Never heard of it but I really think you should make your own conclusions and trust your own judgement. Nobody can guarantee you anything.

Most of the people that do these types of twitter and facebook bounties are also more often from third world countries, there's a lot of money in bounties and these guys they can make a years salary relatively to their country with a few successfull bounties. I'm quite suprised how much I get paid for translating, but I suppose its because ICOs don't really care about these tokens/coins, they just premine it and distribute it for cash. Why would they care if they give you a 100 or a 1000 of these tokens? Its worthless to them. I make exceptions, but I am generally carefull participating in ICOs that distribute bounties because I know they often pay out way more than they should/could and it makes it very dangerous participating, I've noticed that most of the bounty hunters from low-wage countries dump straight away on exchange launch.

Also its not just BTT that is going to shit, its also telegram groups. They're massively toxic these days compared to 6 months ago.
Imo, the whole crypto community is getting more toxic each day. I guess its less and less about the tech and more and more about the money, can't have a decent discussion anywhere.

Tradingview and Coinigy

If you're from the US you might want to avoid Localbitcoins, I hear a lot of stories about the FBI staking out on that website and charging traders with money laundering charges etc. I don't know how much of it is true, but I have seen a guy on youtube tell his story of how he was selling/buying BTC and the feds caught him, because of the size of the transactions that he perpetually made he was charged with Money Laundering charges and tax evasion. Quite a nasty thing to do in my opinion, even worse when you think about that Bitcoin didn't even have any legal definition at that time.

50k should be easily possible for Gdax (you can also use Bitfinex which as a 10k minimum), just take a few days so you can get a good price, don't market sell or anything like that. If its more than 50k (substantially more x20) then you might want to take a look at OTC and see what they can mean for you. Only trust a big exchange with this however (Coinbase, I know Kraken does OTC aswell which seems like a trustable exchange).

I notice sometimes bounty hunters giving their private key instead of their ethereum address when signing up, since this goes automatic anyone can see that key untill you change it. Maybe thats what happened?

Does Bison also have a zero fee app for stocks and indices? I'm not sure who's going to care for their crypto app exactly, the infrastructure in Europe is pretty good for trading crypto but the liquidity is still something that needs to be worked out.

I'm no expert but when I look at this (whitepaper 1.2 Problem; dissapeared points every year):


Seems like they are concluding things that aren't necesserily told by this data. If they want to proof that it does they should provide more information. Because I don't see any direct loss of people losing loyatly program points to our economy, some people just simply don't use these things. We have no demograph of the people that are surveyed nor is there enough depth in this information for anyone to make the conclusions the author does. Also where are its sources for this ''survey''? I bet they just googled something and copy pasted it. Or there is no survey, because if there is one, they are legally oblidged to mention the source and give credit. And if they made the survey themselves whats holding them back to publish it for investors?

Like I said before, getting scammy vibes, whitepaper looks unprofessional aswell, just a sales pitch ungrounded in the real world.

Last question, what part of this is trustless? Why does it need a blockchain?

No MVP or prototype aswell, just promises of a bunch of products that will probably never be used anyway.

Bitcoin is going up as market sentiment had shifted towards a very bearish stance. In January it was a dip, slowly but surely people started realizing it is a crash, not a dip (perhaps on a larger timeframe in the future they will be right). The market was calling for higher highs in January, the market started shifting eyeing lower lows in march/april. Lots of people started selling forcefully because of taxes or simply because they wanted to cut their losses and stopped believing, anticipating a price in the range of 4-5k to buy back in again. The general crowd of market participants is usually wrong and this time it is no different.

So what do I think we see happening right now? Someone pointed out to me that a possible Wyckoff Accumulation pattern was forming on our first move up to 7500, I'm not very good at technical analysis, I know the basics and necessities to make more informed decisions but I have had success with fundamental anaylsis and as bearish as I was my sentiment started shifting in the sideways movement. As we probably all know PBC has mentioned that in early April we could see some big money flowing in as traditional investors start peeking under the Bitcoin skirt. To take this serious is an understatement. I am not a fan of PBC but I do understand they usually have sublime fundamental analysis of the market and coins/tokens. The market is about information foremost, you have to be smarter than the rest  no matter the size of your portfolio. Surely people that have been longer in crypto, especially those that are sitting on a sizeable portfolio have connections we can only speculate on. So if PBC knows something, then I bet some whales know something aswell.

If whales know institutional money is flowing in, they are going to want to ride that wave instead of selling at prices the market is screaming for, knowing fully well if they sell there is a big line of buyers ready to scoop up at those prices and ofcourse other whales who know whats coming. Regardless that BTC isn't at the most favorable price, the market sentiment is favorable and there's an abundance of supply as people capitulate selling their coins on the market. So whales have been accumulating at the artificial bottom, supply decreases as more people sell into the whales orders, eventually supply and demand shifts as the whales don't sell and all the capitulators have. The price starts going up again. Right now, if my fundamental analysis plus the technicals are all sound, we're in markup. Which means that whales are again accumulating before the price rises again. This can go on for quite some time untill the market makers are satisfied with their profits. You will know the moment is there if you familiarize yourself with Wyckoff's accumulation and distribution scheme.

I can't guarrantee you anything, but if anyone is still on the fence then they might want to consider this theory. It be a shame to have ridden out such a long time on BTC and to miss the action when its only just starting.

If you don't believe in the market or BTC anymore. Then you don't understand what this is about, and I suggest you dive deeper into the fundamentals and their opposites.
If you're one of those people who told themselves they will hold for X years and capitulated out of fear and depression. I'd advice you try again but do things different such as putting the BTC on a cold wallet and safe it in a time-lock safe.

Those experts are people that get paid 50$ to do a review. You think any blockchain technology/ICO expert is doing this? They can advice numerous ICOs and blockchain startups and you'd think that they are sitting behind a desk writing ICO reviews for 50$?

As of late I've noticed on this forum comments about ICO ratings, and how certain projects are good based on those ratings. Let me start of by saying this:
ICO Ratings don't mean anything People coming into crypto need to stop being naïve. These ICO ratings can easily be bought up and you don't know anything about their supposed Experts.
Anyone calling himself an expert in a field of technology or practice that has been around for a few years, where most people find it hard to imagine future implications or are simply unkown, is not an expert. There are no experts.

So do your own research instead of investing by ratings or even considering these ratings. Its a scheme, ICOs pay for ratings so more money flows in. Websites have their ''experts'' so people will come back because they think that website gives them information from ''experts'' for free. Even if there were any experts you think they'd be sitting around rating ICOs? If you are an expert in Blockchain I bet you have much more potent things to do than writing an ICO review.

You think any website or rating is going to tell you which are a scam and which are not? Likely they can't even tell a 1 from a 0 because all those ratings get bought.

So stop being naïve and start learning the trade.

I can recommend you Chimaera, I'm also in that myself not just the bounty. Other than that, I haven't seen many ICOs that struck me as amazing, maybe check out Morpheus Network?

I started with little aswell, what I did initially is putting like a 100$ in  microcaps that had something decent going for them and the rest I kept in BTC whilst buying in monthly. I think if you want to increase your stack you're eihter going to have to:
1. Be patient and keep pouring in money on a timely basis.
2. Take some gambles
3. Day trade/swing trade
4. Bounties
Or you could do all of them, your choice really. I actually do all of it.

Seems like you don't really know what you're doing and setting yourself up for a very newb mistake. Don't chase the candles

Before the monetary system collapses and we bow down to our Chinese overlords?

http://didthesystemcollapse.com/

2018 seems a bit optimistic in my opinion..

Blame doesn't help, just acknowledge you made a mistake somehwere and try to learn from it. Also, if you panic when prices move then you shouldn't be trading.

You know those ratings are utter garbage? By no means are any of these ''rating sites'' experts on ICOs and their profitability. I personally think those ratings are bought to lure ''investors'' into the ICO.
Nobody in crypto is an expert, nobody is a figure of authority when it comes to crypto. Tech-wise sure there are some people you'd look at but when it comes to investing no.

For example, I've seen a lot of scams get high ratings on these ICO rating sites, also a lot of ICOs that shouldn't even be doing an ICO. Which tells me these ratings get bought.

You have to be an accredited investor to participate in ICOs according to US legislation. Or you can join ICO pools.

I'm worried about my funds with these pools though, how am I supposed to trust the people that handle my funds when it comes to these pools?

Its cool to see solutions being proposed but I still think, as I have said previous when it comes to these things, that the general public or consumers don't care about it. They just don't care. And thus setting up some social network or other solutions around data privacy simply don't get ground, its not someone's motive to join a social media group for their privacy. Most people that are concerned with their privacy just don't bother with these platforms (myself included).

This forum is always periodically visited by people that want to shill their coin with bots. First it was vibe, and now this. No there's nothing you can really do about it, you can report posts to moderators though (lower right side of a post) if you feel like its spam, or somehow against forum rules.