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221  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: BAT - Basic Attention Token ICO (31-5-17)- Worth Investing? on: May 19, 2017, 03:23:32 AM
BAT has a great business plan and a professional team behind it. Look at the level of detail in their whitepaper and all the work they have already put in to the project before their ICO even starts.

I too am surprised there is limited discussion about it on bitcointalk.
222  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: What's the best Altcoin to invest in? on: May 18, 2017, 11:09:34 PM
Aragon is the best altcoin at the moment, it had a record successful ICO with huge support from Iconomi and Boost VC, price is already pumping on bittrex with listings on kraken and poloniex likely to follow.
223  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Bounties (Altcoins) / Re: [BOUNTY][ICO] 🚀☠ SP: Age of Rust - RUSTBITS Game Economy & Trading cards ☠🚀 on: May 18, 2017, 10:56:16 PM
I saw you have a newsletter tracker sheet but none for the demo accounts, how can I check if I got signed up correctly?
224  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: THE OFFICIAL ARAGON (ANT) CROWDSALE AND PROJECT THREAD on: May 17, 2017, 11:22:47 PM
What was the ICO price?

100 ANT per ETH. They managed to get 275000 ETH in the space of about half an hour.
225  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: There is no Altcoin bubble on: May 17, 2017, 07:25:28 PM
Most altcoins are in a bubble but the good ones will most likely survive and thrive has bitcoin has in the past years. Its anyone's guess which ones will have the most success though.
226  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: ARAGON: The Ethereum based Startup from Spain on: May 17, 2017, 07:24:02 PM
Congrats to the team and all the investors on a wildly successful ICO, the hidden cap was reached super fast. I look forward to seeing how this token develops in the comming 2 years.
227  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: What Altcoins do you want to hold in 2017? on: May 13, 2017, 01:53:30 PM
I have few altcoin already in my portfolio for long term and can wait even for 2018 for those to complete the projects to deliver the product they are working on. Coval,Guppy,Trust,Wings,RLC and Ethereum are my choice for long term to hold. I also have some others for medium term and trading purposes.

That's a good way to go about it, diversify into several coins because no one has a crystal ball to know which will be successful. Even if you think your coin has the best fundamentals there is a luck factor required too because it isn't always obvious which coins will take off, and sometimes useless coins do like dogecoin.
228  Other / Off-topic / Re: Why would customers use Bitcoins? on: May 13, 2017, 12:04:55 PM
The only people that get bitcoin to buy services are people doing something illegal, or paranoid people. In reality the legitimate users using bitcoin are those who bought it as an investment and would rather use their profits from the price rise to buy goods directly rather than convert it back to USD or whatever other currency they use.
229  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wish I didn't dump at $2000 on: May 13, 2017, 08:38:11 AM
Every single time btc pumps there is a thread like this...
Every single time BTC drops there's a thread saying  "RIP, it's over guys, BTC is dead. Going to Alts." Just human nature to do things as price changes, you can disregard it if you don't like it. Price is only relative, remember that.

I guess I naively hoped people would eventually learn instead of seeing the same threads in repeat for years and years.
230  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: ARAGON: The Ethereum based Startup from Spain on: May 13, 2017, 07:39:43 AM
Do you know of another Blockchain tech startup from Spain to be followed?

No haven't heard of any, why are you looking specifically for blockchain startups from Spain though?

231  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: Poloniex caused the market to crash on: May 13, 2017, 07:37:45 AM
I heard some rumors that Poloniex intentionally create some fake crash, to allow them to buy coins during its dump. Consider what happened to my friend, he saw a dump at 7k, a crashed happened. Then after few minutes, poloniex is back. The price becomes 8k.
Some people say that but I do not think Poloniex will risk a reputation for that kind of thing, and it needs to be proof to say that it's true, Poloniex will not do that because they already get huge profits from every transaction fee trading. I think Poloniex Just did not anticipate well the growth of the user on his website, and this is quite disappointing.

I agree, the amount of money they lose from customers going elsewhere though I have no stats to back it up is probably more than what they would earn by perpetuating these dumps. Additionally if any whistle blower or hacker came out with proof then they would all go to jail. Why go to jail for some hundreds of millions when they already make at current rates upwards of a billion a year?
232  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: will litecoin recover on: May 13, 2017, 07:16:36 AM
does anyone think litecoin will reach the $50 dollar mark ?

recover from what? from $2 to over $30 and now should be back to $2?

Yeah I scrambled to look at the litecoin price since he used the word recover. That being said I don't think litecoin's boost was very well deserved, its usage hasn't increased substantially and it doesn't offer anything more than bitcoin except faster confirmation times. At the end of the day to sustain this boost it will need real world usage, meaning that it gets accepted in a vast array of retailers like bitcoin currently does.
233  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: WAVES. Ultimate crypto-tokens blockchain platform. on: May 12, 2017, 11:44:04 AM
Forgive me if this has already been answered in some places in the thousands of pages in this thread, but does anyone know what is up with all the token spam we are getting mostly from the same address? They appear to be worthless, is there not some system in place to prevent useless tokens being airdropped?

We will have spam control and filtering very soon. Possibly in the next update which looks like its going to be next week. The team are working on so much right now it's still early days lots of improvements to come over the next few months.

Thanks I love the idea of airdropped tokens especially those where everyone gets it, but there should be at least some purpose to them other than to spam/joke.
234  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: WAVES. Ultimate crypto-tokens blockchain platform. on: May 12, 2017, 11:31:46 AM
Forgive me if this has already been answered in some places in the thousands of pages in this thread, but does anyone know what is up with all the token spam we are getting mostly from the same address? They appear to be worthless, is there not some system in place to prevent useless tokens being airdropped?
235  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: WNOBT - a blockchain loyalty scheme and more|| WAVES token | RXD | Airdrop on: May 12, 2017, 10:55:08 AM
What are the requirements to receive the airdrop?
236  Economy / Speculation / Re: Wish I didn't dump at $2000 on: May 11, 2017, 08:26:56 PM
Every single time btc pumps there is a thread like this...
237  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: [Parody?] Bitcoin usage: Fatal Flaw Discovered and Exposed!!! on: May 11, 2017, 05:44:19 PM
Bitcoin is showing that it's really solid...
The network is strong, but the Human Layer needs to be rebuilt.
If this was a troll thread, for example, trying to start a fight, then there probably would be at least 30 or 40 replies by now.

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(How) can we overcome the "Bitcoin Civil War" and restore some level of courtesy and respect to this community?

...and the answer is?

I think there is no answer, the network is strong but uncompromising. The question is not how but whether decentralized decision making can really work, even with economic incentives, or perhaps should I say despite economic incentives.
238  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Why we still gambling while we always lose? on: May 11, 2017, 05:38:07 PM
I think I can sum it up more concisely. There are two main types of gamblers:

1. Addicts: they just cannot stop gambling there is always the thought they can win it big. When they win they gamble more to win more. When they lose they need to earn it back. They can be classified as risk lovers.

2. People looking for fun: gamble on a sports game makes the game more exciting when you win, putting some money down in a casino when you are on holiday with the full expectations of a loss is fun too.

Number 1 can not walk away when they win (unless they have won so much) whereas number 2 can. The problem is a lot of people are number 1 when they in fact think they are number 2. However both 1 and 2 will keep coming back even though they lose money more or less every time.

I think it's more complicated than that - everyone is a bit of #1 and #2, it can depend on current mood and change from session to session. Some people can take wild rides that are common for addicts, but then stop for long time or gamble moderately, and then start betting wildly again. Others may only gamble for fun most of the time, but then make some surprisingly  crazy bets.

Well there are certainly people that fit purely in either 1 or 2, but yes a lot of people blur that line, especially if they gamble relatively frequently.
239  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: I want to give "day trading" a go, question is where? on: May 11, 2017, 05:34:01 PM
Be warned about Poloniex they often have technical issues which can result in big losses from crashes following it. It does however allow you to margin trade to earn bigger profits (or losses).
240  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: [XRP] Ripple Speculation on: May 11, 2017, 05:30:47 PM
XRP is so volatile investments therein are no better than a slotmachine. People keep referring to banks using it, except they are using the company behind it and not the XRP itself. Only a matter of time now before the general market realizes and it crashes. It is not even a real cryptocurrency, does anyone really believe the total market cap (including unreleased premined coins) is more than that of btc?

Flame away at me XRP fans.

You're person number 10 million whose said that in this thread.

And again they are using XRP.

Any other method of using Ripple is slower and more expensive.

XRP being sold by SBI this summer in Japan.

Every non XRP transaction burns XRP supply as well. Like using Ripple to exchange USD to CAD that will also burn XRP supply

A minimal amount is burned, nothing significant, put it this way name me one bank that is purchasing big amounts of XRP because all the news I've seen have only mentioned them using ripple and not XRP directly, in fact I don't even know of any bank directly using any crypto yet for that matter.

Also only 40% or so of the total supply has been released while the rest of the premine is still going to be released over time. XRP may have gained value but it is a speculative value which explains the mass volatility. There is little value in a non crypto blockchain that burns a minimal amount of the currency over time.

People are buying into the XRP hype thinking all the major banks are mass purchasing XRP when they are not, they would never buy or use such a volatile asset in mass.

Man this stuff again you guys get really annoying. We've explained this already 50 pages ago to people saying exactly what you just said go read further back this has already been discussed you are wrong.

Well the simple way to shut people up is to name one bank that has bought a load of XRP, but the fact is you can't name any bank that has. The fact is also only 0.00001 xrp is burned per transaction and no bank is going to transact directly in XRP when it is so volatile that wouldn't make economic sense.
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