Free public transport in an EU backwater?

Errr, fuck it. I'll take it.

Because they're going to be driven out of exchanges that want to stay in business. That's already happening in Japan and South Korea. I expect it to spread elsewhere. They can lock down on exchanges. They can't do it to coins like that. That's probably enough for now.

It needs a couple more decades before more than a few nutters think that way. Us here are way too far down the rabbit hole to see how the rest of the world thinks about it.

I'm guessing that crew is keeping their powder dryer. They'll have more SV to dispose of than the other lot will have whateverit'scalled to dump.

Comical and pathetic and largely how I expected it to play out.

That article misses one rather large thingy which is, unlike gold, BTC can be verified and delivered to anyone anywhere in the world at any time within minutes. That's kinda the point and makes it more than a little harder to pull the wool over everyone's eyes.

Diego Garcia makes much more sense. Lots of security. We'll all have to join the US military though. I'd like to be an ICBM duster. V relaxing.

Hey, I'd love to have my botty licked like that.

I tend to award merit on either whether a post makes me laugh, educates me, or makes me look at something from an angle I hadn't considered before. None of those require a high rank.

There seem to be lots of posts fishing for merit that feel extremely stiff and forced, like a Victorian gentleman courting some frigid bint.

It's much better to let things flow from your mind and fingers.

Here is my wonderful prediction - the final denial of this in late Feb next year will be where the ultimate bottom hits.

Since the Winklevoss denial in March ish 2017 is what kicked the upwardness in properly that would be a fitting conclusion to the whole cycle.

Then it's boredomtown for a year or two.

https://digitalassetindexfund.com

XEM is one of the ten choices of Morgan Creek's Digital Asset Index Fund. The manager is offering a $1 million wager that it'll grow more than the S&P 500 over the next ten years.

I think the wrong end of the stick has been grabbed and wiggled around until it snapped.

Even your Rapecoin?

Your plan is one long string of assumptions that all depend on each other. It's like betting on the outcome of 10 football games when 1 is bonkers enough. Maybe a few people per year manage it. Everyone else falls by the wayside.

If you're that confident of a fall, and I certainly don't think there's much appetite for rising on the horizon, short it instead. You won't be left with nothing if your targets don't hit and you're too married to them to change your plan.

I got Cortana to read it out loud while I touched myself.

Anyone know why TERA2 was banned? I found him irritating but certainly not offensive or nefarious.

You think anyone selling now is a noob? They'll be hard core traders. And I doubt Bitfinex has many noobs any more. There are much more welcoming places for them.

That's defrauding the tax man.

There's legitimate tax avoidance. That isn't it. You're lying about the source of your funds.

The tax man has seen it all and nailed it all. I expect anything relating to the UAE will be looked at extremely closely.

You may well be fine. I wouldn't bother myself for the sake of a quiet life. 

ETH now manfully engaged in the fight to become a double digit shitcoin.

Will it pull it off?

With aplomb.

I well and truly can't remember where I read it, maybe Bitmex research, but the only reliable figure that points towards BTC that's still accessible is Bcash that has moved since August 2017. It's a surprisingly high figure, over 50% I think. There'll still be loads going nowhere in paper wallets so I think the lost coins figure is much lower.

If such a thing happens the price will take the shit of the century. Anyone who thinks it's a store of value or any type of safe haven is deluded. For most it's a pure bet and when your belt is tightening your bets will be the first to go.

Those with a genuine use for it such as people trying to move money out of shithole economies or druggists don't drive the price and will still find it entirely usable still at lower values.

I think it's guaranteed to be superseded. It's a prototype and will remain so. Someone will come up with something that does everything it claims to do and much more and it'll simply... work.

There won't be weird languages to learn, holes in the contracts, nodes that are major undertaking to sync and a chain that keeps bloating.

It's not here yet, but it will be. However it's going to require multiple actual uses for the idea of 'blockchain' for something with improved functionality to get traction and expose ETH as wheezing poo.

At the same time I don't think it's going to stop the zombies trading ETH for a long arse time yet. No one is yet to care about actual uses for things like this. If Ripple can be older than BTC and still have achieved precisely fuck all and still be worth what it is, we have a long way to go before sense reigns.