Learnt a great deal through CoinGecko's crypto reports Keep up the good work team!  

Stopped using CMC myself. Ever since they introduced the "DATA" alliance thing, it gets worse - they essentially create a walled garden that only they and their so called "partner" exchanges get to represent themselves.

Case in point:
> CMC's Top 200 rank only considers coins listed on selected exchanges.
> This creates incentives for coins to want to list themselves on those exchanges
> CMC is part of the cartel creating a false, paid ecosystem
> Coins that can't afford to pay listing to get on those will never get represented fairly

I don't think many are aware of this, but take a look through their list and you'll understand what I mean. CMC is absolutely greedy and full of crap these days. Anyone who is willing to pay their way up can get to the front page. Shameful.

Also, who's to say that all the "DATA Alliance" exchanges are good?

CoinGecko, Cryptocompare etc don't have such nonsense. I personally use CoinGecko all the way because they have really good clean UI, great support if you have questions. They do things fairer and are transparent (see their circulating supply breakdown for ERC-20 tokens). So much work goes into what they do and I think they deserve more recognition than CMC in every way.

For sure! Their exchange page really looks good now. It's a much better representation and you see bad exchanges ranked all the way down despite having huge "trading volumes".


Very different, just look at their exchange page. CMC has MXC? BKEX? (What nonsense exchanges are these) on top while CoinGecko has Binance, Coinbase (those that you expect to be on top).

Furthermore, if you look into their coin page (https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bitcoin) you'll see that the top trading pairs are at least legit (i.e from Coinbase, kraken, binance). CMC one on the other hand... very inaccurate and misleading.

I no longer use CMC now, CoinGecko is more trustworthy with transparent info and better ranking.


CMC doesn't seem to want to do anything against fake volume exchanges. Their exchange page, coin trading pairs list is ridiculous.

Definitely, but I won't tell them to put a lot of money in it.

Once they have a small amount, they'll probably be much more interested in learning what Bitcoin is, and also what it can do. Once they've learnt all that it's entirely up to them to decide if it's worth it to invest more.

Have been using CoinGecko for quite a while now, while they do have ads most of them are rather un-intrusive and it helps CoinGecko keep their services free for all of us to use. Did you know that they also have free API for everyone to use? I bet all that takes up quite a bit of money, but definitely enabled many development across the cryptosphere!

I'm more than happy to support them by having a few ads pop up on my screen. Afterall, I only look at the prices for at most a minute and I don't click on the ads. Can't hurt

Wow, that is a super generous giveaway. Good on you guys to be doing such a giveaway! 

Also, I noticed that you updated your front page. It looks pretty good. Keep it up! 

Will definitely recommend this to my friends in the crypto sphere! Enjoyed reading it - great market recap and great insights on various crypto topics. Thank you for the report!

They currently have a competition where you can win NFT's - check their twitter post out: https://twitter.com/nftgecko/status/1115254338715131904

CoinGecko is usually pretty fun, they always have some kind of competitions and all if you follow their social media sites

Hey! I think CoinGecko is currently using a "fixed" description for coins, they no longer show each coin's information individually. However, if it's updated for you it should show when people query for Horizen's info via API. For now regardless of what they update I think it'll look the same.

Sure, Bitcoin/Crypto is a threat to all government regulated fiat currencies (yuan included), but it's still a very long way from actually threatening their model.

Won't be surprised if China actually pulls the plug on the miners though, since it doesn't bring about any economic benefits for China themselves at all. And they're always striving to control capital outflow and Bitcoin is arguably one of the tools that hampers their efforts.

If environment is an issue, I am of the opinion that they probably have bigger problems that they can tackle and it can bring about better benefits for much less effort (factories?)

Discipline for sure. When investing you should always set a goal and stick with it. Don't think about how this can go up more, or stop going down. If you can devise a strategy and stick to it, you'll be better off than many people.

It's harder to do because it involves completely removing hope and emotions. FOMO is a scary thing for sure! 

Looks like a pretty cool forum for NFT-related talks! Also, nice raffle that's going along with it If I could win either of those.. it'll be more than 0.2 ETH for just a few simple actions

STO are definitely interesting, and is one of the ways this market can be invested in for entities subjected to heavy regulation. You can probably see it as an improvement over ICOs which have nearly no oversight. I've learnt quite a bit from CoinGecko's 2018 Cryptocurrency Report regarding STO - Slide 49.

Link here for reference: https://www.slideshare.net/coingecko/coingecko-2018-full-year-cryptocurrency-report

While it indeed is a good opportunity to buy many coins right now, this post is... a pretty clever plug for this Nautilus something exchange 

Having an extremely tough genesis block - fair mining or not?  Personally yes, since it prevents people from gaming the blockchain in the beginning and is generally pretty fair for everyone, despite only finding the first block few hours later.

I don't think there is a way to prevent dumping of coins once it has been listed on an exchange aside from being a good project itself.

If it is good, then the project should have good prospects of being listed on major exchanges with good liquidity. Paired with good market demand the price should stabilize at initial value, if not more.

I've just seen CoinGecko's 2018 report and they've got some great insights on 2018's ICOs - check out slide 29. https://www.slideshare.net/coingecko/coingecko-2018-full-year-cryptocurrency-report

A good project, even if listed will not dump. The same cannot be said for the rest.

Aside from that statement, is there a statement to how much money has been lost on Cryptopia? I have a little bit of funds on Cryptopia that I did not take out since long time ago. Should've taken them out when I could. Damn 

Vertcoin has been amazing so far.

1. Development - the development team has been doing a stellar job so far as volunteers and as people who are not taking pay from the projects in the form of developer's fees, premine or anything of that sort. Throughout the bear market they've been around, delivering even though they're not obliged to. Keeping my eyes peeled for more coming from the team for sure!

2. Price action wise I'll be honest - it's nothing great at all since it's not that popular and there isn't much going around for people to P&D it. But I truly admire the team for working not to pump the price, but to take this as a ground to further the technology and to experiment on stuffs.

3. Community - it's shrunken across the board, Discord gets quiet sometimes but generally still plenty of chatter. Just not as much as its heydays during the bullrun, but still lots of activity and many lovely people sticking around.

I'll probably add in to say that, if you try and do some work eg. translation, poster designing, taking up bounties for whatever social activities there are - you will be in to learn and earn at the same time! 

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-   USD/RMB 等支付网关
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-   区块时间：60 秒
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