BTW mempool is near zero at the moment.

They said march 15 , but they are still closed. I am also wondering when that happens. I dont expect a huge drop because chinese panic traders are almost fully in localcoins.

so in reality people are choosing a centralized blockchain over a decentralized blockchain

Not until the chinese exchanges open again.

I am going to piss myself when that happens

Maximum panic?

It doesn't require miner consensus at all, a simple majority would be enough. And there's no huge potential to split the chain, this 'anyone can spend' story spread by BU propagandists has been thoroughly debunked already: https://seebitcoin.com/2017/02/segwit-facts-not-anyone-can-spend-so-stop-saying-they-can/

miners could mine a block that breaks these rules and old nodes would still recognise it as valid.

95% was always looking tough - 5% + saying no was almost predictable.

This is fucking terrible. I wonder how much further this can go.

Did you see that whale buying at Bitfinex just now?

It's down to 1017 now so maybe the good time to buy a little now.
From the whales buying up now is going to cause it to surge tomorrow and by time you wake up it will be just too late for buying near $1000 again until something big happens.
And we all know what that is.

notthematrix, the link to the video was in every post you have quoted of mine so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtDTNA85rm4

See the comments. 4th comment down.

Are you a bought account? It seems like not long ago that you could write and read.

This bet is that there will be a hard fork to a Chain with larger block sizes before the end of September 2017, AND that the crippled Chain of small blocks never creates any spendable coinbases after the first successful large block on the Bitcoin blockchain is mined.

(possibly).

Very interesting article.

https://medium.com/@peter_r/on-the-emerging-consensus-regarding-bitcoins-block-size-limit-insights-from-my-visit-with-2348878a16d8#.hih385eti

I was surprised to see this idea  that if a small minority wants to fight the emerging consensus of bigger blocks, the majority will stop them with their hashpower.

I know people will take this out of context and scream "Bu wants to 51% attack bitcoin" but the idea is eliminate replay risk and a split network, which
would be bad for everyone.  So it makes sense.

This is why Core floats the idea of changing their PoW to keep a minority chain alive. (also makes sense)

Ok, let the flaming begin.  Go!