Don't forget the NXT Asset exchange, some trades take place there as well by the way, sometimes Qora price there is higher than on centralized exchanges, could be an arbitrage opportunity.

No more dead than Litecoin

I'll bet Dogecoin will pass Litecoin within a year, can I?

Bitcoin swings between 550 and 650.

Older alts with no innovation slide lower and lower with each swing of Bitcoin.

New alts with innovation trying hard to take a share of the market from the older dying alts and from Bitcoin.

Rinse and repeat every 2-3 weeks. Another two months of summer of the same.

Anyone has different observations? Please share.

I meant the tally stick that was used to pay taxes to the king with and which was accepted as a form of currency in all of England.

If some two parties made their own tally stick, nobody but these two parties would accept it.

The tally sticks of the king were backed by the king's willingness to accept them as a tax payment option. Those were not decentralized.

Tally sticks were not decentralized though. However, given the route Bitcoin is going, yeah, Bitcoin = tally stick

Dogecoin and Litecoin market caps and hash rates will be on par some time this year.

If you can ddos the pool and then perform a 51% attack, it's still a vulnerability of the design. PoW pools are vulnerable.

Large investors didn't acquire their wealth by being stupid.

There are two major groups among them:
a) those that don't understand cryptos and won't invest in them because they don't invest into something they don't understand;
and
b) those that understand and have researched and come to the conclusion that Bitcoin is unsustainable with a number of flaws which nobody seemingly is going to patch or which are impossible to patch, and that it's just the first crypto that will pave the way for others, hence it makes sense to diversify into undervalued competitors in anticipation of the next big thing.

Once their vision is becoming more clear about this next big thing, they invest. Some will get burned because they invested into something unsustainable. It's the natural law - survival of the fittest.

As for banks, they will never get approval from central banks to invest into cryptos, because cryptos is their direct enemy. It would be like signing your own death sentence. Bankers can act as individual investors (but see the previous paragraphs on how those act).

Did Emule make any impact?

Don't do IPOs, it's too risky, you will lose money in 95%-99% of them.
Only invest in a crypto when it's established, has run for at least a month or two and if you like its fundamentals compared to other cryptos, buy it on dips.

such hate, much butthurt

Alts with no innovation go down, because they offer nothing new compared to Bitcoin.
Alts with innovation are steady or even going up slightly.
Some are pumps and dumps, so need to look at the longer timeframe picture.

Ah, still can't get over the distribution envy? I did. Suggest you do the same and buy while your BTC are still accepted

Yeah, but it was Sunday.
New features are on the test net, good time to buy before they go to the real blockchain.

It's so dead it keeps releasing new features like clockwork:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=587007.msg7585611#msg7585611

Probably, fully coming to the client soon, it looks like.

I guess Jean Luc forgot to mention voting, because I see 'Polls' feature too in the new client, although the voting part is disabled for now, only poll creation is available.

In NXT there is no centralized checkpointing, just so you know.

Litecoin is going to dive under $9 next week. Get your buy orders ready, bagholders