It is also impossible to be certain about which bitcoins have actually been lost forever. Someone holding the private key of a wallet can prove ownership but in Bitcoin it is impossible to prove that you have actually access to the key.

A single country bannonv cryptocurrency would allow for a global field of competition in the finance sector. Those countries with Bitcoin banned would lose out in developing the necessary backbone for such an economy to flourish.

What is it with polo being so unreliable with Stellar deposits and withdrawals. Why would it be that such an exchange can't handle transactions with such a popular crypto? Could it be true what they said, putting the blame on Stellar?

Anyone know what's up with Coinsbank? I haven't heard of an update from them regarding the cards but the most recent one wasn't good either. Reducing limits for lvl 2 verification just recently:


Whoever would like to find a list of bitcoin debit cards for potential alternatives could look at my thread here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1242788.0

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7oabzl/all_bitcoin_visa_debit_cards_are_now_cancelled/

This Reddit post claims that all bitcoin Visa cards are to be canceled. Re-quoting the message:

Assuming that Wavecrest is the issuer of most of bitcoin debit cards this would be very widespread. The question is, which cards would NOT be affected?

I think that https://bountyportals.com/ is worth looking through for fair rewards for ICOs and some of the best bounties. I've been looking through the platform for project's with potential and it's looking good.

Because no one expected the price to enter such a speculative rally when programing this I assume. I too think that this is ridiculous. Why even set a hardcoded limit to how much a wallet can send? This is like the worst practice banks put on their customers, blocking acounts not having a minimum balance. Hope it will be addressed soon.

I don't think so. There are altcoins with a greater transaction/s capacity and lower fees. But bitcoin would still act as an entry gate to aquiring as well as cashing out most altcoins. I think that as long as bitcoin remains the strongest in exchanges it'd probably be at the top of payments too. But we can't rely on speculation and acceptance forever because alts are gaining ground, especially amid the current altcoin bubble.

Adult Content I'm ok with, but why just specialize on VR? The latter doesn't have a big market for it and its at infant stages, where the whole industry is still based on rushed out hardware and software that's being developed like demos due to lack of infrastructure. Not to mention that VR adult content must be a very small and specialized market... VR as a technology could stay away from adoption for quite some time still, so I don't think that developing financial products on it is a good idea. Adult content is an established market though, so why not focus merely on that?

Seeing as though the issue has been solved by now, I think that it would be worth pointing out that Cryptopia is a registered exchange in NZ. Out of all the altcoins exchanges, I think that it would be one of the least likely to scam people.

Ripple could very well be heading to $3 now that resistance has shown to be weak. It still has a positive correlation to other cryptos within the market as today's rise is connected to the rest of the market but XRP markets keep being especially bullish in spite of their recent rise.

I think that Ignis would be one of the hottest technologies to come out of the ICO phase in 2018It will be a great successor of NXT within the Ardod platform and people still have a chance to get some prior to launch from futures contracts or through NXT.

I'd take the vouch for a honest review form my part if OP is indeed serious about this. I'd be interested in seeing what this service is all about.

It could be a dip, but it's quite a serious one. I don't think that it would be easy for markets to recover like the did when BTC/USD was at full steam. Perhaps the new year will meet Bitcoin which quite a bit of competition.

Literally anything. We are already seeing a great deal of profit taking with BTC, an explosion of intentional bitcoin forks, the ICO craze slowing down, and non-decentralized altcoins like ripple and Dash increasing in value. It's all unpredictable but if bitcoin goes down from all this pressure alts would go down to. Bitcoin stills acts as the gateway to this economy and if we see that it keeps falling in the ends alts would not remain unaffected.

Thank you very much for the information, added. Seeing that there are so many forks of bitcoin intentionally splitting off the main chain it would be useful to get responses like this in order to update the OP.

There are crazy price differences between GDAX and bitstamp. How come that there are consistent price differences for hours at a time?

Could this be a sign of price manipulation that's rumored to be happening in GDAX? I mean, both exchanges are operating without major issues, trading with big volumes and accepting FIAT deposits... How come there can be long-lived price differences for their BTC pairs?

Yes, it's been tried but there are bots that do this much more efficiently than any human would. Those gaps close withing a matter of fractions of a second due to bots having direct access to trades with APIs. It's a matter of speed and its an arms race for very small profit, while still bearing risk.

I think that Ven is being overvalued at the moment. With an ICO made by Chinese investors with the aims of expanding opperations withing China I think that it wouldn't take long for bag-holders to realize that the suposed product is non-existant and likely will never have any practical application. After the Chinese ICO ban, the price is only moved by speculation and likely to deflate quite a bit after the ongoing speculative bubble bursts.

I put my bets on the upcoming "MAVRO" ICO on being the most ridiculous one yet. It is (likely a scam and) supposedly curated by Sergei Mavrody, the mastermind that created the biggest ponzi scheme in Earth's history, MMM.

Their goal is to support the creation of more ponzi schemes in their platform, as they claim that ponzi schemes are currently facing harsh regulation, being "over regulated"...  

The effort put into this ICO makes it look very polished and nothing like a joke. I'm sure many people would fall for this but even if Sergei is indeed behind it it's very much likely that it'll end up scamming people once again, as he always does.

Overall, this ICO is shameless about being a safe heaven for ponzi schemes, and likely to support such practices through its core services too. At least other scams about to collapse like bitconnect try to hide it.