Topic: Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion - page 19511. (Read 26610910 times)

57MB in the pool. What did we hit during the epic stress-test of a while ago? Is there a record all time high we should be shooting for?

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That is, I suspect, the main reason that google won. Their search algorithm was better, but not that much better. The "portal" concept was shoving a lot of revenue-focused crap in your face that you didn't want or need every time you just wanted to do a search. There were also large differences in load time even on what passed for "high speed" connections at the time. Google was faster and easier.

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This much madness
Is too much sorrow
It's impossible
To make it today

This is the gif Marcus omitted without explanation.



The links to the original posts are at the top of the quotes. Knock yourselves out.

Remember when Bitcoin was worth over $400?

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Good luck

Wow.... better said than me.   I personally don't feel like I have any real vested stake in either outcome, but I do become a bit worried when i get the sense that some individuals are seeming to create a sense of urgency, and to forcefully and emotionally argue that something needs to be done right away... because there is a fire... blah, blah, blah... these kinds of tactics make me a bit more skeptical about the push for change and the apparent attempts at justifying such immediate changes.

Yeah, right....... ... defend mmitech, you little puss....

Certainly, your above post is not getting very much into any meaningful substantive discussion, and here, you do not appear to be attempting to engage in any meaningful dialogue.

The one sliver of substance in your response does seem to suggest that I am somehow taking some kind of side in the internal squabblings of the current bitcoin controversy.  I'm not too attached to any one side except for some of my previous leanings have been towards building on the status quo... and resistance towards implementations of contentious forks. 

In this regard, you seem to be very invested in one side ... maybe against core... or otherwise you are coming off as becoming extremely emotionally attached to be against core for no real good reason.. except that you seem inclined towards getting caught up in personalities, which seems a bit petty to me.

I think that part of my previous point was that even with some of the current internal squabblings within bitcoin, it remains a much more dynamic and broader group of influencers pushing bitcoin in various directions, as compared with the apparent smallness of Ethereum.. and some of that actuality seems to be reflected in Bitcoin's larger market cap, and another aspect relates to bitcoin having had gone through a bit longer history and having had become a bit more robust by enduring in a variety of already suffered historical attacks. 


I don't claim to be any kind of expert in anything, but frequently, i can identify various bullshit presentations, including mmitech and some of his current and historical posts, and in that regard, my response is meant to provide my opinion at the moment and in response... and regarding your emotional post, I don't have any problem with you disagreeing with my opinion to the extent that you are able to emotionally refrain from seemingly uncontrolled outbursts.. which hopefully you will be able to do.... if not, I will just attempt to put up with it... .and respond to the extent that it may seem fitting....   

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FWIW I agree with you on this. I should have cut the snarky bits.

For power users metacrawler was the way to go back then. You couldn't count on any single search engine finding what you wanted. Some had it, others didn't, and most of the time you had to search for the same thing over and over in different engines, so metacrawler was better in that regard.

Google was a one-stop-does-it-right kind'of'site that actually had better results than even metacrawler which, in itself, combined the results of others.

Yeah, I think that was their gameplan. Google was very in-touch with their audience in those days. In spite of a few missteps, I think they still largely are.

Yeah, but sAt0sHiFanClub had him covered there.

Yeah, you know, thats it. I forgot how clogged up AV and Yahoo were getting ( and still are)

Google, to be fair, always kept the UI clean and simple.

Altavista started going down that whole "portal" route (as were others). An object lesson in having to watch your step when it comes to monetizing things. I probably would have stuck with Altavista if they hadn't gone that way (though they would have had to have stepped up their search algorithm efforts too)

You misheard. That's two regular transactions for the price of eight segwit ones.

Clearly they have confidence in its acceptance if the're offering that steep a discount.