Hi, I had to close my wallet and now I keep getting "connect() to ip:9999 failed after select(): Connection refused" messages. I have already deleted peers.dat but this error continues to show and my blockchain does not sync. Is this normal because of the swap that is going to happen ?

Thanks.

Yes, Bittrex will deposit BTG. But they will do it when they have a working wallet. So wait for Nov 1st or later, because not the network is up yet. Here is the statement from Bittrex and they will not open a BTG market.

https://support.bittrex.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002320451-Statement-on-Bitcoin-Gold-BTG-

HitBTC and Yobit is already trading BTG, because they opened a market and credited people with BTG.

This kind of question is very difficult. In the end it is going to be your position in which token to invest. Because eveyone has a favorite one and people are looking at it everyday. For you to put your money in an alt. coin and leave it there is very risky. If you don't mind to lose your money, ok, so do it. But my advise is choose one that is very popular (high market cap) and with liquidity.

Thanks for sharing. I didn't know that about Bittrex. I was going to start to move my BTCs to another exchange. Nice!

This huge drop between months are not good for Sia, because when this coin starts to rise a lot of people will dump. So is going to be a battle to keep this coin up again. I think it will take time to recover.

Why ? people are buying to get Bitcoin Gold. You made a big mistake in my point of view.

The initial move is to dump, because everyone got free tokens. But the future is interesting about this one. Bitcoin gold will change the algo for miners, ASIC resistant, so GPU miners will have a chance to earn some Bitcoin Gold. This is completely different from Bitcoin Cash that just made the fork.

Nowadays the only ICOs you can trust is from known people. Because everyone is launching and ICO this days and most of them are not legit. So look closely for scams.

The best you can do is not to go into an ICO. Just read about some tokens that alive for a few years (the common ones) and wait for a big drop on the price. Buy low and wait for the pump to sell on the future for profit. This is my advice.

Nice said. But on important fact for me is the point number 1. A lot of bad things happens when you print money and this creates inflation and everyone is doomed. With crypto you have to mine to create more and with the invention of blockchain you can watch what "they" are doing. If a Government creates a crypto-coin you will be able to detect easily if they are creating more and if they needed more (the initial setup is a fixed number of coins) they have to update the blockchain (create a hardfork). So more control and transparency for all.

I regret when I saw an article on net about the Winklevos that they were investing in Bitcoin and I totally ignored. Now in 2017 it I started to look at it. So let see if this hype goes on!

Could you please tell at least one? I haven't read anything yet like a real ban. What countries are banning are ICOs, because ICOs do not have a clear point on the investment and the Government cannot protect people agains scams.

I think that Bitcoin is a start of a movement to a unique coin around the world, a digital coin (like we see on the movies hehehe). Governments will regulate sooner or later because a lot of fiat transactions. They are just studying a way to do it. This dream to have something that Government does not control is a myth.

Wow, impressive images! I'm new to this world so starting to see some return now. I can't wait to see what the future holds (HODL hehehe). But I think the big change was 2016 to 2017 and let's hope that continues that way.

Nothing is impossible. But people with a lot of eye balls (popular people) are saying this to get more people into Bitcoin. This is the other part of the game. Some says that it will crash and turn it into ashes to create FUD and buy cheap. So you have both sides here with this kind of statement.

People are believing in Bitcoin as you can see a huge drop and went back up with so much strength. If nothing big happens the price will not go down because everyone will think it is very cheap and will start a buy movement.

I see no problem in the amount of ICOs. The problem is the ICOs without a good ground on what to do with the project (just to make money quick?). A lots of the new ICOs come from platforms that you can create a token really easy and quick like Ethereum (ERC20 token) and Waves. But governments are watching this closely and that's why people are now doing airdrops. They give you free token and you and the devs wait if the tokens get accepted by the market (let's play). The stock market after all is a game that people like to play (Forex included).

Hi, I registered for the airdrop. But could you please explain the project better? Thanks.

I recommend the ledger nano s, it is much cheaper than the Trezor. Both have seed (group of simple words to temper the creation of the keys), so if you lost of the hardware wallet or gets destroyed you can recover the wallet (the private keys). The Ledger Nano S has a lot of coins and more are coming. Hardware wallet is the way to go.

The problems with ICOs is that government are not seeing how they can protect the investors if the ICO is a scam. This is a huge problem. How do you guarantee that your money is moving the company? But ICOs bans are not a problem for the existing tokens, bitcoin will not suffer from it. The only problem that will emerge is few new tokens on the market.