This is quite a good project, because I REALLY liked the Byteball programme, unfortunately I did not have any Bitcoins so could not join. I only have less than 1 ETH but it seems if i keep collecting the 10% each airdrop, it can be significant.

Please learn from Byteball mistakes of BIG distribution, and really make it slow and tiny for many months, that way you get a lot of wide distribution and slowly increasing value.

Will your wallet be as advanced as the one Byteball has? such as escrow and smart contracts within wallet.

My comments on your comments:

1. Iota: Yes a lot of bad news and rumours but you must always take everything as a grain of salt. Rumours are always everywhere in crypto but yes agree, so much surfacing about Iota I would also stay away for now.
2. Sonm: not really revolutionary idea but very good one all the same. I think it is overhyped, but that is the fault of speculators.
3. Waves: Agree is the most solid, but I disagree you say reliability is not related to altcoins. See how stable Waves is and when more people realise that,,, you never know what comes next.

Interesting read about the couple and their marriage contract. I have one super curious question that I always ask when faced with contracts like these. In the event of the marriage dissolution, there is always either a prenuptial or postnuptial, with a legal entity to mediate. Now what happens when, let us say, for the sake of an existing example, the couple decide to split up? And there are disagreements over the smart contracts.

The way crypto works is still that funds are owned by individuals, or even in the event of this, multi-sig requiring consent of both. What if one party simply refuses to cooperate and co-sign?

What is one party dies or becomes disabled (loss of memory etc). What is the solution here? Thanks in advance.

You have some facts there, this is acknowledged. But factual according to current conditionings, and without context of important developments in both ETH and Bitcoin.

1. Eth transaction is not actually faster than Bitcoin. Confirmation, because of block findting times, is faster. But because Bitcoin is considered harder to attack, even 3 confirmations is considered literally secure. so that is an average of 30 minutes for secure confirmation. ETH if you see on many networks, requires around 10. So average of 25 minutes or more.

You are missing the point of scaling. Every network has the potential to scale more as demand rises. Bitcoin has this problem now because it is so popular and sees so much use. Eth had the problem only during ICOs, because of that demand when investing. When Bitcoin network is full, it just means higher fees. When ETH network is full it breaks and nobody can do anything. Read how this happened many times in 2016 and 2017.

Thank you to OP for your message. I apologise I cannot reply directly since I get several PMs. But you are right of course, people have sorely underestimated what it takes to make a crypto successful. See Bitcoin core they have so many geniuses at work and they still have problems. See their upgrades and pull comments. No alt or ICO has even 0.01% of development that Bitcoin has. And if they do, it is not as transparent.

The hard truth is almost all ICOs have absolutely no clue about how to create the solutions they are promoting. They just hope to find the right dev, copy code from existing blockchains and hire outsourced coders to patch things together.

Teeka Tiwari and his Palm Beach Research group are the very same spammers I mentioned in a few posts earlier. Repeat, spammers, not scammers. I think they have a great strategy that works in traditional marketing followed by extreme hype and roping in a lot of names familiar in cryptospace. By the way, Teeka only had a quarter million people listening in because he promised a huge Bitcoin giveaway last night to anyone who listened in.

Check the facebook comments, hundreds of spammers saying "thank you for Bitcoin" etc etc. You really think so many people listened because they wanted to hear what he said?

You are not the first to bring this up and you will not be the last. The problem is many fold. The masses who are buying into all these hyped ICOs know very little about crypto or blockchain. But how can you be upset with them when even the teams behind the big ICO projects themselves know so little about crypto, apart from one or two developers on their team?

ICOs must be recognized as a good tool. But like any tool they can be misused.

The basic fundamentals of investments need to be learnt first!

One lesson that is being taught, never underestimate Bitcoin. This year has thrown so much at it. All the way from the ETF failure, to the hardfork and splits, to the bans. And yet it goes ahead and climbed to 2k, 3k, 4k, 5k, and now free past $7,000. I do not know if this is called running out of steam! Meanwhile, alts at first followed BTC up when it went to 3k, but then they are all lagging behind while BTC finds new space to run.

Alts will have their day but it will not be at expense of Bitcoin.

Now I remember where I saw this name before. I got spam in my email from Palm Beach Group. In fact, it asked me to sign up for some free training, some free BTC giveaway which happens today, and a promise of a reveal of the next big thing. I guess now I know that coin is OmiseGo haha. Well, I have no knowledge about OMG, but the way the marketing does it with spam and using names like Vitalik Buterin and some super secret mystery guest that will appear on their free training today,,, I must say it smells strongly of manipulation.

Anyone else got this spam email from Palm Beach? The errors on their website are funny: Follow This Strategy to Rip Profits from the Crypto Boom. RIP indeed.

You will be terrified to see my alt portfolio! I was already so down last two weeks when they went down more than 50%. Recovery happened after a few days, but well, you can see now that Bitcoin has reached an incredible new high and my alts are worse off than before haha. I really have to try to stop looking at them since I made a clear decision to just hold until they go bust or they somehow catch up. But hey, on the bright side, I have still more or less same fiat value.

Maybe we should not be surprised if Bitcoin crashes the 10k party earlier than 2018,,,

Hey there, just a big word of caution. Do not do this.

1. You successfully buy the verified account. Then you log in from where you are and Bittrex discovers you are not using a USA IP. They close your account and you lose your money plus the purchase of the account.
2. They never discover you but you can never withdraw your account when they ask for verification. You will be asked for recent documents, unless you keep buying from the original guy.
3. You get scammed by the account seller.
4. It is wrong to do.

Just open an account on an exchance that lets you. There are so many. Try coinmarketcap, search the markets for the coins you want. Visit the exchange and try yourself to see which accepts you.

The easiest way is to just buy some WAVES, get them onto the waves lite wallet, and lease them out. Very small returns of course, but over one year or more you can see you will earn a lot more than even some banks at the moment. There used to be a Waves investment scheme at yobit also, but at the moment funds have dried up. If you want, just wait for it to replenish. You can earn 0.1% for active investments a day, which is 3% a month. 36% a year is incredible profit to anyone.

Not recommending, by the way, only suggesting.

This is an accurate description and one that projects need to understand as well. A few now choose to run their own, which is fair and of course good to hear. But they do not realise the amount of spam and useless bounty hunters that encroach on the site. They are only there to earn stakes, as much as possible, for dumping at the earliest moment.

Good campaigns have a similarity in good managers who not only keeps participants happy but give good value to the project by ensuring quality members and weeding out the spammers.

Bad managers give a bad reputation to the project. This can be even detrimental to the ICO.

Amen to that brother friend. I actually had no idea the support Waves had from the community here. I mean, I know I already like them from other channels, which is why I got in,,, besides actually loving their lite platform and everything the user interface does for me (on chrome too!). But looks like there are a lot of others who enjoy it just as much here, and all for long term holds.

About ICOs, though, I do not know more than a couple who use Waves. Not that it is a concern!

Let me summarise a little bit, from what little I know. I am not going to invest in either, but if I had to choose, I would go for Utrust (but only because I seem to know them better).

Utrust:
1. Crypto payments, with consumer protection, speed, low fees. Paypal but better.
2. Aiming unbanked markets and merchants (so big new market?).
3. Buy back and token elimination for price control.

Confideal
1. Smart contract platform for businesses including SMEs. Think Ethereum but for biz, with arbitrators to settle disputes. Decentralised arbitration.
2. Targeting other platforms like EOS and Tezos.
3. Irish based.

Other than the obvious shilling, a very brief Google breakdown of DOVU:

2.9 out of 5 rating on ICO rating from ICOBench. That's not even a B rating, with lowest scores for product and team. Take a look at the team, no one is a proper solid developer.

Jaguar/Land Rover is only backing the tech through their investment fund. Meaning they will use it, but who would not if offered?

UK government is NOT backing DOVU, it is backing Creative England, the fund that is backing DOVU. Very different meanings, people. Very different.

Not dissing the product. Just saying do not buy the hype.

I am a WAVES supporter and holder. Several hundred dollars worth when at around 100k satoshi, but I think what you originally said three months ago is still true today and will be true for many more months. Apart from a couple of profittakers, I think most other WAVES holders like me are in the same boat as you. We see the potential for this great platform, we actually like this platform, and we have no qualms about waiting for 2018 and 2019.

I bought in yesterday again just a tiny bit more at 55k satoshi, to sort of of soften the blow of my curreny 50% losses, but I will keep buying at this bear market.

Actually, now I am completely lost too. According to their blog, it is still a fork, since they already set a time or block height for forking from BTC blockchain. So now,,, they are implementing a new protocol, on the "old" chain. Then they do not need replay protection? But since they are doing it anyway this clearly means it was a fork.

I know I am not a technical person but I thought I understood some of the technicalities with BTG.

You are right: 2018 will be the year of BTC forks. Who knows, even BCH, BCG and Segwit2x will themselves fork.

Oh, it will be a shame if the campaign ends so quickly! But Lauda, thank you for taking care of us, even if I only joined last week. Few campaigns run as smoothly, I know because I have been in one very poorly managed one.

I do not know the best place to look, but you usually can just search the ANN threads for the newest alts, especially those that are Scrypt based. Since you do not care about profitability, there will be plenty of coins you can just mine lots of with simple desktop power.

If you are concerned about price at some point, then I suggest you download Minergate. You do not have to use it, just choose the "mine most profitable" option, and it will show you the coins that give you the best output/value. Most of the time, this is Monero.