Banks are complete bullshit. One of my personal goals is to have as little to do with them as possible, I have seen the shit my folks have gone through. When I want something, I'm just gonna buy it. Being at the mercy of others is no way to live, and not having debt is a huge part of that.

Why aren't you using GDAX? Same owners as Coinbase and presumably a Coinbase account holder can drop right in. Fees'll probably be about 0.25%

Gemini is another option.

bitcoin gold is so outdated, there is already bitcoin silver under development: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-silver-wants-to-make-bitcoin-decentralized-again-amid-more-2x-rejections

They must have funded the marketing campaign with the 2 cents that I left to them when I abandoned my account in 1997.

With This kind of rising i cannot find a suitable game ..... btc is Going to fast

bcash is hard forking again at the same time as the s2x fork. simple

We are back:

I slowly grew to hate Chartbuddy because I thought someone had actually posted something.

So has anyone here actually treated themselves to anything after passing an arbitrary milestone?

So Cramer just admitted on cnbc that Bitcoin supply was a problem. Because it forces market makers to push the market as high as possible to "shake out more coins". But that's not happening. People aren't taking profits like they expected. He's worried that they'll have to push the Bitcoin market cap to $1T first before they start to see more supply hit the exchanges.

This is fkn hilarious. They can't just call up someone and whip up more stock shares (like they do when other equities launch!). He basically just revealed what everyone has been suspecting for a long time now, that the U.S. stock market is a complete fraud that only enriches the wealthy elites.

I never liked those super-expensive cars... Most of them are way over-priced, offer no real design/technology innovation, consume lots of fuel, and some are really ugly to my taste (Lambos included).

I'd prefer a good Japanese, super-reliable and normally-priced car. Or a car with real innovation in its design, like a Tesla (provided they sort out their QC issues).

This would not change at all if I had 10, 100, or 1000 BTC.

Who are these thousand people? Are they taking about us? We don't collude. They can't be talking about us.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-08/the-bitcoin-whales-1-000-people-who-own-40-percent-of-the-market

It could be buy the rumor, sell the news... but in the longer term it is certainly bullish... because there is almost no way that these traditional financial fucks have prepared themselves enough BTC to really engage with this new instrument.

Rather than giving an accurate assessment, you sound like you are unduly sympathetic to the plights of traditional financial fucks.

You also seem to give traditional financial fucks much more credit than they likely deserve in the supposed bitcoin "preparedness" arena.

Furthermore, $12k is hardly any kind of correction, given our past performance and given the current dynamics, so get real.  

Of course we could easily correct to $12k and even to $10k and it is within reasonable BTC price movements, especially when we have our current level of trade volume and seemingly ongoing passion, yet the current BTC price pressures remain UPPITY.. whether that is coming from traditional financial fucks or more broader-based.. and really I doubt that traditional financial fucks are driving this mad BTC price machine as much as you seem to be anticipating... good luck with your downward bets.    

no. the trading on the exchange just stops, see here for details: http://cfe.cboe.com/cfe-products/xbt-cboe-bitcoin-futures/contract-specifications

Lol BCH @ $9500 on GDAX..

870 sat/byte for next-block service according to https://bitcoinfees.earn.com/

For the average 500-byte transaction, that's $100 CAD.

I actually tried to move coins yesterday.  I paid a $40 fee, but then the mempool swelled further, making my offered fee rate unattractive.  I waited a few hours without success, and then paid btc.com $300 to accelerate the transaction.  It confirmed 2 blocks later.  

It looks like it secretly might want to do one more to somewhere between $8K and $12K. There still wasn't enough volume.

Take a peek into the inner workings. Technical discussion on address format is strangely compelling.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2624630.0

This is actually a good point.  TX fees are extremely high right now because BS/Core has formed a cartel in order to limit the production of block space.  What is confusing (and ironic) is that the miners (those who one would naively suspect to attempt to form a cartel) want the production quota lifted!  So, yes, experience is showing that Bitcoin is somewhat susceptible to cartel formation (it's just surprising that it's cartels of developers rather than cartels of miners).    

Lets not call them dividends because you have to pay taxes on those.

^^^^

edit: don't really know. is there that much riding on it this month?

How the fuck do exchanges even go insolvent?

I HODL.

2017 was a game changer, today my hairdresser asked me about "how to bitcoin", as i have mentioned earlier that am now "retired" thanks to bitcoin.

Seldom people talk about his, but the fact that bitcoin has reached the intellectually lazy "average Joe" 's mind last year, and the basic instinct of human greed made several of my
acquaintances to reach out to me* and wants to "invest" made me have the impression, that this must be happening all around the world; just look at the stupid ICO
frenzy, ill informed people throwing money in hope to make fortunes -bitconeecrash LOL.

My point is, even if the motivation of the "downtrotten" is for just quick buck, the fact that they start to accept cryptos as a valid substitute of wealth preservation/increase vs. the fiat world is a huge
step in the way of making bitcoin a mainstream phenomenon.

I wonder why all the worries, if anyone is here for the long run, who cares about a 50% dump? We are still up 1000%+ from a year now, why the FUD?



*Sadly, my efforts to educate these people always hit a brick wall, as they express implicitly, that they "do not have time" to invest in understanding the basic concepts (mathematical, IT, economic, etc.)
what bitcoin is, just wants free money.

Side rant: Now i do not have guilt anymore about the fact that my ex colleagues will earn less in 30 years than me just by sitting on my bitcoins, for i have spent literally 1000s of hours educating myself, restrained my spending for years ("nah, i won't go with you to a vacation, rather buy 5 more of those really cheap bitcoins! - 2015), and they could not take the fukin effort to read a couple of articles/watch a few hours of videos on youtube i have put the effort into select and sent them for basic education.
 

Isnīt it possible that your friend simply didnīt had the money to buy
BTC even when the Bitcoin price was low? I guess a few people that believed
in Bitcoin simply missed out due to not being liquid enough to invest.

Iīm not sure from which country you are, but even in a wealthy country
like the US the average person is not exactly having a lot of money
that is available for investment.

63% Of Americans Don't Have Enough Savings To Cover A $500 Emergency

Maybe you should reconsider and gift him a few mBTC  

@OutlierCanada
Banks want to "save you" from the risk of price fluctuations in #bitcoin & cryptocurrencies, but ads like this one encouraging you to run up a card balance are fine... Is the real issue that in a world where financial sovereignty is possible, many of us will choose it over debt?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the problem is that historically a Bitcoin downturn has never failed to fall below the 200 MA eventually at some point and stay there for a while.  

what are your numbers based on? Polo shows 6012 low on 24hr chart.

I noticed he magically avoided mentioning the name of his old account with all of the wise posts...

We have movement.....

I would need more of a reference than that in order to understand that puzzling response.