There was only one "No" (I assume it was OP?), or something around 3% yesterday and now look at this: the apocalypse happened! Mike Hearn is leaving us! Fire in the hole! Everyone fall back!
 

Anyone who adopted a bearish attitude the moment they saw the newspapers taking over Mike Hearn's blog post has profited, provided they're buying back now. I was about to do so when bitcoin was still around $415. Only reason I did not is because I'm too new to trading and I couldn't tell. So, just in case the fall was already over, I chose to HODL  .
Now I'm sure the fall is pretty much over. And I don't have much fiat to hand at the moment. That's the sad thing.

Yah he did seppuku. But wasn't it news from 2 years ago? I'm not sure anymore. Or is it that the new CEO also suicided? Man that's a harsh job.

Wasn't Mike Hearn the one accused of wanting to turn bitcoin into his own altcoin in the first place?
Well I mean, anyway, it's not as easy as telling them to fuck off and go create their own altcoin: everyone knows that only bitcoin is really viable. Who'd want to create an altcoin that nobody's ever going to trust no matter how good it is in the first place if you're aware of that.
And thus he spake.
(Sorry for that  . I know I can't be the first one to make that joke but I couldn't refrain  ).

I share the same opinion on this matter. Though I wouldn't say that Mike Hearn is a retard because he obviously is not. But he sure looks very disappointed, and the kind of disappointed that, as someone said earlier, seems to make him want to destroy what he can't own.

Now about the news itself I would have sold if I had known about it earlier, and maybe I should still now, but only to buy back when the price has gotten lower. Confidence is here. Bitcoin is still there, in a form that doesn't satisfy everyone but enough people to keep the value above certain prices.
Now I don't know the future. That piece of news could still have more impact on bitcoin than it has had until now (a $430 to $415 drop is nothing) but it will not kill bitcoin. Let's stop and be realistic a minute. In fact, if the price drops back to $400 because of this piece of news I might just buy like crazy.

There's just one thing that bugs me inside Mike Hearn's blog post:
I can't think of any reason why he would lie, so I'll just go with the assumption that he's telling the truth. Also, I can't think of a reason why developers would take such a decision lightly. In fact, if such decision was taken, it has to have some good sides to it. So now, why did they take such a decision? No matter how I look at it it looks extremely stupid. I can't think of any good reason. Does anyone know more than I do?

Man now that I have this information a lot of stuff becomes more understandable all at once. The guy doesn't understand gold either. Well then yeah, you'll never get him to buy bitcoins then. It's no use  
My dog also makes this "I'd be scratching my head if only I had fingers" face when he sees me doing human stuff that he doesn't understand, such as cutting the branches of a tree standing in my path or other stuff like that. For sure dogs don't bother doing such stuff... yup that's for sure... :-/

Indeed. He most definitely fails at understanding bitcoin whatsoever. He's human after all: he can be wrong sometimes  . Good for him that he doesn't invest in what he doesn't understand. He'll miss opportunities like that. We all do all the time. But on the whole you'd lose more investing in any stuff that you don't understand then staying at home and counting flowers on the wall. And I mean, he probably was made by journalists into telling his mind about bitcoin, back then. I doubt he'd open it to go on about stuff that he doesn't understand if nobody asked him to.

Don't worry for him. He'll still be remembered as an unmatched master. And besides, bitcoin hasn't succeeded... yet  . The guy is still not wrong as of now. We still have a long way to go. And that is precisely the reason why there's profit to be made by buying and HODLING now in case of future success.

I'd like to agree with your statement here but the future being what it is, unpredictable, no matter how much you know or do, there will be a random factor. This random factor, that you don't have control over, is what the others refer to as faith. Normally, the more you know about bitcoin the less faith you need, but you'll never reach a point where you don't need faith anymore.

And yes, I believe that bitcoin can grow very big. And I also think that it can, based on what I know.
One shouldn't be in too much of a hurry though. The enthusiasm of the start is pretty much tamed now. Bitcoin has entered a more mature phase. Although a lot of stuff can still happen, seeing it's value multiplied by a hundred in just some months is not likely to happen anymore. And that's a good thing: it means that the risk of seeing it ending up exploding mid-flight has also gotten lower. Bitcoin is here to stay but it's gonna need time to conquer the remaining markets.
Rome wasn't built in a day, but the Mongol empire was, and we all know how the latter ended  
Question is now: do we want a Roman Empire that is here to stay, or a Mongol Empire that will disappear as soon as the next major event happens? 

Not now, for sure, but if you die without telling anyone where to find your seed, people will buy the house and start repairs. Construction workers have been known to find gold in old houses every now and then. Who knows that in the next century they won't find bitcoin seeds instead

Under the bed is even worse than inside the computer case. Yeah it's safe when you're sleeping at night but what about the rest of the time?
Indeed. That's true for substitutions 

Excellent idea. If I was a thief that's precisely the first place I'd search. Don't tell me your password is 123456789, now?

Paper is still your best bet. Or a metal, like pooya87 suggested. I'd write down my seed on a sheet of paper using an encoding pattern that only I understand, if I were you. And then maybe I'd frame said sheet of paper and hang in the middle of my hallway like you did, because it wouldn't matter anymore.

I must admit that I don't really understand Ethereum but it gives me the impression that it's extremely ambitious and doesn't pose a threat only to bitcoin but to a whole part of the internet. Now what does it actually do that bitcoin doesn't? What would be the pros and cons of using ether against bitcoin? Because now, as was said before, bitcoin has a huge advantage, which is that it was by far first on the market, so ether will have to be really good, if it is to take bitcoin down. Is it that good, now?

Remarque que même pendant la politique de l'enfant unique, il me semble qu'il a toujours été possible aux gens des classes supérieures d'avoir plus d'un enfant s'ils acceptaient de payer. Pareil pour les pauvres de campagnes. Les flics descendaient pas jusque là pour vérifier. Mais bon, les pauvres des campagnes n'ont pas de BTC normalement 

Well, you're a little unfair because they actually did show it to us, back on November 30, 2017. Now the problem is that because of several interferences in the space-time continuum we can't see it anymore, but there it was, I can assure you.

This is a troll. And not even a funny nor a smart one. Probably written in order to make bitcoiners feel guilty about homeless people but I'm not even sure, because... what connection is there between bitcoin users and the homeless people issue? None, I believe. It's just bizarre.

Vegas sounds good. Dubai too. But I don't know if I would live in so much of a different way than I'm doing now, if bitcoin became that pricey. I've never had a thing for fast cars nor jet-set stuff. Still, I'd probably buy a big house with a swimming pool somewhere in the mountains in Switzerland, but I wouldn't go for these noisy parties in big cities too often.
Despite the fact that they sound similar, these are very different cities, mate
(Plus if they sound so similar it's only by chance: Kyoto is 京都, and Tokyo is 東京, only the "kyo", which means "city", is really in common between them).
There's not much to do in Kyoto, apart from visiting temples and shrines. Kyoto is an very historical city, which goes back centuries in the past and whose culture is extremely well preserved. It's almost a town. You can bike from one end to the other in no time. That's actually how most tourists travel in Kyoto: by bike. It's a really different and interesting experience (Kyoto, and even more so Nara, are some of the most beautiful places I've ever been to), but you wouldn't want to have a big party there.
Tokyo, on the other hand is a modern capital city, much like any other big city that you could find in any developed country. Of course it's still in Japan, with Japanese stuff there. But it's far from being the same experience that you'd have in Kyoto. Tokyo is much more appropriate for a millionaire's party.
It's a bit like comparing Ljubljana or Venice to London. Whole different stuff.

Anyway. Keep this thought away from me. Holding hopes higher than is rational is not for me. 1 BTC = 1 m USD is a sweet dream that has higher chances to not happen then it has to happen, even if bitcoin is destined to succeed.

I'm quoting this for truth.

The price of gold is decided by the market and the mining difficulty. Also, it's true that the price of gold is supposed to plummet as available quantities increase, but since miners get paid less, they might just end up spending more digging than actually earning when selling. They'll quit digging if they don't earn enough. If gold's price rises again at satisfactory levels then the mines will reopen and the price will fall back again and the mines will close again, etc. You can't alter the price just by discovering new mines. The mining difficulty and the market are there to regulate the price.
What I'd be afraid of, in the future, is that mining from asteroids becomes cheap enough so that available gold loses it's rarity. But such thing is not for tomorrow. Space exploration has just restarted, after all.

Also, I agree with OROBTC regarding 4): the inflationary policy behind paper gold is of much higher concern than new gold mines way below the seafloor.  

DimensionZ you might want to create your own thread in order to promote your company's stocks.

Félicitation. Comme quoi ça vaut la peine de dépenser de l'énergie pour combattre le bullshit  . Un copié-collé du produit de cette consommation d'énergie ne coûte plus grande chose comme énergie, et suffisamment de copié-collé peuvent venir à bout du bullshit .

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