Does this coin has any block reward halving for PoW mining?  Are there any future limitations for PoW block rewards besides what the pie chart says about PoW % and PoS %?  Or is Proof of Work mining a constant reward until all PoW blocks has been exhausted?  How many more years or months do we have before PoW is exhausted and people can only do PoS?

Hello,

I think you have been reading too much Above top-secret, Godlike productions, etc all these things you talk about eg. The Illuminati this, the Illuminati that, the freemasons..... are things that I used to read on the conspiracy sites never took them seriously and was more as a hobby to kill time reading interesting things people tends to invent out of the top of their overactive imagination, but let me tell you this, I never found a single concrete proof that backs any of these conspiracies posts I read about.  About the Illuminati, I think the only thing I was able to find about was that they were an old religious fraternity or something like that from around the year 1500's but I don't think they are relevant or exist today and about the Freemasons? Well I know they exists because when I was walking by I think 20th to 23rd Street I stumbled upon a building that read "Free and Proud Freemasons of New York" well something like that, so they clearly exists as an organization, further research by me reveals that their mission is to make the world a better place than how they (the members) found it, well that doesn't seem to "evil" to me, that's a perfectly good goal on my watch.  So, I suggest you try to verify the claims of each conspiracy stories you read, because not everything you see on the internet is real.

Aside from that, I am interested to know if you were able to get your issue resolved?  Was planning on engaging on some arbitrage opportunities between HitBTC and some other exchanges but after reading your OP I guess that would be a no, but I am still on the fence whether they are truly a scammers, or if the email issue is the only issue at play here.   

Pro tip: always make sure your email address is up to date on all of your exchange.  Here's what you DHOULD have done first:. Checkk what email address is on your HitBTC file, can't access it? No worries attempt to change it, can't? Contact support and see if they can change it for you, not possible?  Assuming the account had zero balance, dump the account, erase all HitBTC cookies from your browser to prevent session based recognition and then create a branch new HitBTC account, you could even take it a bit further and force an IP address change from you ISP's modem (by changingWAN MAC address of router and then power cycling cable modem, release and renew IP of FIOS Router, etc) before creating your new HitBTC account with your active valid email address.  And then you PROBAVLY wouldn't have a problem trying to do the exchange you tried to do.

Personally what would I have done in your shoes?  I would have applied my trust to a most trusting exchange, like for example Bittrex.  Bittrex is as official as official can get, they own a BitLicense that got approved and accepted, are able to service New Yorkers (like myself) not all exchanges have such luxuries, not even Kraken or even the supposedly #1 exchange by volume, Poloniex.  Yes Bittrex requires ID verification which could be a bit inconvenient and is a fair trade off if you want to have SOME peace of mind that your cryptos just won't disappeared from your trading account or they would just run away with all user's fund.  That bitlicense forces Bittrex to hold itself at a high standard, they have to follow regulations and follow security best practice for the industry they engage in.  For the amount of crypto you were engaging in maybe you should have lended your trust to Bittrex.

Disclaimer:. I can only talk about Bittrex because that's what I use and what I am willing to lend my trust when dealing with a large amount of cryptos, but there are other exchanges too following regulation and even with a BitLicense such as Gemini, Coinbase, etc that you can explore to your consideration.

I would like to know when is BitRAGE arbitrage bot going to be available?

Also, what exchanges would be best to perform arbitrage, is Bittrex good?  I heard from somewhere a few days that the exchange would need to have 3 sets of pairs for a successful "loop' to occur, that person was saying it was not possible on Bittrex as it supposedly lacked 3 pairs, but then I go to Bittrex and I see the following:
BTC -> XRP
XRP -> USDT
USDT -> BTC
This is only one example of many combinations that I saw.  I am not sure if I am seeing it correctly, but I think that arbitrage can be performed on these pairs on Bittrex.

Currently (as a New Yorker), Poloniex and Kraken and others doens't do business here, so I am out of those exchanges.  I can only use Bittrex, Binance, Bitstamp, Cryptopia (recently created an account here) and liqui.io (not 100% sure), so in light of this would BitRAGE be a good purchase for me?

Nope.  0x888666ca69e0f178ded6d75b5726cee99a87d698 is holding USD$ 0.13 worth of tokens, none of which is ICN.

That address you quoted currently holds zero ETH and the following tokens:
1 amb - Amber
1.23456789 XBL - Billionaire Token
1 XCC - CoinCrowd
1 BSC - ??
14.88666 NGR - ??
1,000 KNC - ??
1 PRCR - ??

TOTAL VALUE: $0.13

And plus lacks of ICONOMI's burn contract under the Source tab.  

I believe the BURN contract address to be:

https://etherscan.io/address/0x0006157838d5a6b33ab66588a6a693a57c869999#tokentxns

There appears to be a total of 211,685.77709133333 ICN burned.

As for the price of ICN, it looks like its correction, its correcting to a meaningful higher value.  How high can this go?  Well judging by last 24 Hours trading volume increasing by the hour, the current 24H trading volume across all exchanges to be nearing 8 million dollars, I would say that the constellations at the outer galaxies could be the limit when it comes to the price of ICN. 

Honestly, this was long overdue as ICN was criminally underpriced, now ICN is correcting to a value it should be.

Disclaimer:  This is not investment advise, I make no guarantees of anything here.

If I were the developer of DOGECOIN, I would keep the coin alive.  I mean it has a good name and a good image for the coin, it can possibly attract the younger generation easily, the millenials.  Just think about it:  Dogecoin, a "cute" name, followed by a "cute" dog image, sure I could see millennials transacting with it, I would probably add new features to it (if its possible, because after all, its just a Scrypt LITECOIN fork, thats it), I would create a "dogecoin market place", a website where everything is sold, ala "walmart"/BJ's/Costco style and make DOGECOIN the only payment method there, and call if The Official Dogecoin website. 

See?  Lots of opportunity specially niche ones for use cases for dogecoins.  The dev killed it all by saying those works instead of being smart and coming up with something to make more money/revenue by innovating DOGECOIN.

People are always under the impression that OTC deals supposed to be cheaper than the deals found under the market, specially for big volume buyers.

Example:  Someone wants to buy 200,000,000 DOGECOINS and the price on the market was at 19 satoshis, they would recur to OTC deals to buy it from someone who no longer wants it, for presumably the same price, 19 satoshis, and the seller would get to dump all those 200 million DOGE's at exactly 19 satoshis for each one of them instead of dumping it on the open market where the starting price would be 19 satoshis, but as buy orders are fulfilled you end up selling at a much cheaper price, that's if you did a MARKET sell, you might end up selling at 1 satoshis for the last group of coins, or end up creating a large buy wall at 1 satoshis because you just ate all the BID orders.

Lets say you wanted to sell at the time 200 million DOGE's, the interested party here is you: you want to get rid of these DOGE's, you know you can't get rid of it on the open market for 19 satoshis all at once, you are impatient to let it wait on a LIMIT order at 19 satoshis or higher specially if you need the resultant BTC to invest into something else pronto (eg. an ICO, etc), so therefore you would have incur more interest from buyers by listing it at 19 satoshis matching the current market price of the time.  

Your price of 22 satoshis when the market price was 19 satoshis also could have its market, lets say someone wanted to buy 200 million DOGE's that person would know that doing it on the open market would not give him a good deal on the long run, so if someone wants to PANIC buy, then buying it from you at 22 satoshis would probably make more sense for the buyer instead of going to the open market and submitting a MARKET buy for 200 million DOGES that no doubt would have pumped the price to the detriment of the buyer.

Well, anyways if you did not tried to sell something large such as 200 million DOGE's by OTC and you wanted to sell something smaller, such as 100,000 DOGES, something that could easily be absorved by the open market on the same satoshi price value, then doing an OTC for the higher price was not going to yield you any results you wanted.

Well anyways with all said and done, at the end the price of DOGE ended up going naturally high and you were able to sell for a higher price than your original OTC plan.

And I am hoping (maybe wishful thinking) that it ends up costing somewhere between $2,000 to $4,000 to make it worth while.  If it ends up costing like $10,000 like you suggest, then break even would occur somewhere around 9 months after starting to mine according to the figures I see here:

https://www.coinwarz.com/cryptocurrency/?sha256hr=9460.00&sha256p=2600.00&sha256pc=0.1000&sha256c=false&scrypthr=1000000.00&scryptp=1200.00&scryptpc=0.2500&scryptc=true&x11hr=450.00&x11p=120.00&x11pc=0.1000&x11c=false&quarkhr=450000.00&quarkp=75.00&quarkpc=0.1000&quarkc=false&groestlhr=1.00&groestlp=825.00&groestlpc=0.1000&groestlc=false&blake256hr=11.20&blake256p=600.00&blake256pc=0.1000&blake256c=false&neoscrypthr=400.00&neoscryptp=400.00&neoscryptpc=0.1000&neoscryptc=false&lyra2rev2hr=30.00&lyra2rev2p=600.00&lyra2rev2pc=0.1000&lyra2rev2c=false&cryptonighthr=2800.00&cryptonightp=600.00&cryptonightpc=0.1000&cryptonightc=falseðashhr=108.00ðashp=600.00ðashpc=0.1000ðashc=false&equihashhr=1180.00&equihashp=600.00&equihashpc=0.1000&equihashc=false&e=CEX.io

I only paid attention to Litecoin itself.  If you just stick to Litecoin for the stability and to avoid the price fluctuations you would mine one Bitcoin at the first 1 GHs model in 380 days, so 10K in earnings should come somewhere in the neighborhood of 8 to 10 months. 

Now, here's the problem:  We all know that network difficulty doesn't stay stuck at a static level, specially these days it's sky rocketing by the days, and with these powerful machines under circulation its going to cause Litecoin's difficulty to even sky rocket at a much faster rate, so with all that said I would expect a more realistic break even to occur way much farther than 1 year after operating the miner, that's IF the miner doens't break down before it happens.  If that's the projection then I would much rather just buy the Litecoins directly.  So because of this the price of the miners should be priced accordingly without any greed getting in the way so that the operator can have a fighting chance at earning a profit after reaching break even point.

Finally we have apparently broken what appeared to be a 30 cents mental barrier.  Time to go up. 

I have faith that it should go up (in my opinion)

The project is solid, great outlook, looking forward for INCNT to be the next to start pumping.

Great job!  Hope that all issues with the WAVES platform and all its tokens are sorted out smoothly.

In regards to being able to mine SBTC:
I would like to know if the source code you have posted in your github, if I compile it, is it ready to actually mine this coin?  Or is mining not yet "ready"?  I see a few coins being traded on some exchanges so I take it that it is being mined.

Also, I went to f2pool and I didn't see the coin listed on their list of coins on the main page.

That's the new "Altcoin's" of late 2017/2018, many many BTC forks.  Wait until you see one called Super Mario Bitcoins BTC fork developed by Nintendo that fixes X, Y, and Z issues while adding U, V and W features while pre-mining 512,000 coins to help fund development of next generation video game console.

Anyways, getting serious now, Super Bitcoins sounds like a great project, one of my only complains is that they deviated too far from Bitcoin's original image, that orange B.  They should have adopted the same original Bitcoin image with only a slight variation/difference just like bitcoin cash did.   In Bitcoin Cash's case, the dev rotated the Bitcoin's logo a few degrees counter-clockwise and called it good, In Super Bitcoin's case, they could have adopted the same original Bitcoin's logo, rotate it a few degrees either side or leave it as it is, and then added a few "swoosh" windy effects, etc to give the meaning of "super" as in powerful, etc then it would have been great and would look less than yet another "altcoin" out there.

Do I have to sync all the blocks from original Bitcoin blockchain (80GB+++) before I can mine with Super Bitcoin's qt wallet? 

Congratulations on your WAVES investment there, you seem to have hit it well, but unfortunately the community was treating WAVES as it were some type of joke in the beginning stages that I simply passed on it.  I regret not having bought some WAVES tokens.

But as far as ICN goes, I believe that 2018 could be a great year for ICN token appreciation.  ICONOMI is the best project in the crypto world so far, with a working product and when they are fully launched and marketing finally starts that's where the party could start for ICN.  Who knows?

The concept of AML Bitcoin sounds interesting, but there are a few troubling things that I dont understand:

For starters, when the ICO is over and the coin is launched, how would such a coin be traded, say at Bittrex and other exchanges if all participants, all coin holders has to comply with AML requirements before they can hold the tokens, being traded on, say Bittrex exchange would eliminate the AML for those traders who just goes directly to, for example, bittrex with a BTC, ETH, etc and directly trades it for an AML Bitcoin, then uses the very same AML Bitcoin to buy something online by sending those AML Bitcoins directly from Bittrex wallet exchange to the vendor accepting the AML Bitcoin.  On this example transaction there would be no AML data attached on that specific transaction and coins that were sent directly from the Bittrex online wallet to the vendor's wallet.

So, how is that problem solved, they can't possibly think that Bittrex would be performing AML for users who wants to trade AML Bitcoins, Bittrex would just decide not to add this coin than to undergo such a problematic and tedious major design/code change to house the AML Bitcoins on their exchange.  Same for Poloniex, Kraken, etc. 

So, the path of least resistance would be for all the exchanges simply to not list AML Bitcoin.  So, okay all exchanges do not list AML Bitcoins in orders to preserve the purity of the AML requirements within AML Bitcoins, so how exactly would the price appreciate if user's would be able to trade this coin.  Maybe an AML compliant exchange is created, possibly called AML Exchange where this coin is finally listed there to be traded with a handful of currency pairs (AML/BTC, AML/ETH, AML/LTC, etc).   Now imagine this:  AML Bitcoins listed on one exchange with AML requirements set, users have to undergo a series of AML procedures before becoming a member there, that in itself would have fewer members, perhaps not everyone from all countries would be eligible to become a member of said exchange which means that trading volume would be low.

Current ICO price is: $1.00  in light of the projections I have said I really dont see price appreciating by some high factor, in fact the price could go below ICO levels and possibly stay there for a very long time.

I am in the fence of whether I should invest in this coin or not.  I see it as yet another virtual reality/GAME based token and I really dont see anything that has to do with gaming sky rocketing in price.

The OP says ".......get to live in the blockchain", for me it looks like the dev is trying or creating a virtual reality platform that will reside in a decentralized blockchain, as in using decentralization within a blockchain as its "servers" to store all the information regarding this "virtual reality", but here's a problem: blockchain technology is too slow for something that require real time input such as tasks being done under a virtual reality scenario, for example:  The Ethereum blockchain's confirmation time is 10 seconds more or less, so that's 10 seconds were the user of this "virtual reality" platform would have to wait for whatever they are going to get saved/effectuated.  Example:  I buy a house and I place it on the parcel, I click on the "done" button, now I have to wait for the neareast of the 10 second of the blockchain to "confirm" so that this new data can be seen and recognized on the decentralized blockchain and thus I can finally see the house up there on my virtual land, on a virtual reality game being hosted on a normal dedicated web server my house would appear on my screen and be fully ready to be used and configurable the minute I press "done" (or whatever the button gets named by the dev).  

While 10 seconds might not seem like too much of a time, it is still a drawback compared to being hosted on dedicated servers.

Other problems I see:
  * Ping Response would be terrible.  On a normal dedicated server you can get ping responses as fast as 8 ms depending how far you are from the dedicated server and if you are physically located on the same country where the dedicated server is located, some large VR company compensate by using CDN's located on all over the world to ensure a speedy ping response whether you are in China or in the USA, but using BlockChain tech such as Ethereum where you not only have to wait 10 seconds to "commit" to the blockchain whatever it is you are doing, but you might have to put up with very slow ping response time:  So the "experience" would be sluggish or can be compensated by using "anticipation" techniques that involves downloading from the blockchain as much data from neighboring fields as possible so if you try to walk to these fields next to your house, etc the data is already downloaded thus "smoothing things out".

So, that's the problem that I see with anything such as apps, games, etc based on the blockchain tech, that you have to wait until the blockchain's next confirmation time to happen before the new info gets committed onto the blockchain.

--OR-- Maybe I am not understanding how this will work, that's why I need clarification in regards to this, because if I am right with my estimations here then I dont see a future with a high price valuation not only for this tokens that tries to do something similar to this/these categories (VR/Games, etc) imagine a casino entirely hosted on blockchain, you spin up the roulette wheel, and then you have to wait another 10 seconds to see where the ball landed, or better yet, you spin the roulette wheel and then you have to wait 10 seconds so that the network can acknowledge that you did initiated the wheel spin and then another 10 seconds to find out on what number the ball landed on the wheel, a total of 20 seconds, well not exactly 20 seconds depending how many seconds had elapsed since the last block was confirmed, lets say 7 seconds had elapsed and then you spin the wheel, the network would get the acknowledgement 3 seconds later and 10 seconds later you would get a number, that would still be 13 seconds to wait.

Well anyways that's the point, if a blockchain solutions (VR or not) would take this long to having to wait for the next network's confirmation to occur before the user's data/request is seen or commited on the network, then the solution would never take off the ground outside us, the technological enthusiast, it would never get adopted by mainstream users for real world applications/solutions with the only exception for mission critical applications where speed is not really that important, such as banking, etc.

* I have never invested in anything that talks about games/VR in the blockchain because of my understanding on how I think this will end up "working" when the product is finally finished.  If for any reasons I happen to be wrong with my assumptions how this VR solution would work and I get convinced that the user experience would be from acceptable to excellent then I might reconsider and buy a handful of these tokens on the exchanges.  Remember, if the dev can convince the mainstream user to take part on this VR solution and they really like it, and its fast enough for their liking, then the value of the token should rise, but if they dont like what they are seeing, if it ends up being a painstakingly slow/sluggish experience then the value of this token would not rise, thus "investing" would be pointless.

Are people still having trouble with Bittrex with the INCNT asset?  I took a cursory look at CMC and I see the following for INCNT:
1    Bittrex   INCNT/BTC    $232,934    $0.267646    87.42%    Recently
For the past 24H of trading volume, Bittrex leading the row in #1 with the highest volume of trades (total between BID's and ASK's), so I am assuming all orders are going just fine over there right now, right?

Sabes adonde puedo descarcar la carpeta (el wallet) de esta moneda "Petro"?, no aparece todavia en coinmarketcap (corijeme si estoy equivocado), no hay un anuncio official aqui en BitCoinTalk, es como si fuera un secreto.  Yo quisiera descargar la carpeta lo mas pronto possible para comenzar a minarlo.

Gracias!

According to ICONOMI, they have said that ICN will have a good utility once the platform is 100% complete and launched just before they begin doing marketing.

Currently ICN will be used for buybacks and burn, plus ICONOMI saying ICN shall have a very good utility once the platform is complete and marketing starts.  That in it self should be sufficient to give ICN excellent value.


By dumping ICN do you mean by selling all of their ICN tokens?  If so, the price would temporarily tank, but then on the next quarter report there would be millions of profits assuming that ICONOMI becomes extremely popular and successful, another buyback would bring the price back up.

If you are referring ICONOMI getting rid of the ICN token and operating without the ICN token, I dont think this would happen.  Repeated assurances that ICN will, keyword: *WILL* have a good utility once the platform is launched lends credence to a fact that ICONOMI has no intentions of getting rid of the ICN token.

Disclaimer:  Anything written by me is provided AS-IS, with no guarantees of any kind.  Always perform your very own due diligence before performing any investment actions.

I dont know if some people here have forgotten the reasons why it was changed from Dividends to Buybacks, is was to not look like a "SECURITY" in the eyes of the SEC.  Personally I think that buybacks are better than dividends, because instead of benefiting only you for your own holdings, it benefits the whole entire community by pumping up the price of ICN.  Also, I see buybacks are better in terms of promoting the increase of ICN's price, if we had dividends there would be no incentive to increase the price of ICN, the price of ICN can drop t 1 cents each or increase to 100 dollars each and you still would get the same exact amount of dividends in proportion to the amount of ICN's you are holding, your dividends would always be dolarized, which means that if one day the price of ethereum were to reach $1,000 USD each you would only be getting a very small fraction of 1 ethereum on each quarter, not fun right?  But with buybacks if the price of Ethereum were to increase to $1,000 chances are the price of ICN would also increase substantially always putting you on fair levels with Ethereum and other coins and tokens on the market, you would be able to afford to exchange for 1, 10 or 100 ETH's easily if the price of each ICN also increases astronomically as the price of ETH also increases astronomically.  

So, going back to Dividens, so in addition to gettind wayyy less ethereum because the price of ethereum increased substantially and the US DOLLAR is being used to calculate how much Ethereum you get, the price of Ethereum can also drop significantly in the future completely negating any $USD values, well not completely negating, but creating a huge loss for you.

This, along with ICN getting labeled a Security would mean that you would not be getting any Ethereum as dividends.  In the best case scenario, you would be forced to create an account with any traditional exchanges like Schwab, Schott, TD Ameritrade, etc where you would either pay like $5 per trade or pay like $99 a month to maintain the account with cheaper trades, or get charged an astronomical amount per shares you wish to buy, OUCH if you have like 50,000 ICN's to "Import" over there, or not pay anything astronomical to import these "shares" over there, but pay something astronomical like $99+ a month just to keep your account open.  So that blockchain token would all of a sudden needs to be converted into a conventional stock in a conventional centralized spreadsheet software in a centralized brokerage of your choice depending on what features you want and how much you wish to pay.

In the middle case scenario, ICONOMI could be forced to dump ICN's and create something else and convert to that something else at 1:1 exchange rate that actually offers a real utility.

In the Worst case scenario, ICONOMI could dump ICN's all together and continue operating without ICN's

EDIT: Or they could say: Screw SEC, we are not an american company, we are not operating in the USA, we are not targeting USA customer and just keep their operations completely offshore and get to keep ICN's with the Dividends and not mind getting de-listed from Kraken, etc...

So, no.  As an American myself who did took part on the ICO of ICN and are "Grandfathered" in meaning that the ICO took place in a period before SEC said anything on the subject, way before the SEC said anything in regards to any "guidelines", etc..., I would like for them to stay with the Buybacks, I dont think it would benefit me at all if they were to get labeled a Security, if ICONOMI decides to keep ICN's and it gets delisted from all american exchanges this would mean that I would be stuck with a whole bunch of ICN's that in the future I would have to literally move offshore just to be able to cash them out.  Ummm not fun.

Its over for good, my Galaxy S5, and moto G3's stopped working but the good news is that I typed the IMEI number of my Galaxy S5 on ting byod website and was told that I could activate it there, also swappa.com/esn says its clear for activation, before DDR stopped working it said "already activated", so these formally DDR phones not only stopped working, they got their SIM cards deprovisioned from Sprint's back-end but they also release the IMEI of the phones so that if we wanted we can makeactivate them in normal Sprint or any of its MVNO's like Ting, FreedomPop, etc if we want. If course it would not be exactly free and unlimited anymore like we all were used to when we were using DDR, but at least we are not holding WiFi only " little tablets" paper weights, and also if the IMEI shows as Clear for Activation your device has resale value if you desire to sell them on Ebay