Depending on how you trade it is still gambling.

You are like betting the price will move on the direction you bet.

I think nano is the fastest out there with 24,000 transactions per second.

This is a lot, even compared to visa

However, nano is a very centralized cryptocurrency.

Everytime you use a centralized cryptocurrency, ask yourself why shouldn't you use visa instead? Decentralization is more important than tpa

I think everyone's experience with cryptocurrencies is a roller coaster.

However, Bitcoin is less volatile than the other altcoins. You can have a bigger share of it in your portfolio, just to keep it less volatile and more stable.

Have you never used services like Shapeshift, easyrabbit, instaswap, changelly?

Just try any of them.

Usually they have accounts on exchanges such as binance, and they make the trades for you. As you don't pay withdrawal fees (they probably have some kind of partnership) it is cheaper for small amounts.

You pay the market price. However, they charge a small fee for the service as well (nothing is free), but it is possibly cheaper than exchanges because of those withdrawal fees. .

This is what ethereum casper will do.
On the beginning there will be one block minted with pos for every 50 mined with pow in ethereum casper.

I think ethereum could do first. If they manage to survive....

More details here

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ

Ok then... I will let an image speak for me.

I believe this is just a coincidence, that all 1000 cryptocurrencies have the same graphic. THey are all crashing for different reasons, nothing to do with bitcoin.






yeah, you are acting very logically using those blue letters and ignoring market movements...

Good luck for you too. I hope you find the coin you are looking for =P

I don't think that would be a really great problem. Let's suppose Hash rate drops to Half (what would be a very pessimist scenario). Instead of blocks every 10 minutes, we would have blocks every 20 minutes (on average). No a problem at all in my opinion.

And at the most 4 weeks, difficult would be adjusted and mining would be decentralized again, and ASIC would be gone.


A drop to 1/5 of the hashrate (high unlikely, as if miners do not mine, what will they do to that equipment? They will have to mine either way, or the loss will be bigger).
This could be a problem, that would be easily fixed with a fork. Anyway, bitcoin could even though be mined with low hashrates for like 2 months and then the problem would be solved.

In such a situation, of a big price drop, every other alt would be completely worthless and there would be no reason to mine them.




In all those 5 years, nobody was also able to prove that PoS fairy tale work in great scale also.

Those are all very small projects compared to bitcoin. Ardor has 100 million USD marketcap, which is about 40 times smaller bitcoin daily volume...... Comparing Ardor to Bitcoin is like comparing United States economy to Malaysia`s.

Even Vitalik Buterin is affraid of running Casper Protocol in Ethereum, because he knows that problems will pop up when it is up and running. And there are many problems related to PoS economy, which were already mentioned in this thread.

Draconian rules are rules that were imposed by the goverment, without much agreement or discussion. (in a very simple one line answer)



Russia isn't a dangerous to human life, and they share common interests with the EU.

I don't agree, that's not how it works.

Transactions fees are defined by demand and supply, basic economics.
It does not have a direct correlation with price.

In December when btc price was high the fees were high (the opposite of what you aaid).
Fees were high because there was a peak in demand , nothing to do with its price.

And high fees didn't kill btc, wasn't even a threat to it .

Nobody knows what problems pos will bring, as it has never been tested with a decent project with many transactions per day

What you are describing is a Ponzi scheme (whoever came on the base of the pyramid is making money and the others on the top losing). It's a scam.

Everyone ia happy, except those who lost a lot of money.
This kind of"business" is forbidden in many places in the world. It is illegal in Brazil

They sell you something 100% useless, that the creators know is useless, promising to do a lot of things. But it's just a scam to get people's money.


Of course there are some projects that are not scam , they just didn't make what they want... But most of them are not that.

That's right, most of those exchanges charge to list a coin
They probably make a lot of money during those pumps, just to dump them now..

This is market manipulation.

In general, the best cryptocurrencies are the top 10 in CMC (by market capitalization).

They are more valuable BECAUSE they are the best. They also have more money to pay for development.

However, due to high volatility, some of good projects are not in the top 10 now in CMC anymore. Such as IOTA and NEO.

I think your suggestion is good for organization, but the number of posts does not justify a new sections for all those wallets and subsections.

A breadwallet board  would have so few posts per year that it would be a dead board.

It is also hard for new legit users to find it. Sometimes people that doesn't have a bitcointalk account need to create a brand new to ask something technical. This user would have a hard time looking for the right section, and he would probably post in "Bitcoin technical support" or other more generic board.

It is even harder for posters, who will answer him, to find his topic and provide lots of replies from different users of the forum (which is good, as many different solutions pop up)_

Olha realmente isso vai acontecer. Estão prevendo dólar perto da casa dos 3,00 e os mais otimistas ainda abaixo de 3,00. Poderiamos ver na casa dos 2 e muitos...

Porém, essas variações de 30-40% são pouco pro BTC. Se BTC volta a 10k, ou mesmo 15k 20k, essa variação cambial não tem grande importância.

Bolsonaro was elected president yesterday, with 55% (its believed he had much more, like 70%, because the electronic ballot boxes are not reliable).
Brazil was in party yesterday, looked like a world cup final game.

I believe this will lead us to a new era, free from socialists from the worker's party (they were in power since 2002).

As I said in another post, his personality is similar to Trump, and people here compare both presidents.
They are also both nationalists and agains globalism.

I hope Brazil now willl approach free countries and stay away from Venezuela, Cuba and Angola.

It's terribly  sad to see our neighbors in Venezuela coming as refugees to Brazil, and at the same time see the Worker's Party making alliances with Maduro and even so managing to receive 45% of the votes (the got very close to get ellected again, with Lula in jail, the president of the party)

In Brazil, the biggest media players are all associated with the liberal media worldwide. Our biggest journals (like Globo, Epoca, Estadao, Folha de Sao Paulo) are basically all the same and they use as reference:

-The New York Times
-The Guardian
-The Economist (The Communist, as we call here in Brazil, because they support Lula)

And so on.... nobody says anything about FoxNews for example.

So yes, the media here in Brazil call Trump a fascist.

However, the social networks like Facebook, Tweeter, etc, are allowing us to have access to different point of views. So  I believe Trump is not that unpopular here. Most of the people who voted for Bolsonaro view Trump as an "American Bolsonaro".

I believe that now Brazil will get closer to US, as both presidents now have a similar personality and objectives (both are nationalists and against globalism)

DOGE, CLAM........

wtf man, wake up.

Do you want to compare bitcoin to those projects? Those networks are barely used.

Do you know how many transactions are made daily in bitcoin network, and how many are made daily in CLAM?
CLAM marketcap is 800 BTC, on rank 488. This means that the whole CLAM project, all CLAM coins, are worth 800 BTC.

CLAM is basicaly a testnet, to test crazy ideas. And that's it. a Dead coin.


Bitcoin needs to be more conservative. Bitcoin cannot risk those untested protocols, based in vague ideas like "Save the environment", or "Pos is the future", based on vague arguments.

If Bitcoin adopts PoS or any other fancy protocol and there is even a smallest problem, the whole market will crash so spectacularly and probably never bounce back.

So, go spread those ideas in Altcoins board. Bitcoin needs to develop itself slowly and safe.

When I saw this topic, the first altcoin that came to my mind is Stellar.

Stellar says in its website

I believe this is the most "ideology" project I know.

However, Stellar founder is a former Ripple founder, Jed McCaleb.
Ripple would be a coin totally against that ideology?

I believe that buying and holding bitcoin is already an ideology act by itself, against the financial system.

then comes a list with over 50 altcoins, which I don't know any.

Bad times to be a holder of those coins....

They explain, at the end of the document, that owning crypto is risky lol



Early this month Okex announced trading pairs with other Stable coins, like USDC and TrueUSD, which a good step. We are not so dependent on tether anymore.

In my totally unqualified opinion, the market correlation is strong between cryptocurrencies. All of them goes up and down at the same time, with very local exceptions.

I believe btc must recover before any big gains.