MEW has always been safe to use, whatever split that may or may not happen should never affect this. If it did, it would ruin both reputations of either side of the split. Just as with any crypto project, if differences happen, as they often do, the users should not be the ones to suffer. Same as with what happened with the splits in ETH, the splits in Bitcoin. People go different ways, that's all. Nothing to endanger MEW itself, so don't worry.

How about I suggest a different take on what you consider as worthy. Instead of going backwards, try going forwards, starting with you yourself as a cryptocurrency user and adopter.

- are you interested in the project idea?
- will you ever use it as it was meant to be and not just hold it or trade it?
- will you be participating in their network and community?

If no to all above, move on.

Your signature looks awry, OP, and by the way, we can all do hedging on our own, without leaving it to the hands of someones as clueless as us. You want to make profits from commission? Then just sell yourself as a trading platform and investment portfolio. Hedging in crypto provides misleading data and analytics because almost every top200 coin made money in the past year (I want to say 100% but I could be wrong). Diversify, that's the hedging we all do.

"Best" is going to be very difficult to determine. In my country, and I believe our neighbors are the same, there are government bonds (they're called mutual funds or public trust funds but they work basically like government bonds) that bear a lot more interest than bank deposits. But they're "limited" and restricted to a long waiting list generally.

So if you invest in fiat or you convert some crypto to local currency, make sure you look at your government offerings, they can be better than banks and guaranteed by the state. In my case, for past 6 years, I've earned >5% interest annually, distributed and compounded every quarter... including bonuses I've made almost 50% of my fiat investment in just 6 years. It's not too bad.

And that's the problem isn't it? Bitcoin and crypto is still seen as a game, with even people like you calling its network participants as players. Countries banning Bitcoin aren't actually that many, by the way, and are such a minority they would never affect Bitcoin. If anything, banning it makes it even more difficult to obtain, and probably drives prices up.

Many people don't trust Bitcoin anyway, that's why they all view Bitcoin as "a game".

You might have noticed that the dips are reaching higher and higher lows in the past month since correcting back from 6k. Obviously there will always be profit taking at 11 and 12k, for those traders looking to book in easy 10 to 20% profits buying just below 10k, but soon there will be those buying at 10.5 k looking to sell at 12.5 and 13, so you can definitely expect it to climb higher... unless more people sell off for alts and liquidity. If Monday we see 12k, prepare for 13, to 15. before correcting back to 11 and 12.

What a really sad turn of events for Cryptopia. When I first started using it, I was really attracted by the fact that it was one of the few based not in US, Asia or even Europe. And by the looks of it at the time, a real community growth with decent management and developers. I knew it was going into problems, but had high hopes when the management was taken over that it could turn around. Delayed withdrawals were understandable but delayed deposits?

Never heard of conqueror and I still don't really believe in all these privacy coins like Pivx and Verge, when Monero clearly leads the charge in terms of utility. I would not ignore how Verge made solid gains, though, so I'm going to do myself a favor and look up this coin. Three threads in one day about Zoin must mean it's about to pump... or about to get dumped.

Now that I come across this thread, I think I recall seeing a number of lottery based ICOs around. Makes me wonder how do projects launch? Some guy sees an interesting idea and tries it, and everyone else tried to compete? I recall firelotto, which is live already.

Lotteries are okay. Gotta convince all those retired people who are the lottery demographics to move on to crypto. But they all want to play for millions in Jackpot though, so they don't really buy the "transparency" benefits for small jackpots.

Why don't you just run an ICO legitimately? There are some good resources on how to host your token on Waves for example, which would mean you get actually distribute AND sell your token across the decentralized exchange (dex). You see, if you use Yobit, then okay you get it quick and easy maybe, but then you will only be able to trade your tokens on yobit... which means you're stuck there.

Did you try direct in the chat? I think you need to have a balance of 100k satoshi in your active deposit, then you can use the chatbox. I haven't been to yobit in a while but I distinctly recall that you could chat in there and ask for admin, if they're around they usually respond directly. No harm trying right? They have always responded when I tried but that was some months ago.

Wow. This was not expected not by me anyway. I've never used Circle but I remember it because a lot of people used to make 5% or 10% of it for every Circle to fiat conversion (there used to be a small bonus when circle started out).

I wouldn't call it "revolutionizing" the support though. All exchanges just need to learn how to SCALE. Circle will run into the same issues if they don't scale.

Bitcoin an investment tool, eh? I guess that is how a lot of people view them now.

Will it increase in coming time? Yup. Will it decrease? Also yup. If it only goes in one direction, it's either dead or it's a scam.

Remember, the only problem with value now is everyone sees it as a profit machine, investment asset. Whatever.

But if you really believe in it, and want it to continue growing, use it. Add value to it by spending it, selling it, exchanging it, accepting it.

Um yes. Let's buy an expensive piece of device with a lifespan of probably 2 years to mine cryptocurrency while we chat on Whatsapp. Samsung, I know you're innovative but we don't need hipsters to mine Monero while they create filtered emoticons for their hipster buddies. What's next? A Samsung cloudmining phone for everyone to get in on the crypto craze? Oh wait, maybe an ICO and 10 utility tokens to power a smartphone mining ecosystem.

I believe you have a fair point, and I would think a year is enough for things to recover in crypto but the climate must have changed now because crypto is really entering mainstream in terms of trading. Previously, whales and traders were the ones who made sells and buys, so when they went to sleep, the market slowly rose to new demand. But now, a lot of people are daily speculating and so are ICO token holders. Might wake up next year and find the market went on the bull run and retraced back again.

I know. Sometimes I can be harsh in this environment, but I guess I am reacting to the way all the friends around me have started to come into crypto. I come from a place where even something like a new iphone can make people go crazy, and when someone has a new bike or a new car, everyone thinks wow, he is so successful.

I didn't make very much in crypto, but I am proud of what small amounts I did make and that's for all the hard work I put into it. Some friends think I just sit down and let the money roll in. I think we really need to help newbies understand that crypto is serious stuff.

Old news guys. Putin already gave the rap to his central bank head last year for being harsh on crypto. Putin's not an idiot, whatever people may think. He may not want to give freedom to crypto but he knows if he bans it, it'll just go underground. Russia already has earmarked industrial regions with nuclear power, by the way, for mining crypto companies. Soon, it will be the cheapest electricity anywhere in Europe.

Same risks all the same, evening out in the end. None of these alts we're talking about are truly being used by people. Even if Ripple tech succeeds in enterprise/banking use, the coin itself does not need to be used. The way I see it, Ripple's believers will hope the company will turn things around if it stays at this price for too long. That just makes this a good profit coin for the short term. Long term, these are all pure pretenders. Get ready to prove me wrong, I won't mind.

Er, no. If you think you can just do leisurely activities while earning from trading then you're in for a hard time. Work hard, have a career, do something useful with your life. That's the real world of grown ups. You think the whales and devs just sit back and play game, forget about their coins and come back when it hits x100 and they become millionaires? They have real jobs and real families. They focus on that. There's nothing easy in this world. That's what people mistake crypto for.

Well I certainly hopes he comes back and repeats his prophecy about the end of days. I want crypto to stay low and even lower like this for this entire year, so I can accumulate while it's still cheap. I just realized now I'm almost one year into seriously going into Bitcoin, and I don't fully own even 1 Bitcoin yet. Does it make me angry? Sort of, because I would have had much more than 1 btc if the prices didn't go so crazily high.

My friends and I started a small pool, together we have about 5 BTC, but that's more than 5 people and I'm the smallest share. I want my share to be 1 BTC so please come back and drive prices down!