I broke my original rule of short trades. I set that limit order and was delighted to see that I snagged 2.30 BCH, but didn’t want to take the small sat loss so I let the funds linger. Slowly watching the sat fall.

I’m an amateur trader. Very amateur!
I started with .30 BTC in an attempt to increase my sats.
My goal was to trade back and forth between BTC and BCH and only let trades sit for a few minutes.

So I atarted with .30BTC which my first trade equaled 1.67BCH
Slowly my sat value increased until I traded enough times from .30 up to .34500 roughly.
Then...I set a BCH limit order over nigh and it triggered.
Now I have 2.30 BCH up from 1.67BCH...but I’m watching my sat value fall.

So my BCH grew from 1.67–> 2.30
And my BTC value grew from .30 —> .345

But I’m sitting on the 2.30 BCH watching my sat value fall. It’s currently at .329BTC

SO...do I just keep my 2.30BCH and hope the sat value goes back up? Is this technically a victory even if the sat value continues to fall? Am I making ANY sense?

I like how coinbase lets you buy $50 worth of bitcoin, once a week. If you want.
But GDAX fees are less and doesn’t have this feature, I understand you need to use the APIs with a third party software.

Can someone recommend a SIMPLE, FREE piece of software to do this? I’m not interested in elaborate trading features.  I just want to do a simple “buy x amount of bitcoin, every day, or week, etc”

Thanks

I guess you are right. Litecoin is technically a fork of btc. I never think of it that way.

Remember what a big deal all these hard forks were? Except for BCH, can any one of them be considered a success? I recently lost a couple thousand in the Zclassic BTC Bitcoin Private hard Fork...so maybe I’m just a little bitter

I never invested in bitconnect, because I always saw it as an obvious Ponzi scheme. But I feel like the founders and everyone involved shouldn’t be able to hide behind their anonymity. This was Bernie Madoff level stuff, these people need to be unmasked. They had events, contact with famous Youtubers, I mean there has to be a way to find these guys.

This would make for a really interesting documentary. I personally have no filmmaking skills whatsoever, but someone should start a gofundme project that would create a “Going Clear” style documentary exposing this scam. The money shot would be if they can unmask the shadowy figures behind this Ponzi scheme.

This has to be in the works?

Also...Biiitconeeeeeeeeeeect!

Only intelligent answer: No One Knows.

I think this may be the easiest question ever to answer. Just look at what happened to bitcoin in November and December. It had unsustainable parabolic growth. Too many new, uninformed investors came in to make a quick buck. The system got overloaded, throw in tons of negative news stories about regulation, etc...and these newbies fled like rats on a sinking ship. Veteran Whales didn’t want to see their unrealized gains evaporate, so they moved their money into tether or USD. The Sell orders overtook the Buy orders massively...and it tanked.

Am I talking about 2014? Or 2018? It’s hard to say because this is the same exact situation just with a lot more “000s.” Nobody can predict the future...but my guess is everything recovers eventually. If history repeats itself we may be looking at 2-3 years. Anybody’s guess.

This is an opinion question. I recognize it is childish, and vain but I’m asking it for the LOLs (Do the kids still say that?).

Question: Do you count Forked Bitcoin (Futures) in your overall net worth on Blockfolio or whatever app you use? I’m talking FUTURES (not just forked coins you’ve claimed already)

I did this with CASH and GOLD, and eventually I claimed them and the “futures” did go away from coinmarket cap.  

I know it’s a dumb question, but I’m curious if other people count futures (say Super Bitcoin (FUTURES)) as part of their portfolio, because ultimately you should be able to claim those coinseventually.

For me...I do it to keep track or BTC forks and watch changing value, but I like to see all that value pump up my portfolio.

VAIN? Yes. DUMB QUESTION? You bet!! But I’m curious if others do this too?

Well out!

I’m a HODLER. Plain and simple. I have some experience day trading bitcoin, and I made a little bit of money over the course of a month by being disciplined.

I will always be a HODLER...but as an experiment, I may consider offsetting my invested principal, with some well timed and disciplined trades.

My question: can anyone recommend a few altcoins with some volatility that tend to stay in a range. I know these days everything seems to be shooting straight up.

Again. My goal isn’t to get rich. I’m doing that through Hodling. My goal is to have fun and to attempt to reduce my outstanding principal.

Any advice would help. I am not strong at this.

And what is wrong with being lazy?

Ok. Title is click bait. I’ll admit it.

But we need a website with the following info. It would be nice if coin market cap did it, but they haven’t.

1) chronological date of every bitcoin hard fork
2) Date of rumored and planned hard forks
3) symbol for hard fork
4) facts about fork (supply, tech, etc)
5) exchanges that trade hard forked coin
6) current USD and BTC Value
7) hard wallet support?
all social media and website links, github link
9) block that fork happened
10) block explorer (when available)


Why is this info so hard to find?

Coin market cap launched BTC Diamond futures, and Binance distributed bitcoin Diamond. But there is still no evidence of the fork like a block explorer.

Meanwhile Super Bitcoin allegedly forked days ago but still no SBTC (futures) listing on Coinmarketcap.

This is not meant to spark a debate. These forks are forking happening like it or not. But we need better more organized information on them.

First off, he damn things a scam. But that isn’t what this post is about.

1) was there a verifiable hard fork?
2) can anyone check their public addresses yet and see their coins?
3) why did exchanges provide coins to their customers without real evidence they themselves will be reimbursed after the hard forming?

Tl;DR: WTF?

I’ve been HODLING BTC since 2014. I’ve claimed BTC Cash, gold, and soon Diamond. People talk about all kinds of forks, but I’m not sure they know what they are talking about.

Point blank: are there any other forked coins as of this post that I can claim? Is Bitcore one of them?

I am not a programmer, but it seems that Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold have proven that there is big money in forking bitcoin.

How hard is this process? And just like the millions of shitty ICOs that came out, what’s to stop hundreds of people from making their own forked version of Bitcoin? Seems very profitable and where there is money to be made there are people capitalizing.

No Shit dude...I'm the DrBitcoin...you don't think I know what a hard fork is?

Jk...I'm a moron.

That said...my point was...WTF...the lack of transparency is mind-blowing.  I hear they forked, I hear and see futures trading of a new coin called "BTG," but I can't claim mine because...no online tutorials.

Bitcoin Cash was pretty seamless.  I followed directions, and claimed by BTH.

Bitcoin Gold is just a hot fucking mess...It forked, it didn't fork...it preformed.  They premined.  Its a scam! It's not a scam!

Something tells me I'll be claiming my B2X before my BTG.

I can not wait to claim and dump that BTG, so I can buy some alt coins with real future potential.

Can anyone claim acess to their Bitcoin gold yet? Seriously...the developers of Bitcoin Gold should be banished from the community.

Bitcoin Cash was such a seamless hard fork.

Has anyone successfully claimed Bitcoin Gold? And how?

What a sham Bitcoin gold turned out to be.

Has anyone actually successfully claimed their bitcoin gold? Does it even exist?