No reason for it though, most are saying that its probably sock puppet accounts.

Fair enough I can't remember my source for the figure I had, regardless it doesn't tell you anything. If 80% of the Ukranian population bought bitcoins with 10% of their wages and 0.005% of Chinas polpulation bought coins with 1% what did what do you think would be the net outcome? My point about average wages being a completely vague figure to base any analysis on still stands.

And the average Chinese salary was $2,100 in 2012. Average salary is such a vague measure to use to come to a conclusion that a new market won't have a net positive effect.

I bet Germany to win by more than 4 goals so that was a nice little earner

Im surprised that more people didn't see it coming, don't get me wrong I wasn't sure they were going to win by such a margin but I was almost certain that Brazil were going to lose. Still don't think Argentina have enough to make the Final so I think we could be seeing a European team taking it on South American soil.

One and the same aren't they, perhaps it will be the governments of the world who will do the fiat to BTC transaction as isis etc would probably find it harder to get significant funds to exchanges. In fact, maybe thats why the French stole the customer funds from the exchange that got shut down yesterday...

A new business venture such as the one he alludes to needs liquidity on both sides of the book. He has plenty of dollars to provide $ liquidity, all he needed was some BTC

If I receive a payment to a fresh address and then spend that balance on items (including my dentist), what connects that address to any of my other addresses? Thats obfuscation. Yeah if I use the same address to keep receiving payments and then also keep topping that up with my main address it is traceable fairly easily, but even so, theres no proof that I own any of the addresses until the POS when my real name is connected to a single address. GMaxwell explained some of this very well when the whole gox fiasco was in full flow, people were jumping to all sorts of conclusions based on one hop away from certain addresses etc and he was saying that you can't just make presumptions like that, another example is the people who thought they were chasing the sheep market place thief through the blockchain.

I'm not saying its not an issue at all but I'd be more worried about the IP revealing stuff than my dentist running advanced blockchain forensics.  I'd imagine by the time the everyday Joe can run forensics like that there will be easy solutions to the problem.

And one wallet is made up of many addresses...

Is very easy to obfuscate yourself, your dentist isn't going to go into deep blockchain forensics to attempt to work out which addresses are yours.

You do realise that for someone to buy someone has to sell, all that really shows you is volume...

If someone in China is buying lots of Bitcoins someone else is selling lots.

Eh?

You have all your BTC in one address and thats the one you carry around with you?

Hi,

Put me on the list to be sent the invite codes, I play anyway and would happily join a few more leagues.

Really like the weekly payment Idea as it gives people a chance to play who don't necessarily keep on top of their teams all season.

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Could you be a little clearer. What do you mean you cant open it? Do you get any error messages? What version are you referring to, a different bit version or a different release version?

So much unnecessary pool spam, If your pool is in the OP why do you need to keep posting it. Let people make their own minds up and leave the thread for actually discussing the coin.

Well everyone can't be a bull otherwise we'd be at a million already


Pretty decisive statement, a couple of months is an age in Bitcoin land. Im actually thinking the murmurs of the next bull run are being heard and in retrospect we could be looking back with hindsight and saying the general 2014 bubble started at the end of May.

Agree, I think its a real shame as all teams deserve to have their best players playing but shit happens of course. Im very interested to see how Brazil will play this one without their star man. Its surprising the effect certain players have on the team just by being there and Neymar is one of those players.

I know there are some payment problems atm but just to confirm, Pm's are to be sent to yakamoto today for the last 7 days posts. Is this correct ?

Do you really think everyone is bullish? Still feels like bear central around here compared to in a real bull market, when every thread is rockets and trains and people tell you they've maxed out credit cards and re mortgaged their house then I'd agree everyone is bullish. Im still not super bullish (leveraged long) but I've been all in (non leveraged) since around $450 my finger is far away from the sell button and like windjc Im waiting for the sellers to dry up again and my finger will be firmly pressing that long button (absent bad "news").

Its posts like these that make me sure I'm doing the correct thing by continuing to accumulate, genuine fundamental reasons why a coin is a good one to have. Instead of the normal Marketcap comparisons which justify a rise in price as inevitable just because the current cap is lower than competitors  or "It hasn't been pumped yet" conversations as well.

The whole reasoning behind the emission curve being what it is was to provide everyone with the chance they are getting now, to get in at a decent price that is relatively stable before the reward decreases and the HR/Difficulty increases as well. People always moan about instamine/ninjamine and then when they are presented with a high inflationary coin that tackles those points in the early days of its inception everyone is too afraid to accumulate, you cant win. Well that is unless you understand this and are one of the smarter people buying them up. Increasing network and decreasing block reward, the writing is one the wall.

Perhaps you could tell us the signs that are pointing down from here then as your so sure they aren't pointing up ??

The playing field is level, the code is all open source. Anyone who has the skills can currently fork a CN coin as has been done. The issue is with 100's on uninnovative implementations which is possible with "noob forking guides" and devs with no skill at all. Im sorry but if you think that 10's or 100's of slightly tweaked reference implementations is good for anyone then you mistaken. Yes competition is good and anybody who has the ideas and the skills to implement them will be able to do so already without the cryptonote team babying people to do it. This is why the motive question has been thrown out there and most of what drawinginthesun aludes to makes perfect sense.

 Perhaps if you countered the actual arguments you might have more listeners.

Drawinginthesun gives many reasons why lots of the same coin isn't good, arguments such as this "Only coins that offer a massive advantage over the other market participants should be able to take value from a market leader" and "However if Monero were to fall due to clones that offer very small incremental changes to the code, then I would be a fool to invest my time, money and energy into that competitor because I know the precedent has been set, another coin will be along shortly to ruin that coin, with small incremental changes." need more response than they're just trying to create a level playing field.