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There's some wintry weather on the way this week

Winter will be making a cameo appearance, as we head toward the May bank holiday.

THERE’S SOME UNSEASONABLY cool weather on the way this week – with wintry showers forecast for some areas, and temperatures dropping below freezing tomorrow night.

Expect showers – falling as hail in some areas – this afternoon.

From this evening it will feel much colder as a result of fresh and gusty northwesterly winds, with a few wintry showers possible in the north and northwest later.

It will be windy and cold tonight, according to Met Éireann, with frequent showers over Connacht and Ulster – some of hail.

The mercury will drop to zero in some areas overnight – while tomorrow the temperatures will range between 7 and 11 degrees.

The latest forecast says tomorrow will be “a cold, breezy and fresh day with sunshine and showers”.

It will turn very cold then overnight on Tuesday – again with some wintry showers.

Overnight temperatures will be between minus and plus two degrees, with widespread frost.

Conditions are expected to improve again after the middle of the week. There’s some heavy rain expected on Friday – but at this stage things are looking a little brighter for the bank holiday weekend.

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    Mute Eidhne Conlon
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    Aug 5th 2014, 7:51 AM

    After a bank holiday weekend, I wish I had some REAL money…

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    Mute IrishCoin
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    Aug 5th 2014, 8:30 AM

    This looks like a crypto currency facilitator not competitor. There’s another platform out there called UltraCoin by financier Reggie Middleton. Not only will facilitate payments but fee less trades in stock, shares & crypto etc.

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    Mute johngahan
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    Aug 5th 2014, 8:29 AM

    bitcoin is a fad. it cannot scale enough to be truly relevant vis a vis traditional payment networks for speed or capacity.

    all-in, it is more expensive than fiat as many people will need to convert from and back to fiat in order to transact in bitcoin as they prefer to exit due to price volatility.

    security-wise it is a hacker’s dream.

    it will be a victim of its own success as authorities don’t like it and won’t permit it to usurp sovereign currencies, anti-moneylaundering or taxation.

    attractive bitcoin features will be adopted by new sovereign-controlled currencies, leaving bitcoin as being a mere historic inspiration for better things to come.

    bitcoin price is doomed to a hyper deflationary spiral given nearly half of all bitcoin have already been lost forever and much of the rest is being hoarded, killing liquidity and creating a bubble of tulip-esque proportions. There is more incentive to hoard it than use it to transact. That jeopardises the incentive for the miners, who are massive hoarders, and who are already in a very unhealthy position of ultimate power to control bitcoin and define its future for their own interests.

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    Mute Dave Davis
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    Aug 5th 2014, 12:46 PM

    Started reading your Comme t and almost bounced down to completely disagree. However, apart from your first point, I actually completely agree.

    I wouldn’t call it more expensive either. It COULD get to a point where a fiat conversion isn’t necessary, making it the cheapest.

    Hoarding is its biggest problem. It’s Hoarding and using it as an “investment” which is causing the volatility which is causing those using it to convert immediately.

    I really wanted it to succeed but there’s just not enough of it. Too few people control too much share of total coins. Have of Bitcoins owners fancy themselves professional investors. It’s incredibly useful for transactions. I’ve used it quite a bit. Volatility ruins it.

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    Mute Dave Jackson
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    Aug 5th 2014, 8:10 AM

    Sounds the same as Ripple which isn’t doing much business.

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    Mute GATHERINGYOURMONEY14
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    Aug 5th 2014, 10:24 AM

    A lot of my mates tried signing up for the “free” stellars and got bounced.
    Off to a very bad start.

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    Mute NoNeed4cryptoGreed
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    Aug 5th 2014, 11:01 AM

    My biggest fear for bitcoin is that some day some very large company like Facebook or Google will create or adapt some new coin that will appeal to the vast majority of its users and then the masses. The problem with BTC is that it was the first crypto, it’s already quite bloated and slow in comparison to newer POS coins and you would need about €10000 to start mining it in any sort of meaningful way at home making bitcoin a big business only coin which is not what crypto is about. I did think at one time that if BTC was to fail all other coins would follow but I’m not sure about now seeing some of the innovation in altcoins.

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    Mute Hugh Hunter
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    Aug 19th 2014, 10:29 AM

    if you want to play faucet to mine stellar.. there is a faucet like bitcoin in..
    lets try.. http://freestella.rs/?r=6825

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