I want to update on this in case someone is going through the same hell trying to sell the Bitcoin ABC node. I was able to finally sync it yesterday, so it took me almost a month to sync the damn thing.

As I expected and contrary to what someone told me, the last blocks were much faster. Once it stopped syncing the legacy chain part, after it started needing to connect to the internet to download the latest block, it went from 0.10% hourly increase to 0.90% hourly increase, so the last couple of percentages left where completed in the same day.

Now im just deciding if im going to dump it right now or further speculate with it in hopes of a random Roger Verified pump.

I would like to know this too. I want to continue in here because Betcoin.ag has been a solid campaing and I have been here for more than a year, but this is a serious downgrade in the rates... currently I was able to make 0.093, so -0.043 for the same work is not good news, specially if BTC keeps crashing. Let us know.

Well, at some point if your joints are too long you can become an uncoordinated mess. That's why there are so many lanky guys that can't fight and get beaten by shorter sturdier guys. But look at Jon Jones, lanky guy with big joints that mastered his tools and turned himself into an unbeatable opponent. Too bad that his legacy is now pretty much over after the cheating/drug incidents. Now that is a real waste of talent.

Stevan Struve still has to improve a lot his striking. His gameplan was not good enough, he was gasing out at the third round and Volkov was capitalizing on it with a ton of punches. His defense was down. Also his ground game is weak, he was too easily ground and pounded. A waste of potential for such a big a guy with epic reach.

I didn't manage to watch the race but looks like I didn't miss anything out of the ordinary. The expect top5 is there, no upsets. Esteban Ocon at number 6th is pretty surprising. He is only 21, maybe he gets promoted into a better team if he keeps performing.

Alonso abandoned once again with a problem in the shifter. He abandoned so he could get a new shifter in Singapur. The nightmare continues.

Here's the list of ICOs banned by China:



Looks like nothing of value was lost. Purge that shit.

Once the markets realize this is not a global ban of all ICOs, but only some ICOs that no one even knows, BTC will be the first to go back up, followed by speculative altcoin money short after.

Stop falling for the good ol chinese tricks and traps and buy the dip.

While scammers are trying to overtake Bitcoin with spam and astroturfing, the real smart guys keep developing solid software:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSRoEeqYtJA

The new Bitcoin Core will be 50% faster, have a super improved fee estimation for cheaper transactions and much more.

Bitcoin Core continues being the leading team with the best development in the space, proving anyone that wants to fire them while putting scammers such as Gavin Andresen, Jeff Garzik, Roger Ver and Craig Wright in charge, to be terrorists against Bitcoin.

This is why I said the most skilled pilots can take high-risk/high-reward strategies and try to beat the pilots that may have better cars but not as skilled in the rain. If we can have a clean start we can have a great race of strategy and endurance, because trying to keep your car on the track with heavy rain is a nightmare. If the rain is not too hardcore, it may not make that much a difference tho, because of the modern technology allowing cars to be glued into the track even in harsh circumstances. Back then during V10 and V8 times the cars were way harder to control, so we are going to need some serious rain to put them in trouble.

Panic selling happened. $5000 is too strong of a psychological barrier to blast through it at the first attempt, so smart money is starting to accumulate now on the dips because the next atempt will most likely be the good one, and we will go to $5000+ guaranteed, which means, you better stack stockpiling on sub $5000 BTC at the highest rate as possible.

And once we get rid of the damn big blockers for once, the days of 4 figure a BTC will be over.

I can't wait for Bitcoin Core 0.15 and lightning network and sidechains.

It's going to be a good day for Alonso to try to pull some impossible feats. In rainy days Alonso is one of the best ever, and a rainy Monza could allow for some overtakes, and potentially some chaos could happen in the first spots that other could take advantage of, so either Hamilton or Vettel may not finish the race.

I also tell them to google it if they want more information. Honestly it's fucking annoying when people that are clueless start making all these questions. It's going to be easy for them to just start doing some research. I tell them that it's a decentralized currency but it's better used as a store of value rather than a currency because it's honestly pretty stupid to spend your BTC on groceries when you know it's going to go up, similarly to how it's stupid to buy groceries with gold.

That's unfortunate... he has been trying so hard for the past few years trying to get his last championship, but he always ends up having bad luck.

I think he should just retire. Why keep risking your life at such at late age? It's a good time to sit back and enjoy your millions, but then again, I guess that's why they are so good, they really like what they do for a living, unlike most people.

The first major player that signed the so called NYC agreement has resigned from it, causing an immediate positive reaction in the market, hitting all time highs.

As previously disused, segwit2x is nothing but another powergrab attempt, and doesn't actually help when it comes to a stronger, more sovereign Bitcoin:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2130222.msg21285670#msg21285670

The actual news:

https://www.coindesk.com/f2pool-reneges-mining-pool-pulls-segwit2x-support-hard-fork/

Turns out Wang Chun is real bitcoiner after all.

If more hashrate keeps dropping from segwit2x and we can avoid the hardfork, expect $10,000 by x-mas.

Alonso wants to win the Indy 500 and 24h of LeMans in order to have the three big motorsports championships. Im sure that if next year he doesn't have a competitive car he will try either Indy500 again or LeMans. Probably Indy500 because now he got the experience from the previous year, he can definitely win if the car doesn't fail again.

Current championship I can't decide if Vettel or Hamilton will win.

Segwit2x is another iteration if the usual scammers trying to push a hardfork into bitcoin to gain power of the main branch and add anti privacy stuff, including a blocksize that's too big for people to run nodes at (first it will be 2MB, quickly it will be 4... 8... etc)

Read more of the segwit2x scam here:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2130222.msg21285670#msg21285670

BCH is just Roger Ver/Bitmain experiment to have big blocks without segwit.

BTC is the real Bitcoin.

It is known by everyone that as been here for a while that something strange happened once Gavin Andresen went to the CIA. Satoshi disappeared after that. It's also weird that Mike Hearn went to work with the banks at R3, and both have been the biggest proponents in hardforking, which leads to the strong hypothesis of all these hardforks to centralize the networks inside datacenters due big blocks are orchestrated by the government or some sort of 3 letter agency.

Craig Wright's connections to PsyOPS stuff is also pretty scary, makes the theory look pretty legit to me.

We tried to tell you (or at least anyone worth listening to): Do not go into hardforks or you risk lossing all of your real BTC.

Now you are realizing that BCC is just a toy for miners to play with, look at how stupid the difficulty and hashrate looks on this thing:

http://fork.lol/

BCash takes a vacation ever 3 days, this thing is just not serious.

And now the segwit2x scammers will try to get people forking into 3 BTCs.

As I predicted a while ago, major big blocker astroturfing would kick in again after segwit activation:


The mempol is getting filled again with funny transactions.



The spam machine is on and so is the propaganda one. Obvious example of abnormal upvoting in reddit:



3399 upvotes on an obvious "hey guys im acting neutral but the fees are soo high! :/" type of thread. That type of activity on the votes is extremely obvious to be manipulated.
Also there is evidence of tons of reddit accounts being bought as they became active all at the same time after years of inactivity,
https://archive.fo/lPbSS

Notice how the user has deleted his past activity now that the account was caught:
https://www.reddit.com/user/gtmb
archived just in case:
https://archive.is/ee0Md

and its well known Roger Ver pays people to retweet his shit:
http://birds.bitcoin.com/


The agenda is obvious. Notice that by supporting the segwit2x camp, the BCash camp benefits because the more disturbance there is with Bitcoin, the more Bitcoin Cash will gain as noobs will see it as a safe haven when it's the opposite.

Don't fall for the hardforker's propaganda, or you will be sorry when you lose your money. Rushing a hardfork in a month with inferior developers into inferior software creating more confusion and a price crash due 3 Bitcoins is not what anyone holding BTC without no external agendas want, so be sure to not fall for the FUD and be sure to not support these scammers.

Yes maybe it was too early to say Vettel was clearly dominating, there's still time to keep it tight until the end, but I still think Vettel will win and Hamilton will be able to overtake him.

Alonso is probably going to compete again next year in Indy 500 because at this rate he isn't going to be able to compete for the championship unless he gets a better car, so he will not care to miss another race.

Hamilton is making the competition excting again, it was getting boring with Vettel's domination, and I was starting to feel like it was over, but Hamilton is getting closer to Vetel again.

Oh and of course, we had to see Alonso's curse continue. It is unfortunate to see him break so many motors. He must have a world record of breaking motors at this point. He needs to get a better card next year or just retire, he should be fighting for the championship but he can't due having a shitty car each year.