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[BlindMayorBitcorn]

He ran an exchange. Probably shorted the Gox collapse. If he was sitting on a hundred thousand coins I wouldn't be surprised.

great. so do a few other people.

why is he the dark lord?

Beats me.

[Last of the V8s]

in other news https://twitter.com/lopp/status/919943125933707265

Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated.

Jameson Lopp‏ got swatted

[Lincoln6Echo]

in other news https://twitter.com/lopp/status/919943125933707265

Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated.

Jameson Lopp‏ got swatted

Wow that's horrible! Glad no one got harmed...
 

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

in other news https://twitter.com/lopp/status/919943125933707265

Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated.

Jameson Lopp‏ got swatted

Wow that's horrible! Glad no one got harmed...
 

In retrospect I really wish I hadn't signed up here with my real email. 

[Last of the V8s]

in other news https://twitter.com/lopp/status/919943125933707265

Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated.

Jameson Lopp‏ got swatted

Wow that's horrible! Glad no one got harmed...
 

In retrospect I really wish I hadn't signed up here with my real email. 

Wait so theymos side and memorydealers side are in cahoots?
then we are indeed doomed

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

in other news https://twitter.com/lopp/status/919943125933707265

Dear anonymous coward who just sent dozens of cops w/ rifles to my house w/a false hostage situation report: I am not so easily intimidated.

Jameson Lopp‏ got swatted

Wow that's horrible! Glad no one got harmed...
 

In retrospect I really wish I hadn't signed up here with my real email.  

Wait so theymos side and memorydealers side are in cahoots?
then we are indeed doomed

The site was compromised. BMB's email is probably on a list on a DNM for sale somewhere. BMB probably has many enemies.

[gentlemand]

In retrospect I really wish I hadn't signed up here with my real email. 

At least you're not Ross Ulbricht.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

In retrospect I really wish I hadn't signed up here with my real email. 

At least you're not Ross Ulbricht.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47811.msg568744#msg568744

[Torque]

In retrospect I really wish I hadn't signed up here with my real email.  

Eh, what difference does it make when companies like Equifax get hacked?  

[Karartma1]

How come we go from the Wall Observer to the Bitcoin Observer?
I don't remember who said that the biggest threat to bitcoin is posed by the fact that many real devs are public figures. I think that's a major drawback.
I am so much glad that Satoshi still keeps his/her/their identity hidden.
Creating the most important threat to the financial 1% is not a prank.

[Torque]

I don't remember who said that the biggest threat to bitcoin is posed by the fact that many real devs are public figures. I think that's a major drawback.
I am so much glad that Satoshi still keeps his/her/their identity hidden.
Creating the most important threat to the financial 1% is not a prank.

It's only a problem for a crypto who dev team has an official "head" dev like Ethereum does. Or like BCH, lol.

Bitcoin has 100+ voluntary developers. Many will come and go.

Also keep in mind, Linus Torvalds is still kicking and he's had enemies within the state for decades.

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

I don't remember who said that the biggest threat to bitcoin is posed by the fact that many real devs are public figures. I think that's a major drawback.
I am so much glad that Satoshi still keeps his/her/their identity hidden.
Creating the most important threat to the financial 1% is not a prank.

It's only a problem for a crypto who dev team has an official "head" dev like Ethereum does. Or like BCH, lol.

Bitcoin has 100+ voluntary developers.

I'm surprised some Russian gangsters haven't ordered a contract on Vitalik to coincide with an epic margin short. It's a sure thing.

*That was probably my most morbid speculation ever.

[gembitz]

I don't remember who said that the biggest threat to bitcoin is posed by the fact that many real devs are public figures. I think that's a major drawback.
I am so much glad that Satoshi still keeps his/her/their identity hidden.
Creating the most important threat to the financial 1% is not a prank.

It's only a problem for a crypto who dev team has an official "head" dev like Ethereum does. Or like BCH, lol.

Bitcoin has 100+ voluntary developers.

I'm surprised some Russian gangsters haven't ordered a contract on Vitalik to coincide with an epic margin short. It's a sure thing.

*That was probably my most morbid speculation ever.

Russians only care about bitcoin lol weeee

[barota]

https://www.bitfinex.com/posts/227

October 16, 2017
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[gembitz]

How come we go from the Wall Observer to the Bitcoin Observer?
>..>
I am so much glad that Satoshi still keeps his/her/their identity hidden.
<.<

 


#choo choo

[Meuh6879]

This is not a bubble.





This is not a project.

This is People.

This is P2P Networks POWWWAAAAAAAAAAAA !

[JayJuanGee]

People here maybe don't want to admit their fears, but @anonymint is making some headway on what might happen: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2259054.0
note that 2x fork is irrelevant, or a mere blip to his theory

there's lots of impressive words and even more impressive supposition. who is anyone to know who 'whales' are and what their intentions are? and what's with the ongoing fear and deification of this popescu guy? as far as i can tell he's an unpleasant writer who owns a few thousand coins.

things have moved on. the people who might have had majority influence once upon a time are now sidelined and yesterday's men.

I don't understand how anyone with a significant quantity of coins - 1,000 or more would have less influence in the BTC community with the recent passage of time (past two years and more than 20x price appreciation). 

Surely, the community has grown and the adoption has grown, but anyone who has been able to hang onto a vast majority of his coins (in the 1,000 coin plus range) during this most recent price appreciation is going to continue to have monetary influence - even if they might not have "one post, one voice influence."

[BlindMayorBitcorn]

This is proactive.

Once it becomes safe and reliable to transact, Samourai Wallet will detect any balance of S2X and present an option to automatically convert the entire S2X balance to BTC. The S2X will be sold at market price and BTC will appear directly in Samourai Wallet.

Anybody use this wallet?

[gentlemand]

This is proactive.

Once it becomes safe and reliable to transact, Samourai Wallet will detect any balance of S2X and present an option to automatically convert the entire S2X balance to BTC. The S2X will be sold at market price and BTC will appear directly in Samourai Wallet.

Anybody use this wallet?

No. As far as I can tell they're still pure Beta. They love taking very dramatic positions. I'd prefer it if they concentrated on becoming non Beta.

[JayJuanGee]

I don't remember who said that the biggest threat to bitcoin is posed by the fact that many real devs are public figures. I think that's a major drawback.
I am so much glad that Satoshi still keeps his/her/their identity hidden.
Creating the most important threat to the financial 1% is not a prank.

It's only a problem for a crypto who dev team has an official "head" dev like Ethereum does. Or like BCH, lol.

Bitcoin has 100+ voluntary developers. Many will come and go.

Also keep in mind, Linus Torvalds is still kicking and he's had enemies within the state for decades.

Remember that initially satoshi was the only one with "commit" status, and then moved to Gavin, and then became 5 devs with commit status.   Maybe would be more secure (in the decentralized sense) to have 10 or 20 devs with commit status, or not?  I understand that a problem with giving out too much "commit" status would be if the dev went rogue (maybe is part of the rational for Gavin's commit status to have been removed?)

Is 5 a good number?