It's probably a good idea for any person speculating on Bitcoin price to set sell spots at no more than -10% of what they bought in for. So that would be $5,400 if they bought in at $6,000... always good to have a plan, and you can always buy back in if your investment dropped by 10% but at least you're not getting killed in the streets when you lose 30-40% which seems regular these days.

It is summer so part of me wants to believe that it is just some vacation that MadZ is taking and doesn't have computer access well, because vacation. That's really the only thing I could think of that would lead them to not even log in. We are used to a little delay in this campaign but even then MadZ was logging in every day.  And you're right now it's about 3 weeks behind in a couple days...

All ICO's are securities because they are being issued by a specific entity. My guess is the FEDs are going to be less strict on Bitcoin and Ethereum because they are not issued but earned by anybody. But they'll come down had on ICO's, and hopefully they do because all this garbage on the forum and elsewhere is really annoying to have to see. ICO's in general are complete garbage.

It could make a lot of sense financially, and probably would launch the entire market into a huge bull rally. However, it would basically be like a second Google stock as they would need to register the coin with the SEC, and of course Google would do this because they are a giant and not wanting to break laws like that. I doubt they will release their own coin though.

I read that a Bitcoin exchange in South Korea has apparently been a victim of a hack or something like that. Not only that bad press and negative news, the 1day trading charts were in an overbought state which would indicate a selloff that could happen. It's not altcoins specifically, it is the entire market that goes red.

I'd say very rarely does a bounty ever increase in value after it has been released or whatever, but that's pretty good to hear that at least some do go up in value. My sentiment is that most if not all bounties are just a cash grab by people. Both the devs who are probably trying to cash out on an ICO and the people who join the bounty to try and get some cash real quick with low tier accounts.

My strategy for when the market is red is to first of all not have to have a strategy because I would have been responsible with my holdings up until this point so I would have a sell target in mind and a stop target in mind to prevent wild swings. But if I really had to go through a red market like this, I would opt to hold based on the currency charts.

The cryply.exchange website SSL certificate has expired 7 days ago, just thought I'd let you know if you didn't know already. This gives a pretty nasty page from browsers saying that the site isn't safe just because the cert is expired. Looks really bad to new people that may not understand that. Anyways glad mining is doing ok and what is this about a hard fork date? For what?

No, it is definitely pretty stable around $6,500 for the last few months. As well, the market was just at like $10,000. All of these things are normal cycles of Bitcoin market, I'd suggest you check previous years month by month to see it is normal behavior, although different prices it is at. Just like at the end of the year it is typically pumped or gains value...it loses early.

No, it won't rise because of some sporting event that people bet on. I'm sure it's big for the bookies and other websites that do cryptocurrency betting but the actual market won't be effected unless there is some advertisement during very popular games, which in that case it would be really good publicity.

We haven't actually broken the bear market yet, all the little rallies and stuff has most likely just been trading within a downward channel. It should be pretty well known that Q4 of markets is definitely a big quarter, and maybe since last year it might go up in Q4 just because the fact that it did so well last year... I imagine a lot of people like seasonal investments. Typical cycles

Basically it's like an emerging market so it is extremely volatile. There can be bad press releases and media articles of exchanges being hacked, regulations that can hinder growth, all sorts of things that are seemingly negative while not really effecting Bitcoin very much.  Eventually the market becomes oversold and so there will be a short or long rally. Also the different quarters play a factor.

Thanks I logged in and verified it had all the specs of 8gb ram, 4 cpu etc. and started a miner on it. So we'll see if this is mining friendly for a few days but as of now the vouch copy sent is performing well as expected. I do like the provider the OP is using as well and OP's servers are discounted nicely from the provider's. So as of now the service is good and we'll see what state the VPS is in, in a few days.

Hey there I'd like to take a vouch copy if you are willing. A VPS that is allowed mining is pretty interesting and new, as most services just cancel and ban after even the slightest hint of mining or using resources to that level what package do you give out for a free test? Anyways, PM me the details if you want!

It's really hard to keep motivation for being in this campaign that's for sure. I wonder why this delay has happened and even MadZ activity has decreased by a lot lately, coming on another 3 day period of no-login. Spreadsheet has no week 6, market is entirely in the red lately. Feeling pretty down right now personally.

It only makes a difference if the price goes up, but realistically it should considering how drastic the recent selloff from a south korean exchange being hacked was (Bitcoin news). All depends on BTC price to be honest. Volume is still massive for this coin, and idk what MadZ is doing but I'm pretty sure we'll be paid eventually, however long that could take  

It could happen but there are quite a few with communities large enough that actually reaching 0 will be impossible because there will always be somebody wanting to buy thousands of dollars worth at say $1 or less. Then all the supply would become centralized to that person and if they aren't selling then it would never hit 0.

It's easier for countries to recognize Bitcoin as an asset to regulate it. It also has the under handed way of saying that it isn't a currency and that they won't recognize it as a currency, probably because once it starts to be recognized as a currency then it may devalue the other currencies and legitimize Bitcoin in a new way.

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I think the government making it illegal, in whichever country it would be, would sort of validate that Bitcoin is useful for specific things, even if most of the things it is useful for would be facilitating crime. They probably think they would be much better off securing the exchanges and all those things to make sure it's traceable rather than outlaw it.