The OP has also responded to my PMs and I want to apologise for not returning with my own feedback - I promise to do so tomorrow, Monday, as I normally have limited access on weekends. It definitely seems more thoroughly thought out than what it might seem from the first post and that itself is a good sign.

So, anyone with serious queries - PM will bring you joy.

Hi there. I have a running interest in projects such as these and will be quite happy to have a talk with you - but only if you're able to share just a little more depth on the foundation. Is there any chance you could share a synopsis or front row excerpts from the whitepaper? Sent you a PM as well.

Sorry for the really late reply: been a bit caught up. Yes, staking with win wallet, and only perhaps 50 hours a week in total max. More like 30 hours a week (6 per day, really on average). I haven't made a lot staking at all, but I suppose for doing nothing, it's still good returns if you have a sizeable amount to stake!

For some strange reason, always thrills me to see people talk about DOGE the way they do. I do have coins in a handful of alts, but none of them are more than even $10 in value (I did have a full ETH a while ago but converted it to BTC) except for my faithful DOGE. The value's more or less stayed the same over the last 6 months, since I keep topping it up. Shibe forever, they say.

Don't know a free service: mellowads is pretty low in terms converting traffic, in my experience, but their free service can get you good exposure (provided your service and ad are pretty unique). It's a simple faucet-style daily claim, a click a day is enough for a free day's worth of network campaign.

There's a post from a staff member... can't recall where now that was made some time last year with really just one point of advice that would apply to most of us, myself included: do nothing except ensure your coins are on a wallet to which you control the private keys.

If the fork happens, this ensures you have coins on both chains.

Thanks for the response Bravo. It's certainly a tough spot to move on from when you consider that most new and existing miners are as you say, out-of-the-box entrepreneurs who won't be embarassed to say that their intent first and foremost is to recoup their outlay on hardware.

Perhaps the target audience would be experienced miners who would have already recovered some and who then would see the longer term benefit of a pool they'd hit less often but ultimately earn more.

Do update the wiki with bravo pool. The word needs to get out from pools like yours.

You're welcome! Your original was the inspiration for this, so really thank you to you, too! I intend to open an investment with all the remaining cryptos by end of the month, it'll be nice to see eight currencies lined up.

I think it's a great testament to the site itself to see almost all the supported currencies also appreciate in fiat value over time!

Hi there, I just started a new thread in the Securities section to track my personal investment portfolio into such a website you're talking about. You can find out about minimums needed there from the thread. If you like, you can ask any questions there too.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1824931.0

Hello paybis, sorry for the delayed "thank you" well received for the first week's payment. I am happy to continue in this campaign for the second week, but like others, we are wondering about the 3-month commitment. It's quite a long commitment and I may have periods of inactivity so in essence cannot promise 3 months of active participation.

With the lowered pay rate, perhaps you might consider running an additional avatar campaign as you mentioned - that improves visibility and can help add a little bit more to restore pay rate to the original.

Always happy to help out with surveys. I fill them out whenever I find them: you should, however, move your thread to the right section under Discussions.

Several surveys have been posted in the past by other researchers/students as well. Hopefully, you can use them.

Good luck with your research!

VERY interesting to note that it still is possible for a 0-fee tx to confirm. In fact, I had tried late last year also for testing purposes but my Electrum wallet didn't allow 0 fees. I sent 1 sat per kb fee in total and it only took several days. Did you leave your wallet open (as it might have rebroadcasted the tx)? I thought such txs would eventually be forgotten?

Updating portfolio with an investment of DOGE at the minimum amount (20,000). Main post updated with combined portfolio.



Any future additions will still be tallied at the end of every calendar week (Sunday/Monday), when possible, but deposit time/date will clarify start.

Haha, yeah. I see quite a number of members, even full and senior ones, who rely on Google translate to post English comments. That's obviously a terrible Google translation of a string of Indonesian words. To be honest, he only has to apply properly and post in local (Indonesia) boards as this campaign doesn't exclude that.

Just out of curiosity, visited the link in your signature to see your mining pool. Unless stats aren't updated, it seems to show that the last block found was five months ago? I'm all for diversification of hash power but perhaps the reason people go for the biggest pool is simply because of the guarantee of something, no matter how small?

Good luck with bravo pool!

The "death" of bitcoin is probably a scenario more easily achieved than the death of cryptocurrency. Even with current rates of crypto adoption, it's unthinkable that crypto will one day fall out of use. If "death" simply means transition to another form of crypto rather than complete disuse, then this will happen naturally and inevitably as technology progresses and improves.

Newbies by definition are new and most introductory guides you can find out there are outdated or have not kept abreast with this issue of extended confirmation times - an issue even most wallets do not alert users about when signing up. Rather than laziness, it's simply a matter of being inadequate information.

And, as you say, even with the information available, the added resources needed for Core and the like are cons that would put off even users like me.

That been said, I've now switched even to storing the coins I move frequently in the in-house wallets of some sites, which charge a flat fee regardless of output. I've found these to confirm very quickly, as my txs are performed as part of a large batch with generous fees.

As usual, very helpful post from OP. I hope more free services like viabtc come about. I've used it myself after >3 days unconfirmed and it pushes through in hours.

Greetings!

I am a gaming hobbyist and have been wanting to share my investment portfolio at Crypto Games (CGN), partly inspired by this thread from Twistedx2 at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1796062.0. Hopefully, this thread can help you decide if you would like to join one of my favourite sites as a player or investor. You can find me in chat as Sojourner.

All details of how their investment works can be found at their FAQ page, specifically https://www.crypto-games.net/faq#collapse31 but here are the main points:

A. 8 different cryptocurrencies to invest in and their respective minimums:
0.01 Bitcoin  |  0.5 Ether  |  1 Dash  |  1 Litecoin  |  1 Monero  |  20,000 Dogecoin  |  10 Peercoin  |  1,000 GridCoin

B. Profits(P) or Losses(L) split 30/70 between CGN and Investor, calculated hourly.

C. Min. 24 hours investment lock-in, with variable divest fees for periods shorter than 21 days.

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I actually have had several investments at this site, with overall profit at time of divest. Today I divested and made two new separate investments of Gridcoin (GRC) and Bitcoin (BTC). In addition to tracking growth of coins, I will also make note of fiat value (USD as per CGN's rates).

I will post a weekly update, with dailies when significant (updated as add-on edits to the weekly post) and monthly wrap ups.

Feel free to comment and/or ask questions. If you're interested in signing up, do consider using me as your referrer (PM me for a link). I'll be more than happy to give you a starting hand in site.

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So, anyone willing to run a test or two on this theory? If it holds true, then it should also see some self-fulfilling movement, being that the actual use of Google Trends should itself also contribute to pushing the trend. Not sure if this method would meet saturation quickly if everyone tried it though.

What happens then, if neither SegWit nor BU reaches the adoption percentage both will require to be fully taken on by the network? It seems strange (or not) that the option that will presumably be eventually taken is only decided because "it is the only standing option".

I'm probably - as article points out - with the general opinion to simply move with the flow. Is 50% really that point of no return?