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777 on March 14th, 2018. Eastern time if hours come into question.
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Hey Guys... "philosophical" question for today, LOL - hope it's still enough 'speculation' related not to get deleted off topic  What's the best way you guys have all found for yourselves to deal with the psychological trap of "what-if-itis" disease, or "If-Only-Ism" thinking patterns? For lack of a better term, this is the phenomenon of looking BACKWARDS too much at whatever number/quantity or type of other crypto coins that you may have USED TO HAVE, but for whatever reason you DON'T HAVE any more... and now after they've mooned, and you're kicking yourself saying, "Oh man if only I'd not sold or lost or given away XXX of my YYY" etc etc etc. I'm SURE we all have this disease to some degree or another. Seems impossible to me that *anyone* involved in crypto at all for any middle to long-term length of time could EVER totally avoid it, right? Nobody ever gets all the decisions correct 100% of the time. Overall I'm still way, WAY ahead of where I'd have been, financially in my life, from getting into bitcoin at first over 4 years ago now. Compared to having just left the money sitting in a bank CD deposit, there's no question it's a huge WIN overall. But IF ("if only!" LOL) during those 4 years I'd have just HODL'ed more, not traded much (or at all), kept more of certain coins and less of others... I can't shake the thinking that I'd be even *further* ahead today. Like, pushing on upwards of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars further ahead...  I ain't complaining, really... most times when you catch me in the correct frame of mind I'm happy to be where things are. Life is good, overall... no problemo. But... ya know... goddammnit... sometimes that fucking "what-if-itis" or "If-Only-Ism" disease just *creeps* back into my brain. It's annoying LOL So what do you guys do when it comes? Any quick tips mental gymnastics to banish the demon shadow there? LOL That's a tough one. I did that a lot with Google, in which I never invested. Same with Apple. And of course I do it from time to time with crypto, but in this case it's more like "why didn't I buy more?" For me it comes down to realizing that I made the best decision at the time with the information that I had, and sometimes that turns out to have been a good decision and sometimes it turns out to have been a bad decision. My lesson learned is that I should get more information before making decisions like these, which is tough because there is so much bad information out there, and I should find more people who consistently make better decisions and emulate them. There are a few people here whose comments and advice I take seriously since they have an established, verifiable track record. I'm pretty sure you know who those people are also since you've been around awhile and have noted their accuracy rate too. So, I lean on my own research first, and if what they say agrees, then I'm pretty confident. If what they say disagrees with my research, it makes me pause and ponder why we have different conclusions. Either way, at the end I'm the one who has to make the decision, and as long as I can assure myself that I did my due diligence, I find it a lot easier to live with those decisions, right or wrong. |
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Hello Monerians, https://moneroForCash.com (MFC) is now free. You can post adverts to buy or sell Monero for free. As always, MFC: - Doesn't use JavaScript
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Additionally, the site is now owned by u/tficharmers. He did the awesome UI redesign a few months ago. I will continue in a support role as needed. The email for the Contact Us form is still being set up so please bear with us. This does not affect internal messaging for adverts, which is working, as are email alerts if you entered your email (optional) on your Settings page. We hope you enjoy the site! |
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Hello Monerians, https://moneroForCash.com (MFC) is now free. You can post adverts to buy or sell Monero for free. As always, MFC: - Doesn't use JavaScript
- Doesn't use search company analytics
- Requires no ID or email to register or use
- Does not share or sell user information
Additionally, the site is now owned by u/tficharmers. He did the awesome UI redesign a few months ago. I will continue in a support role as needed. The email for the Contact Us form is still being set up so please bear with us. This does not affect internal messaging for adverts, which is working, as are email alerts if you entered your email (optional) on your Settings page. We hope you enjoy the site! |
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Both BTC and XMR hit psychological milestones ($10k BTC, $200 XMR). When that happened, lots of people who had been telling themselves, "When this hits $10k/$200, I'll sell."
This created a flood of supply which pushed both prices back down. Then the supply was snatched up, the prices rose again, and the people who thought about selling at $10k/$200 but didn't the first time went ahead and sold the 2nd/3rd brief time both coins hit those levels. I think we'll see more of that over the next few days.
In both cases, lots of news was generated which will help with demand. I expect both to go sideways around $10k/$200 and then go above those levels as more people enter the markets. Plus, Monero has Globee and 2/3 multisig in mid-to-late testing, and when people start using those, demand will increase even more.
Good times!
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Does anyone know cardano coin? It just jumped over Monero at coinmarketcap
Well, it's PoS and almost all of its coins are already in circulation...not good signs. |
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that's exactly my question, why is monero better than pivx from a privacy point of view?
And yes I think it's a very relevant topic for the monero speculation thread. If pivx tech is better...
https://moneroforcash.com/monero-vs-dash-vs-zcash-vs-bitcoinmixers.php#dash-pivxAdditionally, add-on or optional privacy can never be as private as protocol-level mandatory privacy (Monero). Others have already pointed out the PIVX rich list. |
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Not sure if this is the right thread or not.
Any thoughts or rumors on Coinbase adding Monero?
I'm really starting to enjoy this coin and have been adding to my position around the $85 mark.
Just rumors. Fluffy did give a presentation at Coinbase around 10 months ago, and Charlie Lee (formerly at Coinbase) likes Monero. AFAIK that's all that's definitely known. Until Coinbase adds Monero, you can buy Monero with fiat at Kraken. |
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MoneroForCash.com has been redesigned and updated Hello Monerians - I'm the admin for MoneroForCash.com. MoneroForCash has been serving the Monero community since August of 2016. Although the site enabled buyers and sellers to trade Monero for cash, Money Orders, gift cards, etc., the site had a dated appearance and limited features. Reddit user /u/tficharmers ( https://www.reddit.com/user/tficharmers) has graciously designed and donated an updated user interface for the site, and like before, no JavaScript is used, nor are traceable Ads or analytics. It's responsive and looks as good on your mobile as it does on your laptop. In addition to the updated design, the site now lets you set your Monero/fiat exchange rate to your desired fiat currency, and we also have added the ability to rate trades. And, as before, user funds are never stored on our site so it's impossible for us to steal your funds. Even if our site is hacked, your funds are safe since all trading is peer-to-peer. Additionally, we can't absolutely determine that you and another party completed a trade as a result of advertising on our site because we're not privy to any transaction details between users. Check out our new site, and buy/sell Monero for cash or other assets. https://moneroForCash.com |
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There have been several posts about other coins which claim to be privacy-centric. Here's a good comparison of many privacy-centric coins: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/wiki/comparison That page is on a Monero site, so while you may be wondering about bias (everyone has bias), ask yourself the more important question: is the information on that page true? If it is true, then bias no longer matters. If it is not true, please show how it is not true with links supporting any claims. |
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... How many people here have at least one friend or family member who have recently -- out of the blue -- asked you to tell them again, "Hey what's the deal really with that bitcoin crypto currency stuff you were telling me about last year?" How many people have a very conservative friend who recently finally opened a coinbase account and put in even just a hundred bucks, to just START learning for themselves how all this stuff really works? I've had BOTH of those things happen to me recently, in the last month or two, and if it's even slightly representative of what's happening overall in a macro scale of adoption, then we are only at the very start of a really significant hockey-stick curve ramp-up coming over the next year or two. Could be wrong, though, of course... this is crypto, any damn weird thing can happen LOL -- but that's how it feels/looks to me  I've had 2 in the past month. Both are conservative financially, one very much so (debt-free, lives well below his means, etc.). If someone like him opened a coinbase account, that's a big deal. |
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I don't get the recent FUD. I mean that literally, not as in "spam" as it has also come to mean.
Monero just put out a major release, there's a new android wallet with more on the way, m/n multisig is in the works, hardware wallets are in the works, Kovri is in the works, it keeps getting added to exhchanges, hash rate is increasing, redditt subscribers are increasing, more people are realizing that BTC isn't private and they're seeing the need for privacy...I'm sure I missed other metrics and events.
China has made news plenty of times before. The news is almost always worse than what actually plays out. And many other coins are simply overvalued so they need to come down. Most of them don't do anything or add value that isn't present in other coins, and/or their tech is terrible. I don't put BTC or XMR in that group. I still see them as undervalued, especially XMR.
But if the price goes down, thoughts on where the bottom might be would be nice so we can grab more before it goes back up.
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Yes I see, thanks for honest answer.
I am trying to write an objective article about Monero vs Dash, and whereas I get good answers for Monero questions. I usually get hostility, namecalling, and troll posts in the Dash community.
I try to remain objective but I already see the level of maturity difference between the 2 communities.
Here's a comparison. Sure it's biased but I think the more important question is: "Is it accurate?" |
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