#2 and #5 are about the only ones that really matter - crypto's are always a risky investment (at least right now).  The risk/reward ratio is a factor, but trading volume is going to be what drives whether the big money gets involved.  If COIN is only moving $100k per day in volume, none of the big boys are going to bother screwing with it.

Do not forget the former Paypal exec. who come to Bitstamp last year. I am sure he is not paid with the minimal wage.
 He didn't leave Paypal for some pennies.
Also, count the exec. trips. USA, Canada, whole Europe, Asia. These trips are not so cheap.

I am sure all the exec.(even they are shareholders) had BIG salaries and not minimal wage.

Now now, QuestionAuthority, you're making the same points I have. Soon, very soon, that will irritate someone, an' dey will teechify you da lessan!!

Ways to identify a bad ETF investment

The following four tips can help investors determine whether an ETF is likely to fail:

1. Use caution when selecting ETF products that track narrow market segments; these products are considered risky and therefore require more evaluation.

2. Examine the ETF's trading volume. Volume is a good indicator of liquidity and investors' interest. If the volume is high, the product is typically more liquid.

3. Look at the assets under management, to determine how much money is being managed and to measure the fund's success.

4. Review the ETF's prospectus, to understand what type you are holding. An ETF is like any other investment company and will deliver a prospectus upon request. The prospectus will provide information such as fees and expenses, investment objectives, investment strategies, risks, performance, pricing and other information.

5. Finally, very new or very small ETFs sometimes trade inefficiently, resulting in wide spreads between their buy and sell prices or failure to track their benchmarks accurately. Wait for an ETF to gather at least $100 million in assets before you invest in it.

Have you actually looked at the price?
The price decreased before this news and haven't moved much since this news.

Sounds like you don't follow the industry, then. Whether you like it or not, it will legitimize Bitcoin in an area where there is lots of money ready to move in.

How is it a piece of cake?

A financial report of Bitstamp showed they had 800k profit for a large period of time.

Not sure 4-5 million is coverable by them.

Sounds to me like QuestionAuthority is describing an open marriage. How is that cheating?


I'd keep mine safe myself. I don't like the idea of my employer or anyone else for that matter having control over me.


If I could be ANYWHERE in the world right now, I'd like to be in bed with Kate Upton.

Thank you, sbogovac, for making what was implicitly clear explicitly clear for some who cannot read properly. For someone by the name of "QuestionAuthority", I'd say he's doing a terrible job of living up to that moniker right about now.

So you, like some, don't want to discuss anything. Why are you here?

Two can play at that game. If the mods have left it there (it being totally off-topic), why ironically exercise moderation duties in the interest of being "on-topic"? The fact that it is there is practically an admission of less stringent posting rules. But the point is people's posts that were on-topic to the thread itself were deleted, which was atypically excessive for such a thread.

How long has it been since you put your head in the sand. Get out of here!

Response: pay attention. That has been addressed hundreds of times. The mods in their infinite kindness let it stay there since people have always gone there for that thread.

Not sure. Seems at least 99% on-topic to me. Sure, one could say it may merely be an allegation, but allegations are what scam-accusation threads are for, which that thread most certainly is.

This just got deleted by a mod. in the "BFL fucked us over again" thread:


How is the connection between an active and disruptive forum participant and a BFL official considered OFF-TOPIC here 

That would be crazy.. n every early adopter will be immensely profited by that if it happens. but as per what I feel.. even reaching 500$ would be a challenge in itself! 

I might've said it slightly more subtle, but yes, anything ero related is prone to be bought through bitcoin because of the level of anonymity.

As you yourself admitted, the posts had nothing to do with BFL other than by virtue of being posted in that thread.  I did also invite any complaints to come here, rather than to continue offtopic on that thread.

Generally when a thread is going offtopic we'll do a cleanup on the last couple pages to push it back onto the rails. There is no use in cleaning up hundreds of pages of past topic transgressions which no one is reading anymore. Many of the points I removed also had no connection to the (also offtopic) doxing posts.

SaltySpitoon, with due respect: Thanks for your support, but you're also confused. The posts in question were not related to BFL except by virtue of having been (_incorrectly_) posted in a BFL thread, and none of the posts themselves claimed to be related to BFL.  By defending my (very much real) non-connection to and non-motivation to help BFL you're just making it sound like I removed something to the betterment of BFL, which I think cannot be sanely alleged. (Quite the contrary: The mass of inscrutable, unprofessional, and irrelevant rubbish on that thread makes BFL's angry customers look bad and separates them from actual information which could be used to improve their situation).

It's quite likely that I deleted plenty of more borderline material (like the posts with nothing but pictures of chickens) that I might not have deleted as single isolated posts. This is the norm for pushing a thread back on topic. I used a similar approach (periodic aggressive removals) with reasonable success in some of the prior KNC threads.