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The market didn't react to that news. Maybe people are getting more resilient towards the same old sh** over and over again? Edit: Who am I kidding here. Probably they'll start dumping at the slightest new ban rumours XD We are at 450$... So in other words China is effectively going to ban Bitcoin, I mean finally getting it over with. Fuck yeah! We're just waiting for Bank of China. Operators want a last pump before going short and releasing the statement. They are probably not going to ban Bitcoin and we will all forget this real fast and concentrate on thinking how high we can go
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April 29, 2014, 03:08:45 PM |
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Those look really interesting! Possibilities on top of NXT are unlimited! ![Shocked](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/shocked.gif) Yes. Of all the alts, it seems that NXT actually offers something genuinely groundbreaking rather than tinkering around the edges of bitcoin. I think they are also looking at integrating bitcoin payments via the NXT protocol, which would hopefully complement bitcoin rather than competing with it.
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April 29, 2014, 03:34:09 PM |
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Coming up on 200 pages of no Fonzie, time for a Fonzie poll.
Fonzie is in the genesis block of my ignorechain, so even though he has "moved on to other things", he, like mammoth dung, is fossilized.
Jorge is still here, so ignore blocks still get confirmed every 20 minutes or so, but ignore difficulty is way down in Fonzie's absence.
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April 29, 2014, 03:37:14 PM |
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Coming up on 200 pages of no Fonzie, time for a Fonzie poll.
Fonzie is in the genesis block of my ignorechain, so even though he has "moved on to other things", he, like mammoth dung, is fossilized.
Jorge is still here, so ignore blocks still get confirmed every 20 minutes or so, but ignore difficulty is way down in Fonzie's absence.
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April 29, 2014, 03:41:06 PM |
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That honey badger's name is Stoffel, which is Australian for "Stolfi".
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April 29, 2014, 03:56:38 PM |
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That honey badger's name is Stoffel, which is Australian for "Stolfi".
Thank you! ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) (In fact, my family name is Italian but clearly of Germanic origin, and I never figured out how exactly it come about. The name "Astolfo" was known in Italy in the 1600s at least, but "Stolf" and "Stoffel" also occurs in German-speaking countries. And yes, I know what "stoffel" means in colloquial German, and "stolti" in Italian. ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) )
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April 29, 2014, 03:59:59 PM |
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Isn't it ironic that the libertarian bitcoiners, champions of laissez-faire capitalism, are betting all their life savings on the hope that the Satoshi Bitcoin will be one day the only cryptocurrency in the market, so that they can charge monopoly prices for it? ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
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April 29, 2014, 04:01:01 PM |
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April 29, 2014, 04:05:01 PM |
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Isn't it ironic that the libertarian bitcoiners, champions of laissez-faire capitalism, are betting all their life savings on the hope that the Satoshi Bitcoin will be one day the only cryptocurrency in the market, so that they can charge monopoly prices for it? ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) That's not my motivation at all. I want fair money. Bitcoin is the only fair money since gold. The problem with gold is that you can't use it on the internet. One day, I hope Bitcoin and gold will be the last form of money needed to advance our civilization to the next level of development.
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April 29, 2014, 04:16:27 PM |
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That honey badger's name is Stoffel, which is Australian South African for "Stolfi". FTFU his accent is South African not Australian in the original video.
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April 29, 2014, 04:17:27 PM |
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Yes. Of all the alts, it seems that NXT actually offers something genuinely groundbreaking rather than tinkering around the edges of bitcoin.
Just what is offered, in your view? The community seems relatively robust, but PoS is substantially less secure that PoW. The layered products will emerge in any coin that has traction, so I'm not sure layered features are a big plus. Anonymity is huge, in my estimation. Much bigger than the little features that derive from layered applications of the blockchain. A coin is neither required nor suitable for most of those. Parasitic protocols are not viable in the long term. Merge-mining fees is the correct way to use blockchains as infrastructure for layered apps, not cramming stuff into the core coin, but other ways of funding a distributed transaction db may be more efficient. Anonymity on the other hand is part of the core, necessarily. Part of the core implementation, and part of the core value proposition. For that reason, of the alts, I like MRO. BCN would have been interesting, but suffered from pre-mine. MRO forks BCN and fixes that. The upside is the best anonymity in a working coin, CPU-mined. The downside is extreme immaturity of the software, no market yet: It's roughly 2 weeks old.
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April 29, 2014, 04:18:55 PM |
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Isn't it ironic that the libertarian bitcoiners, champions of laissez-faire capitalism, are betting all their life savings on the hope that the Satoshi Bitcoin will be one day the only cryptocurrency in the market, so that they can charge monopoly prices for it? ![Wink](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/wink.gif) It's funny but I find gross generalizations ironic.
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April 29, 2014, 04:44:24 PM |
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Yes. Of all the alts, it seems that NXT actually offers something genuinely groundbreaking rather than tinkering around the edges of bitcoin.
Just what is offered, in your view? The community seems relatively robust, but PoS is substantially less secure that PoW. The layered products will emerge in any coin that has traction, so I'm not sure layered features are a big plus. Anonymity is huge, in my estimation. Much bigger than the little features that derive from layered applications of the blockchain. A coin is neither required nor suitable for most of those. Parasitic protocols are not viable in the long term. Merge-mining fees is the correct way to use blockchains as infrastructure for layered apps, not cramming stuff into the core coin, but other ways of funding a distributed transaction db may be more efficient. Anonymity on the other hand is part of the core, necessarily. Part of the core implementation, and part of the core value proposition. For that reason, of the alts, I like MRO. BCN would have been interesting, but suffered from pre-mine. MRO forks BCN and fixes that. The upside is the best anonymity in a working coin, CPU-mined. The downside is extreme immaturity of the software, no market yet: It's roughly 2 weeks old. Not familiar with MRO myself. I do like the idea of forging rather than mining, though that has downsides, not least in distribution (though bitcoin suffers from that anyway). I think transparent forging could turn out to be quite significant too. And I do think designing something as a complete platform from the ground up will have advantages.
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April 29, 2014, 04:45:05 PM |
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A great squeeze is coming: Finex $17.2 million longs beware. ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif)
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April 29, 2014, 04:54:58 PM |
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A great squeeze is coming: Finex $17.2 million longs beware. ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) What's the maximum leverage there?
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April 29, 2014, 04:59:41 PM |
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A great squeeze is coming: Finex $17.2 million longs beware. ![Roll Eyes](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/rolleyes.gif) Sorry for the dumb question, but I"m not familiar with margin trading. Are you saying that the long positions will be squeezed (price crash), or that the short positions will be squeezed (price spike)?
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April 29, 2014, 05:00:54 PM |
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April 29, 2014, 05:02:39 PM |
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