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[bitserve]

I am completely serious.

Why are you bothering to engage this nothing? In the time you wrote that you could've saved a life or invented cold fusion.

Ohh, yeah, I felt on the trap again. Sorry.

[d_eddie]

I am completely serious.

Why are you bothering to engage this nothing? In the time you wrote that you could've saved a life or invented cold fusion.

Ohh, yeah, I felt on the trap again. Sorry.

Don't worry. He needs some attention, too. It's New Year, let's be good.
Besides, he's good against intruders (inJEWders?). Woof. Woof.

[El duderino_]

Interesting that the majority feels price will be at 20-22k by the 31st....

I'm still calling $20000 by new year

that would be one CRAZY run      if this happens i would almost say to eat my own dick

John MaCafee!  Is that you?

Aaah Thats good thinking who know’s :-)

[yefi]

Lee Nak-yeon expressed concerns over Korea’s bitcoin craze, warning  that “young people and students are rushing into virtual currency trading to earn huge profits in just a short period of time,” and that “it is time for the government to take action as it could lead to serious pathological phenomena if left unchecked" forcing young people into illegal activities like drug dealing.

Oh yes I came here just for trading but then was forced into using the drugs.  Thats how it works.

It's real. One day I was at my desk happily trading on Trex, the next I was carrying bags of cocaine in my rectum.

[jbreher]

The vast majority of thread participants herein would have never bought such a stupid dumbass centralized manipulated coin,

While they may not have bought it, they may have received it. Anyone who asked got 20,000 XRP back in the day.

Really? 

You are trying to assert that these coins were "free" and/or fairly distributed based on some kind of "ask" scenario? 

You really believe your own bullshit half the time?

A little holiday greeting:  Get the fuck out of here, picnic food eating bear dude.. (     ) 

Get over yourself JJG - your noobishness is on full display.

Yes indeed, 20,000 XRP were given to anyone who provided a Ripple address to which said XRP could be sent. True story.

How could this be about me?

You are such a distraction with your off topic pursuits.  Making me feel like this:   

The attentive reader will note that JJG was discussing Ripple in this branch of this thread before I.

[jbreher]

All the bugmen who were worshipping these completely centralized cuckchains seemed to have stopped talking about lambos and are now trying to find someone to give them a used Evinrude bass boat motor for a bitcoin.

I don't care who ya are - dat dere's funny.

[conspirosphere.tk]

It's real. One day I was at my desk happily trading on Trex, the next I was carrying bags of cocaine in my rectum.

it's because one has to be heavily inebriated to play in the alts markets.

[lightfoot]

your so funny
buy sand cus it's not held by banks and it's decentralized sand is the future

Indeed. Sand is a key strategic material, it's the main component of egg timers, which as we all know are a central component of trivial pursuit games....

Damn Arabs are sitting on a gold mine, not oil, but SAND!

(remembers the sand shortages due to big screen tube TV's. Boy that fixed itself......)

Anyway on to Bitcoin, still sitting around 13100 I see. Will be interesting to see if things go up in 2018...

C

[bones261]

Block #501853
A new one, but the "unknown" miner only sacrifices only the Tx fee this time.
Number Of Transactions = 1
Transaction Fees   0 BTC

https://blockchain.info/block-height/501853

Viable attack to use when the blockchain is already backlogged with txs?
Somebody needs to start working on a fix.
Hoping it isn't a viable attack in the long term.
Cant keep sacrificing 12.5 BTC unless there is a bigger end game. But can keep sacrificing  fees for keeping the mining fee higher for longer.
Have a bad feeling about this. Mostly the timing. Already a bit too down on price and might end up testing long term support levels .Hope its nothing.

This is just a standard empty block being mined. The block was mined in less than a minute after the last solved block. This is not an attack but pretty standard. Many pools mine empty blocks while they validate the last block. Before they can start including tx, they need to know which transactions in their mempool are already included in the last block. Rather than experience downtime, many pools elect to mine empty blocks during the validation period.

[d_eddie]

Block #501853
A new one, but the "unknown" miner only sacrifices only the Tx fee this time.
Number Of Transactions = 1
Transaction Fees   0 BTC

https://blockchain.info/block-height/501853

Viable attack to use when the blockchain is already backlogged with txs?
Somebody needs to start working on a fix.
Hoping it isn't a viable attack in the long term.
Cant keep sacrificing 12.5 BTC unless there is a bigger end game. But can keep sacrificing  fees for keeping the mining fee higher for longer.
Have a bad feeling about this. Mostly the timing. Already a bit too down on price and might end up testing long term support levels .Hope its nothing.

This is just a standard empty block being mined. The block was mined in less than a minute after the last solved block. This is not an attack but pretty standard. Many pools mine empty blocks while they validate the last block. Before they can start including tx, they need to know which transactions in their mempool are already included in the last block. Rather than experience downtime, many pools elect to mine empty blocks during the validation period.

Allright, this looks fairly normal - but what's your opinion on the block with the lost reward?

[bones261]

This is just a standard empty block being mined. The block was mined in less than a minute after the last solved block. This is not an attack but pretty standard. Many pools mine empty blocks while they validate the last block. Before they can start including tx, they need to know which transactions in their mempool are already included in the last block. Rather than experience downtime, many pools elect to mine empty blocks during the validation period.

Allright, this looks fairly normal - but what's your opinion on the block with the lost reward?

Error trying to implement RootStock commitment. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7n1ie5/someone_destroyed_125_newly_mined_bitcoins/

[alani123]

There are crazy price differences between GDAX and bitstamp. How come that there are consistent price differences for hours at a time?

Could this be a sign of price manipulation that's rumored to be happening in GDAX? I mean, both exchanges are operating without major issues, trading with big volumes and accepting FIAT deposits... How come there can be long-lived price differences for their BTC pairs?

[bones261]

There are crazy price differences between GDAX and bitstamp. How come that there are consistent price differences for hours at a time?

Could this be a sign of price manipulation that's rumored to be happening in GDAX? I mean, both exchanges are operating without major issues, trading with big volumes and accepting FIAT deposits... How come there can be long-lived price differences for their BTC pairs?

I wouldn't be surprised if GDAX has some price manipulation going on at all. After all, it is owned by Digital Currency Group. We are all just small fry subjected to Barry's whims.

[600watt]

There are crazy price differences between GDAX and bitstamp. How come that there are consistent price differences for hours at a time?

Could this be a sign of price manipulation that's rumored to be happening in GDAX? I mean, both exchanges are operating without major issues, trading with big volumes and accepting FIAT deposits... How come there can be long-lived price differences for their BTC pairs?

I wouldn't be surprised if GDAX has some price manipulation going on at all. After all, it is owned by Digital Currency Group. We are all just small fry subjected to Barry's whims.

gdax/$: 13 330

bitstamp/$: 13 321

that is not even one percent difference.

[sirazimuth]

I am completely serious.

Why are you bothering to engage this nothing? In the time you wrote that you could've saved a life or invented cold fusion.

Ohh, yeah, I felt on the trap again. Sorry.

Don't worry. He needs some attention, too. It's New Year, let's be good.
Besides, he's good against intruders (inJEWders?). Woof. Woof.

 I swear that character loves being hated.
Either that or he gets bored at those places where his like hang out
because they have the intelligence of a common walnut,
so he comes here instead to spread his delightful good will.

[bones261]

There are crazy price differences between GDAX and bitstamp. How come that there are consistent price differences for hours at a time?

Could this be a sign of price manipulation that's rumored to be happening in GDAX? I mean, both exchanges are operating without major issues, trading with big volumes and accepting FIAT deposits... How come there can be long-lived price differences for their BTC pairs?

I wouldn't be surprised if GDAX has some price manipulation going on at all. After all, it is owned by Digital Currency Group. We are all just small fry subjected to Barry's whims.

gdax/$: 13 330

bitstamp/$: 13 321

that is not even one percent difference.

The gap has lessened considerably, recently. Yesterday and Friday the gaps were much larger.

[txtravwill]

Morning.  Waking up to a nice $700 ongoing pop right now (yawn).  Preview action of those anticipating January 1st activity and buyback maybe?

[Deeyoh]

And we off again making those short leverage positions liquidate.   Of course, we won't see those posted on here. LOL

[milkshock100]

Honey badger feeling peckish

[xhomerx10]

I could have sworn I saw a "Who sold at the bottom?" post a little while ago!

 Who sold at the bottom?