There's no way to know if this is the case. I think most people that trade moves their cash into fiat or USDT(tether), instead of ethereum when selling their bitcoins. Also, bigger investors tend to not leave their investments in one cryptocurrency, as they often diversify to like 5-10 or more cryptocurrencies, some of which are the hottest right now: Monero, NEO/antshares, IOTA, Stratis, etc.

Hi kabayan!

No. I would not suggest that you use coins.ph. Coins.ph doesn't give you access to your private keys, which is a huge factor in my book.

"If you don't hold the private keys, you don't have bitcoins"

Did you know about the btc:bch split? If your bitcoins are in your coins.ph wallet, then pretty much they own your bitcoincash(bch) now, and there's no way you can retrieve them. That's only one of the reasons out of many why I don't use wallets like coins.ph. Depending on what device your using, use electrum, breadwallet, or copay instead.

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There are a few websites that are commonly used:

https://bittrex.com
https://bitfinex.com
https://kraken.com

Those are some. Stay away from Poloniex, there has been alot of problems with users lately, saying that their funds are locked up, preventing them from withdrawing their funds. My suggestion would be to just choose from those three. Personally I use Bittrex the most, though I suggest that you just register to all three and choose what you like the most or what you're more comfortable with.

Or if you're scared of those graphs and charts, maybe use shapeshift.io instead. It has bigger fees though.

I also had very bad experiences in the past with cryptocurrency trading. I figured after losing some money that you got to have alot of patience with day trading, which is I figured out that I don't have. I always ended up panic buying at high prices thinking I would miss the train, and panic selling at lower lower prices since I'd think it would go alot lower, which is the complete opposite of "buy low, sell high". So right now I just buy at the price dips, then simply just hold.

If you'd like to try out day trading, use only a small percentage of your crypto. Something like 5% or lower, as you'd most probably lose money in your first trades.

It's not my intention to brag, but I've seen this price rise by a mile. As time passes more and more bitcoiners are gaining access to their Bitcoin Cash(BCC/BCH), and what I'm guessing is they're instantly dumping their BCC/BCH in exchanges so they they can buy more BTC or other cryptocurrencies. I expect it to rise a bit more to like probably around $3500 or so, but hopefully higher. But that's just my personal guess.

BCC already had a drastic price decline, as seen in the graph below (source: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-cash/), after unexpectedly skyrocketing to around $1200 days ago.



The long transaction times is just because of BCC/BCH having low hashrate and high mining difficulty due to it being just recently forked as you may know, and also having alot less miner support compared to what BTC has. I suggest to just make the transaction and return after like 24-48 hours later. Hashrate as expected will slowly rise in the future.

I've already said this a few times in other threads and I'm gonna say it again.

DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH.

If you're lazy to do research, then don't invest. Look at the top 20-50(depending on how much time you have) cryptocurrencies on www.coinmarketcap.com. Research on every single one of them, then invest on the ones that you feel fixes a problem that we currently have, or what makes life better and or easier in general. There's enough information on the internet. There's no reason not to use them.

Do your own research, and make your own judgements. That way, if ever you take a loss or miss out in profits in your investments, you can only blame yourself, and not that person that told you to invest or not to invest. Investing based on ideas and or opinions on random people on forums is a very bad idea in the first place.

Here are a few steps you could follow:
Read cryptocurrency news and discussions > do research to confirm if the article/user is stating facts or just misinformation/FUD > make your decision or judgement

The thing is, the split is actually good for both parties. Both can now actually just focus on their own projects and move forward; instead of all the drama and arguing that has been happening for the past few months.

I don't know about you guys, but problems and drama like this are to be expected because of the decentralized nature of bitcoin. And guess what? I have more news for you! Like it or not there will be more forks in the future. This is really necessary for the future of bitcoin in general. I hope most people realize that.

I truly agree with you. But personally, I don't see it happening in the next 30 or so years. Right now, as we all may know bitcoin is really really unknown/unpopular to the masses.

I personally don't see a "better" alternative to bitcoin will arise years after mass adoption, and I don't even see bitcoin reaching mass adoption in 5 years, but I hope it does. Some people might say, "Dash is better than bitcoin". Currently faster and cheaper in terms of transactions, yes. But there are lots of downsides. One if it is Dash being centralized, which is a huge factor in my opinion. The "better-than-bitcoin" cryptocurrency would need to be far better than bitcoin in terms of tech to actually beat it, since "slightly better" wouldn't suffice due to all the publicity bitcoin is getting over other cryptocurrencies.

Take note. I'm not saying that BTC will not be useful in the long run, and there's a good chance that it will be here to stay but be reminded that there are alot of altcoins out there that are really good and that has potential. Not gonna say which ones, but take a look at coinmarketcap.com and do research on some of the cryptocurrencies.

Too early to say to be honest. I think we're in a stage whereas we can reach semi or total global adoption in the next decade (hopefully before 2025?). The scaling issues just need to be addressed and updated as soon as possible. Also, another issue is that you somewhat need to be slightly tech-savvy to know how to use bitcoin. Currently the older crowd (grandparents) probably wouldn't understand bitcoin and how to use it. I think we need more 100% newbie-friendly wallets. I know we have Coinbase, but I personally wouldn't be comfortable in using a wallet whereas I don't have access to the private keys.

Also, who's to say bitcoin will be the cryptocurrency king in the future? Who knows? It might be that shitty crypto that we've been ignoring.

Who knows? it might be ChainCoin? *rolls eyes*

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Greetings. Based on your main post, you're currently not looking for members since it says that you already have 25 members, but then I checked your spreadsheet and it looks like you have alot lower members than that. Just posting just so if ever you're open for new applicants.

Will change my sig and pic if you accept me.

Looking forward to working for you. 

hah. this^. If there's something I've learned in my past year in the cryptocurrency markets in terms of investing, is to never base your buy/sell offers/times based on forum and Reddit posts. A perfect example would be last year (around July-August probably), alot of people on Reddit are asking like "is now the perfect time to invest into cryptocurrency A and or cryptocurrency B?". And most people were like "No they're too high at the moment. Wait for the crash." And guess what happened a few months after? Most cryptocurrencies doubled in price. LOL

Do your own research, and make your own educated choices, people. Take forum/Reddit posts lightly.

Just like what some people said, the ransomware industry will get bigger if companies and corporations continue to pay ransomware. Well you might think, "why are the companies and corporations paying them then?". It's probably because they couldn't afford any downtime on whatever operations that's taking place on their systems. My guess is that it would probably be more costly if they would instead spend alot of time trying to decrypt the ransomware installed in their system.

It's been up and down lately. Went up to $700 hours ago and now back to $500. Very very volatile as expected. I was also expecting a huge dump. But we currently have a pump instead. Probably because most BCC/BCH holders don't know how to access their bitcoincash yet?

EDIT: For some reason BCC is $496 on coinmarketcap, whereas BCC is $772 on bittrex.

Coinbase is simple, and somewhat secure. The only issue with Coinbase is that you don't have access to your private keys, which I personally don't like since it defeats one of the purposes of bitcoin.

"If you don't  control the private keys, you don't have any bitcoin". I suggest these instead:
Windows: Electrum | https://electrum.org
Android: Copay | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bitpay.copay&hl=en
iOS: BreadWallet | https://itunes.apple.com/ph/app/breadwallet-bitcoin-wallet/id885251393?mt=8

Those wallets should be simple enough for casual users.

Also, seems like you quite lack a bit of knowledge on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general. I suggest doing a bit of reading: www.coindesk.com/information/

Best of luck.

Depends on how deep you want to get into cryptocurrencies, but I suggest doing alot of reading. One of the greatest personalities in crypto (in my opinion), Andreas M. Antonopoulos, has 2 books about bitcoin and another book about ethereum coming up next year. I suggest that you take a look at these books at: https://antonopoulos.com/books/

Disclaimer: I'm in no way affiliated with him. I just admire his knowledge

If you're not that much of a reader though, try out youtube. Lookup Crypt0 and Boxmining. Best of luck to you on your crypto journey.

I think a low hashpower (like 5%) is expected if the hardfork just happened like just very recently like a few hours ago. It's going to increase slowly, like it or not. The question is, how low or high can it go? Or most importantly, will it still be a viable cryptocurrency? It's just too early to answer.

^my neutral opinion

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I'm really looking forward into working with you.