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I have noticed, since lurking on these forums, that a lot of people here are invested in or excited about WAVES. Maybe I dont understand the potential in its platform but it seems to me that it has had a hard time maintaining upward momentum and nothing I have read makes me think that it will excel in the future. What is all the fuss about? ??? Why invest in WAVES instead of seemingly more innovative projects like IOTA that set out to change the formula?

I noticed that as well.  Tons of interest in Waves, and what's interesting is the interest doesn't seem to match the price or volume of trades.  Full disclosure, I'm one of those that frequently contribute to Waves threads in a positive manner.  I love the interest and enthusiasm around Waves, I just wish it'd translate to a price increase.

To answer your question... I think the general interest in Waves is that they have a strong dev team and they launched with a nearly complete full package.  There's a wallet, a fully functioning web wallet, master-nodes, leasing, a basic exchange, token creation, and it can even store some fiat.  That's a pretty healthy crypto ecosystem... now it just needs to get leveraged by other devs, businesses, and consumers.

Waves is working with Zencash to integrate Zencash into their platform. one to two months before completion. I"m sure there are others.

The Waves team should have large amounts of money reserved for future development, we'll see more from them soon.

I agree with you.  I think its the dev team wallet,  and even active faucets.

Waves is just like a copy of Ethereum but not a copy and like just obvoiusly same projects and platform that can do tokens just using there both platform and that's the nice of it if ethereum have been successfull now and how does waves that just like ethereum that can be successful also

Waves is the digital coins based on smart contract platform are like ethereum, ethereum classic and other altcoins that has fetures of dapps, here the source of information about waves will gives us good knowledge about waves https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387944.0 the official website of waves https://wavesplatform.com/ also the capitalization of marketcap for waves
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waves/

I strongly believe WAVES will become a strong and direct competitor of ethereum in the future, waves is a young platform and community support is continue building just like this thread so it's better to buy more waves while this low

But what does Waves bring to the table that will make it a real competitor to Ethereum? Ethereum surely has the ability to inovate beyond a "young platform with community support". This seems like a moon ticket pipe dream if that's all it is.

Waves: I am just experimenting with it now.

That's a pretty high profile Burger King deal that they made, and it makes me wonder what kind of token distribution tech that Waves has, that millions of Burger King clients can easily collect and trade "Whopper" tokens!?!?!

I too want to launch a widely held token one day, so I am extremely interested if Waves has a solution, whereby normal people can open accounts and trade tokens.

As ETH is primarily just being used as an ICO platform, I can understand you all thinking that WAVES is a competitor with Ethereum... I disagree. Waves is much more like Bitshares (Open Ledger) and probably even more so like NXT which built all the stuff that WAVES is doing a long long time ago. But Ethereum is attempting to be much more. I think that the real competitors with ETH are NEO and EOS. I am betting on EOS to deliver on the promises of ETH. But time will tell. But I got off topic...

All questions will get answer on October Hard Fork.
WAVES competitor is not ETHEREUM. They focused on transactions capacity and DEX (Exchange system on WAVES platform)
October hard fork will give too much power to WAVES which will give ability to beat VISA.
Also Loyalty programs are working amazing on WAVES platform lets wait and full the tanks before october hard fork.

I think there is one more feature that makes (and will make) Waves successfull. I mean the team, especially Sasha Ivanov - CEO of Waves. He makes huge work about attracting different successful projects, which already exist or are planning to make an ICO. His influence is very hard to overestimate.

Do you recommend invest something more in Waves until October?

that's statement will be proven after some works from sasha though if we still remember waves has been accused being an scam project but after a year
of existence waves showed that they have a good projection about this platform and we are seeing the great success and not been done yet, better to
watch for some more.

There was an interesting article recently that got some interest on reddit as well:
https://ridyardfinance.com/investments/2017/9/4/waves-waves-investment-analysis

Similar to Etherium and Neo (and maybe Stratis) in terms of usage. Has some benefits such as integrated Waves exchange. There are some tokens already on the platform. So i would say the hype is much like hype for Etherium and Neo.

To me it's mostly the fact that they have a very strong team that I feel are trustworthy. I'm waiting for the october Hard Fork to see where this is heading though.

now it is sticked to $ 5 band. If it drops below 5, you can try your chance. Cos, for a long period of time it hasnt dropped below 4.
(only during in july when bitcoin was hardforked it was $1.90)

you cant double your investment till October. Tiny profits maybe. It is a kind of long term now.

(my freaky thoughts. Use at your own risk)

Because waves is a good platform, they have a good decentralized exchange and token creation system and a lot of coming feature though.

There will also be news this month already again on the burger king thing, as waves launches the app this month. This might attract another worldwide media coverage.

The media coverage in general I see as a huge benefit for Waves. Not many altcoins can attract worldwide coverage.

But I also agree its a bit odd that Waves isnt moving up but sticking to around $5 for a while despite good news. I was thinking maybe its a little bit of a disadvantage that they are from russia (they are, right?). Because this might put some investors from china or USA off.On the other side its also a huge chance as you have a product thats opposite to the US and Asia markets, which adds stability to your portfolio.

Waves have very similar platform to Ethereum in terms of functions. But their overall product basically matches the price: it isn't working good. It needs better development and you will see Waves going very high.

The new DEX UI is still under dev., you can preview here (and it's just awesome): http://etherdesign.io/project/dex

Waves is implementing the Bitcoin NG protocol for October 10th. This mostly allow high scalability and anonymous transactions.
Smart contracts will come after.

To me it's working well already. A lot of improvements are on the way ! The last release added aliases, which is awesome ! The Waves network is really flexible, I can't wait to see more !

This is a good coin have good technology and team work and have also good market capitalization but due to the downfall of the market WAVES is not touching their peak.

Completely the same idea as I do.
They are almost the same which is both used for creating new coins also. Some are under ETH and others used Waves.
This is a young token. Give it a chance and it will grew more. It might be steady by now, but with the right people who will support it, that will change. Perhaps, the quantity of coins that are out now is stopping the growth. The investment are divided.

I have pretty big long term investment from $3.3 and believe that waves will grow rapidly at some moment in the future, because they already had to but price has sticked at around $5...

Though I'm new in crypto, my impression on waves is that it will not be a competitor of ethereum. There are too many assets in waves that are not verified and have no value at all. They make the creation of waves asset so easy that it's being abused and flocked by unworthy projects.

Waves has already attracted several major businesses and social programmes. These include a transparent venture capital organisation (Tokenomica); a political engagement initiative (Upcoin); a green manufacturing technology business (ZrCoin); a marketing drive for a mobile gaming platform (MobileGo); a secure VoIP and telecommunications infrastructure company (EncryptoTel); a blockchain loyalty scheme (Incent)...

Burger King has waded into the cryptocurrency market with the launch of its own virtual coin called "WhopperCoin" in Russia and it's powered by Waves. In last july Deloitte launched a partnership with Waves which is aimed at providing clients with comprehensive initial coin offering (ICO) services and customized blockchain solutions tailored for specific business tasks.

Yes Waves is a ETH rival (just like Coca Cola and Pepsi) and so what? They can exist both and make big benefits.
Yes there is something hard to understand about its weak volume, but I think we should not forget that the majority of owners are leasing their waves.
Yes for now the price is low. But considering all informations above, I think we are in front of a strong project who performed well till now. So, I still believe in Waves.

I still hold all of my WAVES and am not selling at current low prices. Waves is undervalued like no other big project and it will correct. Appropriate ATH has not even happened remotely

Nice summary !

On a side note about leasing, we can see (http://dev.pywaves.org/generators/) that 45M of Waves are on leasing right now. So we are sure that at least ~50% of the Waves are HODL'd.
Also the Waves network isn't generating any new coins, instead miners earn the fees. It mean that the total amount of available Waves can only decrease (lost seed, burned coin, etc).

Waves is a big hodl, no surprises.

Thank you. I agree with you. I think people don't understand the fact that waves isn't generating new coins by mining like Bitcoin. It is based on a burn mechanism. If there are less and less Waves in circulation because there are destroyed, each waves get more value. Anything that becomes scarce also becomes expensive...

I also invested a lot in waves. Hope it will double in october and more in future.

I suppose WAVES is the next ETH, so I invest most of my money in it for long term.Hope it will be a right choice for me.

why are there projects using the WAVES platform? I do not like WAVES wallet because the transaction is very difficult in Wallet WAVES.

Waves is a beautiful venture.. And the way it's taking over the world at large speaks volumes.. It's key features that strengthen it are.. 1. A Decentralized exchange built for decentralized asset.. (Wavesdex)
2. Easier smart contracts than with ETH.. 3. Freedom to create your own crypto tokens ideal for ICOs and crowdfunding  4. Fiat gateways allowing transactions with real money ( USD/EUR)

Crossposting this link, because it contains a lot of info, again kudos to biggzi;
https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@biggzi/how-the-waves-platform-are-building-the-foundation-to-take-blockchain-mainstream

Also, notice the large pennant Waves has atm, ending of it could be on same moment a lot of news/releases comes out.
I am bullish, but biased :)

well ,the vibration is become small and small,a breaking point hase been coming!

Actually Wave team been change and Now there will be New Investor ahead so wave could be hit high

Thanks

I also invested money in waves, But why it's not taking up I am not understanding. May be it will take some time. Right now the price is double what i invested if i sell. Also, i will get profit. But i am looking for long term investment. Atleast it should cross double digit within one or two months we can hope the future will be good.

Waves is very perspective investment, but in short term something like NEO or HShare will be more profitable

a predictable 10USD value with a market cap of 1 billion  for 100m supply in the next 6 to 9 months. It is nice to hold with this kind of asset which has a remarkable feature other than smart contracts. It is not a threat to ETHEREUM but the two both need to co-exist.

All Waves assets have been delisted from Cryptopia. Funny fact is that the volume in DEX is rising since then.

I think waves is a good altcoin in cryptocurrency world.Many people tell about waves.Because many people are gain with waves trade.But I am new, so I will try  to gain.

most of those who hype are holders of waves that might just dump right after hyping or when the price spikes a cent. the rise of waves price isn't really sharp which will make you think there isn't much potential. there are better than waves actually so don't focus much to it after all if its price goes more than $10, you still can buy hundreds of it.

Waves is a best altcoin in whole cryptocurrency world.When waves price $2.44, then I know about waves.But then I work in live trade.But now I understood holding trade are so profitable.I hold 100 waves for next year.

This is what im waiting for now on which the october hard fork. This would really be a game changing event on waves platform. This is why i do make some diversification on my portfolio and do purchase some bulks of waves coins.I know that price will shoot up. 1 month more and we would really see on where would price go.

afaik there will not be a hard fork, just an update.
A great update, that is, but no forking.

With so much news about this Waves in October. I hope to have something groundbreaking, Waves will pump price. We should invest a little into Waves before this October ? At present the price of W is also not too expensive to invest in.

Vtos

Personally, i like Waves because their strong team specially their Russian CEO. I think they will have great future because of simplicity of wallet use and token creation, their new decentralized exchange platform and big updates they talk about.

Similar to bitcoin, ethereum and some other altcoin, WAVES owns a separate platform, with its own blockchain, so its development is completely independent, which is a good coin to invest in, as it not influence from bitcoin too much.

About 6 to 9 months ago, I started putting some money into waves and started using their DEX. A few months ago, I had some issues with btc not arriving and contacted their support. I must say I was very satisfied with their fast and professional support. That really convinced me that they have a strong and involved team behind the project. I have been following Waves ever since and it has been one of my main portfolio assets.

Waves Platform by simplifying the token creation, so widening the user-base, have caused an overall increase of interest on the crypto technologies