After the Rizen win in Japan by Mirko im sure he retired with a good sensation, he demonstrated he could still kick ass.

He should retire now, im sure he is a multi millionaire, all he needs to do now is open a couple gyms and enjoy the unlimited passive income.

Same goes for Silva, his days in the UFC as a world champion are over.

I have no idea about Aldo vs Holloway, that's one I can't predict.

Im saving some money for the Mayweather vs McGregor fight, that's going to be huge. I don't see how you cant lose if you bet for a Mayweather win. It worked 49 times.

Yep, it's stupid to send your ID selfie to random people on the internet, it will most likely end up in the dark market or something. Also when you need to open a bank account, print the docs and go physically to the bank and deliver them there, never send your ID around neither keep a picture of it on your hard drive.

The only way to buy and sell bitcoins anonymously is by meeting with people in real life, everything else is pretty useless if you want privacy.

The 148 chain can't reorg, so it's not a total wipeout risk scenario. Sure if 148 doesn't pick up traction, you can end up with a coin that crashes hard, but notice how even useless bitcoin unlimited tokens in bitfinex still have a price, so you could dump them for cheap and still get some out of it.

On the other hand legacy can reorg which means you end up with literally 0.

So legacy is under this constant pressure of a potential snowball effect happening on 148.

It takes only like 20% hashrate on 148 and the rest of miners should start getting very nervous.

Notice how if Core allows 148 support, bitfury said they will mine it.

Dude check the news. It's pretty much done at this point. Mayweather lost money recently, a big amount in some bad deal, this fight is perfect timing to get his money count back to where it was before that bad deal. He also wants the perfect 50-0 record.

McGregor is up for a big payday, he could retire forever after that fight.

Both sides have an incentive to do it.

Ok this is pretty much confirmed at this point. The deal has been signed by McGregor, now we are waiting on Mayweather to sign the deal and then it's on, possibly september 2017.

McGregor will get slapped around for 75 million and he'll make more money in a night than the entire UFC rooster ever.

Mayweather will continue living in god mode with pretty much unlimited money unless he's a complete idiot and manages to lose it somehow.

But the small chance of McGregor KO'ing up is still there, which is why the fight will be a success with the most tickets sold ever.

So my guess is they think it's a joke. But if they think it's a joke, they'll have to put their mouth where their money is, which means they will have to dump legacy for 148 coins, risking being left on the wrong chain that reorgs and disappears if UASF gains traction. Let's see.

During a hard fork, if it's not with 100% of community consensus, then yes, there would be two coins, which is hard forks are dangerous if they don't have full consensus.

The UASF soft fork is temporary, sooner or later it will resolve and there will be only one chain.

Im not sure if you know how margin sells. If the margin positions crosses a certain treshhold, your position is automatically closed and you lose all of your money. If the position is a short position, you could end up in debt, even tho I think this is not the case in poloniex, not sure how it works in other exchanges.

Margin can make you rich or can make you broke, thats why it's high risk/high reward.

Im not talking about the current price situation, but specifically about the UASF situation. There will be UASF coins and legacy coins, so whales have 3 options:

1) Sell Legacy for UASF
2) Sell UASF for Legacy
3) Do nothing

But even on the "do nothing" phase, if they are receiving payments, they will have to choose to get paid in UASF chain or Legacy chain, i doubt they will convince people to pay them on both, even tho it would be ideal.

So eventually the market will go either way.

If hyperwhales dump legacy for UASF we may actually see a successful UASF and miners will be forced to join UASF chain.

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As we know, bitcoin is mooning, but the scaling situation is still not solved. The so called "Barry agreement" has already been broken, with Roger Ver, Jihad Wu, and some other people involved disagreeing between them:



This is what happens when you don't bring Core developers to the agreement, corporate idiots don't know the technical details and just make a mess. Then again this could have been what some wanted (just keep delaying it)

Ideally, there should be an agreement with a segwit activation through soft fork and a 2MB hard fork later, developed by Core to avoid any nonsense. Unfortunately, this seems unlikely.

Then there's UASF, which will cause a clusterfuck unless snowball effect kicks in and the legacy chain gets reorg'd. If not then we'll have 2 coins listed in (some) exchanges for X amount of time.

In order for UASF to work, the big whales would need to dump legacy for UASF coins. It would also be needed that big exchanges list it. August 1 is around the corner and there isn't a single big exchange making any statement. If UASF works, then great, but as of right now im very skeptical, and the compromise option remains the best, as long as it's developed by Core, because no one is going to download software that is not Core-approved.

My question is, what are the big bitcoin whales like Mircea Popescu or Bruce Wagner thinking about the current situation? what are they planning to do? If I had billions in bitcoin, I would be paying close attention. I checked Mircea's blog, and he hasn't posted anything bitcoin related for ages, he just posts his usual weird stuff.

If anyone has some info then let us know.

So far, im aware of this 40,000 BTC whale showing UASF support:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6d2tp1/i_am_the_bearwhale_uasf_now/

Based on that idea, why does VK exist - the biggest social media website in Russia? It has over 400 million users worldwide https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(social_networking_website)

Why didn't Facebook just detect the IP address of Russian users and give them Russian controls?

Golos is gaining traction in Russia because its built for Russians by Russians. Makes a big difference.


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Well I guess its all about network effect and it operates different in russia, so if golos manages to gain traction and find a niche within the russian market then it can have success in VK style.

Im staying out tho, i cant take more high risks for the time being, im already holding some bags and dont want to risk more btc.

But pretty sure Steemit could detect the IP of the user and automatically translate all controls of the layout into whatever language the IP is from (or manually set it if you are using a VPN)

You could argue that there are social media like VK that are huge in Russia only, but this is crypto, maybe people don't want to be bothered with holding an extra token if Steemit can deliver the same service.

I came here to post this, so yeah, not much to add.

But on some there would be no problem. PIVX has decent liquidity for example, I think you could dump, but yeah it would be less than that since buy orders would keep getting filled so the price would tank. So you should sell daily in smaller amounts to not crash the price.

Anyway those are some great gains.

POSW can give great gains in the future, im holding some. You never know when those alts are a year from now. You have to take some risks by buying the super cheap coins that have some sort of niche purpose and hope for the pump.

He's just shitposting. No one makes money out of thin air, unless you are the president of the FED.

Anyway, the dude in question was never able to sell his house for LTC. If he did when said so, he would be rich now. Unfortunately he missed the boat. Now LTC is trying to find some sort of bottom. I got out and im waiting for a couple of days of flat graphic before I decide when to jump in again. We'll also need to see how UASF resolves in Bitcoin.

Rootstock does not need segwit to function, so that is a non issue.

Also, Ethereum within itself is struggling constantly too. They are going to go through the difficulty bomb, fork to PoS, risk another split, and they already got ETC which sucks (having 2 coins makes the coin feel like a bit of a joke to be honest)

There is no such thing as no struggle, if your project is big enough, you are going to struggle constantly. Both BTC and ETH are big so both struggle.

$2000 is a nice, round number, it may trigger some selling, but as you said, there's tons of people dreaming to buy cheaper BTC to get in the boat, so they are going to be buying as soon as a good dip happens, it will be going up quickly after.

Once $2000 is broken, the psychological barrier is also broken for the uptrend, so sky is the limit. Once we double the 2013 peak then 5 figures is the next step.

Im interested in knowing this too. Have been the delays fixed yet?

I want to still keep some BTC's in hand, and I know the risk by holding it on poloniex, but in case I need to withdraw, I want to know that the coins are going to go through.

I just dont see any other way to trade but to have some BTC in the exchange. I can't be sending back and ford everytime I feel like doing a trade.

Has anyone seen OP? He has been missing since april 20.


It's really easy... just select the coin you want to add, the amount of coins, a name for your wallet if you want, and click "add".

Now, the problem I see with this is, we have to wait for OP to manually add the coins as people request them. I think he should decentralize the way to enter coins. Just give people the ability to automatically add any coins they want. I want to track coins like POSW that aren't added yet, and im getting tired of waiting, so I may be forced to download blockfolio app for android and somehow run it on my computer with an android emulator. I hate having to use computer resources for that so hopefully OP can give us an update soon or else i'll start thinking this project is abandoned (so no further coins added).

They should work a bit on the website, it looks a bit lame compared to the bitcoincore.org one, but it's looking good.

As we get more and more lightning network related news we will established higher floors each time.

Remember LTC is ultimately always bullish for as long as BTC has no segwit to get LN to the next level.