I have some altcoins from early 2017 and some BTC and ETH too. I am thinking about investing some more but don't really know what i should be looking into.

Below is my list of coins.

BTC, ETH, NEO, ADA, LSK, LTC, Stratis, Waves, ARK, SHIFT, Pivx, VTC, GRS, Powr, Tenx

When i bought in early 2017, Statis, Waves, Ark and ADA was popular, how are these coins today?

I am not interested in low market/very new coins.

Thanks!

hi My friend noticed that in the last few weeks both the price of bitcoin and altcoin bled, is there anyone who can give me good advice for buying and trading that is good and safe. because I heard a few months ago that the Binance exchange was at the restat, now is it safe if I return to trade there, because I have also traded a long time in binance, so I was on vacation to trade there, because at that time Binance was at the restat. Thank you and I appreciate all the answers.

hi My friend noticed that in the last few weeks both the price of bitcoin and altcoin bled, is there anyone who can give me good advice for buying and trading that is good and safe. because I heard a few months ago that the Binance exchange was at the restat, now is it safe if I return to trade there, because I have also traded a long time in binance, so I was on vacation to trade there, because at that time Binance was at the restat. Thank you and I appreciate all the answers.

I have been writing about waves potential for a long time but now it deserves its own speculation thread because I don't want to be hijacking the main thread.

There are several pros and cons with waves and I will list them all here and if you want to know specifics then just quote one bullet point and I will explain more about that and how it should be included in the final valuation of $Waves:

Pros:

1. 1000tx/s or more
2. Dex with btc and fiat gateways
3. Fixed supply (100 million)
4. Mass token transfer & message inclusion
5. Pywaves index site (lots of hidden value here)
6. Implentation of waves specific price tracking site (like cmc but waves tokens only)
7. Smart contract

Cons:

1. Ticker removal for tokens from june 15 (will be counteracted by community token voting soon) *postponed until december*
2. US client restrictions
3. 50% of supply in top 5 wallets
4. under developed dex UI (lots of hidden value extraction here)
5. Lack of fortune 500 onramping (vostok will take this role)
6. No small cap token tabs in dex/no token scroll function on dex such as volume/market cap browsing (needs manual input to find tokens in search field)

With this summary I will now continue to argue for a potential price development of this brand medium and long term and let's begin with a simplistic upper and lower price boundary based on historical development in log scale:



The price is following a pattern similar to the 2017 runup but at x10 multiple like $1.9 instead of $0.19 etc. We are now in an intermediate phase before a parabolic rise to $68 which I estimate will take place before end of August of this year. It seems the upper bound in this parabola is located at $125 which would value Waves at 12,5 billion dollars and this can be justified if certain criteria from the team development roadmap and suggestions are implemented. As such, there is no mystery with Waves price development as the value is already proven but for now remains largely hidden due to lack of mainstream UI development. All of these technically light weight improvements will easily push towards the $125 price and I believe that the movement will be like this:

IF this is bottom as I have argued in main thread, here at $1.9 as we saw a few days ago, then it should quickly impulse towards $4 from here and then basically move unhindered towards ath and $68 within a few months after which it will retrace to $18-22. Once the top is reached at $125 there is a more significant correction back to mid 30's depending on where we are in the greater bear/bull market by this time next year. Good scenario suggests retracement back to $80 level and bad is mid $30's.

On a longer time scale, a few years or more, Waves price potential is similar to Ethereums 2017 runup at $1800-2200 equivalent because these coins share a lot of commonalities in supply and tech. This scenario is largely dependent on global sentiments and the teams ability to remain competitive with smart contract implementation and onramping, but there are many other factors that must be perfected before $2000 can become a reality.

However, $70-125 is in play right now, and that is the reason for this thread, to lend a perspective to those of you that are too short sighted right now and counting pennies. It is time to expand the horizon for what is possible here.

In this intermediate phase I believe that Waves can attain a hybrid status like a small business market place and decentralized messaging platform, most importantly censorproof. This is then similar to ebay and twitter and should be reflected in their respective market caps (if successful) somewhere at $300 equivalent ($30 billion). By success I am referring to user acquisition and this in turn is reliant on UI improvements to attract mainstream users because waves is the most user friendly token issuance platform compared to Counterparty and Ethereum.

Finally, I believe that the marketing & branding function of waves with mass transfer protocol and message inclusion is heavily discounted compared to for example wall street journal cost per mille (CPM) as a small business owner can reach thousands of rich list and highly targeted users on this platform at a fraction (1/100 or less) of the cost of regular cmp of this caliber. This is an undiscovered market discrepancy which is a big factor in the $70-125 push. The reason that this value descrepancy is not accounted for is because this is high tech and marketers and small business owners of the old school are unable to fully understand the concepts at play here. But they will learn soon, there is only a slight delay.

I put in Litecoin halving into google and got:

"Will litecoin go up 2019?
According to oracletime.com, the advantages of Litecoin over Bitcoin will interest many new investors. Their Litecoin forecasts for the end of 2019 is $1000, but there are predictions that it could even rise up to $2000!"

Thoughts?

Shill me your altcoins and tell me why they're not a shitcoin and why anyone should buy them

hi guys
do u think SC (Sia coin) good to invest at 20 sat ?
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/SC_BTC

Hi guys
do u think MATIC good to invest ? is it possible to explode to 500 sat again ?
https://www.binance.com/en/trade/MATIC_BTC

On the bright side, LINK is trading in green in a very shaky market. Looking at its performance, Chainlink is one of the highest trading cryptos today and it is still improving in the market. Still, I'm not convinced if that is the project I should invest in. I'm following all their updates and so on, but I would really appreciate your opinion on that.

Any advice?
By investment order:

*Bitcoin

* Ethereum (ETH, cause i have waiting so long for this time, it lost 30%, hoarding time!!!)   

*Pundi X (NPXS, at the bottom so far, time to HODL, top 50)

*Reddcoin (RDD, cause it lost 75% this year and it worth to buy now at 16 Satoshi. Top 100)

*Infinity Economics (Solid Oracle Project, i have faith on it; 26 satoshi for the moment)

*Foresting (PTON, i have re invest on it 2 day ago, good volume and bottom trade)  Re invest on it at 4 satoshi, im waiting for an hype with this token, volumes are stable during last weeks

*HorizonStateToken, (HST, cause some of yours advice me about him, it lost around 50% since June, i take my chance to hoard this)

*Origo (Ogo, made me cry 1 week ago, and i try to invest some more when it dump... since, it made me 500% ) Sold the 9 july at 1210 satoshi (buy at 370)

*Dent (at the bottom, seems safe to HODL, top 100)

*Lambda (Lamb, Idk why i bough him, now its big volume and 120%) Sold 2150 satoshi the 9july, buy 868

*Bittorent (BTT, cause its solid and eZ to hoard, top 50)
, hoard more cause it worth only 8 satoshi

*Tron (TRX, eZ to buy, top 50 and first bottom since october)

*Litecoin (LTC, however, its LTC, safe and solid i guess;Top 100)

*Holochain (Holo, absoluty worth to buy, little price and great future; Top 50)

*Bitcoin SV (BSV, Top 10 safe placement)

*Standard Tokenization Project (STPT, eZly up to 250%, now it decrease but the project look good; im going to re invest on it if it decrease under 300 satoshi)

*NKN (idk why i bough it, bottom touch and grow up now... idk about the project... Top 200)

XEL (XEL, bad decision, i took it when it bump around 40% the 10 july, but the token stop increase at the same moment... i ve lost 48% of my investment for the moment)

*BnkToTheFuture (BFT, cause it decreased at the minimum since it launched, i bough. Good volume, Top 200)

*Harmony (ONE, seems ez to invest with the IEO hype,Top 150 for the moment,  keep eyes on it)

*Crowd Machine (CMCT, down and look ailing, but 10 satoshi and exchanges volume)

*Ravencoin (RVN, it decrease, Top 50)

*Serve (recently add, look not good, just hodl)
*Ocean Protocol (Ocean, same as Serve)
*TTC Protocol (Same)
*XYO Network (Same as Serve, Ocean and TTC)
*Fetish coin (Same)
*Wibson (One of my worse investment...)
*Metadium... rare for me, but the one i have sale, bad run and i have lost 60% of my investment on it...

Sry for my english, im not fluent

Altcoins prices are bleeding heavily, with some of the top-20 coins showing losses of more than 34% on the day.
The most popular altcoin Ether (ETH) has dropped over $50 in the last 24 hours to a price point of $156 per coin, recording a heavy loss of 24% on the day.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/tuesday-shows-bloodbath-for-altcoins-up-to-34-losses-on-top-20-coins

do you think this down market will continues and welcome back to the bears in crypto market again ?
or this is only the preparations if the market will growing really hard and the bulls will show up in the near time ?

What does the future holds for cryptocurrencies?
1) Will more countries start adopting crypto?
2) Will bitcoin hits a new all time high just like many predicted?the owner of snapchat predicted that by 2030 bitcoin will hit 500k,too good to be true?
3)What about the Government agencies?will they have no choice left but to fully embrace the technology?
4)What will be the fate of banking and financial industries?

It blows my mind that Stakenet hasn't been mentioned here much lately. It's one of the most promising projects I know off currently for a wide variety of reasons actually.

They are probably the project that has developed the most upon Lightning Transctions.
The Lightning Network is supposed to be able to scale Bitcoin, and while there has been a lot of problems along the way the X9 team behind Stakenet never gave up on it.
They helped Litecoin implementing it on mainnet, before they did it on their own. Source: https://litecoin-foundation.org/lightning-network-collaboration-with-x-9-developers/

This means XSN was the third project next to BTC and LTC to implement Lightning Transactions onto mainnet.

When implementing lightning channels on a network of 2000+ masternodes it all becomes very very powerful and useful. While most masternode projects are complete trash, Stakenet actually innovated on the idea of creating a whole eco-system based on masternodes who's gonna run everything in the background. Decentralization is KEY, and this solution makes one of the most decentralized networks out there by utilizing a wide variety of jobs attached to all these masternodes.

Jobs of XSN Masternodes:

* Lightning Dex
* One click instant Lightning Swaps (NOT Atomic Swaps)
* DEX Aggregator
* Masternode escrow services
* Masternode based oracles/arbitration
* CCPoS - Staking rewards in any other coins
* Tor, PrivateSend, random hop secrets
* Masternode's collateral backed stable coin
* Lightning dApps
* TPoS - Hosting of Trustless Cold staking contracts
* Voting Delegates
* Automated payment of node operators
* Masternode Managers
* Multiple keys for Masternodes
* Enhancements for Smart Contracts and dApps
* Masternode reward split
* Masternodes Quorums Autonomous Swaps
* Cross-Chain dApp infrastructure
* Watchtower services

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Stakenet was the inventor of Cold Staking (TPOS - Trustless Proof Of Stake) - Which is by far the best cold staking solution out there. Cold staking requires a merchant, who will run a VPS that will have access to a staking "key". This shared staking key will allow for your coins to stake, even in cold storage. The merchant wont have access to your coins, and can't move them.
The merchant decides the fee he will take when running the merchant node, generally speaking the more coins you own, the lesser the fee.

If you are a small holder, you can use Stakenet's Pooled Staking Service, which is a centralized service, so use it for small amounts only.


Stakenet has other services too, such as Masternode As A Service, and Masternode Monitoring Service - If you own 15,000 XSN you're able to setup a masternode on the network. Masternodes can be a pain for most newbies to setup and maintain, but with this service anyone can setup one in a few minutes.
All this with 100% control of your own coins, they never leave your wallet. Stakenet hosts and maintains the VPS server that will keep your masternode running, they will even do maintenance if something needs to be upgraded such as the wallet itself running the masternode.

The masternode monitoring service will keep you up to date with the status of your masternodes, and will send you an email if your node goes offline. This is pretty smart, since you don't even need to open your wallet everyday to make sure everything is running, you can simply log in to your Cloud account on: https://cloud.stakenet.io and check everything on the go.

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The most exciting part is the passive income which you'll get by running a masternode. Right now beta testing of the Stakenet Wallet is taking place.
This is a Multi Currency Lightning Wallet with inbuilt 1-click Lightning Transactions and TOR-integration for privacy.


This wallet will be available for Android And IOS as well real soon, here is a preview picture of it:



The cool thing about this wallet is that everyone will benefit from it. Even if you don't have any interest in the project, the wallet is still extremely useful as a tool for trading, and scalping profits whenever BTC goes into a bullrun.
If you're a strong believer in BTC, or LTC this wallet will be very handy to store your coins in, here's why:

USDT is moving to lightning soon, this means that soon, you'll be able to tether up inside your own wallet - with 100% control of your own coins, for a fraction of the cost you normally pay to do so (over the lightning network). This will happen almost instantly as these transactions are incredibly fast. Everything is handled by the masternode network in the background. Never have lightning transactions been so easy, and available to the average Joe.
Imagine how many fees is gonna pile up by huge whales who wants to stay anonymous and in control of their own coins all the time. All these fees will be collected and distributed among all the masternodes in the eco system.

Next thing on the roadmap is the Lightning DEX. A DEX that will run entirely by masternodes. The general problem with DEX's today is the liquidity problem, and the slow proccess of trading which is a pain in the butt for the average Joe to use, hence why you see such a low volume on them.
The X9 team behind Stakenet have come up with a genius plan to solve that issue:

Liquidity:
Solved with their DEX Aggregator solution. The Aggregator combines multiple DEX order books together, and makes sure you get the best deal on your trades. It adds a ton of liquidity to the network. The fees collected will be used to buy-back XSN, and distribute them to the masternodes running the eco-system

Speed:
If you trade lightning compatible coins on the network you can trade pretty much instantly, just like any other DEX. The masternode network will host all the chains supported by the DEX, this means that you as a user wont have to:

Sync With The Network
Register To Anything
Do Any Form Of KYC (Know Your Customer)

Regulation is tumbling down on every single exchange out there, even IDEX just recently announced they'll force KYC on their users, which quite frankly is scaring people away.

Stakenet is SO decentralized, that once they have launched their DEX, even if they where FORCED TO: They CAN'T stop the DEX from running. . The network is essentially a peer 2 peer solution which you can't shut down, same reason why you can't shut down the internet in fact.


Price prediction:

I believe Stakenet is developing the future. It's pretty clear that everyone HATES KYC and regulation at this point. Cryptocurrencies was never meant to be used as it is today. Centralized exchanges have too much monopoly over the market, and they are hacked left and right.

I personally believe XSN could go 50x and beyond that at this very moment, mostly because I believe the passive income aspect of their Stakenet Wallet, and their Lightning DEX will drive the price up a LOT, once everything is up to speed. The project will market itself once it's up and running.

The only thing they lack at this very moment is a decent exchange listing to put them up in the top 100 of Coinmarketcap. Even without that, their DEX solution will get people talking soon. It's gonna be very powerful with the constant XSN buy backs, and their RSB Rewards model will make sure some of the total supply is burned.

Do your own research on this one. Read the roadmap, and the white paper which covers way more than I did here, among other great things they'll develop (Including their own hardware wallet called VIPER)

I don't think many alts would recover against Bitcoin if this happens and so they will crash even more. Some solid alts with good liquidity like Litecoin may recover but most won't recover in my opinion. Thoughts?

Some hours ago i posted this after realizing the big drop...  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5069276.0

So just gave a call to someone i knew he was interested since few weeks ago in my girlfriends car, and just sold it for 2000€..nearly 13 ETH at this prices..
maybe for others it is not a lot of money..but for us, it is..no more money left, and living with my parents! hahaha
yes i STILLL BELIEVE IN CRYPTO.. the best is still out there to come in the next 2 years i think..  so with a pair of.. I am  ALL IN  

wish me good luck

(please dont follow the same behaviour unless you are as mad as me and ready to loose it all)

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update 9/dec


Many of you say i am crazy or stupid and i should be shaking right now... but you are very wrong.. in fact, I am absolutely not nervous or worried. if you read my later posts, you will find i invested my ETH on 4 altcoins, and the value in ETH (not in US$) didnt changed  much for these coins.  Anyway, i assume risks and consequences. ANd the big difference among us, is i am not a mercenary like many of you, that just followed the hype.. i am talking about them who are here for few fast bucks, .. i am different because i am for the longterm as i BELIEVE in blockchain.. and i didnt took this decision as if i was blind or stupid! I did my propper research long time ago, and strongly think crypto will be a standard in the future.. maybe not tomorrow, or next week, or month.. also not next year.. i am not in a hurry!  i think i got everything i need to live...it took most of my life to realize material things wont make me happier.. i dont need much anymore because i found i was already happy   .. I am not interested about lambos, mansions,... I am more interested in a more fair world for everyone. The big fishes (venture capital, banks...) have their profits being cutted, and this makes me really happy! Our life quality will improve in the longterm.. almost everything will be public, transparent and fair...

Mark this post and come back later in 10 years: 9 dec 2028!

Hello! I'm a newbie trader, and I want to know if investing in crypto is a good idea. Now it became very easy, for example, you can buy crypto with a bot or your credit card using such services as changelly or shapeshift. However, does easy means good? Should I buy crypto now or it's too late?

I've read new article on BlockChain24.co about TRON's chances to get to the top 10 on the CoinMarketCap. As for me, they aren't high. I'm afraid that Tron will probably drop even more. What do you think?

XMR is $80 right now.

What do you think about XMR? Is XMR going to be $2500 along with BTC bull run?

I am looking for advice. Which coin is the most profitable in 2019