I do not think this is correct. Is it not that technical analysis is a type of analysis that uses the movement of the price and volume as basis? Where does organic growth come in in technical analysis? The reason why some people use technical analysis is because they do not believe in fundamental analysis where "organic growth" is supposed to belong. In technical analysis the traders make money from the inefficiencies of the market and the irrationality of the newbies which is a lot in cryptocoins.

You mean the same Bay that was created by David Zimbeck? Was it not mired in controversy because of his association with cryptocoin scammers?

I would like to know more about SYS. Please point us to the right direction by posting links and more information. I do not like to search here because there is many FUD and misinformation ongoing about different coins. Look at what happened to XMR. Many people missed the train because they thought it was only a scam coin. They were misinformed.

@tyz. How is the development in IOTA? I heard there is no release and the development is really slow. It would be nice to be updated officially on where they are and what they are up to.

My opinion is they can but they won't. It also better if developers compete with each other so they can improve their coins much faster and come up with the best open source technology for everyone to use in the cryprosphere. Also the drama is very entertaining.

There is the argument arising that the view key feature of Monero could be a liability. I am curious if you are caught by the authorities, can a court order force you to use it and show your XMR transactions? If it can why not get rid of thr view key feature? What is the reason why it is there?

I speculate that the "strong support" of ETH will break sooner or later. BTC is rising again and if ETH fiat price stays the same it will go down in value against bitcoin. People are starting to dump their altcoins to hold bitcoin again.

I do not think the growth will be purely from speculation in the long term but you have to admit the price rise is indeed too fast. That movement is mostly from the traders and speculators buying and selling. If there is actual vendors accepting XMR now, will the volume be in the millions right away? Maybe it will but I would like to see that if it was possible to see it in a block explorer.

For me the merchants in the darknet have not reached transactions in the millions yet per day because XMR is fairly new. In a year I will not be surprised if it is.

I do not know if it is still the case but I have read that SDC is "broken". So how can that be superior?

For me what is more superior is zcash. But they have to find a solution about the "trusted set up" problem. Well it is not really a problem. It just cannot be trusted and that will make it a problem in the future.

It will also not give Ethereum the confidence of the start ups and companies to start making dapps in the platform. This is mainly because of the roll back of transactions. Vitalik broke the most sacred rule of blockchains.

@Bokelka. Be careful with ETH. The whole altcoin market have started to go down except for a selected few. I do not think ETH will be spared from the bear market in the cryptosphere. People will start converting and holding BTC because it is now starting to be bought up again.

That is an interesting idea thinking of ETC of diluting ETH and making the price go down. There is some truth in that comment only because ETH can be split and the user can receive an equivalent amount of ETC. But what would happen if they fix it and let the two chains diverge. Would you still view ETC as a dilution of ETH?

That is funny!

The recent development of Monero and price rise should motivate Atrides to speed things up with Freebazaar. This could be the next frontier for darknet market merchants to sell their items. Maybe running it behind Tor or IPFS might be a good idea.

Will we be seeing more angry guy pictures from you starting today? It is good not to buy and hold LSK right now, it is too unstable. But if I get the opportunity to buy below 30k satoshis I might take it. That is the safest level to buy.

@digicoin. I was under the impression that each sidechain was a blockchain and not a database. So maybe it will be stable after all. But it is not going to be what I had in mind. It may be that the Lisk development team sacrificed decentralization with stability. The first sign of this was the decision to use DPOS. There was a time when I was lurking the reddit of bitshares that I came across a post of Vitalik and Bytemaster talking by the sidewalk. Could it be that Vitalik was thinking about using DPOS at one point in Ethereum's development?

@X7. It has only been a few months. You should give it some time to develop more. I believe Ethereum did the same thing and all it released at first was the frontier release without a gui. The price also went down to $.45 per ETH. That was considered a gift from most people and the jumped at the opportunity to buy a lot. Look where it is now.

It is very easy to say that this or that is "limited" without first explaining how vcash's chain blender anonymizes its transactions. If you can give us a simple lay man's term explanation, that will be appreciated. Then we could all start discussing vcash and its comparison with the rest.

Are you saying that fungibility is overrated in cryptocoins? While I also think that anonymous coins will not replace bitcoin, they are an important part of the cryptosphere. They must be part of the foundation that makes it stand. If there was a decentralized exchange connecting XMR and BTC in between then this would be a perfect solution than using bitcoin tumblers. You can use XMR if you want anonymous transactions and use BTC as your "bank" at the same time. They can coexist. Who said there can only be one?

@yelllowsin. The Monero development team will argue with you on that one and at the same time the vcash development team will argue with the Monero supporters for their choice. As an innocent bystander, how will I know who is telling the truth. My technical understanding of cryptography and programming is very limited. I do not understand most of it in fact. The people who are qualified to comment here are very quiet except for iamnotback. I wish he will comment with this issue. Or maybe he already has so it might be good to check his post history.

I see that this poll has many vcash that voted. Are there many silent vcash supporters here?

2016 is almost over. What for you is the coin that has risen very high? There are only 2 coins that I have seen that made real big jumps. ETH and XMR. Please name other coins that have made real rise in value in terms of market capitalization.

We both agree that a pump will arrive on ETC's doorstep. But the I have a more important question. Do you think ETC will be the one to bring smart contracts and dapps to the masses? Pumps always come to any coin but real value comes to the platform that has a growing no. users and supporters. Do you really think that platform will be Ethereum classic? Please explain.