Topic: -- The Riddle of the Twin Brothers - Who Were, Are and Will Rule the World! - page 198. (Read 383560 times)

If they really plan to split Bitcoin then they'll make sure both chains thrive and go up in value at least short term.  Otherwise they'll never get the necessary community suppprt they need to create 2 or maybe even 3 Bitcoin chains (Bitcoin original, Classic and Ultimate).

This Microsoft news on ETC does not seem to have much impact on the price. It is very likely big players are trying to use this news to kill off ETC. ETH is now too big to fail with the ETH foundation in it. I don't believe that ETH foundation will do nothing to stop the rise of ETC.

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[CoinTelegraph] - Microsoft Supports Ethereum Classic, Hosts Meetup with Charles Hoskinson

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This Hoskinson guy seems to be a real visionary - he might be the only real player I haven't harassed yet.  Maybe it's time.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-08-08/buffett-cash-pile-climbs-to-72-7-billion-setting-record-chart

Interesting read.  This is right around the corner, maybe I was off by 1 year. 

https://dollarvigilante.com/blog/2016/09/23/new-world-order-mouthpiece-warns-verge-greatest-debt-jubilee-history.html

@MINING POOL:  Our hash popped 400% over the past week to over a billion now.  I don't think it's the Chinese so whoever is putting that much hash on IXC, can you send me a PM?  YOU'RE HOLDING US HOSTAGE!!!!  We need to update the code and you guys are making it impossible - what could you possibly have to gain from sabotaging us?  Please send me a PM!  Thx!

Vlad

9 days.  Btc needs a miracle to kick it into high gear in a mere week.

At any rate, PoolMinor, do you by any chance own or operate an pool?  I'm trying to figure out who's got the hash on IXC cause it's not the Ukrainians or the Chinese.  Whoever it is needs to lower their shields so we can update the code.

Hahaha.  What did you vote? 

Dood I went and gave you the number 1 vote to get the ball rolling and now the damn thing is locked already.Did I break something??

I do things spontaneously and that poll just wasn't funny to me anymore after half hour.   

But now I'm curious, what did you vote?

Thx for voting! 

Haha.  Funny. I played that game for a week when it came out.  I get bored really fast. 

Speaking of angry birds.  Ahh, long story. 

voted

I was thinking similiar thoughts myself today only to remember I spent the previous hour playing "angry birds" and then wondered why angry birds is worth a couple of billion only to conclude its because fools like myself spend an hour playing the crap while I pretend to be working.

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From the GQ article:

Perhaps most bizarrely from the London Review Of Books story is the reason Wright finally gives for not wanting to move the early bitcoins and thereby proving beyond all doubt he's Satoshi. He sends O'Hagan a link to an article with the headline: "UK Law Enforcement Sources Hint At Impending Craig Wright Arrest". He sobs about this. He says, "The Brits have got their own version of Guantánamo Bay." He says he's damned if he does, he's damned if he doesn't. He'll be seen as a fraud, or he'll go to jail.

Yet it turns out this isn't true either. The story appeared on specialist bitcoin website bitcoinist.net. Yet go to that link now and it starts with an editor's note: "The SiliconAngle piece cited in this article was produced by an impostor site posing as the real SiliconAngle."

Someone had gone to the effort of creating a fake website to create that story, the only difference being an extra "l" in the name.

When I contact the senior editor at Bitcoinist, Evan Faggart, I ask how long the Wright story was on their website before the editor's note was added.

"No more than 24 hours."

Twenty-four hours. Is it feasible that Wright clicked on this link once then never again? A man sobbing at the prospect of being locked up in whatever he assumes the British Guantánamo Bay to be? Would he not check back?

One thing the editors at both sites agree on - the fake site, which has since been taken down, was an uncanny replica of the real thing. It would have taken substantial computer skills, and no little effort. "I've never seen anything like it," says Faggart.

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SAY WHAT?!??

I remember that article cause I laughed at the timing of it, I knew it was a game, so I didn't believe it but it was, at the time, a LEGIT article.

Riddle me this:  This is cryptoworld, the hottest story about [THE] Satoshi - surrounded by experts, journalists, major media and hackers and NOBODY noticed that was an elaborate hoax site until now?

IMPOSSIBLE!!!

Dipshits:  THIS IS THE GREAT REVEAL!!!  It is happening NOW!!!

They're doing it piece by piece - with every video, soundbyte and article they're slowly revealing that Dr. WRIGHT IS SATOSHI NAKAMOTO!!!

And the irony:  The ass licking mortal worshippers who were bowing down to the name Satoshi are the most blind, they're the ones mocking Dr. Wright the most. I really hope Wright does a righteous Aussie ragequit on them all.

At any rate, this is all so amazingly elaborate, coordinated and incredibly well planned.  Only once have I seen this before and my mind nearly turned to mush.  I LOVE these guys.  lol

Beautiful work!!!

"While a bitcoin hard fork isn't imminent, its developers have begun to research how the complex technical change could be enacted, if needed."

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I don't buy it.  I think it is imminent.  It has gotten really quiet on /r/btc so they're either planning a sneak attack or they may have reached some kind of deal, seeing how the ETH/ETC drama didn't go quite as planned (i.e. Apple won't allow ETC yet it allows the scam DAO).  That's big VC/Wall Street rain makers throwing their weight around.

I'm hoping they reach a deal, way easier to predict things and Bitcoin will do well with LN and sidechains but my feeling is these guys aren't gonna give up, they'll split BTC soon.

Thx for the link!

http://www.coindesk.com/preparing-bitcoin-hard-fork/

I've been saying from the beginning that Bitcoin has no intrinsic value and there is no such thing as value based on maths; but rather its value is derived from sheer perception (up until critical mass/speed/velocity is achieved).  Furthermore, this perception can be duplicated, under the right circumstances and with the proper timing.  Zing!!!



Really interesting excerpt, supporting this theory, from the GQ article:  "Collective Hallucination" [so I'm missing the [collective] part].  lol

As with all currencies, bitcoin is only valuable because people think it is. This is something bitcoin developers I spoke to call a "collective hallucination". The idea being: if everyone has the same hallucination, it is, to all intents and purposes, real.


Interestingly, this is also the same characteristic of a cult following.  And yet you call me crazy. 

I said months ago Dr. Wright wasn't going away:  CAUSE HE'S THE REAL DEAL!!!

Long read but GQ just did a profile on Dr. Wright (a bit "eccentric/unstable", lol)!!!  I expect him to blow up the crypto scene this month or next.  Sadly, I think he's gonna go with the big block classic camp. 

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/bitcoin-craig-wright


PS - Who owns GQ Magazine? 

iOS 10 is really amazing.  I've never liked upgrading before but this one is worth it. 

Looks like there's a cap of $999.99 when sending USD/fiat via iMessage.  Can someone try to send some btc to see what the cap is there?  This is really gonna be amazing for Bitcoin/Crypto adoption.