Well, the only reason I would go for it is for pure speculative power. It is the same reason I bought a few tokens like Ripple and Verge, issued by entities I know will manipulate the price. Go in for the profits, leave before they ruin the project. Yes, that means I will never hold those tokens, but it does not mean I will not buy them to make short term profits.

Not necessarily. Some merchants might just prefer to accept bitcoin and then just keep it as bitcoin, and sell it manually when the price is right. This is another way of holding and investing. Spend fiat on the business, accept Bitcoin at a premium rate (in actual effect they obtain more bitcoin than if they just bought it themselves since fees and rates are slightly higher if selling in bitcoin).

But yes, the one thing preventing is volatility. But it works both ways. Sometimes you end up earning more, sometimes less.

ETH is particularly vulnerable to regulations because it is led by founders and have known centralized developers. These are identifiable by authorities unlike Bitcoin where it has no leader. People say ETH is more decentralized because of mining power and nodes are more distributed, but that means quite little when it comes to regulations. Plus all the ERC20 tokens on top of the blockchain, very delicate indeed.

How about. Get a real job. Do something you love and enjoy and expand your skills and earn real money? Then go participate in ICOs if you want, or just buy the tokens you like. You spend time with colleagues and other people and learn and grow.

If you only do bounties, airdrops, all of that. You learn nothing. You spam the pages everywhere. People get sick of your postings. Then value drops, and you also end up with nothing.

Yeah, of all the alt coins, ETH always demonstrated how easy it was to pump and then dump. I called a $750 dip after it reached $820, but sort of got caught out and did not expect it to surge below further, but this is what happens when BTC crashes, pulling almost every alt beneath the water. I only see Pivx in green today, not even Monero survived this mysterious dip.

Bitcoin will not live forever, but forever is a really long time. I might maybe at maximum live for another 100 years, and that is not enough time for anything to happen even to fiat and banking, but by that time Bitcoin should still be reaching its heights and apex.

Do not worry guys, nothing will replace Bitcoin while we are alive. Worry first about the US dollar or your country's currency, before worrying about baby Bitcoin

I thought that news was already in the circulation a month ago? Now they did a new research on 8 major countries including US UK, south Korea and Japan and guess what? these millennials all already bought their bitcoin, and now they want to hold. Just like you said, for retirement. So that is good news for me because it means new people into crypto are not all speculators but also holders. Of course I am sure many of them will sell when Bitcoin hits 20k again but that means we get to see holders for a year or so.

No one is going to kill anyone, exactly. Everyone is struggling enough on their own, no one has any time or resource to devote to killing a competitor, if Eth even is the competitor to tokens like Wave. The only alt I know actively trying to "kill" someone it sees as a competitor is Bitcoin Cash and those guys have a lot of money and resources to do so. So do not bother asking ourselves about this aspect of competition. Mind our own project, focus on doing our best, and let the mainstream and market speak of our success.

I agree that crashes are best times to add to holdings but we should all be aware that our policies and principles should not change BECAUSE of a crash or even because of a spike. If your policy is to hold or to keep a long term target price, then of course buy the dips. Cheaper coins, more roi if the price you target is achieved later. But if you are trading short term, and it crashes, then let your stop loss trigger. Reevaluate positions and decide. It is never too late to do anything.

Never expected Bill Gates to say stuff like this. I thought he already learnt his lessons from the naughty past of windows monopolies and now trying with his wife Melinda to do good for a better world with his foundation, but you cannot remove the dark parts of his heart I guess. He maybe feels people forgot all about him and so he makes these types of statements,,, so the world remembers oh he was a genius. He should go buy futures contracts and prove himself wrong.

Yes, early research has shown that more people are entering into crypto, and younger generations are more keen to buy, but the very latest research has shown that these same young people have also already stopped. Meaning, they have already bought or invested, but will no longer add new coins to their holdings. This mean? They are holders. Good news still, as it means they will not be selling.

I am what I consider an optimist, but only for the long term view. I actually do NOT think we will land on the moon this season or even the next season, all the way to 2019 at least. There are so many signs to read into, both for the moon and for the depths of hell. But for the sake of the future, we all need to hope the moon does not happen so soon. Crypto needs months and years to stabilize and it has not even had time to take any breaths!

Hi OP thank you for your offer again which I saw. I will not accept and hang on to my tokens for now. As I said, they are currently even only 10% or less of their highest value, so I was willing to let go for a little more but after all, maybe I do not mind waiting a while more as it is only a few dollars worth of ETH to miss out on. Good luck with your other offers.

Thank you for the link. Yes,,, I think also that many sites and not just exchanges are quite poor at meeting the benchmark levels for good security. And even if they do, the failure point always lies with human error. Mt Gox for example, just left it all to one person to keep everything on a USB stick. The hacks of Korean exchanges also always happened via the terminals of their employees who got infected with hacker malware and never realized it.

So we still wait for things to move to decentralized exchanges. I wonder when this will come.

No, no hold it til it reaches $10k. Get all your fork coins. In fact, buy more Bitcoin Cash because since coinmarketcap stopped listing Bitcoin.com, it seems there is still plenty of BCH to buy and the poor innocent people who bought BCH thinking it was Bitcoin need to sell theirs. So keep on buying it, people, if you really believe it can be the alternative to Bitcoin, put your money where your faith is. That is how to do it!

I love Waves, probably just my third favorite altcoin after Monero and Litecoin,,, but even I do not think it will reach $100 this year or even next year. Ethereum set the pace but it had few competitors. Just let Waves mature naturall and give it a few more years before thinking about its direction for pricing. Of course, if Bitcoin goes up and Waves can maintain satoshi price levels, then this could happen sooner than expected. But I do not feel this is likely or healthy.

I missed this news! Holding Waves for a long time (not too long but almost all my time in crypto world) and looking so much forward to this and other developments. Not to sure still how to use this smart contract, does any one know where we can use an easy escrow type smart contract (meaning escrow held on the blockchain). Would love to start using this soon if possible.

Do not like Verge here but am a speculator. I already made back profits with Verge so even if I continue to play with it, it will never be with new BTC. I agree with you that 3 digit is overpriced for medium term, but for short and medium term, you can expect pumps to 1k or more a few more times, so I would always buy back more Verge at 500 or below, I have already twice done that with 2x or 3x profits. It is a pump coin, make no mistake, but lots of volume.

Where can I find this survey details? Looks very interesting and am very curious to see how my favorite exchange rates there. I did not realize that there were more than 100 exchanges. I guessed maybe 50, but seems I do not know everything there is to know about crypto. I am especially interested to find out how the survey captured the data. I think most exchanges would not let anyone just go into their systems to find out about security.

Because Bitcoin casinos do not do the nonsense of fiat casinos, that is why! First of all, whenever I want to gamble online, almost every casino has restrictions on me. Worse still, they let me signup and deposit, and then come withdrawal all sorts of blocks and sending of documents. Bitcoin casino? I register, sign up play withdraw, never any questions never any problems.

And even in here, if you have issues you talk to them on BCT thread (like I recently did with bitcoinrush) and they resolve it plain and easy.