Manipulating hashrate doesn't do much to influence the price, I think it will accomplish the opposite of what they want because BCH's total hashrate is now about equal with BTC's total hashrate and their difficulty will adjust again today. After this difficulty change hashrate will all move back into BTC and BCH will be left with months of extremely slow blocks lol. Imagine what that will do to the price of BCH. Maybe they will fork again to change difficulty, that should be fun to watch.
Hmm, won't BCH's difficulty be adjusted automatically, due to the changes that were introduced with the "emergency difficulty adjustment"? That will still leave them with a few days (?) of slow blocks though, and probably other exploits to deal with in the meantime.
Traders never cease to amaze me! When it was clear that BCH will appear, BTC will continue to exist as 'bitcoin' and everybody will get free money, the faint hearted shaky hands sold their bitcoins below 2500 just before the fork losing big time. Now, the conflict between 2x and core is endangering the existence of bitcoin, these same traders buy above 4K!!! Little they know that if S2X forks without replay protection, the fork will be a giant mess, both chains will be unusable for days, possibly weeks and the price will crash (maybe even below 1000$). a lot of people will hedge into LTC, ETH and BCH! It will look like bitcoin is dying while BCH is going up like crazy. Of course everyone who supports BCH wants exactly that! (At least the ones who can think that far and are interested in a high BCH price). The recent rise of the BTC price is just a bubble, created by chinese mining whales who want to sell high all and then dump BTC for good. They are free now from the limitation of the core team and can adjust the difficulty to make much bigger profits. Reading between the lines in Roger Ver's and Jihan Wu's tweets, they will trade most of their BTC for BCH and will continue to drive up BCH's price.
"both chains will be unusable for days, possibly weeks" why?
Well, clearly, because someone on Reddit said so!
(
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6vb5fe/nya_segwit2x_s2x_starting_to_fall_apart_pools_are/dlyvsfz/ - I thought I'd read that somewhere before... must be the new FUD being spread)
Well, yeah... I mean, don't meteorologists watch TV?
EDIT:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/hurricane-names---how-are-they-decided/ TIL; I guess we're using the same list this year, as the one used in 2005 (they are reused every 6 years).
I'll take 10/11/2017.
Because... reasons... (I'm also guessing the 2x fork will be dead by around that date, as others have already said, which should give us the final push to new ATHs)
hmmmm, is everybody seeing sigs disabled right now...or just me?
In this thread? Yeah, they have been for quite some time (for me, at least - I don't know if it's some option I accidentally changed, or if it's a forum thing (I'm guessing the latter)).
Remember back when the Wall Observer Thread was worth reading?
Yeah, me either.
don't let the screen door hit you on the ass
http://explosm.net/comics/4732/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2273127.0 (Total Pants Token)
Is this your doing, BMB? Is this what all those pants you took were used for?
Off-topic, but...
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bitcoin"the best part about bitcoins is that you get to watch libertarians slowly discover why financial regulations exist to begin with"
—@porn_horse
[...]
Thousands of servers churning all day long so that people can play an online currency trading simulation.
[...]
The moral of the story:
In a gold rush, the money's in selling shovels. Cash up front, please.
(Unless you're Butterfly Labs, in which case the shovel-sellers are crooks too.)
Pretty biased, but had a few good laughs.
What the fuck is Bitcoin Diamond?
That's old news.
Now, what the fork is Super Bitcoin?
https://bitcoinexchangeguide.com/super-bitcoin/Here’s something to rile up the NRA members in the thread.
For the same effect (but more about the "check against tyranny" argument) I like The Juice Media's take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxHvHi-MdIM:
[...]
Robert Foster: General?
General Baxter: Look, if the slaves want guns, leave them be; our supremacy doesn't depend on weaponry. With schools, media, money and meds we control every aspect of your lives through ideological hegemony. But if you think you need guns to stop tyranny, then what are you waiting for? We've already stripped you of your liberty, privacy, civil rights and dignity - you want some more?
[...]
Julian Assange arrested after Ecuadorian embassy invites London police in.
mother fucker
goddamnit
Time to donate to Wikileaks again.
