The poll, imho, is nothing more than a pageant of a selct few. If BTC is up thereas a scam then all of them are scams. Listed or not.
Look, features aside, all of this is nothing more than a new and growing market, to either exploit or be exploited by in the name of profit. Whether through skill, luck, or the lack of both the only determination of ROI is timing, perception and patience.
Greed is neither good or bad. It's simply a motivating factor to be used by those who are astute enough to know when to rein in their own greed. Or to profit off of the greed of others.
As to the choices presented in the poll, to a noob, it would appear that all of them might be more risk than the effort of DYOD is worth.
Let us not kid ourselves, the vast majority of those who hold, develop, discuss ANYTHING in this cryptosphere do so because they believe there will be a decent ROI in it for their time, money and effort. So too will the vast majority of those who become involved in the foreseeable future.
Thanks for explaining why the SEC is likely going to be putting many insiders in jail for selling unregistered illegal investment securities to n00bs over the coming years. The G20 will cooperate on this. TPTB are letting these insiders incriminate themselves now. And some such as CfB think they are immune because they reside in some backwater Eastern European country, but I think they have not properly calculated the risk.
Now you know one of my other purposes for creating this thread and poll. It is to collect evidence for the authorities to use in the future.
Sell Pink Sheet shit to n00b USA investors without complying with the SEC laws is going to end up very bad for these scammers.
This poll is far and away too exclusive. Again, in my honest opinion, a poll on all crypto currencies/platforms already exists. It's called the free/open markets.
Nonsense about free/open markets. The market caps reflect insider manipulation, not any information. The is why the government has to regulate securities, because n00bs can't control themselves.
As you know, a market cap greatly overstates the amount of capital actually invested. Additionally these ICO/premine/ninjamine scams enable the insiders to control the float and buy from themselves pumping up the price, volume, and market cap and thus also causing jealous n00bs to follow and lose their money on the P&D.
Look at the chart history of all altcoins. They are all P&Ds. Not a single exception, except perhaps
Monero's breakout from a downwedge that had existed since launch with the initial pump done by arguably by rpietila's pronouncements.
Then let's factor in the user base of Altcoins is kids with ADD with money to burn who care about nothing but profits NOW !
Sometimes he writes something astute.
The long-term investors appear to be HODLing Monero and Bitcoin (and perhaps Litecoin?).