Tried it. Needs an email address to register, so you better not send me spam

Anyway, this isn't really Minesweeper at all, it's exactly like BitKong (I actually like Minesweeper type games) so I don't really feel like continuing unless there are better options to play. Might also want to change your motto. Lucrative isn't exactly typical for a casino, unless you've got great comps and giveaways. Top player already put down 0.01 BTC, so you're not doing too badly, I guess.

Why don't you just sign up an account and you can see for yourself? Exchanges do tend to not update their FAQs, since their fees do change together with how congested the network is performing. Anyway, the last time I withdrew (I don't use anymore) it was 0.001 BTC. This is actually pretty standard for the smaller exchanges. So yeah. It's 8 dollars. Same as Yobit. The bigger ones are quite cheap but haha, all are unreliable.

Er, all the coins are still standing. Some straighter than before (yes I know it's not possible to be straighter but never mind) and some stooping, but I can't see a single coin on its knees. To fall below a high is not a tragedy. To drop 60% is hardly cause for abandoning the ship. Not when you're still way ahead of schedule and way ahead of predictions.

Take Bitcoin that everyone's hitting on. With everything thrown at it: regulations, bans, governments, forks, splits. Surely it couldn't come out without some  injuries?

So many people get misinformed when they read about hackers and Bitcoin in the same line. Everyone should practice good security, this doesn't mean you have to be afraid of hackers. Just as you should always practice careful driving, no need to be afraid of bad drivers. Practice good personal security, no need to be afraid of thieves or kidnappers. Hackers exploit IT systems, they look for vulnerabilities and trick human users. Bitcoin itself has not actually been hacked and will not be for a long time.

So the only real difference is the finite supply... but as we already know by now, the capping of issuance doesn't necessarily equate to hard scarcity (now even with lightning network we can look at sub-satoshi micropayments for example). I really like Monero, and simply don't see the value of a hard fork which the community has never asked for. I won't even bother with trying to claim this one. Like people are saying, hardforks are happening when a coin gains popular use. Cheap free profits, let's not encourage it.

I somewhat agree about developers being in highschool that this should raise some alarms, but remember that Vitalik Buterin was still a teenager when he came up with the idea of a super network for decentralized apps. You need only to look around you to see how successful Ethereum has become and just how much money and interest it is going to continue generating for a long time.

What raises more alarms for me is how some teams actually are only full of corporate people - the same people that brought about banking problems and economic crisis. Are these people really suitable to lead decentralized projects? Or even know enough about blockchain?

DMD is definitely one of the very very old PoS coins around, but the reason I never got into it is really just because I gave up on PoS a log time ago. 20% sounds extremely good but then you have to realize that it used to be a whole lot more - so the biggest players already got in early and benefited a lot, especially now they should all be in the the masternode business. If it moons, the whales will have a lot to gain from, but that is a big if. Not particularly beneficial for anyone entering this late, but that's in my opinion.

This is probably the point a lot of people have been waiting for. Thousands of people would have heard about Bitcoin after the 10k and above price points hit the news, but it would have been a huge psychological barrier for them to process, learn and own some. But yeah, this is perfect entry points for those who waited, and if you looked at the buy volume on Bittrex and others, you'll see a lot of money actually went into long positions since yesterday. So that really shows a lot of confidence that 8k is the new floor.

I'll pretend to ignore that you said these coins surpass the survival potential of Bitcoin. Not a single one of them has had to face the pressures, denials and even bans by governments, banks and the media, not to mention the fire from the splits from its old community. Bitcoin has faced down all of these and not only survived, but fighting bravely to hold its position. So my huge vote always goes to BTC.

Now on to other alts, I own 2 of the list you mentioned as a full time holder: Waves and Litecoin. I also have a bit of ETH and Ripple now, the first probably for years the other for pure profit. I don't really believe in their centralized nature but can't ignore their price potential.

Yeah, I'm one of the very last people to say that we can follow the patterns of crypto, but if there is one pattern that keeps proving itself, it's that January is the dip, the crash, the correction. It happened again and we should have been prepared. I'm doubtful if it really is just seasonal holidays (Chinese new year they keep on saying) but it definitely should have something to do with fiscal calendars when the new year and new expenses have to fit in with budgeting.

US stock markets also experienced the worst drop in 2 years, so you know it's not just crypto that's affected.

Good for them. And in the long run, good for crypto. Crypto needs to find a way to really truly get people to use crypto as it was meant to. peer-to-peer. Not peer to Visa to peer or peer to some payment portal to visa to peer, like some of the ICO projects have been claiming to want to do and now will face a real challenge to achieve.

There has to be a way, if Ripple can make a system to challenge Swift, surely there is a system to challenge and replace Visa. Is Bitcoin the way? with Lightning Network who knows?

That's actually old news, perhaps we should have focused on the rest of the interview! But anyway, anyone who knows me knows Litecoin has been my top alt for a very long time (yes, still holding even though it's half of its ATH). Charlie Lee did say he was prepared for LTC to be $20 again and has promised to not leave at least until ATH is achieved once more.

Genuine guy who probably tries too hard to please people (you can't please everyone!) but I wish more devs were like him.

Sale indeed! I only wish I waited until today to get some cheap coins, but I guess even getting them last night isn't too much of a big miss on the discounts. This is the perfect opportunity to get in on those trains we missed: for me I even took a small buy on Ripple (as much as I dislike it, but it has to get back up to $1 at some point this year).

The only problem is for bags I already hold like Elastic, haha. But it's just a short term problem.

Stay in this forum long enough and you'll see plenty of people making expert predictions like this. Most will just go to hiding only to return later when inevitably their prediction takes place after a long delay of months and then you see all the threads of "I called it first" or "you will remember me from my predictions about X coin". There's nothing wrong with speculating, but as long as people don't pretend they're geniuses just for being able to call out correct predictions. After all, it's 50/50 whether price goes up or down, if you really want to break it down.

Yikes, look at today's dip affecting all the coins in your list (well my data is from looking several hours ago but anyway). But regardless, yeah I don't think you'll go wrong very much with your timeframe. I would suggest 6 months to be the minimum period instead, although you can set profit targets that could hit sooner, if you don't plan on becoming a holder. I'm very tempted by the double digit slumps for a lot of the alts on Bittrex (I can only see ZCASH in green, strangely enough).

Generally, I think speculation both ways are only natural, but I think I really was surprised by just how many people are rushing to call this bloodbath and crashes. Then I remember that there are just so many newcomers in the last six months that this is really their first experience of a correction lasting weeks. So we can forgive their panic. What's annoying is the new accounts saying "I told you so". I suppose there'll also be new accounts later this year saying "I called the 2xk high!".

In the real world, maybe, and for Bitcoin, surely. But when you see a lot of alt coins with a handful of early users, and thin order books with sell and buy orders simply not filling up, don't you think: there's no demand here. Yet that's still the price.

Just because something is scarce, doesn't mean it's in demand. Look at people who buy rare collectibles. Yes, there is a demand, but to me that doesn't really say anything if only a handful of people are willing to buy (and not for using even).

Ok guys, yes, valid question and let's just wait for the reply as to whether or not dividends will be distributed to CSNO holders who keep a balance in the BitDice wallet. Quoting the long threads is probably confusing everyone. My guess is: it isn't as simple to do this as CSNO balances within accounts are not something you can snapshot on the blockchain, but I guess we'll figure it out when Alex does.

P.S. Who else likes the new front-end graphics? Graphics aren't really what pulls me but as long as they don't take forever to load, I'm okay.

Look, credit is due to Ethereum for weathering its problems of 2016 and then for finally breaking $1k and staying above it from the end of 2017 until now. It looks very commanding to stay at this price even if Bitcoin is struggling to maintain past $10k. But I really dislike it when people talk about dethroning Bitcoin or being king of crypto. There are a few coins that can be seen as royalty, but if anyone seriously looks at what's happening... development wise you had ETH 2.0 just switch things around, but Bitcoin moves on and on with Segwit and now Lightning Network. Bitcoin is going to blow everything away, just like it has been doing all this time.

This forum recently banned ICO ads. I'm pretty certain that has a far bigger impact than facebook does, and anyway Facebook users by and large still don't really go for crypto (they're the Palm Beach Confidential types anyway).

All the better in my opinion. The sooner we see less of these ICO flash in the pans spam our internet space, the better. The blockchain development scene is stagnating with all these impossible ICOs siphoning off millions of dollars in funds for developing nothing but hype and solutions we never knew we needed.