Great update to the OP! 

It's good to see the real progress being made on this project recently and look forward to the upcoming developments with great interest.

LOL - It is a sad state of affairs in crypto that this needs to be explicitly stated!

It is a cracking product, however. Best I have seen from any token ICO. It also seems to be seeing huge uptake.

To answer your question you just need to read up on the DAO debacle.

Waves Platform is also launching Smart Contracts and sits on the fastest decentralised blockchain in existence. These also will be non-turing although Turing complete SC is on the roadmap this year.

Only very few applications specifically need Turing Complete - in most real world cases the logic required could be off-chain. The jury is out as to wether the inherent risks outweigh the benefits of Turing-complete on chain - however DAO was a prescient precedent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

Indeed. It is handy to have so many links in one place on the OP in BCT.

Also - I second those thanks to turing for starting the old thread! 

It makes me smile when people comment that 'Waves is left behind', needs to 'catch-up' etc, etc.

It is actually at present time World's fastest decentralised blockchain with 100Tx/S and with capacity to increase this to 1000Tx/S when network need arises.

Once Smart Contracts are released in April, the USP of speed, low transaction fees and consumer grade UI will do things to Waves Market Cap that will make people who remembered reading this thread and, instead, jumping on the latest vapour hype coin cry floods of tears!  

Indeed. That is why you want to hold ETH and accumulate Waves


WavesDEX will make that statement look a bit old-fashioned in the years to come.

That's Waves - Deloitte and Gazprombank are long time partners. Agree that Eth is for holding but the potential for growth is Waves.

I hold both.

However for potential growth Waves has a hell of a lot going for it;

• Fastest decentralised and open blockchain in the World.
• Like Eth, written from scratch, mature and stable
• Lot's of ICOs previously, happening right now and in pipeline (Not as many as ETH, yet though)
• World first fully legally compliant ICO (Canada)
• Swiss based, but offices worldwide and HQ in Moscow which is a super crypto-tech hub
• Cheap transactions
• Smart contracts coming in a couple of months - potential will rocket
• World-class Consumer Grade UI

So the answer to this thread is; Hold both but expect the massive growth from the Waves side.

https://www.reddit.com/r/crytocurrency/comments/7z4s0y/meet_waves_platform/

Cardano (ADA), Waves (WAVES) & Lisk are the top ranked blockchains for developer activity.

https://twitter.com/DmitryMeshkov/status/954316731920670720

Binance are in Hong Kong so they won't close any time soon.

Chains like BTC and Ethereum have achieved a huge degree of success and Media coverage - however that success has come at a price;
Very slow transactions and confirmations for extended periods and huge transaction fees.

Developments in scaleability and affordability appear to be glacial with Bitcoin and are lagging in Etherium. I am sure these issues will, eventually, be solved and I predict new highs for both of these chains in 2018.

Waves Platform have gone a long way towards solving the scaleability issue and is currently world leader in this field;

https://www.crowdfundinsider.com/2017/11/124324-waves-implement-new-technology-become-fastest-blockchain-platform-world/

with their implementation of WavesNG protocol (Based on BitcoinNG). This technology, since activation in Waves Feature Activation Protocol is performing, very much according to plan, and has gone through a further 6 iterations of release. This makes Waves the fastest distributed blockchain the world has seen.

Fees are also very low - less than a $1 cent currently. Mass payments can be much cheaper by using fee token issued by a large node operator.

Smart Contract development continues apace and is expected in Q1 this year. Coupled with the consumer grade wallets and easy near instant token creation, along with the DEX (Distributed Exchange) featuring many, many pairs and high volume this all makes Waves a very presently undervalued platform.

2018 is set to be the year of WAVES!

Ethereum has a lot of traction - I am sure it will see new highs. It has also garnered a lot of ICO's and Media attention.

However, unless they sort out scaleability, usability and transaction fees within the year I see another platform, like Waves, Lisk or Ardor taking number 2 capitalization slot.

I guess if you are unfortunate enough to live in a Country that is thinking about, or has actually banned BTC, there are ways and means of using it for the end user. VPN is a solution but likely to flag suspicion.

I would think that an enterprising person could implement a PTP tunnel via HTTPS - that would be safer.

Indeed. It is just a closed payment mechanism, like Paypal, Visa or Mastercard but with a blockchain ledger.

An airdrop is a distribution mechanism for a project to transfer crypto tokens or coins to wallet addresses.

Usually, the developers allocate a pool of coins to the airdrop. They then implement the airdrop using parameters they have decided upon. These may or may not be published. Parameters can be anything the developers choose. For example, an individual may get a share of coins proportional to the amount they already hold. For many airdrops developers need to collect information from recipients - say, proof of nationality (in the case of Country Coin airdrops) or addresses of wallets not on the same chain as the air drop coin. The developers can then run a script against a block explorer for that alien address and reward recipients with a share of their own coin proportional to the amount held on the other chain. Platforms like Waves and Ardor make airdrops easier across different tokens. Most airdrops are organised at the start of a project, either in one drop, or are staged in regular drops. Any project with control of their crypto assets can drop them whenever and however they choose.

Projects like Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold were not airdrops - the chain was forked and recipients held 1:1 with Bitcoin itself. The developers did not have any discretion as to who got what. You can be sure that developers behind these sort of projects are already whales in the original blockchain and the 1:1 reward is motivation for them.

You think they are set in stone and have no developers or roadmap?

That's pretty hilarious.

OP comes on shilling a, even by crypto standards, a shitcoin and calling BTC & Eth 'shitcoins'.

I thought I had truly seen the depths on BTC but I was wrong. OP thank you Sir, for that!

Dentcoin, Dentacoin, Dentistcoin, Schmentistcoin.

So much bad teeth in crypto. So many hype shitcoin breath.

Agree with 1 and 2 - but not a surprise to many people. To the others, you should check it out while still cheap.

Indeed. 100tx/s is an arbitrary throttle. The speed can be throttled up, dependent upon Waves Activation Protocol vote, as and when the network needs additional capacity.