Hey

I think March will be BTC Season
we may see Alts bleeding. Alts season will start from April

This is my thoughts. Need your thoughts too

Just saw that Deep Onion is going to be on Crowdholding

http://bit.ly/2Bw2K2q

I've read both sides of the argument, those saying that deep onion is a scam and those who believe in it.
I can see that those getting in later will feel like the odds are stacked against them and would want to cry scam.
But I see Deep Onion joining crowdholding as a strong sign that it's a serious project.

Crowdholding is a platform that allows businesses to interact directly with people and crowdsource ideas on how to better their product.
To me that's a sign of transparency and openness to improving the product.

I guess the extreme naysayers will cry scam no matter what they do, but I believe it's a strong indicator of deep onion being legitimate.

Any thoughts on this?

Scam ICOs
Another “popular” scam method is through fake ICOs. This one usually involves lot more effort — after all scammers have to fake a white paper, setup a fake website and come up with a fake blockchain idea that will change the world. This process also involves paying for ads or hiring people on fiverr — all to make it look authentic. There have also been reports of identity thefts to make the team behind the project look legitimate.
 One way to really verify the validity of the ICO is to make sure the project makes sense — if it does, chances are that the project could do much better actually executing, than just do a scam exit. This article sheds some light on what blockchain is good for, and what it isn’t. Also, check their whitepaper, their github repos and their background.

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YEAR OF THE DOG ... and DOGE died !

... Sonmething Sad !

 

I saw many or every person about Bitcoin and BTCCash why people are not talking about Bitcoin Gold?
Major sites and ICOs are also accepting payment in BTC and in BTCCash but not showing interest in Bitcoin Gold.

Is Bitcoin Gold has no future?

What is the best, most secure and hard to trace way to transfer bitcoin to USD/EUR on a paypal account ?

Last time, I posted here about the secretive second pre-ICO sale of the telegram with a target of billion dollars. Since it is trending all over the cryptoworld, many of them wanted to join the ICO and invest some money to it's project. But the thing is telegram ICO is not for you, this ICO is for millionaires or billionaires only.

Telegram Open Network or TON is designed to host a new generation of cryptocurrencies and decentralized applications. The thing is, they only accept those accredited investors with atleast half-million dollars that will support their project. TON is very interesting and for sure this project will become successful, i think telegram ICO consist of many good advisers, dev team, and the rich investors.

What do you think about the TELEGRAM ICO?

News Link: here
secretive second pre-ICO sale link: here

Recently there was a split between the team behind MEW and a new paper wallet site opened up.  Is MEW still safe to use with a Ledger?

I've been searching for ICOs for a few days and there seems to be many cases of scams and hacks which kinda scares me. Obviously, there is no 100% certainty which is going to be a successful one but is there any way to identify which ones are at least going in the right direction? The first one I looked at was Mossland's Whitepaper and they seemed good with solid community. Or should I just buy BTC or ETH? Any suggestions and ideas would be very helpful!

Project Bitmark

Project Bitmark is an initiative to create an every day use alternative currency. No premine, no IPO, nothing unfair, no scam, no clone, no old code bases, no untested code, no token features, just what you need.

• Bitmark - a stable and balanced cryptographic currency. Its primary objectives are to be safe, secure, fast, actively developed, and easy to integrate for services and adopters. (read more...)
• Marking - our massive adoption program which fuses reputation+currency, the primary focus of Project Bitmark. Marking enables people to apply crypto currency simply to every aspect of their lives. (read more...)

Bitmark v0.9.4 has been released, please update your clients to keep our network secure.


Links
Wallet for all platforms, and actively developed source.
Summary of Project Bitmark
Full Specification of Marking
Wiki and Extensive Information
Branding and Logos
Bitmark Block Explorer alternative blocktree.io

Project Bitmark uses VPS and hosting from CryptoCloudHosting - a physical server company accepting crypto payments, including BTM.

Contact and Community
Project Management on Trello : #bitmark on IRC : @ProjectBitmark on Twitter : @RobotMarkus our automated agent : /r/bitmark on Reddit

Pools
Bitmark is balanced so you receive a fair reward wherever you mine.
Active Pools: poolwarz : suprnova : minep.it : xhash.net : hash-to-coins : p2pool
Detailed info for Solo Miners : Mining Calculator

Exchanges
CryptoShop (PayPal -> BTM) : Poloniex : Bittrex

Stats
CoinMarketCap : World Coin Index : Coin Finance : Cryptonator : Cryptrader : Crypto Coin Charts :
Network API : Network Health Charts : Steady Price API for services which use BTM pricing

Coin Specs
Algorithm: Scrypt
Block Reward: 20 BTM (visual)
Block Time: 120 Seconds
Block Maturity: 720 Blocks (~1 day) to discourage multipools
Block Halving: Reward halves every 3 years, with intermediate decrease every 18 months (20 coins initially, 15 after 1.5 years, 10 after 3 years, etc...)
Difficulty Retargeting: 720 Blocks (~1 day)
Total Coin Supply: ~27.58 million _{(27,579,894.73108000 exactly)}


Timeline and History
Checkpoints last updated at block 46519
1. Project Named: Bitmark detail and rationale
2. Notes on the Bitmark, Block Reward, Monetary Supply, and (Network+Coin) Distribution
3. Requests for Community Discussion on Third Party Innovations
4. Development Fund / Taxation in Detail
5. Development Started & Initial Funding Request
6. Microtransactions and Microtrust (Migrating to Sidechain)
7. Allocation of Variables
8. Scratchpad of thoughts
9. First test build released
10. temporary mainnet added, unit tests passing, unconditional support for several BIPs
11. v2 block chain, testnet available, checkpoints, miner testing
12. clone-able reference implementation is underway, stratum-mining support, branding?
13. bitmark core user interface (qt) technically complete, reference implementation technically complete
14. new logo and branding added to bitmark core
15. Project Bitmark Organisation
16. Pfennig/Bitmark Pre-Release
17. Pfennig/Bitmark Pre-Release tested on linux and windows, pending osx build and testing
18. OS-X build requires further testing
19. Pre-Release successfully tested on all platforms
20. Discarded the taxation proposal
21. IPM suggestion
22. Dedicated server budget acquired, we can launch
23. All resources purchased, foundation, funding, status
24. Release time poll
25. Release scheduled for 2014-07-13 at 18:00 UTC
26. Release ready with some hours to spare.
27. RELEASED
28. The Bitmark Foundation - first donation.
29. Launch analysis, mining, block chain configuration determined to be reasonable.
30. We propose Investor Public Mining (IPM) to the community.
31. IPM Pool 3 Day Test.
32. What makes Bitmark distinct.
33. Decentralization of Supply and Distribution and Spreading out the Bitmark Network.
34. Investor Public Mining (IPM) Pool Test Update
35. P2Pool and Checkpoints
36. Get Marked
37. A significant modification to IPM
38. getMarked.org
39. One Week Old
40. GPU Mining
41. Areas where help is needed
42. Comparison of the Currency Supply of Bitcoin, Bitmark, and Litecoin
43. Bitmark's Value, 13 Day Review
44. Evaluating the effect of Exchanges, NOMP, Service Ideas
45. Marking
46. Support added to inuit, a very neat cold storage application
47. bitcore, insight-api, insight support
48. @ProjectBitmark and /r/bitmark
49. bitmark.co collaboratively specified
50. BTM lands on it's first exchange, Poloniex
51. Project Bitmark adopt's open transparent project management
52. Project Bitmark Status Overview 1
53. Network Health Charts
54. New Identity, Prototype Marking / Giving / Payment Buttons
55. Pfennig ready to fork, Cryptonator, hash-to-coins, crypto-prices, checkpoints
56. new block explorer
57. network difficulty over 200
58. new bitmark branding
59. Bitmark v0.9.2.2 Released
60. Bitmark Innovation and the API
61. Pfennig updated to 0.9.2.2
62. Brain Wallet and Address Generator
63. The mark (₥) is 1⁄1000 of a BTM
64. Marking visualized in image
65. Marking - DACs and Multi Signatures
66. This week marks history for GridSeed Wholesale, it is the first time we feature a non-altcoin concept as the coin of the week.
67. We will be working to support identifi and merge it in with marking, giving us a big open p2p trust network as another backbone for our system
68. The team has migrated to an integrated team environment on slack.com. Contact for an invite.
69. The first marking implementations have begun, jurassic mark - primitive marking implementations.
70. Our team is now in double digits, including the addition of another committed developer.
71. Technical specifications of data related to marking are being defined on the marking wiki.
72. Our first non human agent joined the team, markus a hubot integrated in to most of our tools now also works hard for us.
73. Markus is on twitter @RobotMarkus - he will provide team updates

The Bitmark Foundation

The Bitmark Foundation is to be specified over the coming months, to be launched fully funded on the 2015-07-13, our one year anniversary. The Foundation will model an autonomous organisation, and oversee the work on Project Bitmark, with members who specialize in multiple sectors.

We have decided to lower our funding goal for the Bitmark Foundation to 5000 BTM, and we will not actively seek to raise funds after this amount is reached.

Together we are creating Marking, the technology which solves funding issues for every person and project in the world. The Bitmark Foundation and work done by this umbrella project will be funded in this way too.

The Foundation funds will be held as a reserve and will not be touched until after 2015-07-13, in the future they will be used to mark worthy projects and charities.

Donation can be made to bQmnzVS5M4bBdZqBTuHrjnzxHS6oSUz6cG.

Donations towards current development over the first year are also accepted, in the form of BTC. The donation address is 1KsbYk2rMvwg456PyPmLuEgERPwyuxtGRL. We are entirely community funded.
previous address


Clone us with Pfennig
We have released and are maintaining Pfennig as a community service, so that new scrypt based clones can be created from a modern, tested, and secure code base, instead of using outdated and copy-pasted legacy code.

Our rationale is that people will create clones, so we may as well ensure those who use the clones have a good code base to back up any perceived value the clones may have.

Pfennig is kept up to date, and is always based on the latest tagged Bitmark release, and also the latest tagged Bitcoin release.


Credits
Contributors
mymenace: Provided logo concepts and high quality final revisions
Allow: Provided gui design elements and design input
schnötzel, pandher, macbackfat, Este Nuno:  All helped test Bitmark/Pfennig on various platforms

Donators
Anonymous: 0.0159 BTC
Guriqbal Pandher: 0.2 BTC
PondSea (on behalf of the Qora Community): 0.1 BTC
Pentamon: 0.1 BTC
Este Nuno: 0.1 BTC
ethought: 0.1 BTC
deepcoreotc: 0.0023 BTC
chengren: 0.05 BTC
zadinga: 0.03 BTC
lukasplus: 0.01 BTC

Mark Pfennig: 200 BTM
Androidicus: 50 BTM
Len: 200 BTM
prix: 251 BTM
medic: 250 BTM
lukasplus: 50 BTM
(Now too many to mention, all are equally and gratefully received...)


When reading this thread, bitmark is evolutionary over time, this thread was originally titled 'define' and merged the conversation from several other threads, when reading this please be aware that it is a discussion which defined the project, many posts you read below and things discussed changed, were dropped, or were added over time, you can track the growth by reading through. It was many pages in before the 'bitmark' you know today was even created, and several more before 'marking'. The project continues to define and refine what is being done every week, it is a living and evolving project.
For example, in reply one you will see the mention of 'taxation', which does not exist, we defined it then found it would break backwards compatibility so moved to donations instead. This is but one example.

Before I tell you how I fucked up, let me just say I am very aware of just how many newbie mistakes I made and how stupid I was. By all means, please feel free to laugh at my disgusting choices... the least my stupidity can do is serve as humor.

Back in May/June, I bought around 600 Bitcoin at around 2700 USD. I'll let you do the math on how much that cost me. But I believed in Bitcoin. The original plan was just to hold them forever. I was pretty convinced Bitcoin was going to go to $10K by 2018. Had I just left the Bitcoins in my wallet and done nothing, I would be pretty happy right now at $4000 per coin.

But no. I decided to try my hand at trading altcoins. I started off with Siacoin (this was back when there was hype around Siacoin).

Put in 10 bitcoins into Sia, at 450 satoshis... Next day, Siacoin went up to 600 satoshis. I was like "Cool, this is easy, I just made a couple thousand dollars in a day."

Next day I put in 20 Bitcoins into Antshares (now re-branded as NEO). Three days later, it went up as well. "Cool, I just made 10 grand in three days! All I have to do is buy altcoins low and sell high. So easy. As long as I HODL and don't sell in panic and just wait it out until it rises, everything should be fine."

You can guess where this story is heading... there's no happy endings here.

Basically, over the course of June, I invested pretty much ALL of my Bitcoins into alts, thinking they were going to keep going up and up. It was pure greed. Of course I should've just kept it in Bitcoin. Of course I should've done my research on some of these altcoins. Of course I should've not bought it at the very fucking peak before all the altcoins crashed.

Curious to see how badly I fucked up?

Here's a list = all the altcoins I bought, how much BTC I spent on them, and how much BTC they're worth now. Feel free to roast me, cause you could not get more stupid than this (especially putting that much money and faith into some of these altcoins).

Siacoin = 246.82 BTC → 72.94 (minus 70%)
CloakCoin = 139.27 BTC → 41.59 (minus 70%)
Factom = 120.72 BTC → 44.17 BTC (minus 63%)
Monero = 18.76 BTC → 12.96 BTC (minus 31%)
BitShares = 13.18 BTC → 4.54 BTC (minus 66%)
Crown = 10.26 → 4.05 BTC (minus 61%)
ZCash = 9.77 BTC → 4.13 BTC (minus 58%)
Golem = 9.13 BTC → 2.7 BTC (minus 70%)
GameCredits = 8.49 BTC → 3.1 BTC (minus 63%)
LBRY Credits = 5.71 BTC → 2.55 BTC (minus 55%)
BitcoinDark = 5.03 BTC → 1.96 BTC (minus 61%)
Ripple = 4.98 BTC → 2.03 BTC (minus 59%)
EmerCoin = 4.76 BTC → 2.02 BTC (minus 57%)
Digibyte = 4.38 BTC → 1.55 BTC (minus 65%)
Waves = 4.05 BTC → 2.76 BTC (minus 31%)
Ubiq = 3.89 BTC → 1.74 BTC (minus 55%)
Vertcoin = 3.35 BTC → 1.2 BTC (minus 64%)
Lumen = 3.06 BTC → 0.95 BTC (minus 69%)
Stratis = 2.96 BTC → 1.78 BTC (minus 40%)
SysCoin = 2.76 BTC → 0.98 BTC (minus 64%)
Ethereum = 2.53 BTC → 1.43 BTC (minus 43%)
MaidSafeCoin = 1.94 BTC → 0.96 BTC (minus 50%)
Komodo = 1.93 BTC → 0.94 BTC (minus 51%)
Voxels = 1.35 BTC → 0.67 BTC (minus 50%)
NEM (XEM) = 1 BTC → 0.88 BTC (minus 12%)
BitCrystals = 1 BTC → 0.41 BTC (minus 58%)
Ardor = 1 BTC → 0.34 BTC (minus 65%)
Wings DAO = 0.25 BTC → 0.15 BTC (minus 37%)
Expanse = 0.14 BTC → 0.05 BTC (minus 60%)
Why didn't I put in any stop losses? Cause I was stupid. Why did I keep holding onto these coins despite the massive fall in value? Cause I believed they would eventually turn around.

Trust me, I ask myself every day how I could've made THIS many bad decisions at the same time.

I totally get you if you think I'm making up this story and how could anyone be stupid enough to spend 200 BTC on Siacoin. Pure greed. I thought Siacoin would keep going up, and I could make a quick profit.

The only mistake I haven't made is sold any of the coins at a loss. Even as I saw the altcoins go down, I convinced myself that all I needed to do was HODL.

I'm still holding. Still hoping that eventually some of these might go back up to the value they were before, and I can sell them off at break even.

Of course I'm tempted to sell them all. Take any BTC I can get for them. Maybe put it into NEO (that train already left though) or some other altcoin that I hope will blow up. But of course that too would be an impulsive mistake. I'm just scared shitless, so I hold. I've made every single mistake I could made, except selling at a loss.

"Just hold." everyone says. So I do. But the people who say "hold" usually didn't spend 600 BTC on altcoins and watched their portfolio go down to about 200 BTC.

By the way, I know that when you compare it to USD value, not all of these altcoins have dropped that much. But that's not what I look at. USD value is deceptive, cause BTC keeps going up.

What I care about is BTC value. I'd give anything to just have my 600 BTC back (which of course would now be worth way more than the $2700 per coin I spent on them).

I realize that the chances of these altcoins ever going back to the peak that we had in June / July are very slim... the more BTC keeps rising, the less satoshis each of these coins is worth. Trust me, I know how much I fucked up.

Anyway.... feel free to laugh at my stupidity.

I'm open to any suggestions as to what to do with my altcoins now, whether I should just sell them back and get ~200 BTC for them, or wait for some of these to turn around... I genuinely don't know how to make this any less of a fuck-up.

EDIT: To answer some questions that have popped up:

Some of you are having a hard time believing someone who has this type of money can lose it in such a stupid way. Earning money, keeping it, and growing it are different skills. I fucked up on the last two.

A few of you asked how I bought 600 Bitcoins all at once. I used an OTC called Genesis Trading. Minimum buy order is 25K. You negotiate a bid, then you wire them the money, and they send the BTC to your wallet.

I don't have any NEO. I sold it when it got to break even, and then it exploded to current levels. So not only did I fuck up by investing in alts that went down, the one single coin that went up, I sold before it exploded.

I will reply to comments. I'm just catching up and reading everything that everyone posted and taking it all in.

Thank you to everyone who replied.

cryptopia is ascammed exchange.
My sent $LUX,$GBX  but not shown in my wallet almost  3day has been paased.

Only me ?

What are incentives that ico's offer for lending, trading or mining? Can anyone here send the list of ICO's doing that?

Hello!

Considering many new people here may be struggling with gaining any profit or suffered a big loss lately, I thought I'd be nice and share a free Trading Signals group on Telegram
So if you're lazy or just a newbie, take a look at his calls and follow the owners actions, and I'm sure you will make some good gains 

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