Heh, you have definitely confused yourself. But if we are talking about Steem Dollars / SBD, then yes, it has been one of those under the radar and flying at the moment BUT not if you were an old holder. SBD has been declining in value for a very long time with people collecting and holding. Expect to see profit taking happening very soon as holders release their SBDs with relief.

One reason: all the hype moved over to EOS. Same creator, right?

I would say no, but this of course depends on your definition of overloaded. Bitcoin network is overloaded with 220 thousand transactions waiting to be confirmed, but if I were willing to pay the right fees, I could still always get my transaction confirmed within an hour. And so the same with ETH.

These are all temporary demand spikes, ETH because of their cryptokitties game, BTC because of huge demand from BTC buyers (or spam, if you follow the theory from those trying to take Bitcoin down and promote other alts like Bitcoin Cash).

Hello! Wondering if you might have a hand but here is my tx ID: 08ee5caed34a0905db0d6075a9f40c6442af0943cd97a8b9f444992408876c9b

As you can see the fee was not so low, but of course, it is considered nothing with the current network congestion. There's a tip involved I am told, but no guarantees, unless you happen to PM me and I can catch it in time. Thanks in advance, great work you are doing for the community.

Any chance we know how you do this service for free? Just curious of course, not necessary at all.

Fraud and scammers are a very general concern in any industry, any tech, especially over the Internet. Relevant to crypto yes, but not unique to crypto. Governments taking over also is relevant but not a real concern, to me. It is impossible for governments to take over Crypto, even if they tried very hard.

So of all the concerns listed, scalability and governance are always going to be concerns, but rightfully and naturally so. If you do not have scaling problems, then your coin is not successful. Nice problem to have is it no?

This is why the transaction speed and low cost fees are usually a subjective matter when used to compare against Bitcoin. If an alt ever gets to the type of usage and demand of Bitcoin and ETH, you will see that all alts will have their own scaling issues. At least  Bitcoin and Ethereum are prepared and are constantly working to scale and grow. Can other alts have the same ability in coding and development? Look at Bitcoin Gold and then you have your answer. It is one thing to claim, another thing to do.

First of all, do not join willy-nilly any airdrop you come across. Not so much because they are or will be worthless, but because you will waste a lot of precious time, some how you are even better off going for faucets if you want to hunt around for every airdrop. Besides opening yourself up to scams, you also give yourself a bad reputation if you are posting every campaign you join in twitter or FB or your blogs. That is just spam and people will realise that after a while.

Some airdrops are good with potential, these are easy to spot. They look exactly like ICOs except they have no ICOs. Just good devs, good ideas, good roadmaps, websites, whitepapers.

Also, now I just hold my Bitcoin and ETH in my own private wallets. Free airdrops when forks or giveaways occur.

On paper, ETH seems to provide the most value unless you think it is overpriced (like me haha). If you saw Charlie Lee's announcement on Twitter, then you can see that Litecoin is preparing to be doing some serious marketing. Can you imagine what is has achieved without any of that marketing? And once this kicks off, I can just see what will happen for Litecoin in 2018, and perhaps even more the following years once the impact is felt from the marketing.

So for me, Litecoin is the slight winner here. It is not called silver to Bitcoin's gold for no reason!

After months of staying away from ICOs, thanks to big losses on all of the ones I chose, I will decide only on one big ICO in 2018. At the same times, I will also keep a watch on the ICOs I joined, perhaps they will "become big" in 2018 or beyond, so I consider those losses but never know I might be surprised so let that be a "bonus" if it happens.

That ideal ICO will just be a simple one:
1. Existing business that wants to expand.
2. Good, simple whitepaper, no need too complicated, just clear reasonable targets.
3. Good budget. Not stupid soft and hard cap with no backing.
4. No promotions across all major platforms. I think this stung me before. I just want to see good communication and realism.

Okay wow I did not know there were these many forks going on. Now I really wonder which website is going to give out all those free coins? I can foresee everyone now withdrawing and buying Bitcoin all ready to take advantage of these free money.

But my guess is that only one or two will be good value. The rest will have worst developers and therefore worse problems than Bitcoin Gold. And maybe even one or two will be attempts to steal people's wallets. Time will tell us.

Yes, but you are trying to compare a dragon to a worm here. Bitcoin when it surfaced promised nothing about profits, but instead showed the world a truly big idea in nine pages of pure genius, simple to understand even by the layperson, and yet ten years later almost, people still argue over and dream over.

Your project starts off immediately with profits and free gifts, what is so different about that? What makes it among the best ICOs?

Nobody gave a chance to Bitcoin? Wrong. Look at this forum from when it was born. Hundreds and thousands of people believed in it. Today, millions.

Seems most people here think like I do, that dollar value doesn't have an impact on Bitcoin value. I have asked myself this a few times, and it seems to be true, in a sense, because Bitcoin value against other pairs of currency are actually just the same if you equate it against USD. I do wonder if USD becomes extremely volatile or loses a great amount of value, how would or who would make the decision to change the pair it is valued against?

For example, in Zimbabwe, it is against dollar value because the local currency deactivated. Who actually determines that?

OP is just one of the many, many shills and alt accounts made on this forum to spam our screens with pointless predictions. ETH is not a scam, not when compared to a lot of other alts. I never got bought into it, but I have learned to respect it for its growth.

P.S. $400 was achieves many months ago when Bitcoin was still making new ATHs and everyone was talking about the flippening, so basically ETH is just only recovering back its old highs and made new ones now. Again, thanks a lot to Bitcoin's impressive performance.

Normally, I would not have looked back at one of my older coins, especially not when I have given up and sold them all, but I recently checked back on Poswallet (POSW) and found out that they seem to have coughed themselves back into life with a new set of developers and Masternode implementation. Truly one of the low flying coins always out of radar. Price bottoming out for months this year, so somewhat represents good value if they can truly get themselves back on track. I may reconsider a second chance with them.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but MonaCoin was NOT the first Segwit coin, I mean come on, how can it take credit for that with a ton of other developers working their asses off to test and stabilize the technology?

Mona will NOT reach $100 much more to say $1000, and even if it does, it will be when all other alts with proper vision and communities have reached far more beyond that.

Good that people see the whale power behind it and sees Mona for what it is. Oh and we did not hear it here first.

That is the way it is with crypto. Some small coins explode as you say, but be aware this is usually just price manipulation by the so called big whales who have plenty of Bitcoin and alts to play with the market. Do not get caught up or you will be burned by the steep price when it all crashes down as the big whales decide to cash out.

You bought Bitcoin in June? Then you are already very big in profit. You also have BCH and BTG, so if you sold those now even you made an extra 30% BTC. That is way better than MONA.

Haha, yes. By the way, if I am not mistaken, Bittrex listing costs minimum $55,000 for only a few months, so if you think about it, developers already pay a lot to keep things listed on these big exchanges. So, any price rice after listing if you think about it is also an attempt to recoup losses, with initial pumps getting more people to buy.

Exchange listings just mean more liquidity, more trading volume, but it does nothing else for the coin except maybe reputation. But these days do you really need to be associated with all these centralized exchanges with bad reputations?

Yes there is. As long as the trade market is dominated by a few centralized exchanges, expect the current problems of slow support, website crashes and exit scams to get worse and worse. They all need competition, and especially from decentralized exchanges. Sure, we may have 100 different exchanges to trade at, but that is okay, especially if they are decentralized (that is the whole point). Let users choose the platforms with the best services, quickest and most secure trades and awesome support. Me, I am waiting for Waves to become big!

Seems like there is a game called Cryptokitties that is making the Ethereum network congested. Can you imagine that? A game makes everything slow down. It used to be ICOs,,, so this shows that Eth network also has a lot of scaling problems when it comes to volume of transaction.

Anyway, I always use recommended fee/gas on MyEtherWallet and it never fails to confirm in minutes. Just be patient I guess. Until people stop playing that evil game.

By the way, I did not know you could replace gas fee? Is there a way once you make the transaction?

Very, very interesting idea OP. I have to warn though that the current aviation industry is highly structured and therefore highly centralized. I hope the project has entered into much research and discussion with IATA for example before even launching (I only skimmed the website but did not find this information).

If forced to be transparent, we can see a lot of improvements. As customers we know:
1. Flight times and experiences of crew
2. Maintenance of aircraft records
3. Even delays and passenger capacities

I agree here. You cannot deny that it has a truly fascinating technology, and I got into Byteball a little early (unfortunately too small) thanks to a bit of Bitcoin. But you are wrong, there are other alts using DAG, just not very popular yet. For example, a recent announcement by Monsterbyte (the ones doing the Bitcoinrush casino) announced a new partnership with a DAG coin (can't remember the name) but if they are one to move from Bitcoin to DAG-based alts, others will surely follow. It also has zero fees and claims to be faster and more secure the bigger it gets.