I think that the Ethereum devs are aware of the potential scaling issues for a long time already. Now this became more present with this kitty dapp, but as far as I know they are working on a solution. I read in another thread that the most simple solution would be to increase the gas fees that are needed for a transaction, because miners pick the higher gased transactions over the low gased ones. I however hope that there will be another solution somehow.

I think this lays in the nature of humans, some people are always honest and some people arent. Some people are dishonest because they want to preserve themselves of inconvenient situations, some people just have bad character, some people only lie in certain situations and some people just dont make a difference because they dont care. I pity all those that are not honest, but I also accept them, not everyone is equal, but those who are dishonest are causing themselves problem in the long haul with this attitude, just my opinion.

Crowdholding has a nice concept in my opinion, I also like how responsive the team is. I invested also some money on them pretty early on. What I dislike though and this likewise also really decreased the trust I had in them is the following: they recently lowered their hardcap from 50 million USD to only one (1) million USD. As I read this I was kind of in a shock. I mean sure, I knew that ICO's try to raise more money than they need to develop their product, but I didnt think that they would try to rais 49 times than that what they actually need. If they even need the one million is now my though. I mean, what are supporters and ICO investors supposed to think of this?

I also realized that difference lately. As I saw this I immediately asked myself if there is not a lot of arbitrage trading happening with those huge price differences? I mean if I was a korean citizen, wouldnt it be smart to change my KRW to USD and then buy Bitcoin on eg Kraken and transfer it over to Bithumb and sell it for much more, rinse and repeat and make huge profits every day regardless of the price swings of Bitcoin. Please tell me if I missed something important here, I never tried something like this myself, Im just curious.

We might really see the $20,000 before the end of this month. I must admit I didnt believe that this was possible, but this unpredictable market proved my pessimistic expectations wrong again. But to be honest I think this is insane and the price is completely out of control. It cant be healthy for an asset to soar like this. I still think that there will be a huge correction sooner or later that will cost many smaller investors a lot of money. But as it seems now, Bitcoin will just continue to rise for the time being.

Bitcoin has proven tech and the first movers advantage. The Bitcoin blockchain is around for a long time now and accumulated a lot of trust in the last years because it is reliable and safe. What also should not be underestimated when it comes to Bitcoin and its price is the huge community that formed itself around Bitcoin over the years, the more people believe in a currency and value it the higher it will be priced.

Demand for BTC is huge nowadays, thats true. However what makes you think that after the hard forks people will stop buying Bitcoin and things will settle? Would be happy if you evaluate it, because I dont really understand the impact that those hardforks have on Bitcoin.

Totally agree, just one or two days, this would be so great. Let people take a breath for a second, freaking Bitcoin makes me hold my breath for several weeks now... Im really scared where this will end. Hopefully we will not go higher than $25,000 in the near future.

Sure thing, we all do! As we are holding BNT for such a long time now already, it would be plain stupid to sell at the first moment that we are in the greens again (higher than ICO). BNT is for long in my portfolio and will stay there, definitely wont sell any for less than 0.10 ETH / BNT!

My guess is that it wont be possible for Bitcoin or other currencies to become really mainstream if they wont let the governments interfere in some kind. How this will be implemented is another question, but that the governments wont let cryptocurrency take over the financial system, without them having their fingers in somehow, is for sure in my opinion. Its naive to believe the opposit.

Can someone tell me in which jurisdications Lykke is planning to operate in the future? As Lykke wants to bridge the digital asset economy with the traditional finance ecosystem, there are certainly different countries to operate in planned right?

Definitely man, it was a very black day for alts overall, however Phore seems to have strong momentum as well, while BTC price for PHR also declined, the dolar value went up! Phore got a bright future ahead! Looking forward to that next dip, so I can buy more!

Do you have any resources that prove that this is actually the case? As far as I could find out so far, the Ethereum dev team said that they are thankful for this because it showed the weaknesses and where they have to work on, but not that they themselves launched this thing as a scalability test.

I admit that I only read the two messages on page 635 and his tone gave me the impression that he is not just a trashtalking troll. Nevermind guys, be nice to each other!

What you say about the exchanges is true, its terrible to trade at the moment. I stepped away from trading at the moment, it has no point for me. I also think that the price of Bitcoin is artificially created. This is not an organic growth, this is just pumping too hard. I definitely dislike the priceride. However, Bitcoin is no scam coin!

I know this emotional decisions very good. I also made quite some bad ones because of this. I guess I now just learned from the experience I gathered that it is better to stick with the original plan if nothing very important comes between that would make you readjust the plan (example given bitcoin spiking $2000 in some hours). Emotional decisions are not only bad while trading, they are almost in every situation in life. Rational thinking and rational deciding leads to success.

Totally agree. I share this opinion and am also spreading my views on this eversince we reached about $10,000. I think this constant increase is not organic and therefore its not healthy, this can hurt the whole space and many smaller investors that got in "late" or at ~$10,000 could loose tremendous amounts of their initial investment in no time if big players start to cash out or something else like government interference or some other bad news come around the corner. I would be happy to see bitcoin rather climbing slowly than doing another $1000 every day or two.

I definitely agree that banks are useful and an instrument that many people need to cope with their finances. Not everyone is capable of taking responsability of their own finances. So I think yes, there will be something like a crypto bank (or Bitcoin bank). I would love to see something from the community for the community, decentralized but with proper working governmental mechanisms built in to let people vote etc. I am sure we will see something like this in the future, maybe with governments interfering of some sort or it comes from the community itself.

I think your portfolio looks solid! As you already mentioned: add more Bitcoin to it. I made the mistake not to do so and missed most of the recent rally while my altcoin portfolio keeps diminishing in regards to bitcoin value. But thats life, no regrets! One advice that I would give you is to do a lot of research regarding your coins, and dont to trust people lightly. There is a lot of scamming going on in this space, remember we are in the wild wild west of crypto yeeehaw!

The prices depent on the orderbooks on these exchanges, all of them are legit. They differ because the orders that are being placed can vary on the different exchanges. However if you want to have an average price that is taken from all exchanges together you can have a look at cryptocompare.com or at coinmarketcap.com.