Pretty much covers the case completely. The fact that Telegram even allows bots is absurd. People have been gathering in telegram like it's the only way to communicate and this has been making it a honeypot for ICO scammers. It's just so easy to target the right crowds through it, anonymously as well... That's an opportunity hard to miss for scammers.

There are well-meaning teams working on raising funds through the ICO project and you can't be 100% certain that if a team does not to post on bitcointalk they're a scam.

However, if it's a conscious choice to avoid this forum it might be because they're trying to avoid criticism or can't save face when faced with questions. It'd always be recommended to any ICO team to at least try and have a presence in this forum. Bitcointalk is the heard of cryptocurrency communities. Everything crypto goes through here so if an ICO avoids this forum it leaves a bad taste in a potential investor's mounth.

If the concept is good and the team truly believe in their goals, then it'd make sense to focus their efforts in reaching the community through bitcointalk.

Oh wow. I did not expect any european authority to jump in with such bold actions. Sadly or not, there's no way to enforce this fully though. Companies that work with crypto operate online for the most part so far and they can easily avoid this by changing their company registration to an offshore one. This is lost business for the EU.

Further, this hinders the growing market for crypto securities by larger, EU based, licensed organizations. Some startups might be put on pause just by that decision alone.

Why would you say that? I don't really like that it's not open source but saying that the 2% fee doesn't make it worth it to use over a 2Mh/s improvement doesn't make much sense. +2Mh/s is well worth 2% unless that's the total improvement for a rig with >100Mh/s.

I think that in the long run, it's riskier to hold those rewards. I'd only hold a portion even if I believed in a project's potential. However, in the event that the token doesn't get listed in a big exchange following the ICO, I think that it'd be worth waiting for a better exchange listing if it has been announced. If there's no announcement it could be judged by volumes as exchanges like to list tokens with big volumes and activity.

Today's price drop was caused by a large selloff but the market's sentiment was already in a bad mood so traders followed with further pressure instead of working towards a recovery. I don't think that a recovery back above $7000 seems likely at this point but perhaps some support so there's no further drop would be beneficial.

Well, I wouldn't stand by that statement. I don't know what you have in mind or where you got that idea from but opening a bank account remotely is a very new trend. No bank in my country (Greece) does this and it's quite unheard of in the entire Balkan peninsula. There'd be legal precautions under different jurisdictions as to whether this is even allowed, or it's just that many banks are not investing or do not have trust in the infrastructure to do KYC remotely.

Frankly, I think that only a hyperminority of banks with physical branches allow remote account opening even in countries where it's legal to do that.

It's a direct copy-paste from the garlico.in website. I don't think that any of those claims are meant to be very serious. They're there from when the coin launched and as far as I know have never been changed. Garlicoin started as a joke coin and the fact that people are asking how to invest in it makes it even funnier.

There's no ICO... You can now buy coins on exchanges with a 99% guarantee that the price will be lower in the future.

The thing with Nicehash is that it's actually a hash RENTING service. SO while it's made and marketed to look like a hash on demand service, what it helps facilitate is p2p transactions to rent someone's hash more securely rather than having to fully trust them. Renters ofc put prices that are slightly higher than if they'd be mining directly.

I think that Bitfinex could be to blame for an inflated price at large. Once that exchange is out of the way we'd see much less market manipulation. People like to attribute the falling bitcoin price to selling pressure but another factor would be market manipulation too. The #1 exchange by volumes isn't reporting volumes or reserves responsibly, something must be going on behind the scenes with Bitfinex and Tether.

That's how things work with investing overall anyway. If every inspiring investor would have shun away even at the slightest missfortune we would have been left with far fewer bright minds. OP should focus on how to use his energy on productive tasks and perhaps forget about investing for a while. He'll see that not all things shoul be dependent on his investment. After-all, the best investments are buy and forget investments.

Yup, sounds about right. I don't think anybody else cares about GRLC at this point. The community is memes and just memes. No positive developments, the price has slumped, volumes have collapsed. If development stops next up we're likely going to see exchange delistings etc.

Well, what do you know... Mavrodi is reported dead!

"Russian businessman Sergei Mavrodi, whose MMM pyramid scheme deprived millions of Russians of their savings in the 1990s, has died of a heart attack, according to Russia media."
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-mmm-pyramid-scheme-founder-dead-mavrodi/29124267.html

A big part of that new effort to scam people was based upon the cult of personality many people had around Mavrodi. I wonder if the project will go on without any abnormalities. MMM schemes he had spinned off around the world seem to be falling apart at a faster than ever rate now that he's gone.
http://punchng.com/nigerian-investors-lament-as-mmm-founder-mavrodi-dies-at-62/

Ok, that's an interesting project. I like how it's been made to look so user-friendly.

I haven't jumped into testing yet but I'd be interested on that free config. Any plans to work with big FIAT exchanges? This'd be useful for longer term trade-bot strategies on markets with higher liquidity like GDAX, Bitstamp etc.

Well, you shouldn't have put that much on ETH. Ethereum is very young in its success and if you can't afford the losses you shouldn't have went in in the first place.

Do not even think of doing anything bad to yourself though. There are many things you can do to earn money and one of them is being an entrepreneur. See this as an opportunity to go out and seek ideas you could work with. A dark past might act as motivation for productivity.

Your options with the investment to me would be as follows:

1. Take the loss and cash out.

This is something to consider if you are in need of money urgently.

2. Ride on with the market.

Worst case with #2 is that you might never actually see the same amount of money. Sadly, it's a possibility. However, if you believe in ETH and holding is a viable option then do so and see where it gets you. Perhaps once the news about ASICs are cleared with developments from ETH foundation the price could shoot up again.

I don't think htat this should be called a return. The market still has potential but selling pressure has been pushing it down. People bought the latest dip and are still cashing out but this pressure won't stay on board for long. If prices are sustained close to 8000 USD for a bit more we might see potential for another rise.

I think this is a real danger to the crypto industry. Banks have the power to buy exchanges, and if they do the data of crypto users could end in the hands of people that are against the principles of bitcoin. Imagine a bank owning your exchange data, they'd easily hand it to whatever government without second thoughts.

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I voted for Monero. I like how that currency has kept its community outlook through the years. It has resisted corporate shills as crypto grew and yet became a succesfull project both financially and technology wise. The downside would be that many dark net users are using it for illegal or grey market transactions and all that goes under the hood of it being a successful crypto. But that's what you get for unimpeded neutrality. Freedom is good in my opinion.

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