Ah. Good to know. It took its time. But you are foreign. May it be the foundation of a generational dynasty of selling bits of old paper to other people.

What the fuck?

I've loudly and longly proclaimed my total lack of understanding of this area. I'd better outsource this sideline to my click farm in India.



How does it feel to be vastly richer than the mongs in here who've spouted millions of words and achieved very little because of it?

There will always, always be enough miners. The rate of production will never, ever slow down. For someone somewhere it's going to be profitable. That's what the difficulty adjustment is for.

This is something I ponder on and off. That 1-3% figure is pretty far out. I'll bet there are people who've been reading this thread for longer than most of us have been here who've never even registered, let alone written anything.

I'm sure it's easy to be intimidated by the astonishing power and paint-stripping insight of titanic intellects such as the one I happen to possess. I still think they should make themselves known. We need a lurker amnesty.

Come on out. We won't hurt you.

American weather is fooking mental compared to us soft Europeans. I've probably done 20-30,000 miles around the US. A lot of the time the sky was assaulting me in ways I've never experienced before.

80% of the stolen funds belonged to Coincheck themselves. I imagine it would've been a rather different story if it had been 100% customer funds.

No idea why anywhere would bail out a tainted operation but I guess they'll know better than me.

Can we all move in with you? It sound very reassuring there.

In return for food, power and guns I can offer toast making, as long as it's your bread and you're not too fussy, and I'll keep my room tidy.

90%? Says who?

It was just another empty reheat just like 2013. When a one page website and one page white paper is 'worth' tens or hundreds of millions of market cap the end was clearly in sight.

I don't understand why Bitmain dying is scary.

Bitmain shitting itself to death should be wholeheartedly celebrated. They'll eventually be just another footnote in Bitcoin's history and an object lesson in what happens when you attempt to buck its momentum. You're going to get flattened no matter how big and wonderful you think you are.

Let it be a warning to every other asshole who turns up in future believing they know better than, like, everyone.

At best they'll do 1-2 sales until their customers get more savvy and abandon them for places that have realistic fees. Same goes for ATMs.

I'd forgive somewhere that was perhaps 1-2% above what I would pay elsewhere for the odd spontaneous buy. When it's that high there's absolutely no way I'd bother. They're fucking themselves ultimately.

It's still that one single nutter. No new sources at all. Has the mainstream press begun to get crypto press AIDS?

Well, it's pretty comical watching people descend on the Chipmixer thread as soon as there's a sniff of space so I can imagine this type of behaviour will become increasingly prevalent. There seem to be more decent looking campaigns than there've been for a while but still not enough space. Are you keeping an eye on who applies for your space?

I don't think there's any way of telling who it was.

Nothing much until 2020/21 fireworks feels like the most optimistic scenario to me. But also far too predictable. Surely it's not that predictable.



The pursuit and enchantment of pussy and/or cock.

We're still in the infantile shit-thrown-at-the-wall phase where no one knows the value of anything and blatant crap is pursued just as furiously as stuff that'll survive and thrive. I'm kind of shocked we're still in this phase.

Another few years of failure and insults to intelligence will elevate the stronger stuff to an unassailable position. There'll be more shit than ever but it'll be scrabbling around down at the bottom and it'll stay there.

It's a real offer. Plenty of people have mentioned it. I don't know what's in it for people who put money in. I don't understand any valuation in this space, or anything related to internet businesses whatosever. I guess exchanges are at least dependable as long as they're run properly.

Isn't this what most here are expecting anyway?



Wut? I've not seen anything anywhere to prove anything.

Being a communist state, France has kept many markets completely sewn up.

You can't buy any type of drug or medication anywhere other than an official pharmacy, even the crappiest aspirin.

Similarly you can't buy tobacco anywhere other than a tabac. No supermarkets, no filling stations, no convenience stores, nothing. Only there.

That makes them very ubiquitous. Any settlement of reasonable size will have one which is why it's a big deal. However there's been similar attempts in other countries which got nowhere like Zipzap.

I would consider it for comedy value, but only if I could easily cover it without ever getting a penny back from crypto 'profits'.

Of course if I could afford to do that I would not really need a loan. It is revealing though that we hardly ever hear about people taking out loans near the bottom but plenty at the top.

That's the thing that blows my mind the most. After all this time and all the lessons learnt there really are hardly any coins that make a decent shot for proper decentralisation. It's like the people who hawk alts are not capable of processing this fact when everything springs forth from there.

Bitcoin, despite its many issues, is still the prime standard bearer by a country mile.

Every alt that launches and falters bolsters BTC's position. The ETC attack is just the latest example of that. If you value your value then you can't afford to be dicking around with weak development and mining.

Reports like this seem to believe that it's spreading things too thin when ultimately it's going to drive people back to the thing that most people gather around.

But alts will never, ever, ever go away. There's always going to be a 'bitcoin killer' launching with at least $50 in marketing funds.

This doesn't really make much sense since the 'child' himself responded to you in that thread a few hours later. If you'd caused him to burst into tears at the time and call for Mother I presume he would've put a black mark on you forever.

I think that reflects rather poorly on the thickness of his hide. And you're a little bit naughty too. Smacked botty for you.