I just read up on IOTA a week ago and I have now divested a large portion of my bitcoin fortune into IOTA. I think IOTA have a staggeringly huge potential. Much bigger than litecoin, bitcoin cash and ripple combined.

I think op could be right. IOTA will replace both Bitcoin cash and Litecoin. How can any coin compete with free transactions, even with lightning network the transactions will cost something.

Only bad thing about IOTA is that the name isn't catchy. Other than that it's the perfect currency. Massive amount of unists without needed decimals. Free transactions and good scalability.

I'm heavily invested in Bitcoin and IOTA atm.

Same as any other cryptocurrency, the community built around it consisting of users, developers, speculators, traders, investors, exchanges companies and eventually banks.

But the technology behind IOTA, the tangle is superior to blockchain technology, and when the broader cryptocurrency community sees this, they will also want a stake in it.

When I discovered Bitcoin in 2012, I got this warm fuzzy feeling of excitement, and I just had to invest in some. And all this time since then I never bothered with altcoins since they hardly offered anything new that bitcoin couldn't do.

But then along comes the IOTA tangle system and completely blew my mind. How can you design a cryptocurrency without a blockchain? And without transaction fees? Without miners and without PoS? And to top it off completely scalable. Apparently the tangle system does away with the need for a blockchain and gives us the opportunity to transact with eachother completely free.

I think IOTA will give Bitcoin a run for it's money once it grows a bit more and is tested more unless the lightning network works as intended and will also give us practically free transactions. I'm hoping lightning network works as intended, but if not I have taken a small stake in IOTA as a hedge against Bitcoin failing.

Most of my holdings are still in Bitcoin, but I've invested some into IOTA since it is just about the only other cryptocurrency I believe in atm. Ethereum doesn't scale well and will loose in the long run I believe. All the privacy focused coins will loose to privacy features implemented in coins with more network effect. And don't even get me started on the copy cat coins and hardforks of bitcoin.

The warm fuzzy feeling is back and I'm gonna get rich with IOTA, I can feel it in my bones.

New ATH: August 22. 2017

I agree, it could fail. But I believe in it, therefore I invest in it. That's what investing is all about, taking a calculated risk. If it goes well it goes really well, and if it fails, you find something else to invest in. Just don't put all your money on this one, if you then loose you won't have any money for the next opportunity.

This concept has the potential to disrupt the online dating industry with promises of lower costs for the end user. And the worldwide online dating industry is huge.

In the U.S., the industry generates approximately $2 billion in revenue each year. Match Group ( MTCH ), a portfolio that includes OkCupid, Tinder and Match.com, currently boasts a market cap of $4.2 billion.

If matchpool reaches it's goals it could conservatively be valued at a market cap of around $1 billion.
With an initial supply of 60,000,000 GUP and slowly going up to 100,000,000, you get around $600 million split between crowdfunding participants. Divided by around $6 million initial investment makes around 100x gain.

About 3 years ago I had a brilliant idea. This was not long after I initially discovered Bitcoin and subsequently invested some money into it. My idea was to take the blockchain technology and make a online dating protocol out of it. Naturally, this would be a very difficult task for someone who had barely programmed anything since college. So as most people do I gave up on my idea and continued with my life. Sad isn't it? Well, I might not be a good programmer, but I am a pretty good investor. And when good opportunities to make money falls into my lap, my investor instincts kick into action. And everytime I do my due diligence before investing. And so should you.

Now I'm here to tell you about one of these opportunities that 'fell into my lap'. It's a crowdfunding campaign based on the blockchain dating protocol idea I had that I never told anyone. Now it appears I wasn't alone in having this idea. I jumped into action and did some due diligence, and some calculations, and I really smell money on this one fellows.

This crowdfunding investment could potentially go 100x according to my calculations.


https://matchpool.co/crowdfund-live/


Here's my investment history if anyone cares(Only had one major fail so far, really hoping this won't be the second one.):
A major oil services company 300% (Success)
A biotech company -90% (Major fail)
A shipyard in the middle east 300% (Success)
Salmon farming company 200% (Success)
Bitcoin 2000%

Called but missed opportunities (I never took action on these because I had more faith in bitcoin at the time):
Tesla
Ethereum

Disclaimer: I am in no way affiliated with the people behind the crowdfunding, I've just made an investment there, and wanted to share the opportunity with the people of this forum.

PS: The crowdfunding is at the time of this writing at 60%, so not much time left.

$5900 peak, $1400 stable.

Looking forward to some icecream, btc should be at least 10x in 2 years time

It's my understanding that in order to successfully double spend you need to be able to mine your own block. And shorter block times makes that alot easier to do. So 10 min block time makes it very hard to double spend in bitcoin.

Roller coaster operator

Looks like everyone was hosed because of rule #5.


Anyway, it looks like Spaceman_Spiff is winning this one. He followed rule #5, and wanted to put earlier date.

This rally:

522.5


Next rally:
Between 950-1338

Jeg tror at når en kjøper bitcoins gjennom en børs så er det ikke børsen som selger bitcoins, det er privatpersoner som selger de, dermed skal det ikke betales mva. Dersom et selskap kjøper bitcoins eller 'miner' bitcoins selv og selger de direkte til kunder i Norge, da vil de måtte inkludere mva. i prisen.

Det er iallefall slik jeg tolker dagens regelverk.

I'm sure he will be struck with a serious condition of sellers remorse some time into the future

Kristoffer Koch has sold most of his bitcoins, with only a remaining 1000 bitcoins in cold storage according to this norwegian article:
http://www.hardware.no/artikler/norske-kristoffer-ble-bitcoin-millionaer-over-natten/153707

Apparently he thought it was a bubble and rushed to sell starting in april.

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My strategy is simple. I calculated how much money I need for the lifestyle I want , then just calculated the price level needed for it, then just hold until then.

In my case the price is then 5000 USD per bitcoin.