Another example of a dying business adding “blockchain” to catch the magic? I mean it sounds cute, but smells of desperation.

100% agree. Lots of success bias out there. Will be interesting to see the Emperors without clothes...

Truth might be somewhere in the middle. What we really need is a ZombieCoin category. My rule is the more lofty the goal, the more I look for evidence of tangible results and progress.

Maybe some ETH as well for the same reason as Bitcoin. The “what can the average person buy on coinbase” perspective.

He said it was for conflict of interest, right? Not that I buy it 100%, but is there something beyond that that we are missing?

How are folks here planning to handle this in 2018?

I’ve used Bittrex and generally trust them a bit more than Poloniex (given their history of downtime and “issues” although I hear it’s better now). Bittrex also has a good history of being an early supporter