I always have these kind of debates with XRP army on facebook   , .

without any technical aspects of how hard is it to deploy a 51% attack on bitcoin. let us just simply take the economical point of view.

assuming that "XYZ" person/company have access to over 50% of the total hashrate ( which i am pretty sure "XYZ" does or at least had for quite sometime).

what are the financial rewards of performing such a very expensive attack on bitcoin?  

pretty much nothing but double spending ! ( there are other benefits which are not financial)

many people think that with 51% you can take everybody else's coins or create BTC out of thin air which is not the case.

now as we all (inclduing "XYZ") know that an attack on BTC will sink it's value and there will probably be no going back. so if XYZ have access to 51% hashrate , be it through pools or their own asics what so ever, it only means they are generating a shitload of money at the moment of owning that much of hashrate. should they attempt the attack they will be sitting in a first class of a plane going to rekt city with 1 way ticket. and i am sure someone with access to that much hashrate is only smarter than this.

some people might also argue that a company like bitmain might attempt an attack on BTC only to increase the credibility of BCH  which also does not make a lot of sense, BTC at least for now is the back-bone of crypto, if it fails then every other coin and token is going to vanish.

the only concern of mine is if a few governments combined  are willing to pay a lot of money to launch the attack simply because they see BTC as a major threat to their national or economical security.

Holy sh!t , i was going through his posts to hopefully find a post that might be worthy of a merit as i have 1 from the 2 you gave me. thank God i found nothing and I am not going to be on anybody's radar or suspect list  

  



it is all in the picture, every time the red cloud showed up on the weekly chart, it marked the lowest price and the end of a bear market.

happened in 2012 >2015 and could possibly repeat again this time.  


if history is to repeat itself, then expect around 300 days of sideways market between 3 and 6k, end of 2019 will be the beginning of the new bull run. mid to end 2020 we hit a new ATH.

maybe !  


** sorry forgot to mention that if we close below this current support then bulls are doomed and going straight to rekt city. i highlighted on one of my comments how crucial this support is on a monthly scale, it does not matter if we had a wick down to 2.5 what so ever, but going below 2900 and not going back up straight away is very likely a 3 digits bitcoin again. as the next major supports sits between 900-1100$

** also I do not advice anyone to get married to one direction of the chart, just because I think this is the bottom it does not mean if it doesn't hold I will HODL my btc till they drop to 1k or even 1.8k, i will short to re-buy cheaper. as goes the other way around, i will be selling the moment i see 4500 all the way to 5500 as we approaching strong resistance.

this is not a financial advice what so ever. do your own research , trade smart .

I will take June prices  

i agree I think the difficulty will adjust slowly from now on, there are no probably no more large swings , i am guessing pretty soon we will enter a low volume market with barley not a single considerable move. the difficulty should act accordingly.

would still be better than no source of gauging at all




this is for my own perspective on others, but it does not work the other way around. if i get a negative for trolling, others will still see it regardless of my custom list. if i was selling something for example, i would worry more about the look of my profile than the look of other's profile, so custom list would be completely useless for one's personal trust page.


I agree 100% that people should  evaluate trust feedback, but if we were to make a survey asking members whether they even consider engaging in a trade with someone who has a red trust from DT member, I will bet the horse that the vast majority will stay away the moment they see that scary red " WARNING !" before even looking at who gave it and why, therefore we are being unfair to someone who may be very decent and honest with his trades but he got a negative simply for saying something that a mighty DT member does not like.

and how exactly does one go about creating a custom trust list when in many cases i see contradicting feedback on the same user. look at the OP profile now. he got +1 from a DT member and a  -1 from another one. for me to put the OP in my custom list I will have to spend a few hours reading about the story or misunderstanding that went between him marlboroza.

I do dig deep in trust pages just for fun sometimes, and to be honest the DT trust system is not bad at all, the only bad thing about it is the "use-case". people get positive feedback for being " nice and helpful" others get negatives for "not being nice". how is that relevant to TRUST ?  i am not sure if i am making myself clear but I hope everybody does understand that being trust worthy has differently nothing to do with one being nice or an asshole.

i skimmed through your feed backs and i think you are doing a great job, but this is not the case with all others.

look at this



nice of you to stand up for that guy, but really how can a DT member tag someone simply for saying things he doesn't like ?  who whould have traded with that guy when trust page was painted in red and saying " Warning: Trade with extreme caution!" .

you see the word TRADE ? that means the trust system is only related to TRADE.  if trolling was a valid reason then the warning should be "Warning: a troll ahead"  


that's why there should  be a set of rules at least to be applied for DT members " as it would be hard to monitor everybody else". those rules need to specific and straight forward. for example


1-DT members have to reference every feedback.
2-you CAN NOT red tag someone for being a troll.
3-all negative feedback has to refer to scam activities or account sales.

I agree with the part of giving negatives for owning multiple accounts/farming because that's most of the time a clear sign for someone with suspicious behavior and tendency for scamming, but I do not see how trolling or even being racist have any sort of impact on the person being trust worthy or not. English is not my mother tongue but the way I understand the word trust is simply just TRUST. I had deals with people who don't start their messages with a greeting or ending with a thanks or goodbye and I personally think such people are assholes ! yet since they kept their end of the deal I left a positive feedback.

just imagine you had to buy something on this forum, you went first and the guy still delivered the goods as promised but trolled you the next day , what type of trust feedback would you give him? positive for being genuine or negative for trolling ?

I am a new member here, i know non of these gentlemen what so ever, i just think this is a serious problem that needs to be dealt with before the whole trust system becomes useless.

I guess everyone has his own ultimate opinion on what the trust system should be about. I tried searching the forum for some sort of rules related and had no luck. I think maybe theymos should make a set of rules related to this.

we are back to late Jun difficulty which is not bad. 

we broke first resistance, should now act as our support , watching for the next Resistance levels. a break out below the current support will be bad for btc.

BTC sitting nicely above support, tendency to the upside > don't fomo tho, this is most likely only a mini rally as a correction for the lest down move, we are still in a bear market. but  short term is bullish IMO.

Targets > 4000> 4300 where the next major resistance sits. break above

break above 4500 is a a one way ticket to 5500$

those who are going to be scammed are not going to read the sub forum anyway.  i think the only way to help potential victims is by having a large pop-up window or a huge banner that covers a huge chuck of the OP saying that BE AWARE MOST ICOs ARE SCAM DYOR.

while a tiny little part of your theory could be true, i think the majority of it is based on a conspiracy theory that ain't real. I can assure you this because I did work as database manager for quite long and I know exactly how a search function works and how difficult it is to modify the results of a given query. the level of manipulation that can be done in this case is very limited. relevance and popularity are the main attributes that generate a google search result. the query works based on those 2 factors along with others. i am not saying trump is an "idiot" but for his pictures to cover up the whole page when searching for the word" idiot" is not something google can do out of thin air. it just happens that trump is very popular and many posts on the internet referring to him as an idiot. they could be many others who were labeled " idiots " more times than trump, but they were not talked about as often as trump. on the other hand many people who are more popular than trump were not refereed to as "idiots" don't show up when you search the same word.

to understand more, try search google images for "football" and you will see mainly pictures of " American" Football players, while a normal search will yield mainly information on "soccer".  google has nothing to do with it, things just happen.

I can't agree more about many of the demands being nothing but a joke, but i think the gilet jaunes are following an exact old saying in my country which says " always shoot at the belly" , referring to when an average person is shooting at someone, you aim for the head then you don't have much room to the upside and your bullet will go to waste , same goes for aiming at the feet , But shoot at the belly, you will still make a shot worth it even with a slight miss.

so the gilet jaunes took their shot knowing 100% that most of their demands will not be met , but at least some will.

will you allow other people to sleep/eat/live in your own house ? i think not.

you see the human nature is designed or could be "programmed" to live within borders, they start small at your own bedroom that is surrounded with borders , then goes to your house as a whole building, then a yard if you have one , a street , a city/state then a country.

how can we convince the rich countries to share their resources with the poor countries when we can't convince our own kids to share the same room?

it is a beautiful dream that i would love to see ,  but sorry to tell you , this is never going to happen on any large scale 

I could be wrong but i think the Trust status has to do with only  "Trust related subjects". I am not talking about DT only, i am talking about leaving a feedback in general should be related to someone being trustworthy or not based on at least a "Trade" of any sort of goods or services be it physical or digital.

A few months ago I had a lot trading with many members on the forum, i was buying Bitmain coupons, bought couple hundreds of coupons and I had a nightmare checking the integrity of the trust feedback for many users.

some had a bunch of RED flags simply because they like to be  assholes to others and they were tagged for simply that reason, but when i check their feedback that is related to buying/selling on the forum they had positive tags, and the same goes the other way around.

I think we should have a sub trust system like a "cool meter"  for tagging people you like / people you do not like /   trolling people / names you dislike or simply for whatever reason you see fit  . and leave the current trust for mostly business related so that we can easily filter the worthy of doing business with. because really I could care less if the person I am dealing with is an asshole as long as he keeps their promise and keeps their end of the deal.

I have nothing against HODL if you know how to HODL, HODL takes skills too. you can do it if you have the patience to wait for years.

كيف اخي ماليهاش علاقة بالتحليل الفني؟ ادا انت كيف تحدد مناطق دخولك وخروجك؟ ام انك تشتري وتستنا وخلاص؟

لو انت مهتهم تقدر تتباع تحليلي هنا https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5071613.100

الحمد لله ماشي تمام بعت عند   5700

واشتريت تاني من من 3200 يعني تقريبا ضاعفت كمية البتكوين عندي في شهر باستخدام التحليل الفني

 التحليل الفني ليس دستور او قانون  لكن عند استخدامه بالطريقة المناسبة مع الصبر والتعلم بعون الله يكون فيه مكسب
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واختلف معك في قصة انه هيرتفع بشكل جنون بداية العام.. انا لا اعلم الغيب لكن متاكد بنسبة كبيرة انه البتكوين لن يصعد اي صعود جنوني قبل نهاية 2019.. اخره لو كمل صعود حيكون عند  5700...
سيستمر في الدبدب تحت 7000 لمدة سنة من الان على الاقل ..تحياتي

بالتوفيق لك

coins that will be on the list for the next couple years at least are

1-BTC
2-ETH
3-XRP
4-XLM
5-ADA

المناق الحمرا هي مناقع مقاومة قوية..المناق الخضرة هي مناطق دعم..

مناطق الدعم: تزيد فيها احتماليا ارتفاع السعر
مناطق المقاومة:تزيد فيها احتماليا ارتداد السعر للاسفل
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حاليا السعر يقوم بالاترداد لاعلى من المنقطةالخضراء الواقعة بين 2800 و 3300
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اقرب مقاومة قوية للسعر في حال الاستمرار للاعلى هيا 5000-5800

 1800$ في حالة النزول عن 2800  لايوجد اي مناطق دعم قبل

والدعم التالي والاقوى عند 900-1200

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هدي اهم الدعوم والمقاومات على المدى البعيد يمكن استخدامها ع الشارت الاسبوعي او الشهري..

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بالتوفيق للجميع

I doubt it will be a jump , it could be less % to the downside but most likely not a jump. I am almost certain than a good amount of miners are now running at loss or break even (which is a loss too), but many people won't turn their miners off immediately and just hopping that by the time they have to pay their bills this bear market would have ended. and since this is not likely the case, then sooner or later they will have to go offline.