Oh well! Just as I was getting interested in reading the thread (referred here from the Auction thread) I now realize the 30% bonus is now over. Not that I think the project is a bad one (I like it very much) but I can't afford to get into any more alts without the early bird bonus.

Looks like I will consider joining that new forum and earning.

Actually I do like these type of coins. Just around 1 cents now. But I do not want to make the mistake of getting a lot of them and then seeing them lose even half a cent to kill my holdings. Coins like DGB just sleep around for years and you wonder about why things like this recent news has not done anything.

For me? Best entry price just below $0.01 or 290 satoshi. Anyone else agree?

Even if it is unclear at the moment, the final answer will probably be "no" for most countries. It is only up to the point you cash out to fiat that you will be exposed to tax. Or, even if your bitcoins are taxed, states will soon draw up anti double taxation laws to make it fair and prevent evasion. Australia, for example, is the latest to pass this law. So you're taxed once, and that is it.

NVO.io looks to have queitly disappeared from the forum sphere, but their development is very active. The coin is NVST and is trading at 40% below ICO price. Very good to buy right now since their decentralized exchange should be launching before end of the year.

I believe from my readings that their funds are all held by escrowers from this forum, too. So basically, they have to deliver or they don't get more funds!

That kind of thing rarely has a lasting effect on price. Only need to look at Bitcoin and ETH and their numerous "lawsuits". However, this particular case does look a bit different as Ripple is a very different monster. If bad news comes out of this lawsuit, any dip = good buy opportunity.

I am still out on XRP, too. I might take some if it suddenly crashes. But am all out of crypto for the next few weeks.

If you are curious to see what it looks like, you can go to the Bitcoin>Services section and check out some threads there. People are offering signature design services. Some charge a fee and there is at least one who will do a demo or trial for free. I guess if you like it you can order for more. But yes, sometimes common here is also contests, but be prepared to offer a reasonable set of prizes or you attract low quality designs.

The most natural way is to just work on your altcoin through project development. Some exchanges actually decide to add alts on their own when they see that a lot of users demand it or that the alt is very good. This takes years and probably a lot of networking.

The other way is to contact exchanges. They will ask for a fee most of the time, but if popular enough they might add it on their own. Some sites used to have free voting system but most now require paid listings. Tradesatoshi and Novaexchange are two you can look at. Yobit is even easier, but directly paid.

There are no exchanges that I know of doing this either. But there are definitely more and more websites and services targeted at marketing ICOs. I have seen in project development a few ideas of ICOs that want to help people to make decisions about ICOs. Sort of like a decentralized way of "community regulation" to collect and compile ICOs. Maybe that is the way to start it for now.

No it wasn't delayed. It is on schedule, there was never a hard date for it but october is still the timeline. First phase Byzantium in progress.

Has it been decided that they will all follow Vitalik's map for hardforking? I think I read that there were other people working on different hardfork versions. If I recall, it was even a developer that Vitalik hired a few years back to help but some time last year he disagreed about the current hardfork method. What will the time be to introduce that alternative?

Whistle-blower reporting is a very good step. But whistle-blowing usually technically is from within the organisation, so it means from the ICO company or project right? You should not work on a system itself, but provide education and means for them to speak out. But this is not going to happen much I can tell you now. Most rigged ICOs are closely knit

A better system is to get people to help build basic due diligence kit.

Whoa. After all the bashing of Bitcoin exchanges, I think Bittrex just hit the big one here. I wonder how they are going to handle all that extra customers. Their own exchange support service has been slowing down almost to levels of Poloniex. Good news all around of course. Maybe they will also support Tether on messaging. Has anyone tried this service out yet?

Personally, I have to agree with most of the posters here who say you should not waste your time on faucets. You stand to gain a lot more cheap tokens and alts from doing work on this forum and earning from bounties. However, I will add that being listed on a number of faucets does add to the alt's credibility and distribution.

I only entered crypto very late this year but last year I remember collecting Dogecoins for fun. They used to give 10 to 100 of them easily and I could collect a few thousand a day. If I had changed them when they were 120 satoshi a few months back, I would have had almost 0.1 BTC now. So I get your strategy.

My choice of faucets with a lot of coins: cryptoguru.

Sounds like quite the calm and collected decision from a beginner, well done Tell you what, if you are like me with only precious few Bitcoins and ETH to trade or invest in ICOs, just take your time to do research and make decisions to get in on relatively cheap coins with a view to hold them at least until 2018.

I have found myself extremely relaxed after stopping my bad habit of checking trades and prices. Also, I stopped looking at ICOs. If I find one I like good, but I no longer hunt.

Thanks for the thread. I was one of those who completely missed out the January buys before everything went to the sky and never really came back down. I don't have a large enough budget to go full out trading, so will continue to miss out. I am now considering being a small time miner. I could possibly collect enough funds for a GPU set up and will set out by December hopefully to start properly mining.

I guess I will probably end up with several months of high bills. But if I mine coins to hold, I should be okay. Looking forward to your Q1 2018 when I have my GPUs ready (I hope).

Does this mean that there are unlimited tokens in the system? Or rather, limited by your actual Gold holdings? If your gold is insured, what happens to tokens when the unthinkable happens? For example, if your gold is lost or stolen, insurance will cover it but only return fiat to you, not gold. If you wanted to buy back gold to replenish your losses, then you of course lose money. What's the plan for when/if there is no gold?

Also, do you burn tokens when they are redeemed?

I think it is 7pm now in China (mainland). Was really hoping to see some kind of news update but I guess I should have just checked now instead of every hour since 10am haha. Maybe no news is good news, is what OP was referring to? Anyway, trend looks to be going stable for now. Or China is waiting for Tuesday to troll people today.

Thank you for this thread. I want to say that I have zero mining experience, and very little capital so I want to start small. I think I can understand your guide on how to start,,, but would you be able to show me where I can also find a beginner's setup guide? I have never set up even a computer (I am more noob than you will imagine) so I just want to see if I can find a list of hardware (minimum specs) along with guide on how to install them myself. I can go and buy a ready computer but I know I can save much more if I do on my own.

Any assistance is appreciated!

People have been bullish about WAVES for a while now, even though it has been stuttering since its amazing run from ICO price. I bought a few myself during this recent dip and I have a great feeling about it. I just wish I had a larger capital of course. In this case, I personally am willing to wait until 2018 to see any growth, to give myself the chance to build up my WAVES stockpile.

This is a great demonstration of how mainstream adoption does not really equate mainstream understanding. Even I had to do double takes to understand what the difference was. Perhaps it should be made clearer,,, then again, perhaps people should learn to read better before just signing up to every bounty and airdrop they can get their hands on.

I have seen a number of so-called decentralized casinos now, but did not choose to join any ICOs properly due to my lack of understanding about how they all really work. I know from what I have seen is that they all seem to make a lot of money,,, except one or two like Moneypot which was famous but then lost a lot of money when players hit big.

The chance to lose by being the house is very small. But what if this also ends up like Moneypot?