The year so far has not been good for those that do bounties. Like many of you I am happy to say that I made a lot of money in 2017/18 just from promoting ICO's. But those days seem to be long gone. I have found something else that is making me nearly as much as I did then but there is more than one way to make money from cryptocurrency and I would like to what you are doing with crypto and if it is giving a good reward for your efforts.

Have an EOS account that I created with the recommended amount of Ram and CPU. Tried to do my first EOS transaction and my tokens are stuck because I am caught in a RAM/CPU catch 22. Looking for any suggestions about how I can increase my RAM or CPU.

Will 2020 be the year Ethereum asserts it's dominance in the Altcoin space or are one of the contenders poised to take the Altcoin crown?

I just found out Scatter has closed their browser extension and decided to concentrate on Desktop Wallets. I am looking for a Chrome Browser Extension or Mobile app to replace it.

It would seem that "Wash Trading" is a much bigger problem than originally thought. Wash Trading is the buying and selling of coins by bots on the exchange to artificially create volume and the perception of liquidity. A new study shows that only 3 of the Top 25 exchanges trading Bitcoin according to CoinMarketCap are actually presenting true figures. https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-claims-over-80-percent-of-top-25-btc-trading-pair-volumes-on-cmc-are-wash-traded

Besides the risk that you run from hacks that steal your coins there is another even better reason for not keeping your coins on centralized exchanges.

Enlightened Self Interest.

A large volume of the selling that is currently happening in cryptocurrencies and particularly in Ethereum is coming from people short selling. Short selling is when you put up some collateral with an exchange and then borrow coins against that collateral that you sell into the market and then hope to buy back at a lower price and return to the exchange to cover your negative position. The difference between the price you sold and then bought back would be your profit. Short positions in Ethereum are at record levels.

Now if you are a long term investor in cryptocurrency and are holding coins on a centralized exchange then you are inadvertantly increasing the supply of coins available to short sellers. If however they were in your wallet or on a decentralised exchange they would not be available to short sellers. If enough people did this the short selling would dry up and the shorts would have to scramble to cover their short positions which would drive prices up. This is called a short squeeze. Now I have no reason to believe that me moving my coins will bring this to pass. But I am going to do it simply because I don't like the idea of other people using my money to work against my interests.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued rejections to bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETFs) proposals from ProShares, Direxion and GraniteShares.

https://www.coindesk.com/sec-rejects-7-bitcoin-etf-proposals/

I think it is getting pretty apparant that the SEC has no intention of allowing any sort of Bitcoin ETF in the near future. It always struck me as the wrong approach for the development of cryptocurrencies. Putting a decentralised cryptocurrency that anyone can trade on a centralised exchange where it can only be bought through regulated intermediaries defeats the entire purpose of the blockchain. It seems to me that actually tokenising assets (like ETF's, Shares, Bonds etc.) and putting them on a blockchain where they can be traded is the future. That future is good news for Alts that can tokenise assets and bad news for Bitcoin which seems to hoping that ETF's will save them from their technological limitations.

Some of you may have noticed a bunch of tokens appearing in your Ethereum Wallet in the last couple of days that you have no idea where they came from. In my case it was  tokens for IFOOD, FRES, LXT, DAG, ARP, EES, NC & LET. When people send me token spam my standard response is to report them to Etherscan as a spam token. If you have received unsolicited tokens you should also report them as this is the only way we can stop what is now a nuisance from becoming a plague.

As some of you may have noticed there has been a flurry of people creating shitcoins and dispersing them to Ethereum wallets as a way of spamming people. Today I noticed that the 3 Spamcoins that I was sent earlier this week have been marked as "Reputation Spam" and now appear at the very bottom of the list with their message blanked out. Well done Etherscan.

I have notice an increasing number of instances of people sending worthless tokens as a way of promoting. As an example some idiot thought sending me his Refereum referral link in the name of some garbage token might get me to join as his referral. https://etherscan.io/address/0x29b17f2d0af2357f0adc00f83ec595d7bc2c8285

Unfortunately for him, and all the other idiots that choose to SPAM my wallet with unsolicited garbage tokens the only thing I will do is complain to whoever owns whatever you are trying to sell until they ban you.

What 3 things do Provoco, Bitcoinus and IUNGO have in common?

They are all in Vilnius.

They are all run by Dylan Sharkey.

They are all scams.

https://youtu.be/uPk3a9nqKSc

I had trouble confirming the identity of any of the people listed on the Graphene Power ICO.
Could not find anything about them anywhere. Turns out I was searching the wrong names.
Turns out they all live in Canada and have different names.

Compare the people

https://gpower.network/

http://www.codata.org/membership/national-members/canada/canada-national-committee

We have seen sharp rises in price for cryptocurrencies as they are added to the Coinbase platform. What coin do you think will be added next to Coinbase?

As many of you will know the Ethereum network is having trouble processing transaction because of the increased volume created by CryptoKitties.
If you have had a transaction that processed recently please post how long it took to complete and how much GAS was used.