I have noticed it when actually the bitcoin price is rising up the cryptomarket also will. Is that because of bitcoin is directly proportional to the other cryptocurrency? so that when bitcoin dumped the other crypto also will dump? Whats your opinion about it?

I’m going to be accumulating the majority of the coins below over the course of 2018 Q1—I’m a big believer in a diversified portfolio.

Especially in crypto.

I split coins into 3 tiers. Coins in tiers 1 & 2 I will be continuously adding to my holdings throughout Q1.

I based these tiers on my investment strategy, I highly suggest creating a strategy before investing in anything.

You need to have a goal that you’re working towards, and a framework for how you want to reach that goal.

My goal is to increase my holdings of Tier 1 & 2 coins, by trading coins from tier 3 on a short-medium time frame (2–6 months).

I also margin trade Tier 1 & 2 coins and use profits to increase my overall $BTC position.

Don’t margin trade.

It’s bad.

Not margin trading is rule #8 in my “10 Crypto Commandments”.

Some of these coins I don’t believe in as long term investments.

Most of the time, the criteria I use to pick coins starts fundamentally with the team, roadmap, and community.

Once I’ve deemed a coin as “Fundamentally Strong”, I then go into the charts and apply Technical Analysis to determine if I can get a solid entry point.

Sometimes, I’ll see a coin I don’t think will last in the long run, but the chart is just too pretty to say no. I will denote these coins with an [X] by their name.

Cliche Disclaimer: none of this is financial advice, don’t even listen to me, I’m a random person on the internet — I could be full of sh*t and you wouldn’t know it.

Do your own research and only ever invest what you can afford to lose.

Tier 1

Bitcoin ($BTC)

I always hold at least a little BTC. Bitcoin is the market leader, and until that changes, I will always hedge against my Altcoin investments with Bitcoin. I typically have any where from 10–30% of my portfolio in Bitcoin depending on Bitcoin dominance at that time.

Bitcoin dominance refers to the percentage of the total cryptocurrency market share which is held by Bitcoin. You can check the live stat here.

The link also shows the market dominance of the other major coins on the market- spend some time getting to know the chart and notice how coins market caps correlate negatively or positively with each other.

Understanding the market cycles of crypto is pivotal to successful investing.

Tier 2

Neo ($NEO) & Ethereum ($ETH)


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ETH and NEO are competitors. They solve the same problems, are both serious coins with large market caps, and I hold both as long term investments.

I’m not hedging against my bets by investing in competitors. It’s feasible to me that these two entities could co-exist in the future in a fashion similar to how Apple and Samsung coexist.

Why would smartphone companies offer their smartphones for bitcoin mining? A smartphone has other expensive components like camera, its screen, its motherboard, etc. Bitcoin mining only makes use of the power of the processor. You are paying for other components but you're choosing to abuse only one part of your phone which is the processor. If you're going to do that, then you should have just bought a GPU which has a lot more power than your smartphone.

I really think that where you are coming from is the Ads of the new phones claiming that they are as powerful as a computer. They can claim that, but we don't see phones running the same apps as computers do like AutoCAD, photoshop. And yes, I'm aware that these has mobile phone apps BUT they just don't have the same functionality. You can do a lot more in PC and you can also load the files better on PC.

Another reason why you shouldn't mine using your smartphone is that smartphones have a short battery life and mining bitcoin makes use of all your processor's computing power and that consumes a lot of energy. This means that, one day, you might be able to mine bitcoin using your phone, but it wouldn't give you much money (since there's not much computing power) and it will make your phone go low battery almost right away. You can do it while being charged, of course, but that's going to ruin your battery life. If you look at it, you might even end up paying more money for the electricity bills of your phone being charged all the time than the money that you're going to get from mining bitcoin with your phone.

Honestly, the computing power of your phone is so insignificant compared to how much computing power other people have to the point that it's probably better if you just do faucets.

TL;DR: It's not worth mining with your smartphone.

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hi guys! In this article I would like to talk about how the crypto market has recovered in the last 3 days. Is this a real recovery or just a side effect after the World Cup. We need to look into this

Yes, it often happens because the rest of the ICO participants are behaving like you. We all want to dump the coins we have received during the ICO as soon as possible, thereby effectively driving the price down. If you have selected the ICO carefully (selecting it based on some value criteria), no need to hurry with selling the coins. Once the others have sold their bounty tokens, the price will most likely rise, like in your case.

I think it will take some months for the bull run. Again all the coins are falling. I don't know what is the reason for that. But BTC at  7800$ there is a possibility to break again. Anyhow, we can go to the moon for a couple of months.

It is not confirmed that this run is a big bull run. It is already slowed. This may be a small bull run. The trend will be confirmed after the price passed 8200 dollars.

I don't like buying coins during ICOs, I prefer to buy after they list and the price goes down but I have a problem of investing in the right one that will yield profit because I have seen projects start to misbehave after ICO( listing on a very poor exchange, listing lower than ICO price or stop responding to some investor's questions). How does one know the right project that will yield profit to invest in or does one but gamble with coin or tokens to invest in?

With every new token circulating in the market, they should add up some value and have their own share of total dominance by price.
But for some years, we are having an increasing number of new coins and tokens being traded but still bitcoin is increasing it's dominance.
According to coinmarketcap, bitcoin now holds a 42% dominance. i.e. the 42% of total capitalization of cryptocurrencies is that of bitcoin.
How is it possible? Are altcoins failing?