I truly believe it has failed. I got into bitcoin back in 2012, and back then it truly felt revolutionary; a group of genuine cypherpunks promoting the name of bitcoin and creating useful services on top of it in order to provide true decentralisation and the removal of banks. Now, here we are, with mining growing increasingly more centralised with ASICs and everyone celebrating the arrival of banks buying up all the limited supply, using centralised services (trading, wallets, etc.)

I really miss when this space was small, and there was a genuine feeling of community within it. I think we all knew this day would come, but perhaps slightly differently. I remember when even on here coins with a 1% premine would be laughed at and die on arrival, and here we are asking for huge centralised teams and a 40% premine can be shrugged off. I love crypto, I really do. I'll never truly leave this space, but I do feel bitcoin has failed to be what it was meant to be.

Got a 1070 ti here that isn't managing to load the dag.

Your reply pretty much states that having funds on anything associated with him might just result in getting your wallet/funds stolen/frozen.

Crypto was never meant to be a product/investment. Again, it was created to remove the need for central authorities, exactly like Justin Sun.

I think the only thing I'd want to consider really changing is the mining. I really miss the days of CPU/GPU mining bitcoin. It would be nice to see more coins come back with CPU/GPU PoW algorithms, avoiding presales, premines, and the centralisation that comes with them. I don't hate ASIC mining, I just find that their prices are utterly insane and the noise in addition is just too much for any regular folk to have sitting around.

This. With the sheer amount of money sitting in mining alone, the community would instantly oppose any discussion related to a shift in coin distribution.

I've always been a big fan of Common Sense.

Decided to dive back into Namecoin after years upon years of neglecting it. Anyone have a list of peers I can connect to? Namecoin Core is stuck in limbo at the moment and can't sync.

Since when did Kraken start offering stock shares? :^)

It doesn't sound very decentralised when a certain individual pulls of a literal heist to steal the network and centralise it. Justin Sun is nothing but a tyrant that throws marketing around and baits in utter idiots that are new to crypto.

Note that the community literally forked into a more successful chain away from him and the Tron Foundation, and Hive remains decentralised. Not everyone gives a shit about money in this space, crypto was created to liberate and escape central authorities, not fall down and worship them.

"This is Justin's usual marketing." If you find it accepted to takeover decentralised chains for your own gain, you're here for the wrong reason, and I'm completely certain that you would not be okay with one individual 51% attacking bitcoin and taking control of it, telling you what is going to change and how. That is exactly what he does. He's a piece of shit scammer.

I remember that thread. I remember relating to the heat issue, but I also remember being incredibly stubborn myself and just running things anyway, having a fan running constantly to deal with the heat even during summer. I ran miners all day and night in my bedroom for years; probably fucked up my hearing to a degree as a result. But I wouldn't trade it for anything else. Those nights writing configs and mining Bitcoin on CPUs and GPUs were some of my favourite times.

In fact, even as I type this I have GPUs running, and a fan on in the background.

Everyone should actively avoid anything even remotely associated with Justin Sun; he's infamous for being not only sketchy, but incredibly hostile.

Note that he used user funds on Poloniex and other exchanges to perform a hostile takeover of the Steem network recently and called the community "hackers" for speaking out against his tyrant ways. Speaking out on Steem will now get you censored.

There isn't a team or "staff", it's decentralised. There are witnesses that are voted in by the community via DPoS to run the chain, but there's no official entity that can speak on behalf of it. Not much different to how no central authority exists to speak about bitcoin.

I found bitcoin back in 2012, and I instantly fell in love with it. I didn't care about the money, I mean it was quite hard to when the value was pretty low, but I knew it was going to become something big. I loved that it was decentralised and anonymous. I loved that the community around it thrived on those two major foundations. It saddens me greatly to see that the passion for the two has been relatively lost in recent years.

Bitcoin liberated me, it got me into open-sourced software and appreciating my own privacy.

Binance revealing their true nature. Justin just being the sketchy fuck he always has been.

Man, I remember when it was the governments we were attempting to escape.

It's probably being shared on Discord and Telegram, as well as Blockfolio. Kind of disappointing given how much traction bitcointalk has received as a result of the bull/bear market. I have no doubts that this thread has been viewed by a lot of people that have just assumed the project was dead given the lack of general interaction here.

Also a little edit for the rest of the thread: Sent 2 Aro as a test to mercatox and it hasn't been credited. Transaction appears on the blockchain and there's nothing wrong with the address/memo. Could be good to be cautious sending anything to them at the moment. Will update this if it is credited at some point.

It's a bit silent in here.

That announcement of almost nothing on Blockfolio is cool. More updates being released to a wider audience.

Cryptopia listing is decent news; shame it isn't any of the more serious exchanges, though.

Has anyone attempted to contact OctaEx's support regarding the deposits?