A lot of us have acquired the activity we need to rank up, but do not have the post quality required to receive enough merit to gain our new ranks.  We are the first of the merit refugees, who missed the boat to rank up in time before the merit system was implemented.

Anyone else here a merit refugee? Should we form a club? Not to be hostile to anyone here, I think the forum does a great job and the merit system is great, however reality is what it is, and we are the refugees and will probably be stuck at our current ranks forever. So perhaps we can at least find solace in one another.

Who is with me here, I say?

Can I ask, did you get into UCASH before its boom or after? If before, congratulations, how did you recognize this ICO? If after.. why? What makes you believe in it exactly?

Would you expect anything less from someone who did a hard fork to his own blockchain to reverse a transaction? Of course he will make the rules up as he goes. This is why ETH cannot be taken seriously as a long-term blockchain. It is only a temporary solution for ICO fund-raising. Once another platform takes that place, it will die off quickly due to its poor reputation and inability to keep promises.

I wasn't an ICO investor in ETH unfortunately, but I'd be rightly pissed if I was lied to about the total supply.

How does the OP here have only 5 merit from this post? This represents everything wrong with the merit system. He predicted the actual crash of the crypto market! Incredible. Well done.

I notice the bounty dump lowered the price of this token a fair bit on IDEX. Hopefully the team can release some good updates re: the alpha to restore this to ICO value.

That's actually a nice bot, I hope you can keep it free indefinitely somehow. Perhaps via donation?

The prices will all depend upon whether the TRON network is crippled like ETH was during cryptokitties. If it's not, then TRON has demonstrated a superior tech, and the price can only go up. If the same thing happens, TRON will remain the same.

If there's any pre-mine the entire project is useless since they can't claim it's "the original BTC" if there's a pre-mine. However if there isn't, then the team must be respected. It's cheaper and faster to transfer BCH than BTC currently. Hopefuly BTC core will up its game soon.

Exactly. But I'd recommend also cashing out a tiny bit extra, just for the psychological "I profited from all this" whist you still have "free" coins more or less remaining.

Could someone kindly enlighten me as to how this works? Why would someone borrow ETH when they hold greater collateral in another coin which they could just sell on an exchange for ETH?

Why not? Whilst BTC is great for what it's done, why rubbish new and better development teams that are aiming to do more things with blockchain that the core team cannot? Blockchain would not be where it is today if the only two coins around were BTC and LTC. The next-gen blockchains owe a huge amount to the shoulders of the giants they stand on, but the technology of blockchain must move forward.. it cannot be gridlocked by politics and inefficiency of a single project.

Despite all the hype there has been surrounding crypto, it is still under 1 trillion USD marketcap. This shows that we're all early adopters and the market has a lot of room for growth.

Of course PureGold because I've researched it and found it has a company already in Singapore according to the website. This ICO is unheard of mostly so it's potentially a lucrative gem. Why not diversify a little too?

I think $0.05. By then a proper scaling coin would have gained its place and have a much higher market cap.

You're right that there have been some serious issues with cryptopia lately, but at the end of the day they are a NZ registered organization so the liklihood of an exit scam is low.. unless the owner wants to fly off and retire in Thailand.

The bounty campaign is inactive it seems however they do occasionally reply in e-mail.

It's well known in crypto that these latest investors since mid-July last year haven't even researched what crypto is, they just see Bitcoin in the news, with talks of it hitting 100k, and want to gamble with it. If they took the time to realize the implication blockchain will have to our future as a society they wouldn't sell at a loss.

It of course depends on the alt. You need to research it to verify whether it's legitimate or a scam. If it's legitimate and has a decent roadmap with goals that will monetize the token you're holding then hodling it isn't dangerous.

Is this true regarding the huge pre-mine allocated to the founding team?

To answer your question quite literally, yes I agree they did ban promotion of ICOs, since it's in their official press release that they did. How could anyone not agree?

I think you meant to ask "do you agree with facebook banning all that promote icos and bitcoin?" (still not perfect, but the intention is clearly understandable here).

If that was your question, then no, I don't agree with their decision.