how's the talk ? technical or suitable for normal public ?

analysis? US-based cryptos not allowed to raise ICOs any more?

thanks, excellent summary

so there is going to be a certain amount of regulation - well I guess that's good, no more wild wild west of crypto. then again, what is the implication if any on ETH? since I understand that right now ETH's main/popular usage is as an ICO vehicle?

P.s. amusing sig

hmm thanks

yeah, guess you're right... just an increase in compliance requirements I guess...

Isn't that because current exchanges are still very much centralized? (one owner/corporation)

I read somewhere that a decentralized exchange is coming soon, or probably more.

I find it illogical that forking BTC to create another chain i.e. BCC can create value out of nothing.

If one owns 1 BTC valued at 2700, does that mean after the fork, he will have 1 BTC 2,700 and 1 BCC 2,700? Assuming nobody dump to get profit. Even if BCC drops to 100, it is still creating value from nothing.... 

Solution is correct but how about those exchanges that do not support btc cash?

Theres no such thing as 42m BTC.
BTC is only 21m. BCC not even exist yet.

And its not that you hve doubled your coins. If you have legacy coin, you have the option to either go with BTC or BCC. Nothing abt dilution. One implementation is incompatible with the other.

BCC players consensus-split s not same with the forked Ethereum. But to put into perspective that some may understand, BCC is like the DAO. If you put your BTC into an exchange supporting BCC, thats the DAO funds.

This was my question earlier (many pages back). I'm fairly new into this and wasn't here when Ethereum forked. What happened back then? Did ETH and ETC had the same initial value?

After TheDAO and the contested hard fork, Ethereum Classic launched at at price of $0.75 before settling at $2.85 within the first 72 hours of trading. Ethereum itself experienced volatility, trading at around $15 immediately prior to the fork, before crashing after the ETC launch to a low of $7 before ultimately settling in the $11–12 range for the next two months. In the short term, the ETH+ETC value was roughly equivalent to ETH before the fork, in the medium term it actually dipped below that initial figure, and then ultimately, of course, both networks experienced colossal growth.

The key point which I would like to highlight is this — A soft fork could be delivered implicitly without needing participants explicitly opting in. The soft forked chain is backwards compatible, and users do not need to even realise an upgrade to the network was rolled out. In addition, the nature of not having an unforked chain also means that a participant would not have a venue to opt-out for an introduced protocol when it is entirely against the participant’s view.

Therefore a soft fork is either all (or vast majority) or none at all, creating a situation where participants of a network do not get to choose for themselves — either for good or for bad — for a proposal to be carried out on the network without having everyone else agreeing to their views, ala liberum veto. For a signalling requiring vast majority (80%, 95%, etc) support, the minority then gets side-lined. Non-upgraded blocks are being censored, and majoritarianism made apparent when there is a requirement of a majority hash rate signalling for a soft fork (hence tyranny of the majority). For the case of SegWit, choosing not to upgrade meaning having your blocks potentially rejected as a miner, transaction drop offs, and delayed transaction appearance.

From this perspective, a hard fork provides more freedom to the participants of a network, in the sense that the participants are given choices and they could exercise the right to choose from the options provided. Miners make their own decision on which chain to provide hashing power towards, nodes maintain the chain they’d want to, and users send transactions on the chain of their choice. There would not exist a majoritarianism nor minoritarianism dictating how the rest should play along a set rules; Rather each individual is empowered with the ability to make a choice and to work on the choice they have made.

Admittedly chain splits from a hard fork risk splitting asset price backing the chain (and subsequently hashing power and users), but whichever chain with the most active development providing mass acceptance has shown to be fairly resilient and able to sort itself out over time. Furthermore since a vast majority of hash rate is expected to carry out the soft fork, that would imply a confidence of having users, miners and nodes to be on the updated chain, thereby invalidating reasons to expect otherwise on a hard fork chain.

I think you got it wrong. BTC holders can only claim BCH/BCC if they own the token at exactly 1 Aug 12:20 UTC, not a second earlier or later. Plus you have to know your private keys to your public address or kept it an exchange that supports BCH/BCC like Bittrex or wallets that will automatically create a BCH/BCC wallet like Freewallet.

Buying new BTC now doesn't entitle you to BCH/BCC.

so which software is this ?

I just transferred this afternoon.
Took unusually long......somewhere around 30 minutes before it appeared in my account as under confirmation, and another 15 minutes or so before it finally became available for trading.

Damn, these crypto founder's (network designers) got to modify/upgrade the blockchain to ensure smoother transactions at a quicker time.
If only i was an IT guy, i would have used this as an opportunity and created my own network/blockchain. Any partners that would wish to join me ?

So theres nothing that I could do to speed up my deposit of ETH to Bittrex right ?

Has anyone bought any Binance coins?
Was trying to do my due diligence last week, then left it aside over the weekend to spend some time with the family, and came back this morning to find that it had exploded 400% between last Friday and this morning.

Considering that the coin gives the owner a 50% discount on transaction fees on the Binance platform, I'm guessing it would be more and more attractive as more and more coins are listed on Binance.
I think it is probably prudent to own at least some.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/4Dt4epAvydJgNQbGC4xD6g

Some kind soul can translate for other bros out there thx