The whales during their first time in trading started small as well. Every beginner in trading should start small investment or capital and then goes big after they get the hang of it. So small fish or big fish plays a vital role in the market. I know that whales can manipulate the market but they need us small fishes for them to profit.

When it comes to regulations by the government they can't control or stop us from investing or trading in cryptos as long as we have the money that we can afford to lose.
I know there are lots of ICOs that are privately done by whales and limits small time investors participating from it. This is a very good way in maintaining the value of the token or coin once its launched to the market  because mostly small time fishes or investors almost all of the time after launching of the project or after the ICO will tend to sell their tokens for them to get profit and the sell offs can affect the value of the token.

For me crypto is simply a plane ticket to the moon. There are lots of benefits that crypto brought to each and everyone of us. I know that crypto enthusiasts are just a very small fraction of the total population worldwide cos its still so young but it already promotes financial freedom to people like us who seeks knowledge everyday just to earn atleast some bucks using crypto.


I concur with this. Aside from our full time jobs, crypto also give us some extra buck for our family needs. Sometimes we earn more in crypto than our full time jobs. The downside in crypto is the volatility of its value so there's no stability when it comes to income so we should have a full time job for us to feed our families and provide some of our daily expenses.


This only means that we are really moving forward when it comes to innovations and technology. This only proves that human beings are really genius and innovative in nature always seeking for new inventions to further improve our way of living and atleast give us financial freedom and lots of opportunities.

This can help pump verge for sure. There are lots of pervs holding cryptos. The anonymity can bring lots of customers to them. This is one smart move by pornhub. Lot's of desperate husbands and wives will surely visit the site cos of its anonymity when paying.



I really don't think thats the main reason. People doesn't really care as long as they get profit from it. Pornhub accepting verge won't affect verge's value at all.


I totally agree with you on this. It's a strategic move done by pornhub to increase incoming customers cos privacy and anonymity. This won't affect verge it will surely pump the coin since lots of pervs all around the world.

So we shall just wait and see if all those promises will be kept. Let's just wait and see when its already launched this June if the performance is really that great and promising. Goodluck with the devs and the people who support this innovation. Hope that investors' money won't just be wasted or won't just go down the drain.

Ethereum is a decentralized platform that runs smart contracts: applications that run exactly as programmed without any possibility of downtime, censorship, fraud or third-party interference.

These apps run on a custom built blockchain, an enormously powerful shared global infrastructure that can move value around and represent the ownership of property.

This enables developers to create markets, store registries of debts or promises, move funds in accordance with instructions given long in the past (like a will or a futures contract) and many other things that have not been invented yet, all without a middleman or counterparty risk.

The project was bootstrapped via an ether presale in August 2014 by fans all around the world. It is developed by the Ethereum Foundation, a Swiss non-profit, with contributions from great minds across the globe. https://www.ethereum.org/

EOS is a blockchain platform for the development of decentralized applications (dapps), similar to Ethereum in function. It makes dapp development easy by providing an operating-system-like set of services and functions that dapps can make use of.

The idea behind EOS is to bring together the best features and promises of the various smart contract technologies out there (e.g. security of Bitcoin, computing support of Ethereum) in one simple to use, massively scalable dapplication platform for the everyday user to empower the impending blockchain economy. https://coincentral.com/what-is-eos/

I have bumped into an article saying that EOS is the Etherium killer. I know this sounds intriguing and vague but with EOS technology I think its more developed than Etherium and is more promising to create more developed and awesome applications.
EOS = blockchain + bots
There’s not much technical information available currently. But EOS is not just about smart contracts + high scalability. It has a completely different design and vision compared to Ethereum.

EOS uses Delegated Proof-of-Stake just like Graphene does.

It uses Network Bandwidth Allocation system to effectively share the blockchain. https://medium.com/chain-cloud-company-blog/is-eos-the-ethereum-killer-ad24277d8c9c

What are your thoughts on this? Will EOS surpass Eth 2 years from now?

In every BTC transaction there are recommended fees. You might wanna check in here for faster transactions https://bitcoinfees.21.co/. Sometimes blockchain is so congested that even though you paid higher fees still it won't confirm that fast as what you expected. The devs behind bitcoin is really making more effort in improving and atleast minimizing the fee and transaction speed. This is one of the downside of BTC that needs to be improved and worked on for the betterment of the technology.


I agree with you on this. The lightning network is still very new development. Hoping that they'll gonna do some improvements with this for more faster transactions when it comes to transferring btc from one wallet to the other. When lightning network was implemented we can really feel the difference between the speed and the fees. Few years from now hope that the devs behind BTC will develop a more faster and lower fees.

No one can really tell. Each coin or project is backed up or being supported by community of investors who truly believes in their token or coin. I know that there are lots of undervalued coins in the market some of them were called shitcoins but people or the devs behind these coins are doing there best to pump the value of their coins as much as possible overtime. This is just a matter of who gives up supporting and pumping their coins. May the best people behind every project wins. Advertising and pumping your coin or introducing it to a large group of investors will make a shitcoin be valued over time. Remember that crypto values are very volatile and each coin plays different roles and functionalities in the cryptoworld so we'll just try to wait what the future brings.

That's the time that there will be no mining of bitcoins that can ever happened and the value of bitcoin will surely skyrocket. Lucky are those who hodl lots of BTCs while the price is so low and wait for that moment when acquiring bitcoin is already impossible due to its scarcity and mining difficulty. With regards to the transaction fees I strongly believe that it would be so expensive cos every fee is worth alot of money due to the value of BTC and since miners will never receive rewards then tx fees will skyrocket as well. When this happens the purpose of bitcoin will no longer be realized as a currency but merely a store of value.


I agree with you on this (The law of supply and demand) but as what we can see now, bitcoin is still number 1 and there are still lots of newcomers to cryptoworld trying to acquire more btc as they want over time. So when we talk about the demand I strongly believe that the demand for bitcoin given the fact that its the best store of value when it comes to digital assets will still increase because as far as we know the higher the difficult mining bitcoin the higher its value.

I highly suggest that you should do your own research when it comes to the technology of every coin or tokent that you wish to invest your money in not just by others speculations. Cryptocurrency is very volatile specially altcoins. No one can predict when is the exact time that you can profit. If you want more security with your investment I suggest that you invest in Bitcoin instead of altcoins. If you really wish to invest in altcoins make sure you choose Eth since is the best alt coin so far next to bitcoin which has still so much to offer in the future.

I'm not an expert when it comes to altcoins but I can suggest these altcoins because I do believe in the technology and the people behind it: ETH, EOS and STEEM and once again do your own research for you to trust the technology and have faith with it. Always remember to invest and amount that you can afford to lose!

Yes. Great advertising can create hype but as we all know as soon as people will understand that your project is not really usable in the real world then that's the time the hype will be dead and eventually the value of your tokens will go down as well. Every product should have great advertising strategy for it can brainwash people and it is one way of spreading the word out to the public about your token.

So its much better to build a very promising project done by brilliant dedicated individuals accompanied with great advertising strategies then the token will surely skyrocket. Building a community of investors and hodlers for long term participation or support for the project can give your token stability when it comes to long term value.

If you want security of your investment and sure profit I'd suggest that you prefer BTC over XRP(Ripple). BTC has already proven its worth when it comes to long term investments. Ripple is a good coin as well but its still so young and mostly the pumps are not that huge and constant. BTC 4 years from now could double or even triple its value due to increased mining difficulty. You can also put 70% of your $1k into bitcoin and 30% to Ripple. Just follow your gut feeling between those two coins but always remember to invest an amount that you can afford to lose. Goodluck with your investments and have a good one!

One of the big fish is using blockchain. Expect a token or a new coin from Samsung in the near future since Samsung is always embracing future possibilities when it comes to technology that gives them so much profit. This blockchain technology brings a lot of future projects and ease to businesses worldwide so no doubt that cryptocurrency will boom as well few years from now.

Any project or application that will be backed up by Samsung will surely succeed. Hopefully this giant company will invest a lot in crypto or even try to create an altcoin of their own for future usage of different applications and innovations. Can't wait to witness awesome innovations using blockchain from this giant company. Many investors would surely ride along the way if this will happen and will surely get huge profits.

This is a very good news to all of us. Sooner or later more countries will adopt not only bitcoin but other crypto as well. This is just the beginning, there's still so much more that can happen with regards to the technology brought by bitcoin and the blockchain. I  can just imagine how convenient and comfortable it will be if every people here on earth will just use crypto as mode of payments to everything whether it will be goods or services. Lower fees and faster transactions should be the main focus of development when it comes to the use of cryptocurrencies.


ACWA Power, the Saudi-based developer, owner and operator of power generation and water desalination plants, will now start using SolarCoin, the first time a utility-scale company will adopt the global reward programme for solar electricity generation. This technology can really create more innovations and applications in the future. I'm really looking forward for new inventions and applications that will be created in the future using the blockchain technology.

Let's all be ready to embrace a very bright and promising future of cryptocurrencies few more years from now.

 

I have read the comments about other people's idea when it comes to your move making bitcoin as an emergency fund. When we talk about emergency it should be something that you can accessible anytime with no delay since its for emergency purposes. We all know that bitcoins value is very volatile and we can't really tell whether your savings will profit or not in the future.

If you can convert easily your bitcoin into FIAT and don't care any loses when market is red during an emergency fund is needed then its really up to you but there are some disadvantages along the way and majority of the people commented in here already foresee those events if an emergency would take place.

It would b much better if you'll just use bitcoin as a store of value for long term investments not for emergency funds for you to have ease of mind and avoid complications in the future.


I agree with you on this since bitcoin still needs to be converted to cash then the accessibility and the purpose of making it as an emergency fund is not really wise at all or doesn't even makes sense since a loss is really inevitable.

It would be okay if the value of bitcoin is increasing or shall we say stable without any ups and downs but its so volatile that you could even lose all your emergency funds.

No one can really tell. It really depends on how the devs or the community behind the token or coin supports its growth and promoting the coin. Acceptance of the cryptocurrency to the people will determine its value. If many people will acquire or buy those coins after the ICO then its price will soar high. For you to make profit you need to know more about the crypto that you're trying to invest in. You need to do your own research on the coin and the people behind it as well as the devs. By doing your research you can acquire lots of knowledge about the technology and it can create trust and you'll have faith in the crypto that will make you feel secure in investing. You should as well take into consideration that not all cryptos will be successful even if its listed in all exchanges. Dedication of the devs as well as the support of the community holding the coins is one big factor that can make a coin valuable.

I suggest that you do a long term investment in BTC so that you'll have more security with your money and always invest an amount that you can afford to lose. Goodluck with your investments and have a good one!

Crypto values are very volatile. No one can really tell which crypto will make us profit but with what I've learned and read for the past 2 years about bitcoins value it is really trustworthy. You will have security with your investments if you hold it long term. Aside from the fact that difficulty of acquiring bitcoins will increase every 4 years, bitcoin has a very solid community of supporters so even if there are so many FUD and bad events, BTC will always remain standing strong.

All I can suggest is diversify your portfolio but atleast go with 65% - 70% BTC, 25% Eth, and the rest percentage place it into altcoins that you wish to invest in. It's really up to you where your heart is. All I can say is that bitcoin is a very good store of value and it will always be the best crypto.


I concur with this. If you're an emotional investor seeking short term profits a stop loss should be the best thing to do. Those 3 cryptos that you chose are solid ones when it comes to community back up and the people behind the technology. EOS and STEEM are also promising when it comes to innovation so better add this up to your portfolio as well for a very good profit in the future.

I confirm that I received the btc payment. Thanks alot CM!

You can compare Bitcoin to altcoins with regards to their functions and usage. Nowadays, since bitcoin's value is so high it's function as a currency wasn't really used instead as a store of value. Despite the success of bitcoin as a store of value there are still lots of flaws about it being a currency so altcoins were made to correct those flaws that bitcoin has. There are lots of promising altcoins in the market that function or do better than bitcoin when it comes to the main purpose as a currency. We have Eth which has faster and lower fees when transacting than bitcoin do and many more.

The birth of these altcoins is because of the services and some functionalities that bitcoin can't offer so it's not that its stupid to compare because every altcoin is somehow or somewhat relative to bitcoin because they are nothing without bitcoin and the term altcoin won't even exist.

I confirm that I received the IOST token payments. Thanks a lot CM!

Crypto or not, if you'll join these kinds of schemes very much likely you'll get scammed in the long run. There's no such thing as easy money. I doubt crypto will be banned in the Philippines because lots of miners and Filipinos rely on cryptocurrency nowadays to earn a living for their family.

But there's a slight chance that this could happen if the Philippine overnment will see crypto as a bad thing for Filipinos. Let's just hope that this won't happen because lots of Filipinos that will be affected by it.