Check out tether's chart ... it took a small bump but quickly rebounded.  It's pegged to the US dollar.  Seems like a quick and easy way to "shapeshift" out of something in a hurry.  

I thought DigixDOA would be a safe haven, too, supposedly pegged to 1 gram of gold, but it got hammered over the weekend.  Down about 30% at one point.... the math on that one have never looked right to me, anyway.  It did fully bounce back, though, in a few days.

I thought I read that Doge was going release 5 billion new coins a year, forever.  That's kind of a value killer, isn't it? 

That thread is still up.... I checked the etherium wallet on the scam site and the guy is getting payments ... What a shame. 

Lots of suggestions here to use hardware wallets, but do hardware wallets only work for Bitcoin, or can you store Litecoin, dash, monero,  Etherium, on there as well?

Whoa .... Good catch.  Mods should delete that post.  The scams surrounding cyrptos is out of hand.

Sometimes the connection is lost on me ... how does marijuana fit into block chain projects?

I still want to add Ripple and Monero to my long term holdings, then start averaging down my recent losers....

Yeah, I'm in the same boat.  My ROI was north of 3000% of on Friday, now it's around 1000%.  But that wild swing is largely due to me being new to the game, and the extrapolation effect i meantioned for accounts less than 1 year old.  Annualized ROI will become more stable after years of investing ... And hey, who can complain about 1000%, I'll take it!

A few years ago I learned a great and simple trick for calculating real ROI across multiple investments from an different investment forum, and I thought I'd return the favor by sharing it here.  All you have to keep track of is your deposit amounts/dates and withdrawals amounts/dates.  You can trade inside your accounts all you want, and you don't have to track individual investment, buys/sells, etc.  It's basically tracking cash in/cash out from the account, not trades made inside the account.

The first image is how you set it up in excel (it also works in open office).  Each row represents a deposit/withdrawal and the date it was made.  The last row is today's date, and the current balance of your account, entered as a negative.

This shows the formula.



This is what it looks like calculated.



If you have withdrawals along the way, enter those as a negative, like this.



Again, this is annualized, so if you've been investing a few months, it will extrapolate your returns out for a full year.  If you've been investing for a few years, you get an average yearly ROI.  It's kind of a "big picture" of how well you are doing overall. I've made all my deposits through coinbase (and not withdrawals yet), so I easily got this info from my account history. 

I Enter my Friday values into a spreadsheet to track them .... I'm down 26% from last Friday, but still up 3% since the previous Friday.

My internal rate of return since I started investing in May (XIRR for the excel junkies) is 985% ...

I can live with that.  Hopeful this round of bleeding has stopped.

I would diversify .... hold 2.5 and put 7.5 into Bitcoin (2.5 equivalent) or another alt coin you like (2.5 each equivalent), litecoin, Monero, OMG, Neo ....

You should move your coins to new address before claiming BCC because you have to use the same private key as your BTC (where it was stored for the fork) to claim BCC ... And in the process, you could give away your BTC private key, allowing someone to steal your BTC.  It's just a precaution that is highly recommended.  Never use that address again to store your BTC.

DigixDOA says each DGX is backed by 1 gram of gold.


https://digix.global

As it stands now, you can buy one gram of gold, physical, for ~$50.  DGX is selling for ~$90.  Why the disparity?  What am I missing?

http://www.apmex.com/category/19320/1-gram-gold-bars-rounds

I'll probably never own a full bitcoin at this rate ...     ... at least my bitquarter is paying off   

Looks like they corrected the story.  It originally said $85,000 instead of $850.  Along the same line, there was a CBNC story a few months ago that caught a lot of attention ...it said $100 invested in Bitcoin in 2009 would be worth $75 million.  And that was Bitcoin cracked $2000, before the recent run-up ... It's more like $200 million today.  It's hard to believe that everyone had a chance to turn $100 into $200 million in 8 years.  It may have been the chance of a lifetime.  I missed that boat....

I own some EOS ... I keep reading about "registering" it, though.  What's the deal with that?  Is registration mandatory?  What purpose does that serve?

LOL.  Warren Buffett is known as the "the oracle of Omaha", not "the oracle of Etherium".

Thanks for the correction and the great information.  I'm new to this, but I'm learning quickly it's about the team as much as it is the idea.  I had read through website and announcement pages, and they bill themselves as a "Casino Platform", and to be fair, their announcement page is very focused on gambling, although I can see the technical difference.  Anyway, I pulled the trigger on it today, a small amount, let's see what happens in 2018.

My top 4 are BTC, LTC, Dash and Etherium ... Not because I expect them to be homeruns, but because I expect them to be the most stable and steady long term holdings. 

Ill put money into smaller and newer coins, hoping for bigger returns, but those are my primary holdings.

I normally stick to the well known, larger, safer coins for investing.  I'm trying to find an "under the radar" longshot to put a very small amounts into, just for fun, really.  I don't like that it's a gambling token, it seems like those could become saturated and/or attacked by regulators.  Gambling may be the first thing governments start to go after in the crypto world.  It never seemed to gain traction after the ICO ...  But for some reason, I keep coming back to this one as a decent gamble (pardon the pun) ... It got a small bump recently, apparently they announced a coin burn.  

Thoughts?  If not Funfair, then what is your longshot pick?