so how many people held and how many people insta dumped? i was an insta dumper when the airdrop first opened. i think i sold for about 1100 satoshis.

if they stay quiet then everyone should take the idea and run with it themselves. that's what something like this is supposed to entail anyway.

interesting question. i think it's gonna go into hibernation for a while. there's some cool developments on the horizon but the excitement might tail off. there'll also be some hodlers who'll be dumping and there's alot to dump. price is going down.

Who in their right mind would actually give away a real dollar for tether?

That's probably why kraken volume is so low.

i think it's possible. most will still be locked away. many will have been dumped already. there's no point comparing it bitcoin when it comes to distribution even though it's nominally the same. it's prime pump fodder. between now and the end of the year there will be a mega pump.

even if it's increasingly clear it's no bitcoin rival at all, that ain't gonna stop a few whales having some fun.

byteball have also eased off on their distribution and it'll definitely make alot of sense in the long run.

with bitcore there's one hell of alot to distribute though. perhaps the best thing to do between now and november is try and make as many bitcoin holders aware of it as possible. maybe create a signature people can add that links directly to the distribution page.

i've seen it mentioned in a few big threads. the general opinion is that it ain't worth enough to bother doing.

coinbase to gdax might be free as it could be an internal transfer on their own database, but then again maybe they're not that closely interlinked.

transfers between your own bitcoin wallets would incur a bitcoin fee as you're using the blockchain. transfers in and out of exchanges to wallets you control also use the blockchain so there's a fee involved.  

i don't know much about the coinbase vault. you do have a key, but they also have one. best ask coinbase themselves.

if you send with too low a fee then your coins might get stuck forever. however most wallets these days crazily overestimate the fees so it's rarely a problem. it also means you're giving away bitcoin needlessly.

for argentina have a look here - https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/argentina/

try asking here - https://www.facebook.com/groups/BitcoinArg/

very occasionally altcoins are given away for free like decred was that you could swap for bitcoin. there's a list here - https://airdropalert.com/ most of them require linked bitcoin, but some don't.

you might find someone here willing in the currency exchange section willing to deal with paypal, but you're gonna end up paying a lot and you might have to stick around before anyone trusts you. other than that the most obvious route with paypal is with virwox, but again you're gonna pay.

as far as i know no exchange distributes gbyte, let alone blackbytes. blackbytes are tied to your personal wallet. they'd have to sync with a wallet you create to give it to you. no way they got the time for that.

even if it is 100% safe, support is so freaking dire that if you have any type of problem, and many do, you might wait months for it to be resolved. no exchange that operates like that is getting a penny from me.

yep. it'll also make you look like an asshole. by this time next year there'll probably be tens of dead bitcoin forks that no one cares about. and if you have no technical knowledge it still needs a little housekeeping.

at this particular moment i'd like to see everyone get schooled, even though it's impossible. all factions need reminding that their way or the highway is screwing everyone.

what i really wish is that satoshi had left after having laid the foundations for scaling.

one which has transactions that can't be traced. so no publicly viewable blockchain basically.

though the early users thought bitcoin was anonymous it very definitely isn't.

i think core are passive aggressive pricks who have stifled bitcoin. i also think they are very competent which is how they've managed to stay at the wheel for so long.

if someone really wants to take over bitcoin's direction all they have to do is come up with better concepts executed in a prudent manner. nothing the big blockers have come up with fits those criteria. they have the money but not the skills or the will.

even if it its problems are sorted and it functions well, all bcash will achieve is hammer home to the big blockers that there can be only one bitcoin.

2x'll be their next chance, but the launch of bcash has exposed them as disruptive assholes and increased opposition to 2x. the only people who'll support it will be the signatories versus virtually everyone else.

they're big players but they're not the community or the market.

personally i would've been happy with 2x had some real developers been courted and consulted and realistic timeline created.

they badly need to do something. they're slowly destroying all the good will they've built up with adding scammy crap to an app that thousands of people trusted once upon a time.

i don't know who's in charge there, but they're stupid.

it needs segwit and total fee control at the minimum, plus the option to pay for it to remove their nefarious mods to it.

it's a great arbiter of the market's appetite though.

as time goes on the attitude to hostile forks will harden. 2x ain't looking any friendlier than this despite the names tenuously attached to it. the lack of replay is the first insult. there'll be plenty more to come.

i reckon 2x will be dead by november and bcash will have helped in that.

so if you're talking a crypto that has conquered the world then the horrific bubble will already have happened if there is to be one. that'll be the final wave of speculation. once speculation is out of the way real users will make real use of it.

and the longer bitcoin stays ahead the more incentive there is for everyone to keep it ahead. don't get into the myspace/facebook crap when switching between the two cost nothing and took a couple of clicks. it's a whole different ballgame when people have real money invested.

which tells us everything about the motivations of bcash's creators. as it's always been, it's yet another bitcoin power grab albeit from a different and more destructive angle.