Is there a decent Chrome extension for that?  I've been going through a couple of them and they look like they're either paid, spyware or both.
For all his vocal support of hard forks, he doesn't seem to have figured out what they actually are yet.

Because they'd like to see a chain with larger blocks.  Bitcoin XT, Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin Unlimited and Bitcoin ABC have all basically failed, despite all the hype they each had for doing the same thing as last time, so the only solution is to fork off without a majority of hash rate.

Major groups backing BU/EC have decided that a compromise is necessary, but they've decided that they want their own chain to play with.
You could equally argue "why did they start Clamcoin if they weren't going to take over BTC?"
I'm not sure I subscribe to this rhetoric of just bashing the people.

This is absolutely a self-fulfilling prophecy, because Roger Ver is not a coder.  He's just an opinionated public figure.  So by bashing Roger Ver rather than big blocks, you're keeping yourself from joining the "big block" side.  And by doing that, you're stopping any "good" people from moving over to that side, and keeping the majority of people annoying.  It's like when people avoid going vegan because they don't like vegans, or avoid using BTC because it's used on the dark net.

So more than anything it's an echo chamber of everyone else's construction.

Yeah, well I say there's not enough bullshit tokens made on the Ethereum blockchain, so we need a decentralised dark net market on it.  We should raise about $100 million dollars for the ICO, then mysteriously disappear under the guise of being taken down by law enforcement.
A large amount of BTC adoption is on dark net markets.  It's not all of BTC's adoption, but that's the only major place I can think of where everyone accepts BTC and no one accepts fiat.

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The "war on drugs" doesn't work anyway.  All this means is that more people move over to Dream Market or something.  Then if Dream Market gets taken down, they'll go somewhere else.

If the situation for dark net market users becomes so dire that they have to leap between markets ten times a day, that's when a decentralised market will pop up.  I'm sure it's possible if people are desperate enough.  In the meantime, dark net markets will just be losing credibility because of states seizing everyone's coins.

People who hold their coins in Coinbase and pay less attention to their holdings (use the "Coinbase Vault" for example) might not notice the warning.  Regardless of what happens there will be a huge amount of funds kept in Coinbase and Coinbase will potentially have access to a not-insignificant amount of UAHF coins that their users who didn't withdraw.
I think Gemini's stance on this makes more sense:
To not even commit to your users' needs like this is quite insulting, especially when they never bother to respond when people have their accounts frozen.

Bitcoin has been moderately centralised right from the beginning. However, usually the centralisation is from groups like mining pools - if miners decide that the pools are acting in an unethical way, they can move to a different one.  To have power, Bitcoin's public figures rely on support from the BTC community, and they would lose it if they attempted something shockingly bad.

Now though, it's probably less centralised than it's been before.  We're no longer talking about being terrified of ghash.io getting >50% of the hashrate, there are shitloads of (non-listening) nodes, and there are a lot more users.

So to blame a crash on it now, of all times, would be absurd.

Of course if the price goes down everyone will claim that it was because of centralisation, but that's not something that everyone suddenly decided was a huge problem after several years.  They're just making up reasons for a drop in price, when really it's just about speculation.

It's called Bitcoin Cash, and they have the support of Bitcoin ABC.  It's basically the "UAHF" that BITMAIN were talking about.  bitcoincash.org.

I do respect that they're phrasing it like it's an altcoin and their development of BTC.
The price is absolutely no indicator of anything right now.  It's just random and irrational speculation about Bitcoin's future and it makes no sense.

The users of Coinbase should have a right to their "Bitcoin Cash" in the same way that they should have a right to their ordinary coins.  Otherwise, it's just glorified theft from Coinbase.

F2Pool are absolute trolls.  When they were going to signal SegWit a while ago, Wang Chun said that SegWit would be a "disaster" then started signalling really soon after under the guise of following the public.

I wouldn't trust that they'll follow through on it until the last minute.  

Christ, these mining pool operators have so much power.

Zebpay is most likely not closing down.

They're warning you of upcoming chain splits on August 1st - BIP 148 and "Bitcoin Cash".  

While I personally think that neither of them will amount to anything and that SegWit will be activated via BIP 91, it's definitely good practice to bring your coins to a wallet where you control the private keys, for at least a couple of weeks after that date.

It's hard for an online wallet to manage those multiple chains and provide you with a good user interface.  The purpose of the warning is to keep you safe so that you own all the chains and can use them if necessary.

You should read theymos' post about this here.

Yes it does.  They produce Tether tokens when they can be backed by a dollar that they hold, and they can do that when the tokens are bought on exchanges (well they can produce when they like, but they're supposed to be backed).
Equally dumb.  Yes it does.  Increasing volatility, fear of an upcoming bear market and confusion about the weeks ahead is pushing people into USDT for the next few weeks.
Big players almost never go into USDT.  USDT is not safe due to the price fluctuations, and a Tether "cryptocurrency" does not work.  They would convert back to fiat rather than be at the mercy of Tether.

When USDT becomes a "safe haven" in its current state, it really makes you think about the state of volatility right now, doesn't it?

No.  Governments are needed to maintain who owns the property.  In a libertarian society, I can go and trespass on your land and shoot you.  Then I own the land, and no government is going to tell me otherwise.  It means that with modern communication and equipment for war, it can be a giant war-fest.
Corporations have the incentive to produce cheap products.  Consumers have the incentive to buy cheap products.  With no regulation or consideration of labour rights, you have shit like employing child slaves to make chocolate.  Pretending that this is some kind of land of freedom, when it just encourages people to create their own slavery, is absurd.
Apart from this weird fringe ideology of American libertarianism, all anarchists have been left wing.  There are systems like anarcho-syndicalism, in which unions have greater control over the economy.  None of these systems seem to make much sense, nor do the right wing systems of "anarchism".

The age of consent to produce pornography is 18, because of how 16 year olds could be manipulated or pressured into it and the fact that other work is more readily available to adults.  Under that age is considered child porn, and I think that's the relevant age here rather than the age of consent for sex.  However, I still can't see the user directly saying that he downloaded child porn.
Well done.  You're a fucking genius.
If the person is a paedophile, you should not help them by doing trade deals with them.  That sort of scum is not to be trusted.
 

Spoetnik"The user in question" has done a variety of moderately shady things as well.

He claims to have received a PM from the account "Spoetnik[TheUserInQuestion]IsFucked", but if you do a search under Members, the account doesn't seem to exist (I don't think there's a way to delete a forum account, unless the OP contacted an admin).

He also values his account rank far too much.  Whenever talking to a newbie, he refers to them as NOOB and ignores any arguments that they make.  So any claims that removing his negative trust would be opposition to hierarchy is bullshit.
That's the fucking worst comparison I've ever seen.  Child porn is TERRIBLE.  It is a moral ABOMINATION.  People who listen to rock music can have any moral values and it's COMPLETELY unrelated.

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However, I haven't seen Spoetnikthe user in question directly admit to downloading child porn.  I've seen him condoning being perverts to underage girls, which in my opinion does warrant negative trust, but I still can't see him openly admitting it.  Also, your quotes seem to be a tad out of context and strung together in that fashion.

A lot of financial bubbles and excessive bull markets have crashes and recoveries before fully entering a bear market.

Actually, it happened in Bitcoin with the 2013 bubble.  The price dropped to about $700 and then recovered most of the way up before resuming the bear market.  It's quite likely that this will happen again.

I wouldn't say that BTC is looking very bullish right now.  Keep buying all the time is my advice, because I consider trading pretty much futile when the market is this crazy, but while you're at it just make sure you're not spending more than you can afford to lose and make sure that you're willing to hold it through a bear market if you have to.

PayPal charges fees of about 4% to the merchant.  BTC fees are extremely low compared to PayPal, and it's quite convenient.  If it was implemented properly you'd just scan a QR code, put in the amount and hit send.
They can accept what they want.  There's already a couple of Subway stores that have accepted Bitcoin before, and a few major merchants such as Steam and Overstock already accept it.
Bitcoin is very secure due to how it's already been established.  It also has first mover advantage, and there are only a couple of cryptocurrencies which I regard to be very good relative to BTC currently anyway.
That's centralised bullshit.  It's just a web wallet from which you can spend fiat instead of actually using your coins.

When more than 50 of the last 100 blocks have a version number that Bitcoin Core doesn't expect, it triggers that warning message.

Because miners are now capable of signalling for BIP 91, many have started mining blocks which support it.

This part of SegWitx2 won't cause a chain split though, so it's okay.

Achow101 made a post about this here.

Archived the page.

If you want him to eat his dick on national television in three years, come back to this thread and don't forget to thank me.

I love how he gives loads of vague terms related to "math systems" and doesn't actually explain what they are or why he's using them to suggest that Bitcoin will have a completely ridiculous price.

Maybe he's joking?  

>Bitcoin XT
>Bitcoin Classic
>Bitcoin Unlimited
>Bitcoin ABC
>Bitcoin Cash

Pick one.  It's getting really boring at this point.

Anyway, I'll just hold because I can't be bothered splitting the coins.  

If there's any more forks I might start my own fork, with blackjack and hookers.  Actually, forget the theme parkfork.

This is a terrible way of thinking.  It's almost impossible to gauge what the majority actually wants, unless you're blindly following hash rate.

In elections, do you vote for whichever candidate has the best poll results?  Of course you don't, because you have an opinion of your own, and if you had done this you would have voted for Clinton in the US elections even though Trump ended up winning.

I'm all in favour of agreeing in the end and following consensus, but I'll be waiting at least a couple of weeks before making a judgement on what the consensus already is.  If it's something I strongly disagree with then I would support the smaller chain.
Even if your intentions are genuine, this is unrealistic.  A poll which realistically will not reach a majority of the BTC community will not have any influence over others.

Any wallet from which you can export your private keys is fine.  You can do that with Exodus.

With Ledger, you have a seed.  This is used to generate private keys, and it can be used in other wallets as well.

So either is okay.

No it isn't.  It's a site to give cryptocurrencies a ranking based on their market cap, and after that provide other useful statistics including the volume.

You can see clearly here that the 24 hour volume of cryptocurrencies right now is about 4 billion dollars.  At no point have I seen it surpassing about 6-7 billion dollars.

So how does the market cap drop by $40,000,000,000 in just a few days you ask?  Because market cap is complete and utter bullshit when it comes to cryptocurrencies, and it always will be.  End of story.