Today! Yes, you heard me right. If I had any more money that I had to put into bitcoins, I would be buying them in installments starting from today. This way if the coin drops down, I can average down my buying price but at the same time if it rises, I would have atleast bought some coins.

If no one would use bitcoins then there would be shortage in circulation and demand would not be easily fulfilled which should lead in raise in the price of bitcoins in global market.

A couple of hundred dollar fluctuation and people start shouting that bitcoin is dead. I wonder if if these are the same people who call it a bubble when there is spike of almost 4000USD in less than 6 months?

Is there anywhere I can see that how long does it takes for the ranks to promote?

Well, nothing was great about the boutny that was paid. Firstly they behaved as if they were giving bounties to beggers and that we did not deserve any of it. Secondly, looks to like they diverted the tokens, look at how the number of tokens given yo bounty members are mostly in 4 digits towards the end of the bounty distribution- https://etherscan.io/tokentxns?a=0xf0f8c14a1a6202e89e61f514bb958433fc227f53&p=1
I personally talked with most of the members in the bounty program, and only 1 member has participated in the custom big posts for bitcointalk that were valued at 10 stakes per post. Thieves stole from us for all the hardwork that we did. Facebook and twitter is also manipulated. They kicked out 1 person who was asking ques and could not give a convincing answer to anyone who raised the issue(everyone did). At some instances, bounty was decreased to 1/3rd or even 1/5th. Looks like they got greedy and diverted 60-70% of bounty tokens to their own accounts. If they did not cook their books, they can easily prove by making the database public, which they are not gonna do coz they are guilty of FRAUD.

I am sure that they cooked the books. The ICOREWARD people, not BMC in particular.  They have been kicking people out of their telegram chat who raise questions about the fairness and transparency of bounty distribution. The stakes were inflated on purpose in the last weak so that not many tokens have to be given to bounty hunters. I suspect and my calculations and also the calculations made by other bounty members and also posted by one of them in the icoreward telegram chat shows that they have decreased the tokens for bounty members by 1/3rd, and inflated the stakes 3x to do so. When you ask them about it, they say that the entire mechanism which was built earlier was made for 3 categories and they had to redo it for 6 categories(those who are in the bounty will understand what i am talking about). However, if you ask them to make the database of posts public, so that it can be audited by one of the community members, they avoid the question and do not reply to it. A few people who were persistent in asking the fairness of distribution were even kicked out of the chat. Even worse is the attitude of ICOREWARD team, one of their team members called the bounty members as, "Blood sucking wives who are getting greedy". The BMC community manager had to intervene and then the above comment was deleted from the chat. To summaries, BMC guys are genuine, but the ICOREWARD team has diverted the tokens to other accounts those do not belong to any of the bounty members who actually participated in the campaign.
BEWARE OF JOINING ANY OF THE CAMPAIGNS BY ICOREWARDS. THEY ARE NOT TRUSTWORTHY

Although I am a noob but i have done my research, I would be buying waves tokens for all the money i had that i intended to put into crypto. Will all the partnerships that are coming in future, this is going to cross 50USD in 8-10 months for sure.

Why not use any of the exchanges to convert the eth in usd and then transfer that into your bank account? I have also heard that there is a large group of people who do OTC trading also.

I think that if they make public the stakes and everything, all doubts will be gone. I genuinely like the team. I was in the facebook bounty.

Would you use escrow and prove that the accounts are your own? Also what all details will be provided?

Could you verify that the accounts are your own. Would you use escrow? Would you provide email details associated with the accounts?

What kind of precautions should be taken? I often read that people get scammed. Also what is a signed bitcointalk address, i have seen some people ask for this before buying an account. recommended escrow to use when buying an account?

Does anyone got an idea that how much they charge per bounty? I am interested to get an idea about this.

If bitcoin introduces the smart contracts then I think the value of Etherium might dip. Etherium was solely built because bitcoin did not have smart contracts.

Doge is not dead but completed its market cycle and is in accumulation zone. If you are owning some doge, my suggestion would be to keep patience as it will definitely spree high and give nice returns in coming months.

Both Etherium and Bitcoin has proved their track record and been in the crypto universe for a long time now. These both for me are definitely long plays.

I am a newbie but I would be looking at the background of the people who are associated with the ICO and see how they have performed in their previous jobs or projects. Also whitepaper is a good source to see their vision.

Some people including me have multiple myetherwallets as if one accounts is lost to a hacker or for some other reason the private key is lost, we do not end up loosing all our ERC20 tokens. The same goes for bitcoin wallets.

As most of the members have already pointed out, stakes are used to award people who participate in campaigns and then further divided as per a formula that the campaign manager has predetermined to further awards tokens to participants.

why are you interested in pump groups? They will only lead in you loosing you valued bitcoins. Please stay away from them. It only benefits the group owners, not the general members