No problem, but why didn't you correct his misspelling of "muscles" too?

I thought that I saw someone asking him why on twitter, he replied only "different directions".

I hope you have fixed the link on your About/contact page: until very recently it linked to http://blog.blockchain.info/ .

It also traded BTC/CNY, but its volume was very small (~200 BTC/day, or 1/1000 of Huobi and OKCoin...)

It seems that no one at Blockkchain.info is reading this thread.  Which would be OK, if the "feedback" button on their site did not at one time link to here.

They could at least post an official "thread closed" message here and lock the thread.  Then people who have questions and suggestions about their site would only have to wait for their blog to start working.

Is that an illustration from the sidechains whitepaper?

Are there any investment opportunities for mussels in Latvia?

I have it from a reliable source that some big whales dump tons of coins every so often just to see that Tinkerbell cartoon show up on this thread.

That is a bit misleading.  AFAIK there was a single 7170 BTC transaction that cleaned out the cold wallet (minus the fractions of BTC).  This page gives a better view:

http://www.walletexplorer.com/wallet/Bter.com-cold

Apparently the hot and cold wallets were set up so that +15 BTC were typically sent from hot to cold, and -100 BTC were sent (less frequently, of course) from cold to hot.  Perhaps both were automated?  Anyway, the last two -100 BTC transactions are typical, the -7170 BTC transaction is not.

The 7170 stolen BTC have been split into chunks of 1000 BTC or so.  They are worth ~1.7 M USD at current prices.


From the above page, it seems that they had those BTC allright.  Whether it is theft or embezzlement, who knows.

It seems that Bter was mostly into LTC and DOGE trading, and they promised to let clients withdraw those soon.  Let's  see.

I don't see the irony.  Do you believe that there is some system that would ensure government by a good minority against the wishes of the majority?

Could that be the reason why they are restless?

But the purpose of elections is not to select the most competent, smartest, more honest, etc.  It is only to measure how much support each candidate has, and convince the minority party that they are indeed a minority.

The alternative to elections is each guy tries to shoot those of the opposite parties, until one side has the clear lead , and the oppositors who still survive choose to obey the winner rather than die.

This alternative method is often adopted when and where people get disenchanted with democracy.  Experience shows that this method does not give better government than a democratic election, but takes absurdly longer to proclaim the winner, and is absurdly more expensive.

It is not for nothing that the ancient Greek were regarded as exceptionally smart people.

Is the Monarch the reason why the natives are restless?

And how would one call mussels in Latvian?

Indeed.  Newton and Pascal come to mind.  But there are exceptions - Euler and Gauss, for example, if I am not mistaken.

Well, what would you do after your productive period is over? 

Yeah, I would like to see Prof. Bitcorn interviewed by one of those Bitcoin Experts who predicted 10'000 USD/BTC by the end of 2014.  (Even in log scale, they were further off than he was.)


What was the date again when bitcoin is expected to replace the dollar and send the US government into bankruptcy?

I asked this on another thread, but got no answer:^[1] does anyone know whether the fruits of the Eastern Mistletoe of North America have a sticky pulp, like those of European Mistletoe?

[1] Perhaps because it was a thread where you had to asnwer each question with another question.

Forget the hill, the question is: how did he get so many extra muscles?

No, that was almost certainly the cause for the earlier (and bigger) peak starting on 2015-01-25 (US time), that went from ~250 to ~310 USD/BTC.

Who does not like pyramid probes?