If we get to the start of March without dumping into oblivion I might start to tentatively believe this cycle has categorically bottomed. The ETF denial will be the final bit of ammo bear fans have then hopefully it's boredom rather than disaster from then on for a decent while.

Either way there must be a bottom and there must be a reversal and we're closing in on it now or are now cruising away upwards from it.

Ah. Cool.

Hopefully you should get it by the end of next week. When you sell it for billions name your Thai housekeeper after me.

I wouldn't say the aim was to become legal tender, though that can be helpful. The aim is to be a currency that anyone anywhere can use without having to seek the permission of someone else. That makes it entirely voluntary between the person sending it and the person receiving it.

In the future there'll be places where it will be possible to pay taxes with it while in other countries it might be a criminal offence to even possess it. Neither matters between the two parties transacting.

You should be face down on a church floor reflecting on your weekly evils. Not this heathen frivolity.

Am I allowed to say out loud that I think the Haiku form is shit and pointless? Though full marks for creativity.

They do not speak to me in any way whatsoever. I presume if one is steeped in Bushido it moves one to tears.

Most people here have limericks in their DNA, most of which have 'Nantucket' in there somewhere.

Interesting.

Considering his long-suffering 'corrections' of BCH/SV/ABCwhatevs doubters I always envisaged someone rather like this -



Anyway, I respect anyone who knows anything. Cos I don't.

I think it's a subject worth reinvestigating in a decade or two. It's certainly not a goer while things are so closely tied to fiat. It may well be a different matter when tens or hundreds of millions only dip back into fiat to pay their taxes or satisfy bills that refuse crypto.

This is one area that's going to develop until it bears zero resemblance to how it is at present.

So it seems the old chestnut about the louder someone is about something the more likely they embody it still stands firm.

I guess no one else will ever know what the story is here, not that it got any clearer at any point. Still glad I don't have a coin that requires a third party.

Mind telling us which coin?

I bought a coin from Gravitate once upon a time and redeemed it long before his meltdown. The private key wouldn't register. Only after many hours of trawling my mind did I remember he sent me a message via Ebay or whatever telling me the printed private key had a couple of figures reversed.

What seems like a novel security technique at the time can turn into a fund extinguisher years down the line.

The world needs at least one exchange that doesn't give a shit about anyone or anything. That used to be BTC-e, but now we know that might have been for a reason. I wonder if anyone else will ever do anything similar.

Well yes.

What do you think happens if you buy a hat with the Ayatollah with his knickers around his ankles on it and then wind up playing the man himself in the game?

Hey, want a new job being our contrarian?

In the meantime you can take a copy of the nearest newspaper and insert the word 'pants' into every headline. That got me through every single tour of Vietnam right up to the fall of Saigon.

I can't say this is getting any clearer. All I can tell is that Titan isn't responding to anyone. I presume you transfer across the  2FA control by responding from the original emali address registered. Sounds messy and unsafe even with escrows and stuff.

It doesn't matter what our feelings are, the people who run many of the most popular services are running towards it. The regulators themselves certainly will not turn a blind eye.

The best outcome is that regulated crypto becomes so enormous that the need to move back into fiat fades away. At that point regulators are screwed if they want to retain control. It will fly away like a randy birdie.

Of course by that point there'll be crypto banks bossing you around but also huge advances in decentralised exchanges and wallets plus enough people with the appetite and tools to shun attempts to control them. Imagine what Venezuela would look like if there was a closed loop crypto economy there that was simply uninterested and had no requirement for the Bolivar.

This is what many may think including me. The prices show that enough people don't agree.

I've been so consistently astounded that XRP managed to get anywhere, let alone stay there, that it's a subject I simply can't be bothered to think about any more as it's forever beyond my comprehension. I'll leave 'em to it.

That's already happening in Japan and South Korea. It'll probably happen elsewhere.

Regulators will 'suggest' exchanges may want to delist privacy coins. If the suggestion isn't followed then they come back again with a rather firmer stance.

On a company like Coinbase's own internal ledger between their customers. Someone here suggested sending someone else a private key to restore in their own wallet so ownership changes without moving the coin. That is of course possible but not advisable.

How do we know these guys don't have secret Batman-esque lives as the hottest developers on the planet?

It's possible they all run an as yet undeclared DeepStateCoin that's been underpinning the world for decades. That's why the CIA had to replace Gavin Andresen's mind with a Nokia 6110 when he refused to contribute.

It seems like an increasingly obvious way to hijack funds. I find it pretty amazing when people use totally random websites to generate QR codes and don't ever seek a second opinion on the results they get.

I have zero idea how ios apps work. Is it easy for a user to crack them open and start fiddling with them? Mycelium on ios has basically been abandoned for well over a year which gives plenty of time to learn the ins and outs.

There used to be hosted wallets like Xapo that paid the fee for you. Most wallets that give you control over your keys won't have a zero fee option. If you had a wallet with full fee control such as the Bitcoin Core wallet I'll guess miners would ignore the transaction out of principle if nothing else.

It's not impossible, just unlikely. It seems the higher the priority of a tx the higher the chance of a zero fee tx being taken by a miner.

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