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Quote from: Bombardier on April 27, 2018, 12:16:35 PM

Quote from: whotheff on April 27, 2018, 10:52:46 AM

Are we going to see BTX on Binance anytime soon?

yes

i can't find any confirmation of this anywhere. is this a nice idea or a reality about to happen? binance charges a pretty penny to list so i'd be surprised but it would be a very useful development.

something certainly needs to be done. where will this leave foreign 'investors'? i'd be pretty surprised if the japanese government allow them in. it could produce a walled off market, not that i particularly care.

Quote from: Kronos21 on April 25, 2018, 03:28:42 PM

I don't believe there will ever be an opportunity to control the ICO. It's a dream that will never come true. Governments are unable to effectively manage such projects. Investment funds will be established in order to prevent fraud in this market. That's not the best idea. But I have no other idea.

if the SEC hammers every piece of crap ICO they can find, not that they have the time, you can bet the amount of them will collapse. of course there'll still be fully anonymous ones but there's no way any of the significant exchanges will list them. the net is tightening.

Quote from: cellard on April 27, 2018, 04:49:48 PM

I think at some point it becomes unhealthy to worry about such far fetched situations and you may end up making a bigger mistake due high levels of stress in the process.

yep. life is indeed too short and there will always be new scares out there.

but maybe absolute guaranteed safety will always be slightly beyond reach. it does make me wonder about how stuff like that affects the perception of crypto for newcomers.

the hacks of legit services have usually been through some crazily obvious old chestnuts like an employee opening an email attachment. one day it might happen through one of these super techie methods at which point faith might crumble a little.

'the sound of hard drives', woah.

attack vectors are only going to become more clever. the incentives get more compelling by the year.

as for my airgapped computer, i took out all connectivity like the wifi card and bluetooth stuff and put a brand new hard drive in it. it's never been anywhere near the internet and never will. of course the OS came from the internet but it can't talk to it.

i sleep well enough at night. if ninjas come around and scan me while i sleep then so be it.

as for the skeptics, sometimes these things start off at the height being theoretical, then the refinements start to arrive...

Quote from: Grayy on April 27, 2018, 03:59:09 PM

Closing down all up and coming ICOs is no the best solution. There are very good projects emerging despite the tonnes of scam projects in the crypto world. I believe strict regulations of ICOs and strict KYC processes( applied to project managers) can help nip the scam projects in the bud.

the most likely outcome may well be ICOs being fully regulated which would be enough to scare off the scammers and crappy projects. in theory an ICO is a valid route, but the way it's done now is so rancid that it won't be permitted to continue.

i expect we'll see fully approved ICOs made available to major investors and the shit will continue to stink away in the shadows, but the days of mass publicity attracting hundreds of millions from random morons are coming to an end.

Quote from: Karartma1 on April 27, 2018, 03:41:37 PM

after a few years of good service I think I should be moving away from Mycelium. If you feel like helping please suggest me a good alternative for Android based phones. I found Mycelium very handy because of electrum and ledger interoperability but it looks like the time is right for a change.

it's still worth keeping for stuff like the cold storage spending feature. i switched to samourai wallet because i needed a segwit address. that's kinda blank but gets the job done. i've no objections to coinomi either but some people ain't too happy with it not being fully open source though you can review the code.

Quote from: GSVLTD on April 26, 2018, 09:49:34 PM

Same here been 3months pathetic support seriously people with significant balance should start some legal action, the longer it gets the less likely

have you sent support tickets in russian?

despite them claiming they're a new operation, more than likely they're the same people who ran btc-e. btc-e was famous for its useless support unless you sent stuff to them in russian.

why does a 10 cent price matter? a coin with a supply of 100,000 at 6$ is a better bet than a coin with a much higher supply with a lower unit price.

https://blog.bitmex.com/nextstageinmining/

i'll confess that i don't know enough about mining to fully understand the implications of this, but at heart it looks like bitmain have come up with a miner that's more efficient than a GPU, less than a flat out ASIC, but also potentially can't be bricked by a PoW change such as Monero's recent one.

what do the people on here who know more than me think?

i discard it completely. i set a target price with a vague time frame. before it gets to where i want it to i fully expect it to go all over the place. that's part of the business we're in. if you can't hack it then don't play.

the pump is mainly because of the upcoming 32mb bcash hard fork.

it's possible this is because people believe they're gonna get free coins on the old chain when this is an upgrade fork with the old chain being abandoned. i'll be amazed if anyone bothers to mine the old chain so those airdrop coins will be worthless.

it could also be general excitement about a new development which always inspires some movement. the fork is 3 weeks away. i don't see how this pump can sustain itself until then.

and most whales don't care what coin they're in. they're only out for profit and it doesn't matter which coin delivers it.

Quote from: Psalmy2cute on April 24, 2018, 09:20:44 PM

Investing in icos is a grate risk.. Which I don't advice users in doing... Patiently wait for the coin to be listed...and buy from the dip... Some ico's are death trap

i very much agree with you, but it seems like not enough people do. i've never put money into an ICO and never would. if it's good enough there's still money to be made when it launches.

you do of course miss out on some potentially giant gains, but also the complete losses. there must be enough out there that have done very well for people. i'd like to hear more about it and perhaps we'll glean more info about identifying successes. but even if i was armed with more info i still don't think i could bring myself to do it.

Quote from: DTtaiwan on April 24, 2018, 06:31:46 PM

I'm not really directly answering you questions. However, from my experience in ANY ASSET CLASS. You always have to look at a market as a whole and it is no difference in the crypto world.

It would be much easier to profit from an ICO investment if the entire market is bullish. That is just how those things work. When the market is bullish and people are jumping into the market, more money would be pouring in and thus, the price of coins would go up.

So best take-away is that other than investing in an individual project and trying to know the fundamentals of any individual project, make sure that you invest in an ICO when the market is in UPTREND.

not necessarily. some ICOs launched when things were quiet and the biggest of all, ETH, launched in the middle of cryptogeddon. i'd be more inclined to trust an ICO that wasn't rushing to market to capitalise on a generalised pump which is what most of them did.

despite everything, there are still ICOs taking place all over and still a pile of threads about new ones every day.

i would like to hear from people who've already put money into ICOs and whether it turned out to be a great decision or a disaster. i'm not interested in your future price projections, i wanna hear about what happens to your money if you sell today.

let's get an impression of the success ratio here.

Quote from: BorzalomSach on April 23, 2018, 11:14:04 PM

Hello my name Borzalom,

sure it is.

can't you fudsters come up with a slightly more convincing effort than this? since you're claiming to be a crypto developer then let's see a signed message from a relevant address. i'll guess you yourself don't actually know what that means.

Quote from: OgNasty on April 23, 2018, 02:33:41 PM

Quote from: Etherion on April 23, 2018, 01:46:52 PM

This Air drops made people hold rather than sell off which seems to have done wonders for the price of btx. Ironic that an airdrop that should deflate the value has done the opposite.

How do you figure? The price was around $30 when the airdrops started. All these free coins have been detrimental on the price.

It definitely hasn't done wonders, but i'm pretty surprised how well the price has held despite the pile of new coins arriving every week. if you started off with a decent amount of coins and were signed up you'd probably be down a reasonable amount in overall BTC terms by the end but not by anywhere near as much as i was expecting.

i guess the real proof of the pudding is what happens when this phase is over.

so what are everyone's thoughts about this coin's behavior post airdrop?

i'm gonna guess that the price will fade along with what excitement there is and then in a few months it'll start to move again as the real developments start to kick in.

Quote from: cryptocub3 on April 22, 2018, 07:42:24 AM

Hello,

We are https://cryptocube.exchange, a small exchange located in Romania.

nice looking site.

Quote from: mdayonliner on April 22, 2018, 11:02:30 AM

Hi, how about if you are open to move the business in England. I can help you. I will send you my email contact with other info in you DM. Email me details.

why would any exchange want to move to england? they won't be able to get a bank account there. they'll have to bank in europe even if they're using GBP. that might be changing some day, but right now it hasn't.

and moving from one niche currency to another, which is what GBP is in the crypto market, doesn't make much sense. i'd only be looking to EUR zones myself.

Quote from: sexy1983 on April 21, 2018, 01:34:33 PM

It is still the leader of the mainstream currency. The future may be able to pull out of bitcoin's influence, but this year it is not.

i fully expect it to remain dominant, but this thread is about how alts and bitcoin would act without the dependence on bitcoin to access alt markets. bitcoin's necessity for alts is reducing all the time.

Quote from: berrygood on April 21, 2018, 11:43:03 AM

You can't transfer usd between exchanges

this is a good point but you can transfer between exchanges with countless other coins too, and when bitcoin is slow and expensive using it to transfer makes no sense at all.