Like, seriously?

These people who orchestrate these forks are serioudñy just trying to ride in on the hype produced by BCH and hoping to get their forked coin pumped to hell just to dump on the people who's trading it. Usually the people who create these forks are those who have too many bitcoins to dump, like for example BCH creators. They're not really making bitcoin decentralized 'again' but is making their pockets explode with money from unlucky traders.

I would love to further increase my profits at this point in time, but knowing that it's a 900% increase already, there's no point being greedy and cashing out some of it would be the most sane thing to do and keeping a few intact, just in case the price continues to move upward. Having a back up plan is always the sanest thing to do in life, and of course most especially in finance.

First of all, if you were mining bitcoins back in the earliest days, you are solo mining on a pool and receiving the payments on your address which usually is saved in your wallet file (which obviously is saved in your hard drive). Back then no such 'accounts' exist when mining bitcoins, only your address and your machine. So the best bet would be finding your old machine back in 2009-2011 and check for the hard drives, look for a file named wallet.dat and you're rich.

Since they are merely free coins from recently-concluded forks, it's best to just monetize them and use the money/cash into some other ventures like investing into another altcoin or whatnot. Also, there are no stability or guarantees on these said coins, so why not dump it off while it still have some value and not be left with paperweight?

If you also want to include smart contracts in your scope of study then yes, it's worth a go. But just another piece of advice though, focus on blockchain development first before diving into another different aspect of he blockchain. You need to learn the general knowledge and the basics first before deciding to 'branch out' if you want to.

Not sure if such a tool exists, but your best bet would be going to bitcoinwisdom.com, see the volume in exchanges and get an approximate/wild guess in there. With the $100-B market capitalization of bitcoin, it's really hard to track where the money is really coming from since the taints are pretty much coming from everywhere.

Haven't pursued much in blockchain programming but most coins' source codes are written in mixed Python and C++, so since you're learning Python now, you could add C++ in to your bucket list since you'd find a plethora of pre-made libraries concerning blockchain that uses the said proglang. Though C++ might not be pretty straightforward unlike Python, you can also build useful apps with it that can aid you in pursuing your self-study in blockchain programming. You can also read this book by Andreas M. Antonopoulos, Mastering Bitcoin: Unlocking Digital Cryptocurrencies which is a pretty good read when you're looking into diving the technical fundamentals of bitcoin and crypto in general.

What exactly do you mean by buying a BTC Seg fork? If you already own bitcoins in your own address, you'd be entitled on receiving different tokens from the future forks of btc. Also, The fork is set to happen tomorrow, so if you haven't accumulated some bitcoins in your wallet then now is not the best time to buy seeing that the coin is now priced @ $7000+ a piece. Right now I'm just waiting for everything else to happen and I'd be selling off S2X coins I might receive once it goes live in the exchanges.

Well it's always nearer to bitcoin. The thing is no institutional investor wants to take a risk on a completely unstable asset that is bitcoin. With the influx of institutional investors, there would be a massive FOMO from people who don't really know what they're getting into resulting into an even bigger bubble that couldn't just hold out in the long run. Institutional investors coming in to invest in bitcoin can also alleviate the uncertainty that many average Joe's have with bitcoin, so all in all making bitcoin a viable investment that they can rely on in the long run since the coins would be completely diversified as more people hold coins.


But sadly, due to ETH and other big names in the crypto world's successful ICO, it's being abused to scam people out of their money resulting into uncertainty as to whether cryptos are viable investments or not.

If you're okay on just receiving the codes, you can try buying in coins.ph directly since they don't add any fees to their SWC and the trade is 1:1. However if you insist on doing so, without being ripped off so much, just cash your ETH and go to the nearest Datablitz store near you to get your card. Your Php 300 will get you a 250 Steam Wallet Card so that's like getting the most value out of your ETH.

Anyways, good luck with this.

Or to simply put, FOMO or fear of missing out. It's pretty much the same to the core of panic buying thinking that you might miss out a once in a lifetime opportunity. This is bad for an asset that rises gradually since a massive sellout might follow from people who've already profited and leave others holding the bag. But for bitcoin, so far no matter how many massive sellouts happen, there hadn't been a time that the price haven't recovered, mainly because it's not existing on the investment books of average techie Joe's but can also be found on some few businessmen's log book. Idk why or how but apparently bitcoin has been breaking records and the norms of typical stock investments since it always tend to go the opposite of what's been observed on normal investments i.e. gold, penny stocks, etc.

Yes. Private banks submit information to the central banks of the governments for AML/KYC regulations. As for your official credit status on the bank and how much does your account contain, they don't give such since it would contrast the bank secrecy law in some countries. It would only be a red flag if you're continuously receiving huge sums of money on your account or unless someone files a legal complaint against you.

That would be a major hassle and not worth the risk if you're a trader since it seems that BTG developments have completely stalled and we haven't heard much from their dev team. There only exist a single way to claim BTG, and I think that alone isn't worth it as of now. The fork was a complete mayhem all in all.

None of the created altcoins were even meant to be a world currency. These cryptos are created for fast and cheap transactions, not to completely overthrow the already established monetary system in place, and the fact that governments will fight hard against it, there's no way that bitcoin could replace fiat entirely. Heck, it's not even ready to accept Paypal-level of volume, how can it handle transactions in a global scale, with brick and mortar store transactions included?


You shouldn't if you don't believe in the experiment. As simple as that.

Never even bothered to check the prices thoroughly, just skimmed a bit and thought that woah, mine looks like it's raped   Yeah, dollar wise I still have my money back. Also, that's still 9 months to go. No one knows what could these markets offer along the way.

Expecting to see a nice update on the 4th. Glad I joined this experiment of yours.

Yes, as long as the address you previously used contained some bitcoins before, during and after the fork, then you'd still receive BTG. Also it's adviseable to empty all addresses first before claiming your BTG so as to prevent your funds being compromised. I doubt there would be any wallet BTG team will release in the future since it seems that they are slowly abandoning the fork.

They're gonna lift the ban. Most Chinese businessmen wouldn't let this phenomenon pass and milk the hell out of bitcoin as long as they can. Some bitcoin traders I know of that came from China move to a more bitcoin-friendly Japan as of the moment to still be in the action, so that itself speak volumes that the Chinese still want to get involved in bitcoin no matter what the cost may be. PBoC might come back to state that they are now lifting the ban though certain regulations, this time stricter, are in place for any potential bitcoin scam that may arise.

This is the first time i checked how my picked coin, Ardor was doing and I noticed that it had been in a gradual slump for 3 weeks now (how unfortunate) but the converted price to USD still stays almost the same. Everyone else's coins were performing well but mine? Oh nevermind lol.

Anyways 2 days before the update. I hope something comes good out of all the investments. Just surprised to see that my coin was in a slump yet retains almost the same value when I deposited it into this experiment.

Personally I wouldn't touch my coins until the fork concluded and trading is live for the forked coin. The action needs to be swift though to not miss on dropped altcoins and to get the most value out of your investment. Also, I would sacrifice any potential gains from the forked coin to invest on a much higher return for alts. In that way I'm making a nice hefty profit without wasting too much time as well

There needs to be some form of negative news accompanied with a massive sellout/profit booking just like what happened on the previous fork in August for us to see another crash. With the rate of price increase right now, there needs to be some form of correction before we take off just so we can assure that everything goes smoothly without any hitch.

We need some massive 'forks are killing bitcoin' drama to have some form of crash (partly for me to buy a small amount again).