Hal is a legend.

I was always curious too if he might have stashed some keys for his own future upon a possible revival? And specifically how he would have gone about that.

double, (by definition on cost basis)

BAKKT is a necessity for big money center banks e.g. goldman, morgan stanley, jpmorgan, ubs, barclays, etc to have an opportunity to gain access to BTC legitimately if they should choose to do so ... why would these banks want access to legitimate BTC? well these are the banks that have customers like major global corporations and central banks who they act as proxies in the market for (i.e. the global elites' puppets) .... imagine if BTC rapidly became a global currency and central banks did not even have a legal way to access the market? Governments are hand-tied in how they operate in the markets with the public coffers, or else they go to prison and for good reasons, however they do not like being shut out of the latest greatest game in town.

.. it sounds completely like a threat, whatta total bitch. One always wonders if they really think like this but she's really let the veil drop here.

How about if they just do their fucking jobs and stop abusing the money supply so badly that now all they have left to offer to their tax-weary public is false dilemmas??

How about we had genuinely sound, free-market monetary and banking systems so that people can choose to escape their fucked up facist banking system and choose to have both savings protected and jobs? What a a concept.

https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2008-October/014810.html 

... even if they bought up 'all' the coins, the commies would then lose the keys, for sure.

Incompetence and corruption are the inevitable fruits of communism/socialism's maligned incentives. Anyone left holding bitcoins would be enriched by every commie fuck-up ever after ... sounds good to me.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-super-rich-elite-have-more-money-than-they-know-what-to-do-with-2019-10-28
... hmmm, capital flows to where it is treated best?

"market cap" USD10 trillion is the new target .... with china now chasing the rabbit, the game is well afoot.

... it wasn't an illusion, it simply means the water droplets creating the prismatic effect, i.e. causing the rainbow, were between you and the trees.

... still keeping a watch out for major civil unrest going into the end of Oct., early Nov. period, especially US and UK ... looks like spontaneous boil-overs in Spain, Chile and Lebanon are signs that major mood swings are coming (adds to on-going Hong Kong and Eucador).

... solar cycle low sometime between now and early 2020.

... planet is now overdue for massive earthquake somewhere, West coast US is overdue on decadal timeframes.

... expect possible final buying opportunity in BTC/$6k zone before end of the year.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/banking/pmc-crisis-this-tiny-bank-in-maharashtra-is-a-canary-in-indias-coalmine/articleshow/71373106.cms?from=mdr

... these banking collapses and now runs on the bank in India have got legs in my opinion. The contagion could spread quite quickly.  Modhi and India's disgusting, greed-driven war-on-cash has coralled millions (mostly poor) into a fragile digital fractional-reserve banking system ill-equipped to cope with panic and demands of a high-cash peasant economy.

It is a tinder box waiting for a match, looks like the inevitable corruption has arrived to spark the blaze.

Fuck you Fatty!

(... getting in on Tuesday just in case, I prefer Fridays)

... not exactly, the opportunists at the SEC, on the taxpayer dollar, got to school themselves up on blockchains, multi-sig crypto, Ricardian contracts, etc, etc and who are all the best networks to plug into when they leave through the revolving door to land the plumpest crypto gigs

... violent protests and riots kicking off end of October, early November, UK and USA. ... pencil it in.

$135k-$350k I'd say ... and it's not just some cut crap estate street hopium, it's the best money can buy hopium ... high-grade, black-tar hopium from poppy fields on the top of the world

Is the Bakkt daily contract trading yet? https://www.theice.com/products/72035483/Bakkt-Bitcoin-USD-Daily-Futures-Contract/data?marketId=6137549
Doesn't appear to be any activity. This was the only real point of difference Bakkt was supposedly bringing to the party, a daily deliverable 'physical' bitcoin , i.e. quasi-spot market. (the "regulated" part of the bakkt sales spiel is cynical, the biggest crooks on Wall St. are the ones walking through the revolving door between banks-regulators ... who saw DoJ has indicted some JPM commodities traders for racketeering in gold/silver markets, only 10 years after the alleged conspiracy? ... they are right on to it those guys

The bakkt monthly futures contract just looks like more wall st. cash-for-trash casino tokens games.

... by his thinking, he peaked in the cabinet.

12 trades on bakkt in 6 hours ... assuming this represents current genuine institutional demand (no spoofing, specs, etc) then 1 Mbyte blocks is just fine for the foreseeable future.

crickets ...