How do you reckon this can't be prevented just by switching up the protocol or switching to an altcoin? They can spend trillions taking over all the infrastructure if they want, but a little change to a different mining algorithm for example undoes all those ASICs, for starters. I'm not seeing it.

Silly me. Of course. Post more!

China looks to be leading this little pump. Wonder what triggered it.

How much more off-topic can it be to have a blocksize discussion OP in a thread with a title "Gold collapsing.  Bitcoin UP." and in the Speculation thread.  

And yet the monkey who wrote the OP is offended. 

Wow, this thread just went full retard (Simple Jack).

There are much more enjoyable vocations I would rather be doing than this shit, like hanging out at the beach at my advanced age with a beautiful lady or raising a family (I am 50 but said I look 30s face and body despite the Multiple Sclerosis). Instead I slog away because I don't want to live in a totalitarian world with no options coming Orwellian global economics collapse starting in earnest 2017 or 18 (with initial effects in at least Europe starting October, 2015).

The consistent champions of MMA are grapplers. Boxing has almost no application in real world fighting and rather is a sport that happens to be apparently well tailored to my natural strengths.

I have no skills for wrestling and I am claustrophobic. My only hope in MMA would be to use my very strong legs to kick to prevent it from going to the ground, but unlikely I would succeed. In the real world, I would run away if feasible, because I am fast (4.5seconds on 40 yard dash but not that fast now, but still probably below 5seconds). If not feasible, there are more effective ways to kill someone with your hands, such as a blow to the sternum to incapacite them, then ramming their nose up into their brain.

There is a rumor or tale that some native Americans could purportedly reach under your rib cage and extract your heart with their hands and show it to you before you died.

Are we going up now? 

Quoted: this is how low he went once^

Is it possible to tell who has been pulling these two rallies?

Could it be people buying bitcoins somewhere else to move them to ITBit?

Or a reaction to the GBTC recovery?  (BTW, what happened to that 50'000 share bid?)

where is tarmifart and the other fuckers?

This one is interesting:

Bitcoin devs do NOT have consensus on blocksize

So you are telling me that since bitcoin went from a few millions marketcap to a few billions marketcap, it means hundread of billions of even trillions is next?

Any penny stock pump and dump looks like that. Some bubble up again, some don't.



Saying that "bitcoin history will repeat itself" is BIAS. Bias gets people killed.


Not saying it won't happen, just saying that blindly buying and hoping is not a good strategy. Exactly as when it was at $2 or $10, the best strategy was to form an opinion on the market and buy/sell accordingly.

Problems with Bitfinex with the margin trading platform.  Some guy in Whale Club said he was automatically made to go short, then got margin called.  His account now reads -$17,000 so apparently he owes money.

WTF are trying to do Finex?

If you were an accredited investor and happen to have been one of the 600-700 shares worth that were traded thus far, yes. Granted, if you bought a year ago, you would still be under in terms of your entry, but you could sell your shares and purchase again at nav if you were content on holding another year. Else, cash out and send the money to one of the exchanges to buy BTC directly.