I´m not so sure, this could actually have been the last Bitcoin Cash pump in order to fool newbies
into buying this altcoin.

In order to pump BCH again they need some kind of catalyst like the surprise launch of
Bitcoin Cash trading at Coinbase. I can´t envision another event like this.

-I don´t see talks of a Bitcoin Cash ETF
-I don´t see talks of Bitcoin Cash futures
-I don´t see any plans for 2nd layer solutions
-I don´t see any plans to increase fungibility
-I don´t see big companies investing in BCH mining in order to decentralize the mining scene
-I don´t see the brightest developers in the world working on BCH code or BCH-related projects
...

Coinbase and Bitpay have exacerbated this development by their refusal to implement
Segwit. If they would have adopted Segwit like Bitstamp or Bitwala did weeks ago, we wouldn´t nearly have
as much congestion of the network as we have now.

These businesses are a cancer on the Bitcoin ecosystem. Especially Bitpay follows a nefarious
agenda, because their business model doesn´t really work when Bitcoin becomes a store of value
and a settlement layer. They need fast confirmations and affordable fees and therefore are pushing Bitcoin Cash
and delaying Segwit integration.

I agree that 0-confirmation transactions were never really secure. However,
many operators had a business model that was based on 0-conf transactions
(e.g. the now defunct betting site Directbet). Therefore something seems
to have changed, because otherwise these operators would still be able
to use 0-conf transactions.

I can´t imagine that this is only due to increased fraud by people attempting to double-spend
a gambling transaction (e.g. double-spend after their bet already lost on Directbet). There has
to be a technical explanation why 0-conf transactions are not widely used anymore
when that was still the case in 2014-2015 (at least at Bitcoin gambling sites).

The masternode aspect of DASH has also interesting implications on float and
the difficulty of price manipulation.

At the moment there are 4,781 Masternodes, which effectively locks up more than 4,7 million
DASH (1000 DASH are necessary to start your own Masternode). This reduces the float of DASH
and therefore DASH can be pumped on less trading volume than
most other cryptocurrencies.

I apologize, you actually did only use the term "report" and not the term "audit".
However, this has obvious implications. An audit is more legally binding than a report or a memorandum.

I don´t think the main point of Tether is being able to transfer USD without currency risk. This
is what they are touting as Tether´s purpose, but really it is used as a workaround for banking
regulations. The big altcoin exchanges like Bittrex and Poloniex would have big trouble opening a real bank account
and therefore only use USDT trading pairs instead of actual fiat trading pairs. This reduces the regulatory overhead
and works fine as long as people actually believe Tethers are redeemable for real USD or until the
US decide to crack down on this scheme.

The transaction will eventually be returned to your wallet. However, definitely not after 2 days. I once had a very low-fee transaction
stuck in the mempool for 15 days until it was returned to my wallet. I think some mining pools actually process transactions
that are unconfirmed for even longer.

Have you activated RBF for your transaction? Then you could try to double-spend it with a higher fee.
Other options are transaction accelerators. Unfortunately, at the current mempool size they don´t really work
or are ridiculously expensive.

Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin work pretty good compared to BTC and ETH at the moment.
However, it is questionable to support BCH when some of their supporters are responsible
for a huge majority of the spam transaction on the BTC mainchain.

The surprise launch of Bitcoin Cash trading at Coinbase was simply a good opportunity
for them to attack the main Bitcoin blockchain. Great news for Bitcoin Cash combined
with huge congestion of the mainchain, which destroys the BTC user experience.

Therefore I´d simply use Litecoin. However, even that is risky if you don´t trade out of it fast, because
LTC is also trading for very high rates that are probably not sustainable.

You have to take a look at the Bitcoin Cash exchange rate development at the other exchanges before
the Coinbase launch.

Basically, BCH had a steady ~30 % surge before the Coinbase launch. A chart pattern like
this literally never happens unless someone is very sure that good news are about to be released.
This is what is fuelling the insider trading allegations and not the short trading action
at Coinbase until they halted trading. The run of Bitcoin Cash at other exchanges
in the hours before the start of BCH trading was the suspicious event.

And by audit you mean the memorandum that they released, which was not an actual audit?

The document, which explicitly stated that it should not be relied on by people outside of Tether:
http://www.trustnodes.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/tether-non-audit-audit.png

Besides, reputable accounting firm might be a bit of a stretch. Other exchanges (e.g. Bitstamp) are audited by
one of the Big4 accounting firms. Someone posted a client list of other companies that engage
Friedman LLP as an auditor and I´d bet that most people have never heard of a single one of these companies.

I´m struggling to think of additional reasons for another massive Bitcoin Cash run.
The launch of Bitcoin Cash trading on Coinbase is obviously a big positive for
the Bitcoin spinoff, but what other good events are on the horizon?

I don´t see talks of a Bitcoin Cash ETF. I don´t see any development of 2nd layer
solutions. The best developers and brightest minds in the cryptocurrency development scene
are working on Bitcoin and not on Bitcoin Cash.

Besides, most trading volume of BCH took place at the notorious Korean exchanges, that allow
for rampant wash trading due to their zero fee vouchers.

I could be wrong, but I really don´t see any other big impact events like the Coinbase news in
the near future of Bitcoin Cash.

I´d argue that Bitcoin´s killer app is the capped supply and the immutability of the "sacred" parts
of the protocol like the 21M BTC hard cap. Bitcoin is one of the few assets where supply can´t be inflated
beyond the predetermined rate. This makes it a really great story of value.

The Lightning Network is essentially just a bonus feature, but the attributes that make
Bitcoin a sound form of money are the killer app.

Charlie Lee, the creator of the world’s fifth-biggest cryptocurrency, Litecoin, announced shortly after
midnight that he was cashing in his profits after a torrid, 9,300% rally in the past 12 months.
In a post on reddit, the San Francisco-based software engineer who founded litecoin in 2013,
said that he sold and donated all of his holdings over the past few days.

"Litecoin has been very good for me financially, so I am well off enough that I no
longer need to tie my financial success to Litecoin’s success. For the first time in 6+ years,
I no longer own a single LTC that’s not stored in a physical Litecoin" Lee said in the post.

Lee explained that his liquidation was aimed at preventing a “conflict of interest” when
the creator of what is known as "Bitcoin Silver" makes comments on twitter about the
digital currency - something he tends to do with chronic zeal - that could influence its price, he said.
That said, Lee declined to comment in the post on how many coins he sold or at what price, and
asked readers to please "don’t ask me how many coins I sold or at what price.
I can tell you that the amount of coins was a small percentage of GDAX’s daily volume and it did not crash the market."

...

Full article at Zerohedge:
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-20/litecoin-founder-cashes-out-sells-entire-stake-after-9300-rally


This seems sketchy to me. Litecoin´s bull run was only possible, because it was eventually added to
Coinbase - the company that Charlie Lee used to work for. After the Bitcoin Cash trading launch yesterday
at Coinbase it is becoming increasingly clear how shady Coinbase operates. Lee probably realized that
the current valuation for LTC is ridiculous, a 16 billion $ market cap for a cryptocurrency that is basically
only useful as a Bitcoin testnet.

Could you list some of these consequences? I can think of the obvious reasons like
higher bandwidth and storage requirements, but maybe you have additional reasons why
increasing the blocksize is a bad idea.

Generally, I think that some of the big companies like Coinbase and Bitpay should have
introduced Segwit addresses by now. That would really decrease the current congestion on the
blockchain. Instead they are busy integrating BCH in their respective businesses...

You can verify for yourself that they haven´t sold the BCH so far.

Therefore it is still possible that they are going to do the right thing and distribute
the Bitcoin Cash balances to all users, who had a BTC balance at Nitrogensports
at the snapshot date.

I think DASH is kind of unique among the top 5 cryptocurrencies by market cap, because
of the Masternode structure. If I´m not mistaken setting up a masternode effectively locks
up 1000 DASH.

At the moment there are 4,781 Masternodes, which effectively locks up more than 4,7 million
DASH. This reduces the float and therefore DASH can be pumped on less trading volume than
most other cryptocoins. Besides, the community is pretty loyal and has many long-term holders.

Are ASICs really an unforeseen technological advancement? ASICs have been used in other industries for years and obviously
make sense in situations where efficiency on a single task is more important than being
good at many different tasks.

If I recall it correctly Satoshi also predicted that mining would become very competitive and that
eventually CPU mining would become obsolete. Regarding the actual topic I think BTC will thrive even
when the block reward hits zero. Transaction fees will be extremely high by then and BTC will be used mainly
for big transactions. Expressed in $ fees will likely be a multiple of the fees today, but as a percentage of the
BTC price they will still be pretty cheap.

This was blatant manipulation by Coinbase. They froze actual trading for Bitcoin Cash
and many newbies, who wanted to buy due to Roger Ver´s CNBC appearance simply
did market buys at these ridiculously inflated numbers.

The timing was simply too suspicious. I feel sorry for the guys, who got scammed
into paying more than 9k $ for a Bitcoin Cash that is actually trading
for roughly 3500 $. Coinbase´s behavior with the Bitcoin Cash trading launch
is extremely unethical.

Actually Hollande did implement the wealth tax. However, he had to drop it after huge public
criticism and missing success of the wealth tax.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/31/france-drops-75percent-supertax

1-2 weeks ago I posted this feature request. Could you relay this suggestion
to the poker team again? I really think this is a no-brainer and it would
create a level playing field for Hold´em and Omaha players.

I also have never seen this with a Bitcoin exchange. However, there are several other exchanges, who have
disabled registrations temporarily before.

E.g. the small European exchange bl3p.eu (from the Netherlands) is currently
not accepting sign-ups.