Hi,

Are there any news regarding the EQT swap ?

Thanks

This is amazing news, will we be able to have the MN collateral on the ledger ? Will the PHR dev team lead the development of the integration or is it ledger ? Any estimated timeline ? I know these integration takes time.

Hey,

For a full explanation I recommend you ask this question on the PHR announcement thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3179265

To give you a quick answer an entire block is 6.9999896 PHR ~7, 2.8 PHR is the reward for the person that mint the next block, 4.2 is for the MN on top of that there is also 1PHR for the dev budget.

Hope that helps.

The bitcoin recent rally brought back some confidence in the market and investors feel comfortable diversifying in the altcoin market to try and maximize profit. I'm curious to see if this trend will last  !

Not necessarily this bump may be, a bull trap, a stabilization around current market valuation or the beginning of a new bull cycle. We need more time to actually asses the recent green candles

Bitcoin and gold accomplish two different things. Gold is a store of value and bitcoin is some kind of hybrid, while it stores ( more or less ) value, it can also be easily exchanged for good and services in a way easier way than gold. Bitcoin is also secure and trustless. My opinion is to diversify in both asset and hold bitcoin and gold !

Soon the big crypto conferences are coming up, and with them lots of good news. Also most of the crypto regulations have been passed by major countries which will give an excellent breeding ground for cryptos for the second half of 2018 and 2019.

Altcoins will definitely survive, they provide services and technology that bitcoin are not in measure to give its users. The right question to ask is which one will survive and which ones will die ? My forecast is once all of the regulations are put in place and once  most of the business use cases are covered by altcoins, the great sorting will begin.

There is no definitive answers to your question, I believe there is nothing wrong with PHR, this is a free market people buy and sell freely, just because PHR is not going up in the last few days doesn't mean it's not a great investment long term. Again that project is solid and has a serious team so I strongly recommend to buy & hold.

It is never the time to invest in an ICO, find yourself a good established coin, participate in communities etc... Or if you really want to go the ICO way find one that has an ACTUAL product and that is solving real life problems, not just putting out a fancy website with keywords all around it to raise a bunch of ETH...

I am severely biased against ICO's because of the declining quality since 2016... I'd rather find  a good altcoin with a serious dev team, than another bootstrapped whitepaper with a nice website, that ask for ETH in exchange of a worthless ERC20 token. So for me, clearly it's altcoin. Some ICO are worth investigating, but we're talking about a very few sample since 2017 and the explosion of ICOs backed by NO product.

I don't know if it's the best country for crypto but Switzerland has really amazing laws for crypto businesses, miners and traders. You can even use crypto to pay your taxes over there. So that sounds like heaven to me !

Ethereum is bound to take over bitcoin in terms of marketcap in the next few months / years so yes I believe Ethereum can go back to $1300 and probably way more than that. This coin has an amazing potential and I value it way passed this price point.

Basically what you're talking about is shorting, it's a quite dangerous move especially for new traders I think averaging down is a "safer" bet. Shorting can work well as long as you work with smaller volumes but it's still a very risky move because you know how much you can lose but you never know how much gains you might be missing out, long term.

Buy, consistently put money aside than you can afford to invest and buy when the market is in panic mode. This is what I've been doing for years and it has yet to prove me wrong.

I would be surprised if that's the case, with all the regulation coming our way I think only the most established coins will be able to grow, I think mid-low cap altcoins could have  a hard time until the market adapts to the new regulatory ecosystem.

Ethereum all the way, I've been a firm believer since day 1. I don't want to talk down XMR and XRP that are both respectable coins, however it appears to me that ETH is technologically and fundamentally superior to both of these currencies.  However XMR & XRP have value because they cover niche part of the market... for now !

In my opinion there is no doubt : long term. Do your own research, read, ask questions, pick coins that you truly believe in, where the community is solid, the devs are serious. Once you do that you just need not to panic, hold and enjoy  your profit. Sometimes there are also good short term trades but for me only long term can make you rich.

Cryptocurrency is the new industrial revolution, and its following the patterns of all ground breaking technological progress in history, there was, is and will be failures, and scams but at the end of the day, humanity will enjoy the benefits provided by blockchain and I firmly believe in this ideal.

I don't believe price is an actual factor in terms of profitability. A coin price mainly depends on supply & demand as well as the public opinion. Looking at a coin that is worth 0.0001$ but has a supply of several billions will not guarantee you that the coin will ever reach 1$ or even 0.10$ ... In this regard market capitalization might be a better tool, even though it has its flaws.