I wonder if the hash for BCH is low enough, yet; to allow using Nicehash to implement a 51% attack?
 Let's see, current SHA256 on Nicehash is a little over 520 PHash. Current hash on BCH is almost 3 Ehash. Too bad. 

We should hope that BCH has a long life. The big blockers need their own chain that they can squabble about block size and other things. Let them have their hash wars on their own chain(s).

Yes, I'm still confused by it.  However, I'm pretty confident that people are not regularly risking 5 digits worth of BTC on that nonsense. I am not even sure that Bitmex will even let someone put that much at risk. Unlike OKEX, who let someone risk so much on a long, that when it was liquidated, all the shorts had to take a cut in their profits.

No the 5 million number is the amount of USD spent. So at 100x leverage the person lost over 50k worth, so about 8 BTC lost.

The rumor is true. They need KYC info to buy miners from them.

Actually, I can afford to put an all beef hotdog in my Ramen and I do drive my own 2 years old car. I'm blessed.  

Well, at least it isn't Ramen 3 times a day and taking the bus.

In Australia, the act of trading one cryptocurrency for another is a taxable event. https://www.ato.gov.au/General/Gen/Tax-treatment-of-crypto-currencies-in-Australia---specifically-bitcoin/?page=2#Transacting_with_cryptocurrency It is a taxable event in the UK too. https://blocktax.uk/guide/ Also, if Satoshi is moving his coins, people are going to take notice, especially the attorneys for the Estate of Kleiman. This would be a dumb move, all around. Also, the hopes that this would somehow bolster the market value of BCH is rather speculative. It may give a temporary boost, but if CSW proves that he is Satoshi in this manner, I suspect that it will cause the value of BTC and BCH to plummet in the midterm; since many people don't care for him. Even if CSW just signs a message with one of the early coinbase private keys, it would likely have a negative impact on market value.

Even if it is true, wouldn't there be a huge tax involved? Plus, whith a huge law suit pending, I don't think this would be a good move at all.

this is a good article on the topic. they made a good deal of BCH from sales of ASICs. https://medium.com/@btcWolves/a-bch-update-bitmain-bch-the-ipo-what-it-all-actually-means-354220b86ac3

Only ~280k BCH have been mined since the end of March. Plus, they have stopped only accepting BCH for their equipment. Also, they now have competitors that are putting out better equipment then they are putting out. I doubt that they have accumulated 1.2 million BCH. They are strapped for cash and it does not appear their IPO is going to go over very well. I really doubt that they are in any position to attempt to buy more BCH. However, BCH has a few more billionaires who probably do have the resources to bolster the price of BCH. I'm afraid antminer's days are numbered unless they can get something going their way ASAP.

Since when is mining and HODL "artificial" support? They can do whatever the hell they want with the coins that they mine. And now they have plenty of BCH to burn for their Wormhole project.   Don't worry. If things keep going like they are going, Bitmain should be REKT pretty soon.

Well, for quite a few months now, they are back to accepting other forms of payments. However, a good chunk of the BCH stash that they had back in March can probably be attributed to mining and proceeds from sales. Also, they likely sold most of their BTC to keep their operations going, which have included several failed attempts to get a new SHA256 chip developed. I doubt they did much buying of BCH off of the markets, like some people accuse them of. The reason that I doubt it is because they can accumulate for much cheaper by selling their equipment for BCH and mining.

The 128MB limit on SV is going to work a lot like BU's emergent consensus. A miner has an option to set both the maximum they are willing to mine and the maximum they are willing to accept without orphaning it. If the majority of the miners don't want 128MB blocks at this time, then what their hash votes, goes. This is unlike the ABC hardfork, which will basically force miners to order the transactions in the blocks canonically, or be orphaned off, even if the majority of miners don't want to order canonically at this time.

Gee whiz. Antpool and BTC.top decided to mine mostly empty blocks during the stress test, today. Wonder what the narrative is going to be about the results of this stress test.

Bitmain acquired over 800000 coins and less than 850000 coins have been mined since it forked off of BTC. That probably helped a bit.

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PS. "Most probably" is most probably the best that you are going to do with me. For me, most probably, is an even higher level of convinced than "beyond a reasonable doubt." 

I must concur that I actually believe he is most probably not Satoshi. However, the above quote from reddit does not really prove that he is not Satoshi by contradiction. Human beings are not necessarily beings who are consistent in their behavior their entire life. It's not uncommon to hear someone say in the news, "that was so unlike him."

I agree that it would be best for him. However, it would then put him in an exalted position, like Vitalik Buterin. I really don't think BCH or BTC needs that. I prefer not knowing exactly who satoshi was. Also, if proof is ever provided, I hope it doesn't come in the form of a rage quit and dumping on our heads.