This will be on Sunday or Monday depending on what part of the world you are in. Miss South Africa and Miss Philippines are leading again like last year, I reckon. Are they unquestionably that good?   Miss Philippines 4.50 Miss South Africa 4.50 Miss Puerto Rico 7.00 Miss USA 7.50 Miss Thailand 8.50 Miss Venezuela 9.50 Miss Colombia 10.00 Miss Australia 10.50 Miss Vietnam 10.50 Miss Spain 11.00 Miss Cambodia 11.50 Miss Costa Rica 11.50 Miss Ecuador 11.50 Miss China 13.00 Miss Brazil 15.00 Miss Russia 15.00 Miss Ukraine 15.00 Miss Dominican Republic 16.00 Miss Aruba 17.00 Miss Canada 17.00 Miss Curacao 17.00 Miss France 17.00 Miss Mexico 17.00 Miss Haiti 21.00 Miss Peru 21.00 All odds are from https://nitrogensports.eu/sport/entertainment/miss-universe |
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@hatshepsut93. Is bitcoin really decoupled from the United States economy? I reckon it is not as decoupled as you make it to be. Picture our world suffering in another world financial crisis, what would the common people need, cryptocoins or food and water?
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@estenity. What would give the Aeon community some assurance that the attacker is not looking at our project as another one of their targets?
I reckon the reorgs done last year which caused Cryptopia to delist us was an effort to double spend, however much harder to verify in cryptonote coins.
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@jeremypwr, @sportsbet.io. Payment also recieved. Thank you!
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@gentlemand. However, there is also no reason why they should slow it down if they have too much on their plate. To which I reckon they don't. They can always declare that some ICOs are securities but enforcing that rule is the problem because they are corrupt.
in any case, rejection is my original prediction.
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Why do you care about "investors"? Surely people that use the coin are far more important than "investors".
Why do I care about investors? Investors are holders. If Aeon has more holders, it will have a bigger community, if it has a bigger community, it will have a bigger chance of success. I feel like a lot of "investors" don't take part in the community. They just hold on to their coins expecting to make a profit, they don't purchase things with the coins, don't accept the coins as payment, don't participate in the community etc. Finally, the hashrate itself isn't too important. The Monero network at 500 MH/s would be much more secure than the Bitcoin network at 500 MH/s. One has millions of computer securing it, and the other one has a single 5 year old GPU.
Also, a higher hashrate secures Aeon and that is very important. Maybe you did not hear the news about the Asic resistant coin, Vertcoin? Sorry, I think you misunderstood what I said (or more likely, I just explained it poorly). The hashrate itself doesn't matter, what matters is how difficult it is for some hostile entity to get a significant percentage of the network hashrate. There is still more chance of having a bigger community if there are more holders or trapped bagholders hehehe. Is it really more difficult for GPU farms that can transfer mining from coin to coin to attack Aeon? How does that argument justify what occured with Vertcoin? |
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There ain’t going to be a Bitcoin ETF any time soon. The market doesn’t give a shit any more. The recent dumping is because of the BCH fork fight & all the shit that’s going on with those assholes selling bitcoin to prop up their shitcoin’s.
Bitcoin doesn’t need an ETF & we’re unlikely to get one approved for at least a couple of years imo.
However, @rickadone has made a good argument on why the delay is more towards the approval of an ETF than a rejection. If the SEC wanted to reject it, would it take them this long to analyze the situation? I reckon, no. |
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@btc_angela. However, the heart on Brian Ortega is very impressive. I was wishing he would turn it around in the 5th round. But I was slightly disappointed that the doctor stopped the fight because Brian's eye looked badly swollen.
In any case, good fight and good win for Max.
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@tvz. You missed the news about /r/bitcoin arriving on a new milestone of 1 million subscribers and growing hehehe.
In any case, that is one of the indicators if interest in bitcoin is growing or declining. I reckon Google trends for searching the word bitcoin has also grown by 50% lately.
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Why and what would be the advantages in upgrading the proof of work algorithm again? Will it reduce hashrate or increase it?
The goal was to brick existing ASIC miners. The advantage of this is that it keeps mining decentralised. There was a comment on github that said that our hashrate doubled and so there will be more investors. If that was true then why did we change the proof of work algorithm to stop Asics?
Why do you care about "investors"? Surely people that use the coin are far more important than "investors". Finally, the hashrate itself isn't too important. The Monero network at 500 MH/s would be much more secure than the Bitcoin network at 500 MH/s. One has millions of computer securing it, and the other one has a single 5 year old GPU. Why do I care about investors? Investors are holders. If Aeon has more holders, it will have a bigger community, if it has a bigger community, it will have a bigger chance of success. Also, a higher hashrate secures Aeon and that is very important. Maybe you did not hear the news about the Asic resistant coin, Vertcoin? |
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Why and what would be the advantages in upgrading the proof of work algorithm again? Will it reduce hashrate or increase it? There was a comment on github that said that our hashrate doubled and so there will be more investors. If that was true then why did we change the proof of work algorithm to stop Asics? |
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@Pursuer. It might be bullshit but it throws more unwanted obstacles on Roger and Jihan and it would cause them to spend more than they can afford in this hashwar.
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After the release of the latest teaser trailer, the odds for who will rule in the end of the Game of Thrones is back to Jon Snow as the most favored then followed closely by Daenarys and Bran Stark. I reckon this might be another large win for the sportsbooks if the ruler is not one of those 3 which is very possible because of the unpredictability of the show.
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This hashwar is not yet finished hehehe. However both of them cannot mine forever at a loss and there will be more lawsuits thrown versus each other that will cost them more. Who has more bitcoins to burn, Roger Ver or Craig Wright? The winner will be known before December 31, 2019, I reckon.  Vitalik announcing the winner of the hashwarA new lawsuit alleges that proponents of Bitcoin Cash ABC – one of two competing iterations of the bitcoin cash cryptocurrency that split off during a hard fork last month – illegally manipulated the market, damaging investors as a result.
Florida-based United Investment Corp. filed a federal lawsuit in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida claiming that Roger Ver, bitcoin.com, Bitmain and co-founder Jihan Wu, crypto exchange Kraken and founder Jesse Powell, and Bitcoin ABC developers Amaury Sechet, Shammah Chancellor and Jason Cox centralized bitcoin cash and manipulated the price during its contentious hard fork.
The suit claims that bitcoin.com and Bitmain (and their respective founders) “hijacked the [bitcoin cash] blockchain,” especially by dedicating mining power in theory assigned to mining the bitcoin blockchain to mining what was then referred to as the Bitcoin ABC chain.
In a separate statement sent to CoinDesk, UnitedCorp said the defendants perpetrated “a scheme of fraud” by colluding to control the network.
UnitedCorp claims that it “justifiably relied on Defendants’ misrepresentations by investing millions of dollars in development and deployment of infrastructure specifically for the mining of bitcoin cash,” and has suffered damages as a result.
Further, the suit claims that “Bitmain, Bitcoin.com, and Ver have been unjustly [enriched] by the conduct described above.”
The company claims similar damages from the role Bitcoin ABC developers played in setting up a checkpoint on the network, claiming that doing so “violated the ground rules of the network that other users had relied on and respected for years, and artificially pumped up the chain implementation with computer hashes to dominate the temporary software upgrade.”
This checkpoint also centralized the market, the suit claims.
In an email, Sechet told CoinDesk that Bitcoin ABC did not centralize the network, adding, “In fact I explained that the result of the actions being taken by various actors in the ecosystem would result in centralization.”
Finally, the suit alleges that Jesse Powell and Kraken impacted the price by designating the Bitcoin ABC chain as bitcoin cash, and granting it the “BCH” ticker.Read in full https://www.coindesk.com/mining-firm-claims-bitcoin-abc-proponents-hijacked-bitcoin-cash |
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This might not be a bitcoin article but it reveals how deep the corruption is among the big wigs in Wall Street and how they are in control of the regulators and the policy makers. Goldman Sachs is an institution that is using bitcoin to create another bubble and create another crisis after it, I reckon. However, if you are a bitcoin speculator, the bubble ast year might only be a small drop compared to Goldman Sach's next bitcoin bubble and the dump will certainly hurt as much hehehe.  Of the myriad policy decisions that have brought us to our current precipice, from the signing of the North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to the invasion of Iraq and the gerrymandering of House districts across the country, few have proven as consequential as the demise of Glass-Steagall. Signed into law as the U.S.A. Banking Act of 1933, the legislation had been crucial to safeguarding the financial industry in the wake of the Great Depression. But with its repeal in 1999, the barriers separating commercial and investment banking collapsed, creating the preconditions for an economic crisis from whose shadow we have yet to emerge.
Carmen Segarra might have predicted as much. As an employee at the Federal Reserve in 2011, three years after the dissolution of Lehman Brothers, she witnessed the results of this deregulation firsthand. She chronicles the recklessness of institutions like Goldman Sachs and the stunning lengths the United States government went to to accommodate them, even as they authored one of the worst crashes in our nation’s history.https://www.truthdig.com/articles/wall-streets-corruption-runs-deeper-than-you-can-fathom/ |
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@timerland. Have you forgotten what the essence of bitcoin is and why it was invented? I reckon the future will be of decentralized exchanges and more circumvention of financial regulations. We are only in the beginning stages hehehe.
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One simply does not deanonymize Monero because the government willed it hehehe. In any case, this will test the stength Monero's anonymity and untraceability. It might also be a good time to speculate now. The Department of Homeland Security is giving everyone a favor by showing us how great is Monero as a privacy coin. Monero tested and tried. Very anonymous. Tested and proven by the United States Government.Thank you!  Perhaps it’s time that users of privacy-centric cryptocurrencies reconsider their choices. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DoHS) pre-solicitation document suggests that the government body is contemplating the development of forensic analysis techniques to track transactions done through private cryptocurrencies like Monero and ZCash.
The pre-solicitation document urges small technology firms to conduct R&D and develop products, processes, and techniques that can be utilized to identify and uncover crimes that involve the use of digital currencies. The document reads in part:
“The proposal calls for solutions that enable law enforcement investigations to perform forensic analysis on blockchain transactions.”
The SBIR has formulated a three-stage process for the creation of forensic analysis techniques.
Stage one entails designing a blockchain analysis mechanism that would “enable forensic analysis for homeland security and law enforcement applications for cryptocurrencies, such as Zcash and Monero."
The second stage of the process deals with testing. Tools developed in the first phase will be prototyped using test data. The results will then be shared with the interested authorities, along with a demonstration of how to use these newly developed forensic techniques.
Finally, the third stage will integrate these forensic techniques into government applications. Post successful integration, authorities will then be able to track private cryptocurrency transactions.Read in full https://btcmanager.com/u-s-authorities-developing-techniques-track-cryptocurrencies-monero-zcash/ |
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@nydiacaskey01. I reckon Conor is not the money fight anymore, Khabib is the one.
Brian Ortega also mentioned in an interview that he wants to fight Khabib. That would be a great clash of styles. The wrestler who wants to takedown and fight on top versus a grappler who is good in fighting on the ground at the bottom.
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That might set up a high liquidity blackmarket for trading monero to bitcoin or fiat hehehe.
Also, some governments will not pressure exchanges in their jurisdiction to delist anonymous cryptocoins, I reckon. Some very corrupt governments might welcome them hehehe.
The South Korean government already did what you are saying. Although there are no official reports of them doing it one of their top exchanges, Korbit, had dropped five coins that is centered to anonymity. There is no reason for Korbit to drop voluntarily these popular cryptocurrencies especially Monero and Zcash but they did it anyway and it just shows that they are preparing for future regulations regarding privacy coins. And I do think that the Japanese government's way is a little bit harsher as they are pressuring their exchanges to do so as well when there are other ways of solving their problem. In my opinion the removal of such coins is better than not having to be able to trade other coins at all. However some governments will not demand for exchanges under their jurisdiction to delist anonymous coins. Once everyone finds out the need and the importance of fungibility is for cryptocoins, something which bitcoin does not have, think where everyone will be running. |
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@gentlemand. What would then be your trading strategy? Buy more after February 27, keep holding or sell everything today and buy after the announcement of the rejection?
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