I just find it amusing that the lead developer of Iota somehow has time to waste trolling people on this forum, I literally don't remember him ever posting more than a one or two sentence insult.  How am I suppose to take a developer seriously when they consistently act like a 14 year old on a public forum?

The Dev isn't a total cunt, they've got that going for them

Aaaaand the notice is gone, what'd I tell ya

A whale is a person with a large enough portion of a coin's supply to move the price down at will.  You don't necessarily need to have a large $ amount attached to that.  For example if I own 5% of a $1 million MC coin, I am a whale for that coin, even though that is only 50k in value and very small in the grand scheme of things.  So for bitcoin at this point you need 10's or even 100's of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin to be considered a whale.

LTC is about to pump through the teeth

Please explain then why Poloniex is the only exchange that is currently having issues.

Note that this warning message about LTC on Poloniex is complete bullshit.  Everything is fine and nothing is broken, and uncertainty about bitcoins future is going to send a massive surge of capital into LTC.  Poloniex is literally just trying to scare people into dumping, all of the other exchanges are running LTC just fine, and the pools are still going, chain is fine.

I briefly went on this channel, everyone there was hyping up BAT... not exactly filled to the brim with crack traders.  Matter of fact the only trader besides myself I've seen that actually seems somewhat competent is CryptoHunter, and he sticks to BTCT.  Everyone else just momentum trades and fail look at the fundamentals, buying whatever is popular at the time.


This group is a huge waste of time, populated mostly by shills and noobs.

ZK proofs are the most secure form of anonymity that exists, nothing else matches them in terms of anonymity provided, and yes that includes Monero (though Monero has other things going for it, it is still a good project).

Many ZK coins out there, such as; ZCash, ZCoin, ZClassic, ZenCash, Hush, and my personal favorite Komodo (everyone seems to forget that Supernet is still a thing.).  There are probably others that I am not thinking of or am not aware of, do some reading and take your pick.

If another PoW coin became more secure than Bitcoin, then it would make sense.

No idea, maybe you can find an answer in one of the 2 dozen threads that have basically asked the same exact question made in the last 24 hours

Well, if we are going to go by fib levels this dump could keep going for a bit and bottom out around the 40-50k range.  Long term still feel great about this coin so I'm not going to try and play the dip; I'll just hold through any volatility, for months or even years maybe.

Summer is just getting started my friends.  This thread will likely be relevant in ~2 months

I remember Spoetnik said something really interesting about a year or so ago.  He said roughly that because the main source of new money in altcoins comes from millennials, that altcoins will go into a bear market when they all go back to school.

Seemed to be surprisingly spot on because after Monero and a few other anon coins got pumped in early September the alt market went mostly dead for several months.  Might happen again this year too, we'll see.

When in doubt, BTFD (buy the fucking dip).

Pump groups are for dumbasses and sociopaths, which are you?

If it happens it will only be on paper due to how centralized Eth's supply is.  Bitcoin remains as the principal unit of exchange for the entirety of the altcoin market, and unless that changes  bitcoin will effectively remain the #1 crypto currency, regardless of what sits next to #1 on coinmarketcap.

Also all I see from the Ethereum camp is ICO after ICO with a load of empty promises; no realistic scaling solution or use case, just a bunch shady institutional investors and a cult of personality around a Russian nerd that is also the son of an oligarch, it is a bubble plain and simple.  Is the bubble done blowing up? I have no idea, for all I know this is only the start; but I do know one thing, it will end up being the second South Sea Bubble if it keeps going the way it is going, and that is not something we should be supporting.

I don't think the "gold standard" exists yet.

Yes!  Been watching this one, everyone is letting it go by the wayside; I assume because everyone is butthurt about the Polo entrance pump, but looking past that I can't find any red flags with the project.

fair mining? check
scalability? check
original codebase? check
non-anonymous dev? check

an 11 million market cap is too small for this cat.

Another I've been looking at is Hush.  Their dev is non-anonymous and I believe helped write Linux compatibility for ZCash and the ZCash devs used his code, which would suggest the guy has some idea of what he's doing.  That one is really low, only 2.5 million MC, unfortunately not on any exchanges that I trust.

Either of these might be good for mining as well if your into that

This x1000, you could have made millions, and still can, just by doing your research and investing in coins that are building towards an actual use case and don't have centralized distributions.  But no, people would rather buy scams and hope that The Greater Fool Theory makes them money.

/smh