I agree with you that pump group are scamming schemes (at least, for the most part), but I guess you can't say these are the same people that made you lose money, if you don't have any proofs.
OP, keep in ming that people on this forum don't usually tolerate pump groups and if you want to sound different from all others, I guess you must have a real strategy, nice advirtisement, your own website perhaps, oh, and call yourself not a pump group but somehow more sophisticated and official. Surely I suggest all this only by giving you the benefit of the doubt which is that you don't want to get rich by making other members of your pump groups lose their money.
What lacks also is the proof that it was actually your group pumping the coins listed in the original message. Can you provide smth like that?

Why are you saying they are holding someone's property? Electroneum is traded on cryptopia, so people can sell the coins if they want, right? Or perhaps I'm missing something here? Anyway, I think that if they do hold smth and then it will be released then surely people are likely to sell. However, I think the project is very attractive long-term, so I would keep the coins for another year and see what happens then. Mobile mining requires time to prove it's working properly. We just have to be patient on this one and I believe the team is capable of leading electroneum to success.

I thought the idea was to go all-in in one coin. Any all-in will cost you money, so I don't think btc is a lot different from other coins in that. Yet, if it was a choice for the next 3 days, I wouldn't choose bitcoin. It's growing rapidly in terms of marketcap but the percentage of growth is not that high. I guess I would go for monero, because the coin is nice and it is -5% now. As bitcoin gold is in minus but #5, I guess it might be a good candidate for short-term success as well.

I suppose you are right. They want to make cryptocurrencies really worth the prices. People mostly consider cryptos as investment options. If they did the same with fiat it would have already lead to crisis. Cryptocurrencies don't make a lot of sense without being used on daily basis. As bonpay wants to make it possible to use the currency as payment, not only as investment, I think it has big chances of becoming very popular, for it is really what other projects mostly don't have. What is missing is the more information on the team. Bonpay, could you add the team main members on your official website? I think it is what a lot of people are looking at when they get acquainted with a new project.

I don't think so. Ethereum is not this kind of coin that grows in price a lot and fast, you know. Especially if we recall all the problems it has with security. I would stay away from ethereum. It is not able to ensure the safety of funds. You can wake up and realize your eth is not there anytime. Remember parity eth frozen? Still no decision. We don't even know if those 150 million dollars will be returned to their owners, because it is likely that a hard fork is needed for that! We have to be very attentive if we choose to deal with eth nowadays.

Yeah, when Enjin coin was getting released, they had $1k! min investment into the project. and I don't think this is an exception. That is why a more interesting question would be as follows: if you invested 10$ in top-5 coins on coinmarketcap one year ago, for instance. You would get about 110$ for bitcoin, 450$ for eth, 175$ for litecoin, 30$ for ripple, 230$ for monero. Now, this shows that investing in altcoins might actually be a lot easier than we think of it.

Yeah, as btc is growing, its dominance increases and suppresses altcoin market. Even very good projects can't get proper attention in this situation. I think now is a very bad time for alts and especially new ico releases, because no matter how much better the new projects are in comparison with bitcoin, people keep investing in it and, as they do that, it actually becomes more profitable to do nothing and hold btc instead of keeping track on good projects and deciding what is the best investment.

Sure! Come to think of it: as btc is not $8500, it needs to go up less than 10% to reach 9 thousand dollars. This won't even look like a big change, actually. But, on the other hand, what about the price correction phenomenon? Is not the current price too high and it needs to be adjusted to the real offer?
Even you are saying about the correction but just suppose it will happen when btc reaches $9500, not $9k. I guess this rapid growth of price is not actually something we should fell great about, for the dump always comes after the pump.

Funny indeed  . Talking seriously, though, this one looks like not a bad choice for daily trading. It has regular price drops and pumps.. But yeah, the trading volume is too small even for that.
Well, op, if you meant bitcoin and the realm of other coins then  you have to decide first whether you want a min risk option with chances to have some profit with time or you want to get more risky but, in case you win, truly get high profit. If you choose the first optin then invest in bitcoin, whereas for the second one you then have to decide whether you want to trade (daily) or make an investment (just buy the coin and wait till its price grows). For trading choose a coin which has solid trading volume (from about $500k) and daily cycles of small drops and pumps. For an investment do some research and choose a coin that looks perspective to you. Good luck!

That is why I believe that the safest way to invest in an ico is to wait till the initial token distribution is over and the coin is listed on first exchanges. The price is usually still low, it might even get lowert than when coins were 'initially offered' and, if the exchange is not a total scam, even if you buy the coins and the price drops - you can still sell them and recover some of your invested money, which you won't be able to do if a coin never gets listed on any exchange.

I think you are mostly right. Examples of hard fork are 2 eth forks and 1 bitcoin fork (a long time ago with no split). Generally, when the chain splits in 2 it is a bad situation, because assets split as well and that results in both versions having price drops in comparison with the original version.
Thre is also a soft work way to make changes (some upgrades) on the original chain, which is less risky. Bitcoin segwit was a soft fork, I guess.

Well, I think it can affect global economy. Assume bitcoin is highly adopted by people who don't really care about it as a currency and solely consider it as a good investment. One day the price reaches something outrageous like $50k and people start selling evenrything, because they believe that this price is the best btc can do and the potential sums in fiat satisfy them a lot. So, the hell lot of btc is sold for local fiat. Next these people, having a lot of unexpected by governments money suddenly can afford to buy houses, cars etc. This results in devalvation of local currencies, thus leading the the world crisis.

I agree that it has to be adopted gradually, but not because otherwise bch will win. If people who barely can pronounce the word 'cryptocurrency' start buying bitcoin 'just in case', the price will rapidly go up with no actual demand for it. Such big steps and major investments in bitcoin can make it crash and those saying it's a bubble be right. I think that we can't objectively say whether btc is a bubble or is not. It is us, btc users and investors, who decide whether it is really worth all that money. And for us not to make it explode we must actually use it, at least in gambling or trading, instead of just holding sums and waiting for the day to sell everything.

I have seen a video with a guy explaining how to trade funfair daily on bittrex with the use of stocks. I guess this is a nice feature they have out there and maybe funfair is not bad daily. You are saying waves is nice.. Well, I don't believe in it long-term and as the current price seems fair to me, I don't think it is a good option. I hold some ripple on bittrex and hope for it to grow as it signed a contract with a huge partner recently.
Bittrex is nice and easy to use, but it requires identification for getting coins out the exchange and it is a bit annoying.

As you misspelled the name of the coin I thought at first that you're not talking about eth, but mentioning some newly created coin.
Ethereum was very revolutionary in comparison with bitcoin and I think it was obvious it will rise a lot. And it did! Later there began to appear problems with coins. Bitcoin had this block size thing. The transactions still proceed rather long and they are very expensive (I once got 7$ as a regular fee to send about 170 dollars). Eth has another problem: security. As it is a very flexible platform offering many opportunities to users, there are.. holes in the code and so a lot of people lose thir money held in eth. I think that this will not allow eth to grow up to $1k until the problems are solved.

OP, you are saying that you get $1k passive income per month. This surely sounds great but what was your initial investment into this pool/your monthly costs there? Did you already return the money you spent? For how long have you been doing that? Oh, I see now that it is a pos coin. So, how many of this coins do you proove having for getting such high income?
I think rise doesn't have this main idea that makes it special. I doesn't matter a lot if it provides income, though.

I believe Dash going up the same day we had this bch 150% up thing. Bitcoin cash, as we know, was pumped by Koreans for their own reasons which are not very clear. Dash is also among the coins which they like and trade a lot. So, just when bch started going down rather rapidly, they took over Dash and pumped it about 30% up or so. Reasonable explanations of such things seem not to exist at all, but the coin truly is not so bad.

I agree that electroneum has a solid team and good ideas behind the project, but for now they obviously have some problems with this mobile mining thing as number of coins is not defined and the price has been going down since the release. Maybe it will get to 1$ some time later but I guess bitcoin will go up a lot too then, so electroneum will still not surpass, but perhaps we'll see it in the top 10 if the game attracts enough people.

I advice to sell and forget.  This project claimed to give individuals good opportunities on mining, as bitcoin is now profitable for mining farms. Some people say that for now it is profitable to mine it. I don't know about that, but undefined number of coins and problems with determining the official airdrop providing btg (it's a story from the past) are not saying anything in favor of the coin. Bch is supported by South Koreans as well as by some believers in original Nakamoto's plans for bitcoin. BTG is a vague and risky project. It's a bit down in price. Just wait for it to go a bit up and sell.

Don't look at the member status on this forum much. People can be mistaken as well as just not very competent in questions of icos and altcoins. Rank is given for activity only. I am not saying that xIIImaL advice is bad, though.
Nevertheless, I think that you really should rely on yourself only in such questions. I prefer not to invest in icos at all, for they may end up badly and you'll just lose the money. I think it's better to buy the coins which are already listed on exchanges. At least this way you can always sell what you have for something and that minimizes your risks.