Hello Everyone! At approximately 16:01 UTC 15/1/2018, the very much hyped MimbleWimble protocol enabled privacy coin Grin was launched. Since then, miners all around the world have been asking the same question: “How do I mine some Grins?” To share our mining experience with the community, we decided to write a Step by Step guide on how to mine Grin on Windows 10 with NVIDIA GPUs. We published it at https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/how-to-mine-grinPS: 4 steps  Let us know what you think and share with us your mining experience! |
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Yeah what we ended up doing is setting up a VM using Virtualbox for Linux. Download the wallet there.
We plan to write follow up guide on this for Windows users.
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We have just released a Step by Step Grin Mining guide here for Windows https://www.coingecko.com/buzz/how-to-mine-grinThis is based on our experience mining it ourselves. We also face some setbacks in withdrawal. Not easy but possible, so far able to withdraw successfully from GrinMint. As for the "no address" thing, we will do a guide soon to explain this and also pool withdrawals.  |
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Among the top 5 cryptoassets, Bitcoin Cash saw the worst loss where its price fell by 93%. No surprises there. Who would have thought that a trash coin which has a civil war and splits itself in to two even more trash coins, both headed by scammers, would be a good store of value? Towards the end of 2018, as the price of bitcoin and ether touched yearly lows, we saw ICOs struggling to raise funds. The percentage of ICOs meeting their hard cap decreased from around 53% at the start of the year to 10% by the end of the year. Good. I've been saying for a long time that I hoped a prolonged bear market would start to squeeze the ICO market. Given that >99% of ICOs are pure scams, ICOs struggling to meet their hardcaps and failing before they even start is a good thing. Hopefully this trend continues, and see less of the "get-rich-quick" mindset that leads to newbies getting scammed so often. Yes most definitely! Most of the ICOs are now trying to be STOs now. Let's see what 2019 has in store for them |
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Hi guys, We at CoinGecko just published our 2018 Yearly Crypto Report. This is our 6th quarterly report and the second time we are making a full year report after our 2017 Yearly Report. In this report, our team of researchers worked tirelessly to produce 83 pages of insights covering the market in 2018. For this full year report, we partnered with industry leaders to provide insights into the various crypto segments. We have Dapp.com covering decentralized applications, TokenMarket covering Security Tokens, Masternodes.Online covering masternodes, and NonFungible.com covering Non-Fungible Tokens. Market Dynamics 2018 was a very bearish year for the cryptoasset industry. The market capitalization of the top-30 coins fell on average 78.85% in 2018. Among the top 5 cryptoassets, Bitcoin Cash saw the worst loss where its price fell by 93%. We have a section (pages 39-42) looking deeper into the Bitcoin Cash split that caused this massive fall in value. EOS saw its value increase mid-year as it completed its gargantuan $4.2 billion ICO and geared up for mainnet launch. However, after the initial excitement of the mainnet launch, its price tumbled and ended the year 66% lower than the start of the year.  As the market fell throughout 2018, we saw a “flight-to-safety” towards Bitcoin. Market dominance for Bitcoin went from 40% to above 55% by the end of the year. We also saw a stablecoin, Tether ending the year as one of the top 10 cryptoasset by market capitalization, ending the year as the 7th largest cryptoasset. ICO Insights Towards the end of 2018, as the price of bitcoin and ether touched yearly lows, we saw ICOs struggling to raise funds. The percentage of ICOs meeting their hard cap decreased from around 53% at the start of the year to 10% by the end of the year. Among the projects that raised funds and successfully listed their tokens on exchanges, a majority of them saw their value decreased soon after. -- There are 83 pages of crypto insights. Do take a look and let us know what you think. Blog Announcement: https://blog.coingecko.com/coingecko-releases-2018-full-year-crypto-report/Slideshare: https://www.slideshare.net/coingecko/coingecko-2018-full-year-cryptocurrency-reportPDF: http://bit.ly/2018CoinGeckoReport |
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Ask yourself what are the reasons you bought into Bitcoin. 1. Because the price will one day go up: Why? will there be a real demand for Bitcoin and what will be the factor(s) to cause said demand? If speculation is your only answer then Bitcoin might as well be a Ponzi Scheme wouldn't it? 2. Because it's a new technology: How so? have you seen it work in real time? What was your experience in using Bitcoin? did it feel just like a bank because you put them in Coinbase? Have you used a Bitcoin Client? Do you know where are your private keys and how easy it is to "load" your bitcoin in a new computer just by typing it in? How can you be convinced it's a new amazing technology if you've never got down and dirty with it?  3. Because Bitcoin is Freedom: Now we're talking, have you felt the feeling of not needing to trust anyone to keep your money safe? no banks, no vaults, no certificates. no nothing.. It's alright if you need a leap of logic to go from 1 to 3. Now that the market is chill and boring, it's the best time to start reading and learning. We recommend "The Bitcoin Standard" for the philosophy of Bitcoin and "Mastering Bitcoin" to get into the technicals. |
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Every bitcoin holder needs to help make the price go up on January 30th! How much BTCTC you think needs to be bought to put a din on the price? And where do you think people needs to buy it on? What if half of "everyone" decides to buy it on p2p market? |
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What do you need to do?
Nothing, Coinbase is likely to pursue the upgrade and you will still have your ETH
But if there are any hard forked new chain coins as a result of the upgrade, you may not be entitled to them since Coinbase isn't announcing any support for any of them.
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Bear market sentiment. No one thinks the market is recovering in the near term. As such everyone trying to sell when the price goes up to a certain point. Further adding downward pressure.
We are going to need a strong catalysts and new in flow of capital into the industry.
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It is considered spam because bitcoin was not exactly designed for fingerprinting document. The hash capability is needed for bitcoin to work and this capability came as a side effect, also thanks to built in Script.
Ethereum is much better suited arguably because it sells itself as a decentralized computing platform. Turing complete makes it easy to implement it as well over bitcoin scripting.
At the end the way blockchain works allow you to hash any sort of data and store them into proven history.
IPFS may be an interesting evolution of this. Hashing is native to the location of the file, and the file itself is stored in a distributed manner.
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This is possible only if the following happens
- lost of confidence in fiat
- bitcoin adoption is simple enough
- all cost paid in bitcoin
Without this bitcoin will co exist and compete
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The idea of owning a piece of a currency that is not controlled by a central entity is a good motivation imo
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What we have been doing in the current bear market is to just have fun!
There are many experiments, projects, that we can try out and give a shot.
For example; In this bad market when price of crypto is low, it does not hurt to take the opportunity to learn how to setup a masternode, run a simple mining just to get a taste of it, or build dapps.
When the bull market does come, these experiences will be really valuable.
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The recent Bitcoin price ( https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin) erasure from $4000 down to $3600 came unexpectedly when the market was primarily positive and green. This shows that we continue to be in the bear market, and we guess that most people are planning to exit quickly when they can as they forsee the bear market will mean price could continue to decline. |
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It depends on your objective and risk appetite. Risk takers will HODL, but that also means you need holding power.
If you need liquidity, better to cut lost and move on to something else.
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Blockchain looks more like a "Linked Lists" with hash checksum to tie the link and integrity checks.
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We compiled a list of exchange-based tokens here https://www.coingecko.com/en?category_id=39&view=marketThey are certainly interesting in the perspective of an exchange. We have seen exchanges using it as a discount model, community voting, incentivize transactions, dividends, etc etc There are its potential absolutely, but its valuation may be dependent on the performance of the exchange which is also directly tied to the market sentiment |
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