I have 2 computers with Windows 8.1. On may main laptop, I disabled GWX last summer, and I haven't heard of it since them. On the second I tried Windows 10, only to uninstall it 2 days later, but I have to be careful with updates. Each time I'm updating, I have to uncheck W10, otherwise, it would get installed without asking me.

You shall disable automatic updates, it's too worrisome. I was caught once with an update while I was about to board a flight, with the damned thing telling me not to shutdown. I don't want that to happen ever again. You just need to check if there are updates twice a month.

Yes, there are many topics already, but they're all negative, so I decided to start a positive one. There are good things in Ethereum. It's a great idea, and I'm betting on its success sometimes in the future. Actually, I may even start something with it if OpenBazaar doesn't grow as fast as planned.

You say I'm stupid? I haven't paid any income tax since 1997. How much have you paid?

I won't get Trump, and if don't like him, you can be sure I dislike him even more than you do. My difference is that I dislike all politicians, and make no difference between them. If you think a politician can make your life better, I'm not saying you're stupid, I'm saying you're making a big mistake. Look at what's going on in Nigeria: $16 billions have vanished. This is what governments do.

For the past 6 weeks, I guess I've been buying and selling ETH more than 20 times. Each time with a profit. Last time I've bought, I paid 0.029 and I had the opportunity to sell with a profit, which I did, but I've chosen to hold 10 ETH. I won't sell them no matter how down the price may go. I'm doing that because I want Ethereum to be more than pump and dump. The idea, the whole project, I want to support it. It is a great project. The currency may go down, but I sincerely hope the big project behind will be successful. I also hope I'm not the only one.

Correction, you should say.
Money saved from the evil hands of the fascist state

I still don't understand how some people believe that money going in tax will help reduce poverty. Tax money pay for warfare, nature's destruction, promotion of homosexuality, alcohol and hookers for state officials, golden diapers for babies princes (only in the UK), and building of palaces to show how mighty the state is.

If all countries would become tax-free, there would be so much money spent and earned everywhere that there would be no poverty.

The more I look at the future, the more I see a brighter future for paper money. We shall reach a point where people will be fed up being tracked and traced all the time. And the only way against that mass surveillance warfare is to use cash. Cash is also a nice option to save money because of falling interest rates. They're already negative in some countries!

I don't like the idea as this would increase the volume of data and require more computing power. If you run a node with over 50 connections, the difference would be easy to notice, and since I'm a supporter of larger block sizes, I'm against anything which could slow nodes.

There may some truth in that, but it's hard to believe the whole thing is coordinated by a mastermind. There are hundreds of orders, and there's big money involved. Even with bots, it would be very difficult to organize, then think about the risk. There was a DDOS attack on Poloniex on Monday, imagine the orders fail to be pulled as planned...

The UK used to want a gigantic empire, that was the Commonwealth. The EU is probably the last chance for the UK if it wants to keep on having a voice on the world scene. No, frankly, who cares about little britain? If the UK leaves the EU, it will be much more difficult for british exporters to sell their goods in Europe, this is the only thing which should matter. The pound would sink, the Spanish would invade Gibraltar, of course the british would rule everything in their smallish rainy islands, but there would not be much left to rule. Note that businesses want to stay in EU.

Just look at that pic:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1399381.0

We've seen a lot of transactions from people exiting Ethereum, but I can't see where the money went after ETH. It didn't go to other altcoins, nor back to BTC. Nearly everything's down besides some very small altcoins.


That's how it used to be, that would be logic, except that now, nothing pops up.

No, blockchain size isn't an issue at all. The real problem is in the bandwidth needed to run a full node. HDD prices regularly come down, but DSL prices do not. Nor do we get more bandwidth. In some big cities, there is 100MB Internet, but in most of Europe, you can't get more than 20MB, and in Africa, you're more likely to get 2 or 5MB. Not much, if you want to run a full node and watch youtube.

So you just need tomake an $8,000 investment, and illico presto, you're a BTC specialist! Sorry but your ranking system is flawed. It would be better to make a system based on the number of payments you've made. But since most people have dozens of addresses, it would be impossible to make something trustworthy, and that's good. I don't want to be ranked. Ranking is for armies, whereas BTC is decentralized, there should be no ranking.

One thing surprises me.

We're currently seeing the dump part in the ETH massive pump and dump operation. The surprise is that all other big altcoins are down too. Factom, Monero, they're all seriously down, but BTC harldy gains. It's up only 1%. It should have gained much more, shouldn't it?

Has anyone checked Poloniex recently?
They have buy ETH orders for more than 1,000 BTC.

I guess there are some wealthy people who don't think ETH is a bubble. I certainly don't think it's one, but I admit we've just seen a HUGE pump and dump operation.

It's not medieval at all. This is the law in Iran and several muslim countries. When a woman divorces, she can remarry but she needs to wait several months. I'm not sure about the legal length of the delay, possibly 6 months, but the men who wrote this law wanted to be sure they wouldn't get a bad surprise if a man marries a woman who had a past husband.

Precisely. Right now, my savings account bring me a 0.4% interest. If my bank makes the decision to reduce their interest by half a point, just like the ECB did, that would mean negative interest. I don't think my bank will do that in the near future, but it means I need to think about an alternative just in case.

I don't think so. It means that the US is going through a lot of hard bargaining to make a free trade agreement with the EU, and that it doesn't want to have to make another agreement only with the UK. Brexit means isolation, from Europe, but also from US.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/03/14/microsoft-stops-accepting-bitcoin-on-windows-10.html

All the medias now report that Microsoft accepts BTC. I guess we'll never know what happened. I still believe it could have been a mistake, though. Like if they were making an update in their payment processing system, and the non-fiat currency didn't accept it. They should explain.

Thanks for info! The Chinese are entering the party, and they have deep pockets.
I'll write later what I think about it, right now I'm too busy selling all my other altcoins to buy more ETH.

Correct, security is not assured at your home, so you can put your money at a bank. Just don't put it in a bank account. That would cost you money, because of those negative interest rates. So the solution is to rent a private coffer, a safe box at a large bank which has a massive vault under its offices, and store cash in there. A thick stack of high denomination bank notes. You won't pay anything besides the rent for that safe box.