I think this has actually happened before for brief periods.

Anyways, looks like we are heading up again.  Go BTC 

I am wildly bullish, but your statements don't seem logical to me.
There is nothing theoretically preventing the price from dropping and miners going bankrupt, inducing lower difficulty.   
I am not saying that is what I expect to happen in the near future, just that it can happen.

Please try reasoning with arguments instead of resorting to aggressive end statements.

Yes, but we were discussing the relationship between price and production costs.

Yes, but nothing ratches up price, so it is the driving factor, no?

Doesn't the fact that supply is fixed suggest that production cost follows the price?

Thanks for the update

Dr. Strangeprice, or how I stopped worrying about the leverage and love the rocket.

Apologies

If you look at the inclination of the people, it is clear that the train is heading upwards, but less so than in the first post.  Quite a good analogy for bitcoin I would say, heading up, but slower than the fans expect/ would like.

Busted your hand hitting a wall?

EDIT: or is it something to stop you from being on the pc?

Fuck me, I have been waiting so long for a breakout, even took a big leveraged long a while ago, but just after you close it, this stuff happens...

Dude, if you are not trolling you need to get a grip.  Listen vuduchyld, From Above and bathrobehero. 
While there can be a fine line between investment, speculation and gambling, you are obviously just gambling with your money.  That would be ok if it was money you could miss, but you decided to gamble away other people's money.  Please stop telling yourself you are a savvy investor. In this thread you are almost asking to be scammed (" am desperate, give me tips to get unrealistic gains quickly" --> seriously dog?  Prepare for the nigerian princes to start sending you personal messages about their favorite little coin).  Stop throwing away the money of the people around you.  The most likely scenario is that you will keep trying to weasel your way out of this mess, but end up completely broke.  The chances of getting back that money are very slim, but since you are a degenerate gambler, you'll probably play those bad odds anyway.  Please don't.  Be a man and face reality before you hit the absolute rock bottom.

Who says you always need to combine your outputs, I am talking about the situation where you want to cash out all of your outputs of a certain wallet anyway.  Leaving a few satoshis behind in that situation doesn't accomplish anything.

Exactly, I have been in this situation several times.  Of course every wallet developer is free to do as he pleases, I am just trying to raise awareness that besides being a convenient feature, it improves bitcoin hygiene.  And this has got to be the simplest feature ever to code  . Just need to provide a bit of space in the UI .  Of course making the calculation yourself isn't super hard, but a slight increase in convenience is important for user experience (and changes behavior).

I know about tragedy of the Commons. It doesn't apply here because leaving dust in old wallets does not provide any advantage to a user.  Yes people mostly act in their own self-interest, but they are capable of making agreements when it is mutually beneficial.  Last time I replied to you by the way, go waste someone else's time.

Please learn to read.

You are missing the point. It is not about the value of the dust. It is about the size of the UTXO that these unspent outputs increase. And no, you don't need to spend time thinking about it, you are free to do as you want.  Does make me wonder why you spend time posting on this topic since you value your time so much? My topic was addressed to people who want to make bitcoin a (slightly) more efficient system.

1) You should if you care about making bitcoin as lean and efficient as possible
2) Why would it reduce anonymity? I am not talking about combining outputs that otherwise wouldn't be combined, I am talking about not leaving behind a few satoshis when you move out of a wallet

I had a brief thought about UTXO growth and decided to post it here.  If this is the millionth time this is mentioned, or irrelevant/incorrect, I will delete the topic again.

Anyways, the idea is super simple.  Some wallets have a button that automatically calculates the max amount you can send from the wallet (deduces the fee ). I think this is a very useful function that should be implemented by all wallet software (I haven't checked a lot of different software but I don't think this is universally present).  Doing so will reduce the UTXO growth a bit by reducing accumulation of dust wallets that are thrown away or never looked at again (when somebody moves to other wallets/software).  Seems like very low-hanging fruit.

Thanks for the replies.

I know this isn't really the place for it, but can anybody explain this DAO thing to me in simple terms?  I feel like the odds of it being a technobabble hype to obfuscate things (a lousy investment) are too high for me to put in the effort to figure it out.  But I could be wrong.  If the subject is deemed too off-topic, I ll delete this post.