I just read about the new smart contract and I am incredibly disapointed.

In fact, I would imagine ALL of your ICO contributors will be disapointed with the token supply.

at 445million, one yuppie will be around .01 cents.
That means that even with the 300% bonus, I will lose a SUBSTANTIAL amount of money.

I contributed 6 eth to the ico and ended up with 6600 yupie.
with the bonus it will be 19,800.
That means that when yupie gets listed, the value of what I have will be around $198.
With current ETH prices I invested $6600.

That is way too much of a loss that all ICO participants are going to experience.
The only way to recoup is if the value of the yupie increases 500x.

This is a really serious matter that I would appreciate you looking into.
My math might be wrong, but how could you overlook this?
Your main investors are going to lose a LOT of money.

Aloha,

Please start giving out your merit like the title says.

Mahalo nui loa,

dumplingsandsushi

I'm sorry, but this is NOT great news.

Hitbtc is by far the worst exchange ever.  Don't believe me? Just do a quick search for reviews of hitbtc and you will find TONS of upset users.

First, the fees are absolutely insane.
They have DEPOSIT FEES.  What other exchange does that?  On top of that, the deposit fees are from 25 to 50 dollars!
And their withdrawal fees are also absolutely crazy, we are talking like 75 to 100 usd withdrawal fees.

2nd, and probably the worst.  They constantly "lose" your money.
Deposits don't get credited, withdrawals just dissapear even if the blockchain shows confirmations.
It's a total shitshow.

Still don't believe me?
Try it out yourself.  I did.  I thought, "surely, it can't be that bad". So I put in 1 eth to test it out.
yes...it really is that bad.

And than fatbtc?
I checked it out, it seems to have very little to no volume...

Whooooaaaah, Stay FAR AWAY from USDT.

It's got some pretty major red flags.

The concept is that 1 USDT is supposed to represent 1 actual USD that is held in reserve in some bank account or CD.
The problem is, they have been distributing an insane amount of USDT since the beginning of this year.
According to 1 usdt equals an actual 1 usd, then they are literally creating around 200 MILLION dollars out of thin air.
On top of that, when a reputable auditing firm was looking into their business, tether suddenly cut off their contract with them before the auditing was done, quite fishy yeah?

Wait! There's more!
No one has been able to actually liquidate their usdt.  According to tether, their bank has blocked all international wires as they work on "developing" their platform more.

Scam?  Of course!
But you got to realize that nowadays, even scams can reach the top 20 on coinmarketcap, just look at bitconnect.
That's how crazy the crypto market is.

I've seen some people recommend dadi and arcblock.

I would be EXTREMELY careful with these too.
There is documented evidence that DADI plagiarized their whitepaper, even the technical aspects.
For arcblock, evidence of their tech is strangely absent.
On top of that, they use fake profiles for their team.
This isn't fud, it's already well documented.  It would be wise to thoroughly research those two instead of joining hype.

But, of course, this is a suggestion thread so let me throw out my suggestion.

Credits

Independent blockchain that allows autonomous smart contracts.
So what's the difference between this and eth, neo, or waves?
SPEED!
It has already been tested and documented to handle 1million transactions per second! Insane!

Some things I want to add to this are:

#1) It's important to take into account inflation.  Some ICOs will lock the price of the coin, like 1eth = 1000blahblahblah
This means that if the price of eth goes up, the actual cost per token will be more expensive.
On the other hand, ICOs that just do a fixed price, like 1blahblahblah = .10 cents, then it will be to your benefit to buy when prices of btc or eth are high.

#2) It will help you out immensely if you reach out to the devs themselves and the community.  Telegram seems to be the favored choice nowadays, but it is a place where you can get the most up to date info and speak directly with the team or with others who have substantial knowledge.  For me, being active in the community has told me heaps about the quality of an ico.

#3) Join the bounty campaign of the coin you are buying into.  This not only helps you promote your own investment, but helps you to be active in the community.  Also, it helps your cost per coin be reduced dramatically.

You have nothing to base that on because Cardano doesn't even exist yet.

Despite people ragging on ETH and claiming neo, waves, or ada is better, I still am a firm believer in the ethereum platform.

The #1 reason why is that it is PROVEN to work and already is integrated into everyday crypto use.
No other platform comes even close to the widespread adoption and success of eth.
To me, that shows way more value than speculation.

The #2 reason is that there is active development on ETH to improve it.
People went bonkers when cryptokitties showed that the platform doesn't scale well.
Yeah, it was bad, and it's bad now too, but there are real life projects developing now to solve this very scalability issue.
Namely, raiden network and chainlink.
I'm pretty confident that the problems will be fixed.

"Is crypto still fair?"

Ummmm, since when was crypto "fair"?
Also, since when was any kind of market "fair"?

Startups have the right to accept or reject whoever they want.
It can be argued that allowing anyone to participate can build trust in the company, but seriously, that's not the case.
It's not that way because when you strip it down, it's a we're in it for the money scenario, on both sides..

With that being said, it honestly just seems to be a technical problem.
Most startups have only 10 to 20 employees.  Going through thousands of KYC applications is likely to cause errors.
Although it does suck, it seems inevitable that there would be problems that pop up.

Best thing is to move on to another one.  There are so many legitimately good startups and ico lately that you are bound to find another one.

Raiblocks is great!
Seriously, once you use it you will never see btc or eth in the same light again.
ZERO fees, lightning quick, it's fantastic.

There's been the battle of DAGs for awhile now between Iota, Raiblocks, and Byteball with IOTA basically dominating.
But with recent technical problems with IOTA, raiblocks is positioned to take over.
And if you are a believer in blockchain 3.0 it is great currency to put your money in.

AS far as the price, it has reached the point of no return, it will never go back down to $2.
So I would say right now is a great time to buy.  You might miss out on a $9 or $10 price, but its looking like the market is setting up for another bull run so I personally think that it will only shoot up from now.

If it is only $70, I would put it into an ico.

$70 is way too little to make gains from short term trading.
And long term holding won't do much either.

If you are able to choose a successful ICO, you can expect to turn that $70 into $300 to $500 dollars.
Then reinvest that again into another ICO and on and on.

Once you get up to around $5000 worth of assets, than that would be enough to make significant gains through short term trading or long term holds.

As far as finding a successful ICO goes, there are literally hundreds of threads about that topic here on bitcointalk.  Just search it up.

Remember, everybody has to start somewhere, whether that be $70 or $50k dollars.
Don't let people tell you it's not enough.
Research, learn, understand, and you can turn any amount of money into more money.

Ingots are in the far future plans for Titanium.
Eventually, their plans is to move their services onto their own dedicated blockchain rather than the ethereum network which they are using now.

When they do so, they will mint a new token, Ingot, that will be used to operate their platform and services.
When that happens, BAR owners will be able to trade in their BAR for Ingots.
Michael Stollaire threw around 1 bar for 1000 ingots trade in but that could of course change.

They anticipate development on their own blockchain to happen Q4 of this year, after they release their main service IaaS in Q2 and finish preliminary testing.

The ambitions of Titatnium are HUGE.
This is just one example of that.
It was hard for me to believe that they could achieve any of it at first, but as I got to know the company and team better, it seems completely possible for them to pull off everything they are setting out to do.
We are talking internet 2.0 type stuff.

There is no law that says you can't buy into an ico.

The reason why ico's exlude americans is because the SEC classifies most ICOs as securities.
As such, the company itself is subject to various regulations and even potential obligatory reporting of their investors.
Basically, it is too much of a hassle for a company to deal with it and they don't need american money anyway so they ban us investors.

You yourself, will never be punished for investing.
However you can be penalized for not reporting your assets when you file your taxes.
Tax evasion is a serious crime and if you ever get audited, that is one giant shitshow.

If there is an ico you want to invest in, but they exclude us citizens, then you can either have someone but them for you, or sometimes you can even contact the dev team directly to work things out (only if you are willing to put in a substantial sum, we are talking 75k usd and up).
Of course, there are so many icos the easiest thing would be to find one that allows us citizens.

I've calculated out where I started, how long it took to get to where I am, the percent increase in my assets, and realized that if I follow this trajectory, I will have around a million dollars worth in assets by Q4 of this year.

I've previously posted my experiences dabbling in day trading and ICOs, and I am proud to have made a lot of progress.
On top of that, I am just a teacher, an English teacher at that so I started out knowing absolutely nothing about market economics, crypto tech, and investment strategies.
I am proof, that knowledge really is power and anyone can "catch up" if they are willing to put in their due dilligence.

The two avenues that have been the most profitable for me have been day trading during bull runs in the market and icos.

This last Christmas holiday when things were crazy and money was being thrown around like a funky  monkey, I was able to make around $800 usd a day by watching for trends and pumps and making short term buys and sells.  I was able to quadruple the amount of btc I own in no time.  Things like this are only possible when there is a high amount of volume and large amount of new money coming in.

For ICOs, I hunkered down and researched the crap out of hundreds of icos and had a string of successes.  I put in only 2 eth in ETN and earned around $7800 dollars.  I took that $7800 and put it into Appcoins and ended up with a whopping 2.5 btc.  Then I took that and put it into Titanium, which has just recently sold out.  Now, with the profits I will put it all into Arcblock and so on and so on.

Anyways, I figured an "inspirational" story like this would be good for the forum so here it is.
Happy trading everyone!

Listen, Wall Street is hilariously behind in the crypto world.  There they are, playing and profiting in their own world with their rules that set up to benefit themselves, and they haven't got a single damn clue as to the absolute atomic bomb that crypto is.

Just an example, it's been 6 years already and they are FINALLY doing thing like futures, hedge funds, and what not.
Meanwhile, early adopters have an insane amount of btc, startups are popping up left and right with quite a few absolutely smashing it.
And the average joe is jumping in.

Some wall street guy predicting btc going down that low is only waving his ignorance like a giant red flag.

BTC will eventually be replaced by something with better tech, but it still has a solid one to two more years of insane growth.
We are talking 40k, 60k, and 100k value.

So don't listen to some rich guy's opinion on something he knows nothing about.

What is it about daydreamers that fantasize about a future global currency.
Why on Earth would you want to have a globally centralized power?
ARen't most of our major problems today because of globally centralized super pacs putting their hands in everything?
To the point where it is even hard to find real food in America now?

For all of those that imagine a global cryptocurrency in the future, I say to you: get LOST!
The entire reason btc was created was to decentralize monetary systems.

Ripple, is especially evil because it is a corporate business made for corporate banks.
Just because it increases in value doesn't mean it had value.
When it increases in value, it means big corporations are manipulating the price and herds of wannabe "investors" are following like lemmings.

The day someone can make an everyday transaction using Ripple is the day Satoshi Nakamoto will climb out of his grave to slap all of us.

HORAY!!!

I just wish bitcoinnect would die already.
It is so blatantly a ponzi scheme, and TONS of coverage showing how much of a scam shitcoin it is, and yet it lasted so long and even cracked the top 10 a couple times.
To me, it was a constant reminder on just how greedy, stupid, and depressing a lot of the "investors" of crypto have gotten.

Now, expect to see all kinds of volatililty as people try and get out, and also some try to artificially pump it and keep it going.

In that way, it's like bch.  BCH has no relevance, is just a useless copycat, but goes up and down like crazy cause people are desperate for it to be something it is not.

What would really make me happy, is if the market finally grew up and stopped pumping money into complete smoke and mirror projects.
Yeah, that would nice.

How about you try things out for yourself?
You can approach it kind of like a research experiment

Keep track of how much fiat you have spent on what currencies, then use them to buy more eth, keep track of prices, fees, etc.
Wait a week, measure how much growth there was and how much profit.
Then compare that to what you would have if you would have just left things as they are.

Doing stuff like this gives you valuable insight and knowledge and will empower you to make your own decisions in trading.
If you don't, you could find yourself making too many decisions because their are too many bits of advice out there.

With that being said, BTC, ETH, and LTC all have tons of room to grow still and they are the three most liquidable currencies so any of them would be great really.

Sorry we disapointed you and are not going all in on Jesus Coin or Trumpcoin.

With that being said, I don't see anything conservative about crypto at all.
You want to go conservative than invest in some stock in Papa John's or Costco or something.

Even though crypto has become almost "trendy" it is still in it's infancy and the market is wild and unregulated.
Just even a year and half, two years ago, people would call a bitcoin investor crazy, now two years later people are all like, "Let's be millionares!"
That also adds to the risk and volatility of the market.

Even those that pick "conservative" choices are in huge risk of losing their investment.

Look, when a market has hundred of BILLIONS of dollars moving around and 90% of it is off of pure speculation.
Then if anyone jumps into that then they are a hardcore risk taker.

Oh nonononononon NO!!!!!

Don't ever think you're special or different.  Take the advice of the THOUSANDS of people who have been burned by pump and dump groups that you need to avoid them like the plague.

Better yet, take the advice of the TENS OF THOUSANDS of sane individuals who can spot a scam and a con a mile away.

But if you need convincing here it is.

Here is how pump and dump groups work:

There is typically one person or at max a group of 5 to 10 who start the "group".
They start it by buying up cheap, low volume coins on exchanges before even advertising for their group.
They set up a sell order list in small increments and amounts to ease buying and price pumping while they hold on to the bulk of their coins
They then go to bitcointalk, reddit, youtube, twitter, whatever to recruit.
Once they get around 100 to 150 people, they "announce" a coin that the group will pump then dump.
It is usually right before the scheduled pump and dump, sometimes even minutes before.
Everyone starts buying up the coins that the group founders had already purchased and listed, price shoots up.
When it's high enough the founders dump all the rest of their coins at once, this creates a sell order "wall" of sorts that starts to bring the price down.
Now that all the coins have been dumped on the group the market is just in desperate catch up (which will never happen).
Congratualtions, you just gave all your money to the founders of the group.

how do I know all this?
I literally SAW it happen a couple times on cryptopia.  It's quite a fantastic sight to see.  Especially when the "Wall" pops up.

Oh come on meanbean, grow up, it's not that hard.  The "hurdles" you need to jump over seem to be hurdles to you because you are too lazy to figure out how to get bitcoin.
Be a lemming and use coinbase, it's super easy.
Hell, you can even use localbitcoins, there's people that'll sell btc for cash, bank transfer, paypal, you name it.

As far as a recommendation for a good beginner exchange, I would recommend binance.
It truly shines when you trade in bnb.
Just move your btc there, switch it to bnb (make sure you pay your fees using bnb, it's 50% cheaper) and trade like a funky monkey.

Some exchanges to avoid like the plague are hitbtc (won't let you withdraw), cryptopia(crazy high fees), and poloniex(can't handle large volume).