Well I would say that ripple was probably the most bought coin by people who entered the cryptocurrency market in 2017. Since then there have been a number of crypto related news sites that have popped up that were not around from 2013-2016 so it makes sense that these website owners may be ripple holders.

Ripple has one of the most active subreddits also, its no surprise that news is blown out of proportion because there are a ton of bagholders.

Now this doesn't mean XRP is a shitcoin, far from it, even though it generates alot of hype it still is a viable crypto for the future.

wtf is with all you guys putting your avatars on hats? can i buy these hats anywhere?

Do you really think that 1 comment from a newbie on bitcointalk is going to affect price at all? Who cares what some newbie account is spamming in threads, it has zero relevance at all.  

There are several exciting reasons why this coin is going up, did you look around or do any research? Check out their sub-reddit, look in their discord??

Department homeland security proof of phase 4 IOT security in factom chain, equator mortgage deal, off blocks app teaser....like 20+ authority node operators (companies) building real use cases for the factom protocol. I could post links to all of this but why should i have to do research for others?

Been saying if for years factom belongs top 20

Edit: There will be an AMA hosted this week that will include ALL of the authority node operators including Factom Inc, recalling the last AMA before M3 there was some price action associated. Could happen this time as well, this will be a much bigger AMA.

I have found that most people are uninformed about how fiat money really works, it's astonishing how many people still believe that fiat money is backed by gold.

I am from the USA and I have found that there is a strong (albeit delusional) belief in the dollar, especially from the baby boomer generation who has experienced mostly economic prosperity throughout their entire lives. Nothing against them or anything..I am not a millennial so don't hate me!

In my opinion once someone understands how crypto-currencies are digitally scarce it changes their entire outlook on all money and the light bulb goes off in their head.

Still trying to understand it all, but it almost seems like its just a play to try and bring more factoid burns to the network. He makes it sound like the only people who would maybe use these stable coins would be traders/speculators...

Let's look at it like this though, if it brings more users to the protocol than its a good thing for the price of factoids. Even if no one ends up using it, at-least its an added utility of the protocol.

There has been alot of development over the last year, sad to see price not reflecting at all.

These type of post have been coming out for months and months, I think that if the SEC was really serious about it than they would have already approved something instead of just postponing over and over again.

I really dont think crypto needs an ETF yet, there is Bakkt, and numerous custody solutions to where if big institutions wanted in they could get in.

Remember we hit 800billion market cap just off retail speculation alone, we could easily get to a couple trillion with more retail speculator and just a handful of institutions in.

A stable coin backed by 1 USD functions better on a blockchain, ya traders could convert it to directly to USD but what if then they want to move it to another exchange? It would have to go through a bank and then to the other exchange. This is why tether was so popular, it was a away for traders to keep away from the volatility but still have the benefit of the blockchain.

As Dimon said ultimately it will be US dollars moving around on a blockchain....not bitcoin, unfortunately he was somewhat right.

Well API options are definitely a top priority I would say, gotta be able to connect and run the bot on the top exchanges out there...Binance, Bittrex, Kucoin, Coinbase ect...I would say the more api options available the more attractive your bot would be.

Then I would look into what kind of strategies are offered, I have seen ping pong which seems to be a standard strategy offered by all bots but then there are bollinger band strategies ect.

I think that if you guys could find a niche strategy that you show is proven to work if configured correctly it would set your bot apart from others.

I have used several bots in the past...Hassonline, Gunthat Gunbot and Margin but I quit using them really and just ended up signing up with coinigy. I found that botting is a pretty tough commitment and would rather trade less and hold more.

Good luck with your bot

More stable coins are good and I have posted before about how they will un chain the industry from Tether, which was a huge systemic risk last year. All the new stable coins will add more liquidity hopefully during a new bull run.

But with circle and coinbase I think it does kind of bring more credibility but it takes away from the anonymity aspect of crypto, I would rather use a nice DEX than coinbase to be honest. Same with poloniex, owned now by circle you know your trades are being watched.

I agree with this

I will always hold a chunk of my overall total wealth in bitcoin and spend it when I can, unfortunately its difficult to do that because of tax laws and merchant acceptance.

Sure, I can go to purse.io and buy things on amazon but that is still triggering a tax event and going through a third party. I want to be able to spend my bitcoin without a company in the middle like it was designed for and not have the IRS hunting me down for buying a cup of coffee. There really needs to be some tax reform in crypto.

Optimistic targets and wishful thinking for a bull run in the coming months....but I am with you man. I hope things start looking better soon.

Less volatile tech stocks are a good option, personally I am looking at putting some money into some pot stocks, the rest I would probably just put in a traditional 401k.

But honestly most of it will go to a reliable stable coin that is trustworthy, taxes will always be a nightmare, im hoping there is better guidance next bull run.

I would definitely check out Tone Vay's educational stuff!

https://tonevays.com/learntrading

Regardless if you agree with his viewpoints or not, he is an experienced trader and has shown to provide FREE and good analysis of bitcoin. Also his TA is unbiased because he only does TA on stuff he doesn't trade and never talks about stuff he does trade.

He is probably the one bitcoin maximalist i would follow and support because he has good morals.

So you troll everyone and then put your foot in your mouth? 

Satoshis paper was written so long ago you can't go off of to apply to current networks, it wasn't written as like a georgia guidestones type thing to govern the entire future of crypto.....like there wasnt a resolution to the block size debate written in the paper so how can you say that CPU mining is how things should be?

This guy is just trolling, I have seen him around talking the same noise just trying to troll people, sorry but I wouldn't give any credence to anything he says.

hip hop and go away   

The price action to me is really looking like the typical "buy the rumor" sell the news type of action.

Keeps breaking resistance to new highs and then pulling back to that prior resistance becoming new support.

We will have to see when they actually list it but I imagine we could see price spike on the actual listing than pulling back to higher highs than its been trading around the last 6 months.

I think the levels of 2k-3k sats are long gone and may never be seen again though, this coin is really yet to have any parabolic move.

Read up on the Sia community and their experience with asics before you post man. You obviously don't understand how un-fair and centralized asic mining can be.

GPU mining is inherently more fair and distributed, hence why there has been so much of an effort to develop cryptos that are asic resistant. Ever heard of Vertcoin?

Regardless of ones opinion of asics vs gpus vs cpus, in my opinion its all superior to POS. It's no secret why so many top platform coins are DPOS, its a better and more secure consensus mechanism.

Lastly, your post seems to be emotionally charged as the first words are "I am sick and tired", yet you say other people are crying? Sounds a bit hypocritical to me.

Well hang on now....

I wouldn't go around posting that BAT is about to pump to new all time highs, if you remember correctly ETC had a nice pump and has not done well since!


Source: Coindesk https://www.coindesk.com/ethereum-classic-is-down-30-since-its-listing-on-coinbase/


You can see from the chart above it did have a nice spike but has since sold off, I would be careful because it's easy to end up holding the bag on these types of plays.

Remember we are still in a long and grueling bear market, there is just simply no interest in the crypto markets right now.

If I had to guess I would speculate that BAT could hit resistance at 6k-6200 sats, which have been big resistance levels. Thats just a guess, I don't really see BAT or any coin/token added to coinbase hitting all time highs until we see alot more volume enter the space and enter a new bull run.

There is a strong relationship between Brendan Eich and Brian Armstrong, Brian even tweeted in the past way before they even had support for ERC-20 tokens that BAT would be a perfectly suited utility token for coinbase. Just google it as i cant link twitter links at work, but im sure the tweet is still out there.

Look at the price of BAT in the last couple weeks guys, its so obvious that every speculator in crypto is buying it up on the anticipation it will be listed next.

I was right about ETC getting listed, I posted about it before it happened in ETC and Callisto threads, I'm pretty confident in my prediction BAT will be the next coin listed.

Its part of the cycle man, alts will come back because....well...human psychology, its that simple, people will speculate on alts to make money. There will be another altcoin bull run similar to the spring of 2017.

Even if bitcoin goes bullish its going to take the top tier crypto's with it, but I wouldn't expect the top 50 to shoot off too.

ADA will be added but it will take alot of time and engineering since ADA is on it's own chain, I would estimate that between the 5 coins coinbase said it would list (ZRX, BAT, XLM ZEC and ADA)
that ADA would be last among them.

It will probably go like this
1.ZRX
2.BAT
3.Zcash
4/5. XLM or ADA


What are you talking about dude? Have you even kept up on the coinbase news?

They dropped this in July basically saying which coins they would list:
https://blog.coinbase.com/coinbase-is-exploring-cardano-basic-attention-token-stellar-zcash-and-0x-9e44f0eb823f

Notice that EOS and IOTA both are not mentioned on there 

The next coin will 99.9% for sure be BAT

Why?

Because BAT is an ERC-20 token, same as ZRX, it will be incredibly easy for engineers to add it.

I cant help but think this is good for the crypto currency ecosystem and could lead to the implosion of tether.

It was a necessary stepping stone but received so much scrutiny over the years that it will never be trusted (Tether), too many people will put their money into a more trusted/secure stable coin.

I see eventually more stable coins getting listed on lower tier exchanges like Cryptopia/livecoin ect ect and then on other top exchanges like Bittrex and Poloniex, so that they are not tied to the risk of tether being their only USD pegged stable coin...this will FINALLY take the crypto currency ecosystem away from the systemic risk of a tether implosion that was probably inevitable in the first place.