yes.  freedom.

looks like i missed it.  i would have said +4.8

when a scam is so obvious.. why dont people leave neg trust to the newbie perpetrator? 
or is it not even worth the time?

+1.9 = tss

no investment is a sure thing.  the risk in bitcoin is much less today than it was just a few years ago.  it took great effort, knowledge, skill and foresight just to be mining bitcoin years ago. those that did, hold far more than 1btc now.  and yet a lot of it was squandered, lost to exchange scams, development, learning and mining equipment pre-orders all in an effort to expand the bitcoin reach. 

NO YOU ARE NOT THE NEW ELITE WITH 1 BTC.  no you will not be rich.  yes there is a "possibility" that btc will grow faster than the nasdaq but we are still in the development stage.  100 years from today your 1 btc may hold large fiat value but you will not be around. 

there is still a large uncertainty with btc holdings.  you may get 2x or 100x your money or you may lose it all if subversive technology like classic gain dominance or full on bans from finance industry come forward or "they" decide to change the original aspects of btc like max cap or fees. 

in the long run there is no get rich quick.  your $400 investment today will NOT be worth 10k anytime soon.  btc is here to stay but the market will decide its value.  when a new product hits the consumer market sometimes there is a very huge expense cost in educating the general public on the benefits of the product.  bitcoin is not a company and does not invest in educating the consumer so unless any major financial collapse of major world governments bitcoin can only grow at a relatively steady pace.

chinese folks built a bunch of equipment and put it into service prior to going on new year vacation.  during vacation they took orders for a shit load of gear.  once they came back to work they unplugged the miners, packed them in boxes and shipped them to their customers.  you will see all of the hash come back within a week when customers receive their miners and put them into service.  you will also see a lot more hash from the newly assembled miners chinese turn on

probably just a fight between 2 foreign laborers.. i doubt they were arguing about the bits and who gets them.

i like Elwar's comment on the article.. pretty accurate "I'm seeing a trend now. Headline says "blockchain" when it is good news, "Bitcoin" when it is bad news."

on another note.  would it be so hard to post a link to the new thread before locking the previous one? 
i must not know how to use the forum properly but it took me a bunch of clicks to find this new one.

looks like a large amount of mining hash slowly shut down in the days after the chinese new year ended.  i am thinking that they are now shipping these units to customers and we shall see ALL of the prior hash rate AND MORE up and running on the network within a week.  this is just the calm before the storm.  20%+ next jump is not outside the realm of whats possible.

what do i smell?   SCAM.. just give it up..
no one (hopefully) is dumb enough to fall for this in 2016. 
2-3 years ago, maybe you would get a few btc just for a few sentences.
you have nothing to show and nothing to offer. 

just ask for some btc to be sent to you and i'm sure you'll get some negative trust real quick.

i never dealt with this user and have no idea why he's on my post.

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although you seem to be very smart for a noobie poster you misunderstand the dilemma between core and classic.  feel free to be the 1% that runs a classic node.  it makes no difference as it will NEVER have a majority vote. you're either a troll or a shill.  i think the latter.

the movie "dope" (2015)  didn't get as widespread attention but the whole premise was around being forced to sell drugs for bitcoin and such.  much more bitcoin mentions then one unnoticeable sign above a bar in a random scene.

he's just an attention seeker.  he needs to be in the news no matter in what context.  it's all bs and we know it.

+20.8 = tss

yes

i think most people still use cash for their illegal activities.

im hoping to get there soon.  fingers crossed.  a while back it was discussed to have a section for certain level users, like apparently the mods have.

me personally, i know i wanted as a feature, to be able to discriminate against certain accounts from being able to reply to posts.  whether it be based on rank, trust, blacklist, or the presence of a sig.

someone stated then, that this sort of option, may be a feature in the long awaited new forum software.  only time will tell.

with good people and knowledge of the industry you could probably get away with mid to high 6 figures (assuming you already build some sort of electronics somewhere)

but no to op, you can not build your own amazing mining machines for a few bucks.  that being said i hope by late summer you should be able to buy the chip tapes in small numbers on the open market (it will be too late then for profit).