Yes, if we consider current btc marketcap and eth circulating supply, eth has to reach $444 to beat btc and it is quite unbelievable. However, I think that eth may reach something like $400 in 4 months but btc will grow a lot in price at that time as well, so won't be beaten. Nevertheless, currency having the biggest marketcap is not for sure the best/most popular/influential currency. I've seen a nice analogy of it with people being dominant on earth whereas they are totally not even in the top on 'market capitalization' (biomass).

I think this is not quite true. Investing in altcoins is a lot like gambling but only with some small part of experience needed. One can be very good at programming and define the best currency ever, invest lots of money in it. Nut eventually this programmer might lose just because currencies people use do not solely depend on code. Moreover, most of users don't understand how something works and what potential issues there are. That is why investing in something you don't know how works but have some sort of feeling that it will be popular does make sense and is IMO likely to be more profitable than something one calculated and defined as the best thing.

I think people out here are talking about the problem you faced:https://forum.daohub.org/t/error-occurred-out-of-gas/723/4.
They say that the transaction fee will not be sent back but everything will be pkay with your eth. I think it is something similar to unconfirmed transaction with bitcoin when everything returns back to the wallet. If it didn't I guess you should just wait. As far as I understand, gas is the needed fee to perform transaction of smart contract. People advice to choose adding more gas than you think is needed in every situation. Anyway, I hope this helped.

Well, at first, I think ltc is still really cheap although its price is 5 times as big as it used to be for a long time. This is still a good investment, still a great chance. And don't forget that there are many really cheap coins right now about which we mostly don't even talk but one of them might appear to be the one and the price will become sky high. A very easy example is ripple about which we do talk but the price is a lot less than 1 dollar. There are also other coins about which people who studied them more attentively say that they have really big potential. I am talking about coins like Waves or Digitalcoin.
I'm saying that now might be a great time for investments but the problem is that it is hard to understand in what to invest from all these now worthless coins.

Between listed by the OP I would choose XRP but in general I am surprised I havent seen much people saying the obvious: litecoin is a great long-time investment. The price is still low, the potential is high. Litecoin was somewhere around when nobody even discussed altcoins seriously. And, as many say, ltc is an improved version of btc, so you'd better keep that in mind.

Well-well, what to say.. Maybe Putin went on this forum and gave a speech just formally, without actually being into it. Maybe he just wanted to make sure that this is not something threatening Russia and that he still has everything under control. The third and the worst option for USA and EU is if he really got interested in that and will try to implement some regulation, support for such a good russian product as ETH. In this case we can only hope that Satoshi Nakamoto is american or otherwise Russia has its advantage

I think I didn't understand your question fully. Do you mean how can one predict the alt's price considering current market capitalization? You is your question fully technical and basically about what marketcap is? If you mean the first thing, then nobody can calculate the price of an altcoin in the future, knowing current capitalization. One can just speculate. If your question is about calcucation of altcoin's price knowing capitalization then the answer is quite easy: marketcap = number of coins * price per coin is USD. Thus, you sort of could've calculated the alt's price knowing the number of coins and capitalization but the problem is that future capitalization is also unknown.

Exactly. This is just not true. I know that ethereum has got recently accepted as payment on some markets in darkweb. There were lots of people saying eth is pump and dump coin when it cost around $20 but now there aren't many people who still say eth is wothless, scam and so on, since the price and capitalization are too big to be called 'scam'. Otherwise we have to admit that scam (which is something unreal, false) is actually the truest reality of our time.

I think that both litecoin and ethereum are very promising currencies which may become more expensive than they are now. And yet I think that even though they have better technology than bitcoin, they will not surpass it in the nearest future if btc doesn't die somehow. The reason is that people are too used to bitcoin. It is a trusted currency with a lot of admirers. They don't care about altcoins, they think bitcoin is the only true crypto-currency. I think the majority of people are like this. So I guess eth and ltc can only become close to btc, but not surpass it.

I wrote about it even when eth was a bit more than $100 and so did others. Minimum bet must be decreased or otherwise people may stop using the site. I don't know how many people play here now but I think that min bet should be 0.03 or something like that. Then it is okay to create an ANN thread in Gambling section to attract gamblers as well since scamming is a popular problem in that sphere.

Agree, but as I am checking coinmarketcap a few times every day, I must admit that seeing everything red and especially -10% or less is not something that often happens. Now everything is getting back to normal but I just wonder what are the main reasons why people all of a sudden start panic selling. The prices grow, everything is nice and smooth and then they start selling a lot. How do they decide when to sell? And why do they decide it sort of together for I don't think that altcoin market in controlled by a few people having the control package.

I agree the price might be a bit exaggerated. Other coins are not recovering from the fall of price as fast as ethereum does. But I think it is wrong to compare it with ripple which has a lot in capitalization not because of its quality but because of crazy quantity. Ethereum might drop a bit but I don't think it will drop a lot. If nothing code related happens, of course.

New coins have potential to grow in price faster, than the coins we usually use. But there are too many coins and most of them are worthless. Don't you think it is too risky to invest in unknown coins? Otherwise one has to study new coins on the market throughroughly just to know whether one is worth to invest in. That is why I think it is better to invest in old and stable coins about which one can read a lot and which are at least not likely to become absolutely worthless.

XRP is very strong in market capitalization. As the price is now very low, I think you should wait till it grows to around $0.7 and sell when it starts getting down from that or some higher point. I don't like xrp but I admit that $0.22 is not its price. Better not to buy more and not to sell. Wait at least till it reavched the price for which you bought it.

I would agree on this point for bitcoin can help people earn around $150 per month in a signature campaign and for developing countries this is a very good salary. I have two jobs and one of them is signature campaign. That allows me to rent a flat and live without really feeling some hardness about money. So, yes, bitcoin can reduce unemployment.

Ethereum has more chances than any other altcoin to reach such a great capitalization but I think bitcoin still has more chances. If we stick to current amount of btc and eth respectively, for btc to reach 1 trillion the price has to be a bit more than $60 000 per coin. For ethereum the price should be  $11 000 per coin which seems more realistic although both options are crazy. That's why I'd rather say ripple has best chances, for it just needs the price of $26 per coin.

But bitcoin doesn't influence the price of altcoins directly. I tend to agree more with people who say that it is due to lots of new people and their panic sellings.
Bitcoin was also really down on Saturday, whereas when it hit $2000 for the first time, ethereum grew in price as well. Sometimes btc grows along with alts, sometimes it grows and alts go down. No connection here.

Good point. Ethereum rose from $100 to $200 in 5 days (19-24 of May). This was crazily fast. That should mean that it is not the real value of ethereum, so it has to stabilize now around something a lot smaller. Taking into consideration the general price drop of these days, it is absolutely possible for eth to drop to $100. This saturday it was $130 which is quite close. However, I think that eth will slowly grow and get closer to be a good competitor of bitcoin.

I guess now is too late for investment in ethereum. I believe one day it will reach $1k but I don't think this is going to happen this or even next year. That is why now it is better to stick to cheaper currencies like litecoin and maybe xrp, for these have potential to grow in a few times in about a month or two from now. There is huge risk in buying eth now, I guess it is better to do that at least after a successful switch to pos, for let's not forget that eth can still crush.

Okay, so a few days ago (this Saturday) we have seen a terrible picture on coinmarketcap, for all the currencies were red (the price went down and so did capitalization). I thought the reason was coinbase and some big technical issues there. Yesterday everything was slowly getting back to normal. Almost all of the currencies went 'green'. Why is everything red again? Is it really some big problems with altcoins? Is it the end of big pump? Or maybe it is just the continuation of unexperienced panic sellers that started 2 days ago?