I'm familiar with Bitcoin Core wallets, and their wallet.dat files.  I've looked at old computers and searched them for wallets. 

But what about non-BTC wallets?  What is their version of the wallet.dat file and what to search for to find them?  How about other types of BTC wallets?

Does Litecoin Core have the same wallet.dat?

Huh?

Nobody knows a good way?

What's the best way to store Cardano and Tron coins with my Ledger Nano S?  I've read that the Tron desktop app has spyware, and  I don't trust websites like what the Stellar coins use, despite being through my Nano.  What if the site goes down?  What the hell am I supposed to do then?

Looking for good ideas.

I had read about the EOS coin storing method, and it was so ridiculously complex that I won't even waste my time trying it.  I'll just let those coins sit on the exchange they are on.

Will another bull run happen?  Yes.

Will it be bigger than the late 2017 price highs?  Probably.

When will it happen?  I don't know, but I am guessing 1-2 years.  

The average investor, a jackass who knows nothing about crypto coins but the hype, needs to forget the post-2017 price crash, and be bullshitted by a whole new line of bullshit that makes them think, "Okay, THIS IS IT,  REALLY this time!!!!!", and go all in.

When your barber is getting in, it's time to get out.  So I am buying now with the rock bottom prices, and will let it ride to the next profit opportunity.  Screw the jackass investors!

I don't know what specific thing Litecoin does better than any other coin, and I think it wouldn't be a big deal if Litecoin disappeared.

However, ever since it began, Litecoin price tends to follow Bitcoin price up and down, due to it being known at the "silver to bitcoin's gold".  

And that is where Litecoin is useful to me.  The price swings up and down.  Buy low, sell high.  In the recent price dip, I bought 15 LTC, and I am content to let them ride for months or a year or two, all the way to the top of the next big crypto price wave.

Only one thing really pisses me off about Litecoin.  Back in the summer / autumn of 2013, I had discovered cryptocoins, and had as many as 11 GPUs mining them.  I ended up with a few hundred LTC that I later sold in late 2013 for a nice profit.  

At the same time, I was working and saving money to move across the country, and could have easily bought $12,000 or so worth of LTC at $2 each!  It drives me crazy that I never even considered doing such a thing at the time!  At the time, I was just like "yeah I mined a few hundred coins, so what, if the price goes up I'll sell, if not no big deal".

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I couldn't care less if Ripple lives or dies in the long term.  All I care about is that I am HODLing 5400 Ripple now, and I want to see the price blast sky high so I can sell my coins and PROFIT.

So pump it, pumpers!!!

I just got out of my Stellar wallet and disconnected my Ledger from my PC.  I put the address https://www.stellar.org/account-viewer/#!/dashboard in the Chrome browser, then I copy and pasted my secret key in the top line.  And hit Sign In.  And it did!  It doesn't even use my Ledger, so how the hell is this secure?

I guess the "security" comes from me not losing the secret key or giving it to anyone.  I expected more.  If I hit "sign in with ledger" at the bottom it shows a zero balance.

For whatever dumbass reason, getting Stellar Lumens to save on a Ledger Nano S is one of the more fucked up stupid ideas I've seen in a while.

I've gone through the initial steps.  I've:

1. Downloaded the Stellar app on my Ledger Nano S from the Ledger Live page.  I have the current 1.4.2 firmware.
2. Gone to https://www.stellar.org/account-viewer/#!/dashboard and made my account, copy and pasted my secret key to several document files, and signed in through my Ledger Nano S.
3. I did an initial transaction of 25.4 Lumens to set up and verify the wallet from my exchange account (Bittrex).  It shows the 25.4 Lumen balance as having transferred, and I see it on the Stellar account page as well.

So.... what now?  This is it?  I'm supposed to trust an outside, unknown website with my Lumens, and the idea of "you sign into it with your Ledger Nano S", is supposed to make me feel secure?  What if the website gets hacked or otherwise fucked up?  What if there's nothing for me to sign into with my Ledger Nano S?  What then?

Am I reading this right?  This is the only way to store Lumens aside from leaving them on the exchange I bought them on?

I'd like to be able to store the Lumens directly on my Ledger Nano S as one does with XRP, Litecoin, etc, instead of involving an outside party website, even if it is Stellars' own site.  You'd think Ledger would have handled this better.

I've been buying up a few altcoins at the market low prices of the past month.  Currently HODLing Ripple, EOS, Litecoin, and Stellar.

I've been reviewing topics here and elsewhere, and I see Cardano / ADA mentioned now and then as one to buy.

The question is, why?  What potential does it have?  What is it good for?  What can it do that other coins can't? 

I really don't care about the long term viability of any coin, all I care about is how much money I can make.  According to its history on coinmarketcap, Cardano only ever popped over $1 for a couple days in very early 2018.

If I bought at the current price of five cents and waited, it might get back to a dollar for a nice 20x gain, but I want more.  And what if it doesn't pop again in the next bull run?  Why would it pop?  What if it just trickles off into nothingness like 98% of other coins? 

Tell me why I should buy it.

Will Ripple / XRP expand and be used more and more by big banks?  It could, but I'm not overly concerned about it.  I just want whoever is controlling Ripple / XRP prices to give it one more good, long, hard, BALLS DEEP pump, and grant me the wisdom to know when the price has peaked and it's time to sell out, then they can dump it for all I care.  I'm in it for the money to be made, nothing else.

Having said that, banks pay "X" to send a money transfer now.  If the price of Ripple rises above "X", then why would the banks want to use it, even if it is infinitely faster?  So I think Ripple is price capped in that way.

Right now I have 5400 Ripple, 5100 Stellar, 114 EOS, and 15 Litecoin.    Most of my Ripple was bought at a somewhat higher price, and I let it ride all through 2018, and bought more as the price dropped, lowering my dollar-cost average to 76 cents.  I've been putting a few hundred of each paycheck recently into alt coins. 

Right now I'm split between buying some Ethereum and more EOS coins.  I've been looking at the historical data of different altcoins on coinmarketcap.

I care nothing about the future potential of the coins themselves, if they could become widely used in e-commerce or whatever.  All I care about is how much money I can make from buying low and selling high.

I have no Bitcoin at all.  That's not the greatest source of profit potential. 

Who has researched EOS extensively?  What potential does it have, what does it do that no other coin does, and why should I buy more?

I'm not talking about these supposed stablecoins like Tether, but normal coins.  Let's say an agreement was made among all the major Bitcoin exchanges.  Starting January 1, a Bitcoin is worth $5000 USD, plain and simple, and that's it.  The price never goes higher or lower.  A Bitcoin is $5000 today, tomorrow, next week, next month, etc.  NOTHING changes it.  Not a war, not the economy, not Trump getting re-elected (which he will, he's doing a great job), nothing.

I wonder if that could be done and what the effect would be. 

One effect is that I wouldn't be buying BTC, because with no price volatility, how could I ever make a profit?  But one good thing is that normal companies may be more inclined to use Bitcoin, since its price is now fixed and does not change.

People will sell off coins here at the end of the year to claim a big loss on their taxes.  But we need more than that.  We need bad news.  We need negative press stories.  We need security flaws to be "discovered", even if they don't really exist.

And why do we need this?

To get the prices down so I can buy in cheap to several coins, and then let them ride to BIG PROFITS on the next market cycle upswing!

Gotta get that dolla dolla bill, yo! 

I think coin prices will dip more before the end of the year, I'm hoping to see BTC go under $3000, which will trigger a wave of despair that results in more coin selloffs, further crashing prices. 

Which is good for me so I can buy in cheaper, get more coins, and make more profit when the next bull run takes off! 

I think people will sell coins at a loss soon for tax purposes, got to get those deductions!

Do crypto coins have a good technology and a good future?  It's possible.  But can the mass market of consumers handle it?  Probably not, for the most part.

Nowadays, your average non-technical Joe Idiot gets his paycheck, it is direct deposited to his bank, and all he has to do is take out his card at the ATM to get cash, or swipe his ATM card to buy pretty much anything.  That's the beginning, middle, and end of his financial concerns for the average day.  Now you go telling him that he has to make an account on a currency exchange, send in scans of his drivers license, passport, social security card, and last 3 pay stubs and some recent utility bills to confirm his address, so he can even buy a crypto coin of any kind, and then he could lose money by buying and selling at the wrong times, and he will say "Screw that noise", and walk away.

The more technical among us understand how to buy and hodl and sell coins, and it's no big deal.  But your average 9 to 5 moron walking down the street with their thumb up their ass won't get involved.  The process of buying and selling coins is simply far too complex for the ordinary jackass.  Even if they figured it out, they wouldn't fully understand the hows and whys of how it is done.

As for buying coins on the dip, I'm looking at which coins can give me the most profit, nothing else matters.  

I'd like to buy 0.25 or 0.50 BTC, but if I buy at 3000, it has to rise to 6000 for me to double my money.  That's a pretty big step.  I want to own BTC but I'd have to get it CHEAP to have good profit potential.

If I buy Stellar at 10 cents, or Litecoin below $20, they don't have to rise as far to double, triple, or even more-ple my money.

Would I buy Ethereum?  Maybe, but it would have to come down in price a lot, like under $30.  Same for Monero.  

I think Bitcoin Cash / Bitcoin SV is a load of crap, I probably won't buy any of them.

Tether price is always very close to $1.00 .  So no profit potential there.  Screw Tether.

I don't know anything about EOS, another top-10 coin on coinmarketcap, so I probably won't buy much, if any.  What is EOS even good for, and more importantly, how can I profit from it?

You know what we need?  Some collusion between some big money coin holders / miners and some big news media outlets.  Publish a few stories saying the ETFs will never happen, maybe a big security flaw, or some other bad news, to crash the coin prices.  Then the big buy-in happens at low low prices.  Then the news media says "oops, our bad, the source of the story lied or was proven wrong", then make up some great news, and the profit train leaves the station!

The price of coins has stepped down a few times in the last few weeks, I am hoping for one more good step-down, then maybe it'll be buy-in time.  Who knows?

I read stories of people whining how they mortgaged their house and lost big time when Bitconnect collapsed.  Know what I say?  Screw 'em.  They had no business being in a market they had no knowledge of.  As I have read in other places - "When your barber is getting in, it's time to get out".  So true.

By the way -- if anyone here does know of anyone who is controlling or manipulating the market, I would appreciate a PM with an email address or something, that leads to me getting some inside information so I can better place my limited funds, and when can I expect to sell at the peak and profit out.  I promise I won't tell anyone, that would not help my profits.  Thank you!  

My goal is profit.  I am doing what I can to ride the highs and lows of the market prices.  Buy low, sell high.  If all crypto coins disappear in 10 years, I don't care.  I don't even care which coin makes me the most profit, as long as I get a lot of it!

Who cares if they are called coins or globs or bricks?  It's just a name.

I'm no tax expert, but all the people who mortgaged their house or otherwise dropped a lot of cash to buy coins during the last boom cycle - wouldn't they want to sell now in this year, to claim as much of a loss as possible, to do better on their taxes in a couple months?  I think they would want to see prices crash hardcore as well if this is the case.

The technology of crypto coins?  Yes, that's all well and good, and I enjoy reading about it as well, but making money is making money.  I didn't discover Bitcoin until April 2013, so you can imagine how much I have smashed my head through the wall for not knowing about coins sooner.

Time to pick up the pieces, take my best guess from what I have seen happen in the early 2013, late 2013, and late 2017 price boom cycles, and get my coin purchases in place for maximum PROFITS!

My initial purchases of XRP were around $2.15, and then it went to $3.80 and came back down.  Did I sell?  NO, I sat on my coins like a jackass!  So over 2018, and as XRP price fell more and more, I bought more and dollar cost averaged my way down.  Now when XRP goes over 76 cents a coin, I'll be in the profit zone.  I also bought some Stellar at something like 86 cents, but before long I traded it into Bitcoin, and then into XRP after a while.  I'm hoping to see Stellar get down under 10 cents.  The last time I added XRP was when it was down around 28 cents.

I'm looking for the bottom!

Here's the coins I am HODLing or will soon be HODLing when the prices crash. 

1. Bitcoin
2. Litecoin
3. XRP
4. Stellar
5. Ethereum
6. Monero

I'm not interested in what will be the biggest, longest lasting, most used coin.  I only care about how much PROFIT I can make on the next big price surge as soon as possible.