Bittrex is heavily loaded already, which is why they have disabled new account registrations, until they clear their backlog and hire more support staff. So do not expect this to happen quickly, and expect the same to happen to all major exchanges. Everywhere, they are getting new users every day and their time is consumed just dealing with these guys, especially with verification (KYC/AML). If you want to trade at centralized exchanges, make sure you fully verify before ever depositing. If you do not want that hassle, then you must go for decentralized exchanges like Waves.

When I was much "younger" and inexperienced, I'd have knocked you for saying that you could actually buy a shitcoin by accident. But yes, even with all the research available to us newbies, and with all the care we take, we can still make mistakes. Accidents, we could call them. I have had a couple of accidents, not exactly with buying shitcoins but by investing in ICOs that turn out to be poorly executed projects. I got dumped on, was upset at first and disappointed for a long time. But I now take this all as learning. Doesn't stop me from buying altcoins.

This types of posts make me feel bad about people who stayed away from something due to "principles" and because of those decisions, are stuck in a rut when it come to price and profit. Yes, I'm thinking of you Ethereum Classic supporters. Most of you thought it was an abomination to have the blockchain rewound so everyone would get their Eth back. I still respect you for sticking to your principles. And maybe there will be people who never use Ripple or Dash because they believe it was a scam. I still respect them too.

I like this refactoring of the question. Altcoins are a mass graveyard of dead projects, some revived twice and even thrice, some just abandoned, others look like they are alive but will only suddenly awake and pump after 2 or 3 years. But which are the ones that will survive, which are the ones that will grow stronger, and which are the ones that will remain with us tomorrow, and ten years in the future?

And for Iota, great coin yes, but can they survive their bad reputation for trying to "cheat" people on their partnerships? Eth survived the DAO hack, but which other alt has the same strength?

Actually, a lot of ICOs are centralized... the projects themselves are led by decision makers, the token owners have no voting rights on anything, they usually just have access to a decentralized ecosystem. But the future direction, profit sharing and everything, are actually decided by the project owners. It's very hard to design something that has leadership decentralized. An example is ETH itself. They raised funds to build something but every iteration since, including right after the DAO hack, was all out of the hands of most ICO participants.

That said, there is absolutely no death of ICOs for 2018. It will only get bigger.

Thank you for responding. I usually don't expect a response so your reply alone says quite a bit about your ambitions and intentions! Ah yes, that balance sheet will be extremely important.  A lot of groups or signal services offer some sort of similar portfolio, but none are actually 100% transparent - since it would open them up to all manner of criticism. But since you're free you should do this, there's not much to lose, and a lot more to gain if you actually do well! And exactly, what would be the point if not sharing right?

And I know about the reference, was just a jab from me. Keep them coming, amigo.

It's called clickbait, and shame on you But all right, if I am to give you a chance, what are your credentials? Why should we give value to your assessments? I don't like McAfee at all but at least he has some sort of track record at knowing a thing or two about computer security. You can be free, you can even give us money and free crypto, but what makes your advice good for us to listen to?

Oh and, tell us what you get out of this? We're an open community here, aren't we?

And there we have the starting point for every alt speculator, pumper and holder in buying an alt. If Bitcoin can be valued at X, why not my alt? Crypto logic or asset-for-asset comparison, it makes every sense, but not every logic. I agree that ETH should be worth a bit more (if compared to Bitcoin's price) but then people would argue that what we think is benefit is actually downside.

Bitcoin drama is a benefit, that's decentralization. Bitcoin fees are high, that's demand, and mainstream use. Some alts wish they had drama, and high fees, no?

I don't have anything anywhere as impressive as this list (well done, I must say), but I've already cleared more than 200% profits on Siacoin, Waves, Stratis and Digibyte - but instead of keeping those profits, what I've done is return to my wallet all the original Bitcoin used to buy those coins. So basically, I sold off about half my holdings in all the above, and now kept the other half (some slightly more) as their own coins in their own wallets. Yep, I'm a small time holder of those coins now.

Very impressive, but what on earth do you mean Segwit2x fork? That was dropped.

Well, it's hard to be wrong in his calls when he's already backing top coins with a lot of documentation. Whether he truly knows about the tech and product doesn't make any real difference, just like all the thousands of experts making their calls. Maybe it's good that we now have a big pumper getting on to the internet and spreading his word. Let the crowds go and let them see what will happen at the end of the day. He just wants to contribute to trading volume, that will help drive Bitcoin up. He has a 1 million dollar bet to win.

Wow. I know a couple or so launching over the next two months, and I thought they were going to be pretty big or pretty famous. But now that everyone's had their chance to post a few names here, I don't know what to feel. I don't recognize a single one of those names.

Want to know the other trend I noticed? Only one of the posts talked about what they actually were, and even then, nothing to say why it's good and why it's special. The rest of you just talk about price and market cap and hard cap. Really?

You and about half of the people out there are estimating this (the other half is estimating the other way). And no, no one is sitting on the fence, if they are, then they have half positions down and half positions up.

There are two ways to short BTC/USD... Buy USDT Tether with Bitcoin, or buy any alt with bitcoin. You're actually, in a sense, selling Bitcoin to get alts, in a sense. So there's the way to do it, and every day people are trying to do it. Good luck to everyone, you need it whatever your skill, whatever the market.

Waves new updates have already come, and as you can see almost 250% appreciation already but still lots more room to go, I'm with you on that. ETH is doing surprisingly well to now hit back above $700, while LTC can no longer make a pass at $300 so while there won't be a $1k breakthrough this year or even Q1 2018, Eth can make a strong case now for "stability" at current levels.

I sold off my DGB to regain almost inital outlay, and was happy to do so as it has again slipped down 30%. Hold for June at least, for me, before reevaluating. Why's Digibyte your favorite again?

Exploding I don't know, but if you bought into Siacoin and Digibyte, they both suddenly came up and then as expected profit taking happened. If you can get Sia below 100 any time is a good buy. But then again, I think Doge below 20 sats is always a good buy, so don't always mind me! I'd say getting it recently at 13 satoshi and selling it yesterday at close to 80 is an explosion of >x5 so why not?


Undervalued, man, not overrated. Verge and Cardano are living in their hype bubbles. Wait for them to fizzle out a bit if you're interested. Unless you want a two three year coin then Verge has the signs.

This is one of those words with several ways to look at, especially with what they call "poetic license".

Strictly speaking the plural of mouse is mice. But it is not incorrect to say mices, especially when referring to many types of mices, and in poetry and creative writing, it is not uncommon. Mices, fishes, for example. Also, for a game, mice might sound nicer only because of the ear and how it rings. Crypto Mice. But Mouses could make it memorable actually. Sometimes you make a mistake to make the name stick.

So that's two DAG coins listed above, with zero fee transactions. But are either in proper use by any community? And don't give me Iota community, none of them I've ever encountered have ever used it other than to speculate and trade. Just commented because it made me think, now reading up on ADK mentioned above, if DAG coins are suited for zero fees? I know Byteball has fees but this is to pay witnesses. I know it's been discussed and seems it could even be possible (not that I'd want it, just wondering about the technicality.

McAfee and his mouth. Humaniq had a great ideal yes. So do a lot of other coins, arguably even better. Try searching online for "blockchain unbanked" and you will see a lot of projects. Yes it was among the first, and vitalik Buterin was promoting it so it got a lot of hot air. But the idea itself was never achievable. Smartphone app for the unbanked. Yes. The unbanked who live below the daily poverty rate are expected to suddenly become blockchain enabled with smartphone apps scanning their faces. Don't hate me, I actually liked HMQ but then I realized I was a bit silly.

You're not completely wrong. Alts have been known to rise when Bitcoin is in decline. I also see some of mine finally in green versus original buying price in satoshi - mind you, first time in many months. Best thing to do now, in my opinion? Book in some profits, keep some for hodl, especially the ones that you bought first because you believed in them.

What I did today - sell off exactly enough to cover my initial Bitcoin buys, plus 1% more, to say I truly profited. The rest I have just kept, if they ever crash to 0, I lost nothing. If they one day become x10, I make a lot of small profits.

They have both, as you note, been pointed out to be ponzi type schemes, with a lot of credible allegations. In fact, just looking at their main websites and schemes tells you to avoid them like the plague. They may not be dead, since MLM type operations are very difficult to stamp out, but steer very far away from them.

Anything that guarantees profit has to be a scam, if not now, then down the line. You simply can't profit from others below you without the whole system eventually crashing down at some point. I still see people posting about Bitconnect though, so clearly it's not dead (yet).

I think you just answered your own questions in a way... he's an old school computer programmer with a lot of leverage with his name, whom people will recognize for at least two generations of computer users. He's insane and people love following insane characters. He predicted it like a lot of others, but he made it louder than most and also said he'd eat his dick, so that alone makes him more popular with people.

So yes, don't listen to him. But can't stop people from following personalities. If people cried for boy bands, why wouldn't they buy on the talkings of a madman?