I agree with you. I think that it would be more applicable under "Main Links". I should probably do the same for the Association link (aka. The Bitcoin Foundation or The Litecoin Association).

What do you mean exactly? I do have smart contracts as a technology category. Technologies are also filterable by categories and the cryptocurrencies they are implemented in.


I don't have dividends as a Technology, and there are decentralized coins that are being developed that pay dividends. I suppose I can add that as a technology.

Premine is a good idea. I will add it as a blockchain statistic, as it fits in well with total supply, available supply, asset, etc..

I have multiple price stats because I use them elsewhere. Here, among other places:

Note: The graphs are not fully populated, as I have been resetting the database a lot while developing other features.

Thanks for your help. Bitcoin address?

Sent from Bittrex.

Txid: 34ecc77a94453c0097d27c6ae044da2b751cba4dc128dbfdc6bbce71041a6519

Thanks! Your help is much appreciated!!



Mempool is kind of covered under the "Number Of Unconfirmed Transactions" statistic.

I suppose that I can add Mempool size as well though. The problem with those types of statistics is that they are only really applicable to Bitcoin at the moment. However, I am trying to be proactive and add them because they will probably be applicable to other cryptocurrencies in the future. I think only Bitcoin has APIs available for such statistics.

ICOs is a good suggestion. An ICO countdown/ICO lists subcategory could fit in under the "General Cryptocurrency Market Data" category.

I will add a mempool size statistic and ICO related subcategory. Please provide a Bitcoin address.

Yes, exchanges are a tricky category because there are different types of exchanges:

Ones like Shapeshift, Changelly, etc. are what I was calling "Quick Exchanges"
Ones like Poloniex, Bittrex, etc. are what I was calling "Exchanges"
Ones like Coinbase, Circle, etc. are what I was calling "FIAT Exchanges"
Ones like Localbitcoins, Litecoinlocal, etc. are what I was calling "Peer to Peer FIAT Exchanges"

They are obviously separate subcategories, but it is hard to find a good name for them.

Users will be able to like and follow each submission, along with filter links, reviews, ratings and discussions by category (Cryptocurrency Exchanges), subcategory (Quick Exchanges/Exchanges/FIAT Exchanges/Peer to Peer FIAT Exchanges), and also by the cryptocurrencies supported by each service.

All general categories and subcategories are filterable by category, subcategory, and applicable cryptocurrencies.


Cryptocurrency-specific categories are obviously filterable by which cryptocurrency they pertain to.



So... I have already implemented what you are suggesting. I will send you $5 anyways. Thanks for getting us started and for your time. Any further suggestions are more than welcome!

My opinion is not based off of purely historical data, but also logical reasoning. In my mind, you have not proven why bitUSD will not work. Half of the things you posted stemmed off of misunderstanding how bitUSD works, and the other half is conjecture based off of incomplete information. bitUSD has been thoroughly analyzed and tweaked over the course of several years by the Bitshares community. There are many hundred page long threads of discussion analyzing the merits of such. You just started trying to udnerstand it a week ago...

I don't have a lot of time to spend on the forums nowadays. I am working two jobs and developing a web site in my spare time... effectively I am working three jobs. I have nothing to gain by trying to convince you otherwise, so I prefer just to let the free market prove you wrong over time. (As it has the past few years, but apparently that isn't a big enough sample size for you...)

I have a list of categories and subcategories of things having to do with cryptocurrencies.

Some are for specific cryptocurrencies (IE. Bitcoin Web Site, Bitcoin Whitepaper, etc.)

Some are for all cryptocurrencies in general (IE. Exchanges, Forums, Stores, etc.)

I would like to organize these lists as best as possible.

Cryptocurrency-Specific Statistics and Links:
Cryptocurrency-Specific Main Links
Website
Original Announcement
Wiki
Github
Whitepaper

Cryptocurrency-Specific Social Media Links
Reddit
Twitter
Facebook
Slack
Forums
Telegram
Association

Cryptocurrency-Specific Donation Addresses
Developer's Donation Address
Association's Donation Address

Cryptocurrency-Specific Social Statistics
Facebook Likes
Twitter Followers
Reddit Subscribers
Reddit (Average Users Online)
Reddit (Posts Per Hour)
Reddit (Comments Per Hour)

Cryptocurrency-Specific Market Statistics/Data:
Current Price (USD)
Current Price (BTC)
24 Hour Volume (USD)
Market Cap (USD)
Percent Change (1 Hour)
Percent Change (24 Hours)
Percent Change (7 Days)

Cryptocurrency-Specific Blockchain Statistics
Available Supply
Total Supply
Premined
Mineable
Asset
Genesis Date
Maximum Block Size

Cryptocurrency-Specific Transaction Statistics
Average Transactions Per Day
Average Transaction Cost
Transaction Fees Accumulated
Average Amount Transacted Per Day
Average Confirmation Time
Confirmations Needed To Prevent Double Spends
Number Of Unconfirmed Transactions
Mempool Size
Transactions Possible Per Second

Cryptocurrency-Specific Mining Statistics
Block Reward
Hash Rate
Difficulty
Hashrate Distribution
Mining Profitability
Next Block Reward Reduction

Cryptocurrency-Specific Development Statistics
Github Stars
Github Watchers
Github Forks
Github Issues
Github Closed Issues
Github Merged Pull Requests
Github Contributors
Github Commits (Last 4 Weeks)

Cryptocurrency-Specific Search Statistics
Bing Search Result Count
Alexa Website Rank

General Links (not coin-specific):
General Cryptocurrency Links
Social Media Tools
Communities
Chats
Reviews

General Cryptocurrency Software
Paper Wallet Generators
Operating Systems
Trading Bots

General Cryptocurrency Exchanges
FIAT Exchanges
Peer To Peer FIAT Exchangers
Exchange Rate Calculators
Quick Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Cryptocurrency Exchanges

General Cryptocurrency Market Data
Charts
Market Analysis
Cryptocurrency Rankings
Market Data Visualizations
ICOs

General Cryptocurrency Local
Meetups / Events
Find Local Stores
ATM Locators

General Cryptocurrency Gambling        
Gambling Websites
Dice Games
Casinos
Poker
Sports Betting
Prediction Markets

General Cryptocurrency Digital Goods and Services
VPNs
Web Hosting
Domain Names
VoIP
Dating
Job Boards
Crowd Funding
Software
Games
Flights
Hotels

Cryptocurrency Services
Mixers
Faucets
Payment Processors
Block Explorers
Loans and Lending

General Cryptocurrency Physical Goods and Services
Precious Metals
Electronics
Clothing / Fashion
Food
Gift Cards
Hardware Paper Wallet Generators

General Cryptocurrency Shopping
Shopping
General Stores
Shop Online
Marketplaces (Buy & Sell)

General Cryptocurrency Charities
Charities

General Cryptocurrency Mining
Mining Equipment
Mining Calculators
Mining Stats
Cloud Mining
Mining Software

General Cryptocurrency Wallets
Web Wallets
Wallets
Mobile Wallets
Hardware Wallets
Collectable Wallets
SPV Wallets
Other Wallets

General Cryptocurrency Entertainment & News
Comedy
Blockchain Visualizations
Podcasts & Shows
Free Games
News Outlets

General Cryptocurrency Informational Resources
General Guides
Mining Guides
Money Making Guides
Other Informational Resources

Decentralized Technologies:
Cryptocurrency Distribution Methods
Consensus Algorithms
Increasing Transaction Capacity
Increasing Transaction Speeds
Reducing Blockchain Bloat
Reducing Transaction Fees
Smart Contracts
Encrypted Messaging
Market Pegged Assets
Asset Issuance
Account Permissions
File Storage
File Sharing
Block Explorers
Economics
Markets
Exchanges
Interoperability
Privacy
Governance
Employment
Gambling
Exchanges
Blockchain Use Cases

If you give me your feedback AND I edit the list based of off your feedback

Then I will send you $5 in BTC. The maximum I will give out is $100 total to 20 different users ($5 each).

If you have a really good and thoughtful post, mainly referring to how to better organize these lists, then I may give you more than $5.

Anything over $5 to any certain user will not count towards the $100 limit.

Who receives credit for what is 100% up to my own discretion, and I reserve the right to end this prematurely. All submissions submitted before the end will at least be considered for payment.

I am mainly looking for how to better organize the list, categories that might could be combined, and categories that I might should add.

This is applicable to a web site I am developing.

This is closed- I am no longer paying for submissions (other than to those that have already made suggestions but have yet to provide a Bitcoin address, or for those that want to continue submitting suggestions whose already submitted suggestions were not paid.) Thanks to those that participated!

My apologies,

I haven't been able to force myself to post much in non-alt coin subforums, so I'm going to leave the campaign. Thanks for the couple payments, and good luck to both Bitmixer and Lauda!

I have been a part of a few signature campaigns, and I am impressed with your signature campaign management Lauda. Keep up the good work!

Thanks again!!!

You can say what you want, but historical price graphs show both being quite stable compared to other cryptocurrencies and crypto assets... I prefer to analyze them based on historical data rather than conjecture.

The usage of both is slowly growing, the spread is slowly getting smaller, and liquidity is slowly rising. It takes a while for such a design to mature, but it has come a long ways since its conception.

You can send/receive any Omni asset to a bitcoin address, and send/receive Bitcoin to the same address too.

Omni is built on top of Bitcoin.

Effectively, yes... I have recently come to that realization.

Bitcoin's value does not come from its utility. It sucks at sending money (see the scaling debacle), and it sucks at everything else because it can't do pretty much anything the newer ALT coins can do. It is a store of value, and lives off of its network effect.

The network effect is why it will be the lone survivor. Bitcoin's network effect will reign supreme, and the network effect drops off exponentially as you go down the list of ALT coins. Litecoin's network effect has enabled it to survive among the top coins... for now, but it has not empowered it to stay ahead of the pack. Ethereum's network effect will be much the same.

Mostly all other ALT coins garner value from their perceived utility, such as Ethereum from its smart contracts. Effectively every new ALT coin worth its salt will incorporate smart contracts, and it will be a basic feature in the near future. Since all ALT coins are judged by their utility, they are doomed because new ALT coins will improve upon previous iterations.

For instance... Ethereum will not scale. We will start to see this soon as long as more and more projects keep building on top of it. It will reach a bottleneck, and consensus as to how to scale will be near to impossible to reach. Miners have different interests than smart contract developers have different interests than whales have different interest than core developers. Evidendenced by the Bitcoin scaling debacle. Thus, scaling needs to be built in from the start, and this dooms all existing ALT coin smart contract platforms from the get go. The next wave of smart contract blockchains will be scalable.

Yet still the new scalable smart contract platforms will have some arbitrary issue, which will be improved upon in later cryptocurrencies. It is a never ending vicious cycle which dooms ALT coins from their inception.

To provide another example... Bitshares and Waves DEXs will be replaced by DEXs that trade real assets via atomic swaps. Not IOUs or derivatives like most DEXs currently trade. The IOU/derivative DEXs will eventually become obsolete.

Same with anonymity. For now, Monero/zCash are the best options, but eventually a better option will be conceived. And then the previous next best things will be eventually retired. For instance, zCash may be made to have a no trust required initial setup, or Monero tech could be improved upon with more scalability (less blockchain bloat) and/or more anonymity.

Let's travel back in time to late 2013, when the the cryptocurrency market's value was rising exponentially. Bitcoin and all of the most popular ALT coins of the day were reaching new all time highs. The popular ALT coins back then were Litecoin, Peercoin, Namecoin, Primecoin, Feathercoin and Digitalcoin (among others). All of them were surely going to the moon.

It was a simpler time back then in ALT coin land. There were no smart contracts. No DEXs. No purely PoS coins. Cryptocurrencies had no features at all really, as they were simply a way to send money from point A to point B. Life was good and simple.

There was a huge influx of new inexperienced cryptocurrency investors that this bubble brought, which sparked a proliferation of IPOs. Maybe this acronym looks familiar to you. It should, as effectively nowadays IPOs are called ICOs. You see, regulatory issues were not a problem 4 years ago. Cryptocurrencies were not to be governed by traditional laws or over regulating governments. (oh, the naivety of simpler times indeed  )

The first IPO (from memory) was Mastercoin. It raised about 5000 Bitcoins, which was a mind boggling amount at the time... around $500,000 USD. There was a lot of excitement for the future, and Mastercoin was the next big thing. It had the ability to issue user issued assets and implemented a long theorized concept coined "colored coins". Nowadays, pretty much every new cryptocurrency has this feature. But it was a big deal back then.

Then more IPOs started to pop up, and they were (at least initially) quite a success. NXT, Bitshares, Supernet, etc... they were all the real deal and made the original investors quite rich at their initial (first months or so) valuations.

Where there is money to be made, people will step up to make it. A proliferation of IPOs occurred for the next couple years. With each one promising to be the latest and greatest, and being a sure bet. You can find most of these IPOs on page 9,999,999,999 of coin market cap.

I personally was never much into IPOs, as they were too risky for my blood, but the victims of the IPO craze still linger around these parts every once and awhile. When you see a Legendary or maybe a Hero status forum member bitterly utter "all ICOs are scams" (or something along those lines,) you can be sure they are referring to the greater history of many IPO scams that have come and gone.

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Well, history is repeating itself. On one hand we have a great and perceivably successful IPO that made all of its original investors super rich such as Ethereum. (Ethereum is the new Mastercoin in this analogy of a history lesson). You see, all cryptocurrencies will be programmable in the future. Smart contracts are akin to Mastercoin's user issued assets. A supposedly "killer feature" that will be quite basic in a few years time.

Then there was a wave of ICOs that did the same to a lesser degree. Stratis, Golem, Waves, Lisk, Augur, etc... (they are all akin to Nxt, Bitshares, Supernet, Etc...) They too will eventually lose their appeal as the latest and greatest cryptocurrencies are incepted in years to come, but they will probably survive... barely (at least until the next bubble).

Next comes the wave of ICOs of which 99% ended very badly. As the flames eventually die down, a new generation of people to reiterate the words "ICOs/IPOs are scams" will be born from the ashes. Yes, Ethereum is a bubble, and yes... the ICO you are investing in will very likely be practically worthless in 5 years time. Don't say I didn't tell you so.

Not really, only the knee jerk reaction below:


I apologize, but I am 39,000+ lines of code into my new project, and anything else is pretty much just a distraction. I have hardly been posting here.

As always, I am open to cooperation. If you want to post an overview/analysis of any DEX, then it would make it easier for me to add it to the OP.

Cheers.

I think the safer decentralized USD-pegged assets at the moment are bitUSD and the STEEM dollar... because they are at collateralized and autonomous.

However, Tether does trade at a smaller spread. So, if you are day trading (or day+ trading) Tether is probably the best option. If you are a longterm bear though, bitUSD/SDdollar is probably a better option. It is yet to be seen if Tether can hold up in the bearish of bear markets.

So far things are going about how I expected. We already reached the new all time highs, and it only took about a week. There was a bit more resistance at $2900 than I had expected, but it looks like we have already recovered from the bearishness. Barring some horrible news, then I think we are upwards and onwards to $3k+ in the next week. The market will recover faster and faster with each bear trap that passes.

I think the only thing holding us back now is that it is towards the end of the week and the infamous "weekend dip" is at play. I don't think we will see much blood this weekend though as the overall sentiment is still bullish, and I expect that we will be mostly sideways until Monday.

I think that some time next week we will see the Bitcoin value go over $3k. I expect the value will get somewhere in between $3k and $3.5k over the next few weeks, then I am expecting a decent sized correction. The reason I don't think we will go much higher than $3.5k in the near term is in my last post in this thread, quoted above.

To my knowledge... the Omni layer, which is what Tethers are issued on, does not have this feature.

If you are the impatient type, then I suggest you join the Telegram channel: https://t.me/Peerplays

The Peerplays blockchain was released last night, and it is producing blocks and running fine.

Only the command line version has been released. They said the GUI should be released soon (probably today), and that they simply had a small bug to fix in it.

@redwbl - For someone that likes to come across as "investing in the ICO", you sure do like to spread a lot of FUD about Peerplays. How does spreading FUD seem like a good idea if you did indeed invest in the ICO? Take a step back and think about how FUD can harm your investment. I think you are most likely a shill, and this post is a waste of my time, but...

On the off chance that you truly are a newbie, which I am doubting, delays in the blockchain space are the norm. You should be happy the Peerplay delay is only a week or so, because some projects delay month to years to eternity. Peerplays has a good team behind it. Making announcements and press releases may not be one of their strengths, but they are good where it matters most (development). The community can carry the torch as far as advertising and PR. It is more important that they focus on development, seeing as though there are a few competing projects.

How to convert a Litecoin mini private key to other formats?

This question has come up a few times via PM, so I thought I would share the answer here. Some Litecoin wallets don't support the mini key format (which is what the coin inserts are printed in.)

The easiest way to do it is to use: https://liteaddress.org/

If you are paranoid, then you can save the web site to your computer and use it offline, but all conversions happen client-side anyways and your private key is never sent to the server.

Click on "Wallet Details" and enter the mini key exactly as it is on the coin insert.

It will give you the private key translated into multiple formats, including WIF format and others.

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Do you have any holograms leftover for non-special edition or DIY coins?

No, I destroyed all remaining holograms several months ago. I myself do not even have any extra holograms for my personal collection. All I have left now are coins that have already been assembled. I have sold all the coins that I want to at this point, and I am planning on keeping the ones I have left for a long time.

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Let me know if you have any trouble converting keys or redeeming coins. So far... (knock on wood), I have been able to solve all issues for anyone that has contacted me privately about having issues redeeming CryptoVest coins.

The only known issue (which is pretty much a non-issue, just an inconvenience) thus far has to do with the font I used to print the private key inserts. It is sometimes challenging to distinguish which character the private key is due to similarities in the font and the small font size. If you are having trouble redeeming a private key and you are sure you are doing it correctly, then try looking for characters that may look alike, such as: 8 and B, k and K, or 1 and I.

In one instance, someone was having trouble redeeming a CryptoVest coin, and after giving the usual directions of how to redeem them and it still not working, I then asked them to send me a picture of the coin insert. After a lot of trial and error switching out lowercase characters for uppercase etc, I finally figured out that the lower case k looked like an uppercase K. After switching it out I was able to redeem the value, which I forwarded on to the coin's owner (+ a Litecoin for bringing it to my attention).

Lowest price was $5 I think per PPT. The later tiers were upwards of $5.25 then 5.50 (from memory)

Could you explain how steganographic/cryptographic could be made to be immune from algorithms?

One immune puzzle will not work, as it would be easy to program the solution to that single puzzle into a bot's logic.

via ReCaptcha? It is not immune to computer algorithms either... Google shows numerous instances of research showing it being breakable.
via captchas? Plenty of literature showing they are even less immune than reCaptcha...