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The most maddening aspect of r/btc is their belief that they understand Jihan/Bitmain's intentions.

BU is nothing but a trojan, Jihan never intended at any point to use BU at a fork, even if that was his original intention. It is simply a placeholder to signal the miners' intention to hardfork.

Youve been lied to and misled by Roger Ver and Jihan the entire way. And now that Jihan is losing control of his narrative, it is becoming more and more clear that r/btc was built to become a festering swamp of imbeciles and rubes to disseminate dissent.

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03-28-2017 , 10:08 AM

#1178

TomCollins

Carpal \'Tunnel

Join Date: Jul 2003 Posts: 43,058

There are two kinds of altcoins. Those that have died, and those that will die.

http://altcoinobituaries.com/

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03-28-2017 , 10:48 AM

#1179

housenuts

1st Quartiled the 500

Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 49,688

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Originally Posted by TomCollins

There are two kinds of altcoins. Those that have died, and those that will die.

http://altcoinobituaries.com/

It's funny, that list of alts contains almost all the ones I first learned of when I got in the scene in early 2014:

Doge, Lite, Peer, Aurora, Quark, Vert...thankfully steered clear of them for the most part.

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03-28-2017 , 03:53 PM

#1180

iloveny161

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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,967

/r/btc are squares

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03-28-2017 , 03:55 PM

#1181

housenuts

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Originally Posted by iloveny161

/r/btc are squares

Btc was good but it devolved significantly in the last few months

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03-28-2017 , 04:31 PM

#1182

Duffman08

adept

Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 1,011

Anyone have any recommendations for Coin-Exchanges that allow leverage/shorting?
Currently using Gemini and GDAX/Coinbase and only GDAX allows for shorting coins.
Been taking the approach of spreading my risk-out across various exchanges and am in need of another that allows for shorting (don't want to load a bunch of money into GDAX).

Thanks.

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03-28-2017 , 05:41 PM

#1183

housenuts

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Poloniex?

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03-28-2017 , 10:43 PM

#1184

bucktotal

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Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,667

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Originally Posted by housenuts

and wheres the two biggest alts, ETH and XMR - oh wait...

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03-28-2017 , 10:54 PM

#1185

housenuts

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I don't consider eth an alt

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03-29-2017 , 03:52 AM

#1186

iloveny161

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Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 1,967

People on reddit/btctalk have guessed there is some chance Coinbase adds Monero in the next couple of months.

Here's what we know:

1) Brian Armstrong posted poll on twitter asking which coin Coinbase should add next. XMR was in the top 3
2) Fluffypony visits Coinbase hq to give presentation in Jan. Vitalik also visited CB last March and they added ETH 3 months later. Only other coins that have had presos at CB from what I can find are Augur and Decred.
3) This month, one of the Coinbase PMs wrote a primer on Medium about Monero. Only other coin she has made a post about is Ethereum.

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03-29-2017 , 03:16 PM

#1187

onemoretimes

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 3,535

http://www.coindesk.com/funding-shap...lion-series-a/

Wonder if they plan on building it on Ethereum. Weird how they won't say. Would be pretty disappointed if they used something else.

Part of me feels like they are loading up on something else then going to announce they are building on that. Can't think of any other reason why they won't say.

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03-29-2017 , 04:41 PM

#1188

housenuts

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Originally Posted by onemoretimes

It will be ethereum, rootstock or their own blockchain. I don't see them using anything else currently out there.

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03-29-2017 , 06:47 PM

#1189

heltok

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Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 1,695

Second slide:

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03-29-2017 , 07:27 PM

#1190

housenuts

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Originally Posted by housenuts

It will be ethereum, rootstock or their own blockchain. I don't see them using anything else currently out there.

possible cosmos. they want to put in a dex

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03-29-2017 , 10:02 PM

#1191

onemoretimes

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Originally Posted by iloveny161

Your right, everything points towards adding Monero. They might as well become a full blown exchange if they are going to be having polls on what coin to add next. Guessing they load up and then sell the rumor/news to make extra cash.

They probably just don't want to have to track people gambling/buying drugs anymore so they'll suggest Monero.

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03-30-2017 , 11:36 AM

#1192

Rampage_Jackson2

centurion

Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 125

Do you guys know any techniques or ways of finding if an alt-coin is about to experience a pump, or a dump?

Where are the secret forums for this?

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03-30-2017 , 11:44 AM

#1193

housenuts

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Same place as the secret forums for finding if a stock will pump or dump.

Really its just people with a lot of money that try to pump something, hope others will follow the rise, and then they sell

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03-30-2017 , 12:06 PM

#1194

bucktotal

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Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 1,667

chat boxes of poloniex and btce.

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03-31-2017 , 10:54 AM

#1195

LVpokerPRO

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Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,930

Collin Crypto tweeted big Eth announcement (positive) coming tomorrow. Buy more boys, it's going to shoot up

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03-31-2017 , 12:22 PM

#1196

housenuts

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Eth price is dropping funnily

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03-31-2017 , 02:12 PM

#1197

"88k"

grinder

Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 447

Does anyone else have issues depositing to coinbase/GDAX via bank wire recently? Getting "sent" confos from my bank but still 3+ hour delay the past few times I've tried (yes included the recipient instructions).

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04-01-2017 , 01:45 AM

#1198

onemoretimes

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Sep 2012 Posts: 3,535

https://blog.ethereum.org/2017/04/01...ev-roundup-q1/

I was like, you gotta be ****ing kidding me after I read the first sentence.

What happened to the pic of Vitalik with the glass bowl. I can't find it anywhere

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04-01-2017 , 04:52 AM

#1199

BABARtheELEPHANT

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Join Date: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,920

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An additional 10% of the block reward starting from Metropolis will be directed to our shareholders at AXA and the Bilderberg group. This change is permanent.

lol

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We will allow miners to specify the block reward that they want to pay themselves, and allow users to specify in their clients the maximum block reward that they are willing to consider valid. If a user sees a chain containing blocks with rewards larger than their maximum accepted block reward, they will not accept the chain at first, though if such a chain becomes 12 blocks longer than the longest chain that the user does accept then the client will automatically increase its maximum accepted block reward to accept the new chain. This allows for a more fair, market-based and democratic way of setting the issuance rate.

I'm not sure I understand everything but that's a troll of BU, right?