Does everyone remember the frozen Parity funds? Let this article remind you of how its developer froze the funds by accident.

https://www.coindesk.com/startup-lost-160-million-still-wants-shake-ethereum/

It now appears that Ethereum might be closer in undergoing on a 2nd bailout. EIP867 entitled Standardized Ethereum Recovery Proposals is now merged in.

https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs/blob/master/EIPS/eip-867.md

I reckon the Parity developers will be bailed out by the end of 2018, the same as the DAO bailout. Yes, code is law hehehe.

This begs the question, why is there a need for decentralization in Ethereum?

Wasn't Brian Kelly the person on CNBC who did a demo on how to buy XRP on Poloniex, and then it crashed hours later hehehe? That was funny.

His comment about bitcoin is nothing new. Andreas Antonopolous and others have already said something the same years ago. Also, Brian Kelly may be right about bitcoin, but he is one person who we should not listen to.

But oh look, another person who cannot accept other people's perspective except his favorite, to the moon, and an attack on someone's character to make up for his own lack making a real argument.

Our Carlos Condit bet lost. This is a sad day for him and his fans because this fight should be taken as a sign that he should soon be thinking about retirement from fighting.

The sportsbooks already knew they were driving us to a loss by giving attractive odds for Carlos hehehe.

That would be hard for a cryptocoin like Aeon, don't you think? What if market prices crash to 5k satoshis? It would clearly be too hard to sell 100k Aeons if want to, both on and off-exchange.

But what do you know that you would be willing to hold that much Aeons? Care to share your insider information hehehe?

@LTU_btc. I agree. Last season was also started strongly by Ferrari, but by the race in Baku, you can already see that Sebastian Vettel was already in a full breakdown and giving their season away to Mercedes.

But what I want to see is Lewis and Sebastian both driving for Ferrari. I want to see who's the better driver hehehe. I reckon it might be Lewis.

I reckon it is not a coincidence that bitcoin was pumped to $8000 and then Tim Draper's releasing of his prediction to the press. He may be the person behind both the pump and the news articles.

This is dangerous because the growth in price from hype would be artificial. The December crash reminded us of that. But if all you care about is the price then go ahead, believe it all you want.

Please click the link below. The article has some objective price analyses on other cryptocoins that some of you might agree with. I reckon they are a far cry from the mainstream media's hypey and pumpy price analyses.

Also, some of you may have become too excited on another article predicting that bitcoin will be $25,000 by end of 2018 and $250k on 2022. Be careful, the future is still open to anything. $2500 is also possible hehehe.



Bitcoin surged past the $7650 and $8000 levels in the matter of hours, but the move is still not sufficient for a trend change, despite the long period of relative strength, as the broad declining trendline is still ahead as resistance.

BTC held up above the February low, likely forming a base formation, and long-term investors could still add to their holdings here, although further consolidation is possible. Crucial resistance is ahead between $9000-$9200 and near $10,000 and $11,300, with further support found in the $6150-$6250.

Read the full article https://hacked.com/long-term-cryptocurrency-analysis-bumpy-road-ahead-despite-strong-rally/

@Lionidas. But Varys will die in the coming season. It is already written hehe. My prediction, he'll be burned and eaten by Drogon for being a traitor.

@SaShiRaJaVu. If the fighter that did it was anyone else than Conor then I reckon he or she would be out of MMA forever. But if Conor does it, it makes the cut for episode 5 on Embedded hehehe.

I am starting to think the incident was staged.

@Jating. But as mentioned here, on April 2, Brown pulled out of the fight due to a torn anterior cruciate ligament. Alex Oliveira replaced Brown on April 4. That is only 10 days to prepare versus one of the best welterweights in UFC history.

@eaLiTy. The main event will be a battle of 2 conflicting styles. Dustin, the technical fighter, versus Justin, the brawler.

Also, I reckon the winner will wistfully have to wait until 2019 to get a chance for the belt. Dana has to make up for the failed Tony versus Khabib megafight and must make Conor versus Khabib happen first hehehe. In Russia.

It is funny that there are cryptospace deniers and cynics left who are becoming so blatant in trying to steer the conversation to bitcoin's hype is gone and therefore everyone should avoid it.

This article was published on almost the same time as when bitcoin started to pump and break $7000 with high volume. Coincidence?



J.C. Parets, a technical markets analyst in New York, remembers getting multiple phone calls a day about cryptocurrencies late last year. Clients, old high school friends, strangers and even his 88-year-old grandmother were intrigued.

“It wasn’t even like ‘should I buy crypto’ but instead it was ‘which one?’” he said. “Everyone was in on it.”

Four months later, those calls stopped coming.

“Nobody cares anymore,” Mr. Parets said.

To be sure, crypto die-hards are still passionate about digital currencies. But many first-time bitcoin buyers who came into the market in December and January are sitting on losses. Mainstream interest in the cryptocurrency market has diminished.

Regulators in the U.S., South Korea, and India are trying to curb speculative activity. Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and Twitter Inc. are banning advertising related to cryptocurrencies to stop scammers from promoting fraudulent schemes on these social-media platforms.

“All the hype is gone,” said Vijay Boyapati, a software engineer in Seattle who previously worked at Google and a food-delivery startup, and is nevertheless preparing to take a job in the cryptocurrency industry. “I think right now we’re in the boring phase.”

Read in full https://www.wsj.com/articles/bitcoins-hype-vanishes-just-like-that-were-in-the-boring-phase-1523534400

I reckon the Monero development team said it best. They would support ASICs only if their production was commoditized. Meaning, if given no choice, they would switch to a mining algorithm where it would be easy to create and produce ASIC chips for it. They want easy access for all manufacturers while trying to avoid a Bitmain centralization type scenario.

There are parts of this article that are so funnily written, as if the author was trying to market bitcoin cash as the better coin for everyday payments. What he  failed to see is that both bitcoin and bitcoin cash transactions are recorded on a blockchain. Blockchains are known to reach a limit per block, 1mb for bitcoin, then the fees go up and it will also have longer confirmation waiting times. We have seen it happen on Ethereum and we will also see it on bitcoin cash.

Also making blocks bigger will not solve the problem. As they become full, it will only externalize the costs somewhere else instead of the users.



Furthermore, merchants are eager to start using Bitcoin Cash, according to BitPay, which processes transactions in Bitcoin for hundreds of thousands of merchants including Microsoft and Newegg. In December 2017, merchants were alarmed when the Bitcoin network became overwhelmed with activity and the fee for a single Bitcoin transaction surged. Bitcoin Cash, because of its higher transaction capacity, is theoretically resistant to this kind of surge. BitPay started offering its clients the option to accept payments in Bitcoin Cash in addition to Bitcoin earlier this year. “Ninety percent of our large merchants have turned it on,” said chief commercial officer Sonny Singh.

Bitcoin Cash detractors like to call the cryptocurrency “Bcash,” “Btrash,” or simply, a scam, while Bitcoin Cash advocates insist that their implementation is a more pure form of Bitcoin. (A Bitcoin Cash conference that met in Tokyo in March was called “Satoshi’s Vision.”) “They have inferior technology so they rely on censorship to try to stop the advances of the one true Bitcoin,” tweeted billionaire Bitcoin Cash proponent Calvin Ayre.

Read in full https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/12/17229796/bitcoin-cash-conflict-transactions-fight

The good thing is that it appears the platform does not store plaintext passwords for all compromised accounts found in its database.

Could this also be a trick to scare you? They can mix in the compromised accounts with accounts they do not have the passwords to but pretend they do. That's an easy $10 extorted per person. How can they prove that they can have access to your account? What would stop me from changing my passwords today?

Also, most email accounts today do not contain important information anymore, only social media notifications hehehe.

Sometimes exchanges have trouble in running a coin's broken node software. It was the reason why Bittrex deactivated and delisted a lot of coins last month. They were projects that were left or exit scammed by their development teams.

The Harder The Fall, The Higher The Rise

Not necessarily. But the opposite is always true.

A quick and hard fall creates fear among the participants in the market, and it makes them more careful in coming back in. While a quick and sudden rise also creates fear when it starts to fall, making them careless and wanting to be first out the door, that will cause the quick and hard fall.

Staged or not, the drama built up for Conor versus Khabib is now set. I hope the fight will be in Russia on September hehehe.

Dana's only job is now to make sure and help Conor settle all his legal problems and be cleared to fight at the soonest possible time.

Bitsport.bet is now offline completely. They went from not paying some of their players' withdrawals, to maintenance mode, then went completely offline. It would be now safe to say that they are gone, I reckon.

Also, I speculate that their deposit bonus was what really hurt them financially. Cheaters opened multiple accounts and took advantage of the bonus, and took a good amount of bitcoins from the site.

Hehe I was only joking. The liquidity for Aeon is so low that I wouldn't recommend anyone to buy 100k coins. What would happen if you decide to sell all of them? You would crash the price if you cannot look for a buyer off-exchange.