Circle bought Poloniex specifically with the SEC's blessing, presumably to ward off any future nightmares. If there's going to be a fully compliant exchange, it'll be Poloniex.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/circle-leaps-exchange-business-poloniex-acquisition/

The question remains how many ICOs will be considered acceptable. Not sure if any will be. We'll have to wait and see. Getting on Poloniex would be a brute of a job I'd imagine.

Is the OP just buying or planning on trading?

If I was just buying I would bypass exchanges completely and go through an OTC broker. You'd get personalised service and quite likely no limits at all.

What a complete twat that bloke is. A big time crypto investor should not be making mistakes that basic.

If you're involving email anywhere you should be using 2FA, and not phone or email based. The most secure is printed codes from gmail. After that it's Authenticator.

If you intend to move coins regularly then a hardware wallet is a no brainer. If you're holding for the long term then do a properly created paper wallet.

If I were running this thread those screeds of worthless shit would've been nuked decades ago. They add nothing to no one's life.

InB4 'free speech'.

And if thousands of memes and words were devoted to hamsters or underfloor heating systems with similar tedious venom that would get the boot too.

Considering nothing blockchain related has ever made a profit and probably won't for years to come, how long are all these posts going to last? As long as the VC or ICO money lasts I presume.

If I were hunting for a job in this area I'd only really consider exchanges or gambling sites as they're only consistent earners. For everything else I'd expect my marching orders as soon as I'd furnished my desk.

The average Scandinavian jail could probably charge $200 a night to tourists from elsewhere so this is hardly a shocker. He probably told the guards he was nipping out for a curry and they wished him an enjoyable meal. And paid for it.

Who is your wallet provider? Depending on who it is there may be an automated way of claiming it directly from the wallet.

Let us know and then you'll get an answer. Your BCH will be waiting out there somewhere.

The in game earnings are the domain of the players, not the service provider. They'll always charge in dollars as that's what their outgoings are too.

But you're also right. I'm sure many a player would go squealing to them. That's why it makes more sense to create something from scratch by the players and for the players who understand what the deal is from the start.

If a corporate game included crypto they'd rapidly find themselves becoming some sort of exchange and that's a head ache no one needs.

Your work is done, grandad. Now push off and leave it to the cool kids.

My birth name is Halal Al-Jihad and I'm still very surprised at the easy ride I get here.

Surely it's a 1000 BTC coin or go home.

And 0.5 as a punt is pretty hefty. I can't think of too many going for it. At the very minimum as a consolation for not winning I'd want to spend a month inside Mike Caldwell.

Can you tell us what the process is when someone defaults? ID is all well and good. That doesn't do anything to get someone's money back though it's certainly a start.

I could well imagine a game that did build itself around a decentralised currency becoming a monstrous success. It would instantly open itself up to a whole new breed of players and spawn a thriving in game economy that would morph into something truly transformative.

Current game developers are pretty dim to discount this as a selling point. Then again they could still act as gatekeepers and have undue influence over players and their ability to earn and trade. They'd wield far too much power.

We'll probably have to wait until there are open source and collectively hosted and maintained artificial environments before the potential is there, but when it is it's going to be amazing to witness.

This is an area that really intrigues me. No doubt there'll be vastly huger returns in simply parking the money in coins but they must all be looking at 10-20 years in the future when I could well imagine Coinbase being bigger than Jesus if they play it right.

I'd love to know the proportion of VC funding that produces an actual return. I presume it's a minuscule percentage but the winners must win huge.

And there must be someone somewhere keeping track of the VC investments in crypto so far. I'm sure it would make for seriously ugly reading.

That's why they'll probably only permit accredited investors and VCs. They're professional losers of money. Have you checked how much many a hedge fund has set on fire? Losing vast amounts is par for the course.

And volatility is often actively sought. There are ETFs that were custom built to be as volatile as they could possibly make them.

Don't get it. In what world do these people live?

21 took over $100 million of someone else's money and came up with a Raspberry Pi with a bit of software on it. They probably sold a few hundred. 

How far would you get in the real business world with a track record like that? I wonder when the crypto and internet based stuff will ever bear a relation to reality. The day must be coming.

The real litmus test regarding their commitment will be their upcoming banking partnership with Coinbase. That's the first time a major crypto business has been able to access the faster payments network in the UK.

If they dangle it for a short while and then pull it I wouldn't be too confident of any of their other plans in the future.

Lots and lots of enthusiasm... apart from the person trying to sell it. I would not be bursting with keenosity to do that either.

How many raffles have there been on here previously and how successful were they?

And his $10,000 prediction all the way back then turned out to be on the money.

Timing aside, $10,000 was a relatively risk free prediction to make, albeit still very ambitious. $10,000 is high but still a long way from world beating. I never understood why it was the dream figure for so many people. A $160-170 billion market cap is of course huge but still not all that epic in global terms.

$250,000 is serious shit but it could be argued that the haul from $0 to $10,000 was the hard and tenuous part.

The more violent the move the less inclined I'd be to trust it, especially when it's in a market as uncertain as this one. Amateur and FOMO money has probably vacated and now all that's left is bots and whales all trying to fuck each other over.

If it can rise that rapidly there's absolutely nothing stopping it going just as fast in the opposite direction.