some people  can't understand what trading is and how people are making profit. they expect to see a straight line up without any fluctuations on the way. and when they check the price or a chart they see some zig zags and think everything is over

you need to check some numbers and some of the behaviors from the days the spam attack happened with the days that there were no spam attack and you can understand where you are wrong.
one of the good sites that gives you some visual aid is http://statoshi.info check the memory pool and how it changes at times of spam attack, it is impossible to miss!

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ArtByte value was 18 satoshi 1 year ago today (on 25 February 2016) and it is worth 18 satoshi on today (25 February 2017)
This chart you have put here is showing the price starting from 1 January 2017 meaning less than 2 months and you keep saying a year!

and next time try to include a better chart from bittrex. the coinmarketcap charts are pretty terrible.

what do you mean it is "simply numbers"? i think you misunderstood the whole meaning of cryptocurrencies and i suggest you check out how these coins work so that you may stop thinking of then as "just numbers" on your screen.

and if you want to invest then invest in bitcoin. it is the main thing and the most strong one. the majority of the rest which are called altcoins are weak, useless and pump and dumps. there are a couple of good ones but they are not as strong as bitcoin.
divide your investment, mostly in bitcoin then among a couple of alts.

from the Poll options i have chosen the "Contests" because the rest of them are very bad and i am surprised why the others have chosen other choices more.

Deposit bonuses on sites, have always been terrible without an exception. you can never withdraw those things no matter how good they may look like. which is why there is no point in signing up on a new site for these types of bonus.

Special giveaways to the best gamblers: this is also bad since you are talking about another site. because you would never be the "best" when it is a new site since there have been lots of others. and you need to be a very large amount on a new site!!!

Lotteries: this is the worst of all in my opinion. the chances of winning is super low while the winning amount is always low too when you compare it to the chance. and then there has never been a good one that is fair either.

prices like this which are pretty low are all about chances. yes in the long term and when you look at the bigger picture a $900 price at this point is pretty stupid but we are still relying on small exchanges with thin orderbooks with lots of panic sellers and lots of whales who manipulate.

the chance of this is only there if we see another 100KBTC hack and the ETF disapproval at the same time. otherwise it is zero.

this was a big and fast rise, and every time there is the same situation happening it is followed by a correction. and right now we are on the rise but soon we will see that correction and i expect it to come before the ETF decision.

if ETF is approved, because of correction everyone has accumulated more and cheaper coins and price rises even faster.

if ETF is not approved then correction becomes bigger and you can get even cheaper coins before the continuation of the rise. but i suppose the correction period can be prolonged that way.

i wouldn't call that "faith", it is an educated investment. and stockholders don't keep a thing, they keep whatever they find profitable.
investing in bitcoin is an educated investment.
investing in this gold (pun intended) is dumb faith

no it can not "kill the altcoins" if anything it will make them hotter, because majority of altcoins are used for pump and dump and in order to help us make more bitcoin and with higher price bitcoin it means we make higher amount of money.
and altcoins will survive and die regardless of bitcoin price, they die when their pump-ability is exhausted.


this only means you are not following good altcoins.
for example here is Monero last month:

both of you are saying two different things and neither of you are making any sense at all.
you should read my previous comment in this topic to see what i mean.

you can open up a price chart once and check it against bitcoin price chart and see what is happening in different coins during each rise an fall. but rememebr to check both their altcoin/btc and altcoin/usd market.

did i just click on memespeculation board!

the thing nobody sees right now, is that everybody involved with bitcoin will see the consequences of this. the spam attack and the ever rising fees plus no change whatsoever in blocksize debate is harming the bitcoin users right now and miners are happy about the extreme amount of profit they get out of this right now. but it won't last forever.
these actions are harming bitcoin and they don't realize this.
i don't like saying this and it will be a long way down the line but people will eventually start thinking about alternatives to bitcoin.

just like earning anything else you have to find someone who is willing to "pay" you in Ethereum for the job you are doing for him.
now this job can be simple mindless things that many do such as a faucet worker or captcha filler and wasting your time for pennies. or it can be any other kind of job such as painting someone's house and then getting paid in Ethereum.
but again you have to find someone who is willing to pay you with that altcoin and good luck finding someone who even knows about ETH and has it anywhere other than his exchange account.

is it just me or is the article vague and weird?
he says "i was one of the early investors before 2013 when price was $100" and i understand that he made a large investment at that price.
the he continues by saying:

what does that even mean? just because some other group of people bought bitcoin at $0.1 and less doesn't mean HE didn't make a fortune!
someone who has bought right before the Mtgox pump at $100 has obviously made 1100% profit in a very short time.
all i can see is him crying that he made 1100% profit in half a year while others made 10 times that amount in 3 years! i wish i could be sad about such profits in such short period of time!!!!

then in the end
this is bullshit.
faith is only for idiots and old women in a nunnery.
you need knowledge and experience to be successful.

i hate to admit this but i am also the exact same way. well maybe not with that much intensity but i certainly am a bit nervous whenever it comes to gambling and taking bigger risks. specially if i have some considerable amount of bitcoin on the line.
i don't care at all when i am using an autopilot mode with 1 satoshi bets
but when it comes to a bigger bet size, it is sometimes nerve wrecking, but it is a fun kind of nervousness not a bad kind that is why i kinda like it.

also you forgot to say that Btc-e (which has nothing to do with China by the way since it is probably Russian) is always lagging behind like a limp person!
for some reason people don't buy as fast and as much bitcoin on btc-e and it can be possibly because of the money deposit/withdrawal fees they have because i don't honestly see anything wrong with their platform and they way they respect the anonymity of their users.

dude, using bitcoin does not magically exclude you from paying taxes. you are still living inside a country and have to follow the rules of that county, which means you have to report your to the taxman otherwise he is gonna get you
and if you pay lots of taxes just for using fiat services such as banks it doesn't mean the rest of the word do to!

if you don't believe it and also think you are anonymous then check out who BurtW is and what happened to him. a little help: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=934268.0

unless you already have another $10K invested in bitcoin alone, then you are taking a ridiculous amount of risk and lose lots of money if you invest in altcoins only.

if i had $10K to invest. $8K would have been invested in bitcoin and the rest of the $2K would have been altcoin trading. and i say trading because i would never hold altcoins as long term investment that would be silly.

and among altcoins my first choice is always Monero which you missed out on.
then it would be Litecoin specially pre-SegWit and pre-pump to the moon.
and them any other altcoin as long as i can catch them before pump.

chances of being "more good"
and i agree with this matter. analysis will make your chances of winning better. specially in games such as sports betting where you need to analyze the history of the teams and their current status.
this shouldn't be mistaken with a guaranteed win, because it is improving chances of winning to guaranteeing your win.