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Old 13th August 2022, 15:47     #1081
Ab
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ETH 2010 BTC 24,850
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Old 13th August 2022, 15:59     #1082
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So far the pattern has been Ethereum starts to jump against Bitcoin, which gets Bitcoin in the news, which gets people buying Bitcoin, which results in a rally against Ethereum.
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Old 13th August 2022, 19:16     #1083
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Well ETH’s up 96% in the past 30 days and BTC is up about 26%. Institutional investors? I wonder if the momentum will continue post-Merge.
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Old 14th August 2022, 09:33     #1084
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The hot new thing is dusting the wallets of one's enemies with unsolicited Tornado Cash-tainted eth, to get said wallets frozen. The future of finance is permissionless.
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Old 14th August 2022, 11:32     #1085
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Architeuthis
 
^^Oops wrong forum

(Edit: moved - Ab)
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Old 21st August 2022, 07:20     #1086
Ajax
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Wacked

PoW: burn the world

PoS: plutocracy
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Old 28th August 2022, 01:36     #1087
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We're at $1500 ETH. Does anyone want to place a bet?

Will we see 2000 ETH before we see 1000 ETH?

It's in your favour.... you've got "momentum" and "institutional investors" on your side. I've only got cynicism and reality. Your gods have money to manipulate the market - mine only have soul crushing reality.

If you want to put money on it, I'll play the game. I don't care. I ask 0.1 ETH ($100 @ 1000) if I'm right, or I'll give you 0.05 ETH ($100 @ $2000 ETH) if you're right.

It's only fun for me, I wanna see people wiped out.

Max 3 players. I don't wanna put my entire balls in a vice. Post the transaction or be a man in a dress.
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Old 28th August 2022, 10:19     #1088
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It's cute when toddlers walk around yelling "I am great". It's sad when adults do it, short them actually being at the end of some great achievement.
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Old 28th August 2022, 22:03     #1089
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Good time to be buying, and I am.
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Old 29th August 2022, 11:39     #1090
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Outside of the merge event pumping it up I think the price will drop over the next couple of weeks until the 13th Sep CPI release. If its a bad number it will break $1000.
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Old 7th September 2022, 09:25     #1091
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Maybe we should have been betting on BTC’s movements - it’s very soft right now.
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Old 7th September 2022, 13:51     #1092
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Was soft when you posted, it's beginning to melt.

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BTC Prediction: Will sit in the 18-19K range, with 16K as absolute bottom.
I think sub 16k is a definite by the end of [this] year [of our Lord 2022]. If you doubt that and think it can't/won't go that low, I'll play. Or make your own prediction and I'll see whether I'll take the opposite view.
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Old 7th September 2022, 14:40     #1093
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I predict BTC dropping under 10K.
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Old 7th September 2022, 16:29     #1094
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Why now?
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Old 7th September 2022, 17:27     #1095
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ETH's holding its own today, hovering around 1550-1600 last time I looked.
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Old 10th September 2022, 13:57     #1096
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Can’t stop, won’t stop

https://decrypt.co/109410/microstrat...n-more-bitcoin
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Old 11th September 2022, 12:29     #1097
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Boing-boing!
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Old 15th September 2022, 10:00     #1098
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Approx 8 hours until the Ethereum merge! (so ~6:30pm NZ)

Google has a countdown if you use the term "ethereum merge"

Should be interesting... my cards are still mining (mainly for heat), so I'll be keeping an eye on what happens on Nicehash and what other chains/algos get mined instead.

If miners don't get "free money" from mining ETH, is there even [popular] incentive for the price to go up? Wouldn't it be better that the price comes down so that dApps/gas fees are cheaper? Assuming $1M ETH would be restrictive and expensive (bad), would $1 ETH be good?
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Old 15th September 2022, 18:02     #1099
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Pandas!

What an anti-climax.
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Old 15th September 2022, 19:32     #1100
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Something that important, anticlimax IS a climax. GG those nerds.
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Old 15th September 2022, 20:15     #1101
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If bitcoin got to US$1 all those years ago and stuck approximately with the rate of inflation, do you think Crypto would actually be more widely used as a proper currency right now rather than a ponzi scheme/investment
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Old 16th September 2022, 15:07     #1102
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It would never happen, because the amount of money in the world always increases and the amount of potentially-available bitcoin in the world always decreases.

It is mathematically impossible for the amount of bitcoin in existence to exceed 21 million BTC. Every time someone forgets their password, or loses their keys, or disappears Satoshi-style, the number of bitcoins available to the rest of us decreases.

Compare with, say, the US Dollar - there are always more of them. Hell, most of the US dollars that have ever existed came into existence within the past 2 years.

If both things are considered desirable, the value of the finite thing is never going to correlate with the value of the infinite thing.
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Old 16th September 2022, 15:20     #1103
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What an anti-climax.
Were many people mining ETH? I presume they're now looking for alternative mining operations after having ETH mining become useless overnight.
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Old 17th September 2022, 08:32     #1104
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dropped approx 50%-75% after the merge.

The only way back to profits in the shorter term will be people stopping their mining, allowing for more room.
Or ETH crashes and another unicorn coin comes along and fills the 2nd place with POW
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Old 17th September 2022, 18:38     #1105
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US Govt looking at "becoming a crypto currency leader" by releasing a pile of guidelines that regulation is inevitably going to emerge from and rumour suggests they're looking at creating a US crypto currency
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Old 17th September 2022, 19:36     #1106
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Not just a rumour. It's Project Hamilton, being done by Boston Fed + MIT.

Code on Github even: https://github.com/mit-dci/opencbdc-tx

From a news article yesterday:
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According to the Atlantic Council nonpartisan think tank, 105 countries representing more than 95% of global gross domestic product already are exploring or have created a central bank digital currency. The council found that the U.S. and the U.K. are far behind in creating a digital dollar or its equivalent.
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Old 18th September 2022, 10:28     #1107
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Quote:
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It is mathematically impossible for the amount of bitcoin in existence to exceed 21 million BTC. Every time someone forgets their password, or loses their keys, or disappears Satoshi-style, the number of bitcoins available to the rest of us decreases.
It would take a hard fork but definitely possible to increase the supply by consensus. Consider that the original version of the Eth mainnet is actually Ethereum Classic.

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Old 18th September 2022, 12:03     #1108
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true. I should have said "according to Bitcoin's current code it is mathematically impossible..."
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Old 18th September 2022, 13:52     #1109
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Does it even matter? It's not like a whole bitcoin has any particular properties about it, does it?
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Old 18th September 2022, 15:35     #1110
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Nah it doesn't matter at all, except to people who perceive a cachet in owning a whole one.
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Old 18th September 2022, 23:51     #1111
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But owning a half, or a fifth, or a twentieth, of a bitcoin is a good choice if the alternative is owning a half, or a fifth, or a twentieth, of something of which there is an infinite supply.

If you're playing D2 on Bnet, what's more valuable - a stash full of gold, or a SoJ?
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Old 19th September 2022, 15:57     #1112
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Bitcoin is not useful as a currency because of its transaction times.
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Old 19th September 2022, 16:08     #1113
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It's more kind of a currency tool. Some make some use of it. However I wonder if the utility only seems favourable because they haven't yet encountered the risks users are exposing themselves to.

Bitcoin has some life to it yet, but I think it only survives if it somehow becomes integral to emerging infrastructure (rather than just accommodated).
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Old 19th September 2022, 16:13     #1114
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Bitcoin isn't that useful, but that doesn't mean it isn't valuable.

Ethereum, on the other hand, is starting to make moves towards being useful. I don't think it will really begin delivering on its promise until it deals with the problems of

1. energy consumption
2. transaction speeds
3. transaction costs (gas fees)

One down.
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Old 19th September 2022, 16:27     #1115
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This is pretty much the current state of 2 & 3:

The different types of ZK-EVMs

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The core goal of all of these projects is the same: to use ZK-SNARK technology to make cryptographic proofs of execution of Ethereum-like transactions, either to make it much easier to verify the Ethereum chain itself or to build ZK-rollups that are (close to) equivalent to what Ethereum provides but are much more scalable. But there are subtle differences between these projects, and what tradeoffs they are making between practicality and speed. This post will attempt to describe a taxonomy of different "types" of EVM equivalence, and what are the benefits and costs of trying to achieve each type.
Some crazy sophisticated work is going on right now. A growing volume of smart, motivated people who believe in what they're doing.
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Old 19th September 2022, 16:47     #1116
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1.3k!

Figure out your exit price, or go down with the ship. We are definitely going lower, no doubt about it. If you're a true believer, sell now and buy back in.
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Old 19th September 2022, 16:53     #1117
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Ethereum, on the other hand, is starting to make moves towards being useful. I don't think it will really begin delivering on its promise until it deals with the problems of

1. energy consumption
2. transaction speeds
3. transaction costs (gas fees)

One down.
4. Having a use case that people can understand and apply - without fear that they'll make a mistake and find their funds are gone and can't be reversed.

That's the advantage of using a credit card. You pay a small amount, so that you have protection. Crypto is zero protection, and you also pay a small amount for the privilege of dealing with someone you don't trust and can't identify or get compensation through the legal system.
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Old 19th September 2022, 16:56     #1118
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Michael Saylor (his public wallet at least) has only ever bought Bitcoin twice (the first two times) at a price lower than it is now. That means every single other time he bought Bitcoin, he lost money.

In total, he is down $1.5B

What a legend. Ultimate sucker.
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Old 19th September 2022, 17:26     #1119
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Currency is one niche. Legitimacy and verification is going to be another major use case.

The most likely scenario is the infrastructure will become implemented without most people specifically realising it.

One hypothetical scenario for example is a super-light EVM that can run on basically nothing in every device where you want to be able to prove that specific hardware made a recording at the time stated, and whatever other meta-data you want to be able to assert. For instance your dash cam footage and GPS data. Or the photos you took before you handed over possession of a property.

People won't know about blockchain or Ethereum or EVMs. What they'll know is they can rest easy knowing they've done everything above board as demonstrated by this system that everyone takes seriously. Just a part of one more app used to manage affairs.
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Old 19th September 2022, 17:53     #1120
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That's where I think this is going. Ownership, verifiability. Buying stuff is just a tiny part of it.
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