Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion

[billyjoeallen]

Another interesting development could affect bitcoin dynamics in the coming weeks and months - and that is looming again, a possible US Government shutdown.... 

Many put the odds of a USGOV shutdown at less than 50%; however, if such a US Gov shutdown were to occur (which is really NOT an improbable scenario), there could be some impacts on BTC prices....  in the short and medium term... and I would suggest likely that such an occurrence would cause BTC prices to move in an upwards direction.

meh. I don't think it will have much effect either way.  Worst case scenario is some non essential personnel get sent home for a few days or weeks.  What gets me is...if they are non-essential, then why do they have jobs in the first place? 

Nothing comes close to the block size issue, IMHO.  I think the two issues are similar in that the debt cieling will likely get raised with nothing else getting fixed in a can-kicking maneuver and the block size deadlock will also get kicked with BIP102 after much sound and fury.

[JayJuanGee]

Another interesting development could affect bitcoin dynamics in the coming weeks and months - and that is looming again, a possible US Government shutdown.... 

Many put the odds of a USGOV shutdown at less than 50%; however, if such a US Gov shutdown were to occur (which is really NOT an improbable scenario), there could be some impacts on BTC prices....  in the short and medium term... and I would suggest likely that such an occurrence would cause BTC prices to move in an upwards direction.

meh. I don't think it will have much effect either way.  Worst case scenario is some non essential personnel get sent home for a few days or weeks.  What gets me is...if they are non-essential, then why do they have jobs in the first place? 

Nothing comes close to the block size issue, IMHO.  I think the two issues are similar in that the debt cieling will likely get raised with nothing else getting fixed in a can-kicking maneuver and the block size deadlock will also get kicked with BIP102 after much sound and fury.

Maybe you are letting your politics get in the way, a little bit with your thinking?

It doesn't really matter so much whether the employees are essential or NOT.

In fact, I am of the belief that it is NO small factor, that in October/November 2013, the US Gov was shut down for more than 3 weeks.. a lot of confidence is lost in the dollar and in the ability for US governing officials to value the maintaining such legitimacy.. in fact the October/NOvember 2013 spurt in BTC prices coincided with these shutdown events and some losses in confidence in the dollar....

Surely other things were going on, as well, including chinese pumping (which is likely also related), and the hearings in which turned out that BTC was more accepted and acceptable than what had been expected...

Subsequently, in the past two years, the dollar has been doing really well, but BTC has been downwardly projected and actually fairly flat in the past 9 months....

Each of these factors, likely have effects that may NOT be individually significant, but can cause various rippling effects....

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[Fatman3001]

Nobody here sees the potential of 21 Inc's platform? What Google did for making money with websites (generate revenue with ads), 21 Inc may do for making money with web-services (generate revenue with pay-per-use). I.e. 21 Inc might be the next Google. Guess what that will do for Bitcoin...  

I don't see the potential. You don't need special chips or computers to do micro payments. As a charity node, a standard Raspberry Pi 2 is cheaper. And the mining part of it is really lame. To me, it just sounds like a clusterfuck of bitcoin buzzwords. Either the VCs have been fooled, or there is a dimension to this that is still a secret.

Based on the story of 21 Inc so far my guess is your line...

To me, it just sounds like a clusterfuck of bitcoin buzzwords. Either the VCs have been fooled....

...is the reality of the situation. I think these guys are riding a bitcoin VC feeding frenzy but lack clear strategy or understanding.

If you haven't already heard this podcast from 13th Sep, have a listen to Chris Derose and Joshua Unseth's take on what 21 Inc are doing; I think it's very very funny. Go to time 15:05 in episode #16 of the Counterparty weekly update for a hilarious take on the whole thing.

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/xcp-weekly-update-16-joel-and-thomas-from-swarm

Nice find! That pretty much sums it up.

Perhaps there is some legitimacy to incorporating a HW wallet in chipsets, as it seems some are suggesting they're doing, but a miner is, as we heard,  a bad idea for a number of reasons.

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[galdur]

Nobody here sees the potential of 21 Inc's platform? What Google did for making money with websites (generate revenue with ads), 21 Inc may do for making money with web-services (generate revenue with pay-per-use). I.e. 21 Inc might be the next Google. Guess what that will do for Bitcoin...  

I don't see the potential. You don't need special chips or computers to do micro payments. As a charity node, a standard Raspberry Pi 2 is cheaper. And the mining part of it is really lame. To me, it just sounds like a clusterfuck of bitcoin buzzwords. Either the VCs have been fooled, or there is a dimension to this that is still a secret.

Based on the story of 21 Inc so far my guess is your line...

To me, it just sounds like a clusterfuck of bitcoin buzzwords. Either the VCs have been fooled....

...is the reality of the situation. I think these guys are riding a bitcoin VC feeding frenzy but lack clear strategy or understanding.

If you haven't already heard this podcast from 13th Sep, have a listen to Chris Derose and Joshua Unseth's take on what 21 Inc are doing; I think it's very very funny. Go to time 15:05 in episode #16 of the Counterparty weekly update for a hilarious take on the whole thing.

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/xcp-weekly-update-16-joel-and-thomas-from-swarm

Nice find! That pretty much sums it up.

Perhaps there is some legitimacy to incorporating a HW wallet in chipsets, as it seems some are suggesting they're doing, but a miner is, as we heard,  a bad idea for a number of reasons.

They do a pretty good job at the site dancing around the fact that the thing won´t really mine anything but a steady stream of pocket lint. Which would be useful for micropayments they say though. But the best thing about it would be for buying and selling stuff for bitcoins. I doubt that you pay 400 dollars for a box to do that.

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[Callahan]

With services like circle... bitcoin price doesnt matter

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

Nobody here sees the potential of 21 Inc's platform? What Google did for making money with websites (generate revenue with ads), 21 Inc may do for making money with web-services (generate revenue with pay-per-use). I.e. 21 Inc might be the next Google. Guess what that will do for Bitcoin...  

I don't see the potential. You don't need special chips or computers to do micro payments. As a charity node, a standard Raspberry Pi 2 is cheaper. And the mining part of it is really lame. To me, it just sounds like a clusterfuck of bitcoin buzzwords. Either the VCs have been fooled, or there is a dimension to this that is still a secret.

Based on the story of 21 Inc so far my guess is your line...

To me, it just sounds like a clusterfuck of bitcoin buzzwords. Either the VCs have been fooled....

...is the reality of the situation. I think these guys are riding a bitcoin VC feeding frenzy but lack clear strategy or understanding.

If you haven't already heard this podcast from 13th Sep, have a listen to Chris Derose and Joshua Unseth's take on what 21 Inc are doing; I think it's very very funny. Go to time 15:05 in episode #16 of the Counterparty weekly update for a hilarious take on the whole thing.

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/xcp-weekly-update-16-joel-and-thomas-from-swarm

Nice find! That pretty much sums it up.

Perhaps there is some legitimacy to incorporating a HW wallet in chipsets, as it seems some are suggesting they're doing, but a miner is, as we heard,  a bad idea for a number of reasons.

They do a pretty good job at the site dancing around the fact that the thing won´t really mine anything but a steady stream of pocket lint. Which would be useful for micropayments they say though. But the best thing about it would be for buying and selling stuff for bitcoins. I doubt that you pay 400 dollars for a box to do that.

At least their last idea made toast...

[RenegadeMan]

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Does anyone actually use the 3D presentation of these chart images? I just tried putting some red/green glasses on and what I saw was fairly uninspiring. Seeing them in 3D certainly doesn't make them suddenly mean a whole lot more or convey more comparison data. I think it's a gimmick.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

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Does anyone actually use the 3D presentation of these chart images? I just tried putting some red/green glasses on and what I saw was fairly uninspiring. Seeing them in 3D certainly doesn't make them suddenly mean a whole lot more or convey more comparison data. I think it's a gimmick.

Most things are

[noobtrader]

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Does anyone actually use the 3D presentation of these chart images? I just tried putting some red/green glasses on and what I saw was fairly uninspiring. Seeing them in 3D certainly doesn't make them suddenly mean a whole lot more or convey more comparison data. I think it's a gimmick.

Most things are

its not just gimmick, if you stare to it long enough, it actually breathe 

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Does anyone actually use the 3D presentation of these chart images? I just tried putting some red/green glasses on and what I saw was fairly uninspiring. Seeing them in 3D certainly doesn't make them suddenly mean a whole lot more or convey more comparison data. I think it's a gimmick.

Most things are

its not just gimmick, if you stare to it long enough, it actually breathe 

I need to find some 3D glasses - it never occurred to me before that Chartbuddy was 3D.

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[aztecminer]

did circle get hacked ?? https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/3m2czq/circle_temporarily_pauses_deposits_and_withdrawals/