell the nice people running it stole everyone's coins and shut the window a month or two ago. i tried all sorts of different ways but in the end it looked like you had to pay them bitcoin to get it out.

as an aside bitcoininterest, whatever that is, is now on bitfinex so i'm gonna use your service to extract it to there when it's ready.

i guess they have a lot of bitcoins which breed shitcoins like crazy. if i were bitfinex i'd create shitfinex as a separate site and leave the real coins to the main one.

http://blog.bitfinex.com/announcements/bitcoininterest-support/

bitfinex has gone full shitcoin. i have no idea what they were thinking when they added this. i guess a huge payday from the creeps who made it.

everyone has a knack until they don't any more. i'm always interested in what his thoughts are but i'm not certainly not betting my kid's college fund on his calls.

ever heard the phrase - buy the rumor sell the news?

ever check this forum late last year when people were asking whether $3 XRP was a great buy?

do what you want but first question why you're desperate now and not when the price was in the doldrums. you'd be a lot richer right now.

what has your headmaster done to you?

so this phase is now concluded. really interesting to see what happens from here. i probably won't pay any attention to price for a few months, i will be interested in the general level of attention. is it gonna fall away or ignite a new bout of interest?

from my own calculations based on occasionally checking the price, i would've been better off selling several weeks ago and buying back today. i would've gotten more than double the btx i have now.

it can be over egged but it's also an understandable dislike.

let's say the current system of government was proposed to a bunch of us nomads today.

we're thinking of coming up with this new system. it'll control where you're born, how you're born and whether your parents can keep you. when you're a few years old you'll spend most of the day in a school controlled by the government that'll teach you what happened in the past and how to think.

then you're out of school and you can't just live anywhere you want. you have to live in something approved by the government. that'll be taxed by that government. if you don't pay tax on it you'll be thrown in jail.

you'll have to work to pay for it. your work will be controlled by the government. there'll be certain things they won't permit you to do and there are so many of those you may not know you're breaking the law. if they find out they might send you to jail.

it's possible while you're working that a war will start and you will be forced to fight in it. it's not your business to question why the war is happening or whether it's actually protecting your country, more than likely it isn't and it's the agenda of a few people.

you may well die during this war. if you refuse to fight in this war they might send you to jail.

if you survive you get old. in theory you paid the government a vast amount of money to look after you in your old age. in reality they squandered the money and you're probably screwed.

then you die. the government controls how your corpse is disposed of. it costs a lot of money. if someone decides to something different with it then they go to jail.
 
if i was a nomad i would fire an arrow into the asshole proposing this system and disappear into the wilds.

yep. i think that is an absolute certainty. if it's possible, then someone is gonna do it and do it as hard as they can until the money or opportunities run out. they'd be leaving money on the table otherwise and very few people here do that.

long running thread here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1558366.0


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hmm, maybe the final one?

no one's doing anything criminal as far as i can tell. there are no doubt insiders who have milked it for all it's worth. also the guys at the top who make the most have been at it the longest and built the biggest operations.

newcomers may never be able to compete, but they can try with plenty of hard work.

that's a vast figure and exactly what most people would not want to get involved with. people will automatically be forced to trust you to do the right thing with your holdings which is precisely why many left the old investment world behind and are getting increasingly disillusioned with this one.

i know you got bills to pay like everyone else, but that's gonna be a turn off for many.

other than that, let's see a cryptocurrency that has found a real world use and has formed business partnerships to exploit it. and i don't mean vague PR about something cool happening 'soon'.

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/896815063075618817

this is always an area that interests me. how far along are we? will the process be faster, slower or pivot into becoming something we haven't even thought of yet?

one thing you notice when you study both is how predictable the sea change in attitudes is. it's a very steady curve that'll gain in speed. we'll look back at the proclamations of death and 'drug money' and see that they were just as laughable the internet being killed off by a resurgent fax machine.

the thing i'm really interested to witness is this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

if that occurs, or maybe we're in the early stages of it right now, then things will become insane.

i can't remember the in and outs but the devs are holding back a big portion of the premine for their foundation to play with.

it depends on whether they think paying for a binance listing is a wise decision. i wouldn't know myself. it all seems a little murky with ongoing annual charges and they probably try and squeeze more elsewhere.

i don't understand it. they're shooting themselves in the head by not integrating it. if they are talking about adding bcash then it makes even less sense. segwit would be a lot less work for them and they have all the time in the world to add shit tokens these days.

are you in the right thread? $10 would mean byteball was heading towards fatal oblivion. the current price per unit is considerably higher than that.