I don't know why so many are recommending blockchain .info. There were all kinds of problems last year. I'm sure a forum search would bring them all up. It's ok for noobs getting started with a small amount of bitcoin but not for safely storing 10.

The best bet would be a spare computer, freshly formatted. Install Electrum and transfer the coins to it. Keep the machine off line except for the occasional sync.  Or ... like others have mentioned ... a hardware wallet.

Good post and so true. I've watched the scam progression for the last two years. The scammers are getting more and more sophisticated.  Its impossible to tell who is on the up and up.  Better off not buying.

As far as buying older coins we know are not scams, they have decreased so much in value who knows if they will rebound or die.  None of them seem to be making inroads to real world use.

As far as #1 is concerned. We don't need another altcoin. New coins are met with disdain and distrust these days.

You may be better served partnering with an established altcoin. One that has talented developers and tech and, more importantly, credibility already existing. Good luck.

From Dude Where's my Car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNX6dieVcc

" ... and then .... and then .... and then .... and then ..."

From True Grit:

"I'm gonna kill ya"

2 years ago, you could do very well buying shitaltcoins. Everyone thought alts were going to take over the world and the market was crazy with people buying/selling.

Today, making big money on an altcoin would be like the odds of getting hit by lightning.  If you do hit it lucky on one, you probably lost big time on the 100 500 others you bought.

Yes. They are called bitcoin XT.

Great thread! Thanks for this.

This is how markets go. 80% of the time, markets range, 20% of the time, they trend. That $10 drop was not the 'move down', but it was a lower low, and a lower high from the local top. That is the market turning and then retracing, and this is indeed the big fkn issue with shorting. When the market corrects to the downside, it tends to do so very abruptly, and best of luck of timing your trade perfectly for that. Shorting is much harder than going long, no doubt about it.

Right now would be a good short opportunity, as the chances of the market getting higher at this point in time are slim, and even if it does, there is the $436 top to place your Stop Loss behind. But even still, shorting now could mean a long wait, whilst 'they' swish coins around on the exchanges within a $10-$15 range, sucking in the n00bs on both sides of the trade, taking out their Stop Loss Orders etc... Many shorters will lose patience and exit their trades on scratch, or with a small loss/win, others with less fortunate market timing will have their trades stopped out.....but eventually, the big dumper trucks full of BTC will pull up outside the exchanges, just like they did last time, and the time before that, etc etc.


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You make a lot of sense.

Have buyers been lulled into a false sense of security considering the strong bitcoin we've had for the last couple months?  

There are literally hundreds of cloud storage providers. They come and GO.

Sync.com is a newer one. The pro version has an encrypted vault. 2FA is available. They have an app for most everything except linux. They were offering a sizable award to anyone cracking their security.

Good old box.com. Still around and still offering a free account.  Good, solid service. One of the originals.

Mega of course as keewee suggested is decent.

I don't trust the cloud at all. I encrypt anything I send up. I don't get too invested, meaning, I don't upload gigabytes of data. I use at least 3 so I always have backups in case one folds.

The Lobster.

Different. Really different. What kind of a twisted mind dreams up these stories?

I would like to comment on this thread but I'm almost speechless.

Like  ...   WTF did I just read?

I'm the last guy to give Spoetnik any credit, but charging to have a coin listed is a great idea. Be nice if he spent more time on constructive posts instead of being a cunt to everyone. Maybe just maybe there is hope.

That really is a good idea. Why not make it 2 bitcoins or more? Sure would cut down on the cloners/scammers. Something that should have been done a couple years ago.

What's the matter?

No one is knocking BSD. I'm impressed developers would bother to make a wallet for it due to the "tiny user base". The "gui" may have been a dig towards a popular coin with no gui wallet.

Btw, I use BSD although I am still at the noob state with it right now.

I don't follow the altcoins much anymore. They attained their hour of fame, made a few people wealthy, made a lot of people poorer. People lost interest and those who got burned left the scene.

I rarely see an altcoin listed as a payment option. I do see bitcoin.

Are there any altcoin communities/developers actively pounding on doors trying to get their coin accepted by business?  They lose interest after they sell a few million coins.

Instead, they build a new coin with bigger and better promises hoping people will flock to buy.

That is interesting. No one that I know of has bothered to make a wallet for BSD let alone a gui wallet. Watching.

Anything is possible. If it is, its taking the long way around.

Regardless of being bear/bull, I think we all saw this coming. Holiday cashout.

" I'm in fiat baby!"

Well I would not go so far as to say Communist but those with the most bitcoins win.

Oh shit, I'm rolling on the floor here ... LOL LOL.