Is World Series of Poker going ICO now?! That would be a great breakout for them. Hopefully they have a good system in place for players and a good manager, I don't want to see this effed up. Also, PMd you for more information.

Nice site from the looks of it, sort of like Bitkong. Is there plans in the future to invest in the sites bankroll for those of that persuasion?

I figured that the miners would stay in China for the electricity from the Three Gorges Dam, I'm told it's pretty cheap in Sichuan. As long as the regulations aren't hindering too much they'll probably stay there. But I'm ignorant as to what regs are coming down from the Chinese government. It's a good theory that the Chinese government won't allow the miners to leave since the largest pools are pretty much there.

What are the 23 units? Warehouses? Also, what are the specs for the investors? Prices that you are charging? How will they get their miners to you? What are your plans for hurricanes/flooding? Any other information would be helpful.

I think the regulation should be more on the companies that are coming out with the ICOs versus individual persons. There are several scammers out there and for newbies not knowing how to spot the difference it would help some people if the governments went after them. Or at least the threat would keep a lot of scammers away. P2P should remain just that without government interference when it's between two individuals.

Thank you for the clarifications. With all the additional regulations, is it possible that the companies that could would move their operations to another location that is more amenable to them being there without the additional costs? Of course this would happen over a period of time as to not hamper their operations too much.

True, the government can get in the way sometimes. I'm hoping that they have a good advisor, or are at least open to knowledgeable persons giving advice. From what I've seen so far, most in the US government are for allowing cryptocurrencies to develop and grow. They seem to be going after those that are (or at least appear to be) scams. There are those in the government that are xenophobic towards cryptos as well. Thankfully, for now, they are a minority.

So where is this office/warehouse in Houston?  You have 23 miners?  Are you trying to build a mining farm in Houston? Some more details would be appreciated OP.

It would help out true. The more countries that start to "legalize" cryptocurrencies the better, since it's going to be around anyway. The promotion, much less embracing, of cryptocurrencies would help other countries to adopt them as well. Though I could see a potential downside to this as well. That being after people take the ICO course at this university another wave of shit ICOs cropping up from that region. Hopefully the course would go over the downside of that trend happening.

Are you trying to get into the African market from somewhere else in the world? What country are you trying to start from? That could help you out in your development and then from there grow regionally, then the continent. Just saying you want to start your project in Africa is kinda broad.

So what is the "official" stance of the Chinese government in regards to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies? Is it totally illegal in China? Or just the development of it? Since the majority of Bitcoin mining is in China how does that affect what the "official" stance is? Can Chinese use Bitcoin/cryptocurrencies in China or just hold it?

The information could go a long way to clarifying some issues with BTC in China and maybe help spur some interesting conversations/solutions.

I agree, OP needs to work on his end and figure out what needs to be done. And quit paying the ransoms! As for the forum changes, isn't some of this supposed to happen with the new forum site? If it ever gets up and running that is.

From the thread that was posted it appears that there is some question about nitrogen sports, don't know how accurate it is though. It also appears that Fortune Jack has some good PvP rooms for poker. Though, is there a site that "ranks" poker rooms somewhere out there in the wide world of the interwebs? That would probably help answer a lot of these same questions that float around.

I doubt that Facebook will come out with an announcement about it. It'll hurt their base. And as the bot isn't affecting the app itself, just the app in Chrome. So it's really affecting Google more than Facebook. I wonder if Google is doing anything about that.

The US government, SEC and FINRA, are actually not being as heavy handed as they could be. They are also, in the same respect, not as knowledgeable as they could be in regards to putting out their rulings. Though they are trying to regulate moderately in an effort to stop the scammers from proliferating to US customers. Any company that wants to start and pander to US customers needs to have their ducks in a row before accepting US customers and be able to show they are above board. The SEC only got involved after the DAO hack anyway, which did fall loosely into their realm when it came to securities.

Markets go in swings, all of them. Just how big the swing is depends on the market. Currencies do the same thing, even the dollar. Fiats go in swings on the pip level and that's how big players make money on the forex (foreign exchange) market when they play with 10k+ dollars for the market. The same is happening with cryptocurrencies, though with them being in the nascent stages their swings are much more dramatic. It has happened with any currency in history when they first come to being. Just stay with it, or hodl as they say, and buy the dips.   Also, try asking newbie questions in the newbie section, or at least browse there first to see if your question has been asked before. It'll help the mods and admins here to cut down on the amount of posts to look at.

Bitcoin Cash jumped up to #3 due to the difficulty for Bitcoin Cash lowered and all the miners jumped to that chain. That's one reason why the Bitcoin network was clogged up, along with the flood of transactions for the holidays. The miners jump back and forth to try to capitalize on their profits, to the detriment of both chains. Once its profitable to mine Bitcoin again they'll jump back onto Bitcoin chain and Bitcoin Cash will drop down again. Been a cycle since it started in August.

You also have to take into consideration that you're only asking about miners. Most, if not all, of the miners are in pools and the pools are, more often than not, in large industrial mining facilities, for Bitcoin. So to have an attack, virus, on a miner you could, theoretically, take down an asic or two before the staff at these facilities figure out what's going on. But you won't take down the whole pool. Once they do, they'll get new asics and get rid of the infected ones. As for Bitcoins themselves, I don't see a virus infecting a Bitcoin and then distributing among the populace. But I could be wrong there.

Everybody is trying to get into cryptocurrencies, even sex toys. Funny. I wonder how many people will be buying these.

I think that if the Chinese government does something like banning mining in China then the network would take an initial hit, but then recover for the better. Break up the big bottleneck. I do believe that the issues that Bitcoin is facing today with transactions is due to the miners shifting to Bitcoin Cash mining instead of keeping the network up and running like they should be. That needs to change.