I am not sure about all this. Too much risk, little reward. I will rather hold 10 years and just hope we will see 1 BTC at 50k one day!!

Until now, everything had indeed played out like this. Bitcoin has beaten everyone. However, I see BTC and ETH as 2 completely different players. Like a lightweight and heavyweight boxers. I think that ETH deserves at least a small chance. I do still think that BTC is a king and with Segwit and other solutions, Bitcoin is solving some of its major problems.

ETH is a platform that does work. Look at Golem crowdfunding from yesterday for example.

We will see everything. I also doubt that ETH value can go to 0 over the night. This means that I always have time to pull a plug. Of course if there is no serious bug, but that's a risk that must be taken!

Thanks for all the great answers so far.

Looking at your answers, I guess that the 21 BTCs number and then if we add 500 more ETHs on the side is a quite a high number. I must admit that I wasn't aware of that.

I am also quite far from this overall number. I have just passed a 10 BTCs on my complete crypto investment few weeks ago. I feel this is not bad as I am involved for about a year with crypto.

I might even reconsider my initial numbers of 21 and 500 and lower them a bit. Especially if the growth in price continues as it is growing this year. I wish Bitcoin was longer time in 200$ zone. This would make my investing much cheaper.

Than again it's not bad to set our goals really high sometimes, it makes us work harder to reach them!

Cheers everyone!

Hello everyone,

I am a strong crypto believer. Bitcoin believer first of all. I am trying to invest as I can afford, trying to earn bitcoins, etc, so I can make myself a nice crypto fund for my retirement!

After much thinking, I came to decide that I would be happy with 21 BTCs and 500 ETH for this future fund of mine. Why Ethereum you might ask? I am a strong Bitcoin believer but just in case, I think that one should hold some ethers as well. After all, this is a number 2 crypto and I was always thought that I should never keep all my eggs in one basket.

So I am curious to know other opinions. Are these 21 BTCs and 500 eths too much, too little, just right or whatever someone might think. After seeing answers, I might even re-evaluate my stash goals as I am still nowhere close to the numbers above, But I am working hard and trying to get there.

Mods if you feel that the topic doesn't belong here, feel free to move it to the right thread.

Thanks guys and all the best!

1. go to myetherwallet
2. go to send ether
3. check keystore file
4. select your wallet file (that's your private key that you can find it in the keystore folder)
5. enter the password and unlock your funds
6. send to the address you want

Just consider this address as compromised, move all your funds somewhere else and don't ever use it. I was shaking my ass off while doing this, as just a thought came to my mind what if myetherwallet is compomised, but I have done it without any problems.

31+ millions and there are huge chances that it will get error messages while syncing. I had encountered these error messages at 15 million mark. Then you have to start all over again. After weeks of trying to sync I finally gave up. This whole situation is just nerve wracking. I have used myetherwallet to send the funds to an exchange and have ordered ledger nano s where I will transfer my ether funds when I get it.

I love ether, I love bitcoin as well. I won't give up on ethereum, but I can't lose my nerves on syncing issues no more. Life is more precious than that!

Hey guys,

I have just switched to parity because geth doesn't work at all for me. I have synced and opened new mist 0.8.6 but I don't see my balance. What am I doing wrong? How to add an account and show my balance?

Last wallet I have used was 0.8.

Thanks guys

All in all it took about 60 blocks to confirm my transactions. I guess this isn't at all about luck or no luck but about full blocks, huge mempool, and block limit. All of this has raised fees considerably in the last few months. I did my research last night!

I see, thanks a lot. I always thought that 50 satoshis per byte is more than enough! I guess the times are changing in Bitcoin land and changing fast!

I used Electrum and I have paid 0.000113 for each of the two transactions.

Can someone please tell me why the last two transactions to this address are still not confirmed.

1EJZgZ2gYoYFDoK3mL8SLwHGD7BVJVuZTN

I think that I have paid more than enough fee.

Thanks

Can somebody please explain to me step by step how to sync from scratch using geth fast flag.

I am not that computer savy and clear and precise explanation would be appreciated. I can't find such clear explanation anywhere online.

Thanks!

So what is a point of paying then 10x more for ETH when we can buy 10x cheaper ETC and still have all of the features and a working product. I don't get it...

I really don't have time to follow all this fork saga, so let me better ask. What is a general consensus of the ETH devs? Will they support and take care of the ETC chain as well or this is out of question and ETC chain will have to find new devs?

Thanks for a clear and precise answer. I will create a brand new ETH address then that I will only use for ETH and transfer my funds there. Thanks!

Somebody please, thanks!!!

Nobody has still answered my question, so let me try rephrase it a bit.

If a new guy in crypto world wakes up this morning and decides to invest into ETH. He sends his btc to poloniex, gets himself 100 eths. He then downloads mist wallet and clicks onto YES I SUPPORT THE FORK when wallet starts the first time. He then withdraws his 100 eths to his new wallet address. Is this person safe from a replay attack or not.

The common sense tells me that he is safe since he is operating on the forked chain with an address that never existed before the block 1920000 but I want to make sure and check with the community. I don't want to make a mistake and scratch my head afterwards.

Thanks guys!

But I did split and sent ETC to poloniex. Now I want to protect myself. I see the guides above and thanks for them but to be honest, they are a bit complicated for me. Can I just discard old account and create a new ETH account and withdraw there from an exchange. Will I then be safe from replay attacks? Thanks!

Hey guys, so now we get to be scared about these replay attacks!!

What's the best practice to save oneself from this? If I send all my ETH funds to an exchange, create new ETH wallet address, discard the old address and withdraw all of my funds to the new ETH address, is there any chance that I can be hit by one of these replay attacks?

Thanks