the coinbase status page indicates that they are ready with the addition. i do not have a coinbase account to check if they have already added litecoin or not though.

https://status.coinbase.com/
click on the "Digital currencies" you can see litecoin is listed and it says "Operational"

do we have any solid evidence and any solid change of positions or are all of the above based on guesses? (fill me in please)

i say if we move ahead with activation the price will go to the moon, easy $50 and then some more.

obviously if something crazy happens and they stop signaling SegWit there will be a dump but so far i have not seen any evidence except people saying Wang F2 is crazy.

and meanwhile there is a lot of shakeouts in litecoin market pushing the weak hands out and an accumulation phase with a big volume is taking place. the bottom is still 0.0088 and price has been very strong and stable around 0.0094BTC

although you already got the answers you wanted but it is god to go to https://www.reddit.com/r/dogecoin and then read the sticky topic (the first post on top) anything you need to know and anything there really is to know about dogecoin can be found in that post or in the sidebar links.

any question you had about any part of it or any services, etc just ask there. it is a good community that know more about doge than we here

time won't fix problems that many of them have!
to be fair there are a lot of good altcoins, a lot of innovations and many good features. but almost all of them have many problems. and most of them have no real usage so that we can see them in real action.
for example you can't say an altcoin is capable or incapable of handling many transactions unless it has as many users and as many transactions for a long time (at least a year).

thanks for all the answers.


well i am too lazy and too scared to do something like Arbitrage trading. but i have done some virtual-on-paper-calculations about it and most of the times it is not possible because of the fees and the spread.

on rare occasions when the difference is big the profit is possible but it is very small that is not worth the effort.

and on top of that (in my opinion) you have to trust two different exchanges with your money which is twice the risk

oopsie, sorry i deleted my comment and made it into a new topic
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1869744.0

thanks for answering though

p.s. as a BitcoinHodler i am mostly watching the market for fun and enjoy the short term mess as an entertainment.

I am watching the price on both bitstamp and bitfinex (have no money nor bitcoin in either ) and i see bitfinex is pulling up towards the $1200 meanwhile bitstamp is pulling it down towards the $1150

so what the hell is going on over on these two excahnges! and why nobody is doing any arbitrage trading.

BullFinex: $1191
bearstamp: $1147-$1159

that is not how it works. that site should really make this clear with a little footnote or something so that people can easily understand it.

the activation period is the period between two difficulty adjustment times and that happens (edit apparently it has nothing to do with difficulty) every 8064 block (i believe it takes 2 weeks). and hash rate supporting the proposal has to reach above 75% before the adjustment (which already have ) and then it has to stay there for the whole next period.

in short this period is finished in 10 hours, 32 minutes and in 14 days SegWit will be activated if nothing changes!

all of the existing altcoin are pump and dump so this question is moot.

this is such a broad question, i am afraid the only answer that i can give to you is to advise you to learn fundamental analysis! but that may not be the best thing you can do with altcoin investment.

hype!
if there is enough news and big exaggerations out there about that altcoin, that means that atlcoin will rise up (get pumped) and you can invest in it. there are technical analysis you can also do on the charts but this is altcoin trading we are talking about not a real legit market with little to no manipulation!

this poll is complete random list of countries that you came by and the second one is not even a country. (typo?).

anyways, as far as we know USA has been on top for more nodes, services and many more users. (at least it seems like it).
but other countries such as Switzerland has been very good towards bitcoin. for example there you can buy bitcoin from any train ticket station all over the country.
then other countries like Canada, Russia, and obviously China are in the list of countries who have been showing a lot of interest towards bitcoin both as investing in it and having real adoption.
other countries like India and many smaller or developing countries are also there but mostly they are investing in bitcoin.

and last one is the best, Japan. i think there are enough news about it that you don't need me repeating how good things are these days over there.

how about some real development!
i keep seeing even brand new members asking about "what you want in a cryptocurrency" as a social experiment to see what others are looking for that they can "only claim" their altcoin has. and never really do anything release whatever they feel like the community may like and buy and price gets pump of it.

for example if mostly say "anonymity" they will go ahead and copy one of the anon coins and release it in a short while with a new name.

so i say what is lacking is some real developers who do some real work not just pretend to do it.
a coin that is really offering some useful features, not just what "THEY" call useful.

a lot of weird thing has been coming out of f2pool_wangchun these days (and probably before but i have not been aware of it) and he doesn't seem to be all serious about the tweets he makes and it is very possible that he is doing it as a manipulation of the prices since it has been effective on litecoin also.
so in short i wouldn't read to much into "why he says what he says"

LOL, I just realized my rank has been updated to a Hero Member (not sure when), thought I inform you here too. (and i know what you said about no more room, just keep me in mind )

the signature didn't seem to be needing any change. but I changed my avatar (since that space was unused) until I can come up with some cool Hodler avatar

that is a chain of links to links then some more links and i didn't see any reason apart from a guess could you please explain a bit more about why you think it is very unlikely for Segwit to be implemented on LTC because of a guess?

because it is a scam site
and you are lying about the withdrawal.

and it is pretty simple to detect your lie even without doing any research about that site: "if it was cheap and possible to withdraw you would have bought bitcoin elsewhere, dumped there, withdrawn, rinse and repeat, and certainly would have never shared it here."

i honestly can not decide if this is a good or at least a better strategy than the rest or if this is just a complicated strategy with too many steps that just makes it long but doesn't change anything in the end.
i have to get deeper into it and possibly give it a try when i got some free time.

anyways give Seuntjie a try, it has options to give it some script to run your strategy, maybe ask the guys over at the programmers topic about his bot here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1114503.0

i completely agree. it is such a good project and as an investor i see a lot of potential in this coin. today we just saw another 50% price rise up to 0.0012BTC as i am typing this.
people were saying it will take the place of Dash and then replace Eth on top of the charts and it seems like that is coming to reality these days.

i am expecting at least a 0.005BTC price for this coin in short term.

whenever there is a round two rise or something like that after a dip, the price can not go up as fast as before. it takes time and more pump. and most of the time it will be slower because investors are more scared because initial pump is over.
and right now we are still before activation of Segwit so it is what i like to call "the news effect pump".

and for the millionth time Segwit is not just about fixing scaling issue.

bitcoin has been around for 8 years and so far there has been 100 years worth of bullshit about it and its price.
if we want to start reading all there is out there talking about price, speculating without knowing what speculation means and how price of bitcoin has been rising so far, we will get our heads exploded.
and it is so funny seeing people who have never even seen a chart in their whole lives talk about bitcoin price future!

maybe but maybe not.
i believe that this price can stay above $1200 for the time being and it stays stable like this if nothing unpredictable happens. and then when the rise started the distance between $1200 and $1300 will be over in a very short time because of how the market works in times of rise after a dip and a shake out of weak hands.