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The earliest adopters of Bitcoin had to wait almost 5 years, although many sold before then.  It must had been emotional torture, before the 2013 boom, for an early adopter to refrain from spending their coins.  After all we had that one guy spent 10,000 Bitcoins on a Pizza.

 OP would would had seen $10 or $50 Bitcoin aid said to themselves: "this is the peak!  Dump!" or wouldn't be able to resist the lure of spending $50K in free money on a new car or a series of vacations.  

  I've read allegations that if Dread Pirates and Charlie Shrem were "hodl", instead of selling early and then getting into illegal activity, that they would had made way more money and they wouldn't be behind bars today.

As for people here who are burning alternates - if you had bought BTC in late 2013, at $1250, you since lost ~75%.   True a lot of (especially $hitcoin) alternates also went down but many of the better alternates still have many people (initial buyers) who have seen net gains.  If I was BTC only, I would have lost  75% of my money and then I would be depressed and wouldn't be here.  

Problem with Bitcoin can be all these get quick rich kids.  Bitcoin, according to Jeffrey Robinson, is only 250,000 users (and many wallets barely contain any sizable amounts) and yet has a capitalization it is already worth more than many companies around the world which have millions and tens of millions of customers.

 

What do you think about this one?

NODE... deaded..    Nowhere take it.. 

A lot of these unionized firefighters in big cities are making up to $250K a year, with OT.   There are allegations that it may had been a drug dealing operation, hence his refusal to comment.

A lot of potential buyers look at price only, the same phenomenon occurs with stocks, so you had something like Bitcoin which was $1200 and that convinced many to not even give bitcoin a try as one bitcoin for many people was more than what they had in disposable funds.  There were literally times when people said they were buying Doge, because it was 'cheaper' than Bitcoin, without recognizing the total supply differences!


The reality here is if any alternate takes off then you're in a better positioning persuading people to buy something that is priced at $.50 to $10 than $300 - $1200.

Definitely sarcasm, in two weeks everybody will forget and will be back on BTER paying 2x higher fees..  

The frightening thing is if NEM had released sooner than already we may had lost 5%-10% of the coin's total supply.  You people would had whined and moaned for NEM to be on BTER, because there is also where the highest NXT and many alternates' volume is, while BTER themselves would had been like: "sorry we won't do your multisig thing, lulz" and imagine where we could be today. . .

 

That's ponzi 101 - create a huge imbalance in the distribution and walk away rich.  Satoshi mined well over a million coins, as did other early adopters, who then mostly refrained from selling and this induced scarcity is what gave Bitcoin its' value.  A widely distributed Bitcoin, or a Bitcoin with Doge inflation over 6 years, likely would be nothing today.

BTER you may have to go with the lesser evil option here.  There should be enough NXT in your system compensate all the BTC losses.  NXTers won't do anything about it but the BTC people might sue you or lay charges.

 

Not a question of safe or technology.  A lot of you speculators and such go to the exchanges with the most volume.  The catch 22 here is that the exchanges themselves, through buying coins themselves or engaging in fractional reserves, are creating fake volume to attract customers.  No such thing as a free lunch in this world and now people are paying for it.

The whole offering a bounty to catch a hacker is very similar to that NXT episode.  Of course, being the internet, who would go on the internet and tell a lie?  Like a predictable soap opera on the television, BTER will get back the majority of the coins and hike up the fees on customers to pay the rest back but the hacker isn't brought to justice.  Strong allegation here but who's to say the hacker isn't BTER themselves looking for a Chinese New Years' bonus?

Anything with viral adoption.  Bitcoin is only 250,000 users after 6 years and there's newer things with millions of users.  Before people go on about: "derp derp those things are free", there's hordes of things out there that required spending money and they have more users than BTC (good examples are a lot of paid apps.  Slightly different example is Uber, which is some months younger than BTC).

Deadeded?   

https://blockchain.info/address/1M2bv6sypZSp6uAEC9U4Gzvgp6jd29F87e

BTER cold wallet has been emptied? 

https://bitsharestalk.org/index.php?topic=14291.0

Poloniex is suspending trades of BTS, although as I understand this is something they've done a lot when other exchanges were acting funny.


http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/bank-hackers-steal-millions-via-malware.html?_r=2

Makes us wonder if this has anything to do with it.  Malware on the Crypto Exchanges (scare?).  Or maybe allegations that these thieves could be buying crypto?   

It's still up like 1.5x - 2x from when I bought it.    and that's despite BTC and almost every alternate going down the drain too.

It may end up being the MtGox for alternates.  I mentioned a few percentages already, but there's tons others who had 10% to 20% (like Nubits) of their volume on BTER and the amount of the total supply on Bter could be between 1%-5%

I remember reading on a chat that BTER was starting something where they were paying people to put their coins on their exchange.  So you may have a point there, allegation or not.  Besides, especially after the NXT hack, it wasn't a place you could trust for storage and the various fees were pretty bad too.

Account who?  It  tells you on a persons' trust page who they got it from.  I got bombed from Coinhoarder (when he was spamming socks in the anti-NXT threads) and twice by Bluemeanie1 (aka the guy who stole 1 million NXT and somebody alleged that his name was on the public criminal database for murder).