I think this will be the year of existing corporates with big money entering the market, which will drive Bitcoin price but also initiate a second ICO craze.

Bitcoin still has the largest network and a lot of money from big players invested.

Keep trading alts

Good thing i got my BTG on Bittrex only now, i would have sold them far cheaper^^

But wondering now if i should hold a little longer..

It's sad that these news will have a general negative impact on the picture of blockchain technology, bitcoin and ethereum, when it is really just a mistake in the correct handling of these and not the technology itself.

Austria - Yes, pretty much everything is taxed. Also trades between different cryptocurrencies.
It all counts towards your income tax, so you are quite fast at 50%.

I would go with Altcoins that solve a real problem.

What? Sorry, but your English is horrible... I guess the two points you want to criticize are ASICs and inflation?

I really don't want to explain all the benefits of ASIC mining here, but shortly it means more network power and higher security.
The Sia team did their best to make the ASIC presale as widely distributed as possible, to avoid centralization of hashing power.

About inflation, Siacoins are burned as collateral, which is actually deflationary.
True, there will be further coins mined without a overall cap, but Sia said that the inflation the next years will be ~2%, that's less than Bitcoin has.

Did a lot on research on Sia, StorJ and Maidsafe - Sia is my favourite by far.

• Great, transparent team with good roadmap (Seriously, there is no other project-lead with such great community interaction)
• Nameworthy investors backing the project (Li Xiaolai just gave them a 400k grant to expand their team https://sia.tech/2017grant/)
• Mineable, no ICO
• Upcoming ASICs to strengthen network
• Rising development on top of the Sia network (eg. MineBox with HP cooperation)

In my opinion definitely a Top 10 coin in 2018 - I can only recommend to check out their reddit /r/siacoin.

Got one aswell, also preordered a Minebox

+1 for sia.

You seem badly informed, I would recommend to checkout the Sia website or /r/siacoin.

In short:
Data is split and stored on 30 (soon 50) different hosts and is of course encrypted, so no one without your private key can access your data. (they would have to hack your private key, which is atm pretty much impossible).

As it is now, you need only 10 of your 30 hosts to restore your data - so even if up to 20 hosts get their pc thrown out of the window, your data is safe and will be added to 20 new hosts as soon as the network marks these 5 old hosts as inactive.

Additionally these hosts have to play a sum of Siacoins when setting up their hosting space and will lose this investment if they can't provide a 90% uptime of the storage.

I think Sia roadmap is insane(ly good). They have a real product to disrupt the market.

I have very good experience on Bittrex, can just recommend it.