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Invest in BTC until you feel secure enough to believe in another project. There is still time to choose. The projects are very different, with different people, codes, funding. Never invest in a project that is not in the top 30 more than 20% of what you invest in the most solid projects. At least until you have a full idea of what you're doing.

I would say today ETH, ADA and Monero are the best choices. Since in the next 3 years there is no possibility of Bitcoin launching functions that compete with these projects.

Others like Litecoin, BCH, ZCash; Bitcoin can launch functions that make these projects unnecessary

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Bitcoin and other digital currencies are a "Wild West industry" and need to be regulated to protect investors, a committee of MPs has urged.

Problems include volatile prices, minimal consumer protection and risks of hacking and money-laundering, says the Treasury Committee.

The committee said there were no well-functioning crypto-currencies and preferred to call them "crypto-assets".

It urged City watchdog, the Financial Conduct Authority to supervise them.

At present, the FCA has no power to regulate either the issuers of these assets or the exchanges on which they are traded.

"Crypto-asset investors are currently afforded very little protection from the litany of risks. Namely, there are no formal mechanisms for consumer redress, nor compensation," said the committee.

There are now more than 1,500 varieties of crypto-asset being traded on about 190 exchanges around the world.

Prices have soared and crashed alarmingly. In 2017, the price of a Bitcoin rocketed to nearly £15,000 before losing two-thirds of its value in just a few months.

Crypto-fundraising schemes, known as Initial Coin Offerings, have posed challenges for regulators around the world.

As the government and regulators decide whether the current Wild West situation is allowed to continue, or whether they are going to introduce regulation, consumers remain unprotected," said the Treasury Committee.

Nicky Morgan, who chairs the committee, said: "It's unsustainable for the government and regulators to bumble along issuing feeble warnings to potential investors, yet refrain from acting.

"At a minimum, regulation should address consumer protection and anti-money-laundering."

CryptoUK, which was set up in February as a self-regulatory body for the crypto-currency industry, said it welcomed the Treasury Committee's recommendations.

Iqbal Gandham, who chairs it, said: "Self-regulation by the industry was always intended to be a starting point - this must now be matched by government action.

"Regulatory oversight is essential to ensuring consumer safety, guarding against malpractice and providing much needed clarity to an industry that is fast maturing.

"It is therefore pleasing that the committee has endorsed our suggestion on how this can be delivered, by bringing responsibility within the FCA's perimeter of oversight."

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Bitcoin will lose 50 per cent of its cryptocurrency market share to Ethereum within five years, according to an influential tech expert and business analyst.

Ethereum, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, began a price recovery on Friday after being hit hard with a major sell-off in recent weeks.

Bitcoin – the biggest digital currency – had also been in decline, but it bounced back quicker than its nearest competitor. Indeed, Ethereum had crashed 85 per cent overall this year.

However, Ethereum regained ground late last week, jumping almost 14 per cent after its most recent plunge, only find itself trading again 10 per cent lower once more in the past 24 hours.

“Turbulence is a regular, and sometimes welcome, feature of the crypto sector.  Therefore, the Ethereum rebound was, and is, inevitable,” said Ian Mcloed, who established art-tech agency Thomas Crown Art with renowned art dealer Stephen Howes.

“But not only do we think it will rebound considerably before the end of 2018, I believe that over the longer time it will significantly dent Bitcoin’s dominance.

“In fact, I think we can expect Bitcoin to lose 50 per cent of its cryptocurrency market share to Ethereum, its nearest rival, within five years.

“Ethereum offers more uses and solutions than Bitcoin, and it’s backed with superior blockchain technology.

“This is why we use Ethereum’s blockchain in our art business.  It has allowed us to create a system to use artworks as a literal store of value; it becomes a cryptocurrency wallet. 

 “It also solves authenticity and provenance issues – essential in the world of art.  All our works of art are logged on the Ethereum’s blockchain with a unique ‘smART’ contract.”

Howes explained: “Using this cutting-edge technology, the art world can eradicate one of its biggest and most expensive problems – forgery – and can protect artists, galleries, and private owners and collectors.”

This picture is a joke? Because it is from the actor Tommy Lee Jones, not the investor Tom Lee. They're completely different people lol.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0498374/ Tommy Lee
https://twitter.com/fundstrat?lang=en       Thomas Lee

On the issue of price. The market today is vastly larger them from years ago. There are several companies and people who have decided to dedicate themselves entirely to cryptocurrencies. Eventually new business and opportunities will arise. I would say that by the end of the year we will have news saying that there are more countries with exchange than with McDonalds.

And so you could practically buy and sell Bitcoin with fiat in almost any country of the world.

I do not think any oligarchy or dictatorship can lead the crypto market. Eventually these countries will decide on ways to ban, prohibit or hinder their trade.

A decentralized project does not belong to any country. This is the sacred stone of true projects related to cryptocurrencies. It is not possible to imagine that someone like Putin could be in the long term favorable to Bitcoin.

Then the country that will lead this market will be the country that gives more freedom of choice to its citizens. May he have more trade agreements. That has legislation favorable to entrepreneurship. And have laws that accept gambling and are light with the drug trade.

It's a cultural thing. There are a number of studies and surveys that show that the level of savings among Asians is far greater than any other. In addition, Asians seem to be more favorable to the modernization than the internet. In many countries there is resistance to the new culture of the internet, in Asian countries this is very low.

https://www.economist.com/free-exchange/2006/12/15/asian-saving

It's all about taxes and regulations. We all know that Switzerland has a history of laws that are more favorable to profit, to profit-seeking entrepreneurship. To the bank and financial institutions.

Several companies had serious problems in their countries of origin and had to change their jurisdiction. But Switzerland has attracted many corporations linked to the blockchain. And if I'm not mistaken, it has one of the largest vaults for keys to blockchain.

Can anyone explain in an Eli5 exactly what this means?  Does "exploitable" mean that this possibility existed or was exploited? And that leaves the various forks of this last year at risk, doesn't it? I doubt they have the ability to fix it so fast until someone can exploit it.

How can the transacted volume of EOS be so close to BTC? This is ridiculous!!


They say that the article was paid at the end. But it is absurd not to be clear who is paying. They put disguised opinions as if it were a fact. It's getting harder and harder to find websites that do not just work as copy and past of press release.

An article like this should make it clear in the title that is a piece of marketing. Not a journalistic article.

It had a dump when most people received their tokens from ICO. It fell well below the price many had paid.

I bought a little in that mega fall. But I sold it when it went up. I think the problems will start to emerge now and will have a new fall. Especially if more exchanges open trading at that time. The volume is very small, there are few exchenges and almost nobody sent them what they won at ICO.

But in the long run it seems to me a reasonable bet project.

I've always considered the project as a Scam. The reason I considered it so was that it did not bring anything innovative or different. It was just a project based heavily on network marketing. That is, it depended completely on the propaganda that its passionate users did.

These users had as sole objective to sell their tokens as fast as possible. That's because they received it for free. For what reason would anyone give any value to a project that was copied from another and distributed freely?

In a bull market they profited. But fortunately, the source dried up for scam projects like that.

You've made more posts in the forum in a few months than Satoshi did in the years he used the forum.

And you were still not able to make a single post that deserved a single merit. And by the way you have entered the forum, starting to post only on bounty campaigns, I believe it's an alternate account from someone else.

I think you would have much more success, and most members would appreciate it, if you start to use bounty portals.

Some suggestions:

bountyhive.io
icobounty.io

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His 2fa is by SMS. This is more common than some people want to believe. The simple and quick answer before frightening the Op so that he never again uses Bitcoin, is that this subject is of exclusive competence of the exchange that he used. He has to contact the support and explain the situation. They will probably ask a series of questions that the op will have to answer correctly.

After that, OP, please search more about how Bitcoin works. You just need to download a wallet like Electrum and use it. Never leave your Bitcoins in an exchange so you do not risk losing everything.

The price is on the side trend for long hours. This kind of market is horrible. Before this last fall, it was also sideways for long hours. As the Asian market has not moved much and the price has not fallen so much, with the exception of the altcoins, I imagine that the European market can open in a good mood in the next few hours.

6300 for long?

I do not believe that ending lawyers would be possible. Lawyers serve to fight and report on legal rights and obligations. that is, they study legislation in a deeper way than most people. Smart contracts, in theory, would still need to respect the laws of a country. So lawyers would still have the job of writing these contracts.

There are a number of tools today that automate the functions of most lawyers. Thousands are being fired. Yet many others are being hired mainly for custom write contract. There will always be conflict. Even if it does not seem so clear, it is very unlikely that a smart contract can be accurate in all the nuances of a relationship between two parties.

And the main thing is that lawyers would still be essential to give advice.

Does that mean it's a decentralized second layer solution or is it a business? If it is a company, it means that the idea of decentralization would not exist. That is, it would be necessary to rely on a third person or company.

All cryptocurrencies' difficulty in scaling is in the fact of being much slower to spread the information for more points than to send directly to a central point. And it is by spreading the information by several points, that they can not coordinate to change the initial information, that the Bitcoin is so resistant and can be considered in immortal theory.

Yahoo Japan is a very different company from Yahoo Global. In both administrative and corporate matters. That was clear when Yahoo was sold. And the main thing is that Yahoo Japan belongs to SoftBank and Altaba.

SoftBank is a giant on the internet. It has participation in a hundred companies including Uber, Cruiser and several internet sales companies. Altaba has a very large slice in Alibaba. One of the largest commerce sites in the world.

This for me is much more than a move from an internet portal. It is a movement of large conglomerates filling a potential in cryptocurrencies as a means of payment. And opening the possibility of its adoption by several companies.

SoftBank
Altaba

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Ukey Card

We’re still at the beginning of the blockchain and crypto journey, and making it easier to store and use cryptocurrencies through common platforms and devices will be essential to mainstream adoption.

With that in mind, Biometrically secured hardware wallet solution provider Unikeys has announced its hardware wallet, the UKey card, which introduces fingerprint technology to secure users’ cryptocurrencies in a familiar form factor: a credit card-style device.

Hardware wallets aren’t new, but they usually take the form of a USB key that requires a connection to a computer or tablet device for storage and retrieval of digital assets. And software wallets, while popular, are vulnerable to hacks.

So what makes the UKey card different?

A smart hardware wallet, it offers three-factor authentication by introducing patented biometric security to a design that looks like a regular credit card. In partnership with French smartcard designer MeReal Biometrics, Unikeys has included a fingerprint sensor that lets users store biometric data without ever exposing that information to the internet or storing it with a third party.

“The UKey card is a cold wallet,” Unikeys CEO and cofounder Alexandre Tabbakh told me. “Cold storage wallets refer to any type of wallet that is independent of any internet connections (paper wallets, brain wallets, or hardware wallets), like physical devices that safely store and isolate private keys.”

The card only works after successfully authenticating a registered fingerprint, and it has various failsafes and backup procedures built in for emergency access. The UKey card is compatible with all Apple and Android phones and tablets via NFC and Bluetooth functions, and it supports Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, ERC20 Tokens, and the Unikeys Token.

The design works independently from the smartphone, which adds an extra layer of protection for budding cryptocurrency holders.

“With the UKey card, the private keys are isolated inside the card and can only be utilized to sign transactions through an accurate fingerprint authentication,” Tabbakh said. “Even if the user’s phone gets hacked, the hacker won’t be able to retrieve the private keys.”

With a commonly accepted design and three-factor security, Unikeys hopes to make cryptocurrencies more acceptable to the masses.

“We intend to accelerate and facilitate the process for users to adopt cryptocurrencies by enabling them to use cards that are easy to use, secure, and versatile for more flexibility,” Tabbakh said. “The biometric feature also provides a sentiment of security that is needed on the card market, which is at the moment proposing very little security [for] NFC connections.”

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I do not know how safe biometrics is, but I find it much more practical to use biometrics than having to always type long passwords or read them on paper.