Btcd is now a sleeper but it's very alive and it's going to be a very important piece in a larger set of tools that requires all other piaces to be in place as well in order to get the maximum benefit.

You can hardly see the progress here on BTT, the den of trolls, because most discussions take place in Supernet Slack(channels #iguana # btcd), James also posts frequent updates in bitco.in forum where the mods created a section for Iguana. He's is coding like a mule and github gets daily updates. Also a team of people is helping with gui and testing.

James is developing this brand new Bitcoin wallet called Iguana that is coded from scratch in C. Unlike the other clients available, Iguana is extremely optimized and allows to create a full bitcoin node in a fraction of the time of other implementations. Beside being a Bitcoin wallet it also includes a Btcd wallet, Pax (pegged assets), Pangea (decentralized poker), Teleport (privacy), Instantdex (decentralized exchange), Jumblr (bitcoin mixing) and all other Supernet features.

Iguana could very well get mass adoption from Bitcoin users who wish to run a full node, also many users who currently use a spv wallet could change back to a full node since it will not be as painful as it used to be. Imagine when they see the other features and a fraction of them become Btcd/Supernet users and you get an idea of where all this is going.

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http://forum.ethereum.org/discussion/1273/into-genesis-oil-painting-auction#latest

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if your just getting into to cryptos and have lost that much you are going in too deep on new coins and need to learn when to enter and exit at the right time, before 10k crashed to 1 sat and was slowly coming down I made a bunch of profit from staking it even when it was at 5- 10 sats then once it was at 1 sat I just staked until the swap. diff coins take diff strategies, people taking losses due to panic selling/buying is about them either not thinking before they bought or not having the patience to wait out the dumps. If you buy more than your willing to walk away from on brand new coins you'll always be stressed on price dips and be tempted to panic sell.

 when I was first getting into cryptos I knew I would lose my shirt if I dove into too deep so only played with small #'s and tried to be as cautious as I could lol and still lost a significant amount of my gains on multiple occasions because I didn't make enough rules to trade/hold by and broke the one rule every newb should follow "never fall in love with a coin" (especially new ones they are much too unpredictable)   well over a year now and have added many rules to my crypto book and will only enter a new/developing market with a small amount of BTC theres no way to tell if a market that is only a few days/weeks old will be able to handle big buys or exits and how much recovery time it'll take after someone makes a large exit (or dump as people seem to like to call it)

I bought most of my first SHELLS at 3k - 5k early on and made up for it through the dpos blocks I found... if someone bought early at that price and didn't stake their coins expecting just trade them not realising that the price was going to drop near the end of the dpos blocks then that is their fault for not reading/predicting how the market will react correctly. as I mentioned every coin may take a slightly diff strategy or even drastically diff strategies. I've happily bought more SHELL at 1600+ over the last couple days. I enter a new coin "shallow" and start going in a little deeper as I gain a clearer perspective on where I think a coin is heading based on the dev, their plans and market feel.

and always stay diversified  

No the secret weapon is really Decentralized Slack with support for paid membership channels, at least IMHO.  The Twister port is a cool feature, but the decentralized IRC is the killer dApp.  No central servers, no pay us huge amounts of money once you go over 10k lines of history or else we cut off your search, fully encrypted end to end, anonymous, and that works like Slack or IrcCloud.  If you have a trading group for instance, you could set up a private channel that requires people to pay say 1k GRAV every month for access.