Hi, Roger.

If anyone kicked off the childishness it's your fine self. His latest was 'reasoning' that Jack Dorsey was keen on Lightning Networks because he'd been boning the lass leading its efforts. That's not exactly statesmanlike.

BCH would've been way, way, way better off keeping its head down and getting on with delivering. Instead there's been no end of pumps, dumps, fucking with difficulty adjustments, and countless weasel words.

I'm sure the 'other side' has been just as pathetic, petty and complicit at times but that doesn't make Roger look any better.

Is there anything he has not lied about? It's quite astounding. I presume the people around him would pass out in surprise if a single element of any of his claimed history turned out to be true. 'Craig, are you feeling alright? Shall we call someone?'

Yeah. I find it fucking infuriating, especially if I'm looking for a specific piece of information. I do not want to have to search for several minutes through a video not knowing where it is. Written information is a multiple times faster. Maybe I'm too old to get it.

Anyway if someone wants to gorge on vids - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05dEp7goGNiKWYdiE4nurEPFMmF9XpzF which is plucked from here - https://www.lopp.net/bitcoin-information.html

The weird thing about their implementation of Zcash was that outgoing txs had to have the privacy stripped of them, but deposits didn't. Or vice versa. Overall it was a strange move on their part. For now it's a UK specific problem but it does set a probable precedent of places like this acquiescing to the whims of banks. Banks have absolute power over any fiat exchange.

Reminds me of this.



Crypto needs a first couple. Ideally I'd prefer one with less baggage but the power of love can overcome stuff like this. The beautiful thing about it is that they would both make a great little wife for each other. I'm sure they both like keeping house. 

https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-uk-dropping-support-for-cryptocurrency-zcash

Interesting that this is one country only.

I presume that Coinbase have lost their UK banking. They've removed faster payments for UK customers - https://blog.coinbase.com/temporary-change-to-gbp-bank-deposits-and-withdrawals-for-coinbase-uk-customers-d06b72630e07

This must either be a demand from their new bank, or they're desperately looking for another one and this is to kiss the botty of any bank nervous about getting involved in this area. I can well see this happening for other privacy coins in future, not that Zcash is fully that.

I find it a bit weird BNB isn't considered to be somewhere in security territory. It was launched with an ICO and its value hangs on the success of one corporation. I suppose it's not ownership of Binance as such but it's one hell of a long way from something like BTC.

Other than suicidal private sellers, nope. There used to be Virwox but I think they suspended the route they had - Paypal, Linden Dollars, Bitcoin - at the start of the year.

If you're content with price exposure rather than actual coins I think Etoro allow you to deposit funds via Paypal to trade. You can never withdraw actual BTC from there though.

The biggest hack of all was XEM from Coincheck worth over $500 million at the time. It looks like the hacker got away with it and sold the coins.

He set up a 'discount' shopfront on a .onion domain and kept running coins through new wallets so the trackers couldn't keep up with him. Also quite a few exchanges didn't give the slightest fuck even when presented with the evidence.

I think this is a sign that we need a Bitcoin maximalist to step up, do the right thing and start sleeping with Roger.

Tone Vays is looking pretty hot these days now he's gotten rid of his liquorice hairdo.

I can't say I'm exactly blown away by their forensic skills.

This is just the same old hacker MO, trick people into installing some malware, with perhaps a little more patience and thought than usual.

And I'm not reassured. How does some average employee computer lead to exchange funds getting lost? Why is there any type of possible link between that computer and exchange funds?

They have publicly helped themselves to the money of their customers because of a problem entirely of their own creation.

You don't regard that as a problem or valid complaint? Once upon a time you could've moaned about shit customer service perhaps. Now it's gone up a level into proper insult.

New sub forums are created when there's masses of demand and it usually takes an awful lot of persuasion before the forum operators agree to it. The demand for an exchange announcement section does not exist other than in the mind of those who want to make announcements.

I think Our Roger is having a bad day today. This is his latest 'thinking'.

https://twitter.com/rogerkver/status/1160286347002695680



What next? I predict he will come round every Bitcoin holder's place and personally block their toilet with hair he's been gathering up for months.

I would contact the exchange and send the coins straight back. Job jobbed.

It's not as if you could do much with it anyway. The moment you yourself send it to an exchange you're getting nailed for it.

Someone, presumably the new CEO of Bitcoin.com, changed the default buy on there from BCH to, er, Bitcoin.

Guess who wasn't best pleased about this completely pragmatic choice? - https://old.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/coesvv/default_buy_on_bitcoincom_is_now_bitcoin_and_not/ewhtn6t/?context=3

I think that only applies in times when it's bubbling. The rest of the time there are enough low volume moments for a single entity to blow things up. String a bunch of moves like that together and you've made a nice pile of money.

Bitmex still rules, just as Bitfinex did back in the day. On top of that there are now CME futures which have grown massively in significance since launch.

That makes for multiple angles where the spot market is basically there to be kicked around to profit on derivatives and I'm sure that's the prime motive in many of the moves we see these days. All markets have leaders that set the tone. Most are just followers.

The B word so far has certainly done my GBP worth plenty of favours. Not sure how much use that'll be when I emigrate. The time to move into it was in 2016 before the result.

My father lives in the EU and he's consistently refused to hedge and he's kept all of his money in GBP that he drip feeds into EUR. He's been slowly getting poorer.

I'll be very surprised if no deal happens. It's literally a handful of cunts versus the rest of the world. I'm not sure how long cunts can hold out against several million or billion people.

This guy is predicting global currency madness no matter what - https://twitter.com/RaoulGMI/status/1159076348377337856

There are over 2 million machines mining. They don't appear out of thin air. Where would anyone obtain over 1 million machines? By the time you'd gathered enough the difficulty would be that much higher you'd have to go and find a million more.

It's not impossible. It would be very, very, very hard.

In most cases you need to buy BTC to get into your shitcoin and everyone, apart from maniacs, is in shitcoins to make more BTC or dollars. They're effectively an extension of the Bitcoin economy and a significant one. A high proportion of miner fees will be related to moving in and out of exchanges to play alts.