They don't hold the bitLicence that NY requires (Bittrex does).
More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitLicense

At some point this may catch up with polo as the NY requirements set a standard.

Yes Bittrex is fine. It started a few years ago by some Microsoft employees.

Well have you looked around? Everything is going up. Sia is a quality product and their development team is top notch. This is no pnd shitcoin.

Will it be like the dot.com name buying frenzy?

Well just like folks diversify in stock, I diversify in cybercurrencies; spreading out over 10 different ones.

Yea, I guess GBTC trading can still get out of wack with BTC when BTC is on a roll. It could present some interesting trading.

This one worked well for me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1571738.msg18790453#msg18790453

DCR had a huge run up in the last few months. It is a quality coin that will do well over the long run, but it is hard to pick the future.

GBTC has been on quite a roll now that BTC is of course. Just saw the price is $189. With Japan going full bore into bitcoin and institutional investors taking more notice it may have more legs up.

Thanks for selling me your coins. - Just kidding I got in at a lower price than that.
I think the rally is just getting started though, not too late to jump back in.

It doesn't really matter how much money, it is what you can afford to lose that matters. If you are young or it is play money then it could be worth the risk. But of course these coins are highly volatile so the risks should be known.

Yes it is. While I always figure in circulating and maximum total supply before investing, I hadn't looked at the inflation rate as close as I should. Some inflate really fast which might be a big surprise to some. Sia has put out a few really good articles on virtual currencies. It is good they understand the industry well.

They are working hard on their roadmap, and just updated the wallet. Check out their roadmap here: https://blog.decred.org/2017/01/09/2017-Decred-Roadmap/

One problem with Poloniex, is that residents or New York are not allowed to use it.

This guy is talking about Storj. Remember the advantage that Sia has over storj, is that Sia is decentralized and the system could survive without centralization.

While with storj: Storj is another competitor but if they were to disappear their host provider would stop getting paid, which would ultimately end in the network shutting down as Storj is solely responsible for paying all their hosts, explained Vorick to MLG Capital. According to Vorick, an important part of an incentivized network are the incentives, so if Storj disappeared the network would also disappear quickly. Storj also owns the primary bridge node, which other people rely on. When a user connects to the Storj network, instead of using their own blockchain node their connect to a centralized node that does all the blockchain stuff for them.

Quote from: https://capital.mlgblockchain.com/sia-tech-profile.html

Yes, it is pretty clearly layed out here: https://dcrstats.com/
20.3% via POS and 40.7 via POW

Yes, as of January this year I am 100% in BTC and 9 other alt coins, and have more than quadrupled my investment. No one coin is more than 25% of my portfolio. I left the stock market which is tougher to get such big gains in. This was a gut wrenching decision for me, but I understand most block chain technology better than stocks. One reason I like the alt-coins is you can essentially get in coins at the VC stage. With stocks, by the time the stock IPO's all the easy money is made. VC's make the big big money. Sure, many of these alt-coins won't make it, but it only takes one.

 I truly believe we are upon a blockchain revolution, and I plan on riding it as far as I can. Chaos seems to be rising in the world and that helps the block chain revolution take off. Now that being said, if things start to look a little too bubbly I will scale back some into to Fiat. But I have a pension coming my way when I retire so I can take more risks then most. Good luck everyone. You got to be in it, to win it.

I like ANS and KMD. For a long shot I like VTR.

Nice profile on Sia from MLG Capital: https://capital.mlgblockchain.com/sia-tech-profile.html

Why Sia stands out:

Sia differentiates from competition in 3 big ways, said David Vorick in a statement to MLG Capital. The first is that Sia is the only storage platform that is decentralized, whereas with most of their competitors are almost entirely centralized such as Maidsafe. Vorick describes Maidsafe as a testnet working on Maidsafe servers and if Maidsafe turned off their servers the entire network would go down.

Storj is another competitor but if they were to disappear their host provider would stop getting paid, which would ultimately end in the network shutting down as Storj is solely responsible for paying all their hosts, explained Vorick to MLG Capital. According to Vorick, an important part of an incentivized network are the incentives, so if Storj disappeared the network would also disappear quickly. Storj also owns the primary bridge node, which other people rely on. When a user connects to the Storj network, instead of using their own blockchain node their connect to a centralized node that does all the blockchain stuff for them.

Why might they add KMD?