EOS is more centralized than a fiat bank, with a small group of complete strangers able to freeze accounts, reverse transactions and seize funds with absolutely zero oversight or regulations.

TRX is a plagiarized coin with a a plagiarized whitepaper built on plagiarized code.

BCH is just lol.

I don't think so. Pretty much any coin you would want to buy you can already buy with ETH. Sure, fiat/altcoin pairings may decrease Bitcoin's market dominance a little, but it definitely won't "destory" Bitcoin.

You are kidding yourself if you think your ISP isn't already handing over your IP and browsing habits to the government. I'd recommend having a look at privacytools.io and start taking steps to protect yourself online.

Yup. I love those guys. Who else is going to keep buying my Bitcoins when I sold them at 15k+, and who else is going to keep selling me more at these prices!?

To everyone in this thread who is complaining that their fees are still too high, you are doing something wrong.

Either you are using an exchange or online services that charges ridiculous withdrawal fees and is making a large profit off you, you are using a wallet that does not let you set the appropriate fees, you are using a wallet that DOES let you set fees but you are setting them incorrectly, or your funds are made up of nothing but dust and so your transactions have 50+ inputs (unlikely, and still wouldn't push your fees up above a few thousand satoshi).

I would recommend you have a look at the following two sites:

https://core.jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#2d gives you a nice graphical representation of how full the mempool is currently

https://coinb.in/#fees gives a very easy to use calculator to work out how much you should be paying in fees to have your transaction confirmed within a couple of blocks.

Given everything that has come out during the last few years about the NSA, government spying, snooping, tracking, etc., it still surprises me that people will do something blatantly illegal like pirating without even attempting to cover their tracks. At the bare minimum, setting up a VPN is now trivially easy.

What a truly awful article.

Deposits are still a larger value than withdrawals for every month in the last 2 years except for a single month. The article only surveys young individuals, and ignores larger or institutional investors. If anything, all it shows it that "get-rich-quick" idiots who don't understand crypto are feeling the loss and selling their weak hands - something we knew already and something we should welcome. As Brian Armstrong (Coinbase CEO) tweeted: "After many years of this, I've come to enjoy the down cycles in crypto prices more. It gets rid of the people who are in it for the wrong reasons, and it gives us an opportunity to keep making progress while everyone else gets distracted."

Have a look at this transaction: https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/39afcad6c4d0713ed291014315c4dcf2d81334275218c28fd354af45b7395c61.

$300 million transferred, fees of $0.04, confirmation in 4 minutes.

Now imagine the hoops you would have to jump through to transfer $300 million in fiat, the days of delays, the fees, the people you would have to discuss it with first, etc.

I rest my case.

He has shown time and time again he has absolutely no idea how trust, trust ratings, or the trust network work. This has been explained to him many times, but he has no desire to learn and instead prefers to continue talking nonsense.

At this point the best course of action is a blanket ignore.

Plagiarism. It's a banable offence. Use the "Report to moderator" button at the bottom right of the posts to report them. You can also report them in this thread: Mod, please check new plagiarism: Reporting copy/pasting, please permban.

Major technological breakthroughs!? It's a brain wallet, and a poor one at that. If anything, it's a step backwards.

If you read this post by theymos, it will shed some light on why your suggestions have not been, and likely will not be, implemented.

izanagi narukami has certainly done it for the Bitcloak Campaign - not sure if he's the person you were thinking of?

We can but dream.

I don't generally reveal what I'm holding for both my own privacy and security, and because just giving out a list of coins I'm holding is not beneficial to the people reading it. You should look in to projects yourself, and only once you understand them and believe in their future should you consider giving them your money, not because you read a random post shilling some coin.

Your 80/20 assumption is flawed for a couple of reasons. Firstly, it only applies if you are picking projects at random. Secondly, much more than 80% of altcoins are complete trash and will be worth nothing long-term.

I own more than 3 coins. I am completely happy with all the coins I own because I have spent time reading their whitepapers, roadmaps, githubs, development, etc. and not just blindly listening to shills on here/reddit/twitter/4chan/anywhere who say "good project" about whatever bags they happen to be holding.

Taking out loans or doing trades that you don't want or need for the sole purpose of appearing more trustworthy is a pretty untrustworthy thing to do. In all likelihood this kind of behaviour would simply earn you more red trust.

It's a stupid idea, but I'm not surprised in the least that digaran would suggest it.

It is mistaken to compare the present day with the past. Take healthcare for example. A badly broken ankle 100 years ago would simply be sawn off, with no anaesthesia and minimal pain relief. 30 minutes, two people, no technology. These days you would expect a lengthy operation to salvage it, with a team of anaesthetists, team of surgeons, team of nurses, ward care afterwards, physiotherapy, plenty of drugs, etc, etc. Things become more expensive as technology develops.

What you should be doing is comparing the US to other developed nations. For example, the US government spends almost double in terms of GDP on healthcare, yet delivers worse outcomes, than most Western European nations, and that's without even considering the expensive insurance/out of pocket fees that Americans have to pay.

Your hardware wallet is only as secure as your method of storing your seed phrase, or if you are careless with revealing your PIN in public.

There is no such thing as "unhackable".

Have you ever used Nano?

I would encourage you to buy $1 of Nano and practise sending it between two wallets. Transactions are quicker than the time it takes to reach in to your pocket and pull out your wallet. And completely free.

Nano has all the makings of a true currency coin - all it needs now is adoption.