it is brilliant technology and incredible things happen in the crypto world everyday

It is happening:

https://www.cryptoninjas.net/2017/12/19/overstocks-zero-sees-100m-committed-first-12-hours-saft/

This is a very worthwhile talk by Patrick Byrne on TZero:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COQvMsbb-Cw

Please let me know what you think. This is either mindblowing or unreal. "This is a revolutionary technology that goes right after that desk with is 75% of the revenue of Wall Street"

In the first 15 minutes of the video Byrne talks about how Goldman Sachs makes 75% of its revenue from locating shares to short sellers, and that this is what tzero is going to solve for by providing a more transparent exchange for short seller lending.

If this is true, how is Wall Street letting this happen??

Ethereum Classic is still being actively developed by IOHK, which is Charles Hoskinson's engineering firm that also develops Cardano. There are 8 people on the team dedicated to Ethereum Classic. The web page is here: https://iohk.io/projects/ethereum-classic/#about

For those of you following walton chain, the testnet block explorer seems to be up at: http://waltonchain.net/

Here is an article speculating on the MN rewards: https://cryptofastlane.com/blog/waltonchain-block-explorer-block-rewards-leaked-wtc-masternode-rewards/

NOTE THAT NONE OF THIS IS OFFICIAL.

The article says that if there are 2000 MNs, ROI is estimated to be 31.6%. The number of GMNs are around 2k, however, more MNs could still form.

I buy this AMA on eBTC:
https://www.reddit.com/r/eBTC/comments/7hu138/qa_from_the_first_livestreamed_ama_on_facebook_on/

update from obsidian ceo on what is obsidian: http://mailchi.mp/obsidianplatform/an-update-from-obsidian-ceo-peter-mcclory

crypto kitties are very interesting. kitties have genotypes and phenotypes, and you can breed kitties with each other to get offsprings with different genetic traits. Some traits may be rare and make the kitties more valuable. gen0 kitties are the only ones with no parents.

the kitties are made with erc 721 non-fungible tokens, so each kitty is its own unique token. they're almost like beanie babies, except that kitties have a provable level of rare-ness. I think they're like beanie babies 2.0

Obsidian is an improvement upon stratis not just a copy of it - obsidian is a decentralized application platform. It also has a much smaller market cap than stratis.

https://blog.enjincoin.io/enjin-coin-development-update-december-11-2017-458e65a9b6ab

I think it's dope that enjin is a "pioneer" of the non fungible token ERC 721, and that they are creating a solution for cheaper meta data storage. I bought enjin because I thought the concept was cool, but great to see that they're building great things technologically as well.

At the crowdsale 1 bitcoin bought 21,433 ODN, so that's about 4665 sats, or around 19 cents USD, right now it's 2568 sats or 42 cents USD, so it's down in terms of bitcoin, but up in terms of USD!

I originally had a small position in it but I'm slowly realizing its value. There are many elements going for it:
 - it is a fork of stratis, and look at what the price of stratis did!
 - it is a platform for private dapps, and privacy coins are doing very well
 - it has a masternode, and it is one of the few coins that are both solid projects and also feature a masternode. I think masternode coins have very good economics because it locks a lot of supply so that price movements are much magnified when good news come out.

I have participated in a bunch of airdrops a couple months ago.

BTCRED and eBTC are the ONLY two coins that gained any value. I agree that the two are very similar concepts two. There might be something to it, but every time I think of that, I think that ether on ethereum would do the same thing...

another one to add to my list is EnjinCoin. The concept of minting coins into virtual goods and trading them is very interesting, and they have a great team of engineers.

I loved this development update from them: https://blog.enjincoin.io/enjin-coin-development-update-december-11-2017-458e65a9b6ab

so much exciting stuff. The helped pioneer the ERC 721 token (non fungible token, cryptokitties), and also has a much cheaper meta data storage solution

I saw them present in person at a meetup.

I'm not sure if airbnb needs to be decentralized. Here is my working hypothesis, that a decentralized app may be cheaper to run whenever it can replace manual processes/hiring humans to do the work, but it is still more expensive then running a good old "centralized" app, because there will be more transaction fees and confirmation times. I don't think airbnb's protocol needs to be decentralized, and by the time they're at scale they're still gonna have to pay the big bucks to hire the good designers, engineers, business people to create a great user experience, deal with legal issues, etc.

In terms of pure return I like b3coin, they have a community staking pool with extremely rich returns -- they're currently in the high return period and will have masternode period very soon.

http://masternodes.pro/ will give you the highest returning coins in terms of pure ROI, but I have looked at the coins that make the top of the list, and they don't seem to have much functions other than having a masternode that returns lots of coins. IMO it's better to invest in a coin that you like anyway, in terms of its tech and the problems it promises to solve, that ALSO happen to have a masternode, the OG example of course would be Dash -- because these are the coins that have the potential to moon in price, and masternode is just a nice addition.

In my opinion there are two solid coins for that -- Waltonchain and obsidian.

I've been picking altcoins pretty well so far, having been in very early for NEO, IOTA, and ADA.

I think supplychain is a perfect application for the blockchain. One of my biggest bets is waltonchain, which uses RFID technology for supply chain management. These are on-site visits and interviews with the team:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzhXncTVOzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0rVORZ7Kmo&t=1s

I also have other supply chain related coins that are not very noticed but I think will do very well: Ambrosus (for food supply chain), and INS, which has a partnership with Ambrosus and has an upcoming ICO.

Another coin I really like is Obsidian -- a platform for private smart contracts and is a fork of stratus. Obsidian is to ethereum what monero is to bitcoin.

60 cents!! Good thing I didn’t sell.

If anyone has any insight on what the value is I humbly welcome it.

If you are up for a lot of emailing and tweeting to follow up on your transactions, you can keep your bitcoin on qoinpro, which supports all of these forks. Also, it continues to support certain forks even if you've missed it -- you can still get bitcoin diamond by depositing at qoinpro and then emailing and tweeting at them. it's a bit of a manual process but it works.

well BTCRED just doubled in price since my last post...

BTCRED and eBitcoin are both listed on coinmarketcap, whereas yajucoin which was pumped and then dumped was never listed on coinmarketcap. BTCRED and eBitcoin are both listed on major exchanges whereas yajucoin is not (it's only on something called coinsmarkets) -- so maybe there's something there?

Additionally BTCRED and eBitcoin is a bit similar in that they are both ERC20 versions of bitcoin -- they have lower transaction fees and faster confirmation times, why wouldn't people use them?

I'm leaning towards just holding onto them to see what happens...

https://www.bitcoinred.io/
https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/bitcoin-red/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd9NY9_ysUw

BitcoinRed seeks to express emotions through colors, and is going to be a family of bitcoin color coins. Holding red will ensure that you get the others (bitcoinblue, etc.)
I received 2000 via an airdrop and now my coins are worth 200 USD. Not bad for an airdrop! I'm curious if there is value in this coin, if the current price is a part of the initial pump and dump, or if it would stay at this level?

I've participated in several airdrops, some coins do well initially and then plummet, like yajucoin, but others maintain their price, like eBitcoin. So what are your thoughts on what would happen with BitcoinRed?