The main driving force behind the Crypto scene is Bitcoin and just a couple alts like Ethereum.

But ... if Bitcoin becomes mainstream some of the fad alts with enough cultural significance may increase along with it in price.  Kind of like collectors items. I doubt Dogecoin would be able to grow much on its own beyond Reddit.

For shits and giggles maybe I should buy ten bucks of every coin and put it in like a collection and forget about it in the attic.

Hey guys.  I do work with data mining and visualization and have come up with a fun way to visualize and detect shilling, at least for our toy data set.  We look forward to using it to analyze BCT threads.

First we trained a Naive Bayes classifier to predict the sentiment of movie reviews using a corpus of movie reviews which were tagged as either negative or positive.  It basically establishes the probability of texts being negative or positive given the frequency of different keywords.

We can use this to establish the probability of some unknown text being positive and the probability of it being negative.

Then we wrote a toy data set of movie reviews to simulate the introduction of shilling.  The first six were positive and then the next six we simulate the entrance of a shiller by alternative positive and negative.

         "wonderful wonderful wonderful",
         "real neat ",
          "best movie of the year",
         "the movie was great I loved it",
         "best acting favorite",
         "awful",
         "the movie was amazing",
         "terrible movie",
         "favorite actor",
         "worst movie bad acting"
         "most amazing movie ever",
         "sucks bad"

Then we used our classifier to predict the negative and positive sentiment scores which were then visualized.  The scores for reviews were visualized as points where one axis represents the probability of the text being negative and the other the probability of it being positive.  A third axis represents time.



Thought some of you might appreciate this.  If you are interested in the script used send me a message and I will send it to you.

You should definitely start with small amounts when trading.

There is a lot of profit there but you need so much practice and training.  The majority of day traders actually lose money.

As an alternative to ICOs which are very risky try to find coins which are undervalued because they are still under development but have a great development team.

And of course put a little into ICOs...

We would really like more progress updates outside of Telegram. 

Can we get a Thanksgiving update please?  I really want to know how the venture capital system is coming.

Bitcoin has lasting utility.

Dogecoin was a meme.  It was cool and exciting for awhile.

Like the fidget spinner it had its day, and like the fidget spinner will fade into memory.

We had a huge rebound of Dogecoin but that was only because the altcoin market in general rebounded.  I wouldn't invest in it.  It was great if you got in on it early like fidget spinners but now the hype is gone.

There is a lot of potential for crypto technology in emerging paradigm of the 'internet of things'. 

These things will need to communicate securely, store and manipulate data, and other things.  The network should be reliable and adaptable in case parts of the network go down.

The problem with Ethereum is that it just costs too much.  IOTA wants to offer a scalable and super cheap service providing decentralized communication and storage.

There was some news regarding Chinese ICO regulation which put NEO in a favorable light.

I can't wait until the technology takes off - partially because I want to program smart contracts in C# and Neo taking off would mean someone would make better tutorials for it.

Can you list some of these?  Almost every one I have seen pays in tokens.  I don't mind too much as it keeps me on my toes myself as I don't want to promote a coin with no future.  Because of this I am holding my bounties and just trying to be real careful.

For me it will show they can develop software.  Both projects involve a large amount of security considerations.  They are not small projects.  If they release the venture capital system and it looks good then it will really bolster confidence with a number of potential investors.

You are lumping a whole bunch of things into 'altcoins'.

Some will succeed. Some will change how the internet works in the future.  Some will fail.

Could you elaborate on 'Script to automate profiles check would be welcome.'

You don't say much.  I am curious what sort of requirements the script would entail.

A lot of ICO's convert a lot of funds to fiat because of its stability.  The other major portion of their funding comes from their own token supply.  If they choose to keep the funds in bitcoin or eth, the only way you could argue you should get more value, then they would be gambling just as you are.  We don't want that, right?

That is pretty neat.  Don't know much Ruby but still enjoyed skimming through parts of the source code.  I will refrain from putting my QA hat on..

Do it myself in Python using Beautiful Soup to parse various fields.  It is so simple and easy to use but a tad slow and I can't multithread it when web mining.

I am not dissing on the project but Bitcoin is the PayPal of the Crypto digital currency industry...  (followed by a long string of others)

Bruno,  will those who participated in the bounty campaigns be paid their tokens given that the ICO end date has been moved forward?

The bounty manager stated the 14th which was the intitial ICO end.

Once they release the venture capital system it will skyrocket.  I will give them until the end of the year as I am a developer myself and know that development takes time to do right.
If we are using a web based user interface to 'vote' then we want to make sure it is secure as it will deal with our keys.  It shouldn't take more than 6 months though.

Put together a diversified portfolio containing the top however many coins on coinmarketcap and invest part of your funds.  Pretty safe, especially if filtering for volatility. 

But also try to find coins with promising technology and solid development but are undervalued and invest part of your funds in this.  Buy low and sell high.

There is no way that many 97% was reached. There are at most a couple hundred Ether invested.   Where is this Coin Schedule thing you are looking at?

Personally I don't mind an extended crowdsale to get more funds to the devs though I want to see development progress kick up.

According to the website the sale has been extended to Nov 30.

We should still get our tokens for the campaign though..  today should be the day if anything.

The more it drops the more I will grab.  I can't wait to see the venture capital platform.  Cheap Dcorp tokens!  We will see though.  We will see.