About the correlation of market cap size and the volatility, this is not entirely true.
Just think how the market cap is calculated... the total amount of coins issued is multiplied by the average of the last traded price among multiple exchanges.
In theory, XRP could have the same market cap with any shitcoin that issues a 13 billions of coins in the first block and then a single coin is bought by just 1 person for 1$. And there you have it, a 13 billion market cap coin is born with a volume of 1$.

I believe the main reasons XRP is usually less volatile is (A) because it's (arguably) more decentralised than many PoW coins that are mined from big farms in their early stages and (B) because a big amount of coins is held by a company that knows about finances.
XRP is a strange case of centralisation and decentralisation at the same time!

However it's not like XRP is not moving with the rest of the market when the market direction shifts, what I've noticed is that it's not affected greatly from daily spikes.

Sorry for not updating this sooner, but no one asked me anyway so I guess it's ok !
The support was supper helpful, kind and quick. The payment was shown in the blockchain in time but for because of a visual bug it was not shown in my account's page. They fixed it quickly.

Also this week's payment was received in time.

Is this for real guys?

ocp(sha256t)   0.10588823 OCP   0.212%   0.00003903   29 hrs 13mins   Immature (71/251)
ocp(sha256t)   0.03084010 OCP   0.062%   0.00001137   29 hrs 14mins   Immature (72/251)
PlusOne(hmq1725)   0.21933088 PLUS1   0.439%   0.00119566   96 hrs 57mins   Immature (37/101)
PlusOne(hmq1725)   0.12368133 PLUS1   0.247%   0.00067424   99 hrs 8mins   Immature (38/101)

4 days later PLUS1 is confirmed by 33% ? Then it'll take 12 days to confirm, then some time to push it to the exchange and then some extra time to return me my chosen coin of payment.
Are you fortune tellers and you periodically put this coin on the top of the list of profitable coins? Can you see 2 or more weeks ahead?
Just remove these shitcoins please if you can't trust their chains to be confirmed within a few couple hours. Anything more than 10 hours is extreme, even for shitcoins standards. Let alone days.

I'm using Rainbow Miner and I've tried to exclude these from the mined coins, I hope it will work or that you'll fix these.

I don't know how trustworthy Bitfinex's or any exchange's volume reports are.
I know the webpage visit rate is not a precise compare tool, but for an exchange which was reporting about 10 times more volume than Cryptopia (not sure of the exact number), Bitfinex didn't have any different traffic compared to Cryptopia.
https://www.similarweb.com/website/cryptopia.co.nz?competitors=bitfinex.com

I'd like to see older data but unfortunately I can only see that since September, Bitfinex and Cryptopia had the same amount of visitors. Now how big amounts was each visitor trading... is something we can't know for sure.

This has been asked a dozen times, though I understand it that you can't scroll through the many pages to find it posted here and there.
It's mainly because in the early period the inflation looks a bit too high and the price can't be sustained without broad enough acceptance. Now we have many coins in circulation and since the coins was too profitable for mining initially, most miners dumped without second though.

Now we have a down momentum but it should stabilise any moment now.

Judging by the price action of LTC at least, there seems to have been trades with old orders which were set on old prices until someones made easy money buying the pre-pump price and then selling in market price.
I calculated about 400 LTC being bought under market price.


It's not that they move quickly but that they do amateurish and stupid things.
How can it be hard for them to cancel all open orders? Why do they allow trading but not depositing/withdrawing in the coins they enable?

AAAAAaaand it's weekend! Time out, everyone's going home. Oh and we'll keep your money for the time being because we didn't have time to check the unnecessary papers you sent us.
Thanks for doing business with us!

-The HitBTC team

....

Or did they not even reply at all today?

And then there are those which are not worth bothering to hack!
I think Cryptopia might pass from all those 3 types eventually!

Alright, I won't insist then. But how would you advice the team to make it easier?
I'm honestly curious because as I said I found it easy to use so I can't think of anything to make it better. Maybe the ARK team has the same problem, they're too familiar with their wallet so they don't see the need to change anything if people don't ask.

I wouldn't trust Huobi to report real volumes. I don't mean anything bad for ETN, that's just me not trusting any of the exchanges that report hundreds of millions, some even billions of $ in trading every day during a silent flat market.
I don't have any bases for this, but it's a fact that they can fake volumes by trading between themselves.
So if they can do it, then I believe they also want to do it.

Look at the trading between Huobi Token and BTC, it's the exact same figure. It's like 98% of the BTC traded is to buy/sell Huobi Tokens!
(link: https://www.coingecko.com/en/exchanges/huobi)

I'm happy with KuCoin, Kraken and Bittrex, so no reason to go to a Chinese exchange with fake volumes. Thankfully ETN is traded in at least one of my 3 favourites (KuCoin) so all's good!

Last time it was because of the rise of ICOs, right? ICOs were a bubble dream among people hoping to get rich fast. Though we may see ICOs returning whenever cryptocoins get mass attention again, they'll be more strictly regulated and a lot of people will have experienced or will have heard of the many scam ICOs, so I don't expect them to be a driving factor behind Ethereum. There are also many similar solutions now like ARK.

But I believe there's a more important factor supporting Ethereum, and that's the DAPPs. A driving factor with substance could be the gaming sector going mainstream.
I'm enjoying playing Axie Infinity right now and I see a lot of new players joining the Discord without prior knowledge of cryptocoins, they just come because of a great game and now they're buying Ethereum in order to play.

As this space moves forward, so could Ethereum. But don't expect 1000$ prices, if we take into account the amount of coins that are being issued, I believe this will be a TOO HIGH price to reach very soon.
Since I don't expect a rally sooner than Q4 2019, I take into account the coins that will have been issued by that time.

I believe that a day or two before the deadline, the price will explode and reach my 6223$ target, retesting the previous support!

Well... I feel like I've bet on a horse that's in the 4th position in the last lap, it still has a chance to overtake the 1st position!

You won't find official financial data anywhere because they are not a publicly traded company (not listed in a stock exchange).

But just think of this... they're asking 4000000 DOT to get a coin listed, for 2018 this was averaging to 8 BTC but during the 1 month of peek in the start of 2018 it was averaging 16 BTC for a single listing.

This is their listing announcements: https://support.cryptopia.co.nz/csm?id=kb_category&kb_category=6313f58bdbeddf009990f6fcbf96190d&spa=1
However they haven't put dates on their old announcements, so in order to see when was the coins listed I went to their BTCT ANN threads and guess what? Their list of announcements is not ordered by date, it looks pretty random as far as I can tell! (what a mess)
Therefore I'll do a guess and say that out of the 95 coins they've listed, 50% were listed during the peek of 2 months. Let's say about 40 coins in two months.
That'd be 640 BTC in just January, or $6.4m - $9.6m depending on when/if they sold for dollars.

Before the hack, during most of 2018, their average volume was about 7m daily. With 0.2% trading fee that'd be a daily income of 14000$. On top of it there's an incalculable amount they receive from the withdraw fees which are usually much higher than the network's real fee.

We can't know what their expenses are, but judging by their slow support they shouldn't have a lot of employees to pay.

So yea... with trading happening 24/7, they were making about 420000$ from trading fees every month and with an average of 2.3 listings / month (after January) an extra 18.4 BTC (if for 2018 1BTC = 6000$, then about 110400$).

So even if they didn't sell during the price peek, they were making about 0.53millions every month during the bear market based on the averages of 2018. I'd say those are some conservative estimations though, I believe their income was higher as long as they sow the price drop coming and sold earlier.

Now, there should be a more precise estimation of their loses but I couldn't find it, please let me know of a newer source than what I've found which is this,

I respectfully disagree with that statement. Their wallet might not be a very quick point-click-wallet solution, but it's very simple thanks to its initial wizard which guides the users step by step with short and clear explanations and beautiful graphics.
I find it well balanced between being simple and powerful.

As for hardware wallet users it's as simple as just plugging your wallet to the USB and opening the wallet!

Oh and also another feature I like is that through ARK's wallet we can connect to any other sidechain built on ARK by just submitting the sidechain's network data.

What? Just a meme? No context? I guess I'll take it as you're believing I'm against Bitcoin.

I'm not saying Bitcoin is doomed, it has many years ahead of it to do upgrades and the necessary adjustments as the community sees fit.
But so can GRIN do adjustments. So I was comparing the current outlook of Bitcoin's and GRIN's reward systems.

You can't deny that there is a risk with constantly reducing the miners' payment in a 100% PoW system, can you?

Hello! Thanks for the heads up, I guess my initial post wasn't clear enough by just saying "I just read something very interesting in their Monetary Policy explanation!"
I was referring to one of GRIN's official docs, and to be precise I'm linking to the exact paragraph I quoted: https://github.com/mimblewimble/docs/wiki/Monetary-Policy#tail-emission-may-be-required-for-long-term-stability

From their official site (pool page), this is their discord: https://discordapp.com/invite/n45n6Jj
And what do you mean the coins didn't come? If you want you can share the miner settings here and I'll let you know if something is wrong.

They should have taken some LTC back from inactive traders in a "legal but unethical" way at least, though 400 LTC is a drop in the water I guess.
Look at that: https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange/?market=LTC_BTC
They've lost 50% of their LTC but suddenly they re-enabled trading of it yesterday. It seems that a total of 400 LTC were bought under their value, either by the few users who were unlucky enough to hold BTC in Cryptopia or from Cryptopia themselves.

But I'll be honest... judging by the timestamp of their tweet and the time of the LTC-BTC trading, I believe that the tradings was done by users and not from Cryptopia.

Thanks for advertising them, I've tried them since I'm using their signature and I'm really happy with Xch4nge's serivces so far.
But they have an (I think official) thread here already: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5080825.0 

This is getting better and better!

• First they lock your coins with "maintenances"
• Then they bring down the site because of a hack
• Then they reopen the site, having traded people's coins for bellow their current value for a "promise" without value
• And yesterday they suddenly re-enable trading without a prior notice and without the option to deposit and withdraw, allowing themselves to sell the shitcoins they hold (and have now dropped in value) to people who haven't cancelled their old orders; selling them in the old price in cases where it was higher or buying the cheap in cases where it's now more expensive.

I was of the opinion that Cryptopia is not doing shading business and they're just a bit incompetent... maybe I should reevaluate this opinion of mine...