it is mainly because these ICO (aka new methods for scam) are somehow tied to ethereum platform so it is only logical to use ether tokens to buy them too.

and also when you really think about it, all these new and completely random projects which have ICOs are in fact creating some fake demand for ether which causes the price rises in ethere. so i can say it is like a master plan for pumping it. and it has been working well enough so far.

this is a nice attempt and it was kind of fun to watch, but it mostly seems like someone who is trying way too hard to make both an informative, supportive kind of video and at the same time be a fun thing to watch. i say it wasn't that successful in any of these aspects!

whenever you use one address the wallet automatically generates and saves a new private key and gives the public key to you in order to prevent address reuse.
but all the addresses and their keys are stored in your wallet.

you should import your "private key" not "public key"
private key starts with 5 or L or K
public key starts with 1 or 3

your computer crashing has nothing to do with blockchain.info they generate things in the browser and store it on their servers (encrypted) so even if you log in from another pc you still have the same wallet.

although i think SegWit news is more powerful than the activation itself but i am also a bit scared of getting in now after i took some profit out.


haha, to be honest i wouldn't be surprised if they announced it even premature.
Ethereum owners seem to be like showmen who have some tricks or jokes up their sleeves and are keeping it if they get stuck or start losing the audience

let's watch and see what happens. price is currently at 0.0356BTC according to bittrex.

can anyone explain how does the activation percentage work for litecoin because i though i understood it but it is a bit weird!
the activation period consist of 8064 blocks and out of this 4404 or 66.31% is signalling SegWit.
but looking at most sites they are reporting their main percentage based on the last 576 blocks which is 73-74%

so why is that?

as someone who has checked all of these options (except Livecoin) i have to say Bittrex has the best charts.
poloniex and cryptopia charts does not even count as charts, they just show simplest way of representing an OHLC chart as possible with no dynamic change.
in Bittrex you can see the chart dynamically and even do a lot of analysis on it. it has lots of options.

but as far as API goes, poloniex is the only one that offers OHLC API calls. others don't have that option, sadly

right now litecoin has the hype for the SegWit going on for itself so it is an ongoing rise. and with the new pools starting to signal SegWit on litecoin it seems like we are closing in on the threshold of activation (only 1% more remaining last time i checked). and this alone will keep the price up and rising.

but in the long run it is still in a bubble and will come down. last time a nice rise happened, Chinese went crazy and dumped a massive load on the market that crashed the price down to previous levels in a couple of hours.

ah the manipulation. it never gets old
all the bullshit on twitter by F2pool and their posts about SegWit and the dumps. it is funny how everytime the same things happens with a different subject and it keeps repeating itself.

but all the price speculations aside i am still hopeful for litecoin to activate SegWit so that we can finally see bitcoin's copy with SegWit in real action.

nothing that we haven't seen before.

it started a while back when the FUD about split came and market makers dumped to create some panic and then when price bottomed out everyone started buying cheap coins from weak hands and that takes time but you can't keep the price down forever to buy cheap coins.

then price did a bounce back to upper $1000 and then a faster rise happened to above $1100 and then because of the existence of some level of uncertainly it took some time and breaking into some resistance over at $1200 price but the accumulation continues with high volumes and stable price.

soon there will be another phase of rising when the FOMO hits certain people in the face and they realize they made a huge mistake when they sold at $890-$950 range and now they feel like missing out and want to come back. and that is the time when we will start testing the $1300 resistance.

open some charts, you can find them on all the exchanges, you can also find them on places such as coinmarketcap.com that list these altcoins all in one place and then look at some of their histories.

do you see the pump and dumps in short term and do you see the overall long term price dropping? i guess that should answer your question about not wanting to invest in any of these. specially those altcoins that have been rising in the past month and now are in a bubble.

there is 8btc that gives more logical and level headed news.
but even without a news source you can use your head and your own logic. look around you and see what business is working without a license? that is right, NO business that is legal and works with fiat.
now imagine you hear a business with 20 million something dollar money flow on daily basis is working without a license or anything else.
that business is bitcoin exchanges in China.

and i don't get why you bring BU into this so i won't comment on that.

we are on the rise and we have been for years. each year price starts low and goes up at least a 100+% and apart from 1 year only, the rest of them have been like this.

and we are still on the same path and bitcoin is still very limited. it is only 21 million for gods sake! some people seem to see the million and thing that is a lot but still that is a very small amount when you compare it with how many people are in the world and willing or will be willing to invest in bitcoin over time.

haha, again bitcoin price went up and some people missed the chance to buy cheap coins and news like this from China and the old drama of "China wants to control bitcoin" bullshit is starting.
this is old news dude, from day one when PBoC started investigating the Chinese exchanges everything has been clear and as Franky and others mentioned it is the fiat part of the business  that is being regulated.

old coins which still have a very high transaction volume show that they are still strong and around. a new coin having high transaction volume only shows a temporary hype.
but with LTC that shows some real usage for this coin.

you can check other old coins and many of them which disappeared even. it is very hard to stay around and stay useful in altcoin market which everything is being pump and dumped.

exactly this. i have been saying this for a long time.
every time there is some small news in China about regulations, all the news media make that simple news into something horrible and make it so that Chinese government seem like a dictatorship set out to kill anybody who even thinks about bitcoin
and when you think about these new or get them from proper Chinese resources you can clearly see that the concern has always been about illegal activities done with bitcoin and an attempt to prevent it and nothing more.

so i say whoever that is talking about China and how they want to kill bitcoin is either very misunderstood person or they want to do something illegal and this prevents them.

in short: learn trading.

you won't need much else, you need to be able to study the charts and the market and also see the news and never have any high hopes for altcoins in long term. all of them will die sooner or later. there is only bitcoin that remains because it has some real usage.
all the rest are for trading and short term investment.

it is difficult because it is far away ($300 until $1500) and it takes time for a rise because it is no longer 2011.
other than that there is absolutely nothing that can stop bitcoin from rising. it is going to happen, try not to fall for the FUD campaign against bitcoin spread mostly by those against bitcoin and altcoin pumpers. that is all lie. if you don't accept it now, in a couple of months you will start regretting it.

i don't think people can live on bitcoin "only" today. maybe someday in the future when price is more stable though. because the price fluctuation may seem good to those who have invested in bitcoin and see it as such but when you want to use it as a currency, obviously you would like it more to have an stable price.

i should add that this is the first step towards that day though. and i am very excited about this news.

according to the trend that has been going on for years, price has been rising big every year and that means by the end of the year it should be above $1700 of your prediction.
and even with a slowed down trend it can go as high when you look at the percentage of the rise.

very interesting about the walls. i am no expert but i usually see these types of walls be placed deep (under other orders). so if this is true that these walls are placed as "a mental barrier" then that explains it, you can easily use a bot to watch the market and cancel the order and place it deeper if you see some movement.(?)