he's baaaaaaaaaack! 

(and pumping)

rebuilding crappy versions of everything in order to pump eth.


marketing.

it's neither--like everything ethereum: they have yet to figure it out.  originally they were gonna do constant inflation (which approaches 0% annually over time).  then they said they might cap it after PoS, then they said 'we dont know, we'll figure it out.'  either way it doesnt reallly matter, the end game of ethereum is never finishing the software, cashing in on the hype (now and in near future) so that when it's clear nobody uses it for anything they'll be out.

pretty sure the bears were just eth pumpers spamming fud.  a lot of them are in BTC now and probably want eth to drop below .01 before getting back in.

when does this launch?

is it possible that the halvening got priced in during the runup from $200ish to $500ish last year? then again i remember a similar runup in price in like august 2012, months before the first halvening.. if thats any indication, price might just do nothing.. for now.

i feel like we're gonna get to the end of the triangle and not break up or down, just continue flatlining until some scaling news comes out.. thoughts?

the crypto world has changed a bit since litecoin's last peak.  we've seen a million clone-shitcoins.  theres no story here, no doohickey to even pump.  litecoin is a bitcoin clone with some basic parameters changed, but it offers nothing new.  china already got burned hard on litecoin, and they're not coming back to the table.

despite many altcoins being up large amounts this year (catalyst being Mike Hearn's blog), the big clone coins (litecoin, dogecoin) have done NOTHING.

while i see various Rube Goldberg blockchains (complicated but useless blockchains) getting pumped, i dont see the shitclones ever getting pumped like they once were.

People used WhatsApp.

has any crypto ever maintained an equilibrium price >50% of bubble peak post-bubble?

ftfy

quite the opposite--ethereum does not scale yet, it might never, and it will be much harder to scale than bitcoin.

ethereum claims to be a platform for dapps, but i cant even find 1 ethereum owner who uses any dapp for anything.  ethereum's programming language is supposed to make it easier to create dapps, yet the only ones i was interested in have been under construction forever..

ethereum has been hyped so hard that it is virtually guaranteed to under deliver, if it delivers anything at all.  it may have some potential, i dont know, we shall see, but at the moment its used for nothing by nobody.

i completely agree, popcorn time.  

who will be the next pirateat40?  
who will be the next mark karpeles?

Mike Hearn made shitcoins great again!

even if it is, even if it is complete vaporware, with zero users the market cap could get to 1B+ with the right marketing team, advertising, pumping, hyping, spamming, and FUDing of all competitors.

gotta ride the ponzi yo  

take a page out of fontas' book:

of course not.


yep.


Also, apparently ANYTHING can get on Azure.. even Expanse and Influxcoin lol are on Azure.. guess it really is meaningless.  still cant gamble, buy drugs, or do anything with ethereum... hype hype hype!  the only chance for profit is to hype it up now cuz these "dapps" are gonna be a huge failure.

(by dapps i do not mean decentralized applications. i mean ethereum centralized applications. the successful decentralized applications will be built on a platform called the internet, using one of the many Turing complete programming languages)

vitalik and vlad have both admitted they don't actually know how to scale it.  it's still a "research project".  scaling it (according to the technobabble they've been spewing about how they think they'll do it) would violate the cap theorem.  you know why they're leaving the scaling to the last part of the coding process? cuz they can't do it.  oh ya and it has zero use cases and most dapps are abandoned.

agree.  i think banks are most likely to use something like Ripple.  they stand nothing to gain from giving up control of their own books.

the coin always seems to do what you dont expect. i think it might actually decrease in price a little around the halvening.. and then... like a phoenix rising from the ashes.. watch out.

will be interesting to see which alts flame out and which hang on.. very different altcoin market from the last real altcoin bull market in late 2013/early 2014.

thanks for this response, i'm reading some of the links right now. im actually capable of changing my mind when presented with the right evidence (unlike leftists).  but the jury is still out!

i need to look into this more, but i recall reading that ethereum is trying to steal some stuff from monero relating to ring signatures? i dont even know what this is, but the more i learn about monero the more i like it. i dont own any but might be taking the plunge soon.

given that ethereum is up 1800% in 2 months and monero up only like 300% or something (and not really pumped at all), there seems to be better risk/reward here.

i cannot find out anything about IOTA ICO. i was mildly interested in the idea and probably would have thrown a tiny amount at the ICO, but i found nothing on their site.

- where can i find ANY info on IOTA ICO?
- how much was raised in IOTA ICO?
- over what time period did IOTA ICO occur?
- what is the current supply/price of IOTAtoken?
- where is IOTA traded?
- wtf can u do with IOTA?
- is IOTA a rebranded clone of an existing coin (ie a scam) designed to fleece the dumbest people who wanna invest in IoT?

given the name and the sleazy ICO, i can only assume this is a scam.