Obviously that completely depends on how many coins anyone has, but I think most would be off their rocker to get rid at that price level. A $10,000 bitcoin means it's broken out of its hole and it's just starting to attract mainstream money.

No BTCJam? O, the humanity.

But yes, there are some glaring omissions. Perhaps the signees are hoping that enough votes from their end will encourage the others give the nod too. It would've been impossible to get that many people in one place at one time.

And Barry Silbert said he invited several Core types but no one took him up on the offer.

If you had coins on that address at that time and you still have a copy of the private key to that address then you're good to go. Current balances don't matter and it's better not to have anything on there anyway as you have to feed your private key into the just-dice chat to get the coins.

There's quite a few third party websites who'll take a cut of claiming them.

Do it directly here instead - https://just-dice.com/

It doesn't take long.  

And sign up for Byteball  - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1608859.0 and Bitcore - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1883902.0  while you still can too. It's all free and surprisingly valuable if you have a decent BTC balance.

83% of the hash rate pledged today to get Segwit activated with an 80% threshold.

I've read somewhere an estimate of $250 billion of proper cash would push the price to over $80,000, but I think it would go far, far higher. Sellers would go on strike. But if the expenditure stopped it wouldn't make for a pretty sight.

Clams are a POS Crypto mainly used by Just Dice for betting. Their distribution is based on a snapshot of the BTC, LTC and Doge blockchains in May 2014 or so. If you have a private key from back then with a balance then you can claim 4.6 CLAM per key.

https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consensus-2017-133521fe9a77

Segwit with an 80% threshold and then a 2mb hard fork within six months after that.

Some big names. Some glaring omissions.

What do you think of it? What will Core think of it? Will it descend into ever more squabbling or is this enough? Will everyone tell Core to just fuck off when they start to pick it apart?

Coinbase is the heavyweight, as is Bitmain and Bitfury of course. And I presume Bitflyer is now the world's leading exchange. Bitpay is also a biggie but it looks like Jihan Wu now has his hands up their posteriors.

Circle is an interesting addition too. I wonder whether they'd reenter.

I wonder what the Core response will be.

I dunno. There seems to be a lot of people with NEM wallet gripes at present. I don't know if that's because they're doing it wrong or there's some type of flaw in the design. Particularly the wallet on a Mac with Safari is eating coins.

https://medium.com/@DCGco/bitcoin-scaling-agreement-at-consensus-2017-133521fe9a77

This is fresh off the press. That's a lengthy list of signees but some conspicuous names are missing.

Segwit followed by a 2mb hard fork six months later. Will Core toss their cookies or join in the fun?

Start here? https://www.nem.io/faq.html

The website is due an overhaul soon supposedly.

And plenty of info on the front page of this thread too - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=654845.0

Should the chairman of the foundation really be giving a shit about price? That should be off the table while they beaver away on the real stuff, which I'm sure they are.

Are you in USD? The Kraken USD market is traditionally a strange and stunted little thing. All the action is in EUR and you can SEPA there very rapidly if you're not in a third world country like the US.

Good idea. Let's do that instead.



That's what he latched on to the moment he got into it. He seems to regard currency and retailing as a sideshow and is going for the gold aspect. I think he'll be proven right.

A near $20 trillion market cap would be over twice as high as gold.

If it became some type of global reserve that's possible, but I really can't imagine any government or central bank gritting their teeth and hitting that buy button on Yobit.

If it became the de facto reserve for regular people that's conceivable too. In my entire life I have only met two people who owned any gold. I think it would require a few more decades though.

Anyone's guess is as good as anyone else's.

I must say I'm surprised it's sitting not too far off its ATH. I expected it to come down just as rapidly.

It's best to be thinking 3-5 years in the future. If you can handle short term wobbles it should be very successful in the future.

That's a giant corduroy memory foam beanbag. I sit there like a lonely turd at sunset all day casting aspersions across the globe.

Check the wording though. It's commodities. I don't think anyone anywhere regards Ethereum as a commodity. Enough people regard Bitcoin that way at present. Right now Ethereum qualifies as more of a share/stock than anything.

This is why I find the anxiousness about it matching Bitcoin's valuation pretty daffy. They're not really the same thing and never will be.

There do seem to be a remarkable number of stake claimers who ended up in comas. Do you think we should all get ourselves checked out just in case?