Charge 50,000 people one dollar telling them how they can make $50,000 fast and then tell them to do the exact same thing.

Making fifty grand with things as dead as they are would be quite the stretch. Of course it's possible but no one can tell you how. It's all pure gambling.

Both of those projects are among the least offensive in how they operate, but shitcoins can be shit because of the way the market treats them. Poor old nem in particular has never earned any respect and is picked up and dropped again without a second thought.

Of course it could come roaring back but I wouldn't expect it to sustain unless something radical happened.

In terms of the original question, if you want to play with alts the most common mistake I see is people settling on only one or two. They all pretty much move as one as hardly anyone knows or cares about the differences between them but there's always a few losers. You may wind up deep in one of the few left behind.

If I wanted to play alts I'd spread it across a bunch and forget about it. And it would never be a high percentage of what I had in crypto.

I don't think it depends on how rich you are. It depends on how confident you are. If you're a true believer then dumpage will annoy you but won't rattle you. That belief may well be horrifically misplaced but that's what gets you through. Time and learning are the main factors in developing it.

Why no rooting?

Plenty of stuff is more than capable of running much more modern software than manufacturers can be bothered with.

Obviously there are some risks with that too but sensible practice nullifies plenty of it.

I got over obsessive price checking many years ago.

I enjoy guessing current prices based on the thread titles here.

I enjoy a weekly check of my numerous alts just to see how fucking pathetic they still are and they rarely disappoint.

When people express interest in crypto I just give them some.

It's far less trouble for me and them.

Pinch your grandson's nipple until he hands some over for free. It's his fault for mentioning it in the first place.

It completely depends on your purpose. If you're trying to move BTC to another exchange through an alt by the time you add up the fee to trade back to BTC and the potential difference in price then it may well cost you considerably more than paying the original fee.

This reminds me of a guy I knew who used to drive 10 extra miles to save 3 pence on a litre of fuel, and he only ever bought 4-5 litres. When I pointed out he burnt more fuel than he was saving it was like witnessing the discovery of fire as it very, very slowly dawned on him.

All that Japanese prison starvation has turned Mark into a suave dreamboat.

I wonder if he'll ever write a Gox story and whether any of it would be true. No doubt he was a slack, arrogant, dishonest weirdo but no one would've been able to cope with what it became in such a short time. If it had been me I would've shut it down and walked away before it properly bit me and everyone else but many people would believe they could stick at it and make it work.

What's with these whiny bitch appeals to authority? Is that not the antithesis of what Bitcoin stands for? Are you not men?

Why not pay the OP 100 BTC to close it? I'd do it for that amount, but I would add who paid me to and why. Good honest market forces in action.

Please note that would be actual Bitcoin, not any pisspoor imitation.

I doubt there's a place that collates this for all coins so you're better off Googling each individual coin and the phrase 'rich list'.

Most of them will have a site that lists the biggest addresses. Some will identify the addresses such as developer or exchange funds.

Here's an example for XEM - https://nemnodes.org/richlist/

I thought this question was regarding a few minutes moving between exchanges, not several years. You would be an absolute madperson to plan long term storage in an alt especially if Bitcoin is what you want.

If you'd bought into most alts in 2017 to save $4-5 in withdrawal fees you would now have about 8-10x less BTC in most cases and in some none whatsoever. Pay the fee.

Since your phone, computer and bank is probably already doing this should anyone be surprised? Even if you keep your coins properly offline, as soon as you spend them or send them it's likely someone somewhere is logging it.

I assume everyone's watching me closely unless they explicitly state otherwise. Even then I'd assume they were trying to dupe me.

I put zero effort or thought into mine. I typed the first thing that occurred to me. At least I don't use it anywhere else.

If I'd known what a fixture I'd become I would've preferred to have spent some time thinking it over. Perhaps PinkPanties or Big Glenda.

It sounds like they're being positive about Bitcoin itself which is something I didn't expect.

All the same they don't do anything if it doesn't benefit Chinese power. If they fostered BTC adoption until it started to be identified as a threat to their plans you can bet your peachy buns they'll come down hard on it again.

It's possible they regard it as a factor in undermining the power of USD. It might take many more years but it's a long game regardless of your approach.

I have no plans to ever do it myself but presumably it does matter to some buyers. It's a standardised declaration of condition at least.

I don't understand the vagaries of coin grading or give the slightest shit so it wouldn't be much of a factor for me.

Even if Kleiman had anything to do with BTC, and there's zilch to suggest he did, there's no way someone with his level of expertise would leave behind machinery with anything anyone could access without his assent.

Craigy suggesting they fish out his his Commodore 64 from the cupboard and cheerfully cut and paste all those wallet.dats is laughable.

Disappearing was surely a conscious choice on his part. There's no way it could achieve the goals he envisioned if he'd stuck around answering questions and tinkering. It had to move beyond one person.

Anacs attend coin shows where you could get it graded in person. If I was in the US I'd certainly consider doing that and I may look into whether there's one near ish when I'm there next.

There are obviously plenty of other grading places but it might be a little bit of a turn off to certain buyers.

www.anacs.com is the commonly accepted one. I'm not sure whether they still do it, but they used to and that's where almost all Casascius coins have been graded.

I have a couple myself. I'm in the UK so there's no way I'd risk mailing one to them as they're in the US so mine will stay ungraded. Grading is a nice bonus to have but nowhere near the be all and end all.

Ripple is far older than BTC. If I remember rightly it got rolling in a rather different form in 2004 or so. This makes it a double piss take as it's had 15 goddamn years to achieve something, and indeed it has - a truly ludicrous price based on nothing.