Between $500 and $2k at the end of 2014.

I don't see Transparent Mining listed under Qora's features list.

I know about NXT's Transparent Mining plans.

Can you elaborate on that please?

I had some Counterparty, but sold it as it relies on Bitcoin network and that means Bitcoin developers can keep Counterparty protocol hostage and generally not cooperate with Counterparty devs if they don't want to. Besides Counterparty was slow as heck. NXT does much better than Counterparty with its Asset Exchange.

I'll check out Noirshares, thanx.

After deleting the 'data' dir it finally synced, at block 967 now.

When I click on Quit, it shuts down sometimes, sometimes not. If it doesn't and I do a kill -9 javaprocessID, then the database becomes corrupt. This thing needs a lot of testing for sure.

Since I just installed v5 from scratch and started syncing from 0, I am now at block 50, syncing is stuck there.

Here is my approach to crypto investing

I don't pile into one single anything, I prefer to diversify.

Accepting any alt for a merchant is no harder than accepting bitcoin with companies like coinpayments and moolah that make it easy to accept several different cryptos and convert them to fiat for a merchant on the fly. Merchants need fiat to pay their suppliers and employees.

Bitcoin is not a sure thing long term either if you think rationally.

Oh, Facebook already has their own money? I had no idea. Why would it need any crypto? Like I said the most likely approach for them is to issue their own tokens, which they already did, you say. Case closed.


Exactly. I don't follow Facebook and didn't know they already had their own tokens. They don't need crypto currencies to make maximum profit from their userbase. Crypto currencies wouldn't make any difference for them, bitcoin or alts.

Can you post what you have in settings.ini file?

yes, no syncing. Using v5.

Facebook users don't need much infrastructure. If the sole purpose of them using a crypto currency is to buy some Facebook services (I have no idea what those might be, I don't use it), then Facebook can set up its own fiat->crypto gateway. Of course Facebook would first buy that crypto cheap off exchanges and then sell at a premium to users. At least that's the most sensible business approach. Your calling altcoins 'shitcoins' doesn't achieve anything, except demonstrates your extreme bias. Objectivity is what successful investors have to possess not to lose money. And I am sure Facebook decision makers don't lack objectivity.

Oh, and most exchanges offer altcoins trading, I don't know if you've been living under a rock recently or what. I mean, altcoin trading is everywhere. But Facebook users wouldn't have to use any exchange to get the coins if Facebook went the crypto route. You see, big companies and people behind them are all after control and power. If they see an opportunity to control and exert power, they'll use it. They can't control Bitcoin, or, let me put it this way, controlling Bitcoin would require huge capital investments. Why all that hassle if Facebook can pay a little and achieve the same and make big dividends for their share holders in the process and quick buck for their own executives.

There is no counterfeits here, copies - yes, not counterfeits. It's all a huge illusion that Bitcoin has merits over others. The more the illusion, the more value it has in people's eyes. I outlined above why someone who makes decisions at Facebook would want to go for something undervalued. It would be killing two birds with one stone basically for Facebook, which is much harder to do with bitcoin. Someone who makes decisions at that company could overnight create an illusion of value in any of the altcoins just by making it a crypto of choice for Facebook's millions of users worldwide.

But like I said they'd probably go for their own flavor of tokens, crypto - they can't control, at least not Bitcoin. Some other undervalued alt - that would be feasible and easier to control and own a huge chunk of. Not possible with Bitcoin. Possible with tokens. Alts are somewhere in between.

The adoption of any particular altcoin would multiply several fold if it's adoped by Facebook as currency of choice. They have millions of users, I don't see how adoption can fail. Just ask yourself. If tomorrow there is an official annoucement that Facebook starts using X altcoin as its own currency, wouldn't you buy it? I would buy both hands, and I don't even use Facebook. Not to mention millions of users of Facebook, who would be buying it to conduct their Facebook business. With huge adoption comes high prices and strong mining network. Seems like a no brainer. But I think, the most likely scenario is Facebook will not use any crypto currency, they'll just use their own centralized tokens, purchased for fiat.

Can anyone advise 1-2 interesting coins to watch and perhaps buy a small amount of?

check out this pie chart:

https://pools.rapidhash.net/

I wouldn't be so sure.

Imagine you're the one who makes decisions at Facebook and what currency to integrate.

You have choices:

1) invent your own tokens (centralized solution) and have people exchange fiat for them - this is most likely to happen.

2) you're enthusiastic about crypto currencies and think it is the future, but you got late on that train and don't have many bitcoins, what would you do as the one who makes decisions at Facebook? Of course, adopt some other crypto currency, which is now strongly undervalued compared to Bitcoin, as the currency of Facebook. But before you announce this, you buy into it big time, because you know, it will multiply in value after that. This solution is 100% decentralized and you yourself (and company  too) get rich implementing it. You can buy a big chunk of some undervalued but big enough crypto for cheap and multiply your fortune overnight. Hashrate and mining network of that crypto would explode after that too, so no issues with security of the network.

3) adopt Bitcoin - very unlikely, you get less benefits from this choice than option #2.

Yeah, just keep small amount of Dogecoin, like you keep small change in your physical wallet to buy a coffee for example.

No clue Perhaps the blockchain.info page would tell you.

Can you try to restart your bitcoin core client? This may clear the transaction from bitcoin core memory. Don't resend it until it's expired, or it may still go through twice.