I can't believe Binance were naive enough to think this could work.

The real P2P stuff is happening just fine between individuals in private on low key and neutral platforms. One of the world's biggest crypto companies expecting to wade in and be facilitated by a government puppet is ludicrous.

Since Bitcoin is all about permissionlessness I expect even the most talentless to show us what they've got. That's the spirit I'm looking to see.

To show everyone that they too have a genius locked inside them if only they know where to look here is my contribution.

The most common mistake beginners make is getting started in the first place. 99% of people do not have the psychological discipline or strength to make a success of it. They are nothing but fodder for the 1% who do.

Whoever framed trading as a breeze that any clueless lump can breeze straight into should have their nipples slit.

He's a cocksuckerprickmotherfucker but what actual harm has he done compared to others? He has a hand in an irrelevant fork of an irrelevant fork. He makes plenty of noise. I haven't detected many actual effects.

Never heard of them before in my entire life. Let someone else find out what they're like instead of you.

What is it about them that attracts you? Let us know what you're looking for and you'll get suggestions for properly established services.

I definitely wouldn't trust Dash with proper anonymity. XMR is a better candidate. It's revealing that its use hasn't really exploded in that area. Just goes to show that even scum prize convenience above safety.

At this stage in time I think you'd have to be more than a little dim to use BTC for anything nefarious at all. Law enforcement aren't going to tell you how good they've become at tracing things and the tiniest slip up on the user's part would be enough to blow their cover.

Your bot needs a kick up its electronic arse. Its article writing prowess has withered to an incomprehensible low.

As for the actual question, not that it makes sense anyway, the GBP market is tiny. No one else cares what it does. It impacts nothing and nowhere else.

And yet this 'anonymous' payment method led straight to their doors with a piddling amount of detective work. It seems a lot of them sent BTC straight from exchange accounts linked to their IDs.

No doubt it has monetised disgusting behaviour in a way that wasn't possible before. It's likely in future it'll put more people like this away.

Mark Karpeles must surely have been the champ back in the day. Now he's a fox who all the girls and boys want to pull into bed, but at the time he was the non verbal slob who fucked everything and noodled as everything burnt.

Who fooled you into believing that?

It has the potential some day to be a safe haven. Until then it's the same old speculative toy it's always been. I guess it's a good hook for pumpers to lure someone in for long enough to rip their knickers off.

I can't believe they're going to leave it as is. One of their documents mentioned that they were waiting for feedback and hopefully they get plenty of it.

The bit about forks and airdrops simply doesn't make enough sense at present. Fuck knows who wrote it but they need slapping upside the head.

'If you did not receive any cryptocurrency when an airdrop event occurred, you do not recognize income as you did not receive the property.'

What airdrop does not give you crypto? And what is the EXACT definition of receiving?

And someone's comment here makes for a plain bizarre set of circumstances which as far as I know hasn't been addressed clearly - https://www.coindesk.com/the-irs-just-issued-its-first-cryptocurrency-tax-guidance-in-5-years

“One unfortunate consequence of this guidance is that third parties can now create tax reporting obligations for you by simply forking a network whose coins you own, or foisting on you an unwanted airdrop.”

Since this thread went quiet yours is the first mention I've seen of it. And that mention is whether anyone else is mentioning it. Which they're not.

I guess we shouldn't be that surprised considering how quiet everything is but you'd expect a wee squeak somewhere at least. I presume they've planned and financed for extended deadness. If not this might be the last mention of it.

His 'research'.

Sheesh.

I too have hacked my way through the jungles of Peru, swum sunken Egyptian ruins and sweet talked my way into the Vatican Archive in search of ancient scrolls pointing towards the 2020 Bitcoin price. So far I've gotten a rotten foot, those things that crawl up your willy and expand and two sexual assaults from horny cardinals.

There's one, and only one, thing that'll nudge Bitcoin towards replacing gold in the near term and that's governments and central banks buying it.

Until they do that, and them doing that would be legitimising something they REALLY don't want to legitimise, the idea is a total non starter. Even then they're still fundamentally different even if they finish up claiming similar ish uses.

I have only met one person in my entire life who's owned some gold. I've genuinely never heard another person mention it as any type of option for them.

It's conceivable it could eclipse gold in market cap if it was embraced by enough real people. It would take many, many years.

There's a whole load of difference between 'blockchain' and a proper cryptocurrency. Everyone will go through the same stage of attempting to squeeze 'blockchain' to fit their own ends and existing set ups. All the while real cryptocurrencies will sail past them.

Some will wise up and find a way to make real crypto work for them and with them. Others will carry on down a dead end path.  

They seem to have become his trademark. Perhaps he'll turn them into a cottage industry. I'd vastly prefer to be known for my snazzy red socks than my pathological delusions.

And Tone Vays gave him his very own shirt too - https://twitter.com/PrivateHenkie/status/1184070550056034304

So sideways for five years. Thanks for rising from your slumber for this impressive, if google translated to death, declaration.

There are a handful of people I've come across who I just sit back and think 'what made you? How did you end up like this? How can you possibly think you're awesome?'

I know every man is a hero to himself, but there comes a time where it crosses over into something incomprehensibly peculiar and dark.

Craigy is definitely a prime example. Boasting about non existent funds doesn't really make anyone look cool.

Anyway, the conference is now rolling.

What site is referring to this and what is the context?

Some places like Bitpay have what they call a network fee. They add money to pay for the original miner's fee and more to pay their fee for moving it again. I'd regard that as their problem myself.