Thanks for the payment.

but you paid me a bit less, since i joined this campaign in the last days of last round and i believe the posts should have rolled over to this week's payment. meaning a total of 17 posts.

it certainly looks like it.
he can simply sign a message from the payment address that he always uses (1FTziw...) to recover the account though.

as an investor, people should have bought it when it was low. in other words you always buy when everyone is silent about the coin. and if you missed the chance to buy then you should buy as fast as possible then if you missed it again you have to stay away and watch the price go up to $50 and start regretting why did you listen to some FUD and didn't buy.

most people only see the surface. they see a topic using the word GOX and then remember hearing some distant thing about GOX running away but price going up before it then they think the same is happening here too. hence the $500
they never think about 1000 other differences of GOX and Bitfinex, or differences between 2011 and 2017!
and these differences have already been said a hundred times.

litecoin SegWit will be activated soon enough and one miner can not prevent it.

remember that before Jihan started to prevent LTC SegWit, the rest of the miners we all supporting SegWit and everyone was getting on board. the percentage of support was above 80% and nearing the 90% point and LTC only needed 75%!

if Jihan continues messing with LTC SegWit, the route of UASF can be taken and since there is still a lot of hashrate behind it (the whole miners except 1) it can smoothly activate. he just slowed things down.

when everyone sells their coins on top and then price dips they have a lot of money to buy back in. then also when during bitcoin price dip, the altcoins get pumped each 2x-10x people gain a lot more money and this is investment money we are talking about. even if you cash out you still have lots of money to buy bitcoin with.

when all that money comes back into bitcoin because it was time and also because altcoins are dying, the price of bitcoin goes up like this.

you are welcome.
they too belong to the same company. back in May 2016 they announced GDAX (Global Digital Asset Exchange) as their new service to act as a profossional place for traders to do exchanges.
and coinbase to remain an easy place for customers to easily buy, sell and store funds as a wallet.

https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-exchange-is-now-gdax-adds-ether-trading-a82cc628aa79

first of all coinbase aka Gdax is an exchange service and they will add anything that is profitable for them meaning if there is enough volume in trading these coins they will add them to take the profit from fees, etc.

secondly LTC is already active on Gdax. you can see it on their status page, i don't know if the market is active too but they have certainly added LTC and are ready to go.

p.s. it is the new rules of the forum that newbie accounts can not vote. so that is why he can not see the options. i voted

actually 200,000 coins isn't even that much that is just 0.9% of total supply!
there will be a lot more lost coins and it really doesn't matter since that much is not affecting the total supply compared to how many are using bitcoin.

and remember that 1 bitcoin is equal to 100000000 satoshi.

do we have any statements from bitfinex themselves, like in their announcement or twitter or something because i never read bitcoin news sites specially cryptocoinnews.com, they are spreading bullshit half the time and the other half is just poor article writing with zero facts.

in any case i hope we won't witness another GOX. at least finex is not even half as big as GOX!

since 99% of altcoin trading platforms don't even have fiat markets i am going to say everyone (me included) prefers crypto to crypto trading.
think about it, fiat markets of altcoins are only in btc-e, i think bitfinex has some apart from USDT markets and c-cex has some USD markets too. and if you compare the volumes you will see they are not being used that much compared to the same crypto versus bitcoin market volume.

and biggest exchanges like poloniex and bittrex don't have any fiat market (apart from USDT  which is not really fiat and it is not being used as much)

i don't trust poloniex, they are too shady. and they also take part in the pumps. the platfor is not strong enough for the number of users they have either. whenever there is a surge of orders the platform goes offline without any notice. i have lost so many chances to sell because of it.

there have been many times that etherim was supposed to get dumped hard but they went offline and said in their twitter we are under DDoS attack. i say 1 time is coincidence but when it happens multiple times it is scam.

when we are below a certain price it always looks "not easy" but when we get past it and become stable everyone starts saying it was easy!
for example when price was $770 everyone was saying $1000 never going to happen, everyone will dump there, etc. and everyone did dump but the demand is much stronger and the slow rise is happening one way or another.

i dont know why nobody has asked this so far but why are you keep repeating percentages and give huge amounts. i don't get it.
for example how in the world did a transaction cost $5 for you ($25 instead of $20) or is that in cent, that still won't make sense since fee is about 40 not 20 cents!

and also how did you pay 7% extra for a vide card, can you elaborate on that. for example did you pay $18 for a $266 graphic card?

the problem with you and that other thread is that you think you should pay for "anything" with bitcoin. yes it would be neat if we could but since the option is not here yet, then stick to other things bitcoin offers instead.
like the privacy and security and the fact that you don't have to answer to a bank.

not only that but also from early days Chinese have been big investors in bitcoin. even when their exchanges closed down they never stopped investing in bitcoin and they are still buying bitcoin specially since it is cheap right now. and nobody could stop them.

politicians always say these things, it is their jobs to say these things
and it has happened in all the countries. every single one of them has said something about banning bitcoin or at least showed some concerns about it and it is perfectly understandable.

try huge news.
the magnitude of this news is not yet felt by many. it is a LEGAL CURRENCY there!

your post is absolutely useless here. because people are either traders which means they already know what to do and don't need a topic on bitcointalk to tell them what to do with their bitcoin and positions to sell and buy and when to do it.

or other people who aren't traders, which means they shouldn't even be reading a random post on bitcointalk to make decisions about buying or selling even if it turns out to be true. because if you are not a traders (don't have experience) selling and trying to buy back will end up in a disaster for you.

only if you are either Hero member or Legendary menber, meaning your rank can not go down even if your activity does.
other ranks are not like this.

Name:  Leonard2016
Post count:  654
Rank:  Sr. Member
Bitcoin address:  1FubskzufHQaamAPA4RBhVfCpLxkzMgSDe

many came back to bitcoin after the initial altcoin dumps and those were good traders knowing what they do. but there are still two groups left, one is those bagholders still holding worthless altcoins even after the dump thinking it will be worth more!
and others are those who invested in other altcoins like Doge and Litecoin and Ripple and are still making profit from them specially litecoin since the other two have ended their pump.

fun fact:

The 3 giant Chinese exchanges have only two coin listed: Bitcoin and Litecoin.

go figure!

it has been an amazing performance by litecoin, the rise is very strong these days and nothing seems to be able to slow it down.

people are buying litecoin like crazy and we have all seen how Chinese go nuts when it comes to their favorite altcoin (litecoin).

besides with all the other altcoins dropping fast the room is wide open for litecoin to go to the moon. today Ripple also dropped about 35% but LTC is still going up. i say all the investors are coming in, nobody wants to miss the $50 rise.