so you do know the reasons and yet you ask!

things are never going to go well. that is the human nature. anywhere in the world there will be people who will come and ruin things for the rest of the world.

in my opninion this is like saying "i have valuables in my home but i refuse to buy a safe and i won't lock my door either because i am not getting paid to do so".

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thanks for the link

1. bitcoin is a decentralized peer to peer network so it needs peers. if you want to use and continue to use bitcoin you have to contribute. there are ways to reduce the "cost" of running a full node and still contribute.

2. if you want to use bitcoin in a trustless way you have to use a full node. otherwise you will rely on third parties even if it is SPV clients and you will also lose your privacy since they will know all your bitcoin addresses that are associated with you.

3. read your own personal message under your user name!

4. read this for more and a better explanation: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Full_node#Why_should_you_run_a_full_node.3F

because it is an investment to make money!
nobody is creating a new currency and everyone is instead creating something that can make them more money. and i think it is safe to say 90% of people in this community is also only interested in making more money rather than seeing some usefulness. so developers give them what they want: get rich quick with pump and dumps.

stop wanting money and think about anything else other than profit. both users and developers.
then we will see innovations like what Satoshi Nakamoto introduced.

can you explain a little more about how users vote

the users in bitcoin are defined by Nodes and if you run a node you will have an influence and can have a say the future of bitcoin.

no they are workers on the network, or simply employees. the nodes are the backbone. if miners change something and majority of the nodes reject it then they have mined a useless junk because the network didn't accept it.

i believe UASF is an appropriate example in this case here.

the blockchain technology is not just offering decentralization. it is also a fast and secure way of making transactions that can not be changed between nodes. these nodes can be running an open source code like the cryptocurrencies that we know and be decentralized or they can be running a modified and personal version of the technology and be run only be their data centers and be centralized like what banks are planning to do.

i suppose it can be something like this:
all the branches of a certain bank will become a node that will broadcast their transactions to their own network and store the blockchain the same way they are currently storing their customers account info.

giving a homeless people bitcoin instead of simple cash is like giving a hungry person spoon, fork, plate, glass in different shapes and sizes but no food!

let me introduce you to a nice little feature called stop loss.
you set a number which is usually the percentage that you are willing to lose and then when that number is reached your coins will be automatically sold.
some trading platforms already offer this feature and for others you can always use a bot or even manually at worse case laziness scenario.
it needs a clear plan and a good discipline to perform this strategy though.

of course it is always best to have a good timing. for example when you see there is a bull market and prices are rising (or better if you can figure it out before it starts) you buy and enjoy the ride and when the dumps come you just simply stay away.
and this is not as hard as you may think either.

and as always i will continue t HODL bitcoin no matter what. because i have invested as much as i can afford to lose and i am so far in profit that i no longer care

haven't you even heard of the term dead cat bounce?

this is the same people who have been panic selling for the past couple of days again hard at work buying these coins back at higher prices they sold at. some of them may even make some profit but majority is just the plaything of the pump and dumpers.

so to clarify your question, you are looking for some get rich quick scheme to buy today and become rich in blank days. you are not really asking what coin has real potential, real real-world usage, ...

in which case almost all the altcoins that can get pumped have this potential you are looking for.
how much profit do you want anyways? is 100% satisfactory? how about 6000% in 1 month?
if you look at some price history using an exchange charts you can see all the altcoins satisfy this criteria. you just have to find the best time to get involved.

it is not all the same percentages, it is nearly similar percentages (numbers close to each other) that is totally different. and it is not true about all altcoin, only some of them. many didn't move, many got dumped hard like -50% and many smaller dips.

also most coins you saw are on top and have similar resistance when it comes to getting dumped so they will have similar -% most of the times. and the volumes are the same. which shows people diversify in them the same way. for example if you have 9BTC you put 3BTC in 3 different coins and cash them all out at the same time.

i love how with all the stalls and whining of random people on the internet bitcoin is still moving forward as expected and the adoption is growing day by day by real businesses who don't care about all the internal drama and whining

it is easy to say this now that price has dropped and is dropping. now you change face and say "never sell on dips" but not so long ago (actually 2 days ago) you were singing about how ether is going to $1000 and how it was the "last chance to buy it"


so you are either lying through your teeth every day with a new lie or you are already in a big loss because you bought into the bubble on the very top.

more from your gems:
apparently you changed your mind today:

the denial has been very strong with you:

it is not the perfect time, it is the riskiest time to buy any of them.
if you are really new try not to be affected by the "i missed a lot of profit" regrets because if you do then you will make a lot of mistakes and lose money.
right now all these altcoins are on the way down. there may be some reversal but investing in those are always much riskier since there is no way of knowing what the floor is.

some may suggest TA, but TA doesn't work on a manipulated and small market that is mostly pump and dumps.

buying now is pure madness!
what will you earn anyways? 5% profit! and how much risk will you take?
at times like this when price is falling hard it is best to stay away and enjoy the 1000% profit that the pumps gave you and don't bother risking any of it for a small additional profit.

none of them because none are regulated and all have the same risk of getting hacked or saying "we were hacked".

if i want to rank them, i would do this:
1. bittrex because it is less crowded and doesn't go down like polo
2. polo because it is the biggest out there.
- the other one i have never heard of!

you know that things have never happened exactly on the same date as the news right?

for example take the Halving event. the hype started months ago before the real halving date or any real supply effect. the price rise happened long before the date that the first 12.5BTC block was mined.

and the effect of August 1st has already hit the market hard by crashing it to $2100 10 days ago.
can it happen again? maybe. but chances aren't that high.

if things were this easy and a with a simplified chart you could just predict the market then everyone would have been multi millionaires by now.

this chart that keeps getting posted here is just a simplified version of a reality trying to explain things that happen after they happen. the fact is most of these charts, analysis and other stuff are considered psedu-science and some even call them BS!

p.s.

- you won't get lucky twice. these golden chances are always once in a life time. like the dip of 2015 when bitcoin price went down to <$180! yeah it is ridiculous now

- keeping funds on any exchange is not a good idea. there is a bigger chance the exchange gets hacked and you lose your money than there is a chance for another big crash!

it was a failed attempt of someone trying to pump litecoin and gain some profit but apparently the market didn't agree with him and price has fallen about 3-4% ever since that article

how exactly did they want that? poloniex doesn't even have a fiat deposit option. or at least i have never seen any, they have an altcoin with a similar name called USDT though.

i don't quite understand what your confusion is. the fluctuations happen, and there is nothing we can do about it.
besides it is not everyday that price of bitcoin goes up $100 or drops down that big. the big changes are usually rare.
and one benefit of bitcoin is that it always goes up. it has gone up in the past 8 years, that is why traders go to altcoin market and trade with bitcoin to earn more profit on their bitcoin not on their USD.

poloniex is an altcoin exchange so they have altcoins listed and there are crap load of altcoins
those other sites you saw are bitcoin exchanges which added one or two top volume altcoins. that is why you see limited number of markets.