no, it is no that easy at all!
each of these different wallets use a different method of generating a seed (recovery phrase or whatever each of them call it). which means you should know which derivation path they used for it to be able to recover your private keys. otherwise importing the seed you may end up having a whole different set of addresses.

there is also  the fact that if you have created another sub-wallet in your account using the same seed. then the derivation path will have a /1/ or /2/ and so on at the end and again you end up with a whole set of different keys.

i just want to add that when you diversify you should be extra careful not to over do it.

i am speaking from personal experience that when you diversify specially when you are investing in altcoins it is easy to lose track and invest in a very large number of altcoins and you end up having lots of different alts and most of them are useless and lose price.
the bigger problem is that it becomes impossible to have all of them under close observation at all time so you may lose track and with it money.

what i do is that i obviously invested in bitcoin and as for altcoins i keep the number to a handful so it is easy to handle.

hard fork in general can be good and bad.
good if it is a needed upgrade of example, and if it can get the majority of the network to support that hard fork. it can help bitcoin be improved and become better.

but it is bad in general because hard fork means all the network should upgrade and that is a hard thing to do in a decentralized system and also hard forks have their risks too.
and if it can not get the majority support then there is no point in forking anyways. it becomes more damaging than anything else.

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since market cap doesn't mean anything, so yes it is possible. if it weren't then XRP could have never rise nearly 7000% this year! it has the biggest market cap of all coins.

i am not familiar with SALT though, but a look at the charts it looks pretty pump-able to me. and it not being so popular means it is even easier to pump it that much.

since bitcoin gold is mostly a joke with a huge amount of premine and nobody even takes it seriously then talking about "priced in" and talking about price as if it is BTC+BTG price is meaningless!

BTG will create an obvious altcoin, like others. and your question is like asking what will bitcoin price be when next altcoin or next ICO comes out!!!

it is a very risky move "now".
looking at bitcoin charts, we already can see a big rise in bitcoin which ended up setting a new ATH for bitcoin. and now price is in consolidation phase. there may be wild fluctuations and some testing of bottom resistance.
in other words price may go down. so if you want to buy just to get the BTG reward you may lose some money. for example if you buy at $5500 price may go down to $4990
on top of it BTG price may not be as big as you'd expect it to be since it is not even half hyped as BCH!

it is always pretty hard to choose an altcoin for "long term". they are not known for good performance in long term. everyone wants to get their money out as fast as possible and as you can see every time bitcoin fluctuates altcoins are dumped hard.

if i had to choose, i would choose 2 coins: litecoin and monero.
LTC because it is the brother to bitcoin and keeps rising with it.
XMR because it is a well known anonymous coin which is popular and had a very good and stable price.

i am also looking more into coins that you can stake but i am a bit disappointed in their prices in long run which means you can not make decent profit from them.

ALWAYS make sure to visit the official website of these coins. for bitcoin gold it is https://btcgpu.org/ anything else may be giving you malware to steal your bitcoins and other sensitive information.

and so far BTG only has its full node wallet. and since they are forking from bitcoin and using its blockchain, you will probably have to download the whole blockchain which is 140+ GB (similar to bitcoin cash) if you want to use it.

anything else like SPV wallets such as Electrum, you have to wait until someone starts a project and builds one for it. so far the code for BTG itself is not even ready let alone any additional wallets!

it will be both.
obviously Gold is the choice of everyone since it is well known and you don't have to introduce anyone to gold! but people may not even know bitcoin exists or have heard it as a passing thing.

but also ever since this year, bitcoin has been seen as a viable investment option which will also outperform everything else. so it would be expected to rise in case something happened and people were looking for some "safe havens".

other cryptocurrencies may also get some attention by just being similar to bitcoin. nothing else.

i can agree that bitcoin is not something you drop precious metals for. they have been around for a long time and have more solid prices. so "storing value" in gold for example, is much better than storing it in bitcoin.

but that doesn't change anything about bitcoin and how much potential it has. i say never drop gold because bitcoin is very volatile and despite all the profit that i have gained and i know i will gain in the future, i can not deny the higher risk that it has.

this part is completely bullshit.
it is like saying buying gold is not a good idea because someone can rob your house and take it from you!
and as far China and things like that are concerned, because bitcoin is decentralized and belongs to the whole world, one country pulling some shenanigans can not affect it.

actually the BCH fork proved that bitcoin is much stronger than this. a fork attack like BCH can not cause any permanent damage to it.

i see this mostly a combat between the old world and the new. and those belonging to the old not wanting to change and see the future is ahead of them.

it is surprising to read this from Goldman Sachs though. because they are heavily invested in bitcoin.

this is what i once warned people about.
by that time the altcoin market was all pump and always rise only. this made a lot of confusion among those who started trading. they all thought they are good at it and understand the market.
i don't know if you are exactly among those but many were and they are not facing the reality of the altcoin market while they keep losing money each month as the same altcoins have dump only.

well as you can see the only coin that has a solid rise in the long term is bitcoin. i never expect a 10x rise out of it in something like a year but it is a good profit with lower risk than others.

for altcoins, things are different. if you look at their charts it is extremely rare to see a consistent rise. for example in a year you see price stable with a little drop then in 2 months out of 12 you see a big pump which lasts 2-3 weeks to reach the ATH and it is all downhill from there.
not knowing this pattern can mean getting caught in the dumping side of the hill top.

nobody really cares about coins that are "real scam" around here to be honest. if they did care none of these scams could even gain any trading volume.
the thing is, people are looking for profit and they rarely even check the project itself or its developers. they just look at some charts, the volume and sometimes the media (news) and invest if they see the possibility for a big profit.

you are asking a question that can not be answered correctly. the altcoins in long term are impossible to predict. any of them may die in a month let alone until 2018 when there is still 2-3 months left.

instead of focusing on that long, it is best to focus in short term trading the altcoins in my opinion. there are good projects, there are pumping projects also. choose one path and stick to it. for example i see some coins are being hyped these days (see this board for the most topics subjects ) you can choose them and invest and enjoy the pump!

how do you know they are not going to share it? anyways it is not about them sharing it. they can simply get hacked and their database leaked. it certainly wouldn't be the first exchange to get hacked! they can even sell it themselves and say they were hacked.

and it is not about doing anything shady, it is about them not having any reason to ask for it all of a sudden. and there is no need for it. we are not deposit/withdrawing fiat there.

since blockchain.info does not control your private keys, they can not give you your BTG, you need to claim it yourself. there is a recovery phrase in blockchain.info which is like your seed, you can use that to get your private keys. (not sure about the details since i don't use it but it is possible).

BTG is not exactly a scam but not exactly a good for either. it is forking from bitcoin which makes it already bad since it is not from scratch. and also it has a premine which makes it even worse.

the bitcoin will always be only bitcoin after any fork. there can only be one bitcoin at all times and the rest will be altcoins.
the difference is that if they some day succeed in creating something that gains more than just a small amount of support from the community that bitcoin price will drop. otherwise forks with small support will always be crap like bitcoin cash and any drop in bitcoin price will be meaningless and temporary.

i took a quick look at the article, it seems good. thanks for sharing it here. i will make sure to read it with more attention later.


but there is a big problem with this.
you are forgetting about the difficulty bomb which both ETH and ETC have. i don't remember seeing anything about ETC doing anything about it so they will be forced to change to PoS too. and there won't be anything left for miners to mine.

it is actually a lot more possible that ETH miners switch to mining Bitcoin Gold (BTG) since it will be released soon!