Tether may be the most stable of the currencies, always maintaining their dollar parity value.

Is it really the most powerful? I think you have to look into Tether a bit more to understand that you may not want to put all your eggs into that basket. Also, why would you want to hold something that's only going to devalue over time? It's meant to be used as a transition currency, not really a hold. If you REALLY want to hold Tether, then just buy some USD.

One of the best examples you can see of developing countries using BTC to their advantage is Venezuela:

With their currency collapsing to being essentially worthless, they've needed to find other means to send (from the outside) funds to their family members still living in those difficult situations. They've been able to send funds through BTC, and consequently, the family members have been able to subsist and live using the online currency. It caught the attention of the gov't SO MUCH that they went ahead and launched a Petrodollar (SCAM) that said it would use their own oil barrels as leverage in the business.

Countries in the middle east, countries with a currency so devaluated the paper is worth more as a means to make fire than as a means of purchase, are all examples of countries that could use an un-biased, un-centralised, and un-regulated means for the transfer and safe keeping of their funds. Let the people have control over their own funds, and make small businesses that implement these so more and more people will adopt these cryptocurrencies rather than stay in the same old line of trusting FIAT.

This is both amazing and a call-to-action.

The fact that she's interested, knows about it, and is ready to put down her first investment shows two things:
1. The adoption and name of BTC and blockchain technology is getting more and more widespread
2. We need to educate new investors ASAP

Though it's a sweet story, she doesn't seem to grasp the concept of what BTC is worth. See, the average person will take some of their money and throw it into BTC, then hodl and hope for the best... However, what we really want to see happen is people utilising BTC as much as they would the USD. It's adoption is not in having everyone in the world own some, it's true adoption would entail every person be using it as freely as they would their own local fiat currency. In doing so, it becomes more than just a concept we love, it becomes real.

So help your mom understand why she needs it and that if she's buying, she might as well try to use it to buy some stuff online too. Send some money overseas, pay for a new miner, do a little day trading, open up a shop and only accept BTC, the sky's the limit.

Honestly, this is probably the most important rule out of all the others. Sure, there needs to be some savvy know-how to understand the way it all works, piecing it together in your mind. Nevertheless, a good due diligence will save you countless dollars of loss. When a new currency or ICO arises, or any new investment opportunity for that matter, you need to make sure you follow through and do your research on the topic. No one cares if you lose your hard earned money, so why wouldn't you take that into your own hands and make sure you know every detail about the investment before you make the decision. Check the team, their backgrounds, the transparency of the project, the allocation of their seed investments... all of these things will minimise the risk of loss, and maximise the potential for gains.

Our two-cents.

It's very unlikely they could eliminate Bitcoin entirely.

Though new regulations are coming, there's only so much control they can actually have. Unless they somehow manage to physically stop every miner, there's very little change they can have a finite effect.

Take China, for example, they've made all ICO-related investments completely illegal, yet millions of Chinese RMB are still being invested and hundreds, if not thousands, of people are still hodling their tokens. Could the gov't find out who each of these people is and confront them, take them to jail... Maybe, but it'll take them a really long time, and most people will just go to a jurisdiction that won't be so tight on their rules.

Blockchain is the future because it needs no centralised servers to hold it, it's a free currency.

This is actually a very interesting question.

When bitcoins are lost to a wallet and put out of circulation, they're basically becoming a kind of "burned token". ICOs burn tokens to raise the value of every remaining token. If say they have $1mm investment on 1mm tokens then there would be a dollar parity. However, if when the money is raised the company decides they want to burn 500k tokens then each token would double in value. There would now be 500k tokens each worth $2.

Fiat currency does the complete opposite, as they print more money and devaluate the value of each note. There are other factors to consider though, like the demand for bitcoins and the overall state of the market. For the purposes of answering your question, however, lost coins would limit the supply of bitcoins making their value increase. Some people predict a single coin could be worth $250k, others (John McAfee) predict $1mm/coin in two years time. Who's right? We'll have to wait and see.

Thank you for posting this, it's a very useful thread for newbies trying to understand this new world. 

There is no quick way to rise ranks, check out this thread:

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It details how many activity points you need to reach the different levels.
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Bittrex, Binance (if it's not down), and HitBTC are all easy to use and sign up for. Bittrex has a KYC verification process that can be a little tedious but so long as you follow the steps correctly you should be good to go.

That's an amazing perspective. Those post apocalyptic movies always end up having an AI form that says, "in order to save mankind, we must destroy it before it..." Usually leading to the end of humanity until some superhero figure (John Connor) comes and leads the revolution against the machines. How do we get them to understand that they are flawed because they are perfect, though?


So, like a secondary reality where we're hooked up to a machine that performs as many "reincarnations" as it takes before we've reached enlightenment and can function and appreciate a utopian society? Like, we're brought intrinsically flawed into this world and the simulations help us understand how to get rid of all the imperfections of "needs" and be self sufficient, repeating life until we finally reach a digital nirvana.


Woah, had to sit down for this one. Perhaps the simulation is designed like a game that evolves, because of the generations that are coming in as the others are exiting. It would have to follow a timeline that makes the users believe the environment they're in, making them keep records, evolve, discover, and create new tech. Eventually, the game would go through every possible scenario depending on where humanity takes it. So, potentially, we've destroyed the world several times over and the machine has to put our consciousness into single-celled organisms as a kind of "time out."

"Oh boy, the humans destroyed the planet again, reboot the system Siri and let's bring it back to creation."

Is it a blessing or a curse?

If your article is an opinion article about the future of blockchain there's several routes you could take:

- The reach of the technology, all the different industries it can influence (currency, assets, data, etc.)
- Browse through the different ICOs and see what new tech they're bringing into the game
- Try to understand how industries are changing, why is it beneficial for them to move to a blockchain

That should be plenty for you to start brainstorming, and please comment the link here when you've finished writing it

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It's never too late to start.

There's so many things you could look back on and think, "man, if only i had bought/tried/listened/followed-up on..."
Don't live in the could've/should've/would've... otherwise you'll think back to the moment you posted that and wonder why you kept waiting even after you knew you'd waited too long.

People who don't know are afraid to lose what they've got, people who know use what they've learned and earn more.

Which one are you?

It'll definitely slow it down for now, losing the ability to advertise on certain media sites will definitely lessen the momentum for a while. This won't stop the release of new ICOs though, certainly won't stop cryptocurrencies in general. How often do you see advertisements for a new stock or a new asset that's being released? Whoever wants to invest will find the way to do so, it'll just make people focus on different means of advertising.

This is really relative to the individual person's finances.

A solid place to start is 10% of your yearly earnings. Every month put 10% away to invest in a new crypto you find interesting, this way if the market is low you have a great opportunity to buy, if the market is high you hold that 10% for the next dip.

Pushing yourself to invest a given number (like $10k) could lead to unneeded stress, most people can't invest too much because they can't afford to lose it, so go at it at your own pace. Start off small and analyze the market, once you get a feel for what's a good buy in price hold off until you see it. Eventually you'll learn to do a kind of slow day-trade, like a weekly or monthly trade, that teaches you gradually. Do this for a couple of years and suddenly you'll have better and better returns.

Slow and steady wins the race (until you strike gold with an ICO and buy that lambo).

If you're a long-term investor that hopes to see gains with minimal effort then treat them like stocks.
HODL, hodl, hodl until the market picks back up, be it next week, next month, or in 2020.

If, however, you're willing to get your hands dirty and have the time for it, then day trade.
BTC and all the other coins, altcoins, and tokens are going up and down on the daily. The greatest opportunity here is for you to be aware of the market and the different tokens, read up on the news, do your technical analysis and your functional analysis.

If you choose to take the latter, you'll be sure to experience some losses, but you'll feel more in-control of your finances. If you take the former, then just kick your legs up on the table, sip on your favorite beverage, and relax... the market's bound to pick up, eventually.

Most people on this thread seem to be die-hard hodl fans.

The crypto market, like the stock market... like any other investment market should never be the basket you put all your eggs into.
Sure, with the gains we had seen in 2017, people got really excited, but an investment should never be something you're not willing to lose. Remember, any money you put into the market should be something you can walk away with 0s and still be ok with, basically happy with the lesson you've learned.

If you let fear kick in what will happen? You'll walk out with 50% (or less) of what you had put in with the bitter flavor of a bad investment. And who knows, a few months from now your 50% loss could've been a 10x gain that you missed due to fear.

Hodl, and hope for the best. Spread the word of crypto. Help advance the tech, and you'll be sure to see returns.

Both of these offer different advantages:

Bitcoin is the safest cryptocurrency and has reached the widest audience.
Not to mention holding a third of the entire market's value.

Ethereum is right there with it, holding second place on the ranks.
DApps, DAOs, and Smart Contracts changed the game.

So where do you bet your chips?

BTC or ETH?