I've done my research just can't decide, and I know post isn't the greatest question sorry but I'm trying to decide between these three which one I would rather invest in if I had to pick one, which one would you pick and why? I want a rather safe coin in my portfolio other than ethererum that could possibly 4x in value by the end of the year.

Is that how you see it? They need taxes to keep the peace? Where? Inside the country? So, they are collecting taxes to fund the police and the army that will beat us if we protest, put us in jail if we stop paying and kill us if we try to abolish the government. Is that the peacekeeping that you have in mind?
And knowing how it works you continue to support it? You're like a slave who every evening after coming from work whips himself and locks himself in his cage for the night.

being impossible is about chance of that happening, conversely when we say something is impossible it means the chances of it happening is nearly zero. for example there is a chance that you find a hash collision with SHA256 but the chances are too small that makes it impossible.

also as i ROFLed above, when the whole argument of the article is that "bitcoin supply is growing parabolically aka unsustainably growing supply" then you shouldn't even be re-posting it here!
what they are saying is like this: "number of shares of Apple have increased unsustainably in past years because now there are 10000 other small companies which have nothing to do with Apple like an agriculture company selling fertilizer"

If you manage to avoid centralized entities in this market entirely, which is quite difficult but not impossible, no one will be able to connect you with whatever addresses containing x number of coins.

Currently the majority of the people here in this market are so dependent on centralized entities, that they have already a profile of themselves (without them knowing) that at a later point can, and will be used against them.

On the other hand, if we look at the average joes, they are less bothered by tax rates, which is quite difficult to swallow for me. Are they just accepting their faith, or actually think taxation is a beneficial necessity.......

I know people talking about the importance of tax because that allows governments to improve infrastructure, etc.

Why is sending AEON always a pain in the ass?
Everytime I'm getting this error:
Trying to send for example 550 coins with mixin 10 (total unlocked balance 590 coins). Should be enough to cover the fees ..? Also trying to send with mixin 2 or 1 does not work.
wtf is this?

Edit: ended up sending with mixin 0. Only thing that works. Sending monero or other cryptonote coins is much more easy. Don't now why this is so shitty about this coin. Privacy woohoo .. not. If you are forced to send with mixin 0 ... 

Bitcoin, the original cryptocurrency, the currency which paved the way to create a whole new market worth billions now and trillions soon has finally lived its days and given enough reasons as to why it needs to die and that too soon in order for the crypto market to survive.

Bitcoin is one of the few currencies which people buy from their local currencies on the exchanges. Because it is pegged to dollar, euro, etc it is the currency which goes up and down from the perception of people about bitcoin and its value. If bitcoin goes to 20000 dollars it is due to many people are spending 20000 dollars from their banks to acquire that bitcoin. When bitcoin goes to 6000 it is because people are selling off that bitcoin to go back to their dollar in the bank. Till here it is pretty much basic trading knowledge, what happens next is what goes beyond the conventional trader knowledge.

Now come to the remaining 1500 currencies. Almost all of these currencies are pegged not to the dollar or euro but to bitcoin itself. There are few currencies such as ethereum and litecoin which are pegged to the dollar but these again are pegged to bitcoin . We see pairing of Litecoin as LTC/BTC too if we see LTC/USD or LTC/EUR. Same goes for ethereum. Either they are pegged to the bitcoin or to tether which is said to be the dollar value for the crypto market. We might see some exchanges pegging all the currencies to their own coin such as binance coin, kucoin as well giving value to their own coin in the process.

Because all of these currencies are for sure pegged to bitcoin, they are not free from the price fluctuation when bitcoin undergoes a price fluctuation. if bitcoin is at 6000 dollars and it goes up, there is a likely chance other currencies too improve but it is not a sure case since that own coin’s performance impacts it. However, it is not vice versa. If bitcoin goes from 20000 dollars to 6000 dollars, the entire coinmarket suffers its wrath. Because it is pegged to bitcoin like 1 coin may be 0.1 of bitcoin and hence it will try to maintain that 0.1 for most part of its trading and thus if bitcoin loses its value, the other coins loses its value even though the coin might be very good and has no issues with the tech or any bad news against it.

If any of us are investing in any coin, we are basically hoping the rise of that particular coin will be faster than the rise of bitcoin so we actually make some profit of it, otherwise no matter whatever coin we are investing in, it is just like we are investing in bitcoin only since it is following bitcoin’s price hike and fall at allmost all the times.

In order for all the 1500 currencies to draw their own legacy out, they need to ensure that not only they are pegged to the USD or the other fiat currencies, but try to ask the exchanges to bring in more trading pairs so as to limit the impact of just one crypto on them and instead distributing the impact on bitcoin, ethereum and litecoin. Ethereum and litecoin should argue that they do not want to be pegged against bitcoin but rather the fiat currencies in order to chart their own history.

If bitcoin becomes outdated then only we can be free from these massive dips and the massive gains which happen only and only because of perception of bitcoin!

So, after the fork happens, the price of ETC won't be tumbling down? I'm asking, because normally after a fork happens to a coin I've seen a downtrend and mostly because I have some of those coins, I don't want to risk losing 25-30% of BTC, in order to gain some coins I have no idea about Just being a bit cautious, that's all.
 

I was happy exactly because I believe that Bitcoin needs - sooner or later - some sort of privacy and fungibility.
Maybe not this way, since I support the real Bitcoin, and maybe indeed I was too happy too fast if this is the person behind this fork

It looks like the intuition to disbelief all Bitcoin Whatever coins was not that bad after all. Thanks for the heads up.

we can never predict bitcoin and anything is possible. it can drop to $10 or it can rise to $100,000.
but saying it can drop to $900 is like saying all the adoption and rises that went into bitcoin for the past 16-17 months were shit and ALL of it is going to go out! that is impossible if you ask me.
and predicting the drop to $900 is just as silly as predicting the rise to $1 million by the end of this year at this point.

I bought 100 ETC and sold to get 200 ETC within 1 day. Now it is skyrocketing but I don't care, It will dump very soon

This may be the first meaningful fork of Bitcoin, although I don't like the fact it has Bitcoin in its name.
It looks like it was announced already in January the 1st, so you are late
The official thread seems to be here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2675257

I though that developing Ethereum ASIC would be unprofitable because of their plans to switch to PoS, but it seems like Bitmain has calculated otherwise. Maybe it will be usable to mine other coins with the same algorithm. But since it won't be able to mine all GPU algorithms, GPU mining will still be around for a long time, so if this ASIC will take over ETH mining, current ETH miners will just switch to other coins.