The EVM has a lot of potential, it is just not yet ready to truly demonstrate that due to the limitations in number of operations or transactions it can handle per second. We need to wait until the Caspar upgrade, and perhaps a few upgrades beyond that in order to really see what Ethereum is capable of, but we definitely won't be seeing it's full functionality for at least half a decade or more, so buckle up your boots for the long term!

For the short term you would definitely need to be looking at an ICO, only really strong ICOs are able to generate a decent return on investment now, though it is hard to see which one this is considering the number of scam and failure projects out there. Don't go for huge profits, as these are associated with massive risk, and you will end up losing big most likely.

It does not really matter what Bill Gates says about cryptocurrency, it is not his field of expertise and just because he is a billionaire doesn't make his opinion more valid than an expert. Yes, there are some negative aspects of cryptocurrency, but there is also so much good it can do, it is surprising that he doesn't see that.

I always read horror stories of people being scammed, but have never been scammed myself (well except for insignificant amounts when I'm in an extreme hurry or something). There's one simple rule to life. Trust nobody, sure it will cost you opportunities, but when you have very little money, some times you simply cannot afford to be scammed as it could set you back severa months in recovery time.

Some people can't even understand how to copy and paste, and yet you want them to understand how to send a payment to another user that is secured by a cryptographic mining operation to prevent a double spend attack? You have to realize that most humans are hopelessly lazy and dull, and simply don't want to take the time to learn something new and difficult. They would rather stick with the old ways of doing things rather than tax their idiot brains unfortunately.

In my prime I was making several dozen trades per day, I would aim for about 25% of these to be losing trades (or more accurately I should say 25% was my tolerance threshold). I would then assume to make a 1-5% profit on the 75% of profitable trades which should outweigh the losses could be going EV-. Over time I have reduced the trade volume to about 5-10 per week, only putting mymoney on the big signals.

Bitcoin fees don't need to come down, even if we reach $10 average fee that's still pretty amazing for a huge transaction, which would otherwise cost $40+ sending by international bank transfer, moneygram, western union etc. Bitcoin doesn't need to be the be-all and end-all of cryptcurrencies, so long as it fulfills at least a single purpose better than any of its competitors then it will do great.

I think that people buying to hold need to get it into their head that there is a right way and wrong way to hodl. The right way is to hodl for as long as the market is STRONG. If the market isn't STRONG or is becomig weaker, then you can consider exiting your position if you are EV+ otherwise you might have to hold until the market recovers. There is no point holding a dead fish, it will never awaken.

No doubt there was already pockets of individuals discussing topics that may have eventually lead up to blockchain technology. There are people who know who Satoshi is, people who he surely consulted with when developing the conceptus behind the technology. Just like there are niche groups in society, there must have been a super small niche surround Satoshi Nakamoto as it is unlikely he developed and released the entire thing without even seeking any advice or having a target audience to cater to.

Glad to see more cryptocurrency courses popping up. There's usually some stupid price tag associated with these, like if you look on Udemy there's a bunch of courses on there for $100+ teaching the damn basics. To be honest however, you can take a free course on crypto on a variety of other websites like coursera, but they don't tend to go into the finer details that you can actually monetize, such as smart contract development, marketing or tokenomics.

Another thread that's saying X or Z is dying. I wish there was some sort of hammer we could hit you idiots with, as it's quit obvious ETH isn't dying. It's still worth more than it was last year and is doing pretty decently considering the market is in a bad shape right now. After all, it's still an altcoin so it wont do too well against BTC right now, but it's still worth almost $300 each!

There's definitely some guys on here completely 60 bounties per day, but it would be very unlikely they are doing these in just two minutes each to complete them all in 2 hours a day. I can only imagine the absolute trash they are producing if that is the case. If I was a bounty manager and saw somebody like this I would ensure they get 0 tokens for their trash work.

NEO really had a lot of potential last year, back when it was climbing faster than almost any other cryptocurrency. But now, it has crashed one of the hardest falling to about 1/8th of its damn value. Right now my holdings in this coin are so far down I don’t even want to think about it. I think the technology behind NEO is great, it really can do well if it can achieve even half of what it says in its road map, however I suspect the team has been disheartened by its weakness in this market and will probably be looking to exit their positions soon.

It's possible to pump the market to almost any size if there way to organize a huge community push to do. However, the cryptocurrency community is highly dispersed and there is very little in the way of organization, except for a few small pump and dump groups, though even these tend to only have the power to pump trash coins with almost zero volume.

It depends when you bought in. Sure, if you bought Bitcoin at $19,000 and then you see it increase from $6500 to $7500 in a week that is just a small recovery to you. However, for those (lucky bastards) who bought in at $6500, then saw their investment gain $1000 so easily, then I would definitely consider that a spike (but certainly not a moon still).

Some decentalized exchanges have 0% or at least close to 0% fees, however they also tend to be very small exchanges that either have very few trade pairs, or have very low volume, so there isn't much utility. You can take a look at a few emerging exchanges, they often offer 0% trading fees for a fixed duration, so you can just keep moving between exchanges taking advantage of this offer.

Well actually, if you earn 10% per day after reinvesting your principal amounts and the interest, then you will end up with far more than 300% interest in a month. However, earn 10% per day consistently is extremely difficult, and not something you should confine yourself to. You can definitely get 1-2% per day, but there will also be days where you lose money.

Right now, it is quite a simple process to buy BTC with cash through localbitcoins. However, in many countries this is either illegal, dangerous or simply not possible as nobody wants the cash, e.g. venezuela and uganda (hyperinflative). The easiest way to get BTC using cash is from a broker, though you might not have one that's too close to you if you're from a small town or village.

I personally believe bounty campaigns are just a waste of time. if you look at most bounty hunters they are spambots that do absolutely no advertising for the project. I think that if the goal is to achieve decentralized distribution of the tokens/coins for later exchange, then cool, bounties are a good idea, but I also think that their advertising potential is low unless the bounty manager is extremely strict with applications.

Dumps are sometimes good, it shows the market which projects are not worth their salt, and prevents further investors from boarding the ship. Dumps don't usually happen to the truly stellar projects, so we really don't have that much to worry about if we have our holdings in super strong projects. It's very simple, don't invest in trash projects then the dumps wont affect you!