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November 11, 2020, 09:31:59 PM
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Obviously telling people that they should not sell and wait is a great advice, however we also should not ignore the fact that when you buy and hold, you are missing out on trading opportunities that could have yielded you more profits, which you can do or you may ignore but it is there that you are missing and it is a fact.

If you are uncertain about your own trading capabilities, you could just focus on making profit via holding as long as you can, if you can buy btc/eth and similar good high level respected coins and hold them for 10 years, you are going to profit beyond your wildest dreams, it would probably make 100x in 10 years, and nothing else in the world could make you rich like that. However if you think you can trade well, you should probably just focus on buying and selling which could yield you more profit.
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November 12, 2020, 05:29:17 AM
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The only alt coins I see as superior possibly are where the base idea for utility and efficiency on that blockchain could exceed Bitcoin maybe, all this talk of alt coins is like swear words to a large part of the forum who think only BTC can ultimately succeed as it is the most secure and so superior blockchain.  However innovation is what Im looking for, I still think proof of stake could outperform for the common people where as the largest operators in crypto dont need this but I think it favors the smallest elements and so stays true to the original basis for BTC which it bits not billions
people aren't saying bitcoin is the only thing that can succeed, they are saying that others aren't trying to succeed. instead when you look at altcoins you can clearly see that their goal is to get the biggest pump and dumps and make the most amount of money from it.

the reason why everyone hates ETH so much is because of its numerous issues. for starters it is centralized and mutable. two fundamental characteristics of a successful project simply doesn't exist in this altcoin. the only innovation that it had was the idea of smart contracts that are more advanced that what bitcoin (the currency) allows. but that idea was executed very poorly on a buggy platform. and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

as for PoS that you mentioned here, it is a very poor algorithm for a cryptocurrency. it has lots of attack vectors and adds certain weaknesses to a cryptocurrency that it automatically guarantees its lack of security.

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November 13, 2020, 09:41:27 AM
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The difference between altcoins vs bitcoin is the fact that bitcoin talks about just one coin whereas when you say altcoin you are talking about sooooo many different coins and projects.

When people say "bitcoin is the only thing that can succeed" they are saying that because bitcoin will always be there, many of us (probably almost all) believe that bitcoin will not be taken away from first spot and it will always be awesome, that is something not really troubling and it could be that way and that's fine.

The problem with talking about altcoins however is that ETH is an altcoin if you look at it that way, Litecoin is an altcoin, Dash is an altcoin but also that horrible new project that is trying to scam people by trying to put all the buzzwords in it is also an altcoin, we can't just compare them all to each other but we name them all altcoins.
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