The Bitcoin price has increased nearly 6 % today. This suggests that many investors are not worried about the fork at all.
Big holders can expect a huge windfall of coins if the fork actually happens. If both coins will be trading for several thousand dollars
per coin and you sell your coins on one chain for coins on the other chain you can potentially increase your stash of your preferred
BTC coins by 50% or more.

No replay protection also isn´t a really problem if you decide to leave the coins on both chains untouched for a few days or weeks
until the dust has settled.

Hey guys,

I´d like to borrow 0.010 BTC (10 mBTC).

Details:

If I would repay the loan early, I would still be obliged to pay the full interest.

Thank you in advance for your help!

I´m not sure where you got this information.

Most miners sell OTC and not on exchanges. OTC has obvious advantages if you sell large amounts - as the miners do - because
you avoid slippage and don´t scare the market by big sells. Besides, many miners hold certain parts of their mining rewards for
the long term instead of sending them "straight to the exchanges", because they can increase their profit substantially if the BTC price rises.

I´d argue that this petition on change.org would have a higher chance of success if they scrapped
the Litecoin part. Litecoin blocks are basically empty, which implies that the coin is barely used
to transact at all. Therefore it would not make much sense to add LTC payments.

In my opinion Litecoin´s use case is being a testnet for new Bitcoin features (e.g. Segwit was live
on the LTC network well before the BTC network).

I think you are overestimating the power that some pool operators have. Even if the owner of
F2Pool decides to not support Segwit2x, it is entirely possible that the hashers (=the people,
who actually mine for F2Pool) have different preferences.

Besides, I don´t think that mining pools will be the decisive factor. It is more probable that
the miners will switch to the winning side - irrespective of which chain actually wins out.

The outcome is more dependent on the decision, which chain gets the desired "BTC" ticker
symbol at the main exchanges. As far as I know only Bitfinex has already clarified their stance
on this question. The other exchanges still haven´t addressed the upcoming fork.

Do you have any plans to offer a webclient for the people, who don´t like
to download 3rd party software to their computers?

I assume that this attitude is rather common among people, who run Bitcoin or
Altcoin wallets on their computers and are therefore more interested in keeping
their computer secure compared to the average computer user.

The amount of mining rewards (measured as $) can easily decrease substantially if the BTC price falls.
After all the block reward is 12.5 BTC and not a fixed dollar amount.

However, I think mining will be a profitable business endeavour for quite some time. Especially
if the Japanese companies manage to successfully develop the more efficient 7nm ASICs.

These price levels are basically impossible for ETH.
If the price increases only a few %, many ICOs will liquidate further
parts of their ETH holdings, which will soak up the buying demand very quickly.

I´m pretty sure we will never see Ethereum prices above 500 $ / ETH again.

I share the same sentiment.
Bitfinex has introduced several trading pairs in the past that are questionable at the very least.

However, I wouldn´t conflate Bitfinex with Bitcoin as a whole. Bitcoin as a whole is still great.
Let´s hope it stays this way after November.

Will you handle the potentially upcoming fork in November in the
same way that you handled the Bitcoin Cash fork?

It would be great to know your stance on this in advance.

Could you tell your market makers that they should consider seeding the horse betting markets
with more liquidity?

Right now I want to place a bet on a horse race that starts in roughly 25 minutes.
It´s not an exotic event, but rather the opening race of the racing day at
Ascot (one of the more prominent racing stops).

On the favorite (Alaadeel) I can place only a paltry 6 mBTC. This is not, because someone
took away the available liquidity (the market has no bets as of now), but rather
because the market maker didn´t offer more than 6 mBTC.
I can understand when the market maker doesn´t want to expose himself on a longshot,
but I´m talking about the favorite here.

The price movements that you have mentioned as examples happen everyday in the crypto world.
They are not always caused by real news (e.g. China banning ICOs), but sometimes are just
caused by a surge in demand or a surge of supply.

ETH is special in this regard, because many ICOs have no intention to keep the ETH they raised
during the ICO, but instead convert them to BTC or to fiat. This means that if a big ICO decides to
cash out their holdings the ETH supply suddenly increases (or the price drops if they sell
using market orders).

Let me know if you have any further questions!

BCC fork was heavily promoted by Bitmain, ViaBTC and Bitcoin.com.
Therefore there are at least 3 mining pools that were involved in the previous fork.

Besides, many pools just mine the most profitable coin - irrespective of their
support of a specific cryptocurrency.

The trading pair has been live for just a few hours with tiny volume.
I would wait until the futures market is more liquid.

It´s too early to use this as an indication of the likely BTC2X price.

I´m not working for Americas Cardroom, so take my reply with a grain of salt:

The cryptocurrencies that ACR is going to accept in the near future are identical with the coins that are supported
by the Shapeshift API. Therefore it is highly likely that they will be using the Shapeshift API.
If you are going to deposit with one of the more obscure coins, ACR will immediately convert
your deposit to BTC using the Shapeshift API and then probably to fiat (maybe they actually
store BTC for the long-term).

I still have problems accessing Nitrogen. I was able to successfully login a few minutes ago, but bet placement
was impossible, because the odds weren´t even loading when I selected a league.

Have you any estimate when the site will be usable again?

The answer depends on the amount of altcoins that you want to store, the percentage the
altcoin stash is compared to your overall wealth and your risk tolerance.
In general, it is not recommended to keep coins on exchanges
due to increased counterparty risk.

After all, being able to store your own wealth is one of the major
benefits of cryptocurrencies.

I´m not the opening poster, but there are good reasons to ignore
the privacy-focused altcoins like Dash and Monero.

Many people think that these altcoins have a use case in the future,
however many people and teams are currently working on introducing privacy- and
fungibility enhancing features for Bitcoin. If Bitcoin one day is nearly perfectly anonymous
there is no real use case for these altcoins, which have low merchant acceptance
compared to Bitcoin.

Ethereum is not a safe haven!
What do you think will happen to the ETH price when the ICO bubble finally bursts?
I am pretty confident that we will see Ether prices under 50 $ per ETH in the
very near future.

This might be caused by a rounding error. Have you tried making the same order with -2.8458 ETPETH?
Any other amount that is smaller than your actual balance should work as well.

Of course this could also be caused by other problems in your code or indeed be a problem
at the Bitfinex side. However, I would suggest trying my recommendation first, because this
seems one of the more straightforward solutions.