It's easy to claim something. I could claim that I'm the flying spaghettimonster which deserves 100000 BTC just now for granting everybody a peaceful life in paradise after death.

No. Because the account could have been hacked or sold.

Just using gmail over VPN worked well for me but after I sent a couple of emails, gmail locked my account and showed me a mandatory mobile phone registration form which I couldn't skip.

Gmail + just receiving emails + VPN = Ok
Gmail + sending emails + VPN = Mandatory SMS verification after sending some emails
Gmail + sending emails + VPN + registered mobile phone number = Ok

Like from $50 to $100?

sub 266

The next following "bubble" after sub 266 is possibly going up to $1000 only instead of reaching a new high.

I plan to clean my computer every 6 months but every time when the day X comes, I delay it until the kernel panic message (or black screen / frozen screen) arises, which forces me to open the tower case to inspect which component broke today because all of the dust and dirth inside.  

Flying Spaghetti Monster is another religion which is out of shitlist

Why not set the fees to 0.00001 BTC (1000 Satoshis) instead of 0.0002 (20000 Satoshis)?
Had to wait times up to some hours but it confirmed mostly. If the amounts are that small, then it's likely not too important to confirm quickly.

Fully adopting Bitcoin would partially raise the average citizen over the federal law by moving their wealth away from the federal supervision to the much more powerful nature law of the maths. (The laws of the maths are superior to any federal law because maths doesn't require anything to enforce.)

Loosing power by adopting Bitcoin would also disturb important commercial relationships with other countries and transnational alliances. Would a single country ever succeed to manufacture everything down from a computer chip up to very complex system in order to participate in the Bitcoin economy? I think, no. Then Bitcoin isn't the right choice.

That's why fully adopting Bitcoin in the economy would be a serious stupid move for any powerful people in any country.

Some infos about this guy:
Post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7368283
Profile: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=1brain7
Signed version of this post: http://pastebin.com/s29kk2bb

He is monitoring the network for transaction to brain wallets and if the address is indexed in his brainwallet database, he snatches it immediately.

1. You could ask the operators of pastebin.com and ycombinator.com which IP and Email he used.
2. You could watch his wallet from time to time. As soon he spends the bitcoins, you could try to find traces along the transaction flow.

No.
I don't call it adoption if avarge Joe avoids crypto because he would have to do verification marathons before selling or buying crypto.
I don't call it adoption if avarge Joe avoids crypto because it requires a pile of paper for buying a coffee at Starbucks with crypto.
For the minor part of the population, cyber criminals, this is probably just a solvable problem because they doesn't have to bother with the compliciated taxation system anyway. They only have to find a way to buy or sell anonymously.

Still ... yes. I don't think this "easy buy easy sell on Coinbase" will last long, not even 10 years.

As long as the internet censorship is "only" filtering for traffic and ports, cryptos could survive certainly.
But if the world wide censorshop really manages to go that far in allowing only connections to pre-defined nodes which requires a valid license and a mandatory certificate (no P2P traffic between arbitrary IPs anymore) combined with a mandatory trusted computing secured device to connect to the "internet", then I could imagine that all cryptos really disappear.

Because of the increasing regulation and an obscure overcomplicated taxation system, crypto coins will never exists as an easy-to-use payment like PayPal, Credit Card or some future Apple or Amazon payment method. If the avarge Joe choices to invest in cryptos anyway, he has the choice between weeks long verification marathons OR travelling a long distance for a meeting with a shady person.

Due to lack of usability for legal purposes (see above), crooks will increasyly involve cryptos in illegal activities and because of increasing illegal activity, govs will tighten the restrictment until the solely posession of crypto is threatened with a fine or even jail.

Trusted computing, internet censorship and elimination of cash will accelrate the process of thinning out the blockchain nodes connectivity.

https://blockchain.info/address/1MbDKqngwKQ49TowToHGc9nZBRt99CqK8t this is valid. If 1MbDk... is the unknown address you don't own, then you cannot do anything other than finding out how the hack might happenen.

Chrome for entertainment, Firefox for web development.
Chrome feels faster for me but a thing I don't like is Chrome's memory consumption. When having open many YouTube tabs, it quickly reaches the 4GB, then it's finally crashing the whole Chrome because it's only a 32 bit process.

Bitcoin doesn't fail because the P2P and blockchain system still works as expected. The price justs falls.

If you're worried, sell as much until you can sleep well.

There's no guarantee for getting 500 or higher again in the future. Take the possibility into account that the price might fall to 100 or lower without ever recovering.

Q: bitcoin when will it go back up?
A: all I can do is to predict.

And my prediction is:


Its likely that my prediction will miss the real price development on many candles but I think (in the big picture) the price will drop more in the next months.
I predict the bottom is reached late summer to xmas.

Around $150 with bearish tendency.

I think, all crypto coins will be regulated nearly to it's death and solely continues to exist in the underground economy, primary for
a) small illegal business
b) hiding assets from the wife during a divorce
c) hiding assets from the authorities during living off social security (some countries requires you to spend almost all your money before you get help in case of unemployment)
d) hiding assets from the authorities while pretent to be insolvent

Because of the regulation and an obscure overcomplicated taxation system, BTC will never exists as an easy-to-use payment like PayPal, Credit Card or some future Apple or Amazon payment method. If the avarge Joe choices to invest to BTC anyway, he has the choice between weeks long verification marathons OR travelling a long distance for a meeting with a shady person or even a cop which arrests him, accusing him to laundry money (maybe not a problem if smart Joe will convert his fiat to BTC in many but small portions).

I think, the EU will also regulate Bitcoin sooner or later.

You're convinced that none of the solo miners in the early days destroyed or lost his private key? Note that nobody knew for sure that Bitcoin went that far like Bitcoin is today.
If just only a few miners have their hard drives abandoned without making a back up, it would be even still sufficient to fulfill an exactly 6x 50 BTC claim.

The 300 BTC could have been splitted across various addresses, eg 6x 50 BTC or 50,50,50,50,30,25,25,10,10.
Take the possibility into account that it's not exactly 300 BTC but like 301.58472613 BTC, assembled by many smaller odd amounts, typical for a wallet.
You'll always find unspent amounts to combine the (roughly) 300 BTC, because wallet losses did happen in the past,