I don’t know of any special-purpose hardware to generate Curve25519 PGP keys.
me too ...
only
general-purpose hardware such as ARM[1] stm32f103
Arm Holdings (Arm) is a British multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftBank_Group)
Well, I would think that any
general-purpose hardware can do Curve25519, or any other computable algorithm. But thanks for the tip.
With the questions you’re asking, I wonder if you looked at my keys and noticed my C is separate from S, E, and A.
you people keep calling bitcoin a bubble for years. even when price was so much lower than this which makes me laugh to think about it! and i bet half of those who call bitcoin a bubble and compare it with Tulips don't even know what they are comparing bitcoin to!
Bitcoin is a bubble at $1200/BTC. You were a fool if you bought some imaginary Internet money at such a high price. A fool! Don’t buy at $300/BTC. It is only a speculative game, no better than casino gambling; you will lose all your money. Seriously, if you think “Bit Coin” is worth $100/BTC, just wait for the bubble to pop and you will see how stupid you are. Didn’t you ever hear of tulip bulbs?
[Subject: can BTC ever return to significantly below $100?]
I've seen allot of people here and on reddit speculating that the value of BTC is likely to compensate back to much lower than current rates, like around $50. I personally don't see it, what with the whole world jumping on the band wagon, but I'm new to this.
Does anyone still think that there is a reason for it to return to a lower value other than government intervention or the 51% problem?
theoretical answer: YES IT CAN.
what the rest of the forum thinks: NO!!!! it will be over $50000000 in 3 minutes.
my guess: maybe.
30 (pessimist) to 60 (optimist) is what I expect too, long term. The buying sentiment is simply fading away:
https://www.google.com/trends/explore?hl=en#q=btc-e%2C%20bitstamp&date=today%201-m&cmpt=qDitto for mtgox, but I think these smaller exchanges are more relevant for buying sentiment because they are less likely to be searched by someone who simply wants to know the "price" of bitcoins. Plotting the exchanges also addresses the "people don't search for bitcoin anymore because they know what it is" argument.
This current dead cat is caused by people who were incentivized by the first run-up, sent their money to the exchanges, but the ddos and the attacks popped the bubble prematurely, before they could buy in. So they are seeing this as a chance to buy cheap, and the positive evolution confirms their expectation and fuels the greed. Trouble is, there are no greater fools filling the ranks from behind, people who were not caught in the initial whirlpool have seen the risk and will simply stay away.
Hmmm...
It's always possible to go below $100. Even significantly. However, everyone should be happy it's still below $1000. Not buying at any price now will only lead to tears when we are the new billionaires.
Dear reader: Do you wish that weren’t a matter of hindsight for you?
Yes, I know of the market turmoil later that year. But in retrospect, the only lesson to be thus had is this: People who panic-sold when the Mt. Gox failure crashed a (small, immature) market, are now crying; and those who “
hodled” are now laughing. As with any other sound investment, those who calmly hold for the long term will perform better than those who get burnt trying to make a get-rich-quick speculative daytrade. That’s not a revelation.
The tulip mania that resulted into that famous historic bubble did not happened in the 90s but in the 1600s.
You needn’t lecture on history. Those who remember the 90s, also remember how some people explicitly compared the Web to Dutch tulip mania. Amazon.com was a “bubble” because a “web site” is not a real thing (just as Bitcoin isn’t “real”). Nobody will shop at a “website”. People want to go to the store, and pick things up in their hands. It’s a fad, driven only by hype and market speculation. It will fail. You’re investing in tulip bulbs.
By the end of the 90s, right before the shakeout which mass-exterminated the dot-com equivalent of ICOs, some financial advice columns were filled with mini-lectures about “tulip bulbs”.
I myself pick on Amazon now, because I remember specifically how some self-styled contrarians were obsessed with smug sneers at Amazon. Two decades later, I suppose the same people are now smug about sending tulip bulbs to Bitcoiners. Well, they need to make themselves feel better somehow.
The debate whether Bitcoin is now in a bubble and whether that bubble is about to burst soon will never be settled unless what predicted will occur. So all we have to do is wait and for us Bitcoin loyalists we are hoping that Bitcoin can be different and this time the market will behave differently. One thing for sure is that we have to be prepared and those newbies in the trade should educate themselves so they will not be shocked come what may. There will always be risks associate with anything we go into and Bitcoin is never an exemption to that rule. Those people who took the risks will reap the immense benefits if the gamble will paid off. Good luck to all of us.
I generally agree with what you say there. But do you truly believe that the types who buy in excitement and sell in panic could be in any way educable? I suspect that’s what you mean by “newbies”—the ones who can be shocked. For Bitcoin newbies who have a bit more savvy, I’d prefer to educate them on how Bitcoin provides freedom, and why bitcoins are a fortune they should wish to leave to their great-grandchildren.
