Quote from: richardsNY on May 07, 2018, 11:48:46 PM

Quote from: Pumperdumper on May 07, 2018, 08:55:47 PM

The market as a whole requires newer investors with deeper pockets. For that to happen - there needs to be some measurable progress being displayed in the media.

The thing is that nowadays deep pockets no longer enter the market through the regular channels, but purely focus on private (OTC) transactions where they aren't subject to incompetent exchanges and all their silly regulations. While most of the regular crypto traders don't bother to learn from past events, where they keep using current exchanges, professional and other large scale investors try to stay away from these exchanges as much as possible. The thing here is that OTC transactions and on-exchange transactions are completely different, and for that reason don't mirror each other in value and volumes. I think that it's safe to say that OTC volumes have surpassed the trading volumes of exchanges, but these exchanges still dictate the rates. It would be good to have it balance out somehow, but that's not something I see happen any time soon....

That is true.

Is there any way to track OTC transactions?

People are spreading rumors that BCH is hard forking on the 15th of May - I was under the impression it was a soft fork by majority agreement and that there wasn't going to be a completely separate token as a result of the fork??

Can anyone else verify this? Searched for a while and found a couple weak authority confirmations.

https://cryptocurrencyfacts.com/2018/04/23/bitcoin-cash-fork-bitcoin-abc-coming-may-15/