Of course it would, but it would be a problem only for the particular non abiding miner. All other parties would see the value of their BTC increase, even if admittedly by a tiny amount. In general, a tighter cap on programmed inflation doesn't seem to be such a big issue.

This is more serious and possibly a show stopper. Pity, because automated, mathematical retribution for spammers is every user's wet dream. I just tried my hand at the conceptual level. As someone else pointed out ("go code it, bro, or it's just fluffy talk"), there's probably little need for armchair protocol improvers.

Something less drastic could also work. Something that wouldn't fck up the "good guys" as much. I'm thinking along the lines of a coinbase penalty depending on mempool size - or something proportional to the average fee of transactions left in the mempool. The main problem I see with such a fix is that it would require a fork. Would a soft fork do? I doubt it, mainly because of the problems with non-upgraded clients.

But in the same email they also said that standing "advanced" orders (including stop orders) would be executed. Only new ones can't be entered anymore. For what's worth...

Overwhelming support behind closed doors. They could run their fork on a LAN in that room without a condom, no problem with that. I was talking about real transactions going around in the wild, on the - you know - Internet.

Quite good IMO.

I am not a BCH supporter, either. Just an accidental holder like many of us. I think the analysis by fluidjax has merit.
Can any of you keen minds see any flaw in it? I tried to find weak spots, but I didn't manage to uncover much.

This seems spot-on. A serious attempt would have included replay protection by default, from the start.

The idea seems plausible enough, but size does matter. In other words, some quantitative analysis might be useful here (back of the envelope would do). How much does it cost in USD to prop the price up by x USD? How much in BTC to prop up by y BTC? How much has been spent already approximately? Which price level would be a reasonable bait (as seen from the fisher's point of view - that is, JihanVer&co's)?

Interesting and, if guessed right, potentially concerning (mild to average worry). The thing is, from September onwards we're all waiting to usher big fresh money in via options, futures and other derivatives. Possibly the long denied ETF will make a comeback. Those guys don't want no BCH though. I think they're only going for the real thing (and possibly ether, so loved by the corporate zombies all around). This would make the fisher's job much harder, and the bait much, much, more expensive. Have you considered this?

Perhaps you are. You probably are. I hope you are. At any rate, being prepared for the worst is good, so I think this idea deserves some pondering.

Can you please ask her if she's planning to show us some boobage when BTC price starts rising again?

I really hope so. Likely targets? I'm guessing somewhere around the high 37xx's.

Been waiting for a sub-3900 dip for so long now!
I'm ready to:
1) BTFD
2) BTFD with BCH (if it stays where it is fiat-wise, and pulls up the BCH/BTC ratio)
3) BTFD

And, of course - nearly forgot to mention it - BTFD. That's obvious.

Do you think Jihan&Ver will keep pushing the BCH price up when the difficulty there skyrockets, so that miners keep on mining? I was so slow to sell and I'm losing BTC every day!

I only managed to sell a precious few BCH at 0.1956 BTC/BCH (about $790/BCH) :-(
Come on bad guys, come on! PUMP IT to $1200!!! It will be good for you! 

If I were FBI, I wouldn't throw away an old bitcointalk account anyway. Not that it means it's really the feds, eh.

Thanks for the code. I'm ordering a card very soon. Before I do, I have a question:

Can I get an unverified card first, with a dummy name, and later verify the same card with my real name?

Putting my money where my mouth is. I decided to sell too. $800 was too inviting. It's already down to $695 though... 
The procedure is a bit inconvenient. I split the coins and now I sent a couple transactions to Kraken. They want 20 (yes, TWENTY) confirmations on the BCH before you can trade. Besides, Kraken is really acting like it's swimming in molasses. Someone here suggested it's the bad BCH guys trying to slow down the selloff.

Whatever it is, I'm afraid it will be down to $300 by that time. Hm, maybe I can wait it out and hope for another BCH pump/BTC dump by Ver&co.

That miner probably co-owns it! 

Neatly stated! This is what I meant in my previous post where I mentioned fresh money going to enter the system. That money isn't going to be Ver&co.

Basically agreed, but it's not a 0/1 thing. There are varying degrees civilization for different aspects of civilization.

I don't think panic about BCH is justified. My idea is that a few factors are at work.

Some bad guys are rehearsing the big pump&dump that will take place with the 2x fork.

The miners are rehearsing touch&go. It is mildly profitable at the moment, while BCH price is being kept high.

I think this situation can't go on much longer. BCH doesn't have hodler culture. My guess is most holders of BCH are just people that got a windfall and are either being lazy, prudent, greedy or all of the above. If I could sell my BCH at 0.50 BTC, without the hassle of swiping all my addresses first, with a reliable BCH client happy to do the splitting job for me, my finger would be on the sell trigger.

Putting real fiat or - god forbid! - BTC into BCH? No way. New money's coming into BTC already, more is due soon. I don't think they'll be eager to flood BCH with fresh money.

Wait and see is just the course of least resistance for me.

I do too, but I think it would be nicer to wait for possible November turbolence before converting it all into BTC.

I sold.
My house so I can get moar cheep corn!!
 

Hoping for 3500, as I just got hold on some extra fiat that could be put to good use!