I'll be buying more of both when the time arises, I enjoy adding fuel to the "bubble's" fire.

I just think when people were screaming "Flippening" this time around it was a perfect example of over-exhuberence caused by a very fast rise.
 Irrational emotions made everyone get all excited inside about driving an Ethereum-bought Lambo and didn't have much ground in actuality. Even if it does have a bigger marketcap, it won't last long this early in the game. We're in a bubble though so anything can happen.

It's just like Ripple. You can't tell me Ripple is suddenly relevant again after all these years? The vast majority of the coins are "locked up", out of the coins that ARE in circulation, how many of them just sit there? I can't think of any worse, more faked trading on a coin than that. A bank wouldn't even use Ripple, they'd use the technology but not the actual Ripple system. Why pay the fees & relinquish control to internet trolls when they can control the whole network and name it WellsFargoCoin?

When is the Ripple flippening coming? Can we call it the "Rippling'?  

I'm sure we will be right back to square #1 next time bitcoin decides to make a run for 3k+ and talking flippening again. I own both so I have skin in both games, I just enjoy a good gladiator show.

Why is it that Ethereum and all other alts keep dropping as Bitcoin drops? Is it because big daddy bitcoin still runs the show while all the little shillings run around screaming flippening?

It was cute to watch you try though! 

Alot of people don't like to admit it, but really any cryptocurrency's value comes from thin air. We humans decide it has value. All it takes is two humans to decide something has value in order for that item to have value. This applies to digital currencies, commodities, art work, music, advertising, products, nearly anything out there.

Even with stocks, one stock can be valued more than the other, and not every time are these values placed among things that currently exist. Tesla is a good example at the moment, DDD/SSYS is another good example from the past. Their inflated value came from expected future prospects, most of which never came to fruition. That's how one company with "great future prospects" but horrible current prospects can have a huge marketcap purely because everyone expects it to do well "in the future".

this doesn't mean cryptocoins don't have value, because they clearly currently do atm, it just goes to show how much of this is human psychology and doesn't really come down to any sort of valuation metric. It's valuable because 20k-whatever people currently say it is haha.

Think beanie babies & pokemon cards...

I think we are currently in the largest virtual game of chicken known to man.

We are all speeding towards a solution yet everyone is being stubborn and acting like they are not going to accept it. I expect a last minute "swerve" to a scaling solution. It's in everyone's best interest to play hard ball at the moment, it's the art of negotiation.

When it comes down to it though, we all have the same goal... the longevity of bitcoin.

awesome, hopefully it will have Tor integration so the creepers/serial killers can have fun too. Wouldn't want them to feel left out of an anonymous booty market.

There's lots of ignorant fish in the pond at the moment, makes sense they would do this style of attack at this current time.

Lol, blatent advertisement. You got to try harder than that.

Question, so without someone hosting the original client you will not be able to access it? I've seen sites like Gatehub, are these the only way normal people store their Ripple?

Also, by using payroutes, are they able to see my private keys? Do we have to trust them?

Hey, if someone included my name on a list that I didn't approve of then sent me millions of dollars I'd play dumb too haha.

What list? Oh thisss money?  

Just goes to show exactly how "professional" the people we are dealing with actually are.

Also, I checked the Stellar Lumen airdrop page like 9 days ago and it says that the air drop was going to be on July 4th (it changed from June 27th). I'm starting to think I'm experiecing the Mandela effect...

Why the "buy Monero?"

Is this a warning or an advertisement?

How does it work?

Quick guys, find pictures of VB on vacation so we can put him on blast too!

OMG! Charlie Lee is enjoying his life while I'm sitting here waiting for Charlie Lee to change my life?!?! WTF CHARLIE LEE! GIB ME MONIESS

Enough said lol.

This is a perfect example of why SN doesn't want you to know who he is

I agree with you, I think it's quite funny that people actually prefer a ICO coin over a airdrop to btc holders. Either way the person with the most money wins. I'd rather have the developer have all his value in his coin than for him to be given value in other coins for a coin he created that has no proven value yet.

I also like to look at Decred & Nem, most noobies wouldn't have even held onto their coins if they did get them. It always gets consolidated to large holders with a mix of small medium-term holders, otherwise we'd have a bunch of noobies running around with 200k worth of Nem atm.

You are better off trying to find coins that haven't been pumped, have decent features & heavy volume & holding it for a few months to catch a larger rise.

Most of these pump & dumps go like this:

owners of the chat buy thousands of coins @ the normal price, they then put in staggered offers to sell in higher than they bought for. After that, they release the "pump" to the chat and the same people buying are the ones giving the chat owner all of his profit. The only people that win are truly is the chat owner, plus a few other "lucky" ones.

I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure XCP (counterparty) is another one.

Lol X[) That's funny dude, watch it pop up in the ANN next week.

safest ICO = oxymoron.

The safest ICO to participate in is none of them. Just wait for the coin to hit exchanges and find it's true price.

To me, ICO's are just another way to scam people with vaporware.

Brainwallets are obsolete because people figured out how to comb through them with brute force attacks. There was a really interesting video on it on youtube.

The Brainwallets site shut down after that. Some of the more techy folk might be able to help you though, hopefully someone will come by shortly

Im expecting some definite turbulence after August. It wouldn't surprise me to see 1500 again during these times. It also wouldn't surprise me if this is when ETH's marketcap finally outpaces Bitcoin as people try to escape the "crash". That being said, I have full confidence that bitcoin will continue rising purely because of the natural progression of bubbles.

If one BTC can be valued at 2500 today with all of it's problems, the enthusiasm bitcoin will have after these issues are taken care of might drive us higher.

As long as google trends shows a rising interest in bitcoin, and there's no "Mt Gox" type of news coming out (I can't deny that a poorly organized hard fork could be exactly this type of news), I will be bullish. I tend to think that most of these rises are caused by new people figuring out about bitcoin and starting a mania.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=bitcoin

It has very little to do with the underlying technology and a hell of alot more to do with human psychology. That's how TSLA and cryptocoins can hold speculative value because of their FUTURE prospects, regardless of how hard it will be to acheive or how well their business is currently doing. Most humans are too lazy to sit down and figure out the probability of something happening.

For instance, most of the people entering the bitcoin space atm don't even know how to use a BTC address. I've seen so many screenshots of "Coinbase wallets" and I tell every single person not to store it there. I've been offered $250 to buy coins from Polo and send to their wallet so they don't have to learn. This is our competition. Don't think too hard about it, I can promise they aren't haha.