Hi.  Great coin, I like the idea of interest through the weekly token drops.  I'm afraid I missed the 2017 movements, and only joined in the fun in January.

For how long will the Monday airdrops be taking place?  Will there be any coin burns?

Thanks

Hi, how can you claim your XNN?  I have an ethereum private key for a wallet with XNN but no gas money in there.

Bitcoin Diamond has done this, for example:
http://www.btcd.io/

They changed their fork to have 210 million.

I'm afraid you've paid a really 'low' fee:
51.537 sat/B

To even get the time of day at this point in time, you need to pay at least 900 sat/B:
https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

Bitcoin is sucking right now because its overloaded.

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That fee is currently too low!  https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/ is recommending 970 satoshis a byte.

To force it to go through, send a double spend with a higher fee.

The core developers are banking on Segwit, which is not being adopted by many, and lightning.
The users that found this unsatisfactory left to Bitcoin Cash and believe that a simple blocksize increase was all that was needed.

The only thing you can do today within BTC, is move your assets to segwit addresses and only do segwit to segwit.  I don't have a practical cost savings from that, but I'm told you save on fees due to the transaction size being smaller.  Does anyone have an example of segwit costs vs non-segwit costs?

They will experience increase against fiat, but the fee is an order of magnitude lower.  They'd need a much higher price and/or a much higher transaction volume to match BTC.

The promise of a 1 cent fee forever is a lie, but i suspect they'll just increase the blocksize again if it ever gets too high.

They don't believe in segwit and lightning because they represent gaming, etc. and don't want potential auditing and restrictions imposed.  i think the fear is lightning networks could be forced to blacklist grey markets, who have carried bitcoin to where it is today

That's where its value came from, if its a piece of software that doesn't work, people will lose faith in it.  I think the system is under strain and there needs to be a solution.  Cutting this out will have a big impact.

You might not like the personalities behind it, but the utility of the coin is very, very important.

IMO, without utility, its going to become worthless.  Utility is needed to keep the value high, incentivise miners and keep the network alive.

Feeds need to drop or the network won't survive this and you won't be able to get your money out when you need it.

Similarly, this undermines the aspects of the technology that make it worthwhile.  This is not a revolution without it challenging banking, and payments, and its real worth will tank in line with this.

Fees need to come down or be proportionate to the value of the wallet values rather than the size of the transaction.  Software changes are needed.

Look here and you will be able to see where you sent it:
https://blockchain.info/
Paste your paper wallet public address in the top search.

What i suspect is you moved your bitcoin to one of the wallet addresses electron generated, so you'd need to use the same seed with electrum to see the btc.  Old versions of electron were using the bitcoin network not the bitcoin cash network, only seems to work after 3.x.

I recently moved my coins and electron was buggy as all hell before 3.x

I got a ledger, usb pen sized and more currencies supported.   Faster on the split too.

I was going to shift my btg to bch but was waiting for a dip! 

I think BCH is backed by online gaming and porn as a spendable currency, so I think that it will readjust but not collapse, and will gain long term.  Something usable, with a brand name and a low fee is a good thing for online commerce.  Its a shame core is focused on offchain scaling, a small blocksize increase wouldn't be as drastic as made out and i think a lot of pain would have been saved if there was everyone pulling together.

If you didn't need it in a hurry, you can do a replaceable fee and put it down to the lowest in the pending transactions pool.  You would still be paying around 5-8 euros though.  Too high for a usable currency imo.  Hate to say it but I think blocksize needs to be increased.

lol, nope.  I don't think anyone cares about what these guys do to a level of impacting the price.

Looks more like insider trading:
1. difficulty adjustment has always been a dip for btc
2. sudden investment/pump in bch and shifting a few hours before...
3. coinbase surprise activation


I think if you were a whale, this would have been known.  They clearly knew about coinbase.  If this were stocks the feds would be swooping right now.

Hoping for 999,999.99!

I suspect there'll be a use case for secure wallet storage; if i imagine my parents, relatives and even friends, they need to have a backed storage.  I can imagine having a load of cold wallets stored in a vault, and then an online insured fund for the equivalent of current accounts.

Lightning hubs are banks too the more I think about it, or a co-operative perhaps.


Combine the two and I don't see banks going away, even if lightning doesn't materialise.

I am surprised at the level of research people have been doing.   Someone mentioned to me its the hot new thing, microsoft is onboard with cisco etc.    So then I went to check.

I checked, lots of talk about working with other companies, and this is everywhere, but the suspicious thing is it is all only from IOTA team.  Not a single statement of support from their so called partners.  Cisco is mentioned in this very thread, but i can't find any evidence that cisco is involved.  No press statement, etc.  Can someone please provide these?  Maybe my skills just suck, but all it seems like is terrible journalists blindly reporting IOTA press releases without getting statements from the 'partners' on what they intend to use them for.

I also then discovered some big bugs where the network has failed.

I then read of the concerns of the network scaling, the ease of attack, etc. and the Tangle network being highly unproven.

Then finally, I read that its theoretical and its not actually working yet outside of a lab environment.

Then i have my own thoughts, such as the sheer expense of mining on the clients.   We are talking about a highly, highly restrictive space here where devices need to be efficient.  If this is for IoT devices that have no memory, power, run ASIC type processing, etc, why would an expensive network like this be of value?  The use-case targeted doesn't shout blockchain at me, in fact distributed consensus is a very expensive process.


Therefore my predictions are:
1. People continue not to research and dump money in it, it will go up until it collapses when someone that everyone reads points out its BS.  Forbes, Economist, etc.  just takes a journalist that isn't a web blogger (no offence to web bloggers, some of them do a fantastic job, but that means they won't work for these big useless clickbait companies)
2. People continue not to research and dump money in it, it will go up and the IOTA team use the money to condense the vapour into something that exists, and it holds for a little while.  

Putting money into it is like playing a broken casino machine, but in the house's favour.

I could be wrong and perhaps didn't find information required to be informed because of bad googling, but I am completely unconvinced.

Yes, the markets are linked and bitcoin crash would undermine faith in all cryptocurrency.  I don't think there's much we can do about that.

Here's the scenarios I have thought through:
1. Small adjustment
2. Large adjustment
3. Full scale crash
4. Flippening

For 1, this is likely and overdue.  All cryptos will dip when btc goes through this.  Good buying opportunities for those that are not overly invested in crypto.
For 2, this is a risk.  All cryptos would crash, particularly Litecoin, ETH, Bitcoin Cash, etc.  There would be a long term recovery.
For 3, this is a smaller risk.  All cryptos would crash.  Your money is gone, but the hardcore would continue to push for it to be a cryptocurrency.  The tech will be applied to banking.
For 4, only BTC and its clones would collapse.  The most likely candidate is Bitcoin Cash, providing the whales continue to to carry it to adoption and burn money to ride out adjustments.  I believe there are several whales that will do this.  If the fears of lightning and blocksize prove to be false, a flippening will not happen until a contender appears or there is a mistake with the handling of the btc project.

I'm curious to see what the 'bankers' add to the equation now futures are here, these reckless tools will undoubtedly fuel blind panic.

My observations of watching adjustments across a decent mix:
Monero and Dash I have observed to buck the trends, and can often go up whilst BTC and its clones dip.  The wider trends they follow though.
BTC, BCH, BCG, ETH, LTC, etc. are all joint at the hip with BTC having the biggest impact on the others.  This is down to their properties, there's really not much difference between most coins in terms of technical properties.

There's a lot of shitcoins, mostly running on pure speculation so these are just a random guess.


I think crypto has value and I hope it persists; providing it becomes more efficient and replaces cash.



note: obviously pure opinion

If you are talking about a wealth tax, you avoid this by not being wealthy.  Sell your assets and spend the money if you don't want to pay it.  There are allowances to distribute wealth tax free, you should do this to family.  You also get tax breaks by giving money to charities or investing in certain business ventures.
If you are talking about capital gains tax, go to some fucked up third world country where there is no society and therefore no tax.

Taxes are good things.  I know it might not seem that way sometimes, but they are there for a reason.  Pay them.