[...] it's much like real world economy where rich gets richer and poor stays poorer.
The "rich gets richer and poor stays poorer" is called "Matthew effect" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_effect). Applying this theory to Bitcointalk, it can be interpreted that if a problem or an idea spotted at the same time by a low ranked and a high ranked members, the high ranked member is recognized and the low ranked is easier to be overlooked. I'm not opposed to this Matthew effect, it's quite popular in real life. I usually talk to myself that, you can't change social prejudices on your own, all you can do is never stop proving yourself. One day your effort will be awarded deservedly or at least, you won't be regret that you haven't tried enough in the past. Now what is the difference for a legendary to MERIT another legendary who is already a legendary RANKER on this forum, same goes to other SAME Rankers on the forum.
The forum is far different from a game - where you only need to try hard, kill bosses, clear maps... to rank up and then chill when you hit the highest rank. People are here for knowledge, discussions, bitcoin passion and so on. So just because of reaching the legend rank doesn't mean that they stop giving merit to other legends' good posts. At a certain level, merit is the measure of reputation, I think. There are merit sources to do the merit distribution and the number of them is increasing day by day. |
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Whats good about LINK that makes it better than ETH 2.0? Or will they coincide together in a market like Coca Cola & Pepsi or like Uber & Ola or is 1 try to monopolise the whole market like Microsoft showing no mercy?
Yes I see in charts alts ATH's looked similar to BTC ATH back in 2017 however alts charts now dont look like bitcoin charts now as the alts and btc looks like they have been decoupled. But alts LINK and XTZ charts look totally different and is looking similar to btc price action. Why is that?
When you say alts like ADA & IOTA are still being developed, these coins have been on the market for past few years. How long does it take for a coin to fully develop or is it the matter of coincidence of mentioning & saving achievements or developments for the next timed bull run to attract new investors? Or is it that any coin blockchain tech requires lifetime updates like most existing tech so if that is the case then does achievements or announced developments becomes relevant? For example millions of Iphone users worldwide may get a prompt on screen for firmware update that doesnt surprise them as updates especially in technology doesnt surprise anyone anymore as its expected for tech to get outdated very quickly you know what I mean.
Back in 2016 btc halving there was no economic gloom like today plus new fomo investors entered the cypto market in 2017.
The circumstances now in 2020 compared to 2016/17 have totally changed so Im thinking who will be the new investors be with cash capital for the 2020/21 bull run and will alts beat their previous ATH's?
I never said LINK was better than ETH. Don't get me wrong here, I don't want to be understood as a LINK or XTZ shiller. Because they are attracting money to pour on them, other alts don't or attract less. Why they attract? --> I already mentioned many times in above replies. Again, no one knows how long does it take to fully develop a coin. The whole cryptocurrency market is living on belief. Developments and achievements are things that maintain that belief. Investors may or may not be interested in those but without them, they think the project is dead and dump their coins. New investors can be a American jobless guy who doesn't know what to do with his stimulus check, a stock investor who has withdrawn his money from bood-bathed NYSE, an Elon Musk who is getting bored with his Tesla stock climbing too high...etc. It's a macro problem and you are expecting too high from this young, volatile market. |
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There are some discrepancies between local classification and FDA's definition about "surgical mask". As far as I'm concerned, masks with 3-4 layers, one of which is bacterial filtered are generally called "surgical mask". Many products among them fit the discription of FDA product coded QKR - "non-surgical mask".
Besides, in Vietnam, the medical authorities always said that "wearing masks help reduce the spread of the disease" and people have to wearing a mask in public places during critical phase of Covid-19 pandemic. That's may explain why the manufacturer wrote "prevent penetrating from virus" on the package. In this case, I think both Nam Anh Equipment Trading Production Co., Ltd and coin163 did not fully understand FDA's classification and caused the confusion.
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You mentioned LINK & XTZ. I see LINK is a older coin from 2017 that managed to keep in the top 20 rankings. LINK is similar old age to the coins that im holding. Whats promising about LINK that separates it from the coins that im holding that managed to maintain its position in the top 20 through the past bear markets? I see LINK and XTZ are near ATH's now which is a bit risky for me as they might turn out to be like NEO, IOTA or ADA crashing to like 10 or 20 cents or something if this economic collapse brings another bear market.
So why the likes of NEO, IOTA or ADA crashed but LINK and XTZ didnt? The visual difference I can see between them is NEO, IOTA & ADA look like pump and dump coins in the historical charts but LINK and XTZ historical charts look totally different. Bitcoin once looked like a pump and dump coin in 2018 but the current charts changed that outlook. So is it the matter of investing in old altcoins in top 100 that has no history of pump and dump in the charts?
You can come here to see XTZ's achievements, most of them are in the real world: https://www.reddit.com/r/tezos/comments/dz1uhs/lets_summarize_our_accomplishments_in_a_single/. Currently, XTZ is the only altcoin which is usually mentioned as a ETH's competitor. You can also find some articles in here or there to get to know LINK and its prospects. Altcoin's ATH reached nearly at the same time with bitcoin's, you can see this through charts. Why do you think that those are LINK or XTZ's ATHs when bitcoin is still moving at the vicinity of half of its ATH? The difference between these two and ADA, IOTA... is that they are still being well developed and gaining achievements. Cryptocurrency world lives on people's belief. When you write a long list of to-do things on a whitepaper but fail to do them, investors lose faiths and interests on you. That's what happening with the crashed coins. Anw, I never say that NEO, IOTA and ADA are pump and dump coins. Yes you can put your trust in some coins in top 100 but charts is just one of many aspects to take into consideration. Team, community, technology, partnerships.... are some of the others. You have to keep your eyes closely to the coins that you invested in (join telegram, discord; like facebook, twitter...). Just buy a bag of coins and let it be in a wallet is far from enough. Lastly who will be the market participants be or who will the new investors be that will push the next altcoin bull run? And in the next altcoin bull run will we see new ATH's or will altcoins look like bitcoin charts now? Will the new investors for the next altcoin bull run be?: - Unemployed people from this economic collapse? - Middle class people who lost faith in Fiat money and like to hedge in crypto? Obviously they gotta buy BTC first before they trade it for altcoins. - Rich people or Businesses with capital who like hedge their fiat capital in crypto? - Big Mega Corporations & Governments who pushing for a cashless society? But then again they will have their own centralized coins or will they adopt the existing XRP coin? How does a centralised coin like XRP Ripple with all the hate its getting keep its no.3 ranking for past years and also through the bear markets? - Back in 2017 there was no economic collapse like today so im thinking who will be the new investors be coming in for the next altcoin bull run this year or next year or the year after that? Who is buying bitcoin now because it cant be the millions and millions of unemployed people who lost their jobs recently. Who has the capital nowadays thats buying bitcoin now? Back in 2017 there was FOMO with the masses general public in crypto. Now the masses public are unemployed so who will be the new FOMO people with capital to spend be? Hopefully with answers to above will help me decide whether to hodl or dump  New investors can be anyone that you talked about. I can't tell you since I'm not a fortune teller. Or the worst case is there's no new investors, like you said, people are losing their jobs, losing money. The only thing that's worth expecting is that bitcoin is halvening. In the past, bitcoin's price increased after each halving.  |
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Funny you should mention that -- that exact situation happened here to some woman who was trying to be artsy about infection rates in a Facebook post and ended up in jail over it.
LOL, I thought that thing only happened in my country, under a mono-party government's lead. [...]
I don't really know what it's like in your place but it's what's happening in my country. No rumors, no fake news, no conspiracy theories... and it worked. The pandemic seems under control. Btw, be relaxed, I just wanted to be funny. I have seen endless debate wars in Politics & Society and don't want to start some more here  . |
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Speaking of Musk, he had another meltdown recently so I wouldn't be too surprised if one of these days he tweets that the Earth is flat.
If Musk lived in a country that fines its citizens USD 600 for each time spreading false news about domestic death relating to Covid-19, he would know how to keep his hands off his keyboard. Btw, this topic must be in Serious Discussion, why Off-topic? |
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Congratz on your achievement, mate. You have proven you deserved it. You needed 4 months to ranked up from full member to senior member and another 3 months to achieved hero rank. That's really impressive. I have seen a number of ranking up topics but yours is among the most inspirational. Unfortunately I don't have a local board, if I did, I would definitely translate your topic to motivate myself and my fellows.
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It totally depends on your strategy. People who believe that bitcoin will reach USD 50k someday care about XXX/BTC pairs only.Their ultimate goal is to accumulate BTC as much as possible and then sell it at high price. Cautious people might prefer XXX/USD (USD or any other stable coins) pairs, which can eventually bring them profit in USD - certain profits. You can apply the same logic to XXX/ETH pairs however I don't find many traders go for this way. Professional traders usually trade both /BTC and /USD pairs but the principle is that if you buy a /BTC pair then you should sell it at /BTC.
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I truely admire your patience for holding those tokens for such long time. The decision is really up to you. It depends on whether you are lost or profited holding these coins for the last few years.
If I were you, I would sell or dump all of those tokens no matter if I loss or gain, except for Power ledger, Syscoin, Siacoin, Digibyte and 0x. Power ledger, Syscoin are famous for regular pump and dump. Check out the market frequently and sell them at nice prices. Likewise, Sia and Digibyte have increased a lot in the last few days, I don't understand why missed such great opportunities. Only the last one - 0x is a serious project with active developers and good for long term hold.
I guess you got those tokens/coins from bounties or airdrops. If you were to invest in altcoins, there are many more better choices for you. It's ETH with PoS to come, LINK or XTZ with top volumes on Binance or even a centralized shit like XRP (/USDT) would be a better option.
Okay Siacoin, Digibyte and 0x I will keep in mind but out of these three only 0x is still active with its developers? You sure Power ledger and Syscoin have regular pumps and dumps? As all I see is one ATH pump for both of these coins from the charts. You mean ETH will get Proof of Stake? So you suggest me adding LINK & XTZ & XRP to my portfolio. I understand XRP is popular however are LINK & XTZ active with its developers for the long term? You can find some activities on Siacoin or Digibyte but 0x is the worthiest coin to look into. Of course you only found one ATH for each coin in accordance with bitcoin's ATH in late 2017. Look at their tiny volumes on Binance and hourly chart then you can see how they were pumped and dumped with 20-30% range each time. Yes ETH will move to PoS, you can find more information here: https://github.com/ethereum/eth2.0-specs. I didn't highly recommend you to invest in such a centralized coin like XRP, it was just a comparison. Meanwhile, LINK and XTZ are two of the best emerging coins. Their volumes are always among top 10 on Binance. You can look into some more traditional coins like LTC, DASH or ZEC but I would go for XTZ and LINK for more profits, risks are higher too. Can new Altcoins that recently came into the cyptomarket that is 2019/20 surpass old established altcoins from through years back? Does the excitement of a new Altcoin entering the market always bring it in the top 100-200 rankings? I see the old altcoins from the list above being pushed back out of the top 100 rankings that they were originally in back in 2017?
Like I said above, XTZ (ranked 10th) and LINK (12th) are two new emerging coins that climbing onto top 10. Old coins with no new achievements will be kicked out. Some examples of kicked out old coins are NEO, IOTA, ADA... So the question is do new investors that entered the market recently that is 2019/20 will only invest in the New altcoins and see the old ones as outdated? It depends. Investors will invest in things they believe that will bring them profit. It could be bitcoin, new promising altcoins, old altcoins etc... Some old altcoins still mantain crowded community behind them. Being outdated doesn't mean they are worthless. The choice is yours to make, I think you should keep keeping the coins that appreciates in value after Bitcoin starts surging, I personally like coins that follows the market uptrend whenever such movement happens
Isnt only the popular altcoins that move with the btc uptrend? And rest of the lower cap or lower ranking altcoins get their time to shine when bitcoin price stabilises in a bull market? When bitcoin moves, altcoins follow its step. Problem is some altcoins follows faster, some slower. Top altcoins always closely follow bitcoin's movement. Yes, lower cap altcoins will be slower but not all of them shine when bitcoin stabalizes. Your first list seems a bad list and it needs to be removed from your list. I may think to replace it with better altcoins. it looks a better think to replace coins like ubiq or gulden with the solid coin like chainlink or another top 50 CMC.
It caused by those coins are bad coins.
Can the existing market caps of the top 50 ranking coins apart from the top 3 increase by at least 1000-10000% in the next promising bull run or is it only the risk penny stocks with lower market caps, lower rankings bring such rewards when a lot of volume goes into them? Generally, the lower the market cap is, the easier to pump. From my point of view, it's virtually impossible for a top 50 altcoin to increase by 1000%. Shit coins with tiny market caps tecnically can, but it's been a long time there's no such a coin increases that high after a few days. P.S: You'd better gather your multiple replies into one long post. |
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I truely admire your patience for holding those tokens for such long time. The decision is really up to you. It depends on whether you are lost or profited holding these coins for the last few years.
If I were you, I would sell or dump all of those tokens no matter if I loss or gain, except for Power ledger, Syscoin, Siacoin, Digibyte and 0x. Power ledger, Syscoin are famous for regular pump and dump. Check out the market frequently and sell them at nice prices. Likewise, Sia and Digibyte have increased a lot in the last few days, I don't understand why missed such great opportunities. Only the last one - 0x is a serious project with active developers and good for long term hold.
I guess you got those tokens/coins from bounties or airdrops. If you were to invest in altcoins, there are many more better choices for you. It's ETH with PoS to come, LINK or XTZ with top volumes on Binance or even a centralized shit like XRP (/USDT) would be a better option.
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Put aside all of the information relating to your account (attached to Brave KYC identity if you already KYC), the widget's "stay logged-in" feature put your account in danger if your kid, wife or any other person that is unfamiliar with cryptocurrency touches your computer.
I don't recall having any KYC with using Brave Browser though, are you sure it has KYC? I don't think so. Brave does has KYC option, though it's not mandatory for normal user. By default, no KYC verification is required to enable and use Brave Rewards. For example, users can enable Brave Ads and earn BAT without KYC verification. They can also enjoy in-platform features, such as BAT tipping, without ever having to KYC. At this time, the only cases in which a user must complete KYC verification are:
Withdrawals: If the user would like to withdraw BAT from the platform (i.e., transfer BAT—such as BAT earned through Brave Ads—to an external Ethereum address).
Depositing funds beyond $1000 USD: If a user would like to fund their Brave Rewards wallet with their own funds (e.g., by credit card, their own external BAT, or with cryptocurrency), no KYC is required by default. However, KYC may be required to add more funds if a user’s lifetime deposits exceed $1000 USD. Below $1000, no KYC is required to add or deposit external funds.
Am I the only one who still worries about Binance and Brave's behavior? The two platforms have made a lot of fundamental changes that make you think again.
No, you're not the only one. The Breaking Bad tought me that there are many things in life initially intended for good purposes but then under some circumstances or for any reasons, they're gone bad. Talking about Binance once delisted BCH SV on CZ's aggression (it's a shitcoin, but Binance keeps listing a lot of shittier coins). Recently, they even bought out Coinmarketcap and support Justin Sun on accquiring Steemit. Clearly the decentralizaion spirit of cryptocurrency are being violated by those giant entities. |
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Nice effort from Brave to add some value to its token. However I doubt that the risks outweigh the convenience it can bring. Put aside all of the information relating to your account (attached to Brave KYC identity if you already KYC), the widget's "stay logged-in" feature put your account in danger if your kid, wife or any other person that is unfamiliar with cryptocurrency touches your computer. I'd rather stick with Firefox than moving to Brave for this widget.
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From a low ranked member's point of view, I can say that begging is the worst, most pathetic way of earning merits. Providing that a merit is worth 10-15 USD on gray market, is some one's pride costed exactly the same begging for a merit? To me, merits are not only for ranking up or reducing spams but also a measure of a member's abilites. Yes it is not always true that the more merits you have, the more talented you are but if you can't gain a single merit within a thousand of posts then you should look into yourself again.
I can easily give away a merit if some one ask me. Don't get me wrong here, it's just like you give a couple of bucks to a homeless beggar. There are a number of members who have 99 merits and need 1 more to reach full member rank or many decent members whose posts are overlooked. If they need help, I will give a hand. But like mentioned above, if a member with 0 merit among an endless of posts ask me, I will definitely reject.
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Well, I will follow you guys' common idea here: forget about it and less visit those sections. But I just have a small thought: what if someday your favorite sections would be inundated with those eye-catching titles? Why not prevent them at first?
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555 sounds like a popular number in this thread  |
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I know that the OPs want to gather some attention for their topics but it make the whole section look messy and unprofessional.  Also, a title of capitalized characters should be restricted, not to mention a full capitalized topic like this. |
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there is a member who ranks newbie answers quite clearly accompanied by links and screenshoot, but does not get merit ,, but there are high ranking members like heroes and senior members, they answer clearly too, tend to be comments, but they get merit, are there certain considerations related to this ?  Merit is not moderated, so it can be easily given, sometimes as a way of a thumb up or an agreement. That said, personal emotion and judgement contribute a lot on merit distribution. Anyway, if you see any good posts of you or anyone else that have been overlooked, you can report it to this thread: [self-moderated] Report unmerited good posts to Merit Source. You will be reviewed and awarded accordingly. sometimes this makes the newbie who has tried to give a good answer but feels disappointed to see how easy the member ranking above is in getting merit compared to newbie members.  All I can say is, never stop trying to prove yourself. I had a slow beginning on this forum but I started to receive some merits in the recent time. Many high ranked members here started from scratch. You can find out and earn for yourself some motivation: Inspired by the stories of forum Members and Heading towards Full Member Rank |
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