Maybe they're gonna do hard forks each week?

[That would be so fail...]

Save? I don't save. I invest!

Okay, now that silliness is out of the way, I will say that any amount over 33% is just way too high for my liking. The caveat is that I live in the US. So there is definitely trickiness when it comes to regulation. I feel that 15-20% in BTC/Alts is a reasonable mix to me.

Then again, that doesn't reflect my "portfolio" at all. I'm relatively young so I don't have all too much in non-realty assets. I'd say I have around 25-30% in BTC/Alts. But a lot of this money tends to move around a lot.

Once upon a time I would say that. But it seems that more and more auto-selling scripts and functions are pegged to a combination of trade volume, price level, and current difficulty. That's why I am going against the grain and saying that these "artificial" difficulty spikes will cause a temporary spike in prices which would be corrected in a few cycles. Mind you, when I say a few cycles, I mean like within a day or two at the most.

I say expect the balancing act. So block size halves. Then multipools mine other coins. Then DOGE increases to compensate. So multipools switch back to DOGE. However, the sudden spike in difficulty of other coins slightly increases their price (I know the whole difficulty vs. price argument; I'm saying that in this case it's happening okay?). Multipools switch back to these other coins. And rinse and repeat for maybe 4-5 cycles.

This will probably be followed by a significant sell off. After that, who knows...

Getting stabbed in the back sucks. [Insert personal anecdote...]

I personally don't think he'd bother to return. It feels like this is one that he is going to take on the chin, and he'll move on from.

From what I watched (I only watched like the first 9 minutes), he seems like someone that moves from one thing to the next. Admittedly with the changes that I think he perceives I would doubt that it'd be worthwhile for him on a fulfillment level to put stock back into Ripple (at least in terms of the business strategy). To me that seems like that's going to be the most likely scenario.

Is there a chance? Sure. But odds are against it.

I hear CEO. But I meant, is his beef with the person being taken on a personal level, fundamental level (the direction and that sort of thing), or does it impact his financial share in everything. I'm still unclear on that.

The plot thickens indeed.

Disagreements with a "business" usually points to money issues, fundamental issues, or personal issues. Wonder which one it is? Interesting stuff...

Oh whenever I see a Duck Tales image, it's ruined by Family Guy.

Hey, I guess this is still tons of fun after all! Just don't get too bloodied up swimming in a bunch of metal/stone objects...

My apologies, I should have been clearer. I didn't interpret this as saying that Overstock would be holding through the fiscal quarter. That's when things would get interesting. The article saying that "should Overstock be holding" at the the quarter meant to me that they weren't sure what road they were definitely be taking.

I will be following to see what decisions will be made and what precedents will be taken. This is really exciting times!

I think there is a fear of tarnishing cryptocurrencies if so many people get burned. (Understanding why the OP doesn't crypto or BTC to get an even worse reputation is another matter.)

But let's be honest, those that have been here long enough have seen this cycle many times before (remember Fairbrix/Tenebrix? FTC pump? The constant attacks on TRC when ASICs first came out? And so many other scandals...). People are going to get burned, it's the nature of the beast, and frankly the nature of "investments" (which let's face it, a lot of people treat crypto as "investments" in the loosest sense of the term).

Nonetheless, even if BTC gets some tarnish from this, there will still be people in this market. After all, where there is money involved, people are bound to come.

For such a young cryptocurrency, it's great to see how much action and infrastructure has been already implemented. It seems that a lot of this news has been overshadowed by other occurrences in the cryptocurrency world. And though this is "good" in terms of mining prospects, NOBLE shouldn't remain so quiet. Staying so tucked away tends to do more harm than good.

As a point of note, despite all of the "strong" news surrounding NOBLE, market cap has continued to slip.

That being said, I think the roadmap for the marketplace is strong and will likely provide lots of support for NOBLE. Once again though, it's a matter of spreading this news and organic growth. Lots of great happenings in this community though!

This whole thing reminds me about FTC, except with even larger block rewards, a strong meme, and even stronger community.

Funny thing is that despite all of that, I see DOGE on a precipice where it's either going to crash extremely hard or provide stable growth until it hits a plateau (whatever happens at that point though is a different story).

If I was a betting man, I'd say in about 3-4 weeks we'll get some type of resolution to this.

I hadn't seen any news about this. If this is the case though, I'd be very intrigued to see how this is reported in their financials. And I wonder what BTC sales and holding BTC would fall under in their EBITDA.

More whales? That might make things "fun."

Personally, I don't think Bitcoin needs any type of "fun" injected into the system. Sure gimmicks would be nice, and the added attention would be great to have, but it always acts like a double-edged sword. Bitcoin is finally stepping out of the stages of "infancy" and starting to show signs of maturing into its own market. I think more than fun, Bitcoin needs more and more infrastructure.

Sure there is a lot of hype surrounding DOGE because of how "fun" it is, but in the long-term, it takes much more than that.

This is fairly impressive. A million in a month I think is around 0.8-1.2% of their monthly revenues. The true test is the sustainability of sales in BTC.

Nonetheless, this is good news and could likely pave the way for more major businesses to begin accepting BTC.

And now WDC can fade off into the sunset with the marring of two scandals. And somebody can continue to mine WDC, and then revive it just like BBQ.

That or people will actually be too stubborn and show the resilience of WDC. Which if the community is as strong as claimed, will happen and its price will recover (then again, only a few months ago, WDC was only 1/5 of the price that it still is).

To be honest though, a cap of $7.5M is a bit too high for an alt as riddled as WDC has been.

Now I'm curious. Does anyone know if this is the largest ever BTC transaction pegged in USD? Could you imagine if one of those 100,000 BTC addresses suddenly had movement?

No! Please don't leave. This troll thread was just so young, and now we're letting it die?

This cannot stand! I say we all give predictions of when each major exchange will halt withdrawals! And then we'll discuss how low the price will drop to. And then we'll talk about how at some point you won't be able to withdraw from any exchange, and then our only recourse to cash out fiat is by bartering locally. And then we'll talk about how all the users of Bitcoin will be arrested in a coordinated effort led by the government (just like that event in Florida). Oh noes!!!

Oh wait, there isn't any more snow...Oh well...

Yay! Trolling is all around today. Both on the forums and in the press.

Yes there will always be issues abound, but Bitcoin has shown to be resilient for so long, so this either has to be an amazing fluke, or well, let's face it: there's something here.

Remember during the run-up at the beginning of 2013 how there was an issue, and wallets had to be upgraded? Yeah, that dampened prices just a smidge, but the run-up still kept going. I guess the difference is that today we're past the tail end of a run-up and there is more downward pressure. However, the fact that prices hit a recovery point so quickly says something.

There will likely be more turbulence in the upcoming days, but let's be honest, it's to be expected.

Only $2000? Nah. Remember, April 2013: $266, then November 2013: $1150. Let's go with $5000!!! Yeah!!!

On a serious note, I wouldn't be surprised if this news will drive more speculators in and cause another run up in a few months.