Are we excited yet?

I'm finding it awfully hard to read what's going on at the moment. Is it optimism because of success of the fork or is it the drought of bad news (no more china bad news, regulation etc)

I'm eager to see what effect the fee burning has when the dust settles

On the old platform, on a laptop/desktop, there were two tabs I used a lot; My Threads, Latest Posts. The header of each tab was a link. Clicking on it would take you to the latest threads - which you were subscribed to by just posting in - you were subscribed to. That doesn't happen now. If you were viewing your threads, clicking on the title header would refresh the list of subscribed threads with the most recently posted to appearing at the top. This was handy. Now, it doesn't work like that. Clicking on the header does nothing. To refresh the my threads view, you have to either reload the page, which takes you to the Latest Posts View where you then need to click on the My Threads link again. If you are already in that view and want to see the latest posts to the latest threads on Boards, and you click on the Latest Posts header, that isn't what you get. If you last refreshed Boards an hour ago, those are the threads and posts you will see by clicking that header - posts made an hour ago. You have to refresh the page to actually see what the header promises. The straight forward rapid usability has gone, it's now multiple clicks to get to see what one click used to do.

I used to use the My Posts feature to find past posts. That's gone. Also the site is far slower in page loading than before. Round trip to Canada I presume. I haven't even bothered to see if you can multi quote post or the like.

The Editor is annoying - hit enter and it inserts two paragraph breaks and you have to hit delete to get rid of one and not have stupid spacing.

All in all, it just sucks; badly, compared to the straight forward usability of the old, where things did what they said and said what they meant. now you have to consciously try and remember things don't mean what they say and don't do what they promise.

Whoever's in charge clearly didn't use the site on a regular basis. All of the useful features should have been implemented before the migration. Or as many others have said - why didn't they do a trial run of the new site like so many other sites do? Give the option to revert to the old site for a year or so until all the kinks are worked out.

I think the site will improve a lot from what it is now but the damage to the user confidence with the week of downtime and all the current issues will be hard to recover from. The forums are a ghost town at the moment which is not good.

Exactly what I did, now just don't bother

At least crypto has given us something to be cheerful about and looking even better today

I think the bulk of US government members and representatives don't really understand or care as you mention. But there is a small minority which knows perfectly what they are doing and are deliberately acting against crypto, as they are increasingly concerned that it could hinder their vast debt monetisation policies in the future. Elisabeth Warren is clearly in that camp and has been firing any argument she can find against crypto in the past few months (including some dodgy ones). Apparently Janet Yellen is now also working in the background to sabotage the bi-partisan amendment which was gaining strong support and would have made the bill more workable from a crypto perspective (in its current form it is imposing impossible to comply with requirement to developers and miners, and the amendment would be fixing that while preserving reporting requirement for brokers and exchanges).

And the strange thing is that this is a massive $1T infrastructure investment bill which is 2700 pages long, so the few lines on the crypto reporting aspect should be considered an insignificant detail which can either be compromised on with the amendment or pushed for a further separate review. But it looks like their is strong lobbying to pass it as-is, so I think there is political will to hit crypto here with a very well understood goal.

If the bill is passed as it stands though, I don't think it will only drive innovation away from the US. It would also impact the global crypto landscape as whether we like it or not any project which is not compliant with US legislation will see its network effect drastically reduced. For exemple POS mining would have reporting requirements to tax authorities which are pretty much impossible to comply with, and if POS mining becomes unpractical in the US, then any project which relies on it (including ETH 2.0) is taking a hit.

The wording of the bill has since been edited to now include PoS, so it won't be treated any differently to PoW:

Looks like there is yet another proposed amendment (but I couldn’t find it detailed wording:

Pretty messy but at least the issue is getting visibility.

That's one thing I've also learned in the last year: FOMO feels worse than getting rekt

Yep Bitcoin.

This is the crucial part of the fight for Bitcoin. It's past every important resistance at the moment but it needs to hold and retest it as support over the next few weeks. In the past there was relief rallys similar to last 2 weeks that have failed at this stage which confirms the bear market.

No stress at all :p

Good morning...Vietnam!!!

Fair play to those who bought the dip. I only rounded up my bitcoin bag to a nice round figure but wish I put more in 😔