Segwit stealing 51% attack with secret quantum computers beginning in any moment.  

Time to start putting the squeeze on all of these bottom shorters. Should have closed their position hours ago when the CME July futures contract settled. Haven't checked @whalecalls on twitter yet. Wonder if any big dumb whale just got their big bottom short liquidated.

Is this going to be quick, with one red candle after another so that I can move my entire stash to Bitmex and go 100x margin short? Or is it going to be full of volitility so that I will get rekt before reaching the target?

Oh please. Bitmain's got the cajones. Here's a pic of just one of their mining farms from their blog.

https://blog.bitmain.com/en/bitmain-to-set-high-standards-with-state-of-the-art-xinjiang-data-center/

What are you talking about? Zcash just did a vote at their Montreal conference and will be putting ASIC resistance on the back burner. https://www.coindesk.com/zcash-governance-panel-shoots-research-asic-resistance/
By the time they get around to it, ASIC mining will have a strong foothold and the GPU miners will go searching elsewhere for the few scraps left; if not shutting down entirely. Since most of the mining hash will be derived from ASICS, I am sure they will get increasing push back from their ASIC mining community. Who is going to go along with turning their coin making machines into bricks?

They probably already do. I suspect Bitmain is pointing some of their hash at alternative pools just to obfuscate their true power. I could be wrong though. Also, centralization is just a byproduct of pure economics. It is always more economical to pool resources. Furthermore, total decentralization is a lofty goal. There is never going to be the homogeneous distribution of wealth, resources and talent required for true decentralization to take hold. That is why true communism never works. It always evolves into a despotic socialist regime.

It all depends on exactly what the operations cost for the huge mining farms is. If it goes too low, we may see a push from the big miners to try and prop up the price. However, Bitmain made a boatload of profit last year. So they may have enough of a cushion to ride it out and have the competition get annihilated.  (Remember GHASH? They got blown out of the water in the 2015 bear market and Bitmain came out on top.)  This will have the added benefit of lowering the difficulty; therefore the cost to mine.

We started to get a few wimpy green candles at around 4:pm London time. Also, the last decent dump happened around 6:00 am London time this morning. I think the bottom is in, for now, until we get close to the CBOE closing date of 07/18/2018.

Meh, Bitmain and friends probably have 10nm or 7nm chip ASICs populating their farms. I wouldn't be surprised if they also have farms set up in Venezuela to take advantage of the cheap electricity there. This is merely speculative though. It is also possible that Bitmain doesn't have the more efficient ASICS working yet and that this bear market will kill them. Wishful thinking on my part though, I am sure.

Isn't it amazing? THE CME June futures contract settles and we seem to get a little bit of a respite from the dumping. When exactly was it announced that the CME and CBOE was a go? I'm trying to figure out what price these MFs got their BTC to dump. Or are they just shorting it on the various exchanges with fiat as collateral? Or is this price movement just coincidence? Is there really any correlation here?

Thanks for the offer, but I am at work and do not have access to the wallet. It was quite disconcerting this morning to wake up and find that I have been paid all of the coins from my nicehash mining and have come up short.    I also hope that this coin makes it to another exchange. I am not particularly fond of crypto-bridge so far. From what I understand, it is not even truly a DEX because you send your coins to them and then they convert them to bitshare tokens. So, it's great that you have control of the private keys for the tokens, but no control over the real coins. Or am I mistaken on how cyrpto-bridege works?

I'm not looking for a round number. Just enough to get the low end masternode. Unfortunately, I sent my 300K sats BTC to Crypto-bridge and the deposit did not clear before I went to work. Hopefully, the funds will be available when I get home from work so that I can get just enough coins to set up a masternode. Just hope my partner doesn't start nagging because I am preoccupied. I never set up a masternode using a VPN, so this is going to be quite the learning curve for me.

Crap. I ran out of nicehash funds and only have 999.34 coins in my wallet. I was hoping to buy 1 coin real quick. Looks like I'm a day late and a dollar short.

1 coin, all in the same utxo. However, it will probably take many years for 1 coin to get a stake, unless you get really lucky. If you have been mining, and getting many sub 1 coin payments, you may want to use coin control in your wallet to combine your utxo.

Already listed on crypto-bridge. There are three levels of masternodes. 1000 coins, 3000 coins and 5000 coins. Currently, there are 23 light 1000 masternodes, 10 medium masternodes and 12 full masternodes. However, masternodes do not start paying quite yet. So the number may go up.

I just read though the whitepaper, and a profound grammatical error is repeated several times throughout the whitepaper. The problem is that it is missing articles (the, a/an.) You may want to get someone to proof your work and add in the missing articles. It noticeably detracts from the quality of the paper.

Well, if you are not using your node to mine or are a major economic node like an exchange, then you are supposed to be using a SPV wallet because Craig Wright, aka "satoshi" feels that  nodes like your's are a liability to the network. Shame on you. Better hope they don't make you walk through the streets naked and throw crap at you.

BTFD bot reactivated. My order cancellation went through. Thank God. Current revenue from a S9 is only 20 cents per day at 12 cents/KWH.

Yes, and I really am not convinced by the reaction from support on this dump. I suspect that we may see another test for lower. 

IDK, perhaps you should ask the traders who actually can have an effect on this market. I know my small stack doesn't amount to a hill of beans. However, I suspect the market movers are not going to tip their hand.