Hey here's a suggestion. Instead of reading statistics and asking questions of us on this forum, why don't you start asking questions of yourself? Like, for instance, "how the hell can I become a better person, smarter, healthier, less fearful, more entertaining, more positive and more of the type of person I would be in an ideal world."

https://satoshis.place is driving Lighting innovation via real-world stress testing. Over 8,000 daily users, 8,000,000 pixels drawn, and 3,000 settled payments. Lightning devs are writing performance patches in direct response to feedback provided by @LightningK0ala

that's more activity then the top 10 ethereum dapps combined.

here is a time lapse video. so NSFW, much dirty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9BMILCC1hY&feature=youtu.be

We'd be wise to remember that no exponential trend can continue indefinitely in a finite world.

All full validating nodes, mining or not, validate all the transactions and blocks in the network and check if they follow the rules, correct?

Then I assume that that my node is as good as a miner's node.

But why do some people believe that only the miners' nodes matter and are very quick to cite this?

MY bank (credit union) does not have an online access for international wire transfers.

But space mining is real and inevitable because planet earth has only finite resources

Rick just came home from work and asked "What the fuck is going on with Bitcoin, man ?"

I just shrugged and replied with "No idea, dude."

What do I tell him about this dump ?

I have no idea what's going on.

I agree with something along the lines of flat tax; zero discouragement to maximise your income and probably this kind of tax has to be sales based.

https://bitcoinvolatility.io/

Webpage version of the app, Gilfoyle from "Silicon Valleys" made, that plays Napalm Death's "You Suffer", every time BTC moves above or below a certain price.

Story here: https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/29/17286148/silicon-valley-gilfoyle-napalm-death-bitcoin-price

Saw a man today (around 45-50) in Phuket riding a Harley wearing a cap with bitcoin logo on it. He had a young chick in the back, aged maybe around 20y. Wonder if he's someone from the forum

Set a goal in life, figure out how much money you need to do it, and stick to the plan.

The US and UK banks banned buying bitcoin with credit cards. Are they letting circle circumnavigate their ban?

I asked if I could count the hard fork as "other income" and got this response from a PA tax person:

"You must report it on schedule D as sale, exchange for disposition of property."

Market cap of scam coins is illusory.

I posted earlier about how United Bitcoin had a daily volume of $450k on Quione with an order book depth of $560.  That’s not a typo - the total order book depth was less than $1k.

The argument was specifically as it related to the whitepaper, not what was said later on.

...further if the entire premise of Bitcoin is based on not trusting and verifying for yourself, then SPV wallets should not exist and everyone should be independently verifying transactions with their own full blockchain. Yet low and behold, plenty use SPV wallets for convenience.

have the pools ever banned transactions?

I was sitting at the pool here in Pattaya and some thai girl was taking off her t-shirt that said

Hold
On for
Dear
Life

on the back. Then she hung out with her foreign boyfriend in the pool. I figured he was the rich bitcoin guy that got his hot young thai girl (with fake titties and all).

As I was leaving I commented "Awesome t-shirt man". They looked at me like I was crazy.