Bitcoin & Markets

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES with table and links for metrics available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p015 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- Segwit lock in on the network is 3 days away! All hurdles have been handled. Break out to new All Time Highs New money waiting on traditional finance to send wires to exchanges. The New Bitcoin Cash https://medium.com/@DanDarkPill/announcing-bitcoin-cash-123c9a2f6be5 Bcash has mined < 100 blocks Block reward isn't spendable until 100 blocks. Watch for more dumping to start as miners can now sell their reward. https://cash.coin.dance/blocks Vinny changes his tune https://twitter.com/VinnyLingham/status/893994774935478273 I was on Adam Meister's Show this friday. I got a little heated when Lorien from South Africa started talking about increasing the block size to be inclusive in Africa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yImdl_CvBCY Ryan X Charles did a poll on twitter about whether Yours should use Litecoin or Bcash. Idiot. https://twitter.com/AnselLindner/status/893577698064424960 ----- Dead Market Walking http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-05/deadmarketwalking The Swamp is Undrainable - No Shit https://dailyreckoning.com/trump-another-nixon/ Jobs Numbers Released last week for the US, and they showed significant improvement. However, the little secret is that part-time jobs are counted the same as full-time jobs. While part-time jobs increased by 393,000, full-time jobs declined by 54,000. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-08-04/amazon-effect-part-time-jobs-soar-383k-full-time-jobs-slide ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES with table and links for metrics available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p014 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- Bitcoin&Markets on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxWJc6ZVFJDjI6eh7MU68Tg ----- My initial reaction to bcash fork was thank God we are rid of the megablockers. Bitcoin is free. Tax implications, BTC + BCC for tax purposes. KYC concerns. Exchanges will know where your cold storage real bitcoin is, too. Until there's a better way to sell, like bitsquare or localbitcoins, I won't. Bitch coin - It has come and gone. It was a non-event in my mind. The biggest thing it did was invalidate a lot of Technical Analysis. Overall, bcash is a centralized coin. 10s of nodes on AWS, only a few miners. Bitcoin gets it's value from decentralization and censorship resistance. That's what makes it a good store of value and form of money. Coinmarketcap.com's traffic exceeded FT https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6r4864/coinmarketcap_has_more_traffic_than_ftcom/?st=J5V9M6I0&sh=9ecb5bc6 Great point by Peter Todd, miners aren't in charge in bcash either, so slow blocks won't be the cause of failure. https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/893052242470866944 Poloniex went down and people were getting worried. They've come back from what I can tell. No big altcoin massacre happened, which is suprising. Everyone was looking at bitcoin and bcash. ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p013 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- BTC-e is down. It's not coming back. This was one of the oldest exchanges in bitcoin. I liked the anonymous no KYC aspect and was a big supporter of them. It turns out that 95% of ransomware and other hacks were going through btc-e. They say they will come back, but I doubt it at this point. "Bitcoin's consensus rules are rules chosen by Bitcoin miners,[...]. If miners adopt new consensus rules, those people that run full Bitcoin network nodes must upgrade..." They don't get that miners follow the rules demanded by the users. Even their boss Jihan knows this because he went along with segwit. https://blog.bitpay.com/august-1-service-update/ Whale Panda was cited on ZeroHedge. His theory, my reaction. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-07-28/bitcoin-civil-war-over ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p012 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- SEC enters the game. They are watching ICOs and have the ability to go after ICOs they define as Securities. Users and exchanges dealing in illegal securities are not immune. https://www.sec.gov/litigation/investreport/34-81207.pdf Big news on the MtGox and other hacks connected to a recent arrest in Greece and BTC-e. I hope they come back online. http://blog.wizsec.jp/2017/07/breaking-open-mtgox-1.html?m=1 "Satoshi Vision" Cultists ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------FULL SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p011 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- Thanks goes to: Shaolinfry, Luke Dash Jr., Eric Lombrozo, James Hilliard, Samson Mow, Rodolfo Novak, MrHodl, Alphonse Pace, Slush pool, Tone Vays, Dan Darkpill, John Light Countless people and projects running 148 nodes like: Bisq, Samourai, Trezor, Electrum, Bitonic, Microsoft, Bitfury, Bitfinex Thanks also to all the people that bought hats, changed their twitter names, and gave their general support. We all made this happen. We are very near to having Segwit, it's locked in, but don't let up quite yet. The next fight is the HF, but that can wait while we celebrate Segwit. ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------FULL SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p010 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- BIP91 signaling about to lock in segwit, giving into the UASF threat. https://www.xbt.eu/ Ethereum Wallet Alert https://blog.parity.io/security-alert-high-2/ BTCC made some waves with a newly published policy, and eventually changed the wording. https://www.btcc.com/news/en/%C2%A0%20%22announcements%22/2017/07/18/handling-scaling/ ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p009 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- BIP91 is at 63% signaling, so only 17% more until lock in. It's been steadily increasing. Xbt.eu has a beautiful chart and a bar that shows signaling per lock in window. https://www.xbt.eu/ Andrew Desantis gets meta with Vortex https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH6p3WE3v8Q Canaan.io Mining Equipment https://medium.com/@AudunGulbrands1/an-open-letter-to-canaan-and-to-all-uasf-supporters-b954be0b3f6a https://canaan.io/ ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update-----SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/p008 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- Segwit2x testnet failure, blamed on bad guys on the internet https://github.com/btc1/bitcoin/issues/65 A look at the futures spread and price movement. http://bitcoinandmarkets.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/futures-spread-7-12-2017-1.png ----- Music by Joakim Karud

PoW! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets/p007 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- Bitcoin Unlimited is having a hard time finding devs. https://twitter.com/notgrubles/status/845738582727970818 Emin Gun Sirer is back and he's blackmailing Greg Maxwell to disavow Peter Todd. https://twitter.com/petertoddbtc/status/883948010534821888 Evidence of spam transactions. This isn't concrete evidence, obviously it's circumstantial, but it's convincing to me. https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/63tvae/evidence_for_spam_transactions/ Let's Talk Bitcoin where Andreas schools Adam on that the FUD isn't real. https://soundcloud.com/mindtomatter/lets-talk-bitcoin-337-no ----- Music by Joakim Karud

Pow! Bitcoin Market Update--------------------------------SHOW NOTES available http://bitcoinandmarkets/p006 Thanks for listening! ----- SHARE and FOLLOW Host on twitter: @AnselLindner https://twitter.com/AnselLindner and the show: @btcmrkts https://twitter.com/btcmrkts ----- THIS SHOW IS SUPPORTED BY LISTENERS LIKE YOU! $1-5/mo. https://www.patreon.com/bitcoinandmarkets ----- Ryan X Charles idiotic tweet https://twitter.com/ryanxcharles/status/882876094440976384 Alphonse Pace's response, best response to this tweet https://twitter.com/AlpacaSW/status/883046758150008839 Bitcoin ABC has political vemon dripping from their repo. "De-corify" https://github.com/Bitcoin-ABC/bitcoin-abc/commit/5984dc2cb0ad427599d70615154d04b98185b2c2 ----- Music by Joakim Karud