He's back!!   

^^^Thank you.  Well I have tested the waters in the past with very small amounts with some success but that's as far as it went.  At this point I have neither Monero nor bitcoin on any exchanges.  I do use btc but I should start using XMR.TO when doing so.

Although I don't make comments like cheap coins or to the moon I'm still here.  Been here through both periods of 0.001  I don't know about my buddy explorer, haven't seen his node up lately.  I have been very busy at work for many days but today is slow.  Slow enough to play poker on the intertubes with a cat on my lap.  

# of Moneroj sold = 0
# of Moneroj acquired = relatively small amount

Time for a bite to eat and do a little work 

Edit: I just realized the ambiguous time frame. 
Sold = this year
Acquired = on this most recent downturn

I bought this year on the way up in the 100s and 200s with some thought of selling higher but I don't seem to have learned how to do that.  I also bought a little in the 300s with some leftover earmarked btc.  Acquired and bought are two different words.

ShapeShift is back but as of now only between btc and eth

Teacher: Please use "now" in a sentence.

What is the price of that sandwich now? What is the temperature now?  How old are you now?  What are the traffic conditions now?  What is the value of the promotion now? 

Hey Dark Cloud, there is no poker site that has not changed their promotions.  This is a small change by SwC.  I have been fucked over by changes that other poker sites have done. 

Yes winblows because that's what the poker sites run on.  At least I haven't "upraded" to windows 10 despite their constant spamming.  I am planning to get an additional computer for other things.

I was told that despite the title of this thread it also serves as the block observer thread.

For whatever reason it currently looks like a full block day.

Let's see if my transaction that I just sent which included a fee high enough too be rated "high priority" will be included in the next block.  Yes I actually have a use for btc and use it on a regular basis.

While I was typing this, a new block was found the size of which was 0.9982 MB  and I am happy to report that my "high priority" transaction, fee of 0.000113, was included in that block

BTW this was on windows64 8.1

I am running 0.9.4 and every couple of days I get the following error message(s).  Yellow letters with an red background.  Once they start they come in quick succession and are continual.  When it happens I just exit and restart. 

ERROR  {2} {p1} 2016-04-17 09:48:01.722513 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+512 ::do_se
nd_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), s
hutting down connection
ERROR  {3} {p1} 2016-04-17 09:48:44.708568 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+512 ::do_se
nd_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), s
hutting down connection
ERROR  {4} {p1} 2016-04-17 09:49:47.477380 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+512 ::do_se
nd_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), s
hutting down connection
ERROR  {3} {p1} 2016-04-17 09:49:53.399647 [abstract_tcp_server2.inl+512 ::do_se
nd_chunk] send que size is more than ABSTRACT_SERVER_SEND_QUE_MAX_COUNT(1000), s
hutting down connection

If you have btc on SwC I could recover your account and send the btc to you at no charge.  It would be worth the effort to be able to put an end to your lamenting.   That is as long as it is OK with SwC.  I still play there whenever I find a game that suits me.

S = k. log W

There are many fiat/btc gateways and even a fiat/eth gateway in Kraken.  So why would a fiat/xmr gateway be impossible long term?

"Changelly is presented to you by MinerGate."

No thank you.

Maybe but there is no way this thread can compete with the true Goundhog's Day thread that is Adam's "Wall Observer" thread 

Be my guest

It went down 2% from when I posted that I thought it was going down a little and that is all I expected very short term and would now buy if I could.  One day at a time, the noise that will one day be music.

Well I finally received my btc which I had earmarked for Monero   I check the charts and figure maybe I can get it a bit lower but am undecided.  I check to see what the price on ShapeShift is and see that they are still down

"Soon" I will get me a wee bit more Moneroj 

Anybody want to speculate what the price will be when ShapeShift is once again available?

It seems that Bittrex will soon be implementing KYC policies.  Because of this I will no longer be using them and have withdrawn whatever I had there.  

The one source of btc that is earmarked for Monero is better suited to be used with Shapeshift which I have recently been doing and will continue to do.  That is the btc I have been waiting for and today the answer I got was "soon"    I have no doubt it will get here and what the delay is losing me in btc I am more than gaining in Monero.

I am unsure of your exact question.

There was one major update at the beginning of the year as well as 3 minor ones since then.  There was also a recent hardfork.  This was the first hardfork and they are scheduled every 6 months going forward.

Yes the development is ongoing with many improvements currently being worked on.

No it's if you have 1 btc it becomes half a btc which is the reason they have to pump the price up

Actually it's the block reward which will be cut in half from 25 to 12.5.  This happens every 4 years(?) and will be the second time this has happened.

Surprise, now the incompetent fools cannot process my btc transaction till maybe tomorrow.   This all should have been done almost 2 weeks ago

Who would like to speculate when I will actually receive it and what the price of Monero will be at that time