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10321  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: ICO Due Diligence - get your ICO reviewed on: April 14, 2018, 11:21:38 AM
Hundreds of ICO reviews means you had to do 1 every day. Proper due diligence is a full time job, I doubt you can push them all out with quality with 1 daily. And why do so many reviews? Why not select a few based on initial criteria and then do proper reviews? Isn't basic screening part of due diligence, after all?

Edit: I just looked myself and these are not really reviews. Just a checklist, which is only one of many tools in due diligence. And you also have sponsored reviews. That's a conflict of interest. You can't have sponsored content and rate ICOs without bias.
10322  Economy / Gambling / Re: Australia banned gambling. Who's left? on: April 14, 2018, 08:07:08 AM
...

I can use VPN buy and sell in cryptos and play online gambling there's no chance of them finding out.
...

. How many people donīt even know what a VPN is yet alone are
able to use one?



90% people that play with cryptos knows about VPN

I'll be amazed that you actually believe that people who gamble online wont know about VPN, this is one of the most basic thing that people coming to gambling know. There're many countries which does'nt allow gambling yet using VPN they gamble highest. See for me if a gambler really wants to bet he'll find a way. As far as the condition in Australia is there any further update regarding the situation or there's been no new news till date?

Actually, a few guys I know who USE VPN don't realize that's what they're doing. These aren't old people either, just a few years around my age. They use mobile phones and internet a lot, social media and all that, and use VPNs but the simple add ons like with browser extensions or phone apps. They don't even realise it's a VPN they just know it lets them surf places the government won't let them.

So... yeah I'm not surprised if ppl don't realize. You say VPN they say huh?
10323  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: How do I find the next big thing like Bitcoin? on: April 13, 2018, 06:47:50 PM
I've got good news for you! The next big thing is still Bitcoin. Remember when people all felt they totally missed the train in December and January? The same feeling of trains missed came throughout Bitcoin's history. When people missed it at $10, at $30, at $100... but every dip gives you the perfect chance to get back into the game for the gains that will surely come. Just buy, hold, and don't hold your breath:)
10324  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: We want the "smartest" contract on: April 13, 2018, 01:43:57 PM
Hi. Check out www.aegissmartcontracts.com. We are building a smart contract security platform there that will allow code authors to conduct reasonably priced triple audits (expert audits, automated audits and bounty program audits) and receive certification that assures their investors and users that their smart contracts have been thoroughly audited for all known bug and vulnerabilities. Download the whitepaper too. Any feedback you have is greatly appreciated.

Ah, smart contracts. You love them or you don't. I'm really interested to be honest, in good utilization of smart contract tech. Personally have tested a couple of extremely simple ones (with myself) and loved the idea. But every now and then, you read about poorly constructed smart contracts... or shall I say dumb contracts. Parity's ETH smart contracts is the one that reminds me the most about how dangerous these can be.

What's the certification you provide? Good idea for auditing and certification, but since there is no standard, how do we benchmark?
10325  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: Need Help with Setup of Altcoin Masternodes? I can help you! on: April 13, 2018, 05:31:12 AM
Interesting website. I was considering masternodes last year for at least two alts I owned/held, both PoS coins. As it turned out, I lost interest in them but would probably have gone on the masternode tour had a service likes yours popped up.

Question: Setting the MN up might be all well and good... but what happens if or WHEN we run into trouble? I could be ready to get my VPS and all that on my own, after the setup, we pay $50 every time we need your help?
10326  Economy / Speculation / Re: What Happen Bitcoin OMG 8100$ ?? on: April 12, 2018, 06:56:05 PM
Eh what? I just missed that! And now I see the news. 1K in just 60 minutes. Been such a long time since we saw this kind of spike, 15% or more? Anyone came up with the specific reason yet? Volume also peaked I see. We going to say it's Wall Street again? Thought them moneybags were already lined up with brokers, so it's got to be whales on exchanges.

Today it looks like someone wanted to trigger a "bull run sentiment", or at least trigger some FOMO, or perhaps the whales wanted to wipe out shorters?  (i'm going with the latter Cheesy )

Looks like it didn't work though. Probably everyone rushed to take profits at 8k, too tempting not to.
10327  Economy / Gambling / Re: BITDICE - 🎲🎲🎲 Treasure Chest Is Back! 🎰🎰🎰 on: April 12, 2018, 12:08:18 PM
Gambler of this kind really win your respect that's a huge bet and a sweet happy ending to. Miracles keep happening only at bitdice lol.

That's a good notification pop up having people know what they can play, this way all can know which game to play as per their location, so if one is traveling will he be allowed to play games that were restricted to him before right.


Not sure about respect, but certainly admiration! I know I'm a gambler myself and also prone at times to taking unnecessary risks, but I've also experienced first hand a couple of friends who just go overboard, borrowing money to place crazy bets. Winning doesn't even solve their problems as the more they win the crazier they get until they go bust. Sometimes I wondered if it was really to win something big or if they just liked the rush and pats on the back from people who congratulated them if they won big.

Still! Crypto is different as they are plenty of crypto millionaires who didn't spend life savings to get their bags.
10328  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Monero Original will Support the Original Monero Blockchain on: April 12, 2018, 08:36:18 AM
Seems weird to me. Doesn't support for original just means staying on the original blockchain? Anyway, I actually surprised myself by not even reading up about all the Monero forks. I guess all the Bitcoin forking just put me off even the idea of a fork. Hoping that people learnt their lessons was naive, in the end the promise of short term profits was enough to keep people forking.

When has PoW tweaks ever prevented ASICs from eventually breaking it anyway? And when will an ASIC ever want to mine a tweaked Monero?
10329  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: GEOCACHE AFRICA 2018 .1BTC is yours for the taking on: April 11, 2018, 08:59:11 AM
Hate to bump my own thread, but the money is still just sitting there.
You should advertise it in the local newspapers Smiley
I would be happy to go to a trip to the location but to get there and to get home would cost much more than the value of the bitcoins in the wallet (maybe if the price of bitcoin will rise again around $20.000 there would be more interest finding that wallet...)
Yes, not really profitable to do that.  Cheesy

However, I will not be moving this for a year. If the price goes to $40K the game is still on. It would be funny if the price did skyrocket and someone got a free vacation to Africa. But even if it goes to a million... So be it. 

Yeah, back when it was $11,xxx I was debating on traveling there, I looked at tickets and it was going to cost me around $1,500 and I was thinking if it remains in the 11k range I'd go because the flight would cost me $400 out of pocket after finding the btc, and I could enjoy an African vacation on the cheap and make awesome memories because I'd definitely do a lot of exploring around different countries, but since it's fallen to the $6,xxx levels I don't think it's as feasible right now but still loving this idea and I do hope someone finds it and has an awesome story to tell!

Rodeo I do think it's people like you that are trying to keep the community active that will help bitcoin in the long run, I think what you're trying to do now is the equivalent of what Gavin did in the early days with the first faucet that gave out 5 btc for free, getting people into it and new interest Smiley

I would love to go to Africa, or for a fact, I would love to travel anywhere. Even with cheap flights now though, vacationing with a family is too expensive. I could probably make it alone, but then someone has to take care of my family as they are old and need daily care. I think it's fine that it can and should sit there until someone is willing to make the trip.

Perhaps as OP says, maybe it reaches a million and then I myself can even consider such a trip. Not so much about the prize money right now, but who knows, one day?
10330  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: 2018 is stabity year ? on: April 10, 2018, 06:21:45 PM
The big bankers and wall Street traders actually entered the market last year, just not openly as it now surfacing all over the news. That does explain partly the boom and all the new instruments introduced towards the end of last year (futures especially).

But point taken is yes, this could be the year of stability. Take away the January shock, and we're looking at prices of Bitcoin especially over the last few weeks still within 20 to 30% movement. It's not the crazy 50% or more ups and downs we were used to. Or maybe I'm just desensitized haha.
10331  Economy / Gambling / Re: UniversalBitGoldLottery.com |"Where dreams become true"|The highest chances. on: April 10, 2018, 04:42:03 PM
Just my comment: Unlimited tickets doesn't translate to highest chances of winning. The best lotteries can only be determined when you calculate the total prize winnable (jackpot) after commissions. Freebitco.in also has a free lottery with unlimited tickets and a pool that's growing as people buy. I would say the chances there are quite decent if you take into account you can just collect rolls and points for lottery tickets!
10332  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Coins aren't stock...or am I missing something? on: April 10, 2018, 12:50:05 PM
You are missing a lot.  I think you need to read up on what coins are actually out there.  There are some that have no utility but you are plain wrong in stating that the number is 99%.  Most people that are investing in altcoins are hoping that the price will rise.  No one is doing it for the dividends.  Maybe for the staking, but not the dividends.

Sorry, have to disagree here. I own two alt tokens for dividends. Which I have already been paid out for in one, and awaiting the other. OP is correct in saying that we shouldn't see them as stocks. These dividend tokens CAN BE compared to stocks, in that they represent some form of dividend distribution. But not company ownership or voting rights (but some alt projects have this actually).

You should look up coins that have already paid out dividends or some form of profit sharing.
10333  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Is it wiser to invest on Bitcoin or on Ethereum? on: April 10, 2018, 08:11:03 AM
I've read an article that discusses things like this (sorry without link : because i don't remember). As I read in that article, it's provides a solution to buy ethereum. Because stock bitcoin stayed a little and limited, different with ethereum it have a lot of stock and its unlimited. So it can be deduced more wisely if invested into ethereum.

Just to clarify, what you mean is supply. Bitcoin has a finite supply and Ethereum doesn't (but understand this better and you see that supply actually isn't realistically stuck at any point for either. Bitcoin is divisible to 8 decimals and Ethereum isn't going to be super mineable forever even now developers are fixing the algorithm.

In any case, ridiculous to say you're choosing based on inflationary and deflationary values. You might like Dogecoin best then?
10334  Economy / Gambling / Re: Pornhub Casino now accepting bitcoin and many other cryptocurrency! ph.casino on: April 10, 2018, 08:00:07 AM
Read the scam accusation against Pornhub but I think the full picture isn't available. Porn is the biggest profit making industry online, talking about trillions. Pornhub itself makes hundreds of millions. And now they add casino so that's two big industries in one place.

To scam a player of 6k doesn't make sense, especially when they paid him out 15k already. Need more information on that user. There is no casino that doesn't have a scam accusation.
10335  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Litecoin to 400$ on: April 09, 2018, 06:19:14 PM
Litecoin has been up 900% since 1 year ago https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/litecoin
ok if it actually hits $400 we need a full blown bull market
market like this wont sustin it

Something people conveniently forget when talking down crypto! Most of the established coins have been here for a long time, in Litecoin we're talking almost about the oldest major alt around. But yeah, market like this won't see $400, not especially after the recent bad news about Litepay. And to see Charlie Lee himself apologize for the hype, that was sad. Litecoin really was one of the less hyped alts and that's kinda why I liked it in the first place.
10336  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Bountyhunters, be careful with twitter accounts on: April 09, 2018, 03:11:30 PM
You sure about that? I'm pretty sure verified accounts can still promote their own projects, but I guess it's better safe than sorry. I mean, how do you ban people like Roger Ver, Vitalik Buterin and Charlie Lee? Or even educators like Andreas M Antonopoulos? These guys are legit (not that I am supporting either) and the crackdowns I think are only on suspicious accounts.
10337  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Marketplace (Altcoins) / Re: Which one ? bch or btg on: April 09, 2018, 12:30:46 PM
None of the Bitcoin forks will ever be taken seriously. That's what I think. If you really want, you should choose Bitcoin Cash. They've got an army of people with money to sink to ensure its "success". All the forkcoin claims of being "true to Satoshi" or "true to bitcoin" are false. They just wanted their free pound of cryptoflesh. They got it. And their followers helped make them rich.
10338  Bitcoin / Press / Re: [2018-04-09] Spain's Tax Authorities Seek Crypto User Names and Bank Accounts on: April 09, 2018, 08:34:38 AM
This isn't something to be afraid of by the way. Tax authorities frequently do this in every country, it's basically their job. Crypto might be in the news now but they probably make up 1% of less (I'm just speculating). I have a family member who works with tax related agencies and they literally do this every day for hundreds of accounts. And that's just in a smaller country perhaps with not as much tax exertion as Spain.
10339  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Is it wiser to invest on Bitcoin or on Ethereum? on: April 08, 2018, 07:19:36 PM
No question that Bitcoin is the wiser investment - for the very foreseeable future. It's the first mover. That's all you need to know. And this isn't like an internet company (that was itself new but was just like any other company, except online and doing things with the internet. This is the father of crypto and blockchain, something that even today banks and people are struggling to accept and comprehend.

Time will tell if Ethereum will convince people that it is superior to Bitcoin, but that's many, many years away.
10340  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Survival of the fittest on: April 08, 2018, 06:36:19 PM
I think at the end of 2020 only the fittest coins will survive the cryptocurrency market. By fit, I mean the most use cases such as Ethereum. There will be market leaders like Ethereum, Bitcoin and others. And along with them the coins which serve to a whole particular industry which have already accepted the coin for their use will survive and rebuild the whole crypto world. 
I'm not so sure about this, yes most coins will disappear, but that is exactly what is happening right now and yet with have more than one thousand coins even if 90% of those coins disappeared what guarantees you that more coins are not going to appear in that time period? The truth is we must accept that for a very long time there are going to be thousands of projects that are not worth our time and there are trying to get our money just to enrich themselves.

I don't think he is saying that no new coins will come. Coins have died over the years, for sure. But this year will see a lot of ICO coins "die" or at least show signs of failure. By this, I mean that all those projects that raised millions will have been identifying targets on roadmap objectives this year and... if not met, their supporters will realize things aren't so healthy.

New coins will always enter, even more this year than ever before. But the days of every alt eventually growing will be past. And then we'll have to be much more careful.
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