I could almost guarantee that it does. Links on Bitcointalk are "dofollow" links(like what BitMaxz said) hence the links from the signature area do help a lot in terms of domain authority as it would count as a backlink. And knowing that Bitcointalk ranks really high in the Bitcoin niche, this does help quite significantly.

Source: not an expert per se, but I know a good amount of SEO from handling multiple blogs/websites.

Just to add, I don't think the signature campaign is 100% for better SEO, but definitely also for brand awareness. Putting ChipMixer's case as an example, since quite reputable members carry the ChipMixer badge, chances are that people will look at ChipMixer as a great and reputable service.

As for questions 2-3, while it does affect SEO in a positive matter like I said earlier, it takes a while to feel the effects. Based on my experience, it's going to take a good amount of months before you feel the difference from having a good backlink.

Shorting just because a big name has been Tweeting about Bitcoin is a really bad idea.

In the first place, it's not like J.K. Rowling was posting bullish Tweets. She says she doesn't understand it, but at the same time somewhat biased against it. Probably be a good idea to stop giving her attention on Twitter.



https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1261416653809545216
https://twitter.com/jk_rowling/status/1261429151745146883

In my case, "shaking my head" is a huge understatement. The number of people there that are heavily focused on transaction speed(and fees) while ignoring security and decentralization are mind boggling. A few times I week I give r/cryptocurrency a chance thinking that it might have changed, and everytime I do visit the subreddit I end up wanting to bash my head on a rock.

Sure. It doesn't really mean that much though when talking about retail transactions though, as even the Ethereum blockchain is also susceptible to being congested. Remember the crypto kitties days? Yep. The network pretty much slowed down to a halt. Wrapped BTC are mostly used for staking and such, not really for "coffee transactions" so I don't really think it's right to compare WBTC to Lightning.

I agree that Lightning is not there yet though.

This is not the first time these shitty forks increased in hashrate and this definitely never concluded with them being the "leading" coin. In the first place, miners mine for profit, and it's safe to assume that some will move to the blockchain that would potentially make them more money. A drop in Bitcoin's hashrate was expected in anyway, due to the recent halving.

Besides bitcoin payments, I don't really know to be honest. Blockchains are quite slow. I think "blockchain for universities" would mostly be like the case of most Ethereum ERC20 projects whereas these projects doesn't even need to have a cryptocurrency(or to even use a blockchain to start with).

It depends on some of factors.

1. Are you actually day trading? or making a short term trade?
2. Why did you buy that coin in the first place?
3. If you bought a certain coin at a higher price and the price lowers then you sell, well, that's automatically a loss. Sure, you can buy when it dips, but what if it dips lower? The point is, we can't guarantee where the prices will go.

Ultimately, if you're new to trading, prepare to initially have LOTS of losses. If you're not willing to do a lot of reading and research and if you're not willing to risk your money at the start of your trading journey as it's almost guarantee for you to lose money in the beginning, then maybe think twice with your plans.

Not to discourage you though, just to keep things realistic, and so you wouldn't be surprised if you aren't doing well at the start.

P.S. Most traders lose money.

Though Lightning is not quite there yet, there have been great wallets lately. Check out the Phoenix[1] wallet.

As for on-chain, I'm really not sure, but it makes sense for me to accept sort of "coffee transactions" that are worth $2-$4 without waiting for a confirmation, probably with just a minimum of 1 sat/byte fee just to make sure that the transaction actually goes through after a while. Because as far as I know, no one in the right mind would actually risk going to jail by attempting a doublespend just to save $2-$4.

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[1] https://phoenix.acinq.co/

Could be this year, or this month, or next year, or in the next 5 years. One thing's for sure in my opinion— it will reach all time highs sometime in the future. It's just that we don't have a magic crystal ball to predict when.

Might be different to find as the "best Twitter accounts to follow" are going to be really subjective, so here are some from my list.

Somewhat technical stuff:

• https://twitter.com/adam3us
• https://twitter.com/TheBlueMatt
• https://twitter.com/pwuille
• https://twitter.com/hashoshi4 (mostly altcoins but still interesting imo)
• https://twitter.com/peterktodd
• https://twitter.com/starkness
• https://hive.one/p/JackMallers/
• https://twitter.com/NicolasDorier
• https://twitter.com/nopara73

Economic side of Bitcoin:

• https://twitter.com/misir_mahmudov
• https://twitter.com/TuurDemeester
• https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard
• https://twitter.com/nic__carter
• https://twitter.com/100trillionUSD
• https://twitter.com/saifedean (I heavily disagree with some of his tweets but still interesting)
• https://twitter.com/MustStopMurad (used to love his content, now inactive)

There's definitely a lot more but I wouldn't want to make this too long lmao.

In this case both "not unnecessarily long" and "not necessarily long" are actually viable.

And since I'm in no way an English/grammar expert, I did a bit of research nalang to confirm if I'm right/wrong and it looks like my statement was fine. If I misunderstood what you're trying to say feel free to correct me.

Two formal books that used the same statements. Click on the screenshots to view the link.

You're out of luck. You're only choice left might be to actually find someone that wants ADS, and exchange with him/her peer-to-peer. Again, watch out for scams as this is a riskier method.

Your choices are:

1. Try out the shady exchange
2. Do it peer-to-peer
3. Probably hold on to it in the hopes that reputable exchange accept it in the future

LOL funny how you included Peter Schiff there. Who else is more obsessed about Bitcoin than Peter Schiff. But why include Roger Ver tho

Anyway, the people I frequently pay attention on Twitter are mostly the developers and the sort of "Bitcoin economists", as to almost guarantee that I'm going to get good content from them. Though I sometimes love some banter from Udi Wertheimer too.

Based on the exchanges listed on Coinmarketcap[1] under Adshares(ADS), it looks like this "Graviex"[2] exchange is currently your only option. Do your own research as I have no idea if this exchange is even legit to start with.

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[1] https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/adshares/markets/
[2] https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/graviex/

When talking about price specifically, usage doesn't account THAT much in terms of price discovery. What the market mostly needs is liquidity, which pretty much mostly consists of market buyers and sellers.

Also, depending on what you specifically meant by "community", it's mostly not. If you're referring to the community specifically who either hodl or use bitcoin, they don't have that significant of an impact as compared to traders. Hodlers only help bitcoin rise in price by somewhat "decreasing" the supply, whereas while spenders also provide liquidity(which is good, mind you), it's still not as big compared to traders.

Well true. I mostly just read the quite older tweets/retweets(probably 4 hours+ old) as to somewhat filter the useless posts to the bottom as the useful replies gets liked to the top.

Unfortunately that's what happens if a certain platform is easily swayed by bots and account farms.

Sure. I'm not arguing the value and usefulness of altcoins here. I'm specifically talking about price, in a trading and speculative investing perspective.

There is no such thing as "stability zone" for an asset that's very volatile and that's only a decade old.

I sure hope so and I think it will, but no one knows.

Never is the perfect time to buy altcoins. Unless you're buying them for a short term trade to be able to increase your bitcoin stack. In the first place, altcoins are a various different coins. You can't put all of them under one blanket.

Hopefully never and hopefully they just die down, but no one knows. Altcoins can go up(in USD terms) if bitcoin goes up. But I don't think we will have the same "alt season" as with what we had in late 2017.

Listen, no one knows what will happen in the future. You're pretty much almost asking for those typical price predictions.

I personally dislike solely reading crypto news sites. After reading, I always want to read what people's opinions are, so I frequently use Twitter for news. Simply follow the reputable people who are focused on development rather than drama, and you're good. I would suggest Reddit but unfortunately it's mostly crap now. Especially r/cryptocurrency which is pretty much an anti-bitcoin pro-NANO subreddit nowadays.

If you're referring to the bull run of 2017 specifically, then alts definitely outshined bitcoin in terms of price rise.

Now, will the same happen? While I think that there will again be an "alt season", I don't think it will come close to the altcoin run in 2017, simply due to the fact that a lot of people who didn't sell early got burned, and it most definitely left a bad taste in their mouths.

Also, ICOs were quite new in 2017. A lot of people already know that there are lots of scams and bad projects in contrast to in 2017 whereas people pretty much believed every project's promises, including BitConnect.