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I'm I wrong to expect most Alt Coin to crash this weekend?

Why wouldn't traders move out of most Alt coins and move into Bitcoin? Especially on exchanges like bittrex that will give you 1:1 Bitcoin Cash.

Won't most traders try and pick up these free coins? currently futures of Bitcoin Cash(BCC) are @ $200?
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/

The only reason I can think of is the uncertainty. If  Bitcoin Cash(BCC) can get close to 50% of the hashrate it would create uncertain to which coin would be the official Bitcoin.But this uncertainty should produce a Bitcoin to dip and I have never seen a big bitcoin dip without taking the majority of alt coins down with it. . and If this battle for bitcoin happens don't you want to be holding both coins to hedge your bets.

Is there any real threat that both coins(BTC and BCC) are worthless after fork?

So either you think bitcoin and alt coin will crash(because of the uncertainty) and therefore you should be in fiat before August 1st

or

You want as much Bitcoin Cash as possible.

Seems to me the Alt Coins will lose out either way this weekend + monday.

I wouldn't mind some crash - it can be a great opportunity to multiply your altcoins and sell them later once all the drama is over.

I'm not worried...just trying to figure out the best play over the next 4 days.

I dont think altcoin will crash during the fork period. Altcoins crashes when people sell their altcoins. After the fork there are chances that bitcoin's price will go down for sometime and during that people will actually buy altcoins than dumping them. So the probability is altcoin's price will increase. So the best time to buy altcoins is before the fork. Buying altcoins before the fork will atleast give the assurance of no loss as it will rise up at some point of time. Why should we risk our precious bitcoin for free BCC coin. We will atleast have the option to buy the leading bitcoin after the fork if we have altcoin.

I guess you meant to say Why should we risk our precious Alt coins. or are bitcoins @ risk during this fork?

and the answer I would give to why risk it is I can buy more of my fav Alt coin with bitcoin cash. Lets say BTC Price 2700 and the free BCC  ends of at 300. my gains end up around 11%. My fav alt coins would have to go up higher than 11% for me to lose out.

Nope. I don't think we'll see a crash. I think we'll see a non-event followed by a rush for both alts and btc.

bitcoin is father of altcoins. if bitcoin crash, altcoins will crash too.
looks like this weekend those will up with bitcoin.

I can see a weekend with a crazy spike in BTC and alt coin go up as well but not as much. but the move than is still the same.

I have a plan for this. I will not sell my altcoin I just HOld. I moved my remaining Bitcoins to Bittrex. Wait for August 1. After the Split I will sell my free BCC. If BTC is about to dump I'll just sell it to USDT. And rebuy the BTC in the dip.

I'm counting on that also, I'm not going after BCC, it will crash hard, gonna shop a lot of cheap alts during the weekend, I believe this will be a much better bet than going after BCC.

Im just holding my altcoin until this aug1, after that I will decide what may happen next. Thats nice moving bitcoins to bittrex for the bcc, but my plan will stay save my altcoins in the exchange. I can see and hoping that after this event price may rose again so we can have atleast profit.

It is much better to hold it for now thats was a great decision to hold it me too ive hold my altcoins for now and wait what would happen after aug. 1 as of now some altcoin are dump because bitcoin get dump to so i would rather to monitor for what will happen.

If bitcoin crashes then that could be good for altcoins as people will be looking for a new crypto to invest into. $200 isn't enough to warrant a switch to bitcoin in my opinion because that is even less than the normal daily volatility we have been seeing lately.

Bitcoin cash will fail because a majority of people see it as a free airdrop and will just dump their coins, no one will mine a coin with little value so hashing power will follow to preserve profitability, ie if its worth 10% of the price of bitcoin it will receive about 10% of bitcoins hash power.

I think that people will be selling off alts to buy BTC to get free BCC and that could mean lots of red numbers in the alt market. We will see how things turn out though. I expect BCC to die a slow death and both BTC and all alts become stronger then ever.

True, people are now hunting BCC by selling some even the entire altcoin they have. Thus causing most of the altcoin prices to fall.
About bitcoin: I think bitcoin will have a nice future
About BCC: after money laundering case with $ 2 billion. I did not know that BCC would be valuable or a waste in the future.

How can you able to say such thing? BCC isnt still there yet and we cant still see the actions of people regarding on buying BCC and sacrificing all of their alts but this thing is really possible though since there are people would really believe on the potential of BCC which they would definitely think that it would really increase its price later on but i dont really like to see bitcoin is splitted.

it will be back to normal after 1 august.
the time everybody back to the bitcoin because everybody want to take their bitcoincash reward. after 1 august they will go to the moon.

But if you check Coinmarketcap currently, it's Friday so let say the week started, we can see that the majority of altcoins are losing value and the only one in good shape in Bitcoin (with +8% in 24h) Following the logic of most of the people, others altcoins are supposed to be also in good shape. I can't say that there is a real threat that both coins are going to be worthless after fork. But a lot of altcoins will continue to crash during the next 2 days. I am going to fiat before it happens, will buy at a low price and wait until everything is  "OK"

The panic about what will happen this august 1 is currently affecting others coins. To me the reality is that nothing significant will happen and btc has taken the majority of market share even if the hardfork lead to split of bitcoin network! One thing is fundamental here and that is btc is used to fight and conquer it's enemies.

Oh man do you really think that 1:1 idea of distribution is really good in terms of profitability? What do you know about the price of BCC or BTC when the hard fork hits and goes away with the storm. The price will fluctuate like badly leading to unequaled market cap and who knows due to tremendously supportive fan base BTC will just jump into the market with double the price of current bitcoin. So it's better to stay out of such conversions and keep your BTC's safe and sound into private key backed up wallet. :-)

My most profitable trading decisions in the past have all come from forks. Specifically buying into the coin pre fork.  In this case it would be bitcoin. That is what I know. And since I haven't a reason that it won't be the most profitable decision once again I'll be doing the same.

The only hard decision is... do you sell your bitcoin cash immediately after snapshot or hold?

lol it does kinda feel like right now BTC is giving the rest of the crypto/alt world the big middle finger

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May be you need to analyse more about the market , because every people in this field have own different thinking , there understanding also vary from person to person .
A part of the crowd of the bitcoiners are looking to make money in altcoins , because it is good time to make trading and buy altcoin because big big coin currently are down in the market .So they don't want to leave bitcoin .
And another part of this crowd are thinking that they can make big earnings with the hold of btc because they are thinking that they will get additional money after the fork in form of bitcoin cash BCC .
And also here exists a part of crowd that have totally dear with virtual currency , and transferring all the bitcoin and coin into fiat and leaves the bitcoin until everything get perfectly complete .
So currently it is not possible that everyone get out from the altcoin and enter in btc .

In my opinion, I choose Altcoin for the situation in current, I saw most trader sell their altcoin and going to BTC just want receive BCC. But remember the value of BCC after August 1st is unknown and we can't sure it still $400 after that time, maybe 1$ per BCC is possible ::)

I think the market will crash, people will either focus on BCC and Bitcoin or will stop trading until the situation get better, and even before the forking, alt coin already crashing this is because the traders hesitate to take a move in this chaotic situation and it is a risky times to make a move

I dont think anything will happen to altcoin rates because of Bitcoin upgrade. People are more worried about their Bitcoin rather than claiming for Bitcoin cash. Those who want to grab the free money have already taken out their Bitcoins to wallets.

A good portion of the replies seem to be coming from people who mainly just have Bitcoins to think about.
Maybe I should have started this thread in the Alt coin thread under speculation.

I always thought this bitcoin cash was nothing more than just a cash grab at a volatile time in bitcoin's cycle waiting for the impending hard fork which was bound to happen anyways.
They just figured a way to trick people into buying into yet another alt coin.

That is why they are called alternative coins in the first place.
They are just an outshoot of the successful predecessor.  :P

There will be a massive altcoin crash this weekend IMO, some traders will sell their coins for BTC while its value is very volatile at that time, that is the time to make trades.

I'm quite skeptical about anything with he word alternative in front of it like alternative medicine, alternative news, alternative facts.


I do like alternative music and my alternative coins though.

I believe there will be a huge dump from all altcoins. Actually its happening now. Just take a look at the price of alts.

Personally I transferred all my BTC to Bittrex to get BCC. But to dump my alt investments in DCR , STEEM, ETC, SC, ETH, LTC to buy bitcoin just to get BCC is another story. I am HODL to all my alts.

If theres an alt to be dump, thats BCC. The coin with no use. The centralized crypto based from china.

You should not transfer Bitcoins to bittrex. bittrex will not be trading BCC at launch and your bcc wallet on bittrex will be locked and if you are right your BCC will  be worth a fraction of what it will be at launch by the time bittrex lets you have access to your BCC.

The Altcoin price crash this weekend because the BCC drama, but I do not think to sell it just to get BCC from BTC I have, I'm just thinking how if BCC price below the forecast and after 1st August  Bitcoin price down to $2000, there is will be next panic to selling.

I'm not just thinking about getting BCC. I'm mainly trying to avoid the dip and aquire the max amount of my fav Alt coins.

I am not afraid so much because it's our chance to multiple our coins and i here prices will surely go up after the 1st August so that it's a good chance to make investments now.

Indeed! I have the same opinion about the prices of altcoins. Altcoins are going to follow the path of bitcoins and maximum chances are that bitcoins will touch sky after the execution of Segwit. I don’t think so bitcoin holders should get worried about their coins. They just need to exhibit little patience.

Yes, there is a possibility of alt-coin crash within a week but I think the biggest one will be Bitcoin cash because there are the Bitcoin holders who are not supporting Bitcoin cash but still they are willing to en-cash the opportunity and  hence they will dump their Bitcoin cash as soon as the network is getting back to the normal so I am expecting a surge in the price of original Bitcoin and little bit crash in alt-coins including Bitcoin cash.

I don't like BCC, because if the BCC will release in the market there's a lot of altcoins will be affected. Also, there's a possibility that bitcoin value is fall down together with the other altcoins. So I think it's time to sell my all coins to avoid lost on my part.

BCC is already in the market you can find here https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/ and check almost all altcoins price is increased today. All coins change rate in green. So this weekend maybe the price of all altcoins will cross our imagination. Don't shift your altcoins to Bitcoin let it be there you will get a good rate at this weekend.   

BCC trading only has happened so far but actually digging of BCC yet to happen. We can see massive dumping on BCC to happen in coming days. All airdrop coins has faced such problems so far hence we can expect BCC to value similar to dogecoins in few hours.

I am expecting massive altcoin dumps in coming days as BTC just become stronger with segwit upgrade. This will be enough reason for traders to move off their funds away from altcoins.

There is no need to get nervous at all. Bitcoiners are going to rock today. They are going to have awesome day today and an extraordinary ride to the moon. Altcoins are going to crash and other coins as well. I don’t think so there is any reason for laughing at bitcoin supporters.

lucky!! Yesterday I bought some altcoin with cheap price.
And now the price goes back up after hardfork is done.
Now It's time to party !! ;D

I didn't see any altcoins falling by this weekend. I think many traders has realize that bitcoin Cash will  clash as many people are just waiting to dump for profit immediately the fork is over!

Right. I don't think a lot as of now will hold on to any bcc that they've gotten during the fork. A lot of exchanges and wallets aren't supporting bcc so probably it will just end up like a regular altcoin without much effect on the market. Definitely it didn't have that much effect on aug1 itself. All anxiety and drama leading to the fork turned out to be overhyped

Since it was feared that hard fork is going to happen and a a result of it,bitcoin price might get crashed,most sold their bitcoins in panic.Since altcoin price is valued in bitcoin price,many sold their altcoins also and this lead to fall in altcoin price also.But now,hard fork has happened and still bitcoin price is normal at $2700 and so,following it,altcoins prices would also increase here after.

Eventually everything will be back to normal ,some alts may pump or lowered just in minimal amount. It just shows that even there are hard forks again to happen, btc is strong enough now to faced it and can stand still no matter what.

Yes almost all altcoins have a good rate but now BCC was totally fall down their price. For me it's good to hear because bitcoin was not totally affected by BCC and it seems bitcoin price was increasing so much.

Brother implementation is going on Bitcoin cash because this is new to market. As you born have you learned talking on the first day have you learned the name of your mother or dad or something like that. Like that example goes to bitcoin cash as well it is lunched to market and first of all this is also decentralized so it will take a time to settle.