Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 16231. (Read 26725474 times)

Stupidity. Bitcoin is simple and robust and that's why it is worth what it is. It does exactly what it needs to do, and no more. The more complex things get the bigger risk of something going very wrong and the more it will be used to swindle people who don't fully grasp how it works.

Utopian dreamers are why we can't have nice things.

The company and others that helped create and promote the cryptocurrency will retain 2 million metronome coins, out of an initial trove of 10 million to be auctioned off in December.

B2X won't do any better.
With Coinbase's announcements to give their shitty Bizcoin another ticker it is clear that Bitcoin will keep being what it is.
And with Garzik his own shitty ICO no one can really temm that B2X will be relevant in any way!
This two big news from yesterday where the final nail lin the coffin of B2X imo.
However I still believe they will fork just to shake the market and absorb more cheap coins.
After all this nonsense is over I could imagine a rally in december bringing us maybe close to 10k.
Just my 2 two satoshis.

This just in:

"Jeff Garzik, one of a handful of key developers who helped build the underlying software for bitcoin that is known as blockchain, has seen its shortcomings firsthand. So he decided to create a better digital currency.

He’s calling it Metronome..."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/bitcoin-pioneer-says-new-coin-to-work-on-multiple-blockchains?utm_content=buffer54373&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Flabbergasting

has seen actively multipled its shortcomings firsthand. So he decided to create a better digital currency.

So BTCGold is more like BTCFail? Who would've guessed

The way it was described to me recently here is this:
GPU would work for a short period of time until someone manufactures and monopolizes on ASIC machines to control the hash power. In short, that is what we already have.

Anyone Feel free to correct me if I've got that wrong.

..and something about a premine (only designed to make the initial devs rich)

but we would all still have pants

Don't. Weakness should not be rewarded or encouraged.

This just in:

"Jeff Garzik, one of a handful of key developers who helped build the underlying software for bitcoin that is known as blockchain, has seen its shortcomings firsthand. So he decided to create a better digital currency.

He’s calling it Metronome..."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-24/bitcoin-pioneer-says-new-coin-to-work-on-multiple-blockchains?utm_content=buffer54373&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Flabbergasting

I´m definitely gonna make some donations . . . .

Bugger off, idiot.

There are plenty of LEADING women in BTC including the founder & president of the Digital Chamber of Commerce.

There are women in this thread reading you EMBARASSING YOURSELF right now.

Go crawl back into that cave & come out when you've evolved a few centuries, GEEEEEEZ.

Open a wallet for her, Dude!  I have friends of both genders, (sorry Trans, Pans & Not Sures,) some of each seem hopeless.  I tell them to hold for their kids & grandkids who will figure it out. So far HODLing is working nicely for them. 

My girlfriend is hopelesser than hopeless !

I first talked to my colleagues about Bitcoin back in 2015. I was laughed at, ridiculed, called a fool, and even accused of supporting drug dealers and pedophiles... I stopped talking about it until early 2017, when our team leader at work asked about it. This time my colleagues were not so eager to joke and laugh about it, but still didn't accept it. After explaining to him about how it works and how to get it, he thought about it, told me something about Ethereum and whether he should get that instead, and eventually chickened out and didn't buy anything. He considered 1 BTC to be too expensive for him at that time (it was around 800 €/coin then). I explained that he could buy a fraction of it, but he never did. He was then transferred to another department and I never saw him again.

At that time, early 2017, when Bitcoin was mentioned again, I had an idea, which I heard in one of Andreas Antonopoulos's talks. I decided to offer the equivalent of 1 € worth of BTC to each person I discuss Bitcoin with. I remember installing wallets on their smartphones and doing the transfers. They all gathered around me screaming "I want it too!" like crazy. I remember the amount I gave them was something like 0.0012 BTC each (which was 1 € at the time).

Guess what? Now, after 10 months, that amount of 0.0012 BTC has a value of 6 €, and I'm sure they've been watching it rise to that value and realizing what they've missed! Many of them have already asked me how to get more and even apologized for being so harsh and dismissive. Well, now I just say "just Google it, mate." Can't be bothered. I do help in many cases when I see genuine interest, but to those that joked and laughed, I let them learn their lesson.