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Clearly Bitcoin doesn't have a gender problem - women use Bitcoin too!!!

Time to sell a couple of Bitcoins, I smashed another Lambo again.

The fees ran up to about $35 per transaction.  Then everyone quit using the network.  Merchants disconnected all their support.  Many of the smartest people went off to work on coding alts.  Basically, Core ran everyone off and the network is falling apart.  But since there are so many morons praying 'HODL' - the price stays high.  For a little while longer.  Not much longer.  Ethereum will take over before summer.  Ethereum is actually a very strong technical system will loads of smart people working on it.  Core is a total bust of infighting and censorship.

"it does not imply nor require the existance of a "token"  - clearly you don't understand what a blockchain is either.  

Lee very often claims to be the father if the internet - and stands by silently when journalists mistakely call him the inventor of the internet.  He is total bullshit.  www was merely an implied agreement that <a href=""></a> would encode the hyperlink on that portion of the Internet.  It is the smallest dumbest advance and contribution to the entire picture.  He did almost nothing.  He takes credit for the whole thing.  

W3C pissed their britches when Microsoft wouldn't follow their rules for browser definition when Microsoft introduced Internet Explorer.  W3C has been working for more than 10 years for in browser payments - only to get smoked by bitcoin.  Now, they want to experiment with blockchain without a fundamental understanding why the token can't be severed from the chain?  Hahahahahah!  They proved they are morons again.  But I agree with you, there is no harm in them proving they are stupid yet again.  Let them try such a system.

By the way, "Blockchain technology at its core is a distributed database" - this is incorrect.  Blockchain is more precisely distributed concensus.  Without the token, the concensus become meaningless. Nearly every database that ever was is a far better database than blockchain.  Except for the concensus part.  That is the key.  W3C will have a very shitty database - with no consensus mechanism.  Don't worry, they have been working on meaningless broken shit since they were formed. 

How low can it go?  Probably see $7000 soon?

Time to cut and run again.  Price going down.

lol -
https://www.coindesk.com/w3c-vets-forego-ico-government-friendly-blockchain-launch/

This guy Sporney - what a joke.  He makes a blockchain without a token.  Hey Sporny - all that means is that you don't understand what a blockchain is!!!!  Typical W3C bullshit!!!  Since Tim Berners Lee claims to have invented the Internet (total moron) - W3C has been the joke of the industry.  Now they want to get into blockchain.  

Sporny - go ask Andreas Antonopolis why you can't have a blockchain without a value token.  Dipshit.  W3C is just embarrassing.  Their understanding of Internet and computer science has been laughable for over 2 decades.  Still keeping me laughing today.

btw - Tim Berners Lee didn't invent the internet.  He didn't even invent the hyperlink.  All he did is proposed a general encoding of the hyperlink - that became popular and that was a stupid subnet called www.  Now he runs around doing interviews saying he is the 'father of the internet'.  What a dick.  Takes enormous credit for doing almost nothing.  Maybe he should find out who Vint Cerf is.  Dumbass Lee and W3C are ridiculous.  

China needs to step up their game.  Hating on Bitcoin is dumb.  Even Russia is starting to understand.  Putin loves Bitcoin.

BTC is 10,000 now.  One year ago $1,000.  It could return to $1,000.  Are really ready to lose 90% of your money?

It is too late.  Should have been asking this question a year ago.  Don't buy now.

Fees are low because 100 percent of merchants quit using the network and all others who were doing transactions for normal none $1M transfers.  The network only support very high value transfers and very few of them.  The fees will always be low when the transactions per second are so low.  But if transactions per second goes back up - BAM!!! Big ass fees will follow. 

How many god dammed times do we have to tell you? -  You are too fucking late!!!  It is already over.  From here, there is nothing but big money losses on the horizon.  Go ahead, put your money in.  Then kiss it goodbye.  The whales rule now.

This might be the only intelligent guy in the forum.  If Bitcoin goes to 2.5million, I would also divorce my wife and get someone who doesn't talk so much.  That is the best thing about Bitcoin right there.  Getting a new wife who doesn't talk.  We can all dream about it.  ammirite?

the future of bitcoin looks not good

Folks, the end is near.

Bitcoin is on a down spiral.  Unlikely to turn around.  It only depends on how much you want to lose.

Thanks man - merit for you.

It is going to be falling all year.  Last time took over three years to reach old high.

Let's hope Bitcoin only drops to $5000 or $4000 so we can buy more.

Is the relationship between public key and private key the same for Ethereum and Bitcoin?  

ie if you convert a Base58Check to hex will it function as the public key / Ethereum address?

If not, what is the relationship between priv/pub keys in Ethereum? 

It is too late.  Should have bought when below $7000.  Now you pay top premium price and the whales will take your money.  Wait for $5000 coming in next crisis.  I'll remind you again when you don't take my advice and the price hits $5000.