Bitcoin.com is owned by Roger Ver, who has a very large amount of coins and openly supports big blocks.  It's possible that he signed with his own addresses, in which case the vote was void (because he owns more BTC than the amount used in the vote).

It's essential to have a neutral site on this.  The question is whether people would trust a smaller site to protect their privacy when they prove ownership of large quantities of Bitcoin.

There's also the fact that the economy doesn't have to dictate everything, because that would favour richer people.

This belongs more in Trading Discussion.

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Most alts are measured and traded dominantly against BTC.  This even applies to the biggest alts like ETH which have fiat pairs as well.

You'll find that the majority of people trading alts are in it for more BTC, and the majority of people trading BTC are in it for more fiat, especially when the price goes up loads like right now.

So it would be most important to measure it against BTC, because crypto profits are mostly to do with the amount of fiat you would have gained in value compared to the amount you would have gained from just holding Bitcoin.  However, this is flexible and could be different in some cases.

The biggest red flag of all is what they claim to be - a silver backed token which is having an ICO.

People always invest in ICOs expecting to earn profit from a rise in value, but if the token was actually silver backed the value would stay almost pegged to the price of silver, so the ICO is no more an investment than just buying silver and it doesn't really make any sense...

Seems like anyone with a nice website can get millions from ICOs these days anyway, so it'll be a shame when people realise they've lost all their money.

That's the problem with some people.  They just speculate with no regard for fundamentals at all.

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Previous dips recently have been brief lapses in this crazy bull market we're in, and have meant nothing even when being dips of >20%.

However this time a significant majority of hashrate had started signalling for SegWit x 2 (well signalling that they will signal for it when they need to).  This makes the promise of low transaction fees on Ethereum meaningless.  It doesn't mean that Ether will crash because people are just ignoring any real events, but it does mean that Ether will become irrelevant from the perspective of a currency.

Most cryptocurrencies other than Bitcoin are in the red right now.  I would have shorted major alts when SegWit x 2 started being signalled, but it's a bit late now to tell how far it'll go.

Just sit tight and watch the market move.  You'll probably find that Bitcoin goes up a lot in the next month or two.

The joke isn't about Bitcoin.  The joke is that students carry their lunch money into school to buy lunch, so this is just literally sending any random money over the Internet.  It's also about how difficult it is to force people to send money online, because people would be separate from the bully.  Bitcoin is just a surface-level joke that the Simpsons like having more often these days to appeal to people who don't actually get it.

It's shocking that I have to explain this to people.

The Simpsons is pretty deeply satirical anyway, I wouldn't take any joke of theirs as a direct insult so much as pointing out how stupid the entire situation of doing that would be.
They didn't.  That was around 2000, when Trump had mentioned considering running for President and it was a bit of a joke among people.

/nerd

Just because you developed your own version of Islam by skipping the peaceful Qur'an verses does not mean others have to.

As with the Bible (both religions are bullshit if you ask me), there are many direct contradictions in different sections of the Qur'an.  Some argue for peace and some don't - the difference is that you're assuming that Muslims who look at one side of the Qur'an are "true" Muslims, while those who look at the other side of the Qur'an are not.

By cherry picking information in this way, you are supporting terrorists by implying that all other Muslims should join them, and therefore implying that all Christians should become terrorists too in opposition to this.  

There are people on this thread literally calling for genocide ("we need to kill them all"), and that's not troubling for you?

It could, but a large point of Chipmixer is that you don't do it as simply as that and instead split it into chips with predefined values instead of just spending 0.01, receiving 0.01.

Regardless, this is just speculation about future transaction costs.  By doing this you have to assume that transaction costs in the future will be higher, because you're relying on all of the coins you could spend + the transactions you actually make with 1 input ending up costing less than just sending ordinary transactions.

Ether's promotion is trash.  It's potentially useful for some things, but at this point when you see articles like this treating price as if it's the only factor, we have a problem.

It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, like this:

Person 1: "Hey guys! Look at this cool new thing I found! It's called 'technology'!"

Person 2/3/4/5: "Damn dude, that's some smooth technology.  I'd better buy some of that."

Person 6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15... "Wow, the price has gone up loads recently!  Looks like I can make way more money off of this than Bitcoin!  Oh yeah and also, technology..."

That's just the recent blocks.  The hashrate is steady, but we'll see the blocks go >60% to match the hashrate over the next few hours.

It's very bullish if it actually happens.  It would also prevent a really messy UASF.

As someone correctly points out in the comments section of the article:

Currently, dramatically more Muslims are being killed by terrorism in the Middle East than Christians, because ISIS and other terrorist groups hate anyone which doesn't agree with their mindset.

Your victimisation complex and your support of terrorism from non-Muslims is insane.  You have crazy confirmation biases and no self-awareness.

No, I think he got the point of the article.  It claimed:

...Which is just an outright lie.

We can debate about whether Coinbase has been seizing users' accounts or not (occasionally they do if they suspect the users of illegal or suspicious activity, because they're a centralised service and can do this), but what's important is that a real Bitcoin wallet is trustless and cannot be seized unless a third party which you are not trusting gets access to your private keys.

This is more comparable to people coming into your house and taking physical cash than it is to a bank account.  Sometimes it's even safer than that, depending on what security measures you use with your wallet.

Xapo is doing a similar thing.  Of course this is not a "wallet" in the conventional sense, more like an account, so this is just a way of them making the fees simpler for you instead of making it confusing when you're faced with unusually high sending fees from accepting loads of small transactions.  You'll probably find that LocalBitcoins is not making profit (or at least not a lot) from setting those fees.

When you're using a proper wallet instead of an online wallet, just make sure not to accept loads of dust transactions anyway.  LocalBitcoins is trying to remove your incentive to do this.

It's not even a typo either, since the letter e is ages away from i on the keyboard...

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The aim of banks will increasingly be a power grab, in the same way that some online wallets are already starting to do.

Coinbase tries to alleviate the pressure of transaction fees by having their own offchain transactions - people who think they're with Bitcoin for "freedom" might start using this or a bank-based equivalent, in which case the aim of Bitcoin would be lost.

There was a second mention of Bitcoin in The Simpsons as well.

Krusty said "[I've had some] bad luck at the ponies, worst luck in the Bitcoin market..."

This was Series 25 a couple of years ago so probably just after a crash.

Having just looked it up, that appears to be a recent feature.  Last time I was on Livecoin there were no fiat pairs.

I was thinking maybe you were confused with USDT - a centralised token which is supposed to be pegged to the dollar.  You can trade with this on Bittrex and Poloniex, but not directly with fiat and you can't withdraw fiat on them.
Coinbase is alright for trading with ETH, but they have a high fee of 1.49% (they don't have a spread though).

Bittrex, Poloniex and Livecoin are all altcoin exchanges.  None of them deal with fiat, just different cryptocurrencies.
It mainly depends on your state.  For most states you should be okay trading at GDAX (Coinbase's dedicated exchange) or on Bitstamp, and I would personally trust those exchanges despite all bitcoin exchanges being slow/having terrible customer support.

It isn't all that hard trading in the US if you can provide ID, but if you're really have trouble you can always trade P2P on LocalBitcoins.
OKCoin is a Chinese exchange, and trust me you do not want to be dealing with YoBit.

Well German bankers were recently warning people not to buy bitcoin, and it's gone up dramatically since then.

Of course they'll cause loads of FUD about cryptocurrencies.

It's just like using weed killer on your garden, and the weeds are trying to tell you "it won't work! no point wasting your time and resources getting rid of us now!".

Honestly, if you're looking for a free bot then just don't waste your time.  None of them will be good enough - people just don't create these things for free.

There are two prominent trading bots on this forum:

1.  Gunbot.  This one has a 15 day refund guarantee, and you can hold the funds (0.1 BTC) in escrow for the first 15 days if you want.

2.  Cryptocurrency Automatic Trader (C.A.T).  This is somewhat similar.

In both cases you'll have to set which pairs you're trading with, how much you're trading with and other parameters which you would usually abide by if you were a manual trader.

Lunyr's trading volume is pretty low.  That means that to buy a lot you might have to wait a long time, depending on how much people are willing to sell to you or what they think it's worth.

Give it a few hours and make sure your order is on "Good 'til canceled" mode.  If you can't do it, raise your bid.

Handled properly, Bitcoin is extremely hard to confiscate from everyone.  It's not likely that any major government except for dictatorships will even bother trying, since they'd have such a difficult job finding out everyone who has it and exactly how much they have.  Even if they could figure that out, people could start mixing it with companies that are based in other countries and converting to other coins.

Precious metals are similar.  They can't be centrally taken without huge amounts of resources going into the work.