It is weird. Iirc, the price is up around 50% since they declared bankruptcy. I can't help but wonder if they made a mistake pulling the plug so fast.
Gold collapsing. Bitcoin UP.
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pekatete
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Possibly the liquidator is trying to run the entity as a going concern for as long as practicable, bearing in mind the price appreciation since filing, and the further anticipated price rise post halving. Also, bear in mind that leading up to the halving, ASIC prices were trending lower so again the liquidator may be thinking about realising the best value from the assets post halving when ASIC prices may firm up a bit compared to the pre-halving trend. Just a maybe ....
pekatete
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They can have rented out the facility, awaiting a bid to sell.
No amount of lobbying is going to fix Blockstreams problem and or plan!
I do encourage everyone to travel to the meet-up if possible. Jihan is a good guy, as are the people he associates with.
If anything, I would expect him to tell Core that their plan is not viable for Bitcoin.
What developers want and how they see things, is not the same as what the market demands. Why try and reinvent the wheel?
it's pretty simple really.
kore dev doesn't understand the principles behind Sound Money. thus, they can't understand or support Satoshi's original vision for Bitcoin which was to serve as a p2p ecash for people's worldwide. i bet it terrifies them to buy the actual coin, let alone hodl it, which is why we've heard them admit that they've sold; like Peter Todd. or think that it would never work period, like Maxwell and Back. we also know that Back never got in until mid 2013 at the top of the last price bubble of 1200. i'm sure not one of them has owned an ounce of gold or silver in the past either. as a result, i'm sure they've been shocked to see the price rise to the degree it has and have feelings of being left out and certainly believe that it can't go even higher.
thus, they decide to sell their souls to fiat investment and start a for profit company with an entirely different strategy; siphon away miner tx fees thru offchain proprietary products like first SC's and now LN hubs. they want to make money by becoming just another version of today's banks; as middlemen. every hop/node in a p2p LN is free to charge fees and they will. altho many of us think that what will actually happen is that the more well capitalized entities, like exchanges, will act as major LN hubs and use their reserves to facilitate routing and cheaper fees. but the goal and effect is the same; strangle/cripple the mainchain to divert tx's to these offchain layers so they can profit.
this korerupted strategy amounts to a disenfranchisement to early adopters who have been proven right for hodling since the early days. if kore dev is successful, any price rise will be choked off and i'm sure they won't care since their goal is to be middlemen and charge fees. with a crippled blocksize, less users/speculators can join the system to provide the liquidity and volume to force coin values to rise. the higher fees and delays that result from choked mempools cause new and existing users to leave for altcoins; or leave altogether. we've seen this at the individual level and the institutional level (the so called Fidelity Effect). kore's hope is that these ppl use LN instead so that they act as middlemen and can charge fees. nevermind that this will hurt miners. this won't happen b/c the real reason ppl seek out a solution like Bitcoin is b/c of it's fixed supply and SOV properties. we now know this b/c after 7.5 yrs, the price bucket of the Bitcoin economy has clearly won the appreciation race. ppl seek to own coin as a safe haven from events like Brexit and worldwide currency devaluations and negative interest rates. remember that the absolute largest market on Earth is that of the Forex resulting from unfettered money printing by rotating central banks. we want to tap that. we just saw Japan go to negative interest rates from excessive yen printing to by JGB's. this will only continue apace since they have no choice but to prop up the debt bubbles they've all created. what a great opportunity for Bitcoin to take advantage of it's sound money properties. if only we had room in blocks to attract more users/speculators to enhance liquidity and force the price higher. Blockstream needs to get out of the way. if only they understood sound money, bought the coin, and unblocked the stream.
kore dev doesn't understand the principles behind Sound Money. thus, they can't understand or support Satoshi's original vision for Bitcoin which was to serve as a p2p ecash for people's worldwide. i bet it terrifies them to buy the actual coin, let alone hodl it, which is why we've heard them admit that they've sold; like Peter Todd. or think that it would never work period, like Maxwell and Back. we also know that Back never got in until mid 2013 at the top of the last price bubble of 1200. i'm sure not one of them has owned an ounce of gold or silver in the past either. as a result, i'm sure they've been shocked to see the price rise to the degree it has and have feelings of being left out and certainly believe that it can't go even higher.
thus, they decide to sell their souls to fiat investment and start a for profit company with an entirely different strategy; siphon away miner tx fees thru offchain proprietary products like first SC's and now LN hubs. they want to make money by becoming just another version of today's banks; as middlemen. every hop/node in a p2p LN is free to charge fees and they will. altho many of us think that what will actually happen is that the more well capitalized entities, like exchanges, will act as major LN hubs and use their reserves to facilitate routing and cheaper fees. but the goal and effect is the same; strangle/cripple the mainchain to divert tx's to these offchain layers so they can profit.
this korerupted strategy amounts to a disenfranchisement to early adopters who have been proven right for hodling since the early days. if kore dev is successful, any price rise will be choked off and i'm sure they won't care since their goal is to be middlemen and charge fees. with a crippled blocksize, less users/speculators can join the system to provide the liquidity and volume to force coin values to rise. the higher fees and delays that result from choked mempools cause new and existing users to leave for altcoins; or leave altogether. we've seen this at the individual level and the institutional level (the so called Fidelity Effect). kore's hope is that these ppl use LN instead so that they act as middlemen and can charge fees. nevermind that this will hurt miners. this won't happen b/c the real reason ppl seek out a solution like Bitcoin is b/c of it's fixed supply and SOV properties. we now know this b/c after 7.5 yrs, the price bucket of the Bitcoin economy has clearly won the appreciation race. ppl seek to own coin as a safe haven from events like Brexit and worldwide currency devaluations and negative interest rates. remember that the absolute largest market on Earth is that of the Forex resulting from unfettered money printing by rotating central banks. we want to tap that. we just saw Japan go to negative interest rates from excessive yen printing to by JGB's. this will only continue apace since they have no choice but to prop up the debt bubbles they've all created. what a great opportunity for Bitcoin to take advantage of it's sound money properties. if only we had room in blocks to attract more users/speculators to enhance liquidity and force the price higher. Blockstream needs to get out of the way. if only they understood sound money, bought the coin, and unblocked the stream.
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Worrying charting from Visual Capitalist.
Chart: The Epic Collapse of Deutsche Bank.
Chart: The Epic Collapse of Deutsche Bank.
Would Germany bail out a wrecked DB? What would happen to the Euro if they did?
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Of course they will bailout them, and nothing much will happen. The world market trusts the Euro, the Dollar and Yen more than the Brexit Pound and the BRICS junk. The market is about credit/trust, and those markets still enjoy the most credit and trust.
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I'm not convinced. Good guys don't collaborate with the Blockstream gang.
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@Erdogan
@tar's legendary post is translated now.
It's the best summary of Dr. Paul C. Martin's 'Debitism' I've ever read.
http://www.dasgelbeforum.net/forum_entry.php?id=407690
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@Jihan: So with the rumors of another meeting between Blockstream and you miners popping up, I think I speak for most in this community when I say:
a) You know how the saying goes: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".
b) We're convinced that nothing good comes out of a monocultural (mis-)representation of the community. Try hard to include well known, big block-aligned people in the palm-stacking procedure this time.
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a) You know how the saying goes: "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me".
b) We're convinced that nothing good comes out of a monocultural (mis-)representation of the community. Try hard to include well known, big block-aligned people in the palm-stacking procedure this time.
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How do you know? Is this a rumor or is there some data on this?
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Theymos lamenting a lack of Bitcoin experts. What next - will he realize that censorship is harmful?
(the whole thread is full of win - c.f. probably non-existent world class poker player finding himself outclassed by /u/ydtm)
(the whole thread is full of win - c.f. probably non-existent world class poker player finding himself outclassed by /u/ydtm)
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Anyone know anything about this upcoming scaling meeting? The naming resembles the HK conference.
Scaling Bitcoin 2016: Retarget - Milan, Italy - October 8, 9
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4s3glt/scaling_bitcoin_2016_retarget_milan_italy_october/
Seems to be organized by the same chap (Pindar Wong,Chairman, VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd.):
Scaling Bitcoin 2016: Retarget - Milan, Italy - October 8, 9
https://np.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4s3glt/scaling_bitcoin_2016_retarget_milan_italy_october/
Seems to be organized by the same chap (Pindar Wong,Chairman, VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd.):
Does anybody know what's the deal with SW now?
Is it in it's current status really just an ugly blocksize hack that doesn't work with current wallets?
No malleability, no n^2 sig hash fix?
Is it in it's current status really just an ugly blocksize hack that doesn't work with current wallets?
No malleability, no n^2 sig hash fix?
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@cypherdoc:
The 2nd paragraph tripped me up, but I found reading on very worthwhile.
I think I can feel your blood pressure across the Intertubes. To calm you down (hopefully) and cheer you up, I found this proposal from Jorge Stolfi which I would like to put up here for criticism.
The 2nd paragraph tripped me up, but I found reading on very worthwhile.
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