This makes the erectees look as stupid as elderly men dissing things they may not have taken the time to wrap their heads around.

Someone somewhere compared Bitcoiners to vegans and that hypersensitivity and sanctimoniousness certainly rings true. They won't make any difference other than making themselves look like knob ends.

Where are they going to pump it?

I wish we had some tame Chinese people who popped up in this section. I assume they all must be trading away OTC but we never hear a single thing about it. I'd love to know how many people there have hung on versus throwing in the towel, though of course 98% of Chinese volume was the exchanges themselves plus four zitty teens with bots back in the day

The examiner bloke never said anything about a max score and I didn't think there was such a thing. The 162 thing must be balls.

Anyway the last time I did a less formal one I scored 73 which smells far more realistic, though I can easily believe my intelligence has more than halved since those golden days. 

His was supposedly 160. Mine was more. But I read just now that 162 is the maximum score, however there are people out there with an IQ of 230 so that must mean that their intelligence is infinite so someone glued an imaginary number to it to reward them.

Does anyone really rate IQ as any type of measurement beyond the ability to pass IQ tests?

I did a proper one at 17-18 and outgunned Einstein. You'd think that would set me up for the future command of my self built space station. Instead I decided sitting around would be a better thing to do and after a few decades I've just started to get into my stride with it.

Gotta go. Switching chairs now.

Of course they're not interested in volatility and that's why they all use places like Bitpay. Even then merchant adoption is contracting, not expanding. Even if it's custom for free money it looks like many aren't interested in the ball ache it can potentially create.

https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/997055994680066048

Looks to be selective according to them at least. Is it not a wee stamp of legitimacy? That's no use to the people who've been asked to hand it over of course.

https://mobile.twitter.com/wirexapp/status/997084385257148421

https://wirexapp.com/wirex-payment-cards-now-available-europe/

Wirex are now offering Visa cards to verified punters in a variety of EU countries.

Never used them myself. Are they lovely?

That's an epic move on your part. In retrospect I should've been sensible and done the same. I'll save it for the next run. I believe the next bubble will be gargantuan and I'll also guess it'll be the last fuelled by pure speculation.

At some point crypto has to justify its existence as more than a speculative toy. It will someday. The bit in between could be extremely long and extremely painful.

What I hope happens is that they're abandoned en masse by users who go to exchanges with standard KYC policies. We all know they're a necessity to stay in business but everywhere else is doing business just fine without sticking their fingers up one's urethra.

Bitstamp takes it from necessity to flat out insult.

The first sentence sums it up pretty neatly - HTC is about to unveil a flagship phone that nobody will want to buy

It doesn't run Android. How many phone users know what the hell a Dapp is? And beyond that who's going to use them out and about several times a day?

Cool idea as a prototype or ultra limited run for developers. As a commercial proposition it's 10-15 years or more too early.

Looks promising but you have some spelling mistakes on your site. It could use a proof read.

Do you have anything properly in place for a Visa card or are you waiting for a generally available one?



It's a fiat heavy operation. You won't be able to fart at it without verifying yourself.

https://bitcoinist.com/china-release-cryptocurrency-ratings-ranks-ethereum-1st-bitcoin-13th/

And here they are.

ETH is 1st. BTC 13th. Steem... 2nd?

This is almost as informative as those Weiss ratings which were going to transform the world, in return for a few hundred dollars to read them.

Have you ever looked at the growth of mobile telephony in Africa? It's very widespread and often they have better signal in the back of beyond than you might get in a city.

They've bypassed the old school clunkiness of installing physical phone lines and gone straight to the most modern method. The same might apply for crypto. Since many have never had access to normal banking it's likely they'll migrate straight to crypto when it becomes fully viable. There's no real alternative for them anyway.

The hacker was on so many exchanges getting rid of so much that I truly can't believe they didn't slip up somewhere along the line. They tried every single avenue possible.

I'm seriously impressed the price held as well as it did considering volumes are usually piddly. Buyers emerged out of nowhere. If you discount the XEM locked up in supernodes and foundation and developer funds it was probably a fair bit more than 10% of the supply.

It could take a while to get some momentum back though.

It was a Japanese exchange and it was about $500 million worth. It's still unsolved but there apparently some Bitcoin addresses that the hacker thought were hidden but were linked to the hack. It could take a while before we get a conclusion.

Literally the only post in this thread that mentions supply. Has that not occurred to most here? A $1 coin with a supply of 10 billion is nowhere near 'cheap' and may never reach that price again if it had already.

If you're dim enough to think an individual unit price is the be all and end all then you should go find something else to do.

One unit of Byteball at $200 or whatever is a potentially good deal. There's only a few hundred thousand of them. But most aren't bright enough to take the latter figure into account.

Provide us with a verified quote from someone directly involved in the process or GTFO.

It's so fucking dull seeing half read sentences by half asleep 'journos' being recycled into half coherent conspiracy theories by half dead posters on here.

8000 BTC moved from one address to another. Got any facts beyond that?

Outrage would be across the media if you had to do this to open some savings account for your dog. It's pure Bitstamp.

I opened Revolut and Coinbase accounts a short while back. Revolut didn't want anything other than a deposit from my debit card, though limits are low. Coinbase gave me a £100,000 annual limit with no more than a passport scan and summat else with my address on it.

That's all anyone needs if they're asked to hand you over.

You could try this - https://giftoff.com/gift-cards?filters%5Bsort%5D=alpha&filters%5Bcategory%5D=15&filters%5Bcountry%5D=241&page=1&showAll=true

Which has always been reliable for me, but I don't know what the deal is if you're not in the UK. Lastminute and Inspire will be the most comprehensive ones.

For flights you have more options like Destinia and a few others but I've never used any of them and often they miss out the budget carriers so you can pay insanely more for the same flight for the honour of it being in BTC.