Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 16230. (Read 26725474 times)

Yep, that guy gets it. Here's another good quote:


This finance guy grasps it, but for some reason Jamie Dimon cannot? Or does but won't cop to it...

on bitfinex it's already active: https://cryptowat.ch/bitfinex/btgbtc/15m

CoinMarketCap lists it in "pre-launch" mode.

So Whats up with bitcoin gold?
The fork happend ore still gonne happen?
Witch Exchange site's are supporting btcgold??

great article.



https://www.forbes.com/sites/briankelly/2017/10/24/why-bitcoin-matters-more-than-blockchain/#778f65a437ac

Without the currency, there would be no incentive for people to spend money on the computers needed to run the Bitcoin software.  Blockchain without Bitcoin replicates the same financial system already in existence.  There may be some efficiency gains through sharing private distributed ledgers, but blockchain without Bitcoin is not one of the most important innovations in the history of finance.

I was hooked. But I still couldn't bring myself to talk about Bitcoin publicly.

Blockchain was easier to talk about – it made me appear to be on the cutting edge and allowed me to avoid the dirty looks and the hushed whispers that followed any mention of Bitcoin.  When I talked about blockchain, friends and colleagues would listen intently and engage me with questions about this wondrous new technology.  However, once I mentioned Bitcoin they would pull me aside and ask how I was feeling, not so subtly questioning my mental clarity.

Blockchain made me feel good, but there was something missing; there was something hollow about blockchain without Bitcoin. I went back and re-examined my first encounter with Bitcoin in an attempt to discover where we had gone wrong.

Today we are still good friends but i dare not bring up the subject of bitcoin

All this talk about people & Bitcoin...

Over the years I have dealt with so many people asking about Bitcoin. It's uncanny how exactly alike all their thought processes are:

2013: wtf is this shit, it's a bubble, nerd money, governments will destroy it, it doesn't have any value because it's not regulated/controlled. It's too late to buy now anyway.
2014: told you it was crap nobody cares
2015: *crickets*
2016: I wish I bought Bitcoin a year ago. You are so lucky!! Now it's too late for me.
2017: I wish I bought Bitcoin a year ago. You are so lucky. Now it's too expensive for me. I realize I can buy just a fraction but my ego doesn't allow me to be content with just a fraction of an arbitrary numerical division of the thing. But have you heard about Ethereum? Or Shitcoin xyz? Someone said it's the next Bitcoin and it has been going up and I can actually afford to buy one! *proceeds to not buy anything*
2018: I wish I bought Bitcoin a year ago...

I don't care. I don't preach. All I do is explain the technology and its implications for society to those who show genuine interest. Why should I wish unjust rewards on those who clearly don't deserve them? Bitcoin is a revolutionary technology with a promise of changing society to the better. Because it is a monetary technology, those of us with enough vision to see the potential, risk our own money and enough nerve to hold through the FUD, haters, bear markets, hacks and laughter get rewarded. Simple as that. The guy who laughed it off in 2014 and felt he "missed the boat" in 2017 will end up buying some in 2023 together with his gradma.

with coinbase's recent announcement and jeff's new altcoin the B2X fork seems more and more unlikely. I hope the market will realize that soon, time to end this B2X fud and focus on 10k!

Emphasis mine