Technical analysis is 99% a self-fulfilling prophecy by this point.

People look a head-and-shoulders pattern and sell, so the fall in price that they expected to happen does actually end up happening.  Then it's extremely hard to find whether the pattern would have been accurate without all these "technical analysts" trying to figure out what'll happen next.

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Fundamentals are good and getting better.  ETH is already taking a lot of suckers on the ride, but Bitcoin + SegWit = boom.

If a homeless person wants to accept Bitcoin, they can put up a QR code for a Bitcoin address and accept payments from passers-by.  Creating paper wallets for giving to people who don't even ask for coins would be extremely inefficient and it would require a lot of explanation.  To be worth the effort, it would have to be quite a lot of money that you put in those wallets and you'd have to think about if you're really willing to donate that much.

I think that all these claims that homeless people can't use computers are bullshit, but there's no point giving paper wallets specifically just because you can.

SegWit will not result in a chain split if it's implemented with a high amount of hashrate, which seems to be the most likely scenario right now.

Ideally, you'd be running a full node if there was a chain split.  Most of the major wallet providers will give instructions for what to do, such as Electrum's hard fork plan, and you should not keep coins on an exchange or online wallet.

Short term - panic and confusion about Bitcoin in the event of low consensus results in slight altcoin rises and Bitcoin falls as people move funds to altcoins as a "safe" haven.

Long term - Bitcoin rises dramatically because people start to believe its utility has improved.

You are allowed to create one thread in the Meta section using an alt.  Do not post anywhere except for that one thread or it will be ban evasion.

Try to keep it calm, explain why you were banned and why you deserve to be unbanned.

Obviously no one is obligated to unban you so don't end up like kiklo or something.
No you should not.

That's hilarious.  You haven't even took the time out to find out what it is that you're advertising.  Even worse, you're so used to advertising scams that you've assumed it's an investment service!
The old layout was much like a common Tor site, e.g. Alpha Bay.  I don't know why but a lot of the Tor sites I've been on have that kind of layout.  The new layout removes this association which is better for those who are just in it for the privacy rather than for criminal activities.
Good.  Unusual sizes like 256 mBTC look likely that they've come from you, especially if Chipmixer becomes a prominent mixer.

SegWit is happening.  I really don't see why you would think otherwise.

I mean what are the pools going to do?  Look at the code and say "I don't like that line, let's pull out"?  Your logic here doesn't really make any sense here.  It's UASF which has pushed all these sudden solutions through, and I see it as extremely likely that at least one of them, involving SegWit, happens at this point.

Hey, have a look at the one month period of this lovely chart.

When Bitcoin falls, alts mostly fall as well because they're traded against BTC.  The amount that they fall is amplified by the fact that SegWit is potentially imminent on BTC and that the market cap tends to be smaller.

Bitcoin is not affiliated with any political ideology, nor does it make sense to associate it with any.

It does allow "anarcho-capitalism" to be closer to possible, which is why a lot of people who believe in that sort of thing become interested in Bitcoin.

I'm very much against the "alt right" but it's irrelevant what they accept for donations.  They accept PayPal as well.  Might as well just argue about what it actually says on the website, in the Politics and Society section.

Say you access 100 faucets in each day and you give each of them your one address.  You also take your other trades to that address.

If one of your faucets has systems on their site which track your IP or use other systems to try and find out who you are, perhaps they could find out who owns that address.

If there's a large amount of coins in that address, the faucet could know who you are.  The more information you give to that faucet (e.g. your email), the more they could know about you and your spending habits.  

If they know you, they could even find out your connections, like the addresses you've given money to...

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While these are obscure scenarios, Bitcoin is so ideal to steal that a lot of people will try their best to find out about things like this.  Ideally, you should keep your transactions in different addresses.

You will find that every single fiat currency ever has lost value every year.

Almost nothing has "intrinsic value" that you can objectively judge, but what Bitcoin does have is an extremely strong brand, new technology and near-immutability.  For major transfers, it's a great system.

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You have cryptocurrencies which try other methods to have intrinsic value - for example, Byteball's transaction fees are static so that the price eventually becomes whatever the value of transferring conditional payments in an immutable database is perceived to be.  However, that would eventually resulting in the price dropping as better technology is developed, because Byteball would have to adapt to those lower fees.

There really isn't an accurate way to do this but people can keep trying until it's achieved.  There's not a lot that you're competing with when it comes to fiat currencies, so you're not exactly in danger of becoming irrelevant...

I wouldn't call that patience.  It's a pretty hasty attempt at implementation if you ask me.

It could all fall apart yet.  SegWit supporting miners could decide not to support the hard fork later, which would cause absolute heaps of arguments and more drama regardless of whether or not it's necessary.
I'd say it's because 90% of new Bitcoin buyers are brainless speculators and technical analysts who don't give the slightest shit about how promising something could look.  That said, there might be a hype spiral starting before SegWit activation.

The Antminer would mine in the same way, as long as you decide to mine on a pool which supports SegWit.  This is solely about the actions of BITMAIN, the private company, and what they do with their own machines, not what happens to miners who were using their machines.  If it was about that, BITMAIN would be able to control over 51% of the hashrate.

P.S. UASF is not from Bitcoin Core.  Most Core devs are anti-UASF (in the form of BIP 148).

BITMAIN would most likely control >51% hashrate on the forked coin, considering that they intend to "ignore" short term economic incentives.  There wouldn't be a lot of other miners on there if the price was fairly low.

So BITMAIN could fork as much as they want on that chain.

Hell, they could fork 6,000 times if they wanted to.

Seriously though, hard forks are fine when they have overwhelming consensus from miners and users.  Considering the expected users of that chain (mostly people who would prefer big blocks and consider most limits arbitrary) and the expected miners (BITMAIN), forking again shouldn't be a problem.  

As long as I don't have to pay attention to any of these forks.

People like to talk about "if a billionaire..." but it's meaningless.  Billionaires never waste their money trying to screw with something that isn't even a threat to them.

Crypto enthusiasts just like to feel like outsiders so they always pretend they're under attack.  A bank could always screw with Bitcoin, but if I were them I would have done it years ago.

The longer they wait, the harder it becomes anyway.

Post in your local board, you Google translating spammer.

The price is irrelevant. It's only about what people will perceive Litecoin to be worth in the future, not what it's worth now.
Kprawn used to argue against increasing the block size.  It would be plain hypocritical to argue for Litecoin, because the higher block speed is almost the same thing as having a higher block size.

Litecoin only has lower fees because:

-It currently has less transactions sent over it
-Higher block speed
-SegWit already implemented

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Also, he just isn't satoshi... don't even try...

It's impossible to generalise and be fully accurate on these things... but I do think that many Asian cryptocurrency investors have been too hyped about this whole situation.

My justification for this is that the price in South Korea (and to a lesser extent, Japan) is at a significant premium to Western prices.  Because arbitrage is difficult, the markets are wild and the investors there begin to deviate from the Western trends.

This could imply that the prices are more speculative/a gamble, because the fundamentals of Bitcoin have not justified those prices throughout most of the recent rallies.

Meaningless.  It's not about ETH's number of coins in circulation, it's about how it's distributed and handled by people.  For example, one important method that ETH have to shove up the market cap is by getting coins locked into useless ICOs for months.

The price of all cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin, is about the adoption that it could potentially have in the future rather than the adoption that it has now.  Bitcoin's adoption has not doubled in the past couple of months - if anything it has decreased from when Fiverr and Dell stopped accepting it.

Ether's price in terms of "the flippening" is not insane because of its lack of adoption with merchants.  It's insane because Ether would not be practical to use at merchants - it simply isn't scalable, and fees are pretty bad as well.  After LN is implemented on Bitcoin, Ether will only be relevant for ICO hype which will eventually die down.

There are currently cryptocurrencies that are worth a high price, hidden in the lower ranks.  Ether is a full blown hype machine, and "The Flippening" is both a self-fulfilling prophecy and a myth.

You observe the rough daily price fluctuations and the areas which it has been moving between and consistently sell based on the daily fluctuations and some other indicators.

You set your stop loss outside the daily fluctuations by about ten percent so that if there is an adverse price movement you get out without sabotaging your profits too much.  You need to keep an eye on the fundamentals of your specific coin and news about it too, for example how far along the development of MaidSafe's blockchain based cloud computing system is or what scaling solutions miners have been supporting recently.

If you're really as old as you say you are, is this all you have to do with your time?

Fighting over and over again with a stranger over some petty dispute on a forum for cryptocurrencies?  Coming up with loads of bullshit methods to attack the forum for your personal dispute?  Are you really that pathetic?

If so, I feel sorry for you.

The trust system is screwed up, but the main way to fix it is to change your trust list and not include Lauda or hilariousandco on it if you hate them that much...

One Bitcoin is not what you spend.  It's just the default unit of the reference client and the one which is traded on exchanges​.

You could equally say "are there enough kilograms of gold in the world?".  The answer is yes, because you can use grams, and milligrams, and so on...

One single "Bitcoin" does not actually exist.  It's just a term that we're using to refer to 100,000,000 spendable units.