Moribund perhaps, but not dead: https://www.unnamed.exchange/Exchange/Basic?market=HODL_BTC

You could buy some to show your grandchildren. Price is right.   

Thanks very much. It also fixes an error that had just started to appear for me: "ReadError: IO error: NewRandomAccessFile failed to Create/Open: rocksdb/".
Memo to self - after dodging that kind of bullet it really is time to make a new backup!

Client restarts. It went on for a couple of days iirc. Something - probably task manager - convinced me that it was making progress.

I had the same issue, but it eventually synced after multiple restarts. Also Win10 64.

Thanks for the suggestion. I've been on their mailing list for a long time but I had the impression that they were targeting "digital entrepreneurs" - people who wanted to set up a business to trade in the EU without a lot of bricks and mortar hassle. My memory says it involved password passport verification (don't have/want one) and a trip to Talinn or an Estonian consulate to set things up. Perhaps I did not read the fine print carefully enough - I'll definitely take a closer look.

Edit: I meant passport of course - too much time spent with computers.     

Yes, I had one in Canada that worked perfectly well until it didn't. Cryptopay was my favourite provider at the time. Alas, Canada seems to be a long way down in the priority list now. This seems to be true for all the providers - some invisible hand is preventing debit card launches that serve Canada. Nothing is ever said overtly by banks, government or would-be providers so we're left to draw our own conclusions. It's a big world and some countries will get them before others - it's an idea whose time has come.   

The "skin in the game" issue is an instance of what the ancient Greeks called a "sorites" or heap paradox. They show up in all sorts of places. Corny example - you can't make a person rich by giving the person a penny, but if you do it again and again, eventually the person becomes rich. When, exactly, do they become rich? There is no clear answer, hence paradox. Skin in the game is still a useful concept, if not a precise measure of something. Side note - the penny story makes a nice proof by example that this old chestnut is false: "doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results is the definition of insanity." Life is sooooo complicated.   

Anyway. Obyte is one of my faves as a candidate to replace fiat, but the magic hasn't happened yet. Ya never know when the moment might come though.

Re crypto use in Venezuela - the classic case in such circumstances is "bad money drives out good", meaning that people would be more likely to dump something they perceive to be losing value rapidly (Bolivars) and to hodl something they perceive to retain value (Dash, for example). So, while merchants might accept Dash, most people would rather hang on to it than give it to a merchant if it is a useful store of value. It's usually the junk money that is in mass circulation, not the "good stuff". It's early days yet - see what happens once merchants stop accepting Bolivars.

MN coins are proliferating, for sure. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, and all that - it is what it is, but one still has to decide what, if anything, to do about it. Some people will participate, others will sit it out. It's OK either way from a cosmic perspective.   

I understand. There is another option open to you (or to anyone who cares about this stuff) and that is to join the team, see it from the inside, and influence it as you see fit. This is a VERY young project.

I used the original AGDN platform, thinking "cheap MN hosting, what's not to like?". It turned out to be an exit scam - waste of a solid use case idea, imho. I then followed the old AGDN Discord as people who thought the idea was sound looked for ways to revive it. Eventually MILL became the answer. It's new, it's inventing itself on the fly, and anything at all might happen next. That said, I'm very impressed by the skill and energy that is going into it and I'm giving it a try. Tip - look for the inevitable exchange dumpers in the early days - you might be able to get a bargain. Let's all see what MILL looks like in a year or three.   

Great to see, but still Europe-only. I was a happy Cryptopay card holder in Canada before the Wavecrest meltdown. Still hoping for your return here. Good luck!

Professor Sarin "has consulted for financial institutions, the Big Four accounting firms, and government agencies in the United States and Canada." Coincidence, no doubt. 

http://www.analysisgroup.com/experts-and-consultants/affiliated-experts/atulya-sarin/

I'm not sure how you mean the Bonner name-drop, but fwiw I first started mining BTC early in 2011 because of endorsements by Bonner's then-associate Joel Bowman. Bonner has been fence-sitting of late, with his company often endorsing crypto-pumper Teeka Tiwari while Bonner himself muses about volatility - I think he's a gold bug at heart. Anyway, this particular article was written by Dan Denning, not Bonner, and Denning's stuff often turns up on conspiracy-oriented sites, for whatever reasons.

As for causes of the current crash, I have no idea but enjoy the stimulus of trying to figure it out. Back when BTC was worth pennies or a few dollars, the real-world effects of the volatility were trivial. Now large paper fortunes are made and lost, so in that sense this one is the most alarming yet.

There was a Sovereign coin from "Cryptocavern" that had a qt wallet back in 2014. Is that the coin being revived here?

Thanks for that. I guess I always came to bct from my bookmark and it was just a fluke that I went to a phishing site from an external search result. No kidding - I had never encountered them before. Luckily I didn't log in.

Sorry - I've never seen the discussion nor the phenomenon and I searched before I posted.

Is there a warning somewhere for newbs? It seems like an easy trap to fall into.

I'm not sure where to post this, so mods please feel free to move or delete if this is old news or not useful.
 
Searching for something just now, I arrived at a site bitcointalk dot to (not org) which seemed to be an exact copy of this site, except that it treated every visitor as a guest and asked for ID and password, presumably fishing for bct passwords.

as in - it accumulates what I want it to while I'm sleeping. I don't pay much attention to fiat equivalence, as in my experience all fiat eventually is worthless. Fiat values seem relevant from moment to moment but not over a longer time frame. Your perspective may differ, of course.

It's important to remember that Gunbot will implement whatever strategy you give it, whether good or bad. It's not a magic money-making black box. Some people enjoy watching and tweaking their portfolios from moment to moment. I find that to be both boring and risky. To each his own. 

The headline above and in the underlying story is misleading imho, presumably an innocent error.

From the story: "On August 15, 2018, Coinberry and BRD announced a partnership “which will introduce 1.2 million BRD customers to the Canadian crypto trading platform.”"

Since BRD is based in Switzerland, there is no reason to think its 1.2 million customers are Canadian. Toronto-based Coinberry is the Canadian component to the story.