It's starting to look a lot like SHITMESS! Remember the ICO craze of 2016/2017?? Well the shitstorm is officially in diarrhea mode and it's all about MASTERNODES BABY! */add Sarcasm and Baby Puke*

So many NEW and SHINY "Masternode Coins" are coming out, hundreds by the day almost. All you see in Altcoin Announcements are coins claiming to have Masternodes with SUPER LOW SUPPLY and SUPER HIGH ROI, when in reality many of these MN projects disappear after a few months and leave whoever spent $$$ on MN's in the dust. People need to be really careful with this, most of these projects are flat out horse shit and the only ppl profiting are the asshole devs who dump as soon as it makes its way onto an exchange or rip you off via OTC. Most of the MN coins are being disregarded on exchanges but CryptoBridge and other dirty cheap exchanges seem to be happy to house them for a small fee.

The only 2 projects that really made MNs noteworthy were Dash and PIVX and sadly those are long gone if you want to be an MN holder. As much as I'm all for making ROI in this space, Masternode projects are the new "shine my shoes with shit coin" and sadly their pumping them out as fast as a cocaine fueled hooker with 97 vaginas, to the point some of the names of these projects are obviously bot driven on a large scale.

For reference, take a look at the almost infinite list of MN's over at masternodes.online to get a feel for how many MNs projects are puking up every 2 min. LOOK I GET IT, MN'S MAKE YOU $$$, BUT 99% WILL FCK YOU.

Projects that actually have PoW relevance are the projects that start with 0 pre-mine with a fair launch like Bitcoin, REMEMBER BITCOIN!? Also 99% of the time don't have masternodes to sucker in the idiots deciding to waste money on a VPS and 30,000 MAMBOcoins for example.

Ravencoin started with 0 pre-mine, fair distribution, has an open and active dev team and isn't asking ppl to giveup their firstborn for a masternode. Ravencoin is a great example of a solid project in the PoW space and it pains me to see the good projects like this so far and few between.

To wrap this fire of a shitpost up, not all MN projects are crap but 99.89% of them are. Be careful, and don't let greed fuck you in the pooper.

[What is an Initial Troll Offering?]

What is an Initial Troll Offering?

Commonly referred to as an ITO, it is a fundraising campaign for ridiculous and fun concepts involving the trolling of institutions with Bitcoin. This is all done in the spirit of the Bitcoin community! Throughout this process, participants will fund projects whose sole intention is to make fun of things, people, or Jamie Dimon.

How to Participate

Your contribution will go directly towards buying a full page ad in the Wall Street Journal. This generally costs $350,000 USD. We want your help to get this wizard into this old newspaper. If you participate, you will not get your money back. Unless we fail. Then you will get your money back. If we succeed, we'll get the Bitcoin Wizard into the Wall Street Journal.

Security
This wallet is secured by Adam Draper, Mason Borda, and Brooke Mallers.

Visit the site for more details:
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Whitepaper:
https://twitter.com/cryptograffiti/status/930933869066338304

UPDATE: Featured in Motherboard.Vice article:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x53xa/bitcoin-nerds-are-trying-to-get-the-magic-internet-money-wizard-into-the-wall-street-journal

[What is merge mining?]

In the land of Cryptocurrency, there are tons of coins and projects, many completely undervalued, Unitus is one of them. Before we talk about Unitus and the fact it’s radically undervalued, let’s look at Vertcoin and why it rose from .02 cents on Jan 10th 2017, to the $3.65 mark we see today.

One of the main things that attracted me to Vertcoin back in 2014 was it’s dedication to miners and it’s Proof of Work system. To mine Vertcoin, you really just need a decent graphics card, an internet connection and somewhat basic computer for the most part. Vertcoin has a lot of interesting features, but their main one was having fair distribution without a premine, ICO or airdrop and giving their blockchain 100% to the miners for POW. Also they’re ASIC resistant for the most part which gives 1 lad with a graphics card a better chance to mine some VTC then an ASIC warehouse somewhere in the depths of the Amazon mining all the coins.
Don’t get me wrong here, I’m not comparing Vertcoin to Unitus, Vertcoin undoubtedly has a lot more money, features, devs and big community behind it, but when I look at Unitus, I see the early days of Vertcoin, and I’ll explain.

Unitus also has Fair Distribution, no pre-mine, no dev tax, and gives miners the ability to mine 100% POW to their blockchain. Unitus is not a “new” coin, it’s been around since 2015 and has for the most part kept itself under the radar, which is actually good sometimes. The biggest thing I’ve seen in Unitus is overall growth, having been a lurker for years now, they have an active dev team and community behind the project, plus Unitus has some interesting features that most other PoW projects do not.

Unitus is a Multi-Algo blockchain project which means as a miner, you can choose 5 different Algorithms to mine with and for the advanced miners, this allows them to use X11, Skein, Lyra2v2, Yescrypt, and Argon2d. Basically whatever works the best for their graphics card and CPU. This gives the miners an extra boost of hash, which means more coins at the end of the day. Algorithms are very picky and run differently on each computer/gpu/cpu, so having options like this is very helpful. To be honest 99% of all coins and blockchain projects don’t have this.

An example of this is Nvidia vs AMD vs CPU. Argon2d is a new CPU Algo, while I prefer Skein on my Nvidia GPU another miner could prefer X11 on their AMD GPU. Basically having options like this shows that the dev team cares, and POW coins have proven to be the most profitable long term holds compared to POS and Tokens, so utilizing these options is a huge benefit for the miners.
Another feature that’s interesting is their Merge Mining.

A quote from the dev team says this: What is merge mining?

Merge mining is what sets Unitus apart from many other cryptocurrencies. It allows us to essentially get free hashrate to secure the network, with no additional workload for miners. The miner does nothing extra. He just works away looking for those good hashes. The brains of the operation is in the pool, but the result is the same work for the miner with higher rewards, coins coming from both wallets, and network security for Unitus at no extra cost.

Coins that you can currently merge mine with Unitus:

Adzcoin (ADZ)
ArcticCoin (ARC)
Artex (ATX)
AuroraCoin (AUR)
Beach (SAND)
Beonpush (BOPS)
Bitcoin Planet (BTPL)
Bolivar (BOLI)
Bows (BSC)
CannabisCoin (CANN)
Centurion (CNT)
Coexist (COXST)
Coino (CNO)
CopyPasta (CTRLV)
Dash (DASH)
Digibyte (DGB)
Eryllium (ERY)
Fal (FAL)
GlobalBoost-Y (BSTY)
Granite (GRN)
Happy (HPC)
Influxcoin (INFX)
Join (J-x-11)
Kash (KASH)
Kurrent (KURT)
Linked (LXC)
Marijuana (MAR)
Marx (MARX)
Mavrodi (MMM)
Mind (MND)
Monetary Unit (MUE)
Myriad (XMY)
Ofw (OFW)
OGN (OGN)
Ozzie (OZC)
PIZZA (PIZZA)
Prime-XI (PXI)
Seven (SEV)
StartCoin (START)
Vault (VLTC)
Verge (XVG)
VertCoin (VTC)
VirtaPlus (XVP)

So.. Right now Unitus is trading for around 0.01 cents as of Nov 7, 2017. The total circulating supply of Unitus is 46,785,866 UIS. 46.7 Million UIS is not a lot considering many other blockchain projects have circulating supplies in the hundreds of millions to billions. What makes Bitcoin rare and valuable is it’s limited total supply of 21 million coins with it’s validating Proof of Work system. So when I look at Unitus being valued at 1 cent, it almost blows my mind. Unitus is under the radar for such an exceptional POW project, and to be completely honest, it won’t be for long.

Full Article at Medium: https://medium.com/@cryptkeeperofficial/why-unitus-could-be-the-next-vertcoin-8327867b23f1

**Disclaimer** I was not paid for this article and wrote it because it’s a project I’ve been watching for a while now, and I believe it has tremendous potential in my undead personal opinion. I’m also not a financial advisor, so do your own bloody homework when it comes to investing and don’t be an idiot.

If you found this article helpful at all, please feel free to donate via Bitcoin or Unitus:

BTC: 1NpkSsjqpFtMRDjz6XRgpxHi8BFfTy9auR
Unitus: UYWo2hu7qAwTQ1qSqYM1A1bGdPQ9XYtrbz

Official Unitus Links:
Website: http://unitus.online/home
Twitter: https://twitter.com/UnitusCoin
Bitcointalk: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1121974.0
Coinmarketcap: https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/unitus/

[Contraband:]

Contraband the community manager for Electoneum has been deleting all posts that question or bring up issues with Electroneum and the launch. As an ICO investor I have every right to ask questions, especially when my funds are locked up while miners are making a profit and we are sitting on the sidelines. Here are some of the posts he deleted.

Contraband: I wont delete your response to hide the post you responded to because I deleted, as my intention is not to "hide" posts.

Contraband: The post is just so ridiculous. I didnt want to go through one at a time and respond to the barrage of questions that were just pure FUD in my opinion. The devs are not scammers. So for transparency I leave it here so you can read it if you really want to, but believe me, dont waste your time and just move along.

My Response:

Is it though? First of all I mentioned I was speculating, and given the fact 10,000+ miners haven't received a single ETN token from the official mining pools in over 48 hours is bloody odd and should be addressed ASAP.

Also given the fact people spent money on this ICO and are stuck unable to withdraw their funds is unacceptable, as miners who don't have any ties to this project are mining it and making the most profit. Whether or not the dev team has been dealing with a hack, or more likely scenario, they don't have the ETN to send to the ICO holders yet, or even worse they lost their pre-mine somehow, might sound crazy but I have every right to speak my mind and speculate especially after such a shady and unprofessional launch.

What's ridiculous is you censoring this thread, my post and others who are just airing their thoughts and ideas. I'm not trying to spread fud, but it's hard NOT to speculate when a 40million ICO disappears from the world then pretends to be in talks with "Amazon" which is bullshit and add to the madness has mining pools that are stuck and not working. Goodluck being their PR rep Contraband.

Another Poster Boba02 dealing with deleted posts when just asking questions...

Contraband,

The following pools are sitting on Electroneum domain, you announced them, so why now you are trying to distance yourself from what your team had created?

eupool.electroneum.com
uspool.electroneum.com
asiapool.electroneum.com

My approximate calculations suggest that there are at least 5-10 BTC in ETN coins haven't been accounted for and that's ~ 36,000-72,000 USD in today's money.

If Electroneum development team is not going to release those payouts, I guess the community would be curious to know how those money will be spent.

Thank you.

Okay, seems like my posts are being deleted, so I have to repost.
The whole project lacked transparency since day 1 (no details on "hack", no real ETA on ICO coins release and now they don't want to be responsible for the money that haven't been paid by their own pools.

Just a reminder, here is an announce of the pools that hold at least 5-10 worth of BTC in payouts.
Contraband suggests to contact pools' support, but that's apparently Electroneum team.

Quote from: boba02 on Today at 05:29:02 PM
Contraband, would you like to explain why you are deleting my posts?
Am I giving misinformation?
And if not, are you afraid that people may read my point of view?

Contraband: I sent you a PM explaining that you had, maybe by accident, quoted someone that posted a "quote" of mine that wasnt true.

EDIT: Contraband has threatened me multiple times via PM and has now "added me" to the Scammers list! LOL. I personally have over 2K invested in Electroneum, this is bloody absurd.

EDIT 2: I will continue to add deleted posts by either myself or other members until we get some answers.

Original thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2353282.280

I'm surprised nobody is talking about Hacken, it's basically a token that will be used for White Hat Hackers and the tokens will be continuously burned based on their whitepaper. Steve Wozniak is backing the project and it seems really unique and potentially profitable for token holders. Does anyone have any thoughts on this project?

Site is http://www.hacken.io

[Disclaimer: Do your own research, I’m in noway a financial advisor, this is my own opinion and not financial advice.]

If you prefer Medium, please use the link here: https://medium.com/@cryptkeeperofficial/cryptkeepers-rant-picks-for-q4-2017-775ca99a023c

At the beginning of 2017 I posted my picks on crypto projects worth mining for Nvidia GPU’s and also alt coins worth holding, why? Because I was bored, slightly drunk and inspired by the potential of Bitcoin and blockchain technology.

Whether or not Satoshi Nakamoto was one person, a team of people, or hell the NSA, CIA, FBI, KGB, RPG, JPG…Bitcoin and the code behind it has brought life to an archaic system, the financial system, and how email started to gain traction in the early 90’s, Bitcoin and digital currency has brought a mathematical approach to financial security which to say at the very least puts centralized database’s out of business…Hi Equifax. Not to mention a store of value with a fixed supply, hi Gold, or bye Gold.

So, for the nerds out there, welcome to my somewhat quarterly crypto rant and personal picks for Q4 2017. You can view my previous articles on Bitcointalk Q1 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1780829.0 & Q3 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2076997.0 ← here. Q2 was for private investors ONLY who paid me millions of bitcoins, kidding, fuck anyone who does that, I’m talking to you half of the cryptocurrency channels on youtube, be wary of those fuckers, do your own research and don’t pay someone for “private” financial advice, it’s like putting your dick in a snake hole, 2 of 3 will most likely bite it and slither away with the tip, no pun intended.

Cryptocurrency is new and fragile, and none of us have any clue what the hell is going to happen, only research and understanding of the project at hand which forms our decisions and opinions at the end of the day is the best we can do which can somewhat guide us in the right direction. With new industries comes high volatility, uncertainty and distorted knowledge (ie. people thinking they know what their talking about) so speaking of people not knowing what their talking about, here was my Q1 picks and holds this year on Feb 7th, 2017.  

Q1 2017 Mining Picks (Feb 7th, 2017):
Nvidia/CUDA Mining Picks: (Hash based on Nvidia GTX 1070)
1. Decred (DCR) Algo: decred — Hash: 2460.00 MH/s
2. VertCoin (VTC) Algo: lyra2v2 — Hash: 18.57 MH/s
3. LBRY (LBC) Algo: lbry — Hash: 254.95 MH/s
4. NEVA (NEVA) Algo: blake2s — Hash: 3704.05 MH/s
5. Myriad (MYR) Algo: skein — Hash: 375.80 MH/s
6. Verge (XVG) Multi-Algo: blake2s/lyra2v2

Q1 2017 Altcoin Holds:
1. Decred (DCR) Overall Gain since Jan 16th +2700.80%
2. WAVES (WAVES) Overall gain since Jan 16th +2140.44%
3. Stratis (STRAT) Overall gain since Jan 16th +16,721.71%
4. EmerCoin (EMC) Overall gain since Jan 16th +399.00%
5. Counterparty (XCP) Overall gain since Jan 16th +234.70%
6. Litecoin (LTC) Overall gain since Jan 16th +1,127.87%

In January 2017 every alt wasn’t even close to the high’s we’re seeing today. Many say that anyone who invested in early 2017 was hard to go wrong, and I completely agree… 90% of all cryptos jumped 200%–10,000%+ with Bitcoin leading the way. That being said, a lot of noobs (myself included) think they have a grasp on the digital crypto market now that we’ve seen massive gains, and to be completely honest, it’s almost impossible to gauge.

With extreme volatility comes extreme gains, so, be careful, and do your own research into each project, company, ico, coin, crypto, bitcoin, titcoin, hitcoin, shitcoin, you know the drill, do your own due diligence, the game is fun but buggy, new and unforgiving.

Diverting back to alt coins and currencies that follow Bitcoin, research needs to be applied to each project and team, from their whitepaper to critique of their bitcointalk thread, website, github, wallet, dev team, algorithm, coin supply, twitter and new tech or idea that layers upon bitcoin’s initial protocol.

So overall, this year has been an absolute monster run, but with anything, the ups and downs in this world of cryptocurrency are highly unpredictable. The picks below are based on my own research and are what I’m holding for the long run, each project has it’s use case, and I encourage you to do your own research before investing.

Disclaimer: Do your own research, I’m in noway a financial advisor, this is my own opinion and not financial advice.

To Holdl:

Bitcoin (BTC)
Ethereum (ETH)
Monero (XMR)
Litecoin (LTC)
Decred (DCR)
Civic (CVC)
NEO (NEO)
Vertcoin (VTC)
ZCoin (XZC)
OmiseGO (OMG)

To Mine:

AEON — (AEON)
Vertcoin — (VTC)
Monero — (XMR)
Decred — (DCR)
Iridium — (IRD)

[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1780829.msg17760247#msg17760247]

Back in Feb of this year I posted my altcoin picks for Q1 2017. Based on each of the projects developments and roadmaps, was the primary reason for investing in them. I want to go over those picks below, show the gains since Feb and also share my picks for Q3 of this year.

We have 2 categories, altcoins worth mining with Nvidia GPUs and altcoins worth holding for the long term. Just for the record, this is based on my personal research, if you're going to invest in altcoins, read the whitepapers, go on the forums, go into their slack, irc, social media, ask questions & read up on the projects...Come to your own conclusion. These are based on my personal experiences, and I'm not giving any of you beautiful people investment advice, just sharing my path so far in the crypto world and why some of these projects might be worth taking a look at.

Original link is here for anyone interested in seeing the post for Q1 2017 Altcoin picks: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1780829.msg17760247#msg17760247

For Q1 alts I measured 2 factors, coins worth mining and coins worth holding.

Q1 2017 Mining Picks:
Nvidia/CUDA Mining Picks: (Hash based on Nvidia GTX 1070)
1. Decred (DCR) Algo: decred - Hash: 2460.00 MH/s
2. VertCoin (VTC) Algo: lyra2v2 - Hash: 18.57 MH/s
3. LBRY (LBC) Algo: lbry - Hash: 254.95 MH/s
4. NEVA (NEVA) Algo: blake2s - Hash: 3704.05 MH/s
5. Myriad (MYR) Algo: skein - Hash: 375.80 MH/s
6. Verge (XVG) Multi-Algo: blake2s/lyra2v2

Q1 2017 Altcoin Holds:
1. Decred (DCR) Overall Gain since Jan 16th +2700.80%
2. WAVES (WAVES) Overall gain since Jan 16th +2140.44%
3. Stratis (STRAT) Overall gain since Jan 16th +16,721.71%
4. EmerCoin (EMC) Overall gain since Jan 16th +399.00%
5. Counterparty (XCP) Overall gain since Jan 16th +234.70%
6. Litecoin (LTC) Overall gain since Jan 16th +1,127.87%

Overall conclusion for Q1 picks, Decred was $1.07 mid Jan and easy to mine with GPU's making it a win/win for miners and investors. It hit around $2.07 during late Feb and continued to rise, with minimal dips. Decred is now worth $29.57 as of Aug 9th, 2017 and is still a worthy hold because it brings unique features that no other coin has in the space. When a coin offers something no other coin/project has, it's worth taking a deeper look into. In terms of what everyone has witnessed with BTC and BCC and August 1st, if Bitcoin had the Governance system Decred has now, things might of played out differently. Nobody's complaining, we all got free BCC but it was still sloppy and bitcoin took a hit for it.

Since Feb 2017, Decred has increased over 2,700% and has a viable chance of getting listed on Coinbase later in the year or possibly in 2018 after Coinbase adds 10,000 employees and a robot AI force to deal with the massive amount of new users. Everyone loves to hate them, but Coinbase has a massive impact on the digital currency landscape, in North America at least.

Here's a video of Decred making their pitch at Coinbase HQ earlier this year: (58min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2VOfCsg2uU

As for Verge, Myriad, NEVA, LBRY, they had their ups and downs, if you were mining them with NVIDIA GPU's you had a very nice bonus to hash rates thanks to Tpruvot's CCMiner builds. http://ccminer.org and https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases

The one coin that's still dear to my heart is Vertcoin, and the devs and community behind it are still the reason why Vertcoin continues to improve. Vertcoin is very easy to mine with GPU's and has ASIC resistant benefits to it's algorithm making it rather hard for ASIC's to take control of the network with a 51% attack. Vertcoin has been around really since the beginning of late 2013 and has survived just fine, if not starting to thrive. In Jan 2017, VTC was worth $0.047 and since then we have seen Vertcoin jump over 1,000%. Vertcoin is on par with Litecoin to me, they are 2 coins I'll be holding for a while ie. 5-10 years min.

Jumping into Q3 2017, the digital currency landscape has exploded. Mainstream media is now taking digital currency much more seriously with regular updates on national news outlets, international acceptance as well with Japan's regulation of Bitcoin, India's back and forth and China's ever changing stance, not to mention Russia getting into the ICO market and digital currency as a whole. The tide of this space is moving and fast, so noobs please refer to the documentary "SINGULARITY - Rise of the Machines with Ray Kurzweil".

Going forward, I do believe the market is still undervalued, even at the current market cap of $120,290,529,134, mainstream adoption has not taken effect yet, but the steady rise of interest on an international basis is a very good sign, especially coming from governments like Russia, China, India and Japan. If governments are starting to "mine" digital currency, ie. Russia as of yesterday with it's announcement, it's definitely something that isn't going to disappear anytime soon.

Russia Bitcoin Mining via Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-08/putin-s-aide-seeks-100-million-to-rival-china-in-bitcoin-mining

As of mid 2017, mainstream outlets have stopped mocking Bitcoin and started embracing "blockchain tech", and corporate backed or not, financial institutions of the world cannot ignore "blockchain tech" because it does completely disrupt their industry.

Anyways, here are my Nvidia Q3 2017 Mining Picks...

Nvidia/CUDA Mining Picks: (Hash based on Nvidia GTX 980)

1. Denarius (DNR) Algo: Tribus - Hash: 25 MH/s (Only 10mil coins, great roadmap, new alg, good community and dev team )

2. AEON (AEON) Algo: Cryptolight - Hash: 970 H/s (Monero clone that nobody really knows about, a sleeper coin + very low energy to mine. Monero is $40+ because of it's anonymous functions, AEON is basically Monero with a different name and it's around .40 cents right now.)

3. Komodo (KMD) Algo: Equihash - Hash: 300 Sol/s (Focused Dev team and good overall roadmap, overall 938% gain and rising)

4. Signatum (SIGT) Algo: SkunkHash Raptorfuck - Hash: 12 MH/s (love it or hate it, people are mining the shit out of this, huge vol.)

5. VertCoin (VTC) Algo: lyra2v2 - Hash: 18.57 MH/s (proven over and over again, this coin is worth mining and holding longterm)

6. Doubloons (BOAT) Algo: HMQ1725 - Hash: 3000kH/s (under the radar coin with some of the best POS Staking + Pirate *BOOTY* Rewards, some blocks are like finding a chest full of loot, not huge volume, but such a fun community and many miners on the high seas are supporting it for the staking and huge coin rewards.) Reminds me of early Dodgecoin.

Here are my Altcoin holds for Q3 2017:

NEO (NEO)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2057932.0
Official Site: https://neo.org/en-us/

ARK (ARK)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1649695.0
Official Site: https://ark.io/

Stratis (STRAT)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1512202.0
Official Site: https://stratisplatform.com/

Litecoin (LTC)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0
Official Site: https://litecoin.org/

Decred (DCR)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290358.0
Official Site: https://decred.org/

WAVES (WAVES)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387944.0
Official Site: https://wavesplatform.com/

Ethereum (ETH)
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0
Official Site: https://ethereum.org/

Conclusions, NEO has more use cases then any other coin right now and is going to rival Ethereum if not overpass it. It's hands down one of the best projects of the year and worth a long hold. Stratis is also worth holding for it's use cases and is similar to NEO but with it's own uses as well. Projects like NEO and Stratis are making for a very bright future.

ARK is the sleeper pick in my opinion, it's based on the delegate system like Lisk and NEM, but takes things further by allowing holders to spend 1 Ark coin to vote for a delegate in the top 51 positions. Each Delegate that's ranked in the top 51 has the ability to forge for new ARK coins, and if you vote for a delegate in the top 51, you receive dividends of your holdings with each delegate defining different percentages and rulesets. Some offer 70% return, some offer 90%, each with different outcomes, but at the end of the day, if you have a bit of ARK and vote for a delegate, you will gain ARK on a daily to weekly basis without doing anything, there's no need to keep the ARK client open or waste electricity, the coins are generated automatically through scripts that send to your account. As long as the delegate is in the top 51, you will receive dividends. You can also un-vote for a delegate and re-vote for another one if you decide to change your mind.

Currently I've voted for a delegate by the name of Jarunik who offers 70% profit sharing on a daily basis, my average ARK return with 1000 ARK is about .2 ARK per day. If you forget about it for a year, that's around 73 extra ARK for the year, not too shabby. The real use case for ARK though isn't it's dividends and delegate system, it's something called SmartBridge,hense the name "Ark" fits nicely. Basically if this feature is successful, ARK will allow you to SmartBridge your ARK to any other coin ie. Bitcoin, Ethereum, NEO, Litecoin, the list goes on. You send your ARK to your Litecoin address for example and basically your ARK turns into LTC through the ARK client and through it's SmartBridge system. The overall goal is that ARK's SmartBridge will connect to different blockchains therefore connecting everything together, now that's an ARK of a deal..No pun intended. Last but not least, the Ledger Nano has plans to bring ARK to it's hardware wallet as well further legitimizing the coin. The fact it's less then $1 now, could be a good steal in the next few years. But then again, who the hell knows, we're in the wild wild west of Crypto.

As for Litecoin, it's literally Silver to Bitcoins gold and it's the "Vanguard Fund" of the cryptoworld with conservative growth and steady return. For Decred, it's proven to be one of the few elite altcoins with features no other coin/project has, it's growth potential should see spikes this year and beyond especially if it sees Coinbase adoption. WAVES is an interesting hold, the best part is acquiring new dividends sometimes on a daily basis, you can sell them inside of WAVES on their local exchange and cash out for Bitcoin or other currencies. WAVES has huge support from Russia as a digital currency, so it's worth keeping an eye on.

Ethereum is a no brainer, it's tech is already being adapted by the biggest corporations and companies in the world and whether you hate the "man" or not, hold this like your holding a newborn baby, carefully and for at least 5 years, this will be the coin of the %1 and it's worth getting a stake in it now before it hit's the $500 mark.

Thank you for reading my rants and speculative picks in the altcoin space. If you found this article helpful, please feel free to donate to some of my crypto addresses below.

BTC: 1PP5r4YnGNXo4TFpCX4TKgSjrh9qRmWocn
LTC: LdjD436ei3ahPfxB86t8MTXkgH24kJ8RGQ
ARK: AZ1GzajZm1U7GfiCM74JtCXA4KTndQzTHA

*Warning/Legal Disclaimer: Digital Cryptocurrency is exceptionally volatile and can be a financial risk, please do your own homework before investing. These picks are based on my own research over the past few months and were chosen based on personal multiple pre-reqs including, New Features, Wallet-Ease of Use, Devs, Community, Roadmap and Future Potential. The Mining picks are based for NVIDIA/CUDA GPUs and have been most profitable for myself over the last few months.

Right now Segwit activation for Vertcoin is getting closer to adoption: https://vtconline.org/sf.html

The Devs and the community are trying to pass Segwit for Vertcoin not only for future development but also to use as a serious testnet for Bitcoin as well. Litecoin is in the race but it's not being greeted lightly, the one thing going for Vertcoin is their Algo which is ASIC resistant unlike Litecoin.

Anyone that has any rigs and or GPU's that they can spare, here are Segwit updated pools below, this can seriously be done in the next 24 hours if we get some more hash help.

P2P Pool List: https://scanner.vtconline.org/
Mining Pool Hub https://vertcoin.miningpoolhub.com/
Give Me Coins http://give-me-coins.com/vertcoin-pool
Verters Pool  https://pool.verters.com/
Coinotron https://www.coinotron.com/app?action=ChartNoLogon&span=0&type=C&name=VTC

How to Mine Vertcoin with a Nvidia Card on Windows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQw64NLydwY

Vertcoin BCT Thread:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1828453.0

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Warning/Legal Disclaimer: Digital Cryptocurrency is exceptionally volatile and can be a financial risk, please do your own homework before investing. These picks are based on my own research over the past few months and were chosen based on multiple pre-reqs including, New Features, Wallet-Ease of Use, Devs, Community, Roadmap and Future Potential. The Mining picks are based for NVIDIA/CUDA GPUs and have been most profitable for myself over the last few months.

Nvidia/CUDA Mining Picks: (Hash Based on Nvidia GTX 1070)
1. Decred (DCR) Algo: decred - Hash: 2460.00 MH/s
2. VertCoin (VTC) Algo: lyra2v2 - Hash: 18.57 MH/s
3. LBRY (LBC) Algo: lbry - Hash: 254.95 MH/s
4. NEVA (NEVA) Algo: blake2s - Hash: 3704.05 MH/s
5. Myriad (MYR) Algo: skein - Hash: 375.80 MH/s
6. Verge (XVG) Multi-Algo: blake2s/lyra2v2

Alt Coins To Hold for Q1 2017:
1. Decred (DCR)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1290358.0
Official Site: https://decred.org/

2. WAVES (WAVES)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1387944.0
Official Site: https://wavesplatform.com/

3. Stratis (STRAT)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1512202.0
Official Site: https://stratisplatform.com/

4. EmerCoin (EMC)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=362513.0
Official Site: http://emercoin.com/

5. Counterparty (XCP)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=395761.0
Official Site: http://counterparty.io/

6. Litecoin (LTC)
Bitcointalk Thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=47417.0
Official Site: https://litecoin.org/

For NVIDIA/CUDA Miners, use CCMiner for mining, I personally recommend tpruvot's version here: https://github.com/tpruvot/ccminer/releases

I plan on posting Q2 and beyond in terms of new alt coin picks / mining picks for the NVIDIA/CUDA Miners out there. The Crypto world is really geared for AMD so trying to give a specific focus to NVIDIA because it does have great potential based on specific algos, lower electricity/power usage, and all around quieter mining experience.

Regards,
CryptKeeper1979

EDIT: 8/10/2017 - Q3 Post is here for anyone interested: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2076997.0

So I'm bored at work and decided to throw up a bitcoin live stream with tickers and info for fun... Wanted to see what you guys think, is this a bad idea, is it stupid, or is it cool? I'm live now...

http://www.hitbox.tv/cryptkeeper1969