Thanks Wapinter, as posted earlier today, I can wait for payment.

There is one thing from reading various threads on the forum that
everyone should have learned by now, it has been mentioned in
numerous threads relating to trading and crypto in general . . .

Patience

yes great news indeed, although South Korea stated earlier in January
that they were not going to ban crypto trading outright. AFAIK they
were looking at tightening up trading without verifications
but that news was manipulated.

+1 - I can hang on until Legolas supply funds!

Also Could you reserve a spot for "fromholland" if there is one available?

Well im not surprised at all. Pension fund managers are making
investments in all sorts of industries and options.

It is good news though, they are obviously confident that there
will be a return of investment.

So we all can be confident going forward if we are not already
that the value of our "investments" will be substantially more
than they are today.

I'm happy I dont need a pension fund manager 

Yes there is a possibility to join, there are 2 spots open for full members.
Read the OP and make sure you apply with all the criteria in place.

no no no,

just stay away from it rather than trying to scam others with that $50 or $100.

Just to make those who are not in the know clear on the workings of these groups,

If I buy a virtually unknown coin at maybe 50 satoshis and form a pump group
promising members a fantastic return on their investment. What those members
dont realise is that I own a colossal amount.

As soon as the pumping starts and all the members are pumping their funds into
this unknown coin I will DUMP my holdings on the market as soon as the pumping slows.
The effect will be that the price will drop so fast very few will react quick enough
to sell and I will be the sole winner and walk away with a big smile.

Its a great idea but fantastically unethical and unfair - human nature.

Chat over

the fear and panic is still with us. I think the op's statement is incorrect,

Firstly there are very few regulations applied to crypto.

Some countries ban exchanges but not all countries and not all exchanges.

Taxation is starting to appear in a few countries, Japan, Australia and South
Korea and possibly a few others that I am not aware of, Europe possibly
looking at it. But it is painful and necessary for a country to function.

Facebook is only one part of Social media, Twitter is still happy to continue.

Crypto has come through a lot already, they can try and stifle it but it
will ultimately survive . . . if everyone believes and continues regardless.

I dont think its fair, but realistically facebook cannot moderate
Crypto ads and decide what is legitimate and what isnt, hell we
ourselves gave a difficult time doing that at times.

It really is unfortunate that the scammers are ruining things
for the above board legitimate projects.

Facebook and social media in general is a great way to reach
new potential crypto users and this move is not great and i
dont even like facebook.

crypto currencies are the future or at least blockchain technologies.
now they will also be used as a means of control but of course I am
talking about the government created type of blockchain technologies
and crypto currencies.

Fortunately for everyone who is serious enough about Bitcoin and its
partners it just happens to be DE-centralised and as a bonus
UNREGULATED!

as much as they try yo regulate it it cannot be done.
Peer-to-peer trading with unregulated payments will live on beside
the regulated ones.

I can recommend EXODUS

I have been using it for over 12 months without issue.
There is also the function to trade within the wallet via
SHAPESHIFT because Exodus also supports Bitcoin, Dash,
Litecoin along with about 8 or 10 other altcoins.

They describe their system as a Multi asset wallet

Security is good also because you have access to the
private keys and can run a scheduled backup of the
system also.

There is one caveat though, it is not open source, the
developers do not release the coding, they control that!

Check it out > https://www.exodus.io/

There is definitely a chance for Monero to grow. It is the one of the
preffered coins for anonimity and this feature will always have a
demand.

Personally i was going to buy more Monero at $94 not so long ago,
actually not even 3 months ago but it surged to over $300 and
has not returned back. I bought more now before the ciming upturn.

I think it is a real solid coin with good adoption already.

I would like to confirm that i have received payment for week 2.

In the beginning of all this mess the south korean government stated they
were NOT going to ban crypto, but that was REPORTED INCORRECTLY which
led the panic selling and to where we are today.

Taxing crypto is a funny one really, on one hand it legitimizes the industry
but on the other is introduces a degree of regulation. is that a good thing?
I know a lot of people will not like either taxation and regulation.

Welcome on board and enjoy the learning curve.

Firstly you need to visit the beginners section here >
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0
Get yourself familiar with how the forum works.

Secondly dont trust anyone unless they have a
positive trust rating and a proven record.

If you want to progress to higher membership
levels you are going to have to get involved on
The forum in an active way and post good
constructive content.

Best of luck.

I would say the majority of people invest in ico's for a short term gain.
I have seen it a few times where people have dumped their tokens as
soon as the tokens hit an exchange.
So i suppose that is one reason.....short term return

If you consider the long term roadmap of some ico's the potential is
great, to be an early adoptor with tokens bought at the cheapest
price the return is potentially massive.

What BAN are you referring to?
South Korea are not going to Ban crypto. This was a statement
from South Korean officials on the 15th of January, I repeat they
stated that they "were not going to issue a ban"

Now what was reported on the same day conflicted with this
and sent the markets into panic.

What South Korea propose is simply taxation. The long term effects
I recon is that other countries will follow South Korea's Lead.

This however is nothing to get afraid of if you are holding crypto
fro the longterm, its only a consideration if you liquidate your
crypto into fiat.

stop panicking 

The idea behind the merit system is to increase the quality
of posting by all members.

You will only earn merits by people who either like or agree
with what you have posted or it your post offers technical
and/or relevant advice on a topic.

The length of you post will be taken into consideration by
either your bounty campaign manager if you are participating
in one or by your activity rating I suspect.

So there are two aspects of progression to consider, ACTIVITY
and MERIT

I use 2 wallets which both have Shapeshift built in and
coinomi also has Changelly built in also. TBH I dont pay
too much notice to them because I rarely trade inside
my wallets although what h0lybyte states above
about Changelly and verification is a good point.
No ID verification = less hassle.

I agree with employing a campaign manager who has experience.

I can vouch for Wapinter > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=527272
who is managing various facets of the legolas bounty campaign [links below]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2711254.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2711000.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2705913.0

I have also worked on various yahoo66278 signature campaigns in the past.

yea I read this earlier. its better than a blanket ban but it may take
away a bit of the allure of getting into crypto in a way. Im not so
sure this means regulation on a wide scale.

I think this is good news as we will see some people in south korea
coming back into crypto and I understand a countries need to
implement regulation to curb some people stupidity and greed but
it does to a point introduce governments meddling and regulation
in what we would percieve as that which was to be a stand alone
peer-to-peer payment system as was initially invented.