You guys have done a great job with your code and blockchain. I wish we can see some strong collaborations in 2019.

Oh that explains the sudden price spike. I guess a selloff is coming after the forks (unless we enter a general bull-market, which is very unlikely yet)

True... the volume is also important because a coin could stay very high if it has not been traded (in theory) since January's peak. So I made a test with interesting results!

I took for example a random coin named "Waltonchain", an unknown coin with rank 76 by market cap which caught my eye because of the very high volume ($2,321,001).
I checked the coin's markets (https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/waltonchain/#markets) and I noticed that most of the volume comes from an unknown exchange named "Allbit".
So I visited the exchange's page (https://allbit.com/exchange/WTC) and as it was obvious the coin is traded very thinly and most likely by bots; within 24hours, 8000 coins are repeatingly changing hands at the same price.
Even that fake trading is producing a volume of 8,324$, not 1,000,000$ as reported my CMC!

So yea... just ignore market cap.
Personally I use https://coinlib.io and I have "starred" the coins which I care about and I know that are doing real progress. Then there's an option to see the order by market cap of the starred coins as well as their newsfeed from various media sources.

Stock market seems to be going red today... Should we expect the cryptocurrencies to continue the fashion of mimicking the stocks' movements?
It doesn't make much sense to me, but I believe we should.

Ouh! How did I do that?! Yes, it was an accident, I guess I had multiple tabs open. Thanks for letting me know!

According to this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4557949.msg48981603#msg48981603

Nexybit campaign is open to 2 Member ranks and applications will be accepted for 1 week. Since it'll be open for applications for 1 week, you might don't want to update the table but I post here so that people may take notice.

Dear moderator who deleted my previous same post: The purpose of this thread is to inform users of open and closed spots in recognized signature campaigns. Since I received no reasoning as to why my last post was deleted, I just repost it with this disclaimer.

It was not "delayed" , it was only "hyped" to be launched sooner than reality... either by a fake leak or by an "accidental leak" (which also turned out to be fake).

Against most people's beliefs, there is no bullrun this year and BTC moves around 4000$-6000$ with maybe a short spike to 7000$.
XRP however leaves Ethereum behind and is in close proximity to Bitcoin, that'd make it about 1.70$ - 2.20$.

"proof"? 17 out 22 believe Ethereum will, at some point and for some time, overtake XRP again. Maybe they'll go 1% higher than XRP for 6 hours? Maybe 10% higher for 1 year? The poll doesn't say, but 77% believe!!
That's such an undoubtful result!

You mean you short it?
The whole market has gone down by a lot the last weeks and only corrected the last few days, BCO is no exception.

I don't think the guy writing this is even knowing for which project they're talking. A newbie account with so many merits in a few days? That's an obvious spammer with multiple accounts.

I thought it'd take 14 hours, oh my... thanks for letting us know!

Jokes aside, I agree with your points, but you can't put a time counter on this!

People confuse the notion of centralisation. They think that if 80% of Bitcoin is controlled by 10 people (theoretically speaking), it's decentralised because we DON'T KNOW those 10 people.
However if 80% of XRP is controlled by its developers, then that's centralisation.

Use your freaking brains people, it's the Bitcoin's whales you should be afraid of, not Ripple.
There's a reason why CEO's of companies with huge market caps don't sell their stocks. Ripple won't sell their much cheaper coins for the same reason!

They might think that the signature's rules state 20 words EXACTLY?
I also kinda freaked out, thinking that Ethereum might have passed XRP again... but this hasn't happened yet. Well... I've invested in both so I don't care that much, but I believe the top 3 should be BTC and XRP at very close levels and 3rd ETH like 20% lower.

You're a greedy one huh? I'm fine with reaching Moon !
I've loaded up my Revolut card with XRP and I hope that next year I'll use some XRP to buy myself a good 1440p, ultra-wide, HDR, 120+ Refresh Rate, Gsync monitor with my XRP.

Though I doubt next year will bring any such good monitor

I'm sure there are a lot of rich opportunists who are waiting on the sidelines for a bullish announcement like BAKKT in order to pour in money.

As far as this game goes, I'm sure many of these opportunists will sell for 100% profit and that's why I bet on 7550$, about double of what could be the entry point of many.
But as far as the health of Bitcoin's price goes, it will depend on the community's strength. I believe most weak hands have sold and the rest will sell on brake even at about 7500$-8000$ after the investors I've mentioned have already took profit.
After that I predict another bullrun.

So to summarize, my predictions are:

• BAKKT launches - Price is around 3700$ and it starts going up
• 2 weeks after BAKKT - Price is at 7500$ and clever people take some profit
• 2 weeks and 1 day - Price fell 10% and weak hands panic and sell
• 4 weeks after BAKKT - Price has fallen at around 5000$, selling pressure is over and those who took profit earlier enter again
• We keep getting higher lows and higher highs for the following few months

... or at least that'd be the scenario of a normal volatility market ...

They have announced all we need to know here: https://phantom.org/blog/phantom-chain-launch/

All the dates are there.
If what you're disappointed with is not the date they're going live but if they'll be listed in an exchange, then you shouldn't be.
People who are eager for a day-1 exchange only care to sell their free tokens for which they did not work. Why would the dev team care about those who are unwilling to become their customers?
It's much better if they first finish some of their goals and have a working product. Then when they open the "doors" of exchanges the price won't collapse in 1 day.

At the state Bitcoin is right now, I'm sure they love it!

The relative low market capitalization allows rich people like bankers to make money out of price and media manipulation, taking advantage of those 15 years old who think Bitcoin is here to make them billionaires with 0 work.
But when/if Bitcoin brake free of their control and becomes too widely used, the fees they'll lose from all kind of transactions and the small bank accounts will make bankers Bitcoin enemies. That is something I'm afraid of to be honest since they surely have big control over the system.

Alright, I've updated my signature!

You might want to replace Maricel2017 who has done 12 posts the last 4 weeks.

I'm replying for the sake of everyone new in ARK who might read Thenextking's post, otherwise I wouldn't be eager to feed the troll.


This is their blog : https://blog.ark.io/ , just look at how often they're posting
This is their roadmap : https://ark.io/roadmap , just look at how packed it is (and they are actually hitting their milestones in time)

They are also active in their forums and in Github.
They might (or might not, I don't know) have taken a short brake because it's Christmas but overall I'd dare say they might be the most active altcoin team out there!