I've been in this space since 2014. I have always been a Bitcoin Maximalist.  Than 2017 happened, and it was hard not to chase altcoins.  After the hype died down, and the dust settled, I realized that there is room to be a BITCOIN/ETHEREUM Maximalist.  Every other project is a "me too," or a clone, or redundant, or vaporware.  The only two blockchains we need right now are Bitcoin and Ethereum...and we need BOTH! Not just Bitcoin anymore.

I love Bitcoin...LOVE it!  But when it really comes down to it, I use Ethereum in actual, practical use cases.  I recently bought something in USDC...which utilizes Ethereum.  Stablescoins, ICOs, IEOs, SEOs, Defi will be built on Ethereum.

I have fallen in love with Ethereum as hard as Bitcoin, and I see value in both.  Ethereum is extremely elegant, and may end up being more important in this space than Bitcoin one day.  It is the foundation of the Defi movement.

So there can be a category of people who consider themselves BTC/ETH Maximalists.

People always criticize banks, especially here in a forum about cryptocurrencies, anarchism, decentralization, etc. (nothing wrong with that basically). But when they read a news saying banks from a country will be able to use BTC on behalf of the customers you're all praising it
There are too much "it's wonderful news" here. I will bookmark this topic and if I see one of you saying in the future '"not your keys not your coins"' or "don't trust exchanges", and similar adages, I will remember you your double standard and irony.

I know you will keep saying "mass adoption" bla bla bla, which isn't a valid argument. Bitcoin has been doing well without it for a decade.

Well I work in typing captchas, but this work is not profitable, at least it's another extra income for me just to earn some cryptos. I just only work if I have a free time.

How did you got to the calculation of $72 billion? Satoshi's wallets contain a total of BTC980,000. As per the current exchange rates, his stash will be worth $7.1 billion. But that is not all. We are forgetting about all the forked coins, such as BCH, BTG and BTD. His Bitcoin Cash horde will be worth at least $200 million. Bitcoin Gold has gone down in value recently, but even then if he claims the BTG coins, then his stash will be worth another $5.5 million, which is not a small amount.

I spent most of my time doing research on many altcoins, their old price to the present value and i find out that even if you sell your tokens today leaving few tokens worth few dollars for many years can worth something. For example if you left 9$ worth of bitcoin in your wallet since 2012 you would never have imagine what it will become today, in jan 2017 you can buy 5000 pieces of Ripple at 0.007$ which costs 35$ and in jan 2018 a XRP cost 3$ which turns 15000$, there are many examples like this on CMC, remember Tron too? My point is its bad selling off all your coins, if you needed money that bad always leave coins and tokens worth of few dollars left in your wallet just in case

You need to do much more than this. You should setup F2A or email and then carefully read where the coins are going and how many. Double triple quadruple check the address is correct.
You take so long to earn your bitcoins so you don't want to throw them all away in a few seconds. Take as long as you need when making transactions. Saving a few moments not checking things is not worth it.
You do need discipline using crypto, not everyone likes that about crypto and I feel it is one of the reasons people might not want to use it. Fear of losing their money if they buy crypto doing something silly like sending to the wrong address.

That is the reason why we should have control in our emotions. Greediness will not bring a good benefit all the time and it mostly give negative results. If you see that you are gaining from a certain coin or token then you should be thinking of selling it because you might regret it at the end of the day because you expected too much.

in this case, coingecko and coinmarketcap have different requirements to display the price and volume for a coin. but I also use both site for check price and volume coin. although I still use coinmarketc very often, but I also use coingecko quite often because there are some coins that are not listed on coinmarketcap. I am pretty sure that almost all crypto users do this.

Same here mate, though cryptocurrencies are not illegal in my countries still there are no physical store that would accept cryptocurrencies as payment so I need to convert it into our local currency just to use it. But now that this technology are gradually becoming a trend government or some business might consider to accept crypto as payment for their products or service.

It is always moving because the value of Bitcoin is also constantly changing. If you remember the days when you are setting your goal and the value of Bitcoin is still at around $5,000, then you could have thought that 20 BTC is enough. But when the value of Bitcoin is soaring high at $14,000 then your earlier figure will also be changing. That is what is going on here. If Bitcoin will reach $100,000 then perhaps your goal will also change, even reduced at a single BTC already.

I think that projects there do notnhit their sales target because the exchange is now known as the dumping ground where every shit project out there eventually ends up, this is also the case with LAToken exchange, their listing fees are just so tiny and they do absolutely no research before listing project IEOs in their platform, I have even heard and confirmed for myself that P2PB2B exchange actually approach projects (both dying and alive) and ask them to hold their sales in their platform, all for the fees ofcourse.

the problem is that many people think they can produce crypto without work, and even the faucet level requires hard work, even though it doesn't require skill.
Well, if someone wants to join the crypto world deeper and don't have the money to invest, the only thing they need to offer is their services / abilities.  that's the way they work to produce crypto.  nothing is really free injected, everything requires hard work

Bitcoin is definitely not maintained by the Chinese but you, us and myself because the reason why bitcoin still exist till now is that we all choose to use and hold a portion of it. Besides, the governments and the institutions understand this than us which the reason why they make FUD statement in other cause some kind of fear and misunderstand in the crypto community.

The fear of dumping often makes the project team fear or avoid the payment of hunters until sometimes after the exchange listing. I wonder why the team make themselves restless on an easy thing like that when they can easily conduct their bounty with bitcoin or ethereum for payment. That will safe them of the fear that the bounty hunter will dump after the exchange listing.

well, it seems like France will also launch their own cryptocurrency next year. it's funny that just year ago they despise cryptocurrency(article about it) and now they are launching their own cryptocurrency
and even teaching high school students about cryptocurrency(article about it) and preparing them for it. how things have changed in just a year

totally agree, greed is the most dangerous. I get bad experiences from being greedy on trading. I lost a lot of money because I was greedy because I was too confident and had no fear, and sometimes the fear is necessary to avoid something worse.

The increase in bitcoin now brings altcoin to move even though it is very slow but is much better than before, because the increase in the previous bitcoin did not affect altcoin to rise.
and it is possible that increasing bitcoin will now bring the altcoin season back, and in my opinion now is the right time to buy some altcoin that you think has good and profitable potential for the next few months.

Because no one will share their innovations for free.Now huge banks are investing in the development of new technologies.Invite people to work and also free training.Small banks just can't afford it.

Good strategy. By combining the two, like using averaging to get the best price on several levels. Joining during IEO must be very profitable, especially those handled by trusted exchanges such as Binance, Huobi, etc., however, the strength of the project also determines. After official trading, if there is an opportunity to get more profit then do it, especially if demand is high, don't waste it and take advantage of averaging strategies.