Eu, unul, prefer deloc decat digital. Nu-i acelasi sentiment, si nu poate fi inlocuit de telefon in niciun fel (parerea mea). Si da, preturile pentru versiunile digitale si eu zic ca sunt prea mari, mai ales ca pe multe platforme nici macar nu te lasa sa le descarci manual ci raman achizitionate si stocate tot la ei in servere..

Only one thing I'd like to mention: although Bitcoin cannot be manipulated in the same way fiat can, a time will come when you'll see Bitcoin heavily manipulated by them as well. Even today, if you take a quick look over the graphs, you'd see that institutional investments turned BTC into a pattern more similar to stocks than commodities.

With big investors pumping hundreds of millions into BTC investments, there'll be a time when corporations such as Google will own the majority of coins. Unfortunately, while Bitcoin solves the trust issues, it cannot solve the wealth inequality - at least not yet.

All I'm hoping for is that the "knowledge about Bitcoin" will be legit information, and not the reputation and knowledge masses currently have about BTC thanks to the MSM staining it constantly. If we're only 10 years from mainstream knowledge, then things are going to go insanely well. One thing I don't think will happen is your second question tho. Laziness is too much of a trend today to care about learning how Bitcoin works and how to protect yourself from Surveillance States desperately attempting to invade your privacy.

There is never going to be regulation under Bitcoin's network, so you could basically transact at any given time even if it's illegal in your country - under your own risk, obviously. One thing I'm particularly afraid of is that unknown addresses will be flagged and as soon as the link of unknown coin owners get their identity exposed, they'll be questioned for everything they've done over the network with harsh penalties.

Something like - your coins come from a source unknown to authorities? You're suspicious. To some, it may sound like dictatorship or something not so far from Orwell's vision. I personally think it's just a few steps away from reality. We're already living in a Surveillance State - the BTC and criminal activity will be a continuous excuse that'll never end until they get their plan to succeed.

I don't think so. The only thing I can think of is providing Bitcoin privacy-focused updates - but I am afraid this will push it into bans and rejection. This is double-edged: while it lets us, "the Internet Rebels", continue Satoshi's vision of a decentralized mean of exchange, Bitcoin would go into the underground markets in those countries where it'd get banned - increasing the illegal usage substantially.

We're quite close to the hard regulation of cryptocurrencies. Let's just hope it's going to be a fair regulation, and not something worse than the KYC nightmare.

Although investors may know the tech and functions of a certain coin they invested in, investing financial resources in it doesn't necessarily mean they're using the coin's said functions. I've personally been holding a few coins for more than 4 years and I've never used them for their real purpose.

No worries. Glad you posted your question on the forum.

Doing your own research is the best thing you can do, but this basic information (supply, price, mcap etc) isn't enough to find out if a cryptocurrency is insanely undervalued.

Most of the times, coins seem to pump out of nowhere but actually pump due to very positive news, such as huge development progress towards the team's goals. The thing is, it's hard to predict which coins continue to be developed towards their initial goal because for most, their development stops at one point in the future.

Some luck is necessary as well imo - for some, it's the only hope. Who could've predicted that if you bought $100 worth of ETH on the 21st of October 2015, you would've had $100k today?

It's a big sacrifice. Bitcoin is here to avoid centralization, it just doesn't make sense to welcome it this way.

I understand there are so many merchants that'll allow Bitcoin payments which is great, but I'm not sure it's going to be Bitcoin you'll be paying with. Without full control over the coins, it's just like PayPal created a virtual Bitcoin and allowed you to use it. I'm really curious to find out if the "purchases using Bitcoin" are going to be done over the blockchain or PayPal takes the BTC and gives you virtual ones.

I wouldn't call this research. Big, big flaws in almost all of those steps you have provided.

Recently added coins do not make for coins that are going to be great. In fact, most of these coins are just scams or clones of other tokens/coins. The volume doesn't necessarily mean something significant either. Considering the currencies have only recently been added, I have to assume they're quite new in the crypto sphere. Hence, high volume could easily mean a lot of people are selling. It doesn't mean it's a bullish coin.

Regarding the price, a higher one doesn't mean the coin is too expensive and a lower one doesn't mean it's cheap. DOGE is very, very cheap yet it has an insanely high supply. You don't seem to take that into account, according to your steps. Supply could be as high or low as it can be. As long as there's demand for the said coin, it'll rise no matter if it has a trillion units in circulation or just a million.

Step no. 5 is one I finally agree with. Keep yourself up to date as some updates and news are sometimes critical. The more you know, the better. But the last step is a big mistake. Wishing for a big exchange to list your coin isn't something I'd want to see in a coin's roadmap. Trust me, if a coin has a future, it will succeed with or without Binance.

Take this with a HUGE pile of salt. A sh*t ton of YouTubers are paid big money to praise coins and tell their followers the said coin is legit. Don't take their words for granted. Having a large mass of followers doesn't mean they'll never lie to you to their own benefit.

The research you do yourself is the best one. Don't let others tell you what to think & believe - find out yourself whether you should invest in something or not and learn from your own mistakes. Practice makes perfect.

Interesting replies. So far, not even a single vote towards the first option. The thoughts I previously had are now confirmed: altcoins are really only used for trading.

The sad idea that I wanted to shape is that, while altcoins advertise themselves for "revolutionary" tech and features, at the end of the day for the majority of us the only alts we use the way they're supposed to be used are privacy-focused ones - and that is because privacy is the default.

This particular reply has caught my attention:

Altcoins are 99% of the times praised for their tech, and investors/developers always link that to their potential value. However, so far, the voice of the community says something else.

It's almost like we're misleading ourselves to believe that a certain coin has more value because for its utilities, although almost nobody ever really uses it.

So many altcoins exist, out of which some are more known and used than others. Many of these coins claim to have an utility - for example, Siacoin exists, praising themselves as a Storage Platform.

But what truly bothers me is that, if I think about all those alts I have ever purchased and held, I have never used them for what they are supposedly created for. Besides Monero, where privacy is basically the default, most coins I have ever held have only been used for exchange deposits and withdrawals.

Hence, I thought it'd be a quite interesting idea to create a poll and find an answer to the following question: Do you really use the altcoins you own for the purpose they're supposedly created for?

Eu, personal, sunt interesat sa aflu povestile oamenilor - fie ca sunt sau nu de succes. Daca modul in care ne-ai raspuns pana acum la mesaje ti se pare ca ar fi primitor, atunci imi pare rau dar comunitatea asta nu-i de tine.

Problema devine groasa insa cand incepi sa te dai zmeul zmeilor si sa promiti vise pe care cei mai multi ajung in final sa le rateze.

Felul in care ai scris tot carnatul asta de mesaj doar intareste ideea ca te crezi superior oricarui alt trader, fapt pentru care ti-am si "trantit usa-n nas". Daca nu te credeai Dumnezeul trading-ului si nu aveai aroganta si nesimtirea pe care ai avut-o in raspunsurile tale din trecut, as fi stat altfel de vorba cu tine.

Interesul meu este sa atrag oameni in comunitatea Ro, si oricine este bine-primit.. atata timp cat exista respect fata de ceilalti. Te primeam foarte "cald" daca ai fi venit cu ideile tale prezentate in orice alt mod decat "detin secretul suprem, dati-mi bani si vi-l arat".

Alta data sa cauti amabilitate cand si tu o oferi la schimb. Nu poate sa vina doar dintr-o parte, e ceva simplu si logic. Sunt om cu oamenii.

Foarte bine atunci. Farewell

This isn't the first time, nor will it be the last when someone wants to do a "bad thing" with BTC. And it's not the first terror attack where Bitcoin has been allegedly used either. It has been allegedly used back in the 2015 Paris terror attacks as well, and that was a great excuse for EU Authorities to plan crypto regulations just one week later.

Let's be honest here. As much as I agree we should have a legal framework against illicit activity, these really seem like patterns and excuses to me.

Ah, can they start opposing the usage of fiat as well already then?

Multumim pentru mesaj, @jedaite. Din moment ce OP nu are dovezi clare, acuzatiile lui sunt fara substanta si nu prea au efect. Daca @GazetaBitcoin a primit informatiile pe care le-a cerut anterior, acum ca tu ai venit cu un raspuns s-ar putea sa fie mult mai de folos si un input din partea lui Gazeta astfel incat sa se ajunga mai usor la o posibila concluzie.

Un singur lucru voiam sa mentionez, si anume faptul ca parerea mea e ca detalii precum cea oferita de tine despre verii tai sau legate de domiciliul tau nu cred ca isi au locul intr-un forum public, pentru siguranta ta, avand in vedere sumele pe care le invarti.

It's just sad to see that so many people would literally sacrifice anything for a % they earn. PayPal integration with restricted usage and utility means more ways to spend Bitcoin but less chances for privacy & decentralization to succeed like it should.

I wouldn't take this as a key moment moment for BTC. Hypes are exciting and all, but in the end it's the future I dreamed for at stake. You could read this thread I wrote a while ago to see why I personally think it's not a great moment of our community but actually the opposite. But each for their own, of course.

The website OP has given has some quite misleading information. It first talks about how fast exchanges are, then what determines a blockchain tx to be confirmed faster/slower and then talks about the fastest coins (which aren't even the fastest) once again.

I honestly just cannot call Ethereum and Monero among the top 5 fastest cryptocurrencies. There are others that get confirmed way, way faster than them. Moreover, this following statement is very misleading:

Ethereum does not take 14-17 seconds for txs to go through. I never had an ETH tx be confirmed in less than like 15 minutes.. If we're talking about how quick they're broadcasted to the network, any coin can be considered "the quickest". What truly matters is how fast the txs get confirmed.

Ah, I get it now. Thanks for the very detailed explanation.

I actually relate to almost your entire message, including the part about Bitcoin. But back when a BTC was 30 GBP, $10k was as unpredictable and uncertain as $1M is today, so I take that as just a paper loss.

The "cat health products" is something definitely happening with most of the corporations' products and platforms, especially with Facebook & friend suggestions and Google & search results, and that surely is creepy as hell.. hence why I became pretty much a privacy freak lately.

Daca te-ai documentat si tie iti ies calculele bine, atunci ce mai astepti? Treci la treaba, ca Bitcoin e pe crestere! Asaza-te pe un scaun, fa-ti inca o data sau de doua ori calculele acum ca tot ai citit si mesajele noastre, si.. daca nu ai ratat nimic si iti iese in continuare ok, continua-ti planul.

Majoritatea potentialelor situatii neprevazute cred ca ti-au fost enumerate, in mare parte, in mesajele anterioare. In cazul in care cunosti macar cat de cat limba engleza, e posibil sa iti fie mult mai de ajutor raspunsurile si thread-urile unor membri precum philipma1957, pe care si @3dOOm il mentiona mai sus, de pe subforumul Mining.

Ambele. Trebuie sa ai interes, sa fi capabil sa iti asumi responsabilitati si riscuri, sa ai curaj si sa ai experienta. Cu cat e fiecare dintre cele enumerate in masura mai mare, cu atat e mai bine.

Exact ceea ce iti sugeram in postarile anterioare: citeste, citeste, citeste. Apoi, este imposibil sa nu ai cel putin o idee formata in minte legata de tot ceea ce ai citit. Unele au mai mult sens, altele mai putin. In cele din urma, actioneaza dupa cum iti spune instinctul si nu emotiile.

N-am sa comentez aici mai mult decat faptul ca intre a nu avea bac/scoala si a fi needucat exista o uriasa diferenta. Nu as fi avut absolut nicio problema cu @bramy daca ar fi avut o atitudine corespunzatoare pe forum - e singura mea asteptare de la un membru. Esti respectat daca si tu respecti la randu-ti.

Nu cred ca am facut mai mult decat sa iti ofer un foarte bun sfat, si anume sa nu crezi ca un trader, fie el si de succes, poate avea predictii perfecte. De obicei unii se ridica temporar in timp ce altii cad. E un ciclu vicios.

Ai cerut niste sfaturi, iar noi ti le-am oferit. Te-as intreba unde anume ti se pare tie ca eu sau @GazetaBitcoin te-am primit intr-un mod aparent "mizerabil", cand tot ceea ce am incercat e sa iti oferim ceea ce ai cerut.

Am sa revin, in caz ca deja ai uitat, la fraza cu care am incheiat primul meu raspuns pentru tine:

Daca in urma mesajelor mele ai ajuns la concluzia ca te-am primit intr-un mod mizerabil, nu ai decat sa cauti un loc in care sa te simti mai bine decat pe forumul nostru. Nu te obliga nimeni sa ramai aici.

Because Bitcoin is the first currency to exist that is transparent, open-source and decentralized. It's the more fair digital version of cash. With cash, the crypto saying could be translated as "not your wallet, not your banknotes".

Actually, it isn't as strong as you may think. I don't think there actually is one website or software out there that has literally zero flaws. Now that you've mentioned PayPal's supposed strength against theft, there have been really bad flaws in the past with PP. Most of the times, security is just an illusion.

I wouldn't get too excited about it. Could be just a short term hype pump as usual.

Din pacate, astfel se intampla cu majoritatea youtuberilor si traderilor. Au multe reusite, ajung in top dupa care intra in multe esecuri si publicul cauta alta persoana "mai buna" in domeniu. Tocmai despre asta si vorbeam cand spuneam mai sus ca mie intotdeauna urmaritul altor traderi mi-a dat rezultate negative.

Nu sugerez sa nu se uite nimeni la astfel de youtuberi si sa nu ii sustina, dar as recomanda maxim sa iei totul drept strict o opinie inferioara celei pe care tu ti-o formezi. Asculta cat mai multe opinii si cauta ceea ce pare cel mai logic si justificat.

Am sa raspund la acest mesaj scurt (edit: ok, rectific partea cu "scurt") si la obiect. Primul mesaj postat de @bramy incepe astfel: "m-am saturat de toti traderii din domeniu care se ascund dupa cuvinte si folosesc un limbaj cretin doar ca sa-ti dea impresia ca stiu ceva, desi ei nustiu nimic.". Apreciem noi persoane, apreciem traderii, insa sa te crezi Dumnezeul tradingului e ceva ce eu, personal, nu am sa accept. Motivul este simplu: prea multe persoane se arunca in gura lupului (multumesc @GazetaBitcoin) si ajung sa-si piarda averile din cauza "zeitatilor" de genul acesta.

Practice makes perfect. Pe masura ce te autoeduci, va deveni tot mai usor sa te dezvolti si sa intelegi lucrurile ce poate ca inainte ti se pareau imposibile de descifrat.

I have a genuine question though, as I've been watching this thread for a while now and this doesn't seem to be something you've contemplated yet: why don't you purchase an older (so cheaper as well) Huawei model with official LineageOS support and flash it so that you have much more control over what kind of apps your phone has?

One of the main things that keep me away from Huawei is that for most of their models it is a pain in the arse to change your Stock OS with a custom one. Unlocking the bootloader is a real headache. Other than that, I have a real curiosity to know why you prefer Huawei with Stock OS minus Google rather than any phone with a more privacy-oriented and almost entirely customizable custom ROM.