not at all. ethereum is not being used by ANY company or any real thing in the real world! the only usage for ethereum has been using it for ICOs so far to create some revenue for the creators and those who invest in those ICOs and trade ethereum itself (the pump and dump).

the only "companies" relationship of ethereum has been those big names who showed interest in the technology not ethereum itself. and they (like Microsoft) will soon create their own copy of it completely disconnected from ethereum. and improved version if you will.

bitcoin is a currency that is in its initial steps of being mass adopted as a currency! and that makes it the number 1 coin. and for that reason ethereum won't even come 10% close to bitcoin's position ever. not in a million years.

but i know that none of the ethereum shills are even remotely interested in real world usage and only are interested in market cap!
so here is that calculation for you:
bitcoin market cap is currently about $71,118,159,376
and ethereum market cap is currently about $28,814,068,277

ethereum can easily release 138,337,819 new ether tokens and with the same price reach the bitcoin's market cap like what they did with the 72 million premined ETH. if they don't change the supply, with the current rate it will take about 90 years to reach bitcoin's market cap.

also if we consider price then eth only needs to be worth $755.97 to reach bitcoin's market cap.
that is how fake the market cap is. you can easily manipulate it with your fake supply (premined) and have a bigger market cap than bitcoin with a pathetically low price.

in other words BCash is a centralized manipulated altcoin which is getting pumped by a handful of billionaires. this is what your statement means anyways!
and i weep for the day that such thing is called "bitcoin" or even considered an option by real people!!!

the "bitcoin for money laundering" argument is getting too old now. it is almost as old and dumb as the "bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme" argument.
and the author of such articles will only make themselves look foolish when they publish such things in 2017 while people are using bitcoin on physical shops all over Japan to purchase stuff tax free.

i am well aware of the account level thing. but calling it XP points sounds like an RPG game where you kill monsters to get XP (experience) to level up and get stronger

as for how much it is needed, i have never found a list of how much it is required for each level but you can always check how much more "XP" is needed for your next level only. just go to STATS and click on LEVEL, you can see a small message open up and sow you how much more is needed and how much is left to the next LEVEL.

and XP is the amount you wager by the way. for example if you wager 0.01BTC you go to level 2 and so on.

use trusted sources for finding the real source

for example when you are searching for an altcoin's wallet look for its announcement on bitcointalk (this forum) and in that announcement you can see the real links to download the wallets.
also usually the exchanges have the links to these things too. for example they give you the announcement topic link, the link to their website, or the github repository. you can use those links instead of searching.
also there is coinmarketcap.com which lists almost all the altcoins that exist and in each page of them, it has the links you are looking for.

the final supply of Byteball has always been fixed, it has never changed and supply is not "expanding". you are confusing the sell pressure because some people got free coins with having a big supply.

1) since the distribution is based on how many people holding how much bitcoin and byteball claim the distribution, it is impossible to tell for sure when it is going to end. but based on how things are going and how interest has grown, probably 2-3 round until the end.
2) 10^15 bytes (1 gigabyte is 1 billion bytes) = 1 Mil GBYTE (for comparison's sake bitcoin has 21 mil BTC max)

bitcoin didn't split, bitcoin is still bitcoin as before with the majority support from everyone.
what happened was that a small group of people forked off from bitcoin. and that can happen anytime, in fact a lot of altcoins have forked off of bitcoin in the past. there is currently at least one other called bitcore or something like that (BTX) which is a snapshot of bitcoin blockchain and is worth about 50K satoshi.


currently it is may seem hard to choose an altcoin to invest in but if you look for altcoins that have not been pumped your search is automatically narrowed down to a handful of coins and you can make a good profit from them.

what are XP points? is it something new?!!

if by any chance you are talking about your level and how you can rank up to higher ones then any bet will count towards that even a 1 satoshi bet in dice. it is the total that matters and the smaller your bets the longer it will take for you to get there.

i don't have much hope for more ETH price rise, and even if it has the rise will be small. it is over pumped right now which makes the further pumps much harder.

but for NEO since it is kind of a fresh coin in the market despite not being quite new, i have high hopes. NEO has just started rising and has the potential to go higher, and with all the hype that this coin is receiving these days, pumping it would be very easy as there is a good high demand for it.

no, that altcoin short rise was because they reached their bottom!
when an altcoin gets dumped very hard, the price drops fast and big, this means a good opportunity to pick up some cheap coins to sell on the recovery. some people call this a dead cat bounce. you wait for the dump to stop and price to reach the bottom and start buying that altcoin, then in about half a day or so you sell as it recovers for a nice little profit.

for example ETH had about 7-8% recovery today which i enjoyed the profit of.

because it is not one person/whale or 1 group of whales doing it, there are many traders and many whales and many groups in each market who are placing buy and sell orders. what you saw may have been 2 whales going against each other.

it is also possible that what you are calling a "wall" is simply a large amount in multiple orders on the same price and not exactly a wall. a wall for manipulation purposes is usually huge, as big as 500BTC or ~$2 mil and it may very well be poloniex itself placing those fake walls.

nobody could predict the 2013 pump's top because it was a fake pump not a rally. this here is not a pump anymore today. it is a rally. if someone predicted 2013 then he made a lucky guess and this time by extension he is trying to do the same.

we currently have the October 2x drama on the way and that can decide the fate of bitcoin for this year depending on which way it will go. and because it has a large miner support it will be different than BCC.

this is a good point, i see every day that new people are complaining that they can not afford to buy bitcoin because it is >$4000 and they have been complaining about it ever since $1200ish. if we start using other units that are smaller and more importantly make them popular, issues like this will no longer happen.
you can buy 25000 satoshi with $1 and that is what we should advertise instead.

it is impossible to tell you what to do at this point but i am just going to point out your mistake i hope you don't mind.

your first mistake was buying an altcoin in its bubble near the top of the bubble.
your second mistake was holding it, although its price was falling hard against bitcoin (nearly 0.1BTC fell down to 0.06BTC) and you have nearly lost half of your investment depending on the price you bought at.

what you should do is that first never buy an altcoin in its bubble. and second is to dump it if you reached your stop loss limit (you should have a stop loss too).

right now it is once more hard to predict bitcoin. it can go up to $5500 and then have its correction. or it can stop here and have its correction now. and each of these means a different thing for you.
in first case if you sell now you will save yourself a lot of loss.
in second case if you sell now you will lose on your removing losses because eth will probably recover a bit if bitcoin stops rising.

here is what usually happens:
- bitcoin goes up > altcoins get dumped
- bitcoin dumps > altcoins get dumped harder
- bitcoin stays stable > altcoins get pumped

you should hope for the third option to happen. and the reason for it is very simple, in both first 2 options traders are always in bitcoin market either picking up cheap coins or making profit or shorting,...

but when option #3 happens, they look for an alternative way of making money. and that would be altcoin market and the pumps in it.

it is the bubbles bursting once again. you seem to have forgotten how all this was started. let me remind you.

when bitcoin had issues about its scaling and the war was at its worst in the early 2017, the altcoins used this to start pumping. you can still find the topics saying "blank is going to replace bitcoin because bitcoin can not do blah blah and it is dropping down to $10".
so idiots who read these topics rushed to invest and dumped their bitcoin and bitcoin price went down while whales were accumulating bitcoin.

now that idiots know what they have read was big lie, and as they got dumped on and lose money in altcoins and also lost the chance to buy bitcoin, they are now dumping their altcoins to go back to bitcoin. that causes bitcoin price to go higher and alts get dumped hard.

for the near future i expect the same price more or less with possibly some drops as dumps happen.
after it, specially with bitcoin rise slowing down at some point in the future, it can get pumped. and i am actually expecting a very widespread (spam)advertising of BCC as the spam attack on bitcoin starts to get severe again (the spam attack has already started and mempool is big again).
on top of it we have the 2 MB hard fork which will be Aug 1st crap all over again...

bitcoin is not the first "crypto currency"
there were a couple of others before bitcoin that nobody remembers anymore!

and no, i have always said from day 1 that bitcoin will never replace, dominate,... fiat currencies. it is impossible to do so. bitcoin is global, fiat is local. also there is a government behind the fiat who won't give up control over their country's fiat currency to be replaced by the decentralized bitcoin!

most of the times when bitcoin price is rising like it has been rising in the past few days, the altcoins crash hard. and that is in both BTC and USD value. remember that this is happening in 99% of the times not always.
so it is best to stay away from trading most of the altcoins at times like these and start focusing your attention on bitcoin or just stay away and hodl.

but as you can see bitcoin stopped rising, at least for a short time, and this can mean altcoins are again going to show some movements specially those that crashed hard will recover some of their price. you can use this opportunity to make some profit in a very short time.