Get a dated certificate of authenticity now. Turds from her hot years will be worth more.

PPMF!

You're probably right. I suck at market timing.

No, but you can use it to buy drugs on the internet or place ads on Backpage.

I'd sell it now. In the long run people will be saying "Taylor who?"

I've been told by a metallurgist that for wire gold plated copper is best, but for things like pipes where you care about corrosion gold rules. Now compare the weight of the average pipe to the average wire and tell me again why gold should be cheaper.

You cannot use something as a store of value if it is not in fact valuable. If you could I would use my poo as a store of value and be a rich man.

Gold is a store of wealth because it's a metal with very useful properties. If it were cheap everything made out of copper would be made out of gold instead, but there isn't enough gold to do all that, so it can never be cheap.

Bitcoin is only a store of wealth as long as it's the coin everyone uses. Intrinsically it's no better than the hundreds of other coins out there. If you cap it, it will no longer be the coin everyone uses, because caps by their very nature exclude people. So its value will fall, and whatever altcoin people start using instead will become the new dominant coin.

AlexGR is correct that bitcoin cannot scale to cover the entire global population, but it can scale much bigger than it is now, and if it does not, some other coin will.

Nice strawman.

No, we're going down because investors are starting to pay attention and realize that a coin capped at 2-3 tps does not deserve a $3 billion market cap.

It's hypothetical. I was responding to mmitech.

It doesn't matter if it's one player or a consensus of players; the result is the same. If there is consensus among exchanges to stay on Core, then Core will win, no matter what miners do.

XT'ers shouldn't be lobbying miners directly. They should first lobby the node operators, then the exchanges and payment processors. If they win those two battles the miners will follow.

Not really, because new miners can jump in and resurrect the old chain. There was a recent case of an altcoin, I don't remember which one, which tried to hard fork but couldn't because the one exchange it traded on stubbornly refused to go along.

If you own bitcoin, you'd better hope not. The only thing holding the price up is the hope that the block size will somehow be increased. If bitcoin can't grow, it's a shitty investment and it's way overvalued.

Lawsky needs to shit or get off the pot.

How does that square with court rulings saying that state law only applies to businesses with a physical presence in the state? If New York can't make out of state businesses collect sales tax, how can it make them get a license?

Yeah, that made me wary of using the exchange but it was oh so convenient. But eventually I pulled my money out and moved it to that flakey and more expensive other exchange because it was run by a fat French guy everybody trusted.

The money left on the exchange was eventually returned through IAFCU.

I wish bitfloor had fought this hard when their bank account was closed.

I'm surprised the Chinese aren't buying with both hands while they still can. They clearly don't think like Americans.

Huobi pumps and stamp dumps. Is someone converting lots of CNY to USD while he still can?