it probably has been said a million times:
with bitcoin if you don't control the private keys you don't control the funds.

and you need to contact support and see what has happened.
these are just third party new services that are bound to have bugs and problems like this.

future me called, he wants to thanks for the payment
also i can't find the last sheet being sheet 43, the last one is 42 which belongs to last week.

go back about 2 weeks in the altcoin board and look through the topics that were posted then. with the subject "altcions are in a bubble, be careful". and you'll see what the reason for all these drops are!


good luck. because to me it seems more like the start of the dump of these two. and also pretty soon all the ICO funds will be released to their owners and they won't hesitate to dump it specially since they are seeing the drop and wouldn't want to lose anything.

i personally prefer to stay as active as possible in the altcoin market or i will stay away if i can't for example i am busy and keep my funds in BTC form.
so if you ask me it is best to sell while you are still in a nice profit and don't wait around, and that goes for all the altcoins. then start looking to find where the next profit is located. then invest in that to make more profit while your previous coin (which now you are out of) stays the same or drops. then at the bottom of it you can go back in but never wait around.

first of all i assure you if price were to drop down to $500 you and people like you will never buy it! because the mentality that you use is always going to tell you there is a lower price coming, wait more. and when it reverses and goes back up you still don't buy because you start regretting why you didn't buy and there is no point in buying "overpriced" and this has been the story for years, starting when price was 10 cents!

secondly dropping below $2000 will surprise me, dropping back down to $1500 is nearly impossible, and something ridiculous like $500 will only happen if everyone leaves bitcoin because they don't want to use it anymore in which case price not only won't come back up but also it will decline more.

all of the rest of the crypto are dumping because they were in a big ass bubble and it was time for them to get dumped although not all of them have started their dumping phase yet. so be careful when they start things will get nasty.

as for bitcoin as others have said it is the scaling debate all over again. bitmain post started it and then the idiotic panic started like it always does!

to me it seems like price is stabilizing above $2700 rather than wanting to test $3000 again because we tested that price recently and it didn't work out and because of that the big dump happened (whales saw more rise is not possible so they dumped to make profit by buying at the bottom).

with that said anything is possible i doubt we can see $3000 TODAY! because although the volume is high there are still lots of sells happening too.


please take some screenshot or something and include it next time so we can see what you see.

i would like to hear more details about this research of yours.

as for my opinion, i find Lisk a good project overall. it has a decent developers team but they lack the advertising of their counterparts.

as for investment LSK has gone up from $0.6 (30k sat) to $3.6 (131K sat) and that is already a big rise. and generally i say it is not a good idea to invest in any altcoin after it had a big rise. you'd better wait for a big dip to happen in altcoins then invest.
because chances of rising area lower when they already had a big rally.

i think ethereum is good for bitcoin because as more people fall for the hype of it and then start using it, the network becomes more crowded and the problems will start to show. the fees are already pretty high at $1.5 and things aren't looking good for the currency part of it which people try hard to convince us about it being good!
and when they realize bitcoin with all its higher fees is much better they won't fall for the bullshit in the future altcoins that come out.

that's a long way from now and the price rise due to LTC halving will only happen at least 3 months before the actual date which means if you want to make profit from that particular pump rise it is best to get in by that time and until then use your funds to trade and make profit elsewhere.

the current possible rise however is a different story.

the higher fees started earlier this year when price was still around $1000 and the problem persisted until today in the same manner. and ever since the beginning of this year price has been rising upwards and we are ~150% above the price at the beginning of the year.

this means the higher fees issue didn't have that big a effect on bitcoin price and also what you are calling a "crash" is a simple correction of price as others have also mentioned. and we are still in profit compared to couple of months ago!!

there is a lot of hype circling litecoin and a lot of developing power is being invested in it these days specially from bitcoin developers who are working on the same projects as LTC devs related to SegWit. and for that i can see a rise.

also i find the fact that price has stayed above 0.01BTC price after the dump as a very good sign that there is enough demand for accumulating LTC at this price range. by the time i am writing this price is 0.0108BTC.

with that said i am not suggesting any kind of big investment at this point. everyone is busy with other 1000s of coins, which is why it is best to invest in those that are rising >100% at the moment (such as small altcoins that have not been pumped yet) and enjoy the profits and then invest those profits in LTC by the time it starts rising.

you can always check the coin's website, white paper, source code. and also you can also always search any question you have and read the answer people give on the forum or better answers on stackoverflow.com or stackexchange.com if they have a section (which ethereum has).

and as for your question, yes it is true. ethereum has no cap and currently the mining reward is huge. it is about 25,880 ETH every day and that is 14 times more than bitcoin's daily total reward.

take a look at this for more stats: https://bitinfocharts.com/

this design however is good because ether was never supposed to a currency and was never supposed to be traded like this!
ether is a token which is supposed to be used for smart contracts not as a currency, which is why it needs to be created this much. but when they treat it as a currency and then trade it like that, all the problems with that shows up. the model becomes flawed in this case.

we all know bitcoin is not going to stay number one forever, that is not news to us.
but we also know that none of the altcoins that exist today have the necessary usefulness to be able to compete with bitcoin. and most of them have horrible scaling issues and lots of bugs (including ethereum) that will prevent them from ever gaining any foothold outside of exchanges and outside of trading world.


i am looking at them, ethereum still has to gain an additional $268,709,492,115 to be able to beat number 1 coin in the list. and the number 1 is not even bitcoin
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/views/market-cap-by-total-supply/

only a cryptocurrency can "take" that not a token. and ethereum is NOT a currency.

"ether is not designed to function as a global digital currency. Instead, it is meant to pay for specific actions on the Ethereum network, with users receiving it for using their computing power to validate transactions and for contributing to its development."

also what do you think bitcoin can not function as a currency? the higher fees? do you even know the scaling problems of ethereum?
and i seriously doubt that you are even aware that average transaction fees of ether are now at $1.3 and ether has half the number of transactions per day that bitcoin has!

the Olympics is far away and just a one time (granted big) event in the future. but lets not forget all the tourists that are visiting Japan every day of the year.

according to tourism.jp (the Japan's Tourism Research & Consulting Company) the estimated number of international travelers to Japan in April 2017 reached to 2.6 million and according to Wikipedia Japan attracted 24.03 million international tourists in 2016.

all these people are going to a bitcoin friendly country where they will be introduced to this international cryptocurrency which they can carry with themselves on a small piece of paper or on a small USB like hardware wallet or on their cellphones and nobody can search them in the airport and ask "why are you taking $10,000,000 out of the country with you" because they can't say why you wrote some words (seed) on a piece of paper.

first of all you don't see it because this is "discussion board" and we have a separate board for "speculation". take a look there and you will see topics about ETC.

also i don't get why you are surprised by the rise, 80% with an altcoin standard these days is considered a tiny rise. there are altcoins that are going up 200% at least in 2 or 3 days and they have enough high volume for you to make a profit even if you are investing a large amount of bitcoin.

and as i said before i believe ETC can't grow too big because it has a big enemy called "ethereum foundation" who are against ETC and will never let it grow. we have seen them dump large amounts of ETC which they gained by doubling their stash of multi millions after the fork and nothing is stopping them to do the same again.

bitcoin has been around for about 8.5 years and in the past 8 years it has been functioning very well without any problems (and it still does only with higher fees and no other problem). transactions have always been instant when transaction propagation through the network takes less than 5 seconds and the confirmation took 10 minutes and have been pretty cheap.

but in the past year or so politics, fight over power and greed was mixed with bitcoin. and users never bothered to educate themselves, run nodes, ... and all this idiocy led to what you see as higher fees and call it "sucking" only in the past couple of months.

and it is exactly because bitcoin is decentralized that we are stuck. if it was not, we would have hard forked a long time ago like other shitcoins do left and right.

which is why i disagree with calling bitcoin a "store of value" only because the value of bitcoin comes from millions of merchants accepting it as payment these days.
and that is also why i disagree when people say no altcoin can replace bitcoin, because no existing altcoin can do it but nothing is stopping anyone from creating a more efficient "peer to peer digital cash". and the fact that it has not yet happened has the same reason why bitcoin is in this mess: greed.

unlike satoshi, the altcoin developers don't give a shit about creating a decent decentralized  cryptocurrency. why do you think Vitalik keeps advertising etehreum to banks and has chats with Putin talking about "blockchain technology". they are mostly building up their resume' for future jobs with banking systems to make real money with job security.

because the mountain is strong and won't be destroyed on your head while you are climbing it
but if you go around it (the route of altcoins) there is a high chance of avalanche and you getting buried under the dump. that is why people don't take the altcoin route, as for mining you still need cheap electricity and willingness to put a lot of pressure and work on your GPU

your numbers are far off the mark. i dare say the number is even in the millions now. 50,000 is just too small. earlier this year Coinbase claimed to be handling 45,000 merchants alone. and that is just one Coinbase, you should add bitpay and all the rest who are directly accepting bitcoin.

also there are only about 300,000 stores in Japan that are currently accepting bitcoin.