this year was great mostly because of Ethereum pumps, because it started early this year and the hype was amazing which lead to one of the biggest pumps of all times that i have seen and enjoyed.

and lets not forget about the big Monero rise which happened not so long ago which made us so much profit.

and as always bitcoin has been performing perfectly and lots of profit was there.

all these small coins people say here were also good for a short term pump and dump accumulating to a big profit over all this year.

there are so many different businesses running while using bitcoin and they are more successful than you or circle CEO can ever imagine, there are even similar services as circle's rival that are more successful that them. the fact that they couldn't run a businesses is on their own head not on bitcoin.

if it was possible to make $50 a day with gambling nobody would have ever worked in their lives again, everyone would be gambling and making a living from it all day long.

and besides if there was a 0.0....001% chance that such strategy existed, nobody is going to share it online for free. and they wouldn't have any reason for selling it either.

we are hoping for that and then some more, but come on dude lets be real here. 2017 is only 13-14 days away and there is no way in hell price can go up $120-$130 in this short period unless we hear some crazy news like block size going up in the next 5 days or China announcing bitcoin as their official fiat.

didn't VTA have some sort of blockchain problem, i think it was an attack or some bug exploit?
i am not really following this coin, i just saw the warning on my exchange wallet giving me warning about not depositing.

if the altcoin is not yet released (like the new ones) then you have to wait until there is a wallet then install it and then sync (by downloading its blockchain) and receive your payment.

or if it is a released altcoin already available on an exchange you can go there and make an address and receive your payment.

for more information ask your signature manager or ask the coin developers.


this is an speculation matter. so it is up to your own judgment to hold or sell that coin when you receive it.


see if there is any future to that coin and see if there is a pump on the way or not, then wait for the pump and sell and if you didn't see it just dump as soon as you get it.

again it is up to your judgment. it is all speculation.

it really doesn't matter what people think about POS and whether they like it more or not, what is going to happen is probably a big hype and then followed up by a big pump.

and it has already happened for so much less for example in other altcoins just by releasing a new wallet version price was pumped!

if the government some day decided to make their own coin with a new blockchain (a government controlled altcoin) be sure that they will never allow anyone other than themselves (or the banks) be able to mine it and it surely will be a closed source coin.

this is one of the reasons why they ask for ICO in the first place. developing an altcoin is not really a hard job these days that they need investment pre release!

they take all that money and use to create walls depending on where they want to push the price.

and people are still looking for new ICOs to invest in!!

look at the "volumes" next time you visited wherever you saw the price and it looked dead then you'll understand why it is a sleeping giant. then look up accumulation in trading terminology if you got the time.

and then also zoom out of that chart that you are checking and you see another reason why people call it sleeping giant.

no problem.
about usage i have to say, i don't see it changing a lot because i believe that (just my opinion) more than 80% of people are only investing in bitcoin and only trading it and that 20% are mostly gambling with it and use it a little as currency.

about the change i have to say bitcoin has changed a lot since it was first released. we are using something a lot different than what satishi introduced to us.

Thanks for sharing all this with us too. i'll try to say my opinion on each, hope it is helpful.


i believe ETH price drop was mostly because of the bitcoin price rise which has always meant people cashing out of altcoin market and going back to bitcoin which has always been the go-to coin hence the future of ETH price depends on the near future of bitcoin price, for example if in the next month (Jan) we see $850+ and continue rising i expect ETH to go down to $5

also if bitcoin stops rising and we see Jan to be an stable price like before on 770 is price  altcoins would start moving again and ETH can see another pump and we know those pumps have always been big.


it has already doubled a couple of times, check out last year price. and people like me who bought at $200 have more than triple


i am expecting another period of rising price for this coin again in new year because anonymity is becoming more and more popular.
and monero is getting more famous in darknet.


This is one of those coins that i have been watching and waiting for its rise but it is taking too long, but the only thing that makes me still hopeful is that it has always have big pumps and it can be a lot bigger than 20%

got not much to say here!

one word: China
wait for the big ass pump soon.


lets see how much we are right, i have also already made investments in LTC, ETH and BLK but my percentages are 80% BTC and the rest in altcoins
p.s. waiting for a good time to enter XMR

there are articles on bitcoincore.org about segwit that may interest you to know what is generally going on like this: https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/01/26/segwit-benefits/

but as for other resources that may argue both pros and also cons of segwit and also is not biased i have not seen anything worth mentioning.

no amount of antivirus protection can protect against all the attacks and when it comes to a system with many people accessing it, the problem becomes bigger. because when you are the only user of a computer you can always be careful about what you do but when multiple people have access only one person is enough to be targeted for the infection it can be an email or other methods the hackers use to infect the whole system through an idiotic employee.

dice is only for fun and nothing else, and that is only if you can have fun with that type of game. because this game has a house edge and no matter what strategy i have ever used on this game, nothing ever works and all of them end up same place: a long losing streak that leads to my bankroll empty.

haha, that is true.
but i have been doing some experiments lately (not a long time) with trading during these pumps. and my strategy is to get in during th rise preferably before the top and do some short trades on the way up for some profit, and i have been successful so far, although the length of the time that i am doing this is not long enough to say anything certain about this method but i am happy so far with it.

i am never a fan of investing in ICOs in general. and checking this one out, it seems to be mostly duplicate of what already exists with a bit more complications and mostly hyped up. so no.

and even if i wanted to do it, seeing shill posts like the one posted with a brand new throwaway account above my comment throw me off!

bitcoin price will rise as long as there are people who have not yet invested in bitcoin, in other words it will rise as long as there is more adoption. (the rise in demand with the same amount of supply which is also decreasing in rate)

and that time you are pointing out in your comment that price were falling was because it was in a bubble, a fake price rise that was big, fast and fake created by pumpers known mostly as mtgox so price must have fell back then.

i didn't see anyone mentioning this so i do it here;
for all of those who are interested in selling bitcoin face to face or have done it already i suggest reading this article story about a guy who was robbed in New York at gun point after he sells bitcoin to a shady person face to face:
http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-stolen-new-york-gunpoint-robbery/

and this is not the only one you can search for more stories that has happened so far:
https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+seller+robbed+at+gunpoint

so be careful and try doing the trade in a public place or even a police station and if it was possible take someone with you.

what did you expect?
a bad coin with bad strategy and lots of coin floating around in the market and all those free money giveaways and the dumps, or have we forgotten about that.

there was a time when everyone was talking about steem on this board and how they are going to get rich but they we all dumping in silence.