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[Meuh6879]

Also, transaction are unconfirmed is becoming more and more an issue. fees are higher now. people are getting frustrated.

Imagine a newbie getting his first coin and have to wait 24 hours to get confirmed.

my pay check wait 1 month.

[pfrtlpfmpf]

Also, transaction are unconfirmed is becoming more and more an issue. fees are higher now. people are getting frustrated.

Imagine a newbie getting his first coin and have to wait 24 hours to get confirmed.

my pay check wait 1 month.

Shut up, and take my money ! 

[Torque]

how do I know an ICO to invest in?

None of them. Buy bitcoin and HODL.

Look at what you think are the top 25, either still in ICO or already released and launched. Then pick the top 5.

4 of them will flop and dump to zero. 1 of them will do 10x or 20x.

Of course, it's quite possible you picked the worst of them and they all dump to zero. I say, just go for the free airdrops that you see, and some cheap altcoins, or buy a small amount. Don't day trade (unless that's your thing.)

Now, I've gotten maybe 20 altcoins, and maybe 15 or 16 of them are worthless now. One is I'm waiting for something to happen, another I already made 5x the ICO price but I'm still waiting for something else to happen.

Then, you trade some or most or all of it to bitcoin and HODL.

If you had Ripple or Litecoin, regardless of what you think of the coins themselves, they were profitable to HODL about 2 months ago, and then sell. But there was really no way to predict all that. It's like everyone is saying 3 years ago to invest in ETH, but noooooo... I didn't. And the ones who did probably didn't HODL long enough.

in my opinion none of this still justifies investing in an ICO. if you want to invest then invest in an altcoin that already existed and have been listed on an exchange.
the information that can be gained from just looking at the charts is 1000 times better than going in ICO where you are completely blind to its future.

Yeah, if you were to replace all the instances of the word "coin" or specific altcoin with the word "penny stocks", it would make about as much sense.

I.E.,buying altcoins is like buying worthless penny stocks and sitting on them for years, hoping that one of them will pop. Waste of time and money, and no guarantee anything lucky will even remotely happen.

I guess some people have to ice skate uphill...

[Dabs]

I don't know about penny stocks, but there have been a number of successful ICOs; or rather, profitable. Everyone looks at coinmarketcap, see the top 100 coins. More than a handful of them had ICOs, premined, and all that.

But you are correct, no guarantee. The chances are not remote tho, and a little better than rolling dice. You read up on something, and you can decide if you want to risk it or not.

[Paashaas]

That is a nice gift Paashaas. Always fun to share bitcoins with your loved ones.

As promised i'll show you the foto from my happy niece having here first Bitcoin for here 8th birthday.

She will be a 10 year holder  

[pfrtlpfmpf]

That is a nice gift Paashaas. Always fun to share bitcoins with your loved ones.

As promised i'll show you the foto from my happy niece having here first Bitcoin for here 8th birthday.

She will be a 10 year holder  

Holder, older, what`s the difference ?

[spooderman]

The next 24 hours are critical.

why is that? also bitcoin share is only 50% now, wow, altcoins are slowly taking over

It's an old meme around here. Hadn't seen it for a while.

[deepcolderwallet]

That is a nice gift Paashaas. Always fun to share bitcoins with your loved ones.

As promised i'll show you the foto from my happy niece having here first Bitcoin for here 8th birthday.

She will be a 10 year holder  

You're such an awesome uncle! Not ONLY for presenting her with bitcoins, but I can tell by her beautiful smile! Congrats Paashaas, keep being such an awesome human being!

[JimboToronto]

700 coin bid wall observed at Stamp.

Real or fake?

[Dabs]

She will keep that paper wallet until her 18th birthday, is what I think the plan is. 10 years from now. So BTC will be worth $5000 or $10k, or $20k, or some number between the moon and mars.

[cmacwiz]

It's real, I want to believe.

Let's get ready to reap some XRIP influx

[gentlemand]

That poor lass has had her anonymity blown. According to more than a few posters here she's now on an NSA hit list. I'm willing to contribute to her digital erasure and bunker.

[Syke]

You also cannot by the entire company by their shares. E.g. if I had a GOOG share and I don't sell it, you can jump around as much as you want and you won't get it.

Sure you can, it happens all the time in buyouts and mergers.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/5-facts-about-stock-buyouts-that-may-surprise-you-cm217964

If you don't want to sell, then there isn't much you can do to block a deal

For example, the Dell deal.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131029006453/en/Dell-Completes-Go-Private-Transaction

Dell stockholders will receive ... $13.88 per share in cash.

Whether you (as a minor shareholder) agreed with the buyout or not, your share got sold for cash.

[Chef Ramsay]

This massive rally might be fueled by the impeachment talks about Trump in the US over the fake news/deep state attacks on him. The markets are down quite a bit.

[bitserve]

You also cannot by the entire company by their shares. E.g. if I had a GOOG share and I don't sell it, you can jump around as much as you want and you won't get it.

Sure you can, it happens all the time in buyouts and mergers.

http://www.nasdaq.com/article/5-facts-about-stock-buyouts-that-may-surprise-you-cm217964

If you don't want to sell, then there isn't much you can do to block a deal

For example, the Dell deal.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20131029006453/en/Dell-Completes-Go-Private-Transaction

Dell stockholders will receive ... $13.88 per share in cash.

Whether you (as a minor shareholder) agreed with the buyout or not, your share got sold for cash.

Yep. Hapenned to me when Telefonica/Movistar adquired its filial Terra. Didn't want to sell, yet my shares got converted to a ridiculous small number of Telefonica shares.

[savetherainforest]

This massive rally might be fueled by the impeachment talks about Trump in the US over the fake news/deep state attacks on him. The markets are down quite a bit.

Yep... its happening!

[julian071]

This massive rally might be fueled by the impeachment talks about Trump in the US over the fake news/deep state attacks on him. The markets are down quite a bit.

I think you're overestimating the importance of that. Especially for BTC. I mean really, who gives a rats ass? Why would ANYONE buy more BTC because of some fumbling American president? So some markets are down, they'll be up again in a little while. No reason that would be caused by American politics. If instability or mismanagement in American politics would mean a rally in BTC we'd all be rich already.

[Torque]

Hey everybody, crypto market caps are totally real!!  XRP is now > 50% of Bitcoin's market cap virtually overnight!! It's all real!  The math checks out! Bitcoin is doomed!! /s

 

[Ted E. Bare]

That is a nice gift Paashaas. Always fun to share bitcoins with your loved ones.

As promised i'll show you the foto from my happy niece having here first Bitcoin for here 8th birthday.

She will be a 10 year holder  

Good to have you and your niece on team bitcoin!

[bitserve]

Hey everybody, crypto market caps are totally real!!  XRP is now > 50% of Bitcoin's market cap virtually overnight!! It's all real!  Bitcoin is doomed!! /s

 

Wait until XRP guys eventually start taking profit and then we talk about market caps again