Thanks for posting this.  I was just starting to look for a new sig campaign and was disappointed in the past that I had just missed the first cut-off by a few weeks ... I'm really glad they pushed the cut off date back.  Now I'm just waiting to see if they approve me. 

FYI to the OP.

GoGoOptions appears to be closed to new applicants.  See post #865 in their thread.

And that was from an article in May, when Bitcoin was $2200.  When it was around $5000 a month or so ago, it was over $150 million ... Turning $100 into $150,000,000 in less than a decade, the chance of a lifetime.  Wish I had heard of Bitcoin eariler. 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-small-business/wp/2017/05/23/100-of-bitcoin-in-2010-is-worth-75-million-today/?utm_term=.2f0c2f782abe

China not only wants to track wealth, but they want their wealthy to reinvest in Chinese businesses.  They are limited by the government as to how much they can invest overseas.  It was discovered last year that wealthy Chinese citizens were using bitcoin to get their Yuan out of the country, and make more overseas investments than were allowed.  I guess the writing was on the wall at that point.  Here is a story on it from earlier this year. 

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/markets/chinese-investors-use-bitcoin-to-get-yuan-out-of-country/news-story/7cd6f89ae7cd84aef91078326b6274cc

You can view this info at coinmarketcap.com.  It gives you the circulating supply on the list ...and if you click on the coins of interest, it gives you maximum supply.  It is also sortable any column, and has over 1000 coins listed.

In the stock market, the second by second fluctuations in price are largely controlled by competing high frequency traders ... Something comparable to trading bots in altcoins....

But the overall direction of the stock market is still controlled by investors. 

Bots and HFT will probably make trading more difficult and less profitable for human day traders, but I doubt it will impact buy and hold investors much.

The problem with mining low value alt coins is that you can often purchase them on the exchange for less than the cost the electricity and "wear and tear" on your equipment.  In other words, you'd be better off not mining, and putting the cash you'd spend on equipment and power into a direct purchase through an exchange.

But mining can still be profitable, and a way to get the coins you really want.  There are websites that will give you the profitability of mining various coins based on your equipment, electricity rates, difficulty, block times, etc.  The best thing you can do is mine the most profitable ones, then you can exchange the coins you mine for whatever coins you really want. 

Not exactly what you are looking for,  but this list notes "dead coins" and quite a few are listed as pure ICO scams ... The dev. took the deposits and dissapeared, never produced anything.  Ziber is a recent one I remember, and it's on the list as an ICO scam.

http://deadcoins.com/

Just to be clear, I wasn't using the stock market sectors as a guideline of how Altcoins should be categorized, I was just using them as an example.

I'd guess some of the Altcoins sectors would overlap, (like "financial" could include Ripple, SALT, Tether, DigixDOA) .... and some would not apply at all, like "utilities" ... others could perhaps be combined into something like "business services" (Storj, BAT, Metal the healthcare ICOs, etc.), and new sectors like "Pure Currency" or "Platforms" would be needed.

For those familiar with stocks, you are probably aware that the stock market is divided in 10 main sectors, ... financials, industrials, utilities, energy, healthcare, etc...

I'm wondering if anyone knows of a website or project that has broken down altcoins by sectors ... or if anyone has considered what the major sectors could be (pure currency, platforms, gambling, etc.), what coin is the sector leader, etc. 

Could be an interesting project.

Unfortunately, he's regarded in the financial world as somewhat of a hero.  He's the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, a huge US bank, but is best known for standing up to congress during the "bailout" hearings of 2009ish when congress was frothing at the mouth to find a villian at the banks to pin that on.  But he's not a clean player, either, JPM has been fined for their actions in the financial crisis.  But, unfortunately, his status makes people listen to him.  He's pretty influential. 

I doubt anything will come of it, but the story also mentions a Swedish firm has filed a complaint against Dimon for market manipulation. 

BTW, why does my post now say "suspicious link removed?".  It was cnbc.com ... a pretty well known financial news website, if anyone wants to see the story for themselves.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/09/22/bitcoin-jpmorgans-jamie-dimon-lays-into-bitcoin-again.html

This time he says it is "worth nothing" because it was made out of thin air.  He also talks about the importance of government backing in a currency and says again that Bitcoin will "end badly".  And adds that more governments will move to shut it down.

 I wish a reporter would ask him about the discovery that JPM was trading Bitcoin after he said he'd fire everyone he caught trading Bitcoin.

It sounds like what happened is Golem Devs. got a substantial airdrop of OMG (Golem must be a big Eth holder), and they plan to pass that OMG on to Golem holders.  I would not expect it to be a lot of OMG, just because of the math, here. 5 or 7% per ether divide among all the Golem holders can't be much per holder.

This is the kind of stuff that is going to bring down the regulation hammer in the US.  As it stands now, to invest in real estate shares and/or invest directly into energy markets (like oil wells, solar, etc), it's largely a market reserved for accredited investors ... not the little guy.  Sadly, the more "mainstream" this goes, the more attention it's going to get, not just from regulators, but from special interest lobbies that see this as a threat or "disruptor" to their business models.  The good is news is we may all be millionaires in a few years, the bad news we may be getting shut out of future investments shortly.

I haven't looked much into tether, but I've read that it is "verifiablely" backed by $1 cash per each tether issued.  I'm not sure how such a thing is proven, though, even the reports I've read say the accounting is certified, but I'm not sure I entirely trust that.  I've read that Tether is supposed to move to an ERC20 token at some point, as well, not that it changes my opinion for the better or worse ... just a side note.  It does seem to be the most stable coin through recent declines, though.  

There is also DigixDOA, which is supposedly backed by 1 gram of gold per Digix, but that hasn't handled the recent down turns with the stability I'd expect from an asset that is backed by gold.  Unfortunately, I think those may be your only options if you want to keep your money in the cyrpto world during a crash.  Hopefully well get more options.  

Apparently, the idea is catching on.  I noticed today that a fairly popular faucet, MoonbitCoin, now has an option to allow website users to contribute their CPU power to their mining efforts for a bonus on their faucet payout.  But they are upfront about it, giving the user the option to turn it on/off, so that's fine with me.... a good way to handle it. 

SALT just appeared on the Exodus Eden wallet, but it's pretty hard to info on.  It doesn't appear to have an official announcement here.  It's apparently not on any exchanges and it's not on CoinMarketCap yet.  Does anyone have an idea what the tokens will be selling for once they hit exchanges?

Oh man ... that site is great.  I really enjoyed scrolling back and reading about all the times Bitcoin was doomed back when it was less than < $100. 

So Bitcoin, we’ll remember the good times, like the time that one guy who got heat stroke while mining Bitcoins. Or the time there was the great heist caper that shut down trading site Mt Gox for an entire day. The lulz were abundant. But frankly, it’s time for you to go. Farewell.

.... at $10.95, for example.

I got my air drop yesterday.  I'm not sure exactly how many ether I had in July, but it looks like roughly 5% OMG per Ether.  I didn't have to do anything, it just showed up in the wallet.