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641  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: 5 Crypto Projects to Watch in 2020 on: January 28, 2020, 04:34:35 PM

Why is Facebook Libra already added on the list when its yet not launched?

I have no idea about Cosmos but BNB and MAKER are both good investment to consider when you are among of the people who sees coins in the top 100 are good for keeps. I would probably need more info of this Cosmos because as I checked its on 19th rank which is worth $4.51. It can't have that price and will rank among the top 20 without reasons.
642  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: On most altcoins disappearing on: January 27, 2020, 05:28:30 PM
As this topic is essentially about Bitcoin, not altcoins (as the tittle wily but deceivingly suggests), I think it is a correct board to start it in

Many of us are wondering what would happen if crypto vanished altogether (and probably having jitters at such a thought). Well, I'm not that cruel, and only propose to discuss the less evil problem, if a problem at all. That is, will Bitcoin as well as a few selected altcoins (say, a couple or so) benefit from the complete disappearance of the total majority of altcoins from the cryptocurrency arena?

As I'm inclined to think, a few remaining coins would benefit dramatically. My train of thought is as follows. We can  plausibly claim that Bitcoin would be far better off now if not for the huge pile of shitcoins that turned out outright scams at the end of the day. People wouldn't have lost their money in these schemes, and they wouldn't lose it if they invested it in Bitcoin instead. Simple and straightforward logic, right?

In the same vein it is natural to assume that the death of the altcoin world would eventually do only good to Bitcoin in the long run as people won't be losing money anymore. So what d'ya think?

I don't think so, no. Bitcoin wouldn't change much with or without the altcoins. The people who currently own altcoins wouldn't necessarily have that in Bitcoin regardless, they could go stocks or whatever. Less altcoins benefiting altcoins? Maybe, but not by much.

In any case its a moot point. Its like those that would want to see a single Linux distribution, or a single desktop environment, or a single web browser: Its never happening. The nature of Free and Open Source software promotes diversity by its very nature, altcoins will continue to exist even if they never achieve success and most will die anyway because there is simply too many of them and many have changed things for the worst (centralization, etc).

Scammers existed before Bitcoin, with bitcoin and with altcoins. Some people lost money in altcoins while not being a scam at all, they simply trusted something that the market deemed worthless.

Bitcoin would not be far better off without the altcoins, it would be, about the same. If there were no altcoins it means it wasn't free and open source and that would lead to a far much worse situation, that thankfully never happened. Closed proprietary software, or security by obscurity is absolute garbage (cryptographers had known that for decades).

Altcoins might wish there were less of them, but that isn't happening either. Nothing stops you from making your own coin, even if its literally just Bitcoin with another name (your own blockchain). That's the beauty of it. Now convincing the market that yours is worth anything, that's a whole other matter... It is like, trying to sell a product in a place with overabundance of said product.

Considering that most altcoins are turning into scam after years of milking the unsuspecting investors, it will be difficult for new teams to get listed in exchanges while new investors today are already warned about new altcoins. The old ones are going to be in the market if they continue to keep developing.

Less altcoins that will successfully listed in exchanges due to them asking more money will discourage new scam teams and ultimately BTC will be the most bought coins making its price surge. Its not just going to be good for BTC for for all the remaining altcoins.



643  Economy / Speculation / Re: 2020 price predictions on: January 27, 2020, 04:31:54 PM

Marc P. Bernegger, Fintech investor at Crypto Finance: " Min: $22,000 and Max: $55,000 "


I was a little amazed by how this one is so positive about the market of bitcoin.
Looking at the price, even with the minimum that he wants to happen is just difficult to reach.
Well, it is a prediction so better make it as far as possible.
What if it does happen?

$15k is my range before the end of the year. After that, it will be mayhem once again.
We won't really see much now but just full of prediction and might not reflect to the price.

15K is a bit conservative which is likely to be achieved before this year will end. The halving will make it possible I guess. It may really not that high compare to what it did in 2017 where there isn't yet Bakt that investors are successful in suppressing the price down.

But if it does that investors all over the world which has all the money comes into cryptocurrenies, those institutional investors in Bakkt will likely lose a lot of money.



644  Bitcoin / Project Development / Re: We are hiring on: January 27, 2020, 02:03:08 PM
Graphic Designer & Content Writer

Wanted to apply for this position. My telegram is @enhum

I'm interested to know  specifically what sort of project you have like the website as I'm willing to accept the tokens you may be paying but I'd like to know the details. Are you not publicly showing your linkedin profiles?
645  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: So this is what 21 million bitcoins look like. on: January 27, 2020, 01:45:47 PM
The bill design would look good on Tshirts, something to show when you attend in coin conferences.

Lucho Poletti who created this art painted the 2.1 quadrillion satoshi to be the internet money but will the 2.1 quadrillion satoshis enough for the entire world's currency?  Only the future could tell but I'm hoping every satoshi will be worth keeping in the future too.


646  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Japan reportedly working on a proposal to issue a national digital currency on: January 26, 2020, 08:14:00 PM
That is a good news for the world of crypto, well, Japan is most likely the best when it comes to tech and in any kind of business and it is a huge step for them to do something like this and hopefully, more and more country will follow the lead and adaption will be all over the place.

They were the first to have adopted BTC but they were too slow to decide to developing their own digital currency. China is the first to have decided go take action like digital yuan. You can see here that China is setting up that future for where the economy will go and Japan seemingly approved of this. Asian markets are the first to make national currencies in the trading markets.
647  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Will Digital currency of Banks can replace the Bitcoin? What is your opinion? on: January 26, 2020, 06:28:19 PM
No, blockchain technology built by central banks is centralized and there is still full control. You might know why someone prefers to be free, secure, and privacy maintained. bitcoin and alt are currently resistant to censorship, safe and decentralized. that is, we can call it an asset, day after day, fluctuating prices continue to surge. one of the reasons is that for the past 10 years the community has been very large, and it is not possible to just let it die.
when central banks make crypto they definitely aim to compete in this industry, but I think the people who were in the crypto industry earlier will continue to survive. maybe our choice is to continue using decentralized crypto, rather than having to use coins from banks, basically they are looking for investors to circulate money.

Those coins backed by the state and central banks are going to be forced to the people to used the digital currency. Government will just announce something like the fiat paper we normally use ill have to be returned to the banks for the bank will replace them with digital currency. If you won't submit the paper bills you have it will have no value in the future.  You as a citizen on this country will just have to download the app created by this central bank and then you can use the app to make transactions.

All these are just an example of what the government might do. Digital currencies will not replace BTC but it will allow government to track what we are doing with out digital currencies. If we buy BTC thru it, they may know.
648  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: How Can A Trader in this Business Protect Themselves Against Volatility Risk? on: January 26, 2020, 04:25:03 PM


You can actually make your price as the market price of BTC which no matter what the current price may be, you still have the exact amount to which you can't consider it loss. Buy order will at least be your best profiteering tool because you can always ask for more and this is the reason why during days when Iran and US has tension, the price in LBC Iran rocket up to 24K USD.
649  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Japan reportedly working on a proposal to issue a national digital currency on: January 26, 2020, 03:31:20 PM


China has huge economy almost all in the world needs China and if they demand something from trade relations, this digital yuan may really replace USD standard. Not the type that a country will be afraid of but this will change the references since China is bigger and economy flourish because of them and China now represents as the world leader.
650  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Altcoin Bleeding on: January 26, 2020, 02:53:39 PM
It will surely show more bloody market when BTC will rise up more since a lot of investor will sell their altcoin which is really the way to accumulate more bitcoin. And this might happen more when halving is near.

And i can see that only few altcoin can follow up when bitcoin pumps up and that's why we need to be always ready for what will happen in the future.
you are wrong. the market is not so healthy yet that only a few altcoins will start growing when we will see a bull market for bitcoin. during the next pump of bitcoin price, more than 50 percent of altcoins will also grow very strongly in price and only in a few years there will be only dozens of altcoins that will be truly valuable

The prices of the altcoins today are much higher than it was last year and its going to go up when BTC rises again. It does look bloody but the price weren't really dropping about 50%, EOS for example just dropped to 10% since last two weeks. The charts doesn't show any sharp decline since its just building up the buy orders so it may just be moving up like ETH, LTC, ADA and TR.
651  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Chinese Crypto Vs Corona Virus on: January 25, 2020, 04:59:14 PM

The news about coronavirus has been circulating for more than a week already but seem doesn't contribute to the crypto market. This isn't something of a war which people are more aware of whether they need to hurry and store their money elsewhere. In case of outbreak, its the opposite that people do, they get ready and hold fiat in case they need to pay hospital bills for treatment.
652  Economy / Trading Discussion / Re: What are the most popular cryptocurrencies for investors? on: January 25, 2020, 04:18:18 PM

Most traders is not all are going to find ways not to lose some coins means keeping BNB or other exchange coin which serves as tradings fees will likely to be kept in their exchange accounts. Many of us hers has Binance account then the most popular currency besides the obvious BTC I think is BNB and also the platform tokens like ETH and EOS. The two are very useful for users and developers as well.
653  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Investing in Alts instead of Bitcoin for far greater returns (or losses) on: January 23, 2020, 10:05:46 PM

With just a cent move of a price, you can either lose or win a big profit from an altcoin, having millions TRX in your account and the price just went 0.03$, you already doubled your money but needs the waiting. That's a good option but still with BTC you can have the assurance that you can make money with the ups and downs.
654  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Buying real estate with Bitcoin on: January 23, 2020, 09:35:08 PM
The seller of a real estate property can be considered a real bullish BTC believer if he does that. When BTC going up to $20k again and media rushes to report everything about the technology of BTC, there may really be people selling their properties for BTC. My parents house is going to be for sale if my siblings agree, this is if they are up to fight for their share.
655  Bitcoin / Development & Technical Discussion / Re: Proof of Work algorithm in the public chain. on: January 23, 2020, 08:01:04 PM
I think that proof of work is starting to become obsolete, proof of stake is better and delegated proof of stake seems to be the top contender. I know Bitcoin is the foundation but I think in the future better algorithms will come and replace both proof of stake and proof of work. You also have Byzantine Fault Tolerance and proof of weight. I think the best consensus algorithm is delegated proof of stake, Tron and EOS seem to have the most Dapps on the market and receive the most support.

But if we look at the market, which cryptocurrency is really having most of the market capitalization? It is still bitcoin, but their system is quite inefficient. What more if we could improve this to even transition to proof of stake, saving energy consumption, and making transaction even faster than before. Though, I highly believe the slow transaction speed of bitcoin is what makes it more like a store of value. If it would become faster, people could utilize it to even buy in groceries and conduct small transactions which in fact need its market price to be stable.

POW is the most powerful algo than POS, its not going to be obsolete. If BTC has to solve scalability its not going to shift to POS but an org will have to resort to LN like what coinbase did. There is no transition to POS, ETH afaik won't be fully going that route too but will have the dual algo but this is what I just read somewhere in reddit.
656  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Altcoin Discussion / Re: Pornhub Adds Tether Stablecoin as New Crypto Payment Option on: January 23, 2020, 07:06:42 PM

snip..
Pornhub is one of the most visited sites in the world and has many paid users. USDT is the most suitable cryptocurrency for transactions there because it is very stable..  hopefully, this can encourage mass use of cryptocurrencies in the future.

Of course it will. Considering that the paypal can no longer be used as a payment system, everyone will simply be forced to take advantage of other opportunities, but now there are not so many, and one of such opportunities is USDT. In any case, the models will not remain without payment, but now this payment will occur in cryptocurrency, which means more and more people will join it.

There is also the need for USDT to be liquid as well so that users and webmasters wouldn't have to go to the exchanges, this good for crypto for its the people online that will mostly use crypto for the wider adoption. Justin Sun should also be making partnerships with adnetworks to allow USDT payments because its going to make things easy, paypal is also making it difficult for webmasters to receive payments.
657  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Running an online Bitcoin gambling website on: January 23, 2020, 06:11:11 PM
There are projects in crypto like the EarnBet which they got a license to operate online from egaming curacao. I suppose its just what is needed to run a gambling website and maybe the hosting to be offshore location.  I'm not sure if it matters whether you are from Canada or anywhere as long as you got the license but I could be wrong I haven't run a gambling site myself.
658  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Service Discussion (Altcoins) / Re: Crypto Influencers Wanted! on: January 22, 2020, 08:05:51 PM


There are many of them if you search them on youtube itself. Some of them though not popular will ask jaw breaking amount of BTC also if you want to be promoted by them.  Considering that they aren't really well known, the podcast they do to the public are still getting a lot of views. My theory is that they just pay for the likes and subscribers and made themselves look as if an influencers.
659  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Is there any gambling site that allows betting directly from the wallet? on: January 22, 2020, 06:40:42 PM
I guess there is but it is too risky.

It sounds like it works like etherdelta, you're just going to input your eth address and private then you could Trade in an instant because it syncs both platform, however in my opinion, this is a double sided sword in which could be the reason why you will lose your money in the future, just in case hackers breach in their security and steal all of their players data to get what they wanted.

I think the casinos won't need the private keys for you to be able to bet like the casinos that allows metamasks. But its true that you will have to be very careful exposing private keys. You just can't trust those people, just don't send out private keys even to the developer of the project. EARNbet is just like one of this casinos, they don't ask private keys. Games in that casino though are just too few.
660  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Do you go to blockchain/crypto events? on: January 22, 2020, 06:10:47 PM
I would go to these events if they had any close to where I live.  They seem to be centered around the major metropolitan areas around the world and are hard for most of us to get to.

Yeah, they are typically in bigger cities since those are the hubs where you would find the most people. Do you watch the events via a broadcast or do you simply neglect them?

There are events in the nearby city where I live and I have tried attending to some of it. I was just there to observe and see whether I can be part of the community.  I remember the names of the people I met and sometimes watch their youtube videos they posts too. What I don't like though is that they are asking for fees when you attend. There are NEM communities in my country which is quite busy into developing their own projects.
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