You would think they would appoint a less douchey person to handle the PR on their precious signature campaign but apparently not.

I aint an alt or bought account I've been a member of this community since before you knew it existed.

I haven't been active on this forum since it got inundated with people who can't construct a coherent sentence and threads with endless pages of these same people repeating the same thing over and over again to get their post count up.

Judging from some of the people you've let into this campaign, you're not really looking for posts of a high standard, just more of the same garbage.

Eat a dick yahoo your kind is the reason why this forum has turned into a complete joke and the way you're treating some of the genuine fans of byteball is a poor reflection on the crypto.  

Every six months for the past four years, some number of former customers of the defunct Mt. Gox bitcoin exchange have gathered in a small room in a Tokyo courthouse to hear an update from Nobuaki Kobayashi, the stoic Japanese attorney appointed as the trustee for the case.

The number of creditors attending the meeting has dwindled over time: the first one reportedly drew more than 100 people, but the most recent one earlier this month drew fewer than 30, according to the estimates of one attendee.

That does not mean the Mt. Gox case has gotten any less strange — just the opposite. By definition, bankruptcy occurs when an entity cannot pay its debts. But as of this writing, Mt. Gox has enough assets to pay off its claims with more than $1.4 billion worth of bitcoins left over. The trouble is figuring out what to do with them.

“This is absolutely unprecedented in Japanese law,” says Andy Pag, who got a group of creditors together under the name Mt. Gox Legal and hired an attorney to advocate for better terms. “There’s never been a bankruptcy like this in Japan or probably anywhere in the world.”

(continued here) https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/22/17151430/bankruptcy-mt-gox-liabilities-bitcoin

If you've been round since the beginning (I have) you would see that most of the prominent figures in btc are/have been involved in shady business practices.

Almost all of them spout that same rhetoric about fighting the power but ended up filthy rich and wanting more. Most of them would sell their own mother down the river for a few satoshis.

In a bitcoin maximalist scenario you still end up with a wealthy ruling elite, just a different lot of greedy douchebags controlling all the money.

This is going to be an unpopular opinion but I really don't think it's complete FUD like the other posters suggest. It is old news being recycled for sure, but that doesn't mean there's no substance to it.

The difference between this material being on youtube vs the blockchain is that the blockchain is public and immutable.
Youtube can remove the content at will, magazines containing the content can be removed from publication and destroyed, whereas this material stays on the blockchain forever.  There is no method to remove that data once it's on there.

This means that if the govt decides at some time to bring down bitcoin they have a valid legal reason and technically everybody who has a copy of the blockchain on their hdd is in possession of highly illegal content and as such breaking the law.

Whether or not they decide to enforce it is another question but the analogies posted in this thread are faulty because none of those comparisons involve immutable media like the blockchain is.

To answer your original question I do believe it is a true cause for concern and if some particular SJW group decides to target bitcoin they have a very valid reason right there. It also doesn't help btc's reputation any considering the fact that it's been associated with the scum of the earth from the very beginning.

I think as a currency bitcoin will be surpassed by a new coin with superior fundamentals and a fairer initial distribution.
I think long term btc will be used as a store of value rather than as a currency.
It will probably always have a place in the crypto sphere in this capacity because it was the first and is the biggest/most well known.

I like the look of Oyster(PRL) atm. They have first mover advantage in their field.
There's going to be 1:1 PRL SHL airdrop on April 6th.
Also the mainnet is scheduled for launch in April as well.
I hope to see some significant gains on this coin in the near future.

Like some of the other posters suggested I think it's silly to invest all you have into 1 crypto.

But if you are going to do that I would recommend you put it into either BTC, ETH or LTC.
These are top 5 coins with huge backing and extremely liquid markets.

You may not see the same gains as you would with some of the smaller cryptos but the risk is much smaller also.

If you want to make large gains I would invest smaller amounts into a few different promising up and coming coins, not put all my eggs in one basket.

You speak of cryptos going into the trillions like it's an easy thing.
But to put in in perspective, there's only ~$100 trillion money in the whole world.
I'm not saying it's not going to happen but I don't think it's going to be easy as you suggest and a lot of cryptos you see popping up now will not exist in 5 years time.

I can totally see it too, but this boom, like the dot com boom looks like its going to end in misery for a lot of people.

At $5 ripple would have a market cap of $200bn, that's bigger than all but the largest companies in the world.

It's overvalued at $1, let alone $5 IMO, that's not to say it won't reach $5 someday because it probably will during the next bull run.

Having seen ripple since it was less than 1c to buy. A lot of the early adopters stayed away from this coin because of the founders' shady dealings.
It seems as though ripple has lived all that stuff down now and has come into it's own.
I really wish I had bought some back then even though I still don't trust the devs of a coin that was basically a huge premine AFAIK and has a 40bn supply.

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I'm still salty from losing a couple of thousand odd BTC in the Bitcoin Savings and Trust and MTGOX scams.
I originally had 3000 on gox but lost most of them the two times I tried to daytrade with my whole stack when the market was going parabolic.
Even though I knew there were major issues, I trusted the words of the sleazy conmen who ran those scams instead of looking after my own private keys.

Oh and buying and selling 10000 ltc for less than a dollar right at the beginning.

FML 

I think at the moment it's about 4% but it depends on how many coins you already have, how active you are in the forum and with bounties. In all honesty it looks to me like the ones who will make off best will be the ones who got in early. And I foolishly bought in at $10+ =(

I thought it might be something like that. Thankyou

I've reset the wallet like 5 times, the coins aren't there.

hi i'm having trouble sending xcicoin,
transaction no:0758D1BE64AF400F0C9489B4959C38AA0AE4473E2CB1F036A98F070FF39DE48B
just stays at 0 confirmations. First confirmation time (UTC) 1973-03-02 00:47:28 (44 years ago)
the coins seem to be stuck, is there any way to fix this?

I'm having a problem with rminerd:

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.
gmp: overflow in mpz type

Can anybody help?

hello i am trying to build in kalilinux,
i am getting this error:
++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.  -Iyes/include -fno-strict-aliasing -I./compat/jansson -I. -Iyes/include  -O3 -march=native -Wall -std=gnu++11 -MT algo/hodl/cpuminer-hodl_arith_uint256.o -MD -MP -MF algo/hodl/.deps/cpuminer-hodl_arith_uint256.Tpo -c -o algo/hodl/cpuminer-hodl_arith_uint256.o `test -f 'algo/hodl/hodl_arith_uint256.cpp' || echo './'`algo/hodl/hodl_arith_uint256.cpp
algo/hodl/hodl.cpp: In function ‘int scanhash_hodl(int, work*, uint32_t, uint64_t*)’:
algo/hodl/hodl.cpp:96:18: error: aggregate ‘EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx’ has incomplete type and cannot be defined
   EVP_CIPHER_CTX ctx;
                  ^~~
In file included from algo/hodl/hodl.cpp:1:0:
./miner.h: At global scope:
./miner.h:529:20: warning: ‘algo_names’ defined but not used [-Wunused-variable]
 static const char *algo_names[] = {
                    ^~~~~~~~~~
Makefile:3317: recipe for target 'algo/hodl/cpuminer-hodl.o' failed
make[2]: *** [algo/hodl/cpuminer-hodl.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mv -f algo/hodl/.deps/cpuminer-hodl_arith_uint256.Tpo algo/hodl/.deps/cpuminer-hodl_arith_uint256.Po
mv -f algo/echo/aes_ni/.deps/cpuminer-hash.Tpo algo/echo/aes_ni/.deps/cpuminer-hash.Po
mv -f algo/haval/.deps/cpuminer-haval.Tpo algo/haval/.deps/cpuminer-haval.Po
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/cpuminer-opt'
Makefile:3478: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/cpuminer-opt'
Makefile:670: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
strip: 'cpuminer': No such file

can anybody please help?

wholeheartedly agree 

I honestly don't see why we don't try to have it listed on every major stock exchange in the world. How much does it cost to put these proposals together? Could we just do one and then have a template for other markets which would need minimal changing? Couldn't we also do this for multiple different crypto's and have a new class of asset/commodity called crypto or something?