And there is the issue. Nothing to argue against the off-beat tradesites, they would work if CANN would work on a rumor level. Perspective, things to come. Maybe even old things turning out to be no lies no more. D9 has to come out, changing from a liability into an asset.
   
Regarding the node count, a rather technical point, just there turning POS would make sense. For attracting POW hashrate one needs more solid economy baselines and the coin supply got mined almost completely. Price low, too.

I believe it's solemny driven by Bitfinex. Opinion is free, and the signs are obvious. Spread?

But really "Ukraine’s government" and "its economic strategy" made me chuckle. They got none. At least nothing visible. Regarding the Localbitcoins it should tackle the bigger, central european areas first and formost. There's the money.
Third world countries would count in if mass amounts of transactions per second would be transfereable with zero fees. Without those features, you will never make pace over there. Not even a half mile.

this^^^

Rumoring around "gooooverments!!" does not take us anywhere. Stop these reflexes! They are still processing.
The current troubles of Bitfinex seem to be their own faults, tamping one hole by using a newly fresh hole created by themselfes. Refunding all Bitfinex tokens sounded nice at first but people raised concernes from where all this fresh money originated. Now we know.

"Nothing to see" except one opens up the USDT data available at https://coinmarketcap.com/assets/tether/ and pay special attention onto the last weekspan.

Market Cap has been ramped up like stairsteps, pegging withhold 0.999 "fine grade" onto the dollar but now we can see free market forces disrupting. Maybe Kraken adding USD/USDT trade caused this.
More news at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1879564.0

Advice: Get the friendlyway out, before it's to late in a bank run

They are only "explainable" in hindsight, and that always frustrates one as it has been "all clearly visible" but no, it did not days ago. Just that movements are affected by things discovered does not say they are predictable.
I'm constantly monitoring most, if not all, relevant news channels. Tedious task.

Getting in on the dips, my fav method if acting in reactive mode. Things move, you react. Like cats on ball of wool.

Clicked on 2000 USD, too. But that only proves his point! Three people argueing and all voting the same number.

Reading "the first" immediately LSK Lisk pops up in my memory. Oh and there was a Lisk predecessor, XCR Crypti. They made a lot of fuzz about everybody wanting to be a special node, "Delegates" or somewhat because those getting all the mining fees.

NEM = "new economy movement" that sounds nice at least, marketing wise. I have forgotten what NXT stood for and seemingly its a ghost town by now, not a prospering competitor. NEM and NXT stood on my notecard since when I began exploring BTC.
Maybe their Ardor rebranding can revive it? Nobody mentioned it so far as I have seen.

Aren't we always just at a brink before collaps? Total nuclear destruction? The whole eighties had been in a mood like that.
The world out there just luuuvs fearmongering.

That should not infect your financial decisions. Well, you are free to play duck'n'cover hiding under the kitchen table with your laptop. But! Only place your wealthes where some updrift development happens. Oh, and avoid anything all to overly "official" that tries to attract you. Big institutions can be scammers, too.

They would have to choose from creating 'nother NXT asset, clugging onto Mastercoin like MAID or AMP did (two good examples of tokens without technology behind) and that's just the premium class, there are many more to mention that are somewhat in existance, more or less.
Ethereum seemingly does something better.

PPC has gotten my attention as long as the pegged at a dollar NBT NuBits project was healthy. Now I would not know what to do with those PPC besides selling.
And by coincidence Tether currently has legal issues against Wells Fargo, Bitfinex might get affected.

If high volatile crypto coins fall flat, maybe anything "1 Dollar" stabilized construct might jump into the gap. Makes sense that those occasionally have run into issues, maybe there are bigger forces watching this development too.

Not necessarily need to keep, when I started on bitcoin there has been a bearish market for "most of my life". Entered past the 2013 ATH.

... sounds optimistical "of sorts" now in rearsight

Not really the solution. Just taking their somewhat "political" statement


Seemingly a BU pool placing TX requests into their queque with some priority. If each fraction starts to support only their followers, we are still stuck on the same basic problem.

Range bound since that upswing from 3/15/2017 which happened to coincide with the post-ETF woes of bitcoin. Since bitcoin mostly recovered by drawing a huge "W" formation o charts ETH might fall low even back into 30 USD ranges. I'm growingly cautious reducing my exposure at the moment. The weekly friday drop will decide things.
Golly now I'm sounding all like "the next week is crucial" again

Yes, that's the better answer. Wanted to write about averaging down but your bullet "Never go all in on any certain alternative cryptocurrency" covers that up, too.
"Study" first, then "learn" how to trade - by mistake mostly. No way around that. Start with a tiny portfolio. After that got lost completely, scale up.

Initially Bitcoin caught all of the attention, yes. But if any coin could claim beeing "Bitcoin 2.0" or similar, kinda the right inheritor? Would have to be in line with current source code. Some further developped variant.

Ukrainian Cryptonote? What's their edge against earlier competition like the other two you mentioned? Aeon can at least serve as an experimental crash test dummy for developers, instead of directly hazarding XMR.
On this list maybe Boolberry is missing out. Zoidberg is MIA.

Same observance, the necessarity to hold funds for trading crypto at all. Some slight shifts in the scene, many are directly notated against fiat currencies nowadays. LTC/USD and the lot.

You are a miner, very active in the mining section. How would you rate your own influence to steer the ship? I'm somewhat missing small miners at a huge mass stating their opinion. Bitcoin turned into something only the big guys are mining nowadays, which sucks.
Main reason why I am into Alts.

Isn't Metcalfe overvalued?

The exact user numbers are not known. I tried ago justifying user numbers by official statistics like currently logged in users at Poloniex and similar. Not every node on the network represents a real user. Most transactions are spam to clog the mempool. Trade sites might act dishonest on their stated user numbers, to attract new investors.
That erroneous input goes wrong exponential (n2) so Metcalfe's output runs even more errant. Oh, and he never meant his calculation beeing economically focused, instead observed communication network's usefullness.