trading volume just went over $1m again and price is ticking up. I projecting a price of at least $17-$18 within a couple of weeks.  All the cowards must have sold by now. ha ha

It is, yes. And this is part of the reason for a lot of the ill-feeling towards Ripple... instead of going for widespread public adoption they're bypassing it and working direct with the banks.
(this is not a pro- OR anti-Ripple post!)

How is this even the case? How can you jump in the mining game in bitcoin anymore? it's centralized in china for a long time so im just wondering how it's possible in your mind to get started with mining in 2017, that's ridiculous.

At the end of the day, in both POS and POW, it's the same, you need to invest millions to have a say in the mining game.

It is just like Ripple. The community doesn't like it, says its premine, and so on and so forth, but then the price rises. So i believe it will follow ripple's path, even though i will not buy it.

what you are saying it's true, but stellar got popular because of some linking features with your bitcoin address like byteball and a bunch of other, and i think some of those coins that hit big value with very high premine got very lucky frankly speaking, many other will die soon

Both methods are cost effective , as with POW you spend money on electricity costs in order to mine the block which could end up with an unsuccessful haul or successful. With POS it's the same except you use the funds in your possession which is on the line in contrast to electricity costs & mining equipment. As with the POW the more funds you use could result in a larger reward but also bares an increased risk of losing majority of your funds invested in the POS. Someone beautifully summed up POS, saying as it's basically putting your money where your mouth is.

I'm thinking to mine ethereum asap before the POS comes in , save up some coins until the protocol changes over. Then use the vast amount of eth you've stored to result in more using POS system. But also could the ethereum blockchain split again?, this time one POS and one POW! who knows :p

How can I use a name that's "somehow believable" and have documents for it? That's nonsense.

Anyway, I tried entering fake data and I got rejected. They check against public records. This is bullshit. Fuck bittrex and fuck poloniex for their lag. The rest of exchanges have no volume so it's useless, can't find good buy orders.


How does your account look like in "account information"? Do you have the "DIGITAL TOKEN TRADING" box empty?

And i dont want to enter information because I dont trust the exchanges or anyone on the internet.

I once llayed a game that had small amounts of bitcoin you could discover or find. Game also had a marketplace where you could sell stuff for small amounts of btc. Games like that would be cool of enough ppl played it woild be profitable to trade and craft.

we need "developers" not "business men".
and right now we have the later.
bitcoin is successful because it was made by a developer who wasn't looking to make money, you can see that after 8 years Satoshi coins has not yet moved and possibly will never move in the foreseeable future.

can you say the same thing for any of the altcoins? not at all.
ETH that everybody praise, has Vitalik who dumped a massive load on the first pump and as soon as the dumping began and took out a couple of million dollars out. and that was only 25% of his personal stash.

the rest of the altcoins are the same. they are made with one thing in mind and that one thing is "how to make more money out of it".

and as long as this is the mentality, nobody in the market will treat altcoins more than a pump and dump.

I first remember hearing about bitcoin, at least enough to get me to actually look into it, back in 2012 because of a Linode bitcoin hack.

Maybe some people will look into bitcoin because of this, now.

I thought they'd have gained a lot more bitcoin's by now. I'm assuming the number of payments will rise dramatically as we get near some of the deadlines they set for ransoms to be paid?

The NHS can't just lose patients records by not paying.....can they?

I heard that bitcoin died already about 200 times hehe.It is really weird but it is truth.Price falls down and they say bitcoin will die and then it grow then say bitcoin go to 1 million $ and after that again big drop comes and they say again bitcoin dead and this happents in circle so only best marketers can know that bitcoin will not die.

it doesn't matter what they say, their actions are unacceptable. they have a volume of nearly 600,000,000 dollar each day and even if you only consider a 0.2% fee of that amount, it means a 1.2 million dollar pure profit each day. with that amount of money they must provide a much better service.

and i find it funny that all the other exchanges are working well but only they are under DDoS!

NSA or any other agency won't gain anything by destroying Bitcoin because it's not a threat to the national security of any country right now and I don't think it will be any time soon. Plus Bitcoin is open-source right? So any tampering with the source code or placing backdoors would be easily noticed wouldn't it?