Yobit is still the same lol. Did polo finally solve their issues? I stopped using them a few months ago after getting some funds stuck there for several weeks and well, I didn't seem to be the only one :p

There won't be a day I would choose a centralized coin over a (more) decentralized one. If you're into centralized coins please go back to using paypal or your bank. Or would you buy a coin of which I would keep 60% of? All you XRP hypers are only making the banks even richer. But well, who cares right, TO THE MOON...

I vote stellar

Is it possible to have a calender or list of the future air drops? Or did I miss that somewhere?

Why don't you have a look at how to act as a BitShares gateway? https://steemit.com/bitshares/@chris4210/how-to-build-a-profitable-business-with-bitshares-mpa-a-few-thoughts

An AIO solution is what everyone is waiting for. Atleast I am :p what other features are you planning aside from chatting? I can imagine you'd need some marketing for this to take off?

Hello fellow BitcoinTalkers and welcome to our Etcetera thread!

Who am I?
I'm part of the official Etcetera Team as developer and researcher. I will also take some marketing for my account as this will be the most important aspect up untill a successfull ICO.
I've been a cryptocurrency and blockchain enthusiast and fanatic since I first heard of it a bit over 4 years ago. It actually took me a few months to get acquainted enough to how bitcoin and its blockchain actually works before I was sending bitcoin transactions all over the place (bear in mind that these transactions didn't cost nearly as much as they do now). After Bitcoin, I started to get to know Ethereum and soon after my portfolio would be more diversified than I could actually remember.

The start of Etcetera
So when late last year I got the opportunity to join this project I was instantly sold on the 'fairly easy' idea of selling cryptocurrency gift cards. After all, what gift is easier than a gift card? Add some cryptocurrency and we have the next big thing right? Well, not quiet yet... Most of you are by now probably already thinking about the legal issues that will come along, or perhaps about how secure this system can be, given that we're constantly working with 'hot' wallets: wallets connected to the Internet... So a long brainstorm session short; in order for this project to roll out globally and as fast and efficiently as possible, we need to use already existing services, contact and hire specialised legal support and find some software security experts and/or ethical hackers to (stress-)test our infrastructure before releasing them. Add to that the initial purchase and design of all gift cards that will be distributed initially, aswell as having the actual (crypto-)funds at the moment someone buys a gift card; we quickly came to realize that this will not be possible without a crowdfunding to pay for these initial costs. And what better time can there be to find investors for just such an idea! Our head developer is almost ready with the smartcontract that will take care of the whole ICO and token distribution (including team (+vesting periods), stakeholders and bounty tokens). Once tested and found fully functional on the local network, we will test it on a to be determined testnet and if possible, we will announce this fairly up front in order for anyone to be part of it should they so desire!

What's happening now?
- At this moment we're spreading the word of our Etcetera project at all possible channels possible, we are putting together a bounty campaign for which 750'000 tokens are set aside. We're talking to various marketing teams about several marketing campaigns in order to be able to reach as much people as possible and hopefully convince them of the initial easy 'idea' of having cryptocurrency gift cards to get your friends and family involved in the emerging crypto-industry. This bounty campaign will start on January 15th and last untill the very end of our ICO. More details will follow in the relevant thread. (Can't wait to spread the word? Please have a look at https://etcetera.ltd/b/)
- The smart contract is close to be ready, we will be testing it in the following days and as mentioned above. The smart contract is build with the openzeppelin framework.

The future (of Etcetera)
Our future main customers (or atleast the people buyin our gift cards in store, or the persons receiving the gift card), will probably have not (the slightest) back-ground in trading and using cryptocurrency. This is why we will provide an easy-to-grasp booklet with every gift card sold, aswell as show and actually 'teach' the whole process of blockchain technology in order for our future buyers and investors to actually understand what the power of blockchain may, can and problably will eventually have.
But lots of things are happening daily in cryptospace and for the average person, it is just too much of a hassle to keep up-to-date with everything happening with every coin. Aside from providing an easier way to get involved in the money of the future, we will provide various crypto-tools to keep its users up-to-date at the times that they have time to get up-to-date. Of course community input is here of uttermost importance, which is why we will provide our investors and users of our token and or platform, with the possibility of voting for the next (crypto-related) tool that would be nice and handy to have at our future All-In-One cryptocurrency platform.

We have put up 4 unique selling points in favor of our product:
- Our effective selling points (our Points-of-Sale) will be the first to sell gift cards to which cryptocurrency will be send, upon payment at the register!
- Our offline buyers of gift cards can choose any top-currency (bitcoin and ethereum at first, more later) or our own ERA-token to buy in any local store, with any payment the store accepts
- The combination of our future API, exchange en mobile wallet will be the entry point for millions of new crypto-currency buyers and holders!
- Because we will constantly follow and choose what top-currencies to add (or in the future perhaps delete) from our platform, we will also profit from the fact that we're providing these top-currencies.

But...

This project will never succeed without you, the initial cryptocurrency and blockchain investors. Do you want the people of next year to have even easier access to cryptocurrencies? Just by giving the gift of cryptocurrency will inherently give the receiver enough incentive to learn what exactly cryptocurrencies are and teach himself the way of the blockchain, and isn't that knowledge exactly the knowledge you want to share with your relatives and acquaintances?

Enter Etcetera, the intermediairy coin between fiat and crypto of the future!

I'm talking about a service such as coinmarketcap but then with real-time data. Of course I could have a script pull the data and push it in my own database but that would require a 24/7 running vps or something like that and well, not willing to actually pay for it hehe.

So any of you know of an easy to access database-like service or application to fetch all prices in real-time?

Thanks in advance

This is written as a draft and can/will be updated from time to time. Nothing from this content should be taken as serious trading advice or any advice for that matter. Investing in cryptocurrency will remain volatile for a couple of years to come, with no apparent certainty of staying. But always look on the...

Hello fellow crypthusiasts,

I wanted to share my view and thoughts regarding what currencies would be most steady to invest in (in 2018 and later) and of course ask that of yours.
To clarify steady: having a project or blockchain running (successfully or not) for more than 3 years and gaining traction ever since. A lot new and interesting projects arise every single day, but that's not the exact purpose of this topic.

As we keep getting more and more projects connected or connecting to blockchain technology and/or cryptocurrencies, it can sometimes be a good idea to take a step back and try to grasp what is effectively happening at this moment. While there are not much coins in the top 100 (according to coinmarketcap) in the last few months that haven't known an All Time High (ATH) (over and over again), one might will this ever stop?

Bitcoin was trading sub 1000$ around new year 2017 and we've seen 20'000$+ at various exchanges worldwide by now.
Ethereum was trading just above 10$ around new year 2017 and we are now at almost 900$(!) per coin.

I could go on but even these 'current' prices will probably be outdated the moment you read this.

But let's talk about effective usage. Most of you know probably (hopefully) have heard about coinmarketcap and yes, the marketcap is one way of measuring the value of a (blockchain) network, but in my opinion the REAL value of a blockchain is measured in speed, security and well, the persons using it of course! And users don't like to be limited (and even less to spend one dime too much transferring their value around the network) and that's what is happening to Bitcoin at this very time. For those of you who remember (or just know), it is theoretically possible to send (bitcoin) transactions without a fee whatsoever! You just need a miner to mine it... Bitcoin transactions are just too expensive at this time (let's say 'time of writing' (TOW) for a more 'correct' term). You can check the recommended fee here: https://estimatefee.com/ . While I'm pretty confident in the end Bitcoin will get its pants together, I'm also pretty confident that isn't any time close.
Other currencies are taking the lead in exactly the points mentioned above, and here you can see a completely different list for the valuation of a coin: https://www.blocktivity.info/

While investigating or investing in projects, one should always keep in mind WHY blockchain technology is (and will be a lot more) revolutionairy and HOW it does this:
Where crises can happen anytime anywhere for what reason whatsoever, one recurring factor is financial instability or the lack of due diligence by the governments in how and in what amount they print their money. Venezuela, Greece, Zimbabwe, ... are just a few of the examples that point this out perfectly. If they were using a blockchain-based financial infrastructure, one could only see the advantages. (well, there are some disadvantages aswell of course, such as teaching blockchain to people, this will be another intense work point. But thanks to the recent global acquaintance, one could only think of this as the beginning!)
Democracy, should it ever work, can only work if the funds received and spend by them are as transparant as the rulers should be. A 'new' concept, 'decentralisation' was born at the hands of 'Satoshi' and in my opinion this should remain the one true goal all new projects should strive for as hard as possible. And if you read that the way it should, you should even see the benefit of regulation, making classic investors known the next hype of the same proportions as the Internet, without anyone even knowing what blockchain technology is fully capable of (now AND in the future).


So let's take a look at some of the current (top) currencies. The idea is to give you an idea about the project in a few sentences. While this will definitely limit the amount in which we appraise some of these coins or projects, it hopefully gives you enough of an idea to decide whether you find it interesting enough to investigate it further.

• Bitcoin: where else to be put Bitcoin than on top of the list... While it may not be the most steady investment, just consider that this is THE original blockchain project, and even though they currently lack the ability to scale properly, be sure this will be fixed (in due time). Where most of the current projects that are sold out (some instantly) for a couple of million dollars, one might consider the difference in believe and general acceptance (or at least: a lot more people have heard about Bitcoin now, and more are using it than the original creator could have foreseen (?)) between new projects launched today, and Bitcoin buyers up to (let's say) 1 year ago. A lot of bitcoins are lost due to technical or human errors. This will probably be less likely to happen to the same people buying into the latest ICO... Oh, and how do you buy/trade your altcoins?
• Ethereum (ETH): has (had) its issues (in the past), for those who remember the DAO hack, this lead to the separation of the original Ethereum blockchain (now Ethereum Classic) which was hard forked because of this hack. While one may argue the ethics about this decision, the community had a tough time aswell: choose between cutting off the funds of a hacker, or keeping the blockchain immutable... The core team chose the first, going its way further as Ethereum (and to the 900$ moon at TOW) and some other chose to stick to the original blockchain, which would be renamed Ethereum Classic. Ethereum should have been Proof of Stake instead of Proof of Work by now, but this 'upgrade' has been postponed for now.  One disadvantage to mention is that your transaction may get stuck due to some breeding cryptokitties... But well, what's the harm in that?!
• Litecoin (LTC): actually Bitcoins little brother. Brought into life by Lee Litecoin (puts some clarifying and honest tweets about the [Suspicious link removed]munity from time to time). It actually outperforms Bitcoin on a lot of aspects, and being just 2 years younger, it's one of the earlier blockchains around.
• Dash (DASH): first network to implement MasterNodes. Although having had some initial launch issues, the original blockchain was started in 2014 and named XCoin (XCO), a month later they came up with Darkcoin to be rebranded in 2015 to Dash. Dash also offers the instant send and private transactions features with only +-30% of the amount of tokens Bitcoin will ever have.   
• Monero (XMR): a blockchain network/project that focuses on privacy by combining transactions together which make it practically impossible to know what input corresponds to what output. According to Wikipedia, Monero has a mysterious creater aswell, know only as 'thankful_for_today' on this very forum. 
• BitShares (BTS): made by Dan Larimer who developed Steem afterwards and is now working on EOS. Wikipedia summary: "BitShares is an open-source, public, blockchain-based real-time financial platform. It provides a built-in decentralized asset exchange, without the need to trust a central authority to handle all the funds, that can execute trading using an international network of computers." It's also the first in its kind regarding being a Decentralized Autonomous Company: meaning it provides in its own funds and can pay developers to work on 'BitShares' in any way possible (voted of course).
• More to follow...
• ...

To conclude these 'steadier' projects, I'd also like to put out a list of coins and tokens that in my opinion also have great potential of ending positive by this years end (this list is only ranked by coinmarketcap at time of writing):

• Cardano(ADA)
• Stellar (XLM/LUM)
• IOTA
• NEO
• EOS
• QTUM
• OmiseGO(OMG)
• Ardor (ARDR)
• STEEM
• Stratis (STRAT)
• Waves
• Komodo (KMD)
• Binance Coin (BNB)
• SALT
• DigiByte (DGB)
• Basic Attention Token (BAT)
• Civic (CVC)
• 0x (ZRX)
• District Network (DNT)
• VertCoin(VTC)
• ...

Please share your thoughts and don't hesitate to share what other thrilling projects I'm still missing!

Cheers and happy investi(gati)ng !!!

I bid 1000 satoshi per token

What do you want to do exactly? I have some experience

Anyone know when the last batch of LTC miners will be shipped?

Anyone else having problems syncing the wallet? It always seems to just 'stop' syncing after an amount of blocks, requiring a reboot of the wallet before it continues to sync... Any downloadlink of the NEO blockchain or suggestions for this?

Have been talking a while with some of the founders and developers after a friend of mine told me about them and I'm really psyched about it! Already have some ideas that I could be working out with this platform... Can't wait to help in alpha and beta builds!
Will follow this one closely and all of the best luck to the developers!

Only yobit has credited their users already for as for as I know. Any news from poloniex?