Strange decision. There are plenty of long threads that are very worthy indeed and they'll have a much higher readership for much, much longer, and therefore exposure, than the countless 'where does we make most excellent profitings?' threads that run out of gas before they started.

Their rules of course but not very good ones. If I was financing the campaign I'd be a bit unimpressed myself.

Found the hacker. You cheeky fellow.

It's interesting because it's one of the most famous hacks of all time and by following the coins we may find out their eventual fate as well. Along the way we may learn how on it law enforcement and exchanges are about this type of thing.

You could've said the exact same about the return to $1000 and there was a lot more pain and terror before that happened.

If you're still here the chances are you've had a long, long time to learn and increase your resolve. The hopeless and gullible will have acted on that hopelessness and gullibility long before.

2014/15 carried with it the whiff of it still being some sort of fluke that could fade away. This time around it has no doubt hurt for many but you'd have to be pretty stupid and lacking in vision to not think the future is bright no matter what the short term does to you.

No one's going to sell to leave the money to rot in a bank account, unless they have some sort of condition.

I'm sure many here have areas of their life that they are looking to progress and are exceedingly tired of being chained to this whipsawing headfuck. I sure as shit am. I'd never be fully out of the game but I am extremely keen to not be so deep into it.

When the opportunity arises to exit enough to no longer have to care anywhere near as much it's being grabbed with both hands. Around half should do it.

That's the key. You have to keep drumming it into people and that doesn't take a week or two. There've been a lot of campaigns that have come and gone within a few weeks as they reported disappointing results. You need to allow for more time.

Long established campaigns can spend thousands of dollars per week. They ain't doing it for fun.

Looks like LFC is the first to get the rusty pipe for offending normaltons and turning them off. His behaviour is costing all of YOU money.

He'll have to do it to himself and post it as we're all very busy and important people here.

This is starting to gather some decent momentum. Last time I checked it had 1000 BTC. Latest figure is 3800.

Volume is well on its way up too - https://www.boerse-frankfurt.de/en/etf/de000a27z304-etc-issuance-gmbh-0-000/price-history/historical-prices-and-volumes

They may well have launched at a very fortuitous time.

When you get to my age you start to think about securing your legacy.

I think decentralised money being associated with a corroded length of metal being shoved inside someone's body and pulled in and out at high speed is something I would like to be remembered for, so I'm going to do everything within my power to make it happen.

If even only one Bitcoin user ends up skewered it will all have been worth it.

Perhaps a rusty pipe dangling out of one's ring piece will become as iconic as 'hodl' in the years to come. I can imagine future Bitcoin meets being a riot of clanking and groans of agony.

Nope. Worst case scenario is that it won't get picked up and processed by a miner. It will return to your wallet, not that it ever left. I can't quite remember but I think that'll take 10-14 days to play out.

Even with fees as they are it's quite possible someone will process it during that time. There would be many peaks and troughs during a couple of weeks. I've had some lengthy waits whilst skimping but I've never had one fail to get there eventually.

It's going to be interesting to observe whether they hang on to enough users and add enough new ones. They have a whole lot of track record and people may resolve to keep with the familiar. It's the users themselves of course who make it and there'll be traders on there with 7-8 years of feedback. That's going to be compelling for buyers even if there is KYC.

I last used them in 2014. No plans to again.

Mind boggling that it took 20 posts for this to be mentioned.

These days if you're happy to donate 50 BTC to become an official donator then more power to you but you're likely to be in a microscopic minority. Once upon a time that was 50 bucks and less which is when many of the donations would've been made. The origins of this forum came together before Bitcoin itself even had a price.

That's their trade and they're unlikely to tell you how they know. They could of course be making it all up. It's not as if some tubby sheriff is going to know better.

But there are plenty of cases of moronic dark market traders sending coins straight to exchanges. And those Twitter hackers posted an address with previous transactions to exchanges. The criminally minded are just as lazy and stupid as the rest of us.

Even the more careful can blow it all with one slip.

The numbers could be totally made up, but I'm sure they have ways and means they're not going to tell us, however there's no denying a large amount of coinage has been exchanged for questionable things over the years.

If your coins are not straight from the miner the likelihood is extremely high we all have a little piece of them.

If you have any Bitcoin then the chances are extremely high you have some that was either stolen from someone or earned selling 'shit'. Silk Road and similar will have had hundreds of thousands of coins passing through and they don't disappear like magic, they keep on circulating.

As long as you don't end with a toxic brand on your forehead it is what it is.

If you have the means you leave shitholes for quality of life as much as anything. Everyone would do it if they could afford it.

Would I rather live in a penthouse apartment in Murmansk or the Bahamas? The latter sounds a bit more fun.

Even if tax rates were lower in the place you left and there was no question of your wealth being nicked most people would still prefer to be somewhere that didn't make you want to top yourself every time you walked out your front door.

MUCH more satisfying to have paid for things with shitforks.

I have a MSI GS65 paid for by Roger. That was about 1.3 Rogers when it was way higher than it is now so I have a £300 machine. I like it when it goes in the opposite direction more.

I still have some Rogers and Craigys. I'm looking forward to spending them when mugs send them vastly higher.

Availability.

There's someone on LBC in almost every country. Localcryptos has plenty of blank space though I hope it grows. Bisq has even bigger yawning gaps.

If we take Bulgaria as an example, though I've no idea what the exchange situation is there.

https://localbitcoins.com/buy-bitcoins-online/BG/bulgaria/

https://localcryptos.com/Bitcoin/Bulgaria

https://bisq.network/markets/?currency=btc_bgn

A fair few on LBC, three on localcryptos, zilch on Bisq.

Same story for almost everywhere else a bit out of the way.

I mentioned my gout and erectile dysfunction on my tax return. They sent a note back saying they were very sorry to hear it and reduced my rate by 50%, plus threw in a bit of generic Cialis.

If you don't ask you don't get.

There are still quite a few countries where there are no functioning exchanges and with very few options to move money to those abroad. They have gradually shat all over what made them worthwhile for most users, but even if they lose a lot of custom now future custom in that niche may make up for it.