I've always thought Google search trends are an underrated way to measure hype.

Bitcoin search trends right now are showing the apathy that some of you are talking about:  https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F05p0rrx.

However, the cryptocurrency trends and blockchain trends have not been acting in the same way.  This could imply that users this time around have matured about the technology, and potentially that the speculation is less feverish (a bullish sign in the long-term).

I disagree.  All those people would have Bitcoin, but the majority chain would end up having the merchants and economic support.  There is a kind of herd movement, and that majority chain would still be decentralised just like the original Bitcoin has been for the past nine years.

Every time a bear market is looming (like it could be now), you'll see plenty of people creating reasons for why this, in particular, is dead or not worth as much as it is now.  Personally, I think that it's mostly wrong and that in a few years we'll be on a new problem that doesn't matter either.

The funny thing is that all those people who "called" the bear market will say "I told you so" when it starts going down... but they'll act mysteriously silent when it starts going way up again.

The bottom line is that the end is not going to come for a very long time, and that these are early days.  We're all waiting for something to happen, and something will either happen or it won't but either way, most of us will end up following along with whatever happens instead of confining ourselves to some little chain with 10% hash rate.

It can be done, and net neutrality laws are being eroded by some countries lately, including creating laws for tracking Internet activity and requiring websites to keep logs.

While this is worrying (and RodeoX was particularly scared about it, I recall), I see it as something that could have happened at any time.  There's a point at which that action would become so outrageous to the public that governments just can't get away with doing it, because the public uproar would be immense and would completely destroy their popularity.  Considering that the mainstream media seem to have softened up to Bitcoin somewhat recently, I see it as unnecessary for governments to try doing this, especially since they can basically track it anyway if they regulate it well enough.

Suspicion?  It's 100% obvious that it's trying to diminish UASF's support.  The whole point is to get it activated before UASF becomes too popular.  There's no way anything would have happened this month if it wasn't for UASF being a threat.
Honestly, I see that as unlikely.  Looks more like a conspiracy theory than anything particularly intelligent - after that there would just be the threat of a different UASF a bit later instead.

OK, fair enough.  That's a pretty likely outcome actually.  Litecoin, for example, settled for a while after SegWit activation before it got caught in the hype of the crypto bull market.  Bitcoin could do the same - people buy in when they expect SegWit to happen or when it's locked in, then they don't know what to do after that until other cryptos lead the way (probably bearish).

I'm not worried anyway.  I bought most of my coins way earlier than this, so I'm pretty safe with my stop loss set down low.

I think it's just people waiting for a future event.

SegWit not activated in July-August safely = 2014-ish behaviour, possibly moving into a bear market.

SegWit activated in July-August safely = moon.

Right now no one knows what's going on, so nothing is happening.

In bulk amounts that might be hard.  You could try Nicehash, but you can't know that your income will be steady.

You can't really start a cloud mining service, because almost everyone assumes they're scams (99.9% of them are), and you'd have to put a huge amount of work into something that's properly regulated/is legitimate.

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As a miner on a large scale, you're essentially a speculator as well.  If the price doesn't continue rising, then the difficulty might catch up with the price, at which point mining naturally becomes only just profitable.  If the price rises so much that the difficulty flies up, your machines might seem inefficient and you wouldn't get the profits anymore.

For now, you would get profits in ~6 months as Amph points out, but because of the difficulty it's unrealistic to expect that to actually happen.  I still think it's a moderately good investment, but you have to appreciate that this is a high risk/high reward choice for you.

The way I see it, it's impossible for a farm to be ethical because it's unnatural.  People can talk about "the food chain" all they want, but the reality is that they way animals are being killed is entirely unnatural, whether it's with a gun, a factory farm, or just a regular free range farm.  Humans would naturally be lower than, say, lions in the food chain, but if humans want to they can just shoot the lion with a gun.

The idea of animal products which are not meat is even more confusing, because cows only produce milk after having a child, much like what humans do.  Not only is it stealing the cow's milk which is supposed to be for cows, but cows produce far less milk after it would no longer be needed for their calf.  This means that far more cows are produced than the amount that are needed to stay on the farm, so inevitably the calves are taken from their mothers at birth and cows have to be killed to sustain the production of milk.

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Clarification:  vegetarianism is to not eat meat or fish.  If you eat fish, you're called a pescatarian.  If you don't eat meat, fish or any animal product, and you refrain from the use of animal products in your life e.g. leather, then you are a vegan.  A lot of people are getting confused about this.

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I also wish that people would stop saying "I eat what I want to" or statements of that sort.  They don't contribute anything to a discussion, because no government is telling you whether you can eat meat or not.

It's like as soon as people hear about Bitcoin and start using it, they just give up any normal rules of where they put their money, which is strange as hell considering that they should do the exact opposite and be much more careful than they are with fiat.

It's like, "hey, people use Bitcoin on Tor, so look at this online wallet that's on Tor!  Let's put our coins into that!"

No due diligence, no checking if they're a regulated company, no checking for information about the owners, nothing...

Same thing happens with investments.  Normally none of these people would give their fiat to a company that promises to pay them back >3% daily, but apparently with Bitcoin they feel it's acceptable.  Maybe it's a side effect of all the stories of people getting rich with Bitcoin that cause people to lose all of their judgement.

Aren't Bitcoin debit cards basically pointless anyway?

If you want to spend fiat in stores, why not just spend fiat instead of fooling yourself into thinking you're spending bitcoin?  It would make it so much easier for people to just spend bitcoin where it's actually accepted instead of relying on even more centralised services in order to let them spend fiat.

Still, I strongly doubt that more trusted services like Xapo or especially Bitpay would be stealing your ID.  It's just the same as giving your ID to any other service really.

Yeah, Yahoo News.  Pretty mainstream and respected news source.

From Google:  https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=bitcoin&oq=bitcoin&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i60l3j0j69i65.1545j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#q=bitcoin&tbm=nws.

Almost all of the articles which you get when you get onto Google's news section (searching Bitcoin), you'll find are positive or neutral.

It's hilarious how some of you just want to feel like outsiders so much that you cherry pick articles to try and make it look like you're under attack by the mainstream media.  I've been quite surprised by how reasonably they've covered it this hype cycle.

Considering how volatile fiat is against the Bitcoin, it could happen at any time 

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Seriously, there's no reason why this would happen.  Satoshi's intention was clearly to avoid the publicity of being a major figure.  Especially since a decentralised network shouldn't have a definitive leader except for during the early development phase.

You can't expect satoshi to reveal themselves, ever.

Pretty great time for the Wall Observer thread to fork then.  Absolutely no interesting price movements whatsoever, so we don't need to get together.

I think it's foreshadowing for August 1st.  Trillions of different forks that do slightly different things, but no one actually cares about any of them and nothing interesting happens on them.

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IMO potential SegWit activation in July-August is super bullish.  The messier it is, the less bullish it is.  Before that, we'll be moving kind of sideways because no one really gets what's going on.

It's as true as that graph is.  It was just the first result I got for "DASH transaction volume", because I assumed that would explain why it doesn't matter whether DASH raises the max block size.  I can't find another one so that's all the info we've got.
I'm pretty sure that Alpha Bay has wallets for Bitcoin, ETH, Monero and Zcash, but obviously the merchants accept what they like and almost all of them just accept BTC.  I suspect that's the case for most other dark net markets as well.  Some people do gambling with DASH because of the quick confirmations, but other than that I can mainly just think of trading to be honest.
Fair enough.

But anyway, my point is that when DASH isn't actually sent very much, it does what it likes in terms of max block size.  Bitcoin is not the same.  Also, Bitcoin is a lot bigger and has a lot more active developers trying different things so consensus is harder.

Fees are quite low currently if your wallet lets you set a custom fee.  As you can see here, even transactions with fees of <50 satoshi/byte are expected to confirm in about six hours, which is fine if you're sending overnight or online with low priority (e.g. to a friend).

Chipmixer does not have fees - you pay what you want to.  You should contact support.

This also applies to all the bullshit telegram groups that only "start pumping" when there's x number of people in the group.

Loads of these groups have been popping up recently due to the crypto bull market and frequent pumps happening.

Friendly reminder:  these whales do not announce their pumps in public.  Almost all manipulation goes on behind the scenes and I strongly doubt that create these groups without contacting people directly.

You wrote several times that your posts aren't too long.

All saying almost the same thing.  Just slightly different phrasing.

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You should really trying appreciating the irony here...

DASH number of unique transactions per day:  about four thousand.

Bitcoin confirmed transactions per day:  about 230 thousand.

It's not the block size, it's the maximum block size.  DASH is also a younger project with very few transactions, so the blockchain is very small in comparison.  Not to mention that in DASH, full node users are rewarded, while in Bitcoin they're just volunteers. 

I don't think it's a fair comparison.

Plus, you don't know that it can't get to 2mb.  While they're not actually signalling for the code yet and they might not carry out with the hard fork anyway, it seems like shitloads of pools are supporting SegWitx2 right now.

The vast majority of investors will just move their holdings into fiat.  They'd prefer to have something which typically only drops by 2-3%, instead of keeping the risk of something which is likely to have dropped loads when they want to cash out.

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You can only expect Bitcoin investors from a bear market if they're diversifying loads into many different assets including gold as well.  Generally though, you're right that stock market problems are bullish for Bitcoin IMO.

>Warren Buffet says that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value

"Yeah, well he's just one rich person.  Bitcoin is a grassroots movement for a developing technology.  Besides, he just doesn't get it."

>Michael Novogratz says that cryptocurrencies will be worth trillions within a few years

"We're all going to get rich!  Buy, buy, buy!"