proper p2p is out of the window completely, but they can do something to places like localbitcoins or bitcoin.de. those are identifiable sites. same goes for shapeshift too i guess. it would suck if these places decide to do a usa and figure it was too much work to accommodate europeans but they'd be throwing away a mountain of fees.

if you've ever dealt with bitstamp i find it kinda hard to see how they could possibly make it stricter without inviting the ceo into your house and letting him observe you for a month. there are hardly any alt only places that let you show up anonymously too. nothing much new here.

until blackbytes can be conventionally traded there won't be any correlation in price. it's too much hassle for most people to use them as they are.

i also think it's something that most people don't realise the virtues of and maybe won't for a long time but that's ok. that means you can pick them up for next to nothing and wait for them to be understood.

Digital gold? I don't even...

It's the absolute screaming anti digital gold.

There is nothing on coinmarketcap less suited to the role.

It's got a future. Gold ain't it.

What's inside information about it?

And I majorly doubt they'll ever add it to retail selling unless they rename it.

They'd get their asses sued off for misleading stupid customers.

Charlie Lee who, yknow, actually worked at coinbase said the same thing.

all coins did indeed go to that few people but this was a long, long time ago. it's very unlikely the same people still have the same amounts of coins. there was a lot of buying and selling in the early days and no doubt that's continued.

it went up to a 100 million market cap not too long after launch when that amount was a huge deal and then it went to sleep.

the ico was cut short after raising 21 btc. maybe there were sock puppets but i don't think people were interested enough to be gamed.

i know about nxt's history. i don't know anything about its present so can't comment about that.

because of all the other alts it's issuing.

nxt was crippled by the style of its launch for a long time. all of the coins went to 70 people. no one else wanted to touch it because of that distribution.

to be fair it was one of the very first ico type of deals and most people were extremely skeptical so didn't take part.

it absolutely can. each bitcoin currency pairing has a leader and if that goes down confidence takes a huge knock.

gox was catastrophic but by the time it was dead it had almost no market share. it lost its lead months before. it was the amount of historic money caught up in there that hurt.

it's definitely more spread out than in the past but everything's about confidence and that can disappear quickly.

kind of hard to compare them really. bittrex has millions more coins than gdax but it doesn't have the backing that gdax has. gdax's behavior is also influenced by it being the first stop for noobs which is why often prices are very different to other exchanges.

i would assume that if i had a serious problem i'd have a better chance of getting it resolved eventually with gdax.

all exchanges are making stunning amounts of money right now. they'll be throwing as much as possible at accommodating new users. but unless we've reached an eternal september there will be a point where things cool off. tears of this magnitude don't come along very often and don't last forever.

same goes for almost every single exchange in this scene. hardly any of them can cope. bitstamp said they were adding 100,000 new users per day. bittrex said they topped 500,000 online users. those are fearsome numbers. when things ease up they'll all go back to normal and everyone in support ticket hell should get their problems solved too.

in fact is there anywhere that isn't buckling under the load? i can't think of anywhere that hasn't had some problems. perhaps the hype has peaked now all this futures crap is out of the way and christmas is coming.

iota's lack of fees makes it a different proposition completely. if both survive they'll wind up with different markets. and alot of the future of crypto will be private chains used by companies. no company will use eth or xrp directly. maybe byteball should look into an offshoot serving that too. maybe they are already. i dunno.

the whole point of ripple is seamless and super quick transfers of different currencies. this is custom built to be perfect for the crypto market.

that being the case where are these ripple gateways? many exchanges like bitstamp have had ripple for years and also have the capacity to be gateways yet never in my life have i seen anyone here say they've found a gateway or used one.

what gives?

The lack of female presence in tech is a self reinforced embargo brought on by groupthink.

It's the same as working class people believing working class people don't play tennis...so they don't play tennis either.

If they don't show up in tech roles I couldn't care less just as if I wouldn't care if all tech roles were inhabited by women.

There's nothing stopping anyone doing anything other than societal norms.

in case you hadn't noticed it was zero because it didn't exist and then was magicked up out of thin air. that puts a slightly different angle on it. are you absolutely sure you know what it is?

it's gonna be added to bitpay soon which will probably make it the primary coin for commerce though i'd massively prefer if that was litecoin. whether you like it or not that's a huge feather in its cap. i wouldn't be surprised if coinbase didn't do the same and add it to their retail section too because they're not so secret big blockers too.

it's weird that it's being taken seriously by these heavyweights when it's still entirely mined by jihan wu and his proxies. almost any other coin has less centralisation. it's pretty much impossible for a coin to be more any more centralised than it is.

is this a new approach of theirs? in the past they only added what was obviously right up there already and would bring them a ton of cash. i'd be surprised if they pivoted away from that and accepted applications even if it was from the developers.

the only thing i know about cardano is that it appeared out nowhere right up there on coinmarketcap but that seems to be an increasingly regular occurrence.

no one in most developed countries cares about this. right now they're piling into bitcoin and alts to get rich and nothing else. normal people understand nothing about money and it's only greeks and cypriots who got a light schooling and even then they weren't subject to third world levels of debasement and inflation.

this is pure speculative mania.

i'm not very inclined to believe a gold analyst will have an impartial opinion, but he could turn out to be right in the short term. bitcoin and many other coins have done it plenty of times before.

but people getting into this should be thinking in terms of years, not the next few months. there were 'catastrophic wipeouts' before and then it came roaring back eventually.

and i have no idea what he means about millenials and anyone who writes about returning to your parents' basement is clearly a salty asshole.

yes - http://bitguru.co.uk/bitconnect-could-be-shut-down/

but it's possible they'll collapse before anything is done by the authorities. or it might limp on for a long time.

either way no one should care other than the people who put money into it and they've had enough warnings.