Ahhh. OK. Thanks man. Looks like purely a Polo issue then. May trade via Bittrex instead. Looks fine over there, but being a Noob the Polo issue put some doubt in my mind.

I'm not the original poster of this info, but I can tell you that's what it says when you go to the EMC2 buy/sell page on Poloniex. You can't transfer EMC2 in or out due to "wallet issues", so all EMC2 wallets are locked on Poloniex and I guess other exchanges too, although Bittrex shows no errors right now.

Either way, the error on Poloniex makes me unsure of transferring EMC2 to an exchange until I hear more news.

I need to stick a note on my forehead that says "Trust your instincts" so I see it every day and get it drummed into my thick skull.  

You could probably do a lot worse than letting a dog pick for you. Back in the dot com stocks boom, some Journalist once wrote "Even a dart throwing monkey could pick a winner", and it's the same situation here. We're in the wild west phase of cryptos and much hysteria and madness. Almost anything and everything is going up by silly percentages, and much of it is based on nothing, or not much. Back in the dot com boom all you had to do was start a tech company (not even have a product) and the market gave you an instant company valuation of billions. What we're seeing now in cryptos is the same thing. It's almost like you can't fail to get 25-50-100% profit in days or even hours, or a week at the most.  

I used your trick once too. I asked my small Son what I should buy and he said "Mooncoin" and I'd never even mentioned it to him so that was very weird, so I bought some. I must admit that Mooncoin does look like a load of cr*p, but hey ... in this market where no rules apply, there is no reason why it won't also go up three or four times soon. That's what happens when you have a market that makes little sense, like the crypto market now.

Strange isn't it ? I've said the same thing over and over down the years that I need to trust my instincts more, but my stupid brain always seems to win. I knew it was right to buy EMC2, but my dumb head kicked in and said "Use your rule of spending no more than 100 bucks".

Anyway, what can I say ? I invested 93 USD and I'm now sitting on 3 grand. Hardy anything to complain about and we could see 3-4-5 bucks in a few months, but should have been so much more than a few grand profit for me. Think I need to go back and look at my other alt coins and see which ones I should load up more on.

Great job. I bought at 0.065, but not so many (1500) as it was an outside bet. I never usually invest more than 100 - 200 bucks into the smaller alt coins that interest me. Kicking myself now for not buying more. It kinda felt instinctively right to buy them, and I know from previous experiences that instincts are often the very best guide. Lesson learned ..... AGAIN !!

It's positive. The fork will burn 55 million coins from future existence, meaning the total coins in circulation will go down to around 165 million as opposed to 216 million in circulation today. Therefore, less coins after the fork will (or should) increase the price almost instantly. Impossible to say by how much, so we will see.

Right now it'll probably be a bumpy ride for the next weeks. I'd expect a lot of profit taking will happen, causing a few wild swings like the last few days.

I guess it's the 24h volume. $232 million USD as I write this. A month ago the average 24h volume was only between 500k and 1 million USD, but the last week or so it's shot up. It's all about supply and demand, and when the burn happens in 3-4 days, the supply will be even lower.

Happy days.

Great. Thanks very much Dam29.

Still undecided as I'd hate to lose any, so I may send half to Polo to keep some 100% safe at least. I only have a small holding of 1555 EMC2, so not exactly a whole heap of beans, but it's what that could amount to in future that matters and I only paid 6 cents for them. Superb investment so far. 16x your money back in 6 weeks ain't too shabby. Man, these cryptos are like the wild west all over again. It's like the dot com stocks boom - Part 2.

Thanks very much for the clarification. Appreciate it a lot.

Thanks a lot bluelab.

"so you should be ok".

But ..... I never really like the words "should be" if I'm honest with you !  

I think for my own peace of mind I'll download the official Excalibur wallet for Mac and send them off there for a few days holiday  As a relative newbie to all of this, is it OK to transfer them back the next day or wait a few days ?

I could also transfer them to Poloniex or Cryptopia for a day or two I suppose.  

Thanks.

Hey all,

First post on BTC Talk, so ..... hello.

I got some EMC2 about 6-8 weeks ago before it started moving, and I was told that Coinomi supported the upcoming fork. But I see one or two on here suggesting Coinomi doesn't support it. Can someone please clarify, as I'd be majorly p*ssed off if I lost any or all of them. 

Currently hodling in Coinomi Android wallet. 

Thanks guys. Much appreciated.