Moving coins between wallets you own could cause this. One wants to do this for zero or low fees, and the confirmation time doesn't matter. I'm one who is going to have to try this so that I can claim my air drop coins.

Thank you.

I'm in the process of converting dollars into Bitcoin via domain name speculation. Picking up a name for $9 or so, and selling it for $95 does guard against Bitcoin volatility. However, it's a slow process, and, for me, it would be better if Bitcoin stayed at a stable low price for a few months whilst I clear my inventory. On the other hand, the high price of Bitcoin means that buyers can acquire names for fewer satoshi. Crypto domain names seem to be increasing in value along with Bitcoin, and they are becoming harder to find. At the moment Bitcoin is hovering around £11,500, and to double your money, it would need to go to £23,000. In the current euphoria, a far higher increase is possible with a decent crypto domain name in my opinion. The big problem is deciding what constitutes a "decent" crypto name. I picked up CryptoHints.com for $6.79 yesterday, but I grabbed that within a few minutes of it hitting the expired list.

Sometimes I need 3 confirmations for a submitted post - I blame it on the thread miners.

So what is the answer?
Cut down on the sig spammed rubbish, as that slows things down for everybody.
 Move to load balanced multiple servers if the cost justifies it.
Add a discussion forum for members and above, so that we can avoid the heavy bumpers.

There needs to be some heavy mod'ing of the discussion board. Most of the threads are repeats of other threads, or threads where the post couint is going for parity with the price of Bitcoin.

That would be correct if it required physicl delivery, but this is a cash settlement system, so no Bitcoins are involved.

I thought it was going to require physical delivery, but it seems it's a cash settlement system, If the market becomes large enough, it means that the banks can manipulate the price, and increase their holding in Bitcoin at the expense of the speculators. This will be bad for the reputation of Bitcoin.

Are they likely to be able to recover from this, or is this the end for them?

Any chance you can stop posting in uppercase. I for one, don't read such posts, and it makes you look so unsophisticated that you are unlikely to be taken seriously.

If I agree to swop x Bitcoin for y Bitcoin Cash with a willing partner, surely it would be a simple matter to raise the two transactions based on the four wallets. It shouldn't be too difficult to restrict the spendbility of the various coins until both transactions had been confirmed. Then we can forget about exchanges and the risks in using them.

The question is - will they use it, or just try to block new services and charge them royalties to operate such a system.

The central banks aren't called "central" for nothing, they are all owned by the Rothschilds and other DeepState members. The odd $100 billion is nothing to them. Soros spends more than that on various projects like promoting Obama, and trying to discredit Trump. They just need to jump on a created "incident" like South Koreans trying to protect their savings, to push Bitcoin into an apparently unstable condition.

The core software seems to be well written and robust. I run a full node over public WiFi, and the sync speed seems to be influenced by the quality and speed of the network connecton, and the speed and availablity of peers. Of course you should always shut down correctly, but if you forget, then Core sems to be able to sort things out. As a safety precaution I always restart in an orderly fashion once it starts to resync following an instant shut down. If you have a bad block on the hard drive, you can copy the blockchain up to that point, and let Core resync from the good blocks. That can save you time in downloading.

Why do you need to do this? Bitcoin is a storage and transport mechanism. The market has created a wide variety of services that use this mechanism, snd trying to integrate these into the transport flow will decrease competion, security and functionality.

The globalists would love you to use Facebook or Amazon or similar sites they own. You wouldn't catch me trusting them.

I don't think you will be able to change it, it has now entered into the language of the internet. It's like "blockchain", blockchain is now a specific subset of the original concept of chained blocks, and it contains many extra features.

If you don't use core, then they aren't your Bitcoins. It's the same as money deposited in a fiat bank.

If you don't want to tie up 200Gb, then run a pruned node. You lose a few functions, but save a lot of drive space. If you haven't got the drive space available, then use an external SSD.

I think you are missing the point. Bitcoin is the gold standard, it will survive, and no doubt the bankers will use it for their own exchanges, just as they do with gold. It's the public acceptance that is important. If the banks say - look we have got a blockchain system, and it's stable and safe, and they compare it with a Bitcoin system that is volatile, and is reported to be insecure. Which one of the two will the public choose. I believe that the biggest threat to Bitcoin isn't blocksize or stuff like that, it's exchanges that steal people money, or can't keep wallets safe.

Bankers make trillions all around the world, and they do it because of zero interest rates, fractional reserves, and the ability to just print money to lend to people to get them into debt based slavery. The amount of money in Bitcoin is peanuts on a global scale, but it has spawned the birth of other crypto-currencies, and this is a major threat to the banks. If people have a choice of uncontrolled methods of international payment, then it kills a major part of banking profits. If they can frighten people into believing that money has to be regulated and controlled by governments, then they can continue with their dominance.

The globalist money is already pouring into Bitcoin. Futures trading will just add a method for tradition"financial experts" to feed more money into the coffers of the elite.

I'll be continuing to collect Bitcoin, and ignoring all the trading platforms.

I'm hearing that a lot of Bitcoin purchases are coming from South Korea. If that is true, then Bitcoin will become political in a major way.