Are you sure this bull run has to do with the leaked news? The article states that the commissioner just seemed to indicate his opinion, which is basically that sooner or later someone will satisfy the standards imposed by SEC for an ETF to be approved. Nothing more than that. I wonder, is the market reacting to these signals alone or is there something more concrete not yet publicly announced?

February has traditionally been a good month for bitcoin. Let us wait and see how far it goes this time. I hope it will last, but it may also be a temporary surge. In my opinion, bitcoin would have to rise above $4200-$4400 to be able to say with certainty that we are in a bullish trend.

The part where you say that a hard fork occurred is correct. The part where you say that BCH ABC and BCH merged together is not really correct. As far as I can tell, there was no merge of any kind. The old BCH now goes simply under the name of BCH ABC. As for BCH reaching $2000 forget it. They will never rise to such heights.

Very few actually. Many don't need a blockchain but use it anyways. Many problems can be solved without a blockchain. But they use it still, probably because using a blockchain is very fashionable nowadays. In fact if you use a blockchain and you don't have enough hash power to secure it, your project may become a victim to hacking, 51 attacks and similar problems. It may be a counterproductive if a weak coin uses a blockhain without enough computer power. A weak coin would be much more stable if it uses the Ethereum blockchain, or some of the other similar blockchains.

I don't know where the 230 USD price is coming from. It looks like a prediction coming from the author of that article. The other numbers you can read in that article are also very funny. Finder predicting $40, oracle times predicting $1000, investing pr predicting also $1000, George Tung predicting $1500, and BK Capital Management predicting $500 by the end of this year. I think all of these predictions are no good if this bear market continues. If BTC doesn't recover toward its previous ATH, nothing will push LTC toward these heights as well.

What makes them valuable? Some of them may bring some new technology, but what makes most of them valuable is just marketing and public perception. If most of the people expect these coins to gain value in the future, they will be valuable in the future. And the opposite: when most of the people lose faith in the future value of a coin, the coin is on a downward spiral and will quickly lose value. There should be some use case to them to keep their value, like bitcoin which has become an electronic equivalent of gold and a gold substitute. 

No way it will be listed as an altcoin. It is the same currency (BTC) and no, it doesn't have a separate marketcap. You don't create new bitcoins out of thin air. Even though the lightning network is built like a separate system, at the beginning and at the end (when you open a channel and when you close a channel), you have to settle the transactions on the main bitcoin blockchain (network). The LN just makes it easier and cheaper to transact.

Binance coin is not really a crypto currency. It is like owning a share in the Binance company. If you follow how Binance coin behaves, you can see that it acts much more stable  in times when BTC goes down. I am not surprised at all that it goes the other way from all the other altcoins. People use Binance coin like USDT or USD or any other stable coin to preserve the value of their altcoins when trading.

I fail to see how you plan to earn $300 per month by CPU mining?? How many CPUs do you need to have such high profits? It has to be a huge number of CPUs. If you ask me I think CPU mining is not profitable any more. It might have been profitable a long time ago. Even GPU mining is not profitable these days.

1) KYC should be avoided as much as possible. In addition KYC is no guarantee that the coin won't be dumped. 3) Even if facebook and twitter are checked for real people/followers, the bounty hunters will still dump their coins after they have been rewarded. Bounties are not the main reason why a coin is being dumped. The main reason is most of the coins have no real value and have no real use case other than to trick the investors into buying so that the devs and team members can make some money. If on the other hand the coin has some real value, you would think twice before dumping it lightly. Case in point: bitcoin. Look how many people are holding it regardless of the price.

Like the others have said it is just a matter of using different time frames. If you go to the lower time frames like 15m or 5m or 1m you are effectively scalping. If you go to the higher time frames you are doing swing trading or day trading. All the indicators that work with the higher time frames will work with the lower time frames too. The difference is they will be less reliable on the lower time frames, that is to say the indicators will be less reliable for scalping and will give you much more fake signals. If you want to scalp, pay attention to the fees because on the lower time frames they contribute more to the bottom line. The reason is your profit is much smaller compared to the higher time frames, so the fees can eat up most of your profit.

I think the fee should be the least of your problems, unless the stop loss is really really tight and it gets triggered often. To be honest I have never traded with tight stop losses and I have no clue how it goes, but the fee of 0.001 percent is super low and should not affect your balance much. Regarding the people on twitter throwing TA charts in hindsight I have stopped following them long time ago. These so called trading experts are not worth your time.

Those coins which are dead will certainly remain dead. A bull run will not magically resurrect them or spark interest in them. The bull run may only help some of the near dead coins, although I don't think it will help all of them. I hold some near dead coins, but my hopes are not high. The only way these near dead coins will recover is if they start to have a real life use case. Most of these shit coins have no real life use case, so I do not have high hopes too. What makes this situation even worse is the huge number of additional coins that appear day in day out. They diminish the chances of these coins ever recovering.

This might be a good news, but the postponed hard fork certainly is not. This is just another patch and not a permanent solution. The Ethereum network needs some real solutions but all I can remember is just another failed promise of development progress after another.  What is even worse is now we don't have a new date, the hard fork is postponed indefinitely. Still, postponing is better than making a faulty fork. The PoS switch that should have followed after this fork is now also postponed.

I did it once, for content creation not signature, and did not get paid. I would not try it again under the current conditions. But, if it is paid in BTC or ETH, and if the payments are weekly or bi-weekly I would not mind to try. It is all about trust. Can a bounty hunter trust the platform or not. If the platform is new, you have to provide regular payments in BTC or ETH to gain trust.

I would like to know what is the reason of your optimism. I see just some support and resistance levels on your chart and nothing else. In my opinion, finding and identifying support and resistance to predict price movements work only in hindsight. There is absolutely no chance you can predict price movements just based on that. Bitcoin market is mostly driven by news events and supply and demand, so technical analysis is not very valid here.

I used to mine with my GPU but I'm not mining right now. Waiting for better times to come for GPU mining, if they ever come again. I think it is not worth GPU mining even if you have cheap electricity. If you calculate the time and energy you spend in searching for coins to mine, maintaining the operation, exchanging the coins for bitcoin, it is simply not worth it. You are also messing up with the life span of your GPUs.

Realistically only two out of six can make you some money, the first and sixth option. Airdrops are nor really worth your time, faucets likewise. Steemit is heavily rigged and I would not recommend it especially not for newbies. I have never heard of crowdholding and it might be a valid option, I have no idea. If you have programming skills or if you can create content, you can work directly for crypto. But I would not go anywhere else. This forum is a good place to advertise your skills (Services Section) and get paid in crypto.

I don't know about the LTC bank licenses. It could be a good thing for sure. But one important reason why LTC could do good this year is the halving event that is due to happen in 193 days. You can follow the countdown at: https://www.litecoinblockhalf.com/ As you can see the block reward is going to go from 25 to 12.5 coins. This may bring some good things in terms of lower supply and hopefully price increase.

Whether you lose intentionally or not is not an issue here. You will lose money no matter what. You will lose money in the futures market even if you start with a lot of winning runs. It is a battle you can't win. Maybe some one is making money. I don't know for sure. Most of the guys I know have lost money and left. But if he is making money, he is either  extremely lucky, temporary in the plus, or he is big enough to be moving the market. There is nothing to be learnt from losing money in the futures market. You will be much better to avoid it entirely.