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There is no question that the last 24-48 hours the AltCoin community, particularly the three "ShadeCoins", White, Dark and Black, have been filled with an incredible amount of both positive and negative energy. There is no question that these three coins are essentially "at war". Having followed the past few days very closely, I wanted to provide my detailed perspective on what has been happening, why, and most importantly, what this means for the future of these coins.

Most of the posts on this particular forum (Whitecoin), those posted in the last 24 hours were in all likelihood SPAM, complete lies posted by people who created brand new accounts on bitcointalk to spread FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt... Or as I see it "Disruption), in order to capitalize on their own personal cryto-currency goals.

The tactics used however, particularly those used to question the integrity and security of the Whitecoin protocol have been by far the most disappointing.

So... The first point I want to address is:  Why would people do this?

There are two reasons which I see as being the most likely scenarios:

1.) If a person or small group of people can essentially "Mass-Spam" a coin community with disinformation or "lies", those which cannot be confirmed or disproved quickly, a large enough portion of the coin holders who's coins are under this attack (Whitecoin in this case) will be driven into a state of fear, and where there is fear, people sell. A mass exodus of selling causes additional panic, leading to more selling, which drives the price down.

--- So, Why do this?

By driving the price down these Spamers will have the ability to buy the coins at much lower levels.  Once the disinformation they have posted is proved to be false, the coin will then rally back to normal if not far exceeding levels, resulting in huge profits for the attackers.

2.) The other likely reason would be a competing coin's community, users, or even Devs, would attack their competitor with posts to forums, twitter and the like to discredit the coin in hopes to drive them out.

--- Again, Why do this?

There is a limited supply of money being traded in alt-coins. Altcoin creators are essentially all competing for a piece of the same pie. More buyers mean higher prices. By spreading disinformation, uninformed and inexperienced traders will read these posts and see them as being the gospel.  Fear sets in, and they sell.  

Now if you're a trader, particularly a new trader, waiting on the side lines for the right opportunity is no fun.  

Most neophyte traders will likely immediately seek a new place to park their BTC as an investment. Right now, there is no question Blackcoin, Darkcoin, and Whitecoin are in a fierce competition for a limited amount of BTC which is within the exchanges and at play to trade with. Those very BTC are the necessary fuel for any and all growth. Lack of new BTC being fed into an altcoin means stagnation... And traders, particularly the new ones, "must" see action in order to feel they are "in the game".

Thus a coin that meerly churns, meaning no new influx of BTC, will likely trade sideways, resulting in boredom, which psychologically progresses into anxiety. This anxiety, or felling that missed opportunities are passing at every moment as their altcoin investment meerly treads water inevitably leads to selling off and looking for a new and better play.

--- CONSIDER THE FACTS OF WHAT HAS OCCURRED WITH WHITECOIN

The information, or disinformation that has been posted about Whitecoin lacks credibility In my opinion for a number of reasons.

1.) Timing:  The release of this so called "highly critical and important information", information by which caused mass panic, was released to the public in the middle of the night on a Saturday/Sunday. A time most likely when the actual developers would be either asleep or out to dinner, or putting the kids to bed,  and not available to respond to what was being posted.

What professional developer would seriously disseminate important information to his community in the middle of the night on a weekend.  And if so, why would he only do so only on this forum and on twitter, using brand new accounts with little to no posts.  

Lastly, why would he chose not to post this also on his own website?

These factors in terms of timing are the main reason the information these posters provided I find to be highly suspicious and untrue.

2.) Users:  All of the disinformation posted was posted by brand new accounts created within hours of the release of the said information. These users claimed to be a part of the development team.

I consider this also to be highly suspect of foul play.

3.). PoW to PoS Transition:  Whitecoin recently finalized its mining phase, and has now entered into its Proof of Stake phase.  This switch occurred less than 72 hours ago.  

With any major switchover, there were some minor bugs that were immediately resolved.  

New PoS multipools were being set up by pool operators independent of Whitecoin. New pools almost always have things to work out as in a matter of hours the user load increases by huge amounts.

The timing of this suspect information coincided with these minor issues, issues which in fact all coins have faced during a transition phase.  I personally believe the attackers of Whitecoin timed their attack to exploit these minor bugs and add to any already existing stress within the Whitecoin community.

To Note: Most, if not all of these minor issues have since been resolved.

--- REALITY

Whitecoin is now priced at levels that offer unprecedented opportunities to traders. This opportunity has been made available to the entire altcoin community at the expense of those who sold off and likely realized losses in their Whitecoin investments.

The price levels we are seeing right now allow traders to get in at severely undervalued price points and ride the "rocketship" as many coiners call it, as the coin begins to recover.

You have to remember:  Coins like Blackcoin and Darkcoin were both at one point in time worth less than 1000 Satoshis.  Yet these coins managed to skyrocket in value to levels of 90,000 and 500,000 respectively.

The truth is this growth is impossible to sustain.  10,000% returns are now 100% impossible to see again with both Blackcoin and Darkcoin. If you didn't get in weeks ago, I'm sorry you missed the boat.

Whitecoin however is a clearly different story.  

1.) Whitecoin is perhaps the most publicized and rapidly accepted altcoin to hit the exchanges in months.  Within a few weeks time it had been added to virtually all of the major exchanges, as well as listed on BitcoinWisdom. This alone is unprecedented.

2.) Whitecoin is the only one of the three "shadecoins", that being White, Dark, Black; that can actually grow by leaps and bounds. 1000%, 10,000%, 50,000% is certainly possible. This is what both Blackcoin and Darkcoin were able to achieve, but have since fallen considerably and become less attractive to the investment community. Whitecoin is the new kid on the block, he's gotten a lot of attention recently, and the other 2 shades aren't too happy their values have since been dropping as Whitecoin sucked up a lot of the volume and Market Cap.

Now considering all three of these coins are speculative investments; as are ALL altcoins, there being still no mainstream acceptance in terms of being used as a payment method, you have to ask yourself this question...

--- Why invest in any altcoin?

- If you are investing in altcoins for the mere point of being a part of a world changing shift of how money is treated and transacted, invest in coins you see as having unique features or philanthropic aspects which appeal to your personal aspirations. You aren't in this for the money. You want to change the world. Honestly, I applaud you.

- If you are investing and trading to make money, and capitalize on as much value growth as possible resulting in huge returns, you should be looking for oversold, underpriced options.

These coins will be the ones that go from 700 to 250,000 and make you rich.  A coin like Darkcoin would have to rise at its current price by a factor of 250 times to see the same growth... Growth that is a very real possibility with Whitecoin. That means that Darkcoin would have to near reach the price of Bitcoin. Personally, I do not see that as being even the most remote possibility.

MY CONCLUSION

 The Blackcoin and Darkcoin ships have sailed. They made people who got in early and held for the months it took for the coin to go from 1000 to astronomical levels very rich.  Blackcoin in particular took roughly 32 days to move from its final 900 level to 90,000.  32 days. It takes time. Those that bought and held, I am sure are now buying very nice houses.

The past 24 hours have been filled with garbage posts which have no reliable information and lack integrity from all angles.

Whitecoin in my opinion is the next player in what I refer to as HyperGrowth Capitalization. Growth that will make millionaires out of ordinary people. It may take 32 days as it did with Blackcoin, or even longer as in the case of Darkcoin. If you remember Bitcoin took years. However,  It is the only coin as of right now that has the realistic potential to see such gains.  It has a strong community.  It's developers are actively engaged in promoting and advancing the coin into the future.  It's incredibly oversold on bad information. I wish I had more BTC to buy in.

But only time will tell. Don't take my words for the holy grail. But also don't listen to most of the negative  information you will likely find on the Whitecoin board. Do research. Be a smart investor. Don't risk what you can't afford to lose.

You can follow me on Twitter @Stratobitz   I frequently post tips on what's breaking out, as well as what I feel is likely to correct or crash.

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Best of luck to all.

Strato

Nice but you forgot to talk about the hottest one of all!!!

The Badger which is Dark, White and Black at the same time.

Anyway nice writting...

Thanks. Unfamiliar with that one but will look into it.

Lumping these 3 coins together for one essay is stretching it, they are all different. You want to talk long term investments and your suggestion is to invest in Whitecoin? Come on it's an EXACT copy of BlackCoin, except has it has a much less competent dev and no real plans for the future. DarkCoin is poised to be a game changer with DarkSend and you'd be blind to deny that.

This basically sounds like you have a lot of Whitecoin you'd like to unload at higher prices, in which case I'm sorry :P.

Shady statements for shady essay?

The essay makes no attempt to differentiate the coins based on their features, it focuses on the last 24-48 hours of how the coins, particularly Whitecoin, has been tampered with by price manipulation.

And yes, I do own Whitecoin. I sold off the rest of my Blackcoin this morning when I saw the price had dipped to 700s.  I have never owned Darkcoin and do not plan to.

In the interest of transparency, so that people can have information before they decide what to do with their hard earned btc, exactly how much whitecoin do you hold? Still 3 million?

Slightly over now. I sold the last of my BC this morning. 

All that Darkcoin has in common with the other two is the "coin" in the name.

It's an X11 coin. X11 is the future, and Hirocoin is going to come up as a winner.... stronger devs, stronger PR, stronger marketing.

Other than that I think you wrote a pretty cool article. Yes, a lot of FUD and slander is spread by competitors. It's all very tiring and depressing, heh.

https://bitcoinwisdom.com/markets/mintpal/wcbtc

Correction. Whitecoin fine. It's already recovering.

I would disagree. I read the darkcoin white paper, not that impressed.

I'm more particularly interested in the new GHOST protocol, but that may be weeks or months down the road before we see it actually implemented into altcoin.

excellent post, although some bits might be a bit controversial :)

-1 this was a promo for whitecoin and to get people to invest in a coin without a dev

Thank you for this excellent, insightful, and well thought out response.

I believe my essay addresses exactly you and your reply.

Users with only one or two posts of activity, spreading information which are pure lies.

Need I say more?

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If you thought climbing from 785 to 922 was impressive. Wait for the correction from the updated wallet. W/ PoS.

No, this was just a CLEAR plug for WhiteCoin. You barely even mention DRK or BC...  :o :o :o ;D ;D :D :D :D :D lol joke -15 points for fail plug

I like this part...


Completely ignoring that this is a worldwide community with devs and people in all possible timezones. When one goes to sleep another one wakes up etc. What was night in America is lunch-time in Europe, hence this is should not to be considered in any way to have any part of a masterplan to WC.

Altcoins are traded for the most part in Western countries. The Americas, and Europe. Releasing this information at roughly 10 PM on a Saturday night meant that most of America was not at the computer desks to see the release of this information, and Europe was probably not yet even waking up as it was the wee early hours on Sunday morning.

If you wish to consider moving farther eastward the timing was also suspect, again early Sunday into Sunday afternoon is not an ideal time to release such information via suspect accounts with no past post history.

The essay in no way attempted to demonstrate the features of the coins themselves. It is an analysis of past 24 to 48 hours of what has occurred within the ShadeCoin (White Dark Black) community as a result of posts on this forum and Twitter.

Nice essay, +1 i wanna sent you a bcc coin get your wallet, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=570750.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=570750.0)

Word is spreading fast...

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Totally agree.

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950-1085.

I dunno, your only valid point is that cheap coins have much more growth potential than expensive ones. Dozens of cheap coins currently exist, why whitecoin?

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I see potential price increases in WC possible, but do you really think it will stabilize with BC? At most, I see it trading at 1/4 of whatever BC trades with at that time, which would $0.035 a coin at this time. We're talking about x7 growth possible at current levels. x24 if BC hits at stays at 100k satoshi again. I think people are going to be getting maybe new car money and not house money  ;D

A coin will not do that on hype. BC and Drk both offered new ideas, the next rocket will also. WC may pump to 5k then fizzle, that would be best case in my opinion.

I think the point is Whitecoin is going to go nothing but up over next few weeks.

Wow Whitecoin moving up really well.

Hence this thread is a pump thread.

Seriously 99% of the coins are scamcoins....backed by nothing but hype. All colour coins are scams.

Nice sum of the current events with the Quick POW/POS/Multipool Model.

I think the future of any of these coins is going to be a battle of hashes on the multipools and we will see DDOS attacks increase as the older ones popularity waxes and wanes.  This is the bloodsport of economics.   

Does any altcoin really have a strong argument for that yet?   I don't think so.  Not until there is greater adoption of BTC en masse.  

MaxwellCoin has some very interesting ideas, but not much is known yet. Until it's less hush hush we will just have to wait and see.

As with all ALTs as well.

Many thanks!

Yes it's moving up so nicely

https://i.imgur.com/MwONAzC.png

Very good post mate, very good indeed. I personally believe the alt-coin war will end someday and the vistorious coin (out of all the coins) will still be Bitcoin. There is no doubt that the future of the global trade, money transfers, and technology lays within Bitcoin.