There is not any kind of limit, first off you should get familiar with discord, the help you will get on this forum is extremely limited, you need to be able to get live help on discord.

Find the invite link on the first page of the thread

My guess would be that you have not updated to the most latest release of Polis, check to make sure you are on v1.4.1, note that a fork will happen at block 188328 so you want to get all your masternodes updated before then or you will be on wrong chain.

Top 3 most overused sayings in crypto:

1. Moon

2. Lambo

3. Sleeping Giant

You should re-name this thread to:

"Hey, we need another 500 page mega-thread of coin shilling"

If this post was on reddit:

poster1
-These are my top xxx,xxx,xxx

     poster2
     -xxx sucks, vaporware, my xxx so undervalued
       
          poster1
          -xxx has X amount of partnerships, do your research before you speak newb

             poster2 and poster1 ensue on a 30 post collapsed thread of comparing IQ's, spelling, grammer and eventually dick sizes.
             

I was down a lot in 2014 during the bear market, doing several of the things that OP had listed I was able to grind up my portfolio and eventually I am in the green as far as USD value but nothing near the ATH my portolfio made back in december 2017.

You just really have to be patient and find sold projects and try and make good trades, or you could just buy and hold, but being patient is key.

This list could very much be extended, most of the coins that you have listed fell under the category of HYIP (High yield investment programs). Almost all of these type of schemes were pretty much ponzi scheme's and had red flags even in the begining, bitconnect is a good example.

Now the thing to remember is that the word "scam" is thrown around in crypto vaguely (used to easily). For example comparing bitconnect to a something like Archcoin isn't a fair comparison because Archcoin was more of just a failed project rather than an outright scam.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=831777.1760
https://twitter.com/archcoin?lang=en

Many coins/projects in crypto will fail, making them just unsuccessful ventures rather than outright scams, on the other hand something like bitconnect had ill intentions from the begining.

Sigh...if you want to buy it when its up over 100% in the last 7 days then be my guest. How can you look at such a parabolic chart and wonder if its too late? Right now is literally the riskiest time to buy man(in the short term), sheez don't get FOMO so easily. If I was anywhere even close to a ripple shill I could probably find two articles or pieces of news to encourage you to buy and then you would most likely be holding the bag.

Also market cap valuation on CMC is skewed and shouldn't be taken so seriously, anyone could create a coin, sell it at a set price for an initial offering and when that coin hits the market and sells for X price (around ICO price) the market cap will be based off of that. So it's like anyone who creates a coin can set their own market cap.

Use this site for better and more accurate data:
https://onchainfx.com/

Im not exactly sure if it pays out on every review but I know that Revain is a token based on the review of ICOs.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2064640.0

If you really want to make money doing reviews you should think about a youtube channel which would be more of a long term commitment. But in the short term you could just simply bounty hunt like alot of people on this forum do. Check out the board below but also please be mindful of the rules and dont just become another spammer, actually take the time to research and know what ICO/project you are promoting.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0

I have been interested about any content coming out of the first ever Litecoin summit so thank you for sharing this, I listened to the whole show and it was interesting. I thought every speaker provided good context and insight.

I will say though that you guys did jump around quite a bit and I wish there was more discussion about Litecoin in general, but overall this was a good show and worth listening to if anyone has time. Find a quick recap below and added information about the speakers:

BTC Sessions @BTCbenny
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChzLnWVsl3puKQwc5PoO6Zg

CoinDaddy @RealCoinDaddy
https://coindaddy.io/

@KennethBosak
https://steemit.com/@kennethbosak
https://kennbosak.com/

They talk about the recent change in shapeshift where people now have to get a membership @3:20

Go into decentralized exchanges and the New York agreement ect @8:00

Talk about the Gemini stable coin @11:30

They get into taxes a bit @18:30

Trading Desk getting involved @26:00

Talk about BAKKT and institutional money @31:00

Talk about ETH and ICO, unregulated securities @38:00

Overall market view @44:00

They talk a little bit about Litecoin/Gemini/Binance @48:00

They have been first movers in the crack down of crypto scams, I have an immediate family member who works in law enforcement and I can tell you that the authorities in texas are very serious about finding and prosecuting ICO/Crypto scams.

They were the first state to put out a cease and desist order on bitconnect:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/texas-regulator-orders-bitconnect-to-cease-and-desist-marketing-securities

This kind of led to the downfall of bitconnect, nonetheless youtube promoters (scammers) were making videos the next days showing people how to use VPN to keep re-investing 

It's good to see authorities taking action but at the same time the SEC is hindering crypto innovation in the USA.

Well Etherdelta is a decentralized exchange and doesn't have the same security flaws that bitso may have, that could be debated based on the recent smart contract flaws in etherdelta, but nonetheless its still a DEX.

There is a huge trade off when using decentralized exchanges so its no surprise that you hated it, but its the cost of being decentralized....have you ever used crypto-bridge? That exchange is probably my least favorite to use, its a DEX and its like running poloniex back in spring 2017....extremely slow and constantly having to be refreshed.

Best exchange I have ever used is GDAX, now Coinbase PRO, extremely fast and never had an issue since 2013, worst exchange I ever used was either cryptsy or mintpal, both of those exchanges were hacked and screwed over all their users.

The bitcoin network has roughly 50,000 TH/s of computing power making sure that all the rules of protocol are enforced, the miners are enforcing the rules and backing the digital currency. The code itself dictates the supply, the code is open source and controlled by competent developers. People don't have to upgrade to new code if they don't want to making the system more decentralized then the FED or any central bank for that matter.


I will say that the supply of bitcoin and most crypto currencies is lop-sided to a small few, but that doesnt really mean the price is manipulated, shit we could debate if gold/silver price is manipulated. But not just anyone can manipulate the price, it would have to be whales or people with endless pockets. Anyone who has large sums of bitcoin is interested in the long term appreciation anyways. Short term market moves are irrelevant in crypto.


This has been refuted so many times, only a small portion of crypto is used for illicit activity, and only a small portion of cryptos are completely private, most have public chains where law enforcement can analyze and identify crypto users.

First off I don't think this post belongs in altcoin discussion, you would probably get much better advice if you just posted in Meta:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0

There is much better discussions about the current ecosystem of the forum on that board.

Secondly you need to focus more on the quality of your post and work on your english if you are not verse in it already. Don't post one sentence responses in threads where there are thousands of pages and post. You want to actually bring some substance to your post that engages others, if you are going to post in mega threads atleast post something unique and relevant to the topic or current state of the coin/project.

You will need merit to rank up, spend time reading and learning in meta board and improving your english, the more time you spend learning the better off you will be in crypto ecosystem.

I ran some test with google analytics a while back (maybe 2-3 months) and found that there was a huge amount of searches in nigeria and some other sub-Saharan countries, do you know if there is a lot of adoption happening in those countries?

Also I think that Nigerians were paying a high premium for a bitcoin a while back just like koreans were during the huge run up in late 2017.

What country do you live in?

If I were you I would see this as an incredible entrepreneurial opportunity, your English is good and you are posting on bitcointalk. That shows promise.

I live in the USA and I know I would have a tough time pitching bitcoin or other crypto's to people vs the USD, especially to baby boomers who have all their savings/investments in traditional assets.

For you though it probably is not the case, in my opinion you could have a legit business just preaching/teaching bitcoin basics.


They may not be interested in the tech, just show them that if they put their native currency into bitcoin or other cryptos how well it would have done in the past 5 years vs. their native currency!

The only barrier I think would be how they would spent it? Maybe there are some fiat gateways in your country that would allow them to?

Venezuela is a great example right now btw.

Been trying to stay away from mega threads lately but I just felt compelled to share this, was reading an article on coindesk this morning about the take down of alpha bay and the seizure of all of Alaxander Cazes's assets. From the article they talk about how they pretty much caught him red handed, exactly how they caught Ross with his laptop open and un-encrypted with all the evidence right there.

What I found really interesting was the description of his crypto assets, check out the quote from the article:

"Cazes possessed more than $8.8 million in cryptocurrencies pooled across 1,605.05 bitcoins, 8,309.27 ether, 3,691.98 zcash and an unknown amount of monero"

LOL, an "unknown" amount of monero, yall know he had to have a shit ton but what intrigued me was that they still didn't know how much, does this not show that in practice monero is and will be the most private crypto out there? I like Zcash and Monero but I believe Monero is inherently more private. What yall think?


Here is the article if anyone interested, front page of coindesk today, good read:
https://www.coindesk.com/us-court-seizes-lambo-and-crypto-millions-from-dead-dark-web-kingpin/

LoL...throw-a-way account much??

He/She has some heavy bags of ETH, no doubt

It is possible there is manipulation yall, the big dip to $180 was only AFTER bitmex introduced the eth swap and Arthur Hays says "Hey, this is your best chance to punt ETH", what he meant by that can be interpreted many ways...

https://www.trustnodes.com/2018/09/12/bitmex-accused-of-manipulating-ethereums-price

But as for ETH's future?....there is literally billions of dollars of ICO money built on top of the platform. That alone would help me sleep at night if I had a big bag of ETH.

Projects missing road map dates is common, I wouldn't let that give you a bad vibe dude. What coin is it? And which one are you looking to buy?

Remember that if bitcoin starts to rise then your altcoin will subsequently rise in USD price, so if you are looking at the -80% in USD you are also factoring in the price of bitcoin as well.....thats something to think about.

I know I wouldnt sell at an -80% loss unless it was pretty clear the project was dead, in these bear markets it's really easy to slip into a negative mindset and start to think that alot of altcoins will fair which i don't believe is the case.

Watch and listen what Jay Clayton chair of SEC has to say about crypto currencies in the video below from 2:03-2:30, he clearly states the differences between pure crypto currencies like bitcoin and ICO tokens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFr1ooaVPjY&list=PLDt0J62yU45vZ15bdGAmZuuyuLtd-MCxc


For several reasons, one being that before Ethereum it wasn't possible to launch a crypto token very easily. You would of had to launch your OWN coin on your own blockchain and have developers manage the chain and have miners support it, with ethereum anyone with a little bit of solidity knowledge could launch their own ICO token

The second reason I think is that because ICO tokens are or could be seen as a security, since most of them have companies behind them they fit the criteria Jay Clayton talks about above. Also in the traditional sense of crypto, ICOs are not a fair form of distribution. Take Bitcoin for example, there was no initial offering, everyone had the same chance to mine it or buy it, there was no exclusive rights to whales to buy it at a cheaper price like some of these ICOs run.

I would bet that 99% of bitcoin maximalist believe all ICOs are scams, some go so far as to say smart contracts themselves have no use.

The advantage is clearly that you can get a butt load of capital right off the bat but some of the disadvantages are probably being seen as a security and or the product/idea failing. Hope you found my answer helpful.

This guy is a typical one coin maximalist, he has said things like this before, earlier this year he said that he thinks 97% of all alt-coins are going to zero.....like really dude?

I don't understand where these people get this idea, sheez even bitconnect the biggest scam in crypto history still trades for .67c....and I am supposed to believe that projects like Waves, Komodo, NXT, NEO ect ect ect are going to go to zero?? How? 

These one coin maximalist in my opinion are no better than the type of people who make anonymous twitter accounts to shill one single coin 24/7. The only reason i can see him saying these things is to support his business which only deals in btc/bch.

You gotta remember also that a lot of altcoins made their all time highs in early 2018 because of the price of bitcoin, since most of them only have BTC pairs they were valued alot higher in USD. Hardly any alts made all time highs in BTC value in 2018, most of them did in 2017.

It's simple market pychology, too many people know they can make 2x-10x returns on their bitcoin by trading altcoins....therefore these altcoin markets will not cease to exist...why? because people are greedy and want more bitcoin.

Yup and if we get more ETF rejections the market will dump even harder. It really doesn't make a whole lot of sense dude, if there is one thing I have learned in my 4 years of crypto trading is that the market seems to act on its own and do irrational things.

I never understood why the altcoin market exploded in the spring of 2017, but it did, and there was really no catalysts for it. It made sense for bitcoin to rally but I never would have dreamed it would spike to 19k.

I think that because of the irrational exuberance of the retail market we will get those huge upsides but on the contrary experience crazy downsides too, like we are now.

What I wonder is if the days of massive volatility are over with because a lot of retail traders got hosed in this last cycle. What do you think?

I am sorry if your rewards have come to amount to nothing, but that is really the risk you take devoting your time and energy to some of these ICOs...nothing personal, I understand your frustration.

Things to keep in mind going forward though:

1. You only put forth your time and effort, not your hard earned money, so you lose noting but time

2. Just because they are not listed on an exchange yet doesn't mean they wont get listed in the future, there are a lot more crypto exchanges being created.

3. Try and only bounty hunt ICOs that have an already dedicated exchange partner, like cryptopia or hitbtc

I have dabbled a little bit with ICO bounties in the past but in some cases it really may not be worth the time and effort. The only way I can see it being worth it is if 1 of the ICOs you did some bounties for did really well in the long run.

Here is a thread of someone pretty much asking the same thing:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2661733.0

Seems like the only way to clear your wallet of wasted coins is just to send them to a burn address.