Is it already a fact that eth will perform a hard fork? Why is it really needed? It's still about the change to proof of stake, right? Is hard fork the only way to do that? Come on, hard fork is usually a bad thing, it is likely to negatively affect the price. Especially this difficulty bomb, so that miners stop mining it. I hope it will go well, the second best crypto crushing is not exactly what we need on the market right now.

It's great that you bought them so cheap. Unfortunately, I don't see anything great about this project, so I would say that you considering it short-term is good. I suggest to wait for a month. If during this time you see the price falling down - sell. Yet I think it has chances to reach $6 once again. If it does - definitely great time to sell. Strat is not offering something unique enough to be really successful IMO.

Yes, I think that if ico seems legit and worth investing in, it's best to wait till it appears on at least one solid exchange website and then buy some coins. Investing in ico is too risky, because you have to put a lot of money in a project and you don't even know whether you will be able to at least get some of it back by selling the coins. I mean, there's always a chance it won't even appear on any exchange website, right? So I agree with you and the op on this ico matter.

Yes, this is the worst thing about this wallet and blockchain.info as well. I think that MEW is an extremely safe wallet, you just have to make sure you won't lose your private keys and other things which can activate your wallet. As you probably know, blockchain.info is already accepting eth as well, but I would say mew is a lot safer and more reliable, even though I hold my btc on blockchain website.

I've recently invested in blackmoon, so naturally I check the prices every now and then. I get on coinmarketcap and see the crazy 100% growth. That would mean my investment doubled already. However, I look and the charts and see the price I used to see before which is 78 cents. I click to see the markets and something unbelievable caught my eye: blackmoon is worth $10 on EtherDelta. If you have your bmc there - I strongly suggest to sell everything and than but bmc on reasonable prices on liqui in case you believe in this coin. I don't have any coins on that exchanger, so I decided just to tell you guys not to miss what's going on.
Edit: I guess it was so while I was typing the message, but now it's gone.

In theory I believe that altcoins bring profit short-term. Yet, from my own experience, my attempts to trade were either unprofittable or ended up being long-term investments. If the coin's growing it's really hard to make yourself sell it, right? In general, investing in altcoins is more safe and flexible than dealing with papers. Most of the good ones grow with time, even though they are volatile and can fall down catastrophically.

As far as I understood from this thread, most of people have eth and litecoin. I used to have eth but sold what was left after most of it was stolen. I hold litecoin for the better times. I also have some IOTA, because I truly believe it's a great project and I'm surprised lots of people just ignore as if it's not there. I hold dogecoin and hope it will rise up to 50 satoshis soon (I mean, come on, it's already been there rather long) and I would like to know your opinion on this matter.
I also plan to buy some Blackmoon today, I hope it will start rising and give good profit within a month or so. I'll be watching carefully anyway.

I think it's early to panic now. As the member above said, the team looks professional. I think they'll recover rather soon and will bring a lot of money to those who believed and continue to believe in them. The price is not catastrophically down anyway. We just have to wait till more people get to know this project. I am almost sure it's going to be fine. I will bye the coin today and I suppose I'm not the only one. Their project is even more promising now, after the Chinese regulations, because they aim to to everything as legal as possible.

I totally agree with you, guys. Gosh, there're so many coins made for buying specific stuff like burgers or paying for the stay in a hotel! That doesn't make much sense to me. I think there are lots of coins and one can choose the one fully appropriate for the business instead of making another clone.
And what's the thing about the Hotel crypto anyway? I remember a thread on this forum about a month ago which was about a possibility to check-in and out the hotel with no ID. That's interesting but fully illegal. Yet otherwise I don't get what is such a crypto needed for.

Unfortunately, I believe that trusted members of the forum rather review altcoins (the most famous of them) and don't look at icos. I am saying that because I've seen a list of worthy coins by Theymos, some reviews written by iamnotback. Any solid reviews of icos? Not really. They still have a bad reputation of being total scams, so some time has to pass before there'll be a good source on icos. For now I try not to invest in them and just look at what they offer from time to time to be up to speed.

Oh come on, at least read what the op is asking about! The question was not about a coin which got success because of icos but about the successful icos themselves! Eth, as you probably know, is not an ico but a platform for them.
I didn't invest in this ico but I was watching carefully how it was going and intend to buy some coins now, just wait for my btc to be sent on Liqui. I think this ico might be a game changer. At least, their marketing is absolutely amazing.

True, even now it's not that low, still $3730. I hope this will be over soon, because I enjoy looking at all green coins, not these huge drops, for they make people nervous. I guess soon btc will be growing again just like before and people will stop this stupid panic started by the Chinese.
Why so? Is there anything technical that is likely to cause it or at least some upcoming pleasant news? I hope you're right anyway. Can't wait to see btc worth at least $4500.

Come on, guys, I've looked through all of the posts and a lot of people mentioned Viacoin which is mostly mentioned by the creators, not users. And it already had it's time of pump lately. Lot's of coin were mentioned but nobody said a thing about a true sleeping giant IOTA. It's no scam and this coin is an attempt to make something totally new. It's a big improvement, for it is not even based on blockchain technology! That's completely amazing. And it is already in top-10 in terms of market capitalization.

I would recommend to split your investment between waves (it's only $3.8 now, can give you around 90% profit), dogecoin (it was worth twice as much not long ago, so a 100% profit), monero (around 40% profit) and litecoin (for 45% profit). Just don't panic, invest, set the prices of selling in advance (bittrex allows you to do so) and try to forget about all this for a month. I'm sure you'll return your money. Just don't invest in coins nobody knows, they can give you both high profit and fast loss of it. Good luck!

Yes, I agree altcoins potentially represent a great unique opportunity to trade and get high profits. Yet lately they've been falling mostly and that allows one only to buy at one's own risk but doesn't say anything about the time profit will come. Coins are dropping and buying them is probably great but who knows, not all of them might survive the dump and become worth more. They've been mostly growing during summer and perhaps now they're just returning to what they are supposed to be.

Yep. And what's also obvious is that the OP meant that doge is an unprofitable investment and if it remains so then we can call it dead. Don't forget that all cryptos are mostly used as a storage of money rather than means of payment.
It surely is safe, fast, cheap and used by lots of people. Yet during the last big dump it dropped 2x. Since then it dropped another 10% of the price! I really hope it recovers and returns to the price of 50 satoshis or so.

If you already have a popular project (than app of yours) and you want to build an ICO on it - I guess it will be successful in case you have good marketing team. It is also nice to hear that some people that launch icos aren't scammers, and I feel like more and more ico projects appear to be legit.
Nevertheless, I don't understand why you need to build your own coin instead of using some other coin like ethereum as a payment, or simply making a token on Waves.

The price is down and so there's a chance that it will go up again to $0.008. Yet this is true if there's some development and faith of people behind it. File contracts is a good idea to make their storage reliable. Dev team isn't really famous, so that's a con. Storage cost is a lot lower than Amazon and Google cloud. Still, I think storj has more potential, it's just too new to be competive with sia already. Anyway, going 2x seems realistic, so maybe I would go for it if I were you.

Thanks, I guess this is a very good explanation. Waves is indeed easier to use, there're even videos on youtube showing how easy it is to create a token on this platform. And it's written on Java mostly, so that is also an advantage above ethereum. Nevertheless, I believe that waves will never beat eth if both stay alive, because eth is just too popular already and people trust it more.

Low marketcap doesn't really show the low demand. It does partially, but the coin can have a low capitalization because of there being not many coins around. I think trading volume is a thing to consider in such a case. If the coin is traded quite a lot, then even with low cap there's a rather high demand for it.
Even though it is true, I still wouldn't say low market capitalization is more beneficial than the high one, because the first one means there's more chance somebody is controlling the coin.