During the 2018 superbowl, the biggest televised event of the year in the USA (aside from maybe the state of the union) there was a TD ameritrade commercial that quoted at the end "now listing bitcoin futures" it was some sort of 1 sentence like that....but it included bitcoin.

I think bitcoin has hit a point of mass awareness in the USA, 4 years ago if you asked someone on the street most people would not of heard of it.....ask now in 2018 i think most people will say they have heard about it in some kind of way through news or past nefarious events....but those people still wont be using it.

Ya know what you mean, its like 100-500sats worth of every alt everytime they do a payout for staking. It's probably not even worth the time to go through each one at current prices, I am thinking just wait until all my staking periods are over with then i may go through and sell each off....hopefully by that time they are each worth something more substantial.

Yup, I think that's kind of a big deal, currently they have listed BTC, BCH, ETH, ETC and LTC.

Maybe someone will want to jump in and correct me hear but it seems to me like Circle is trying to position itself to be a direct competitor to coinbase, and out of all those coins ETC is the only one not listed on coinbase. So if I was coinbase I would want to make sure I had the same options available as my competitors.

That's one reason why I think coinbase may list ETC next.

Another reason could be that there are people who never withdrew their ETC before the december 2016 deadline. Anyone have experience with this? I feel like they have an obligation to honor those ETC to ETH holders, how long can they just hold those coins hostage ya know? This could be another reason why they would list it I think.

They kept saying "no we aren't listing BCH"...then out of the blue they just listed it...same could happen with ETC. We will see

Yup good point, we will have to see how it pans out, its been a shared frustration between all the masternode operators yet total masternode count seems to be increasing, but at this point it almost makes more sense to stake if you have multiple masternodes.

I don't think anyone needs to be a delegate to receive staking rewards, one of the ploys of ETC is a store of value so it goes along with this...your right we will have to wait and test

yes

since late last year magnet has been exploited by big miners who institute their own parameters and block masternode payments, if your running a masternode right now the rewards are decreased dramatically because of this...the developers/community have been searching for a fix

but it shows that their are miners out there with big wallets who are interested in this coin and are willing to expend alot of resources to get alot of MAG.....alot of people on discord have been praising this but on the contrary it could be bad for the market in the future..

overall Mag is still a good masternode coin with committed development and long term holders, the price action really represents an overall bear trend in masternode coins in general plus the constant exploit of these miners.

in price relative to bitcoin i think and hope 1300-1500 sats is the floor

cummmonn dude dont say that...i dont want to hear it...

been around since late 2013 and i lived through that 2 year bear market and it sucked, this is what i have been afraid of since december..

I want to believe that a 2 year bear market wont hold because of way more interest and on ramps (exchanges) for buyers...maybe you are right though...

of course one stroke of political/economic instability could change that right?

its probably nothing, just some random crap made up and pulled from his ass, i see sooo many of these post its ridiculous, post that are just a sentence long and make literally zero sense in regards to the topic of convo at hand.

just people running bots to boast their post count to exploit signature campaigns, extremely annoying and another way all these ICO dollars are going to waste

First POS consensus mechanism even in cold storage....thats reason enough to have high hopes, just because people selling their coins doesnt mean the project won't be successful...

laugh all you want but i really think ETC has a real shot to get listed on coinbase

In my opinion after watching the videos of all of these the only one that seems interesting and unique is sentinel, the others seem just like so many other ICOs out there, remember most ICOs from 2017 have already failed, most will continue to fail...but icon the platform itself will live on undoubtedly

How NEO somehow gets lumped in the same category as Ethereum is beyond me....its literally no better than waves...every crypto newbie in 2017 is bagholding NEO.

So you sort CMC by 24 hour % price increase then spam whatever forum that has the biggest increase and call it a pump and dump by assholes huh?  

someone probably bought the book all the way up by mistake

any chance marking will still be available since circle bought polo?

old unique project, fair launch no premine, had its day before, probably will again


PS: crypto bridge is a really good DEX that is reliable and is built off of gateways from bitshares network, yall should look into that, i dont know anything about trade by trade

This is interesting, I may get slammed for this but I really think that the next most likely coin to be added to coinbase is ETC, to alot of people it wouldnt make sense but I think from a coinbase perspective it makes perfect sense.....they literally had it enabled back in 2016..

Considering how other projects have 2-5x the market cap of Waves but dont even have their own chain yet should say something....

I think that what drives these markets is not tech and updates, more hype than anything

I could see a scenario where projects like EOS, Tron, ADA and ICON loose portions of market cap overtime after they launch their main nets and projects like Waves mature in market cap.
Remember that an ath of 250k sats now would put waves at around 20$, only 4x in USD what it is now, so the prices of these altcoins in USD is heavily dependent on bitcoin.

Well considering that John Oliver talked about EOS on his segment on comedy central and basically made it look bad it may not be the best time to invest...

Yes the developer of EOS has a lot of experience but also know that there are several other projects that are looking to also be the "next ethereum"

may be best to spread that 5k among several alts...good luck

If anyone missed the crypto currency segment by John Oliver I highly recommend watching it, I think overall he paints a somewhat accurate picture of crypto currency while getting some laughs as well.

An interesting side note is that their people contacted CEO Paul Snow of factom to get more information on blockchain.

Find the segment and the link to the tweet by @factom
https://www.reddit.com/r/factom/comments/83yvyf/paul_snow_contributed_to_john_olivers/


I find it incredibly ironic that in the segment John talks about how EOS has raised 1.5 billion and literally have no product yet.....meanwhile they have to contact factom to get information about the industry while factom's market cap sits at 1/5th that of EOS's.......think about that for a minute...

Ya deeponion! I was surprised at the list he came up with when talking about all the other alt coins, wax, insanecoin, deeponion haha

Thats good for all those coins I guess, I just think he was really harsh on EOS for some reason, very true he could have been harsh on others too, but your right time will tell

singularity....tech will move so fast in the next 30 years the world could be night and day to what it is now, bitcoin could still have its place but it could be completely different...

who knows, but i honestly dont think the crazy predictions are that outlandish when you look at the current fiat system

i still think one of the biggest driving factors of crypto currency adoption is global financial instability, people forget about cryphrus in 2013, if that happens on a bigger scale in europe...bitcoin price will rip so hard and so fast it will be insane

We have tested these levels around 100k sats before late last year only to hold and pop back up to above 200k for a while, so I am confident (hopefully) that history will repeat itself, dmd has always done fairly well holding price in btc regardless of market conditions. good masternode coin

Dang John Oliver just shredded you guys in front of millions of viewers....

What's yalls thoughts on this? It really does shed some light on the over exuberance of investing in blockchain..

Not trolling, I just want some thoughts on this because it was the most negative part of his segment aside from bitconnect....so the avg person watching comedy central now probably lumps EOS in the same category as bitconnect....that isn't good.

I will say that I am excited to see what block.one does with EOS and I think that graphene is one of the most interesting consensus mechanism out there....thats what EOS will be built on right?? 

Lastly I always see people claiming cryptos are way over valued in market cap, but these are global markets ya know? whats 1 billion dollars spread around the world, also CMC has a funny way of calc market cap i think.