99.9% ICOs are either scams or doomed to fail because of incompetence of their developers. It's simply not worth anyone's time to look for the mythical "good project", and the crypto market overall has more to do with pure speculation rather than fundamentals - we have shitcoins having way higher prices than they deserve, and few of the decent coins are undervalued.

You're correct when you say that people become blinded with their greed, so the actual solution is to stop being so greedy, stop chasing some quick and big returns and invest for long term in established and proven assets like Bitcoin.

No one will teach you things like that, if it was so easy then everyone would become investors, but investing is by its nature competitive. Trading crypto isn't much different then trading penny stocks or other risky assets, so if you want to start with it, you can get some literature about traditional trading. You'll also need to learn in-depth how cryptocurrency works so you can judge crypto technologies on your own instead of relying on third parties that might easily be shilling. It takes a lot of time, effort and talent to trade crypto, and if you'll jump into it unprepared, you will lose your money.

I use Tails to access my Bitcoin wallets and I think that using persistent storage and connecting it to the Internet kinda defeats the purpose of using Tails, since its main feature is being amnesiac. Persistent storage introduces the risk of letting some malware sitting there between sessions and potentially escaping the airgap, and turning on Internet connection would allow malware to send the stolen data to its parent server.

I prefer to store wallet files and Electrum wallet on a flash drive, copy them to the desktop and remove the flash drive, and only then open wallet files and do transactions (which I create on my online machine and use yet another USB stick to bring them to the cold storage machine for signing).

Every time Bitcoin drops, some newbies snap and panic sell, because they had this strange expectation that Bitcoin can only go up and it's there to make them rich quick. Often such people are investing for the first time, because anyone with experience understands that investment comes with the risk.

Do you want us to convince you to to hodl Bitcoin or are you just venting your frustration? Because if you are not ready to experience this markets downs, you don't deserve to experience its highs.

Gaming community is hundreds of times bigger than crypto community. Gaming companies don't have to appeal to crypto enthusiasts, because they are already paying for their products, and adding crypto support would barely improve it. Steam dropped Bitcoin support and they didn't see any loss of revenue as the result. The existing payments work well enough for everyone, so there's no chance gamers would be adopting crypto if it will be added to their games, they will stick to what they are familiar with.

You're right, especially since so many gold investors never own it physically and it's just another number inside a centralized database. Still, there's no difference for Bitcoin if people move their money to gold or cash, if its perceived as unjustifiable risk at times of a crisis, it will get dumped. So, the question is, how would hodlers act - are they bitcoiners first or traders/speculators first?

This assumes that majority of bitcoin investors are rather poor retail investors with no other assets or fiat savings, and I doubt that this is true - some portion of coins is held by whales, and many investors are likely belong to middle class and wouldn't need to dump their coins in case of a recession.

I think the bearish scenario is possible, but under some other mechanism. Maybe Bitcoin just isn't a good safe haven for such scenarios because of its volatility, so money will be moved to assets like gold.

From a mathematical point of view, gambling means risking while having negative expected value, while investing means risking while having positive expected value. With gambling it's easy - the expected value can be precisely calculated as per the games rules, but with investing its the opposite - it's hard to calculate even the estimates, especially for a purely speculative asset like Bitcoin. So, in investing your expected value is tied to your knowledge and experience as an investor - if its low, then it's likely to be negative, and then investing is indeed like gambling, but with enough knowledge you will be making money in the long run.

OP, your title is misleading, because from it alone it looks like you're telling to never save login information in the browser, but in your post you are only talking about public computers. There's nothing wrong with saving logins on your own computer, and if you use a master password, it's nearly as good as a full password manager, because your passwords will be encrypted.

The internet is already decentralized, but not everywhere - countries like China and Russia are testing the mechanisms of shutting it down in their countries or cutting themselves off from the global network. So having some sort of censorship-resistant satellite-based Internet providers could potentially solve this problem, all we need after that is just some competition to avoid relying too much on a single provider.

How can someone take seriously an opinion on technology from a person who doesn't understand and use modern technology? It's like asking a caveman what he thinks about Bitcoin. And it doesn't matter if this specific caveman is ultra wealthy and genius trader, since Bitcoin isn't some stock, it's a protocol, a network, a software and community.

No, crypto journalists just have this habit of explaining Bitcoin's price movements with some totally unrelated world events, because that's what generates traffic for their sites - no one wants to hear how Bitcoin is volatile and goes up or down as the result of pure speculation, because that's so boring.

Just think about it, why would the coronavirus impact bitcoin's price? It has no effect on how the bitcoin network works, or how people might use Bitcoin. And the effect on mining farms in China is still very small.

As promised earlier, I developed a telegram bot with the same functionality as the main app - quote and merit notifications with the same rules and limitations.

You can access the bot here - http://t.me/bct_quote_notifier_bot

Use /sub <username> to subscribe to a bitcointalk username, and /unsub <name> to unsubscribe. Use /names to check your current subscriptions.

Bitcoin's benefits compared to banks are largely theoretical - because its downsides far outweigh them. So with Bitcoin you can reduce the fees for some operations, but then your money will turn into a volatile investment that can go up or down by multiple percents in a minute. And it's quite hard to actually spend it in real life, you'd have to spend additional time on getting to the places that accept it, and poor people are often busy or tired to do such things.

People who don't have enough knowledge and experience shouldn't be investing in the first place, they should learn until they are able to make their own judgement and not rely on some public websites to tell them where to put their money, because its a sure way to lose them.


There's a huge difference between Bitcoin and every other coin - Bitcoin is the king of this market, and alts always mirror its performance. Altcoins are much more riskier than Bitcoin, thousands of them have already died, but Bitcoin is still alive and well.

In the past, during the so-called scaling debate, there was indeed a desire to keep Bitcoin fees high, and you could witness exchanges and some other services to do any optimizations to their transactions, but today it doesn't happen on any big scale. And the amount of shitcoin supporters within the Bitcoin services is very low, as most of them have already moved on. And the capability for signing messages is rarely needed for services, so it's also not a reason to not adopt segwit.

So, pooya87 is right, if a service doesn't support SegWit addresses, they likely haven't touched their codebase for a long time.

The Simpsons is a shadow of its former self, the show went from having above 20 millions of viewers to below 4 millions as of now. And the impact of modern Simpsons on the popular culture is nearly non-existent - it's a zombie show that no one talks about, when people say "the Simpsons" or make some memes, they refer the seasons 1-8.

One of the problems of modern Simpsons is that they spend too much time covering contemporary culture - they make whole episodes about celebrities, social movements, etc., so I'm not even surprised that they talked about crypto.

What does pacifism have to do with Bitcoin? You can't stop wars by banning Bitcoin, you can't prevent terrorism by banning Bitcoin, in fact there's no evidence that Bitcoin is used to fund terrorism in any significant amounts. If you start taking freedom away from your own people then the terrorists have already won, because that's exactly the point of terrorism - to provoke some negative reaction from the government to cause more conflict.

No one hides cash under their beds anymore, people save money by putting them in funds or investing in stocks/commodities on their own, or they do both. Their minimum goal is to beat the inflation, but often they make quite good additional income in the long run (unless they are autistic gamblers who blow their money on day trading).

I sometimes see newbies trying to farm merit by writing guides or educational posts, but because they are newbies, they either beat a dead horse or involuntarily spread misconceptions. So, if you think that you can earn merit by creating useful threads, make sure that you are creating a unique content and that you perfectly understand what you are writing about, and not just copypasting material from some shitty crypto blogs and news sites.