no, ethereum doesn't offer much value. don't confuse getting pump and dumped and being a profitable speculative tool as offering value. the issues that this crypto project has are too many for it to have any value at all.

wrong again.
bitcoin is in the first place because it is offering something useful that people want and use. a decentralized currency

what does ethereum offer?
a platform to create ICOs and scam others easily!
it can't handle large number of transactions
the fees are high
creating a smart contract is not easy compared to its competitors and it costs more too.

probably Hal Finney. and other anonymous people who have been hodling and keeping to themselves.
and remember that these are all speculations, not facts. unless any of these sign a message from a bitcoin key holding whatever amount we can never know how much they really hold. it can be 10 satoshi or 300 000 bitcoin.

it is getting there. this is not a process that can happen in 6 months! it needs a couple of years at least and Japan has newly adopted bitcoin. and just FYI when you go into the city and look at the different shops in shop centers in Japan, you can see the bitcoin is accepted here sign. if that is not adoption then i don't know what is!


it is quite the opposite!
when you see everyone is on the bitcoin train that means you have been too late and now it is time to start using the wealth that you have gathered (if you were wise enough) because when mass adoption happens, price goes extremely high and becomes dead stable.

as a rule of thumb whenever you see an article from a less known news site or generally a news article with ethereum in it, you should disregard it because it is either a big fat lie or a very exaggerated half truth.

well, here is the deal. and i am telling you as a BitcoinHodler.
when price surges upwards like this, in a one big rise in a very short time, things surely look scary. and they are scary.

what you should do is first making up your mind about what you want to do. if you are a long term holder then don't worry just come back in 5 years and enjoy the million dollar bitcoin .
second is if you want to do some trading and make profit. do some risk assessments. we know that price can not go up like this forever, it will stop and corrects at some point. at that point there will be a dip before the continuation of the rise. if you are good at trading, find that top and sell some there and get ready to buy back in that dip.

for bitcoin related updates which are related to critical matters there used to be an alert system in bitcoin core which was removed!
now all you can do is to
- visit bitcoin.org and look at the top to see the alert
- subscribe to mailing list and see a lot of stuff which may not interest you or not even understand half of it (since it is technical)
- visit news sites such as coindesk to read up on news every once in a while
- visit bitcointalk to read the top of the page above the toolbar (Home, Help, Search,...) that is the critical news section

for altcoins you need to check their announcement topic again read the news sites and subscribe to their reddit sub or something similar (slack, twitter,...)

this is true but it is not limited to Newbie accounts though. you can see well known old members spread a lot of wrong information. and it doesn't end there. there may be some people who are really making a speculation but they are simply wrong.

you should never follow any of them blindly. read and make up your own decision. sometimes some good information can be found in some of them too. you just have to dig deep enough!

no. sadly i wasn't aware of its existence! and at some point it become too late to get in. of course i got some trades done and did some short term dumping to make some profit but i can't call it getting rich!

people invest in a lot of things. some of them succeed and get pumped big times and some of them succeed and get pumped very small. and rarely an altcoin is just shit and impossible to pump.

you know what, many people don't even care. i know it is a bit strange but in the altcoin scene many don't even know what these coins are and what they do and they don't care about it either.
what matters is the profit.

then what in the word are you doing on a bitcoin forum if it is so terrible as you say! move on man, you are wasting your time on a "terrible" thing. and please sell any bitcoins you own because i want a bigger stake in the very limited supply of 21 million.

where are all those topics calling us BitcoinHodlers dumb and were giving us Hodling advice anyways?

enjoy the work of art by a Hodler




*See you again at $42,000

no dude, your history is way off the mark
bitcoin price went up from $0.01 to $0.1 then $1 then $12 then $20 then $100 and then $200

by this time a malicious exchange got big enough (similar to poloniex of today for altcoins) which controlled about 75-80% of the total volume and fake pumped the tiny market of that day up to nearly $1200 and then scammed and ran away. we can exclude this from history

then price went up to $400, $600, $700 (the halvening) then broke $1000 then $1500 then $2000 then $2400 and then $2700 and then $3000 and now it has gone up fast to $4100

all this time each of these rises which are the same size happened over a good period of time for accumulation and then it went up higher and also there has been a lot of drops after each of these to make a healthy correction.

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on the other hand a pump and dump means price goes up and then down not only up for 6 years (excluding Mt Gox from the total <8 )
in a pump and dump there is no correction either.

it is not really that hard to believe though!
and it is not unexpected either. many speculators were predicting a near $4000 price by now (a little lower like <5% lower) and here we are at their speculation.

besides, it is the adoption, it always happens like this. a very slow rise at first which is nearly stable then it speeds up at first with some corrections, and then it speeds up a lot. we are still at that first speed up which is small.

the reason is pretty simple, a lot of people were waiting for a drop to happen before they buy. then it happened but they were scared the drop would be bigger (because of split and all that FUD). then the price went up, they were still scare. and it went up higher they now are scared in a different way. they have the fear to miss out and are buying as fast as they can.

and probably will continue to do for a while. and $4000+ is not out of the ordinary in this case either and that would be a bubble.

haha, it will just get harder and harder to pump ethereum, as people start to give up on its rise and start their dumping.
there is also the pressure that bitcoin is imposing on the market with its rise. as you can see from the prices these days, they are all red which indicates hard drops.
if that was not enough there is still the ICO dumpers who are selling to get out and make their profit.

ps: it is 0.082 now

to be honest nothing looks good today.
altcoins are either overpumped and that is a terrible idea to buy any of them or they are falling hard because bitcoin price is rising with lightning speed.

as for NEO, i keep seeing people talking about it today. and that only means 1 thing: it is already too late to buy it. (it is a bag holder alert )
also looking at the charts it has all signs of a bubble.

it is only as safe as trusting a third party can be safe!
they can run away and scam you, they can get hacked or say they were hacked and you lose money, your account can get hacked, and a lot of different ways to lose your account and with it your bitcoins.

the only advantage that i can think of is for traders who want to have their coins ready to sell and then buy back just as fast.

why are you even talking about Mike Hearn. and who exactly are these FUDers that you think you are talking about. Mike himself said some stuff about bitcoin being dead and it was around the time price was $450. and someone who publicly claims bitcoin is dead will not obviously HODL a dead coin.
in other words you are calling Mike an FUDster.

i don't see anyone asking this so i will:
why do you want to buy coffee with bitcoin?

and more importantly, have you ever bought coffee with bitcoin before?
i mean the fees were pretty low last year, you could even send them for free and get a confirmation fast. were you (or anyone else) buying coffee with bitcoin?

to be honest this sounds more like one of those things that says "i will never use this in my life but i want to have the option".

first look at the charts and learn how to understand them.
then look for signs indicating a good investment and never invest just because someone said it is good or just because you thought the coins looks pretty.

a good high volume is always a nice sign to have.
check how much price has gone up in the past week or past month. for example a coin that has gone up 90% in the past 24 hours is not a good investment now.

and know that most things will be learned with time. not by reading stuff in comments

you are indeed true about the first part that the ICOs are the only reason why ethereum went up in the first place and they actually are the reason it stays up for now.

but you are wrong about your second part. it can not last forever. you can't see new ICOs start up every day and still be successful enough to gather that much money. it will stop at some point and be limited to 1 or 2 every 6 months. and on top of it all the ICO dumps will crash the price.