So, looks like this ICO is already doing well. Do you mind to share what the secret of your success is? I mean, you have no product, and are asking for a soft cap of 4.5 million dollars. That is a lot of money for an idea that already exists, with little solid. OK famous team. OK people from all the big names who are known to be wasteful with resources and scandals worth millions.

Note: this is NOT an attack, seriously just curious about your success.

Well, well, just as I thought Litecoin has lost steam it is powering past $60 as we speak. Of course, it would be lucky to even hit $80 again before end of 2017, much less $100, but I have very high hopes for this alt. The main dev supposedly is working on so many new things, like some kind of multisig transaction across wallets (or coins rather) with Lightning Network. That type of thing is simply amazing for Litecoin.

Just noticed Triforcetokens pre-ICO launched today from the tokens announcement section. It looks so solid I am so surprised no one has mentioned it here before. ISO certification for United Kingdom compliance, it got backing from UK government and is a member of the trade association there. Honestly, feel tempted to go in but I was hoping to wait until October 25. Anyone can offer advice? I do not know much about this project or online gaming, supposedly it is a cross platform to unite economy of online games. Meaning does not matter if you play on any game or platform, you can use their tokens.

This has little to do with Litecoin itself or Bitcoin itself. The difference is just because of the mining algorithm. SCRYPT is somehow less in demand that SHA256 at the moment, so you are just suffering from lack of demand. You might find temporarily that you can mine more as difficulties are much less in Litecoin than Bitcoin now. You might end up making less if converting to fiat, but the idea for miners is to only sell enough to keep operating while holding for the future.

This is one of those coins that come out of nowhere, pay a lot of money to get listed on big exchanges and then start pumping actions all called by several whales. If you have any now, you are probably part of those groups so yes, sell now and keep your profits. If you are not, do not fall for this trick. Stay away from the action and focus on coins you knew you had taken positions on. No offence to Monacoin of course.

With all the cracking down on p2p sharing, I also share your surprise that all the past projects trying to solve it have not been successful. But this clearly goes to show that a LOT of projects on crypto and ICOs have wonderful ideas but do not have the devs with correct knowledge to pull it off. People think all they need to do is make a smart contract token and the work is done. But there are truly so few actual blockchain devs who know what they are doing.

You know what, it makes perfect sense that Bitcoin gets stronger, and not weaker, after overcoming each challenge. In fact, if it were not for all these obstacles,,, ETF rejection, Bitcoin cash fork, bans in China and so on, I doubt we would see the prices we have all enjoyed today! Imagine if everything went according to dev wishes and no forks happened and everyone embraced it. We would have ETH! So, you know what, bring on the forks, bring on the bans. Make Bitcoin stronger!

So, was everyone happy with how RPX ICO went? I was literally about to buy NEO to invest, but thanks to some unexpected alt losses (yes, we are all in the same boat),,, I was forced to stay away from anything. I feel I will regret it, but I have taken quite a beating already on trading so I really need to keep my hands and Bitcoin tied down.

Oh btw, I heard some Chinese people still managed to sneak in on the back of other non-China investors.

Okay, so we have countries slowly following the examples of each other in trying to regulate exchanges. Fair enough. They feel the need to get in some control before it spins out of their understanding. And in some cases, they want to protect their citizens.

But this will affect the ideals of people who originally want to use Bitcoin because of privacy and security. But maybe this will force them to completely abandon fiat? Without exchanges, you can still trade crypto and crypto only. Maybe this is how it must start for a true crypto and fiatless economy to happen.

That has been the main speculation for ETH since this year, when everyone talked about the great Flippening about to happen. Remember that when Bitcoin almost hit $3000 and ETH was $400? And people said, wow, more than 10% of Bitcoin value. Well, every time ETH tries to climb back to $300 like now, Bitcoin is making new ATHs. Flippening is not happening, we have to accept that and move on.

Wall Street has to stop loving Bitcoin first too.

Whichever ICO you choose for October, I would recommend you wait at least until November when forks have happened and past. OR, if you really want to do it, then make sure the ICO has already made plans to regulate their ICO. Right now, this is the biggest danger to ICOs, and if you choose one that is not prepared, you will lose a lot of money when the authorities clamp down.

Regulated ICO that I know of are  UTRUST and HYDROMINER.

Of course it is a pump, what else would you think this could be? On a day when every other alt almost is falling at frightening speed, and Bitcoin jumping more than 10% to a mighty $5,600, it would take something special to make an alt even maintain its current value. Since yesterday, OMNI has had no news. No update or new development. No release of confirmed partnerships. No listing on new exchange. So of course it is a few whales working to pump the price. Do not get fooled.

First time I have ever heard of BTCSatoshi, and you are simply not the first to claim the Real Bitcoin and you will hardly be the last. The real Bitcoin is what exists as the main chain, preferred by the people who use it most. It can be a fork if it ends up like that one day, it can be the old original chain. It does not matter. The real Bitcoin is not fixed, it will evolve. Immutable as ever, on the path/chain most chosen.

I am sorry to say this, but you are actually looking for inexperienced traders. If all you got were experienced traders, then they would be good enough to jump you on the pump, and beat you to the dump. What you need is a lot of inexperienced traders with a lot of bitcoins to play with. Pumping, that is the name of the game. And it is played by one or two experienced traders, with many losers of inexperienced traders. You cannot deny that!

So it does seem true that this platform is simply unplayable with anything less than 15 mbps connection. I hope the project realises that the largest gaming population lives in Asia, where the average connection is much less than that even in developed urban areas. You can ignore them and focus on the West and America, but there you have it.

P.S. I have been to Europe and not everyone afford high speed internet too.

Actually, whether or not these are improvements might depend on who you are. If you are a miner, then you will not like that rewards are almost halved. You will also not like that it will only be some PoW. But if you are a large holder, sure you will enjoy some PoS.

If you are a heavy user and ICO specialist or dev, you will definitely like the new changes. With the update, there should be less loads and less downtimes. Only time will tell.

I am thinking that the alt prices now are 15 to 20% lower than they were last week. I am comparing it to Bitcoin Cash when the fork came out, did I gain 15%? No I gained less than 10%.

So it makes sense for me to get an alt now, and when it recovers to correct price, I make auto 15%. If I keep BTC, I get a new fork coin that MAYBE gets me 10%.

Both are gambles, but more risk is more reward.

There is always potential for any alt to breach top 50, 15 and even 10, especially if you take into account the high numbers of tokens in circulation. If a huge whale decides one day to just raise the buy order from <1 cent to even 1 dollar, then you multiply the supply by x100 and you have it boosted so high. That is the problem with looking at these alts. So much metrics to look into and analyze. Top 50? Even top 100 is an achievement for Soma.

The problem is so many competitors in the market of crypto debit cards. And users ultimately cannot tell the difference in tech. For them, if the app works, if the card works, then the token is of no value to them. And perhaps this is the ultimate goal of actual businesses that simply use tokens as a means of distributing shares and profits (except you own tokens and not shares of the company!). A stable token that is not volatile in price, but can earn constant dividends. I believe this is the difference with tokens like Monaco.

My apologies if I am mistaken, this is just my opinion. Cheers!

This is one of the most important areas that cryptography solutions have to look into. We all know and see daily how our privacy and security and even our liberty of access is slowly being taken away by states and corporations. Yes, it is complicated, and unfortunately your project must address this vulnerability. The users will not adopt the technology if they cannot be protected in the end. Do you already have a testable network for us to try out? Something that we can already use to access from known restriction areas?