Εγώ δεν κάνω trade, και αν δεν κάνω trade δεν πέφτω σε traps
Απλά αγόραζα XRP από πέρσι τον Σεπτέμβριο και ARK από τον φέτος τον Μάρτιο περίπου, όποτε έπεφτε η τιμή έβαζα και λίγα € μέχρι που έφτασα να έχω βάλει 5000€.
Τώρα είμαι ευχαριστημένος με όσο αγόρασα και απλά σπάω πλάκα με την κατάσταση!

I don't think this makes sense. Development teams shouldn't care about the market's condition, development teams should help CREATE the market conditions.
I think and I hope Ethereum team thinks the same way.

Hey, at least you bought at the same price you sold, right?
Well, I think things were just as pessimistic as they are now, people were calling that BTC's price would go to 1$ etc... Good thing you didn't buy at 1000$ and sold at 160$ this time!

If the market is going the opposite direction of the public sentiment, then there are 3 possible cases: Either (1) there is a mistake in the assumption of the public sentiment, or (2) the market is being manipulated in order to throw inexperienced traders off and grab their money or (3) the public sentiment is being manipulated so as to believe that things are going well when the truth is there's trouble coming or to think we're doomed just before things change for the better.

Personally, I believe all 3 things are present at the same time in Ethereum.
ETH might be decentralised but it's not hard to move a market in either direction if you're rich and have the experience.

Does it seem like there's no escape if the market is being manipulated? There is a solution.
My advice is to not try and trade Ethereum (or any coin to be honest) and either buy and hold if you believe in it or stay away if you don't believe in it.


It's true that you could make more money by trading, but you could also lose a lot when just holding would bring you to a break-even.
Half the fight in the investment world is against one's self (one's psychology), if you'd lose money when you could be at 0$ gains is much worse for the psychic health than winning 50% of what you could win by trading.
So prioritise safety over maximising your gains.

Their post still shows,
 Week 1: November 2 - November 8 --------- end
 Week 2: November 9 - November 15 -------  end
 Week 3: November 16 - November 22 ---- running
 Week 4: November 23 - November 29 ---

I guess they might have stopped their campaign, continue at your own risk people! I'm leaving.

The team has a very nice Request Form which you can fill here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc4S3p2MzLLgQ5HKwXQ1qvufLvE8VdWIFy5ZmgQ2KQCGuqFoA/viewform
I'm sure your requests will be viewed and (probably) filled much faster if you fill this form, which I found in the bottom of their website.

Name: RivAngE
Rank: Member
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Hello! I'm back as I had promised when I left last time!

My feedback on rule 5: "Posts in meta, beginners and help" etc "will not be counted."
I believe that it'd be beneficial for you to have a presence in at least the "beginners and help" section where newbies who are still looking for projects to invest will see the signature. Meta is also a place for serious people but I understand that you might not care about it too much.

Όπως υπήρξε άνοδος και τον περασμένο Νοέμβριο-Δεκέμβριο δηλαδή;
Μάλλον κάποιοι φορτώνουν !

Thanks! I knew that but didn't know how to explain it in a simple way and since those "dead" coins don't account for much of the overall market cap, I decided to ignore this detail.

A dead project can have issued many coins, but it keeps a relative "high" price because no one is trading it. I'm sure that in some cases, if someone was to sell 5% of the total amounts of coins in circulation, the market cap would fell by more than 50% because there would be no buyers!

So the market cap of most altcoins under the top 100 are virtual and theoretical, but this enhances my point a bit more: The cryptocurrencies as a mean of investment is very cheap compared to the traditional investments.
I'm sure that if correctly regulated and then proved to be safe to invest, a lot of money will pour in which will make the 6-digit figures possible for Bitcoin in a couple of years.

In my previous post, I wanted to call out on you and say "Where is DdmrDdmr when you need him?" but I forgot to include it, glad to see you still replied with your informative as always statistics!

So... Russian section has traded 1182 merits? Seems legit Is there really more activity there than Altcoin ANN and Bitcoin Discussion? I smell some shady business but whatever!

I believe that the following table also shows the issue of reduced Merits,

But I'm sure sMerits are relative to the overall post count on the forums, which seems reduced as well...

I guess that the main issue is my reduced activity since I was very busy in October and maybe the few threads I'm following and contributing to don't have a merit source user.

Is it just me who feels there was an increase in merit-giving when new sources were added in September and now we're in a deadlock again?
*Checking the thread's history*
Okay I'm not the only one who thinks that!

I was expecting to have unlocked the avatars by now but I've got nothing in October and just 3 merits in November.
Maybe some merit sources have gone inactive or they're all around the Bitcoin section while I'm mostly in the altcoin section?

Thanks for the update guys.
As always, a very professional work. You've let enough time for the upgrade, I'm sure everything will roll out without the slightest issue.

Oh and here comes the people who will ask if they'll get free coins from the fork!  

What's the whole deal with the hats? What have I missed?

You mean that stocks have a purpose? Unless you're a major shareholder who has a voting right, then the only purpose of stocks are for profits, which again should make them a tool for dump and bump... which is what we see (though some DON'T see it) happening in Wall Street.

At least cryptocurrencies have more usages, let me name a few...

• BTC has the potential to be a store of value, especially for countries with more corrupt governments than the average corruption we all have to face.
• XRP is the cheapest and faster payment method.
• Ethereum is nice to hold if you use DAPPS (Decentralised-Applications), have you seen "Axis Infinity"? It's like Pokemon in blockchain! Or the AAA TCG title "Gods Unchained"? That's the future of gaming.
• ARK has the potential to make the blockchain technology accessible to businesses and smaller teams, with easy to use "plug-in-like" tools.
• A young project named XDNA and its platform, XDNA Foundation, is focused on using the blockchain as a mean for improving the world, providing both the tools and the funds to support charity actions and even smaller cases presented by people. (the said platform is in open beta testing)

I can accept that stocks and cryptocurrencies are not the same thing, but not because stocks are more useful! It's the other way around!
However both are means of investment and that's why I though it'd be interesting to compare the two.

I totally agree! I also believe that the reason BTC and a few altcoins with great ideas and strong teams are very cheap, is because there's not a good regulation in place to protect investors from market manipulation.

As for your 2nd point, I apologise for a mistake in my post, I corrected it now.
The numbers I pulled from worldbank.org are for the stock market all around the globe! At first I had put the US stock's data but then I updated the prices, I remember also changing the words to reflect that but I don't know why it was not saved!

True facts I researched on my own,
Keep in mind that the purpose of this post is to put cryptocurrencies in a perspective with other types of investment.

Right now, the total marketcap of Bitcoin is about 1/4 of just Intel's shares.
Bitcoin's marketcap is also 60% (almost half) of Nvidia's and just 6.75% of Apple's.

Lastly, the market cap of the global stock-market, that is the amount investors have poured into companies's shares worldwide.
In the end of 2017 the global stock-market had an incredible amount of investments which summed $79.23 TRILLIONS, so the crypto-currencie's marketcap is only 0.13% in comparison!

If we'd make this into a graph, it'd look like this,


There are a lot to think about when viewing these numbers... for example (1) How little money is yet invested in crypto-currencies by investors, and yet we reached 20k per BTC. (2) While the US stock market which is making up 40% of the world's market cap is having trouble, guess where at least a small amount of investments will go. (3) Can you really call the price hike we had in December a bubble which burst?

Ofcourse I'm not expecting crypto's market cap to be equal to the stock market but a 0.13% market cap of just one country's stock market is ridiculously too little!
If only 1% of that amount of money go to cryptocurrencies, the prices will hike almost 800% !
There are also many other kind of investments like fiat currencies, precious metals, oil and other commodities which I could not sum up.


What are your thoughts? Did you know that crypto-coins are still in such a low demand compared to the classic kind of investments? Do you think the above comparisons are valid?


My source for the global stock-market is this: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/CM.MKT.LCAP.CD?end=2017&start=2000
and my source for the crypto's market cap is this: https://coinlib.io/

Based on what ARKland has told to public channels, he had an accident in real life and was offline for many days, however the payment system was working automatically. However, maybe because he hadn't been online for a long time, people unvoted him and he fell out of the 51 positions.
After that he came back and explained the situation, he also offered 100% profit share for the rest of November to compensate his voters for the days he was 52th and not forging.
Now he has become a delegate again and he's paying 100% of his profit as he promised, but not for long obviously! He was paying 92% previously and I believe he'll be back to that percentage on Dec.1st.

As for his contribution, he's doing raffles for the community, he's a moderator in sub-reddits ARK and Persona (a project built on ARK) and he's writing both proposals for ARK and guides for users (https://medium.com/@ArkLand).

His proposal: https://forum.ark.io/topic/525/100-profit-share-arkland-anti-hopping-system-true-vote-weight-daily-payouts-arkland-raffles-covered-fees-we-cover-your-voting-fee-no-min-balance-for-payouts-the-best-pool-for-small-voters


PS: Remember to merit helpful posts please........

What's so special to PoW? Even Ethereum wants to fork away from it. PoW is asking for a lot (initial hardware cost, energy cost, environmental cost, risky ROI which depends on future products) and offers little in return (safer network if it's a top 10 coin). As you said, a coin with PoW which is not very high in price will be left vulnerable to attacks, like ETC.

So far ARK is doing fine with its decentralization, I don't know what are you talking about.
As for XRP, it's not dPoS, there are many validators and they're growing! Among the validators are Ripple (ofcourse), University of Nicosia, Berkeley University of California, some exchanges or at least one I can see in the list and many more... full list here: https://xrpcharts.ripple.com/#/validators

For XLM, EOS, NEO and TRX, I have not researched it and cannot discuss it.

It's up to the "holders" to not lose their money. We don't lose if we don't sell cheaper than we bought. If people believe every "coincidental" report they read in the news site then it's their fault for being let out of the next bull run.

In any case, if you feel that Ethereum is old technology and you want to find something similar, I'd suggest one of the oldest projects which however is less known than the pumped coins: ARK (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1649695.0).
They're upgrading to v2 this week and after that they'll start marketing, right now they didn't want to advertise too much because v1 was limited in many aspects.

PS: I hold both Ethereum and ARK, but personally I prefer ARK.

We live in interesting times!
By the way guys, remember to withdraw the coins you have in exchanges, especially if it's Cryptopia, they're known to take ages after a fork before they open withdraws/deposits again.