Litecoin has been increasing its value, and ETH is doing the same. I believe maybe ETH can win BTC Cash in some point of this year.

Of course in crypto all is always speculation. To me , it will be 50% between Litecoin and ETH, for they are the most stable and competitive altcoin to me.
 
Now, Ripple can be a great investment, for it is cheaper and has increased its price from cents to a dollar and then to cents back again, so you can wait for ripple to fall, buy, and be confident it will raise again in no time. The problem? Ripple is not decentralized, so, can it even be considered as the same level as the other two?

Maybe if you build and DNA reader in your computer, you just have to lick a stick and put it into the devise, so there is the one possibility, but, of course anyone can steal your DNA information from a cup of coffee , for example…

But the point should be… Why? In the world of control and lack of privacy building a new system of recognition… is there any point in doing so? And… as for crypto, it is not supposed to be anonymity the whole point of its existence? (even since they are not).

I am not judging here, I´m just really curious about the idea behind this.

Well, where there is money, there is “pishing”. I don’t believe the problem is about Bitcoin, not even about the wallet. The problem is about internet security and how we move in it. For instance: a wallet itself is designed to be really secure. But if you use windows, and commonly download games, tv serials, music (whatever..) from insecure webpages… well, then probably you will be “phishing”. Any hacker will probably be able to get into your computer and just get a copy of your wallet.dat file just with a conventional malware. The point is to get those private information really really hidden and, if possible, encrypted.

Recently there was this new about how hackers has stolen crucial information from wallets by using google. Yes, google: they just bought google adds in order to get position in the search console. When a wallet use typed words like “Wallet/data…), google suggested in the first place a corrupt address, for the hackers really did a great job positioning their fake wallet address. Now, the page looked the same as the original, so the common user put all the data, as always. The problem: the user doesn’t now there is not the original webpage, this is not “blockchain”, for instance, but “blckchain”. Now, if you don’t put enought attention, you will enter all your private data, and you will be robbed, for sure.
So the system is the same to those who want to steal money (any kind of money) from users in the internet. Same thing happens everyday with bank accounts, and, since BTC is money, is happening now with BTC.

The difference? How to recover your lost BTC? Thats the hole point, I'm afraid… since there is not such a program of protection as in banks, there is much less possibilities you can get back your BTC.

Really interesting, thanks for sharing. For what I’ve read in European newspapers, even the Spanish government was trying to get the BTC discussion into the G20 meeting the next year. The concern what about how the European Central Bank (and others entities) where going to approach to the BTC “problem” (Spaniard president words).

So those are really good news. In my opinion, Draghi is making such an important point: BTC is not for our concern. This is just The Director making clear his position about Cryptocurrency, a promising one, maybe, for it includes Europa itself.

1. Be patient. Sometimes impatience is the worst enemy if you are a newbie.
2. Do not go into panic selling: if you think you are loosing money, just be patient again. Sometimes is better to wait and think in other things before going into a panic sell (selling in a lower price just because you think you are going to loose all your money).
3. Never invest money if you don’t have enough. I mean, if you really need this money for eating, just wait to have some more, some money you can just forget for a while. The less you care about the money you invest, the high  profit you get.
4. Do not trust anybody. Be careful with people offering an easy way to earn money in crypto. Be careful, as well, with the ones who offer to gamble with your money.
5. Understand the difference between a trader and a forex: the first is mean to exchange coins, the second to invest in them by groups... with trade your coins can lose value but you hold the same amount of coins, and with forex you can lose it all

This is really sad to read whats happens, my condolences.

Well, even when the computer destroyed, maybe there is a way the hard drive is still operational, and you can just connect it to another computer and have access to your fathers wallet.
Now, be patient, do not rush, and if you need help, it is better to look for someone in who you can trust, and much better if you know the person physically, ok? (a friend of a friend, a family member…)
There is a dramatic situation and they are always bad guys trying to get advantage…

Also, if you have his phone, maybe he had a wallet installed on it.

Try to search on the disk for wallet.dat file, or privatekeys backup, even some people have files with their wallet passwords as backup.

Hope this information help, any question you have post it on this forum and we will help you, but remember to not post sensitive information like privatekeys or things like that.

It depends in how much you trust on the guys who will holds the money for you...

The problem about save money on banks, is that they can freeze your account, that mean the money they are holding for you isn't you money any more, they can just block it or take it

This way i think is better to inves in things like cryptos or metals where you hold the investment and no one can freeze it or take it from you.

I don’t believe this is a great news for cryptocurrencies, since Ripple is a centralized coin -not free at all-, just based on blockchain, but really different from other cryptocoins, as Ethereum or BTC.

In the other hand, this is ok. Crypto world does not need banks, for the entire philosophy about blockchain is the freedom of money. If banks take part on it, it will be with the certain purpose of getting more money, still from the people and getting control of something that was born with the opposite will.

This is funny, China is the country holding the bigger amount of crypto, and of course BTC. Even it is estimated that at least the 30% of mining resides in china.
But… why, then, they have been banning BTC from the last months?
Well, of we make a tiny investigation, we can find how the Chinese central bank (People´s central Bank) has been researching about blockchain at least from 2014. Since they want to create a digital Yuan, I believe they needed to cut off BTC investments in order to convince the great industries to invest in the new  Digital Yuan.
Meantime, the still hold a big amount of BTC - and getting more and more by creating whales and lowing its price- and they have earned billions by mining and by trading…
so… whats next?? Is BTC going to be the “support” of Digital Yuan?

I believe this recently speculation, the dramatic changes in the BTC price,  its “falling”, is directly influenced by China. Since they have the biggest power of mining, as well as the bigger amount of BTC, they can do “whatever they want” with it. Now, is that related (the banning) with the new digital chinese coin? I don’t know, but maybe. But, anyway, it is funny that  China still holds the biggest amount of BTC and at the same time they created a new chinese Crypto directly based on Blockchain…

It depends on the country of residence, but anyway you can find a list of the cards from 2018 in the follow link: http://www.bestbitcoincard.com
There are many, as you can see. I have one and I have never used it, because is not accepted at anyplace in my city …yet (hopefully)

But i recommend you to use a bitcoin wallet and not a debit card, if you want to use your btc to pay in some shop you can use your cellphone as wallet for this.

As far as I know, blockchain 3.0 is a bold project created in 2017 (not launched yet?), and pretends to be the next Blockchain (we can baptize bitcoin as the blockchain 1.0, Ethereum as 2.0 blockchain, and the one which is coming as 3.0 blockchain).
It is suppose to be faster, more stable, etc, for it is based in DAG networks instead UTXO. The velocity is supposed to be increased.

Is's (supposedly) going to be much friendly to small payments, because fees will become insignificant. The proposal is about making cryptocurrencies easier to manage in order to get more and more users, so if it goes well, maybe they accomplish their goal, and crypto will be used as current fiat to buy stuff, eat in a restaurant, & co.

And also, it pretends to be the new way of database. I believe it is similar as the internet 3.0, where everything is connected to the internet (as refrigerators, for instance).

You can see they pretend to create a hole new database system directly based on blockchain, instead of sql, and some other application:


https://s17.postimg.org/sq6d67clb/img.jpg

So, if it works, blockchain will become much more  useful to everyday life…

Even if this is legit, $800,000 is too greedy for the man behind it... other thing to think about is the odds behind the game, is a $20 bet on the chance to win of 0.001%. Some dice sites pay x99000 for that chance while here we only get x50,000.

So, not a good deal at all. If the $2,000,000 had a collateral maybe this would be a fair thread, but i don't think the guy behind the game have a $2,000,000 collateral.

And what about provably fair, we can't be sure this will be rigged or not   

Do you have the original password you generated when you created the wallet.dat? if you have it then there shouldn't be a problem for the import.
 
But what i recommend is to get a backup of your privatekeys, that way you will be able to import your addys to any wallet in the future, no matter the operative system or the wallet by it self, at end all of them support importing a private key. 

We have to make a big market. Now it have a value of $148,570,372,920.00, that amount of money makes governments think it twice before blocking it.

At end this is the economic war, and bitcoin is a nice empire ready to fight vs big monsters. No one can stop this train.   

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So, now the difference is clear, This is not a business competing vs Amazon, because Amazon let users deal with other users while aida makes users deal direct with manufacturers, For sure this will offer a nice price for the users.

Good luck with the project, is a great idea with lot of work to do, but a good team to do it 

To learn something like that you need to get back to school and learn economy or finance, There you will learn some math methods to work with the stats. But those methods have a % error, they can't read the future at all.

Some years ago a read a joke about economists; They spend 50% of their time predicting markets and money, and the other 50% to explain why their predictions fail  

But this guy is right, crypto is a different market:


For cryptos you just have to keep an eye on the chart 24/7  

I think the decentralization is the best feature of the coin. Is great to see decentralized money, because no one can freeze it. No banks and no govs can avoid you make a  transaction with bitcoin.

The second nice feature is the code by itself, I don't know if you have experience with bitcoin core (bitcoin-cli). But the fact that anyone can code transactions is an awesome feature too. All those onchain and ofchain systems now day makes it friendly for all.

The best way to monitor markets is to keep an eye on them... The hard part is to know when is the right moment to buy. i Will put as example bitcoin; Now we see the price at $8,650 and for those who follow the markets this is a great price because if you remember a couple of months ago it was at $20,000. But is this the lower price to buy? and the answer is no, because it can drop more... now, if you see the price going up back to $15,000 then we could say 'at $8.6k was the right price to buy'.

Is hard to know if the coin will crash or bump, sometimes news gives us some tools for speculation. But this weird crypto world has a lot of surprises for us.

So, i could tell you now is a good time to invest in ETH and XMR before bitcoin bumps again.