Well, you're brave. You'll get DDOSed regardless of which side is doing the DDOSing.

Who cares which one is the "real" Bitcoin? I want the best Bitcoin. After years of argument, we shall soon find out which one is best.

I'm following the instructions for cross-compiling located here: https://github.com/goatpig/BitcoinArmory/tree/master/r-pi. Autogen completed, but I'm having the following problem during configure:


In the above clip, I included a few warnings that I received earlier in the script, but I'm most concerned about the final error. I downloaded the RPi cross compilation tools from https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools and added the appropriate directory to my PATH. This is on a Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS box. Thanks for any help you can offer.

Yes, the chain will split. Just sit tight and don't panic. It will ultimately be a good thing because the civil war will be over. Life is good.  

Edit: To answer your other questions, nobody knows. There is never a dull or predictable moment in the crypto space, so enjoy the ride.

It's odd that they are seemingly random amounts.

The way I see it, Bitcoin and other open-source, p2p projects are collectively an attempt to overhaul the current political and legal system into a large code base.  We're not there yet, however, and the vested interests will not go without a fight.

I don't have anything specific in mind; I was just thinking out loud. What if you used BTC to buy early shares in Mastercoin or Ethereum? There is no clear valuation in a virtual startup on the first day of issuance, is there? Would you pay capital gains sometime later, once the startup becomes successful and you use the proceeds to buy some conventional product or service?

This may be a slightly off-topic question, but imagine if someone creates a unique product or service and sells it on a web site for bitcoin.  They only list the price in bitcoin, and there is no comparable product or service on the market.  If you purchase this item, how would you calculate your capital gains if there is no reference fiat price?  I don't think you can just use the current exchange rate as a basis.  What if this product were made available a year ago and the BTC price never adjusted to reflect the changing exchange rate?

I don't always agree with him, but I love reading Mircea's blog.

I like your site, very clean looking.  I agree mostly with your predictions, although I believe bitcoin won't appreciate quite as much as you are predicting.  I'm guessing a target price of $1500-2000.  However, this would also mean a decrease in volatility, which will make bitcoin more suitable as a currency.  

I'm curious if you would be willing to speculate which alt coins other than PPC will make the top five.  Do you consider ethereum and ripple alt coins or something else altogether?  I believe one of the most interesting things to follow this year will be coins/systems which do indeed offer true innovations and are not just a blatant ripoff of the bitcoin codebase.

Edit: Also, I predict that Amazon will not begin to accept bitcoin this year.

Listening to Adam's interview was one of the best hour and forty-five minutes I've spent in a long time.  Adam has a lot of really great ideas for the bitcoin community, and we'd do well to take him seriously.  These are the ideas which I think are the most important:

1. Preservation of fungibility through enhanced privacy.
2. Releasing major changes to the protocol as a parallel implementation that allows migration of coins from the old to the new.
3. Focusing on the improvement of bitcoin rather than wasting time and resources on alt coins (with point 2 considered when major improvements require a hard fork).

Adam, I sent you a nice tip, but it's orders of magnitude below the value you've added to the community.  It's unfortunate that you haven't profited more from cryptocurrencies given your contributions over the years.

Keep up the good work.  Sent you a tip.

Coinbase seems like it's down with an "Application Error" now.   

I can't think of a more deserving merchant.  They give back to the open source/DIY community in spades.

A list of Chinese merchants accepting bitcoin would be a good start.

Is there a decent STL viewer that runs on Linux?

I've given a lot of thought to this lately.  However, the greater Bitcoin's market cap becomes, the less likely this is to happen.  Already, there's the equivalent of over 10 billion USD stored in the blockchain.  These folks aren't going to sit on their hands and watch their wealth get wiped out.  The best programmers and mathematicians will be hired, if necessary, to make sure Bitcoin remains the top cryptocurrency.  There's nothing preventing improvements in the protocol, as long as a majority of hashing power agrees with those improvements.  I think Bitcoin is pretty much unstoppable at this point.

CoinJoin, to help preserve the fungibility and value of our currency.

Their site seems to be down at the moment, so I haven't had a chance to check out the ordering process, but if Bitpay is handling it, it's probably pretty smooth.

http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/11/25/adafruit-now-accepts-bitcoin-for-purchases-bitcoin-bitpay/

Sent.  Rounded it up as a way of saying thanks for helping me out in a pinch.