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247saver
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November 21, 2013, 05:52:32 PM |
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No I dont, I actually need to see some growing merchant support before I buy some alternative cryptocurrencies. For me, alternative cryptocurrencies are just pure speculation now.
Not sure if you're aware of CoinPayments.net - I just found them - they work like Bitpay and make it very easy to accept a selection of alt-coins (as well as Bitcoin) Now anyone can setup a store and accept [major] alt-coins just as easily as bitcoins, within minutes. https://www.coinpayments.net/index.php?cmd=directory
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hromobiti
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November 21, 2013, 05:57:02 PM |
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I would preffer open source, would be fun to create my own alt coin But I will stick with Bitcoin unless I see some alt coin merchant adoption (Amazon might create own alt coin for example)
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mb300sd
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November 21, 2013, 06:00:26 PM |
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I hold a few thousand litecoins, wish I mined way more back in the day... Got a few hundred namecoins too, but those are the only 2.
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November 21, 2013, 06:01:47 PM |
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I've invested 10% of my BTC into Goldcoin. Simply because if somebody asks me how I'd like to pay for something I'd rather say. "Goldcoin!" I'm getting more and more interested in LTC also, but haven't invested yet.
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adamstgBit
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November 21, 2013, 06:06:06 PM |
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FTC
not over priced.
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zoinky
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November 21, 2013, 06:06:26 PM |
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you know, litecoin et al.
what is your rationale for yes/no investing in alt coins?
i hold ltc, i think its good to have a back up in case btc fails or gets too big. Seems people agree with this, I'm sure especially when the block limit starts being tapped and transactions actually start taking forever. Hope it's addressed before that or it could give Litecoin a big bump.
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David M
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November 21, 2013, 06:10:40 PM |
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Only Namecoin.
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umaOuma
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November 21, 2013, 07:06:44 PM |
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Only little in LTC, NMC, FTC, NVC Hopefully Im right and didnt miss some interesting alt coin
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JekyllIsland
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November 21, 2013, 07:20:55 PM |
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I invested around 1% in litecoin and feathercoin. Hoping some more services start accepting them .
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November 21, 2013, 07:39:53 PM |
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I invested around 1% in litecoin and feathercoin. Hoping some more services start accepting them . 1% is percentage one really can afford to loose I believe other altcoins can be successfull only if Bitcoin is. But there is always possibility altcoin fail while Bitcoin not. So I dont hold altcoins
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seleme
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November 21, 2013, 08:20:09 PM |
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I made 90% of my BTC trading alts. Not really investing yet but trading all the time, I never trade btc vs usa, only btc vs alts.
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GigaCoin
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November 21, 2013, 08:40:29 PM |
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you know, litecoin et al.
what is your rationale for yes/no investing in alt coins?
As bitcoin gains more and more value, it'll get harder to ignore Altcoins. Litecoin is already proving to be a rising star, however the dev community for litecoin is currently weak and hopefully picks up as it gains value.
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November 22, 2013, 08:36:38 AM |
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I have some PPC - I am not really convinced on their implementation of proof of stake, but it is the only fundamental alternative to the bitcoin proof of work system. Litecoin used to be advertised as a coin that will not have ASIC miners - but looks like soon it will have http://www.coindesk.com/asic-miners-litecoin-soon/. All other coins are just copycats.
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NUFCrichard
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November 22, 2013, 10:06:49 AM |
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It will be very difficult to prevent ASIC on any high value coin, if a CPU/GPU can do something well, why would something specifically made to do that function not be able to do it better?
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Kaiji
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November 22, 2013, 10:53:04 AM |
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Just be careful when investing in alt coins. There are a lot of pump and dump schemes going on but if you got lucky you can easily quadruple your money. I've noticed in the last 6 months that there people who made more money investing in litecoins and other alt coins than in bitcoins ( not counting the current bitcoin rise).
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GigaCoin
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November 22, 2013, 11:48:43 AM |
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Just be careful when investing in alt coins. There are a lot of pump and dump schemes going on but if you got lucky you can easily quadruple your money. I've noticed in the last 6 months that there people who made more money investing in litecoins and other alt coins than in bitcoins ( not counting the current bitcoin rise).
agreed about the pump/dump schemes, i guess for anyone investing in Altcoin is important to research about the fundamentals first, the technology and future potential before jumping in. personally, i would green light Litecoin as the "next big" Crypto Currency. Once the infrastructure around it and Major exchanges implementation takes place (mtgox, bitstamp, btcChina, etc) the thing will skyrocket. That begin said, there is potential for PPcoin and Nova Coin only if Litecoin community and devs fail to develop it further. Remember as Bitcoin rises in price, it gets more and more unaffordable for the masses, especially after it breaks $1000+ , demand for Altcoins will increase.
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porcupine87
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November 22, 2013, 01:01:43 PM |
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I have 20% in Altcoins (15% LTC, 2.5% each in PPC and XPM). In terms of bitcoin I lost a lot with them by trading on btc-e (you know, buy high, sell low), but each coin is near its all time high...
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"Morality, it could be argued, represents the way that people would like the world to work - whereas economics represents how it actually does work." Freakonomics
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raskolnikovx
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November 22, 2013, 01:44:16 PM |
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Change a bitcoin to LTC Buy some FTC too, they are just too cheap.
You never know but you dont want to be the guy that could buy 50 LTC at 7 USD if they do what BTC did.
Litecoin is better than BTC in some aspects (its better to transact faster, to pay little amounts on sites, to bet online, etc) All this could make LTC go up in the near future.
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