More than a few People are talking about it like it's already in the bag in a way they definitely weren't in 2015. I guess we have another halving to draw on since then but that's still a bit nuts.

I think we've got one more big 'un left before requiring the need to start delivering an amount of actual usage, and by usage I don't mean buying coffee, just going beyond pure speculation to beginning the journey to becoming a proper hedge or asset.

As it stands the one and only option available through mainstream investment portals is GBTC which isn't even Bitcoin. The next one is when mainstream starts to open up.

Boredom until the halving and then peaking in late 2021 still feels a bit too straightforward to me though.

Nah. I think it's going to be a year of not much. I don't think we're done shedding price yet. Once that's dealt with it'll be sluggish well into the following year.

The bear market isn't done. You don't immediately finish one of those and immediately set off gaily in the opposite direction. It's like a party. There's a lot of moping and sleeping to do before the next one happens.

Now safely deleted from my PMs and since I can't remember what happened an hour ago your opsec is safe again. Even if baddies roasted me for hours I couldn't tell them a thing. Try to behave just in case as they may not believe me.

When Binance has been going for a century without mishap, I can pop along to their offices and they're fully regulated in my jurisdiction I might consider parking a small amount of money on there for short periods. Until then I can't believe he'd write this. Perhaps his account has been farmed out to his 5 year old little brother.

I hope that overconfidence isn't extended into how they run their actual security.

Yup.

It's looking like more now according to this - https://www.reddit.com/r/Cryptopia/comments/ag75rs/cryptopia_hack_analysis_min_13000000_stolen/

However outside observers often make a right balls up of analysing coin movements.

Are we certain I didn't slaughter him and now inhabit his account to make me look good?

Maybe I even did that before and asked myself for the newspaper.

Growing online reps are a brutal business.

Of course not.

It seems like $2.5 million of ETH went missing plus a few other bits and bobs. That's a drip in the ocean. Cryptopia has been a piece of shit since it was stampeded during the bubble and never recovered. No one other than the small number of people left on there will miss it.

That's another type of security risk.

Has anything been written anywhere about the reasons for this? I can't imagine it's a money making measure. I also can't imagine it's going to deter the people who aren't already deterred by it.

It's not BCHABCwhatever that made that threat, it was the BCHSVCSWhatevacoin crew that did.

And as Bitmain has now ably proven no one actor can bend any aspect of BTC to their will. It's too big for that now.

I think Linux is painfully clunky shit and I'd sooner give up computing than have to use that on an every day basis. I don't understand why it has to be so crappy after all these years and I don't care either.

And anyone who says 'yeah, but' is welcome to come and sit on my lap and operate it for me via my voice commands. Until then, sod off.



You can get a fully functioning second hand computer for $40 or less if you're totally unfussy. Obviously that's still a lot of money in some parts of the world. If you're in a bit where it isn't consider it an investment in your own future.

In recent times they've had up to 100 wallets 'in maintenance'. They should've shut down, returned everyone's money and then relaunched when they were capable of delivering a service worth using.

They got swamped by new users during the bubble and have been limping ever since. This might be the fatal blow.

https://twitter.com/whale_alert/status/1084442862970945536

Looks like it's possibly $2.5 million in ETH. Unknown whether it's other stuff too.

Considering how piddling they are these days I'd be amazed they have the funds or income to cover it.

https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/01/15/breaking-crypto-exchange-cryptopia-hacked-police-starts-investigation/

https://mobile.twitter.com/Cryptopia_NZ/status/1085084168852291586

I hope no one has too much on here and it gets resolved rapidly. Cryptopia has sounded like such a piece of shit for so long that this feels kind of inevitable by this point.

This is an old series but has some good info - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzctEq7iZD-7-DgJM604zsndMapn9ff6q

The creator eventually went mad just the same as most Bitcoin 'influencers'.

I've learnt vastly more in places like this observing and participating in conversations rather than looking at static resources.

Absolutely no way in hell are they using a wild crypto.

The article repeatedly references 'blockchain' and nothing but.

I'd love to know how many of these sales go through and how many are trouble free sales. Do any regular traders on here sell on Ebay too? The prices always seem to be vastly higher than the ones achieved here. As is the risk of course.

On Ebay UK it's impossible to list anything other than a classified ad. No option to buy is on the page.

There's an error here for a bargain $16-17,000 https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Casascius-2011-with-error-fully-loaded-includes-all-forks/273626898991?hash=item3fb56f222f:g:Gb0AAOSwXCBaSoSP

Don't pout in front of the guest.

Those snapshots don't cover anything more than overall combined volumes though, not individual exchanges though I don't know whether that's important to OP. When you click on the snapshots of each exchange they take you through to today's chart.

The only place you're likely to find them is on the exchange themselves in their charts, but many don't go very far back. There must be someone archiving it but I'm not sure who.