Ripple already have a pretty big market cap. It is designed to wirk with bank trannsactions and current market cap can successfully cover the current amount of transacrions (and even some further growth). Banks are not interested in unsupplied growth (making a bubble) just because it will make ripple more volatile while banks need stability for a normal work.

I still have some doubts about those "free" money. For example the amount of profit recieved with bitcoin gold fork could be successfully added to bitcoin or any other altcoins. So if you take a look from the other side thoce garbage BTC forks are just taking the potential benefit from the usefull coins, which might be pretty harmfull.

The efficient "green" solution was not yet discovered.
1.  Wepower simply need their product (green power) to grow in price the same speed as growth cryptocurrency marker. Otherwise this will be an uneffective investment.
2. Powerledger. A some kind of app that will deal with the green power which is not working good for now? Nah, that won't work.
3. Bitproperty. The project is not rly about the green power and honestly the idea doesn't seem to be clear. Anyway it reminds me about Horisin state (HST). After the ICO there was a good pump and then the prices rushed down. As people are investing aiming to get a profit then bitproperty also looks unsafe.

I is mostly clear amout the "normal" cryptos but who da hell is buying a BCH scamcoin? It doesn't look like it is popular among anyone! The only explanation I see is that someone is silently buying it aiming to perform another attack on BTC, pump bitcoin cash and dump everything afterwards. Or maybe it just pumped thru bithumb...

Heh, the first comment on reddit:
And looking on their chart I aggree with that guy. Centra had better times: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/centra/
To make another XX pump it need to have some advantage (if not the product then the promotion, management, customer service, whatever) to compete with Monaco. Just another project (even if it is legit) won't repeat the success.

It doesn't mean that there won't be any chance to mine ETH, you've already mentioned that they gona have PoS mining. Also it doesn't mean that mining gona be mutch cheaper. Vitalik Buterin already mentioned that you gona have to deposit a decent amount of coins to guarantee that you  won't perform any attacks. Anyway you can expect the ETH pump once they switch o PoS but it is not yet clear about the dates.

Tbh okpay doesn't look to be popular in cryptoworld simply because  it is reversible payment method (like skrill /neteller / paypal). It is mostly about the source of your funds. If they were added via credit or debit card then they can be charged back by the service provider (visa, mastercard etc.). Thats why even if you find someone to sell BTC for your okpay they will probably charge like 15-20% fee and ask for screenshots of your fund source. You can easily exchange your BTC to okpay (via bitpay) but you won't be able to load this funds to your card.

If you sure that ETH will continue its growth then go ahead. But remember that you should never buy alts when they are on the top (imho 500$ for eth is a good price for now and I dont think that it will grow more so you might just lose your money).
If you are very new to cryptocurrencies then better don't buy anything for at least 2 weeks and try to understand how it works without any advices.

Just read details before ordering a card. I've noticed the same thing about Okpay but they notify about it before you order a card. Also if neteller say that btc deposits can be spent somewhere but not in your online stores then it won't be truth because such restrictions are put by the bank that issued a card and they usually now allow all bitcoin deposits. The only thing that I can advice is that you can use the currency exchange section of this forum and trade your btc for other user's neteller.

People already chilled after cancelled fork. First they sold their alts and bought btc to get the free btg, then they went back to alts. Since that time alts had a good growth and holders probably have some doubts about the further growth and selling alts for btc again. Plus market is a bit wormed up with the rumors about 10k btc till the end of the year.

1. Combining with a point 4 you will get a coin that is not liquid at all
2. Why not? Tokens sumetimes demonstrate great results.
3. If the coin have any fuure perspectives then the future inflation is not a big deal. You can always predict the amount of new coins.
4. I imagine the old coin with 1 mln market cap and a huge amount of coins that already mined that can easily dump the price back after any growth. What can revive such projects?

I've always been curious how such real projects can be affected by the blockchain and cryptocurrencies? Imho to make it work and bring a stable profit in cryptocurrencies you should deal with cryptocurrencies. Like you should sell your equipment for the all time fixed ETH price which will make the project uncompetitive in the market. Otherwise if the ETH rate will ever grow again the company's value will still remain at the same USD level and that will make your tokens a bad cryptoinvestment.

That was a hard lesson for you. In future you should make some better research before sendong your money to someone.
A quote from the bitmain website:
In addition while searching for any crypto related services always use adblock and never click on google ads. When I turn off the adblock I see over 50% of scam google ads.
Visit legit websites from reliable sources and bookmark them in your browser.
P.S. If you are a US resident then you should probably have a chance for a legal protection. It shouldn't be a big deal to find scammers if you have the invoice.

The usual delivery time for any purchases from china is about 1-3 weeks for most countries (counting possible delays with the local customs control). So Jan 21-31 more looks like a pre-order than a normal order. Also I've seen a "scam accusation" where bitmain was extremely late with sending the packages so you have to be patient if you want to order something from bitmain.

BCH was pumped during the attack on the Bitcoin so the "BCH holders" could take the money of people that bought it at a higer price. They lieraly pumped  it for the short time and sold their own coins taking the money of other people. Adding the attack on BTC and the other rumors and we have the situation that could be clearly concidered as a scam atempt.
I would realy like you to see you proving your statement.

If a newbie member stopps communicating after requesting for an escrow then there is a high chance that it is a scammer (thats a proven practice). I am not saying anything, just warning some other users that might be dealing with him in this prticular moment that dealing with him without escrow is dangerous af.

A newbie user stopped reponding me in PM after I've asked him about escrow. Deal with him with caution (or better just dont waste your time cintacting him) because this is more likely to be a scam.

The main page looks nice (especially the running line on the top side). In general the project remind me sbout the coinmarketcap (I've usually used it for such puproses) but the newsfeed is just awesome! It is possible to see almost all information about a certain coin on the single page.
My only advice for now is to make a general list of all cryptocurrencies / tokens based on total performance (and market cap) and add cryptos to 24h best performers with their numbers from the list (or at least add a volume to this  table) so it could be easier to undertand if the coin in green list is legit or not.

The article looks suspicious. Bitconnect shouldn't offer any stable annual income, especially that high. Anyway it looks like a pure ponzi cheme: most of the 24h volume comes from their own exchange (I'm realy curious to see any technical review of the exchange, maybe they just put a high volume by themselves), new buyers are bringing profits to the current holders and devs (I highly doubt that their exchange is legit) so it is possible to get some easy money at the beginning but such scheme will be 100% exposed sooner or later. And looking on the amount of scam allerts I'm sinking it will happen pretty soon.

I'm buying again!
Now I'm buying BTC and also can consider to take any other popular altcoin (ETH /  LTC / whatever) if you are willing to sell it. First post in this thread is edited. Feel free to ask your questions or make your offers.