actually i was thinking the opposite will happen this time. specially before the airdrop!

my reason is that this time the way they distribute the coins has changed a lot. before it was a big reward for the bitcoin's you owned and a decent reward for the GBYTEs you owned. but this upcoming round is very different because they will give you a tiny reward for the bitcoins you own and a huge reward for every GBYTE you own.

this can potentially create some incentive to buy more byteball to get a bigger profit out of it. and in the long run your total profit will be a lot bigger with the next rally that Byteball will have.

(you will also get a lot of BlackBytes which have a decent price)

forget rumors. the reality is what matters most.
we already have SegWit on both bitcoin and litecoin.
they have been working on Lightning Network too. and i heard yesterday that it was tested and was successful. it is getting ready to release soon. with it the price will shoot up fast.
as for smart contracts i believe it is RSK that will work on both bitcion and litecoin. and it has been a very promising project so far too.

and whenever a rise like that happens the FOMO follows and makes things move even faster.

p.s. for litecoin it is also best to look at its USD price too. because most of the time that is keeping it up and rising. (eg. from $50 to $70)

there has not yet been a 15% drop! how are you calculating it. the ATH was $4970 and the current price is $4444 in bitfinex and that is a 10.5% drop!

anything below 30% with bitcoin is always going to be a simple correction. and 30% drops has never been common nor lasted for long. if it happened and could actually last a long time that means it is a bear market.

drop to 4000 is 18.36% drop. in which case i think it is safe to assume we are in a bear market or at least a start of one.

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And also I will be leaving because the payment of this round will be just too small for me.
It was great working with you.

i have been involved with bitcoin around the time when price was nearly $200 and i can not remember a time when price "doubled in a few days"!

are you sure you are not confusing bitcoin with an altcoin that is fake pumped?

i agree more with this.
mostly because of the size of the market. and how much bigger and more distributed it is compared to 4 or 5 years ago.

i have a couple of issues with what you just said, and i don't understand.

1. the 4 MB is the block "Weight" not block size.
as you can see the block weight of above block is 3996.461 kWU according to blockchain.info

2. how do you explain all the other block explorers showing the size as 988.2 kB
blocktrail
blockcypher

3. there are still legacy nodes on the network that will reject any block that is bigger then 1 MB so that block can not be valid if we want to be backward compatible.

this is impossible to do. which means either that block is invalid and the rest of them have built on top of an invalid and orphan chain. or it means that blockchain.info made a mistake.

and with a deeper look https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/block/00000000000000000139cb443e16442fcd07a4a0e0788dd045ee3cf268982016 the later is true.
in other words blockchain.info messed up again. you can clearly see that in blocktrail that size is 988.2 kB which is under 1 MB and correct.

the trend that you have been seeing is pretty obvious from your post history. each time there is a price rise you come here and start talking about doomsday and dump down to $100. of course this year you stopped saying that number!

and not much longer than 5 days ago you were singing about how price is dropping down to below $3000 just because a tiny correction happened!

so yeah, everyone is seeing the "trend" here...

that is how bitcoin works. blockchain is a public ledger that contains all the transactions that has ever happened. if you know how you can simply write a code to get all the information such as how much bitcoin belongs to what address.

and that is what that link in OP is showing.

what you can't tell is that who does these addresses belong to. for example many of these addresses containing a large sum of bitcoin belong to services such as exchanges.

if you are really this unhappy with bitcoin (since your post history filled with FUD about bitcoin suggests) then here is the door: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=logout

but i doubt you ever leave this place and that simply shows how empty your words are

ripple is one of those coins that went crazy about the supply and now in the long term it is paying the price so to speak. it is exactly the same situation like Dogecoin for example. they go crazy on the supply without thinking properly and then end up with an altcoin that keeps going lower and lower in long term.

current price = $4100
25x current price = $102,500
1 satoshi at that price = $0.001
sorry we need more rise for that to happen

and it doesn't really "devalue dollar" or cause an "economical collapse". there has been many other things in the history that grew that much and that big and none of them caused any of these things!

so far it doesn't seem like they are supporting them.
but i believe it may be a feature they are going to add in the near future. this wallet for ethereum is very new after all. it takes time and if there were enough demand for it, i am sure they will do it.

lol, you wish.
people like Roger Ver believe in bitcoin more than you and I do. that is why he is the owner of a large sum of bitcoin. he is never going to leave bitcoin, dump it or anything like that.

all these public stunts is for other reasons that we all have suspicious about and some day we will be sure about it.
but it is never because they don't believe in bitcoin or want to leave it.

this is not much of an article my friend, you just reported a couple of numbers and just in a short period of time.
and when you look at things with a limited vision of course you miss a lot of stuff. what you see as a "decline" is just
a +44% rise in 30 days.
and a +90% rise in 60 days
and  ....
a 280% rise in first 8 months of 2018
...
and a 600% rise compared to last year the same time.

it is not as anonymous as you may think although it can not be completely blocked. but causing a lot of troubles is easy, just announce it illegal and people will simply stop using it!

with dice you got to learn how to have fun with it not try so hard to make profit from it because that will prove to be an impossible thing to achieve. try different short term strategies, with high multipliers like 9x-10x but as soon as you win stop and change.
also it is always fun to come up with new and weird strategies, sometimes they work best than the old ones that everyone is using.

good luck wasting your time
and here is a link too: https://blockchain.info/address/1BitcoinEaterAddressDontSendf59kuE containing 13.12BTC

why worried?
even if by a miracle bitcoin cash found a chance of growing big, that doesn't change anything about bitcoin! bitcoin will still be bitcoin and as strong.

and that chance will never happen though. BCC is not exactly something that people want.