While I am optimistic in the long term and in my opinion bitcoin will rise to $20k and above, I not sure if a new crypto spring is already here. The bounce from $6k is strong enough, but we may see another dip and bitcoin may linger at about $10k or even below for a long time. Of course, it is just a guess, bitcoin is unpredictable, but the winter may be not over yet.

Thanks, with this list my wallet resumed staking.

Buying new coins is certainly financially dangerous. There may be hidden gems, but most of them are going to pass into nothingness. I would download the wallet and check it before buying from an exchange. As for PoS coins, I have at least two that work. You may have to wait for a long time before getting a stake, from my experience the average times presented by wallets are usually heavily underestimated. For example, if its says 'average time 1 hour', it usually takes several hours.

No, it's not safe, ALTCOM wallet is on the old chain. As far as I understand, everything staked after block 192500 will disappear after transfer.

I did the same (complete resync) and initially it worked (3 chunks in a row), but now it invariably writes "Not staking" after syncing and unlocking the wallet. Maybe I have to update the list of nodes...

I have the same question too. I sold a few coins there and placed orders to rebuy which, unfortunately, got executed after the split and now I have a bunch of now useless coins.

I think it is very unlikely. It is in the hands of big players now. For every seller there is a buyer, and they buy thousands of coins not because of technology. They will pump it again.

Or it may be neither. It's only 2018 and much stranger things may happen during this century.

I think it is not over. Surely, it is a large drop, but it is neither the first nor the largest (by percentage). The 2013 crash was much deeper (compared to the current levels) and yet bitcoin recovered. It was even worse in 2011. Yes, there is a possibility that it is the final crash, but it seems to be very unlikely. There will be another pump. Maybe not this year, but I have little doubt that it will happen.

If it grows. I've been watching this coin for months, I participated in most airdrops and the latter signature campaign, and I still hold most of the coins I got. It was a promising one, but now it is completely broken. No exchange, the new wallet randomly stops staking. I regret that I did not sell everything before the fork.

P.S. SONO 1.2.0.1 completely stopped staking, no matter how long I wait or how many times I restart it. "Not staking".

There are no bad news now, but the dump continues. I'm not sure that good news only are enough to reverse it.

I'm not sure. This sale may continue for a long time and go down to even lower levels. The recovery may take a year or more.

No, unless you also have free electricity, and even then the profits are going to be tiny. I suppose low-end laptops do not have discrete GPUs and mining CPU-minable coins (e.g. Monero) with low-end i3s it not worth it.

It did recoil sharply in December, but it was something of a 'bull trap'. But now it is not a dip, the decline is slow but steady and nobody knows where it will end. Buying during such times is psychologically difficult, because the price always falls. I hold what I have, but I do not buy.

Small pump is possible, but it probably will not be high. Now I have doubt if it can even break $10k. Another parabolic rise is the source of my optimism, I expect it too, but not this year...

Right. The fall is huge and the volumes are not so high, so the decline may continue. While I am still optimistic in the long term (years), I fear we may enter another long "cypto winter" now and that there will be plenty of opportunities to buy at even lower prices.

Yes, such resilience is really worth noticing. The price falls now, but it falls much slower than almost anything else.

It seems that they added fiat deposits to the exchange, although I did not test it. The whole project now looks too shady to give them money.


I do not want to be a doomsayer, but the project looks abandoned. It was a surprise for me that they added fiat deposits, but now I am not even sure if this is a good sign or not. There is no communication from the team, no news, no announcements. Nothing.

It is. I also have a few coins and I'm not going to sell them now, because I'm still optimistic in long term. The recovery, however, may easily take a year...

AFAIK sMerits are not renewable, except for merit sources. Merit updates (when somebody sends you merit) are immediate.