I'm pretty sure people are holding onto bitcoins because they think it is going to go up in value. It's not as if it can be used for anything else other than some sort of speculative asset with nothing backing it. All tokens don't really have any other backing other than supply and demand. At least bitconnect's model always worked despite all the bad press and made many people very rich. I didn't invest much in it. Most of mine is in DavorCoin as they started by paying 2% a day and that only opened at the end of November (4 times as much as I ever invested in bitconnect but I still got all my investment back from them overall).

By the way, they obviously could always change terms for new loans instead of guaranteeing 0.25% at least for $10k plus forever but do you really think that is excessive? If you work it out it's less than 2.5 times the investment amount a year. I'm pretty sure people who hold bitcoin expect it to go up more than that each year, some speculating it will go up to a millions dollars!  As already mentioned, the bitconnect model also gave value by guaranteeing the investment amount in USD so people could invest in cryptos without worrying about their portfolio going down in value (that doesn't even include the extra interest they also paid). Any sane person would prefer the bitconnect model than the bitcoin model. They shut down due to all the idiots saying they were a Ponzi. Look at the housing market and how many idiots also believe it always goes up. Bitconnect's model wouldn't have failed as there was no reason for the price not to go up all the time until something forced them to end it. Coin holders may have lost out in the end when the bubble burst but that's just the same as the current economy which goes in cycles of boom and bust. The difference is bitconnect would have had enough collateral to refund the guaranteed investments if they were allowed to run normally (remember that they wouldn't necessarily need to refund them all at once and the coin would probably rise again slowly after a crash - in the long term the lending could still just carry on after a BCC crash if they didn't face any legal issues). Obviously all coin holders take the risk of a crash but the investments would have been easily guaranteed if it wasn't made to shut down.


I forgot to mention that apparently bitconnect are working on refunding those who came in the last couple of months and didn't have enough time to get their investment back... not sure what they will do but they certainly have enough profit to do that.

Zalupa is most likely from a random airdrop. It is a way for a project to distribute their coins in hopes that people trade them. About staking, it is up to you if you want to HODL or sell. If your goal is to take profit immediately, then sell them at market. If you want to HODL them in case they rise in value, then do that. Either way, you'll probably do well since they're good coins that are listed.

look at JEW, good Price to Buy

interesting to see the comments on 2FA. I read that they're working on it.
(on twitter if I'm not wrong)

I received some small amount of ZALUPA today

does anybody knows what is this token/crypto?

what are your general strategy for BCO staking?
HODL all the altcoins or sell it for more BTC/BCO?
or hold some and sell some?
curious here.

cheers!

Question about your Referal Program on Crypto-bridge

Hello,
is your referal /Affiliate Program still active? What link should I use as referal? And where can I see referals?
Thank you
Cryptco

I hope to see cryptonight based coins such as intense, fonero, ultranote, etc on crypto-bridge.org

Still have this question, but I'm posting because I have another one:

Is it possible to remove a single user from your trust circle?  There's one that's added through someone I *do* trust, whose input I simply don't take seriously, and I'd rather not see them under "Trusted" feedback.  Nothing personal against the user, I just don't find their ratings to be reliable.

(e.g.  Can I list them as -username instead on the Trust Settings page?)

I would like this a lot more if Default settings were
Trust list == satoshi
Trust depth == 0

Anything else implements a bias from the board administration.  If the board moderators and who they trust deserve the level of trust that Default would give them, it should be obvious to the user, not forced on them.

If you MUST put a real person on the default trust list why not use someone who is truly trusted by the community like John (John K.)?

I added a trust system to the marketplace sections. When you're logged in, you'll now see something like this next to Marketplace posts:

The first number is the user's trust score calculated based on how consistently they've received positive feedback. Probably no one will get a score above 0 until the system has been around for at least a month. The second number is the number of reported scams. The third number increases with the number of positive reports, as does the fourth number in parenthesis, though the fourth number is more resistant to abuse. This text changes color depending on the score. Users with a negative score (attainable through scamming) get a red warning attached to their posts.

These scores are taken from your trust network. They are not global scores. You can edit your trust network here:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=trust
If your trust depth is set to 2 (the default), you will trust feedback by people you trust, people they trust, and people they trust. I might change the default in the future; we'll see how this works. Your trust list is public.

On feedback pages, you can leave trade feedback. There are no rules for this, but here are some guidelines:
- List all of the trades that you do with people (or at least the major ones). This is not like #bitcoin-otc where you give people just one score.
- Do not rate people based on the quality of their posts.
- Older ratings count for more, so don't delete old ratings if you can avoid it.
- "Risked BTC" is how much money you could have lost if the person you're rating had turned out to be a scammer. Or, if they are a scammer, it's how much you lost. Use the BTC value at the time of reporting.
- It's OK to post a rating about the person in general, not tied to a specific trade.
- If you want to make a rating stronger, increase "Risked BTC". 50 extra risked BTC is equivalent to an additional rating.

If your trust list is totally empty, you trust "DefaultTrust", which includes some trustworthy people that I'll select. But if you add anyone to your trust list, even if they don't trust anyone, DefaultTrust will no longer be considered part of your trust list.

In the near future I'll add these same ratings to PMs.

Tell me if you see any bugs. I didn't test this much yet.

BananaCash the the real bitcoin !    *trust me*

I really hope, that Kucoin didnt mention Boscoin in yesterdays newsletter because everything is lined up and we are going to exchange in few days. Or else, it takes weeks and weeks.....mehh

Week #11 Jan. 21-27
Twitter Campaign
21.01
tweets
https://twitter.com/BountyAirDrop/status/954773028604329990
retweets
https://twitter.com/Globcoin_io/status/954715144810127361
Facebook Campaign
Post
https://www.facebook.com/TOP.ICOBountyAirDrop/posts/347646218978030
Shares
https://www.facebook.com/TOP.ICOBountyAirDrop/posts/347646295644689

I like Fabric token project ^^ but take a look on Farma Trust:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2496382.0

Foundico rated FarmaTrust with a 8.7 out of 10
ICObench scored with a 4.4 out of 5
Trackico scored with a 4.6 out of 5
ICOexpert.biz gave a 4.7 our of 5
ICOranker scored with 80 out of 100
ICOholder scored a 4.24 out of 5

In my opinion, this is a project that has very big potential!

A real great ICO is the IGNITE token.

Tokensale here: https://igniteratings.com/tokensale/

It is too early to be calling out the best ICO in January, we have 12 months to go, for me there are alot of good project coming up this year and what will separate them will be the hard cap they are asking for, Telegram ICO is coming and this could be very big and likely to be the number one or two on the coinmarketcap and put an end to so many ideas

Thank you so much

Summary from the 5 pages so far:

Nucleus Vision - 7 votes
Telegram ICO - 6 votes
Thekey - 4 votes
Envion - 4 votes.

As for me, with hundreds of ICOs coming out every month, I think it is too early to nominate ICO of the year. The best ICO in January 2018 is Bee token for me.

Take a look at my signature, Titanium is a really good ICO for 2018, they raised over 2 million usd during their presale ! The CEO of this project used to work for Verge

i do not knowledge the team.but bos is a nice project.if the team is not good.the bos will cann't better develop.