where did these ether coins move to? any updates on this news.
i can see from those links that both addresses have their balances halved, the "total out" is nearly half the balance.
did the hackers already cash out

i was always wondering if something like this exists. this is good. incomplete but still good. keep up the good work and keep completing the list, you can make your site into a very useful database.
since you are accepting user submission then try to focus on that, start a user account even where people can log in and rank up to be able to submit as their submission count grows.

here is a cheat sheet
http://www.mininghwcomparison.com/list/index.php?brand=both (this one had my old GT 730 GPU but you didn't lol)
there are more if you search.

i am not knowledgeable enough to say with complete certainty if the current on chain scaling that they propose is good or bad but the arguments against it are a lot and they even make sense.

i just want to add two things.
1. i agree with your points but they should not be confused with what some are currently doing to take over bitcoin. with threats, with their money or hashpower.

2. it is not like bitcoin is being developer behind closed doors and closed source. you can always contribute to the existing code on existing repository. as many others are doing on github and through proper channels. you don't need to make a new repo for it and develop separately.

all those addresses are yours and you can use anyone that you like.

electrum is a deterministic or HD wallet which uses a master private key to generate all these addresses. you back up that key as your seed.
there are so many of them to give you flexibility to use each for receiving new payments and prevent Address Reuse

it depends on what you mean by "spend time". wasting time for example is not proper way of spending it. and that's what most people do.

but if you spend time constructively by
studying the market,
analyzing the charts,
learning how to trade,
reading articles,
watching the movement on charts and thinking about reasons for each change
....
that would be a good thing.

some people even start "demo trading". if the platform allows that (crypto trading platforms rarely have this feature) then even better, but if not on paper or in an excel sheet. placing imaginary buys and then watching if they get filled, then placing imaginary sells and finally seeing if you could make profit.

all trading needs is experience. to know how things work and then acting fast.

that doesn't sound like a plausible theory to me.

specially because you are a little confused about how consensus rules work. it is not just the hashrate with power. it is the whole ecosystem. the nodes, and all the people using bitcoin whether they are just investing or a business owner are affecting it.
if you change a consensus rule and nodes reject your block, you are on your own.
if you change a consensus rule and nobody buys your chain's coin, you are again on your own.

one of the biggest obstacles that i currently see in front of BCC is its price. everything is determined with this price. when it goes down miners will start losing money, losing lots of it as BTC stays up and moves up because it still has a lot of demand for sure.

first of all SegWit is a soft fork not a hard fork (unless you are talking about something else) and currently the 100% signal is for SegWit soft fork.
and it is not a wrong number, why would you even say that
oh and by the way this signalling has so little with the 2 MB hard fork which is scheduled for later!

correct me if i am wrong but if you don't signal for SegWit at this point (which is the locked in phase of BIP91) your block will be orphaned. so there shouldn't be anything else than 100%

as far as i know this is incorrect.
Charlie Lee forked bitcoin and created LTC to be able to explore additional possibilities, implement his suggestions for bitcoin which were impossible to implement on bitcoin.
the terms gold and silver are what people started after some time to get the "money" involved while trading.

also incorrect.
LTC has the 4th rank regarding market cap
and i don't know what the significance of miner coins are but you can exclude XRP and consider LTC as 3rd.

in any case market cap is a meaningless number if you want to rank coins with it.

all these list items have been true for as long as LTC has existed and it never went anywhere!
the adoption of it is still very minimal.

with activation of SegWit and lightning network and all the rest of the stuff Coblee is doing i have some hopes for this coin to grow bigger (that is why price is performing well) but i don't expect anything really big out of it. specially not while bitcoin is around and is taking the stage all to itself!

we need to wait and see...

the signals were the block versions, you can't fake that! and nodes have nothing to do in this stage. all these versions are written down and saved on the blockchain (chain of these blocks with their versions). you can check it if you want yourself. so there is no lying about it.

what people are pointing out is the fact that the fork has not yet happened for real, this was just miners officially saying "we are ready and accepting SegWit through BIP91" and unless it is finalized, they can back down.
but "can" does not mean "will" back down.

why don't YOU reveal your identity? post your real name here, your home address and with your picture while holding up your drivers license.

you won't do it, and we don't even know if you own bitcoin or not. you may have $10 worth of it.

now how do you expect someone who is speculated to be holding 2.7 billion dollar worth of bitcoin come forward.

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all the privacy aside, i always find the fact that Satoshi is anonymous a nice thing. you see it is the living proof that you can be in bitcoin and you can be anonymous.

besides without Satoshi being anonymous at least 10,000 topics would have never existed in this board

i don't know but it raises a lot of questions in my head:

how would you prevent exploiting this reward?
how can you even tell if a node has received the reward before? IP? it is easily changeable. BTC address? it is easily changeable.

and most important of all. who is going to pay for this reward? should there be another hard fork adding something new to each transaction that we make which pays an additional fee to nodes on top of network fee to the miners?
will users go for it? they were losing their mind just because bitcoin transaction fees were $1 because of a couple of months of spam attack.

one last scary thought:
rewarding nodes will make things more centralized!
imagine farms, but instead cheap servers running thousands of nodes just to earn that "reward" and make a net profit.
how will you prevent that?

it has already happened!
there was a big panic wave because of lots of FUD and price went down to $1830 (according to bitstamp) and as the panic ended and FUD cleared up, specially as the real signalling for SegWit started, the price recovered back up to above $2300

by the way there is a speculation board for all price related stuff which you can visit and ask your questions: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=57.0

physical bitcoin will always remain as a collectible not something you use to buy stuff (not something to spend).
and why would anyone wants to use paper bitcoin when there is paper cash (fiat)?
who is going to print them? and you know printing an unfakable paper currency is not an easy task and i doubt government is going to allow anyone issuing such things. it may even be illegal!

people thinking an altcoin is going to $X is not the same as the advertising group aka pump groups say an altcoin is going to $X

in case of ethereum it is the pumpers who say ETH will go to $(a big number) just to fool people into buying it so they can dump at a higher price and make more profit.

you are looking but not seeing.
these things you listed here are not "bitcoin splits" these are bitcoin "proposals". there can be a thousands of them and there are many actually available, but them existing doesn't mean bitcoin will split just because they exist.

on top of that the chances of bitcoin splitting is very small. because first of all bitcoin is too big to split, there is a lot of money at risk. not just money of investors holding bitcoin but the money that miners invested in their mining farms and equipment and all the contracts they have such as contract with electricity companies and all the bills they have to pay....

secondly majority of bitcoin ecosystem is supporting 1 thing and 1 thing only. and when majority is behind 1 thing there won't be another chain.

1. i usually play in every casino or gambling site that i refer people to. because i need to know, first hand, how they are. if they are offering some good services or not. are they trusted, what the features are, ... and generally things like that.

2. it depends on how much i earn. sometimes for some sites it is small amount so i just keep it there to play with and try to make some profit before getting it out. but sometimes it is a big amount which i simply withdraw.

this has been discussed a thousand times (you probably can find the topics on bitcointalk if you search). the problem with a brain wallet is the fact that humans are incapable of coming up with a properly random phrase for their "password".

you may say "I" can and "I" have made one that nobody could hack so far. and you know what, you may probably even be right. but we are not talking about one exception case. in general people are better off with normal way of letting the wallet generate them a properly random private key.
statistically speaking that is the best option.

not to mention that a cold storage is sometimes never used for a very long time. (lets say 5 years) in which case you can easily forget your complex password without any backups since it is brain wallet and there must not be any backups.

how anonymous bitcoin is actually depends on you!
the best example i can give you is Satoshi. Satoshi owns bitcoin but is completely anonymous. and that is the ultimate level, and it is hard to achieve that. but for normal users who want to keep their "privacy" following certain steps will insure enough anonymity.
steps such as not linking your bank account or generally your identity with your bitcoin address. using a new address for each transaction (no address reuse). using mixers if needs be.

but depending on your needs for anonymity you can do other things and ultimately move to a truly anonymous coin like Monero.

you may be correct about the bottom here but there is no way your rise in reversal is true.
you see the only reason why ethereum went up to the current ATH is because of all the ICOs that were getting hyped each day. we literary see another million dollar ICO each day

this can NOT happen ever again. it was a one time thing.

on top of that, all these ICOs are cashing out, some doing it slowly, some waiting for their funds to be released so they can dump it and some already dumped a part of it because of panic and held some in case it went up and will dump more.

also on top of that is the scaling problem that ethereum is facing. it is pretty serious that forced the exchanges to disable the wallet for a long time until it is fixed.

they have already lost their foothold in the market. other coins have came up and replaced the "profitable-must-invest-to-the-moon" situation and people are busy with them now.