Are you confusing by chance Bitcoin's blockchain with a private web service called blockchain.com ?

Blockchain is a database. It doesn't have "its memory".

Sorry, this is not an excuse. It's like the drug dealer telling "it was only my daily job, in the rest of the time I'm a law abiding citizen".

Why not? Isn't that the best way to make sure you'll remain anonymous?
Do we believe anybody who says he's Satoshi if he cannot sign a message with those keys?

The number generated by google auth is based on a seed and current time.
If that seed is saved on your computer, in your own wallet, what would be the point of having it? Anybody could look in Bitcoin core source code and find a way to generate your 2FA number after stealing your wallet.
That's why people tell you about 3rd party.

Yep, you're right, I was focused only on the first blocks and I've forgot about that.

I am on the same page, I don't have a huge problem yet with my private keys, there's no life changing amount to hide 


Bank's storage can be a valid place since it may be opened only by you or with your death certificate, afaik.
But back at hiding in plain sight: somebody from the family also needs to know where to look, obviously. Preferably somebody who doesn't know much about computers and bitcoin. (So yes, the suggestion still stands.)

And about catching fire, well.. I see it the same as burglars coming in (so this makes crypto steel useless) : backup at somebody else. And this backup can be made in a way only you can understand it - sealed envelope with a "letter" in a specific format to a password protected USB stick... it's up to one's ingenuity. If Bitcoin gets to 100k-500k a piece I will give it a bigger thought. 

Week-end comes and strange things happen sometimes during week-ends. Will this mean a drop? Maybe (not convinced, but anything can really happen). But sub-6k, I highly doubt it.
However, you are calling for sub-6k drops too often and this will make you lose credibility. And it won't even matter if such a drop will happen or not. Read about the user kwukduck and his predictions 

Never underestimate human greed.
If Satoshi or somebody close to him will ever have access to those keys, we will eventually spend.

I think that Satoshi is either dead (which may make a certain clown's actions make some sense), either have completely and deliberately destroyed those keys.

I don't know why people keep dreaming about a take over. I'm not sure they even understand what they mean.
Take over as the first coin? They cannot since time travel doesn't work.
Get higher price for their coin than for Bitcoin? Well, for Ethereum that would mean a stronger and hungrier network, since history has shown that miners' costs are a big component of the price.
Adding PoS into the equation ... made me laugh. 

Actually everything has to be written down - seed words and password - even if it's something very simple.

I've seen cases when people got a stroke and forgot even to walk and of course even their kids' names (!).
One has to think / plan for long term and what I've said can happen because of a car or motorcycle crash too, so it's not age related.


You can keep the seed written onto paper buried between many other useful and / or useless papers. Most people will not know what's that and what to use it for.
Or you can write here and there onto the pages of a book your seed words.
I mean that a seed has to be written down and it's not too difficult to hide in plain sight.

From what I see, it could be done either with lock on the table / records, either by keeping in memory a synchronized time-ordered list of operations "to be made".

If an exchange implements LN there can be interesting extra services developed and if Kraken will be the first, they'll have quite an edge.
I am really curious what'll actually happen.

Yep. We have to make bounty hunters understand what they are doing wrong. If we manage to do this we will have better bounties and less scam ICOs too.
Just it's an extremely difficult job, especially because most of those don't read, they just post.

You've missed the whole point of paying in their coin/token.

The new projects that are not listed at exchanges and without their own market place will always pay in their own token (as long as there will be bounty hunters accepting that) because in this case they don't pay anything from their pockets. If the project has success and gets listed, you'll sell for other investors' money. If it doesn't have success, tough luck, you've worked for free. It's a risk the bounty hunter have to think of when he jumps for enlisting under their banner. One has to check first if it has a good enough chance for success and listing.

I've sent more than 1000$ for less than 10 cents fee just because I've waited a cool down period. Of course, this is not always possible.
Also the fees are not related to the value you are transacting, so the 5$ and 1000$ figures are useless.

And also Ethereum network is pretty much crowded too lately and I fear that if the trend continues sooner or later you'll face the same issues on ETH.

I cannot tell what the future holds. I think that Bitcoin will fulfill our long term expectations if we don't give it a deadline.
Whether it's "moon" in a year or not, I cannot tell. I hope so though.

They do have rules about this situation. The odd part is that they didn't notify about it.
I mean, their goal is to keep their paying customers...

In order to find it more practical than fiat they have to learn to think more clearly, which basically comes from a higher degree of education.

You said about "every radical movement". They keep the people stupid and feed them with nonsense. I was talking about something ... different: education. Real education. One where everything can be questioned and researched.

Since their first steps humans get used to have a helping hand around, somebody to trust and somebody who will bail them out if they make a mistake.
Depending on the environment they grow up, many will remain tied to such expectations and very few won't.
The way they handle their money / assets is in pace with their mentality. So I am not surprised many prefer others handle their money as long as it's - in a way or another - insured.

Now, add the fact public figures - Donald Trump, Warren Buffet, Bill Gates, heads of central banks - tell loud that Bitcoin is risky and people should stay away.


It's not that people don't care. People don't know they should care. Change of habits is needed. Education is needed. We are still way closer to monkeys (or sheep) than we'd like to admit.

Hello and welcome back. Good to hear about people winning against that virus.


There was the halving.
There were a lot of price fluctuations, you can see here: https://bitcoinwisdom.io/markets/bitstamp/btcusd maybe set it to 4h so you can see the prices since the start of this year.
The mempool is quite loaded lately (excepting the last week-end), so the tx fees are higher and many started to complain.


Since there was the halving and also the governments are printing money (hence making it less valuable) we expect (as usual) moon 
However, some still expect huge drop and we have to stay realistic: the market is still volatile and rather unpredictable.