I'd expect the flippening to happen within the next month or so.  Whether or not it will stay that way...no idea...but I do think the threshold of market cap will be crossed very soon.

The flippening can happen even if Bitcoin drops...it's just crypto vs. crypto at this point, regardless of their relative value compared to fiat.  If Ethereum grows faster, or declines slower, it will be bound to happen.

Well played my friend.  That looks like check mate to me.  This thread should be locked with no further responses 

Perhaps there's a monkey out there that setup a camera thousands of years ago with a time-lapse video recording of how they lost their fur, started using tools and increased brain mass.  When I get a hold of that SD card...I'll come looking for ya 

What do you consider to be helpful to the economy?  For the government to say what you should and should not do?  And everyone obeys what the government wants?  Government knows best?  People aren't supposed to serve the government.  Government is here to serve the people.  If you are harming someone else with criminal activity, in that there is a victim, of course that needs to be understood and minimized.  But Bitcoin doesn't really support too much of that type of crime.  It supports crime in the form of trading products or services that are simply prohibited by the government, but at the same time, have no victim.  Understanding that the government doesn't care at all about your life or health, tell me why these prohibitions or lack of freedom exists?

Since I already noted that I don't have proof, and then you're now telling me that there is no proof (lol) I guess we are settled then.  Since you don't have any proof either, I guess we're in the same place aren't we?  

What would be the purpose for a person to have horns or wings?  And would that be desirable for breeding?  I'm assuming it's a rhetorical question that doesn't need a practical answer

I would think that if survival and spreading seeds is the goal, as it seems to be for living things, then with natural selection, you'd want the most advantages to be able to survive.  The species would move towards breeding with those that have useful characteristics, and away from those that do not possess those useful characteristics, or be challenged with the competition of survival with less tools.

I don't have a straight answer, nor do I have proof, or even the thought or desire to convince anyone's belief system to be any different than it is.

If you believe everything was created this way, then so be it.  Totally cool with me

I'm just going to add in my 2 cents here for something that we can all relate to, which has happened right in front of us, and that's dog breeding.  All dog breeds originate from wolves, and humans have bred them to increase or decrease certain traits.  Now you have a husky, and you can say "Yeah I see the relationship between a husky and a wolf".  Then you have a chiwawa and the link to a wolf becomes really difficult to make any sense of.  It may look closer to a rat than it does to a wolf, but it's ancestor is a wolf.  This has happened over approximately 10,000 years of dog domestication and breeding.  So as the landscape of the earth has changed over time, why wouldn't species also change and adapt?

In general, the rationale that adoption will increase over time makes sense.  That would increase the demand and add some stability to the currency.  But to say it has gone up in the past so that is the justification that it will continue to go up at the same rate...then how would you explain events in the past, like when Bitcoin hit $1000 and then came crashing back down to $200?  Is that foreseeable too?  If that's not foreseeable, then nothing is.

It would be like any technology before it.  It's first adopted by the tech community and requires skill to use, like computers for example.  When computers first came out, they weren't for everyone, just the tech savvy crowd that had interest in it.  Monitors could only display text.  Then it went mainstream with a GUI that shows files, folders and applications differently than a dos type of interface.  And now with tablets or phones you simply press or swipe a screen with your hand and any 3 year old seems to get the hang of it very easily as it's more intuitive.  I'd expect cryptocurrencies to go the same way.  Where you have NFC tap on your phone, or a credit card, that would work from a user perspective, the exact same way a credit card does.

It would be like it was in 1993 

Significantly more ignorant population, however maybe less distracted.  Cable TV would be great entertainment, or maybe going outside lol.  People would listen to the news on TV and continue to think they know what's going on around the world, because a news reporter said it into a microphone.

Phone calls would still be a thing.  Couldn't google anything, still need to research in the library.

You foresee?  Like you are using your psychic ability to predict the outcome in the future?

And not that I agree or disagree with you, but other than your hopes and dreams, what is the rationale for behind your prediction of an arbitrary price within an arbitrary time frame?

Bitcoin is thriving on its popularity.  It's the most well known, even in the somewhat mainstream.  But the computations and processing that miners do, doesn't have an actual purpose.  It is using energy to make transactions happen and that's it.  Ethereum and other cryptos can have purpose behind the computations/processing, and I would think as time goes, the most functional crypto that is able to use energy efficiently will become more popular as cryptos mature past this infancy stage we're in (at least I consider it to be).

It was the Murthel Groenhart vs. Harut Grigorian fight in Glory kickboxing.

Here's a link to a video clip of it: https://twitter.com/Grabaka_Hitman/status/873631499958071296
But you can just google it as well.

You'll see him Grigorian just start walking away while the fight is on...really weird...and get's KTFO.

Lol yeah alcohol changes the vibe of the audience, but these promotions and venue's need to sell their concessions...$12-15 beers.

May I ask where that hatred comes from?  Is it the pigment of the skin that bothers you? Or a generalization about black people that you may think applies to anyone with similar skin colour?

Like there are black people all over the world in different cultures who are totally different people with different values and think differently regardless of the bloodline of ancestors.  North American, South American (including Caribbean), European, African, Asian, Australian...how can they all be "good" or "bad"?

Yeah man I saw that as well.  I think Grigorian, who eventually got knocked out just had a brain freeze after that knee to the head.  From his body language, it looked like he was walking to his corner as if the round was over.  Must have been some knee

Could have been an angry dude that just lost his bet that jumped in to take out his frustration? haha but it's crazy how easy it is for people from the crowd to enter the ring.  Octagon is a bit better for security.

I also found it weird that Groenhart curled up and almost went fetal with a dude from the crowd trying to fight him.  I would think a highly trained kickboxer could maybe land 1 knee which would paralyze a normal dude.

Time to get on a plane and see how many friends you can make with such a wonderful attitude

Does it make you feel better about yourself to segregate humans and then say "I'm part of the chosen group"?

Look at the summer olympics and tell me that black people are inferior.  Or maybe the NFL or NBA.

Given the awareness of the current population, I think the choice of candidates that run (I assume you're referring to the US Federal elections) make perfect sense.  Most of them are candidates that are heavily supported and financed by special interests.  As the population is not yet united, they can be played and manipulated by political candidates.  The population isn't ready for an honest politician.  Ron Paul was an honest libertarian candidate that didn't have a chance in hell of winning.  Even Bernie Sanders is honest, with a more socialist approach.  Both don't take funding and don't support corporate/banking interests.  But we ended up with Hillary vs. Donald...two selfish people that show many traits of being sociopaths that are able to lie day in day out.  And that's what the people voted for and accept.

When the awareness of the population is ready to scrap personal and special interests for the benefit of society as a whole, the type of politician that makes it to the top will be very different.

"There are no political solutions, only technological ones; the rest is propaganda".  Politicians are absolutely useless, and when we understand that and they become obsolete, leadership can turn to tech innovators.  The people that can solve issues with technology.

Edwardard, good job managing this campaign and communicating.  Storj is off to a great start.

Cheers.

Yeah MMA is getting a lot more popular, and it's been pretty mainstream for a few years now, with very frequent events (which dilutes the cards).  But the UFC is a single promotion, with Bellator as a growing #2.  It doesn't give many options for fighters to get paid well, regardless of whether or not UFC is making good gate/ppv revenue.  It doesn't affect the fighter's pay unless they are in a title fight or super popular.  I don't doubt that the UFC will make better numbers than boxing (they already do unless it's a huge boxing event I believe)...I just don't think it will translate into fighter pay until there is proper competition, and the UFC needs to start paying more or lose their fighters to other promotions.

And agreed, the Joshua Klitschko fight was very entertaining.  I like seeing GGG as well, but have shifted my interest in boxing to MMA around 15 years ago.

Since the crypto market is a relatively free market, I feel that even if the fiat overlords attempt to take out a crypto by buying it out, there is nothing stopping another one being created again for the people.  Old banking vs. new tech.