Monero isn't doing too bad. It has outperformed Bitcoin by a factor of 2. The price doubled between 01/17 and 03/17 from about $10 to $20 and doubled again from 03/17 to 05/17 to nearly $40.

Maybe it's not a good idea to compare Monero's market cap to DASH or Bytecoin (which are its biggest rivals). A lot of DASH is locked up in masternodes and a lot of early mined BCN is probably not being traded on exchanges. The actual available coin supplies for DASH and BCN are probably much smaller than the circulating supply figure shown on CoinMarketCap.

Country coins were a huge craze back in 2014 but I think the idea has died back down since then because as others have said, cryptocurrencies transcend national borders. Certainly some coins are more popular in certain countries more than others though.

I'd be surprised if an India-specific coin hasn't been created yet since it is the second most populous country after all. Heck, even us New Zealanders got our very own coin back then (Kiwicoin).

EDIT: I did a quick search and couldn't find an India-specific coin so if anyone does start an India-based altcoin then it would actually be the first of its kind. The name Indiacoin is available too although the ticker IDC is already taken (IND and INDIA are available).

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Site seems to be stuck on the loading page again.

Just went back on PD to see how the new site looks after not playing for many weeks. Disappointing to see that it still looks the same.

22 BTC apparently. After today's loss, it seems that he is only slightly in the red:

I guess now is the time to start investing in Dicebitco.in then.

It's not a Commodore 64 but someone did manage to find a way to mine with a NES from 1985:

http://www.retrominer.com/

Unfortunately, I couldn't find a hash rate figure. Modern smartphones are MUCH more powerful than anything from the 80's though. Seeing as though someone mined hundreds of bitcoins back in 2009 with a Pentium 4, it probably would have been profitable with today's prices to mine with a phone back then too.

That's one way to do it. There's no rule against having multiple accounts here so another possible way might be to have two accounts. One signed up with PD and only used for highly constructive posts and the other one which has no sig (or a referral link if you're desperate for BTC) and only used for moderately constructive posts such as this one.

I used to think that too. That is, until I entered the world of altcoin trading. Compared to setting up wallets, it is so much more convenient to just have the coins sitting there on an exchange. Especially if you are a speculator. I know it's not good security-wise, but I can understand why exchanges are such a popular place to store one's own coins.

I think mining on a smartphone is possible but it definitely isn't profitable. I believe there was a news story a while back about Bitcoin-mining malware infecting smartphones. Even back then, it made no sense and so nobody could understand why anybody would even attempt such a thing.

Do a search for "smartphone mining malware" if you don't believe me. You'd be surprised.

Site looks very similar to PrimeDice. Also judging by the posts here, it seems very buggy too.

So now that dooglus is recommending Dicebitco.in (both in his sig and by directly investing himself), it seems that this might become the ultimate successor to the great JD.

As others have already said, try Coinmarketcap.com.


That is an awesome site which I check pretty regularly but... Isn't that only for Bitcoin though? It won't show the price of altcoins which I think is what OP is after.

There are a couple of things that is priced as BTC and not fiat. For example, altcoins and cloud hashing contracts. That might give us some perspective of what a future BTC-denominated economy might look like.

I don't think that's his fault. There's a typo in the sig code for senior and hero members which hasn't been corrected in any of the posts quoting it (including the most recent one). He would have to correct it manually. It probably isn't a huge problem though since the meaning is pretty obvious.

First it was MH370, then MH17, then the Taiwanese plane crash, and now this?

Yup. It really puts into perspective how much the Bitcoin community lost due to the Mt. Gox disaster. $750,000 seems like a large amount of money, until you realize that it's only about 0.15% of the total BTC value that Mt. Gox owes to its customers.

For example, if there was a psychologist, a computer programmer, a mathematician, and an economist, who do you think would have the best chance of correctly predicting the price of Bitcoin over time?

I guess it would depend on whether or not the virus has a chance to encrypt the drive before the antivirus can act. Once your computer is infected, it is already too late because no antivirus would be able to defeat the encryption. But if the virus is detected early enough, the antivirus could delete it before it starts encrypting your files.