When new coins list there is usually very little liquidity and not many people buying. This means that it really doesn't take much to drop the price significantly. I think the reason many people have an issue with it is that bounty hunters have zero risk. They haven't put their money on the line by investing and have lost nothing but a small amount of time if the price tanks.

That being said, many ICOs don't get many investors these days anyway so I personally don't have much problem with it. It might actually come round and bite the bounty dumpers in the end if the coin decides to grow exponentially in the future.

I'd say it depends on the coin you want to mine. If you are looking at buying 6 1060 GPUS, then I would definitely suggest looking at a dedicated ASIC that is within the same price range.

If you are bag holding tokens that you cant sell then its unlucky but there is nothing you can do about it. Either wait and hope that when the bull market returns you will be able to clear them or just forget about it and make wiser investments in the future.

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The whole point of altcoins and ICOs is that they are easy to launch and are low risk, high reward for the person running them.

If they make a project and it fails, who cares? It doesn't cost much to start a project at the beginning. The real investment comes later when you are actually building the product. If the project is actually decent and is a success, then it has the potential to make millions of dollars worth of value out of nothing.

I'm not sure you should be just asking for people's advice with this. You need to read around a lot and familiarise yourself with the big projects. Maybe look at the top 20 coins and pick some that look good to you. After that maybe expand into lesser known ALTs.

I think icos made good profits in the beginning because they were new and people wanted to get into good projects at the early level. I think that is still the case to an extent but if any ico is going to make it big they are going to have to be a huge project that gets a massive amount of attention. Maybe if like a huge company did an ico it would likely succeed.

I think the whole mystery surrounding satoshi actually helps the bitcoin scene tbh. A bit of speculation and conspiracy theories bring attention to it and actually help.

In reality, I think satoshi doesn't want to be known because if bitcoin actually smashed the traditional financial system he could become a big target for people with power who don't want that to happen.

Even though i think Tron is a bit of a gimmick project with a very loud CEO, I would still say an investment might me feasible on a purely speculative basis. If only to take advantage of the fact that it has a pretty large following of people and has a good chance to have a nice run in the future.

As far as fundamentals are concerned I'm not sure it has anything special tbh though.

Mate, brexit party and UKIP are small scale. They literally have no say in the house of commons. They have a total of zero MPs between them.

I think the reason ICOs want KYC is so that they are future compliant against SEC action. We've already seen the SEC look into Ethereum and other altcoins as into whether they are securities or not and I think ICOs just want to cover their own backs.

I agree with you about KYC being annoying but it is all part of regulatory compliance that the space needs to go through to be legitimised. You can still trade on decentralized exchanges without verifying your identity.

The only real hurdle to get through without having to provide KYC is getting your FIAT money into crypto through places like coinbase or kraken. There are still places where you can do that anonymously though like localbitcoins.

You shouldn't be making any investments without doing deep research beforehand and that is universally true.  It does appear that ICOs have more than their fair share of risk associated with them though and they are an easy method for scammers to take people's money.

The ICO market is nowhere near as lucrative in recent years and I would look at any investment in them as a speculative long term investment.  Short term success from ICOs just doesn't exist in the current market and it is usually more cost effective to buy on an exchange after they are officially listed.

I find it funny that you just happen to have not just one, but two disembodied shoe soles just lying around haha.

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What do you mean by a soul? and what would happen to you if you sold it?

I guess it only matters if you believe in religion and believe in some sort of life after you die.  If death is the end and you aren't held responsible for your actions on Earth then why not do whatever you can while you are here to make the most of it.

I agree with him on the fundamentals of free speech and censorship but I think some of his opinions are misguided.  The first amendment applies to the US congress and not private companies like Google or Facebook and tbh the only way to make it apply to them would be for them to be state owned. I'm sure you can appreciate the problems that would come along if that was the case.

Point being, Google, Facebook and all the others have the right to deny access to their platform as they see fit.  That's not to say that I think they should, only that they legally can.

I don't really see how it can be stopped other than by boycotting their services.

Fair enough, It's a valid point that inheritance tax is not exclusive to capitalism, although it was the corporate buyout that seemed more in line with capitalism.


Gotta disagree on this one. If inheritance tax was a symptom of capitalism infected with communism, how did England introduce "death duty" (a form of early inheritance tax) before 1700, long before communism was thought up?


I'm not sure what you mean by this, surely the USSR and the China Republic were communist countries independent of capitalism, at least at the beginning?

I'd say it would definitely be beneficial in the long run to take some profits now. Maybe not the whole amount but the current bullish sentiment will ease and prices will drop in the next few weeks. Maybe tether 50% and wait to see what happens with the rest.

I'm struggling to understand how you think these disorders are linked with the left wing and not just society in general. I would associate Narcissism with capitalism in terms of being materialistic for a start.  It just seems like you are very biased against the left if I'm honest.

Interestingly, Your example of a family losing it's inheritance due to being unable to pay the inheritance tax, and then a corporation taking over is a symptom of capitalism rather than communism.  Under Capitalism, it would be the family's responsibility to have the money to pay the tax and if they didn't it's just tough luck right?