should have bought real^TM land on mars instead

https://www.buymars.com/

Anyone that thought 2016 was going to be boring was sure as hell wrong. Bring on the drama

This has been my philosophy. I can only speculate it is because people feel BTC is overvalued and go with alts at peaks. But whatever the reason I usually follow this.

I made a joke how the market was about to drop after I purchased at 450, and then at 430. This is far more comforting than the lows we were hitting only mere hours after smashing that like.. I mean buy button. I'm terrible at trading (as you can tell by my market crashing) so I just purchase and hodl.

Awfully convenient all this news (drama, whatever you want to call it)  happening at the same time and right before the halving. Almost like getting a perfect 0 on the SAT.

There is undoubtedly an element of 'I told you so', but I still feel bad that they lost their money. The fact that they were so careless with it probably meant it wasn't that important to them in the first place though.

Feel bad for anyone that bought '45% off' mines or NY mines.

I was gonna post and say stop bumping the thread until something interesting happens, but for once it seems it had.

Surprised that no one has called you a troll yet. I agree, as great as I think BTC is, something could always happen. If Bitcoin collapsed somehow overnight, I don't think we would enter an age of Litecoin or any other coin. Rather we would see a fragmentation of the market sort of like smartphones (which are now slowly becoming less diverse/experimental & all of them have similar features)

I just got my .03 so I'm not too worried. But yes, that is usually the way things go.

How can you even understand what he is saying? I'm really starting to get sick of the half baked ideas of ESL people. Not that this section would be the pinnacle of discourse anyway.

"We poured money into it, therefore it should be valuable" is an absurd statement. Moore's law will make it so that only those with a monetary interest will secure the network, and only those with money will be able to do so. Using millions of computers to create a coin and having that be the basis of value is not logical system for a currency. Comparing a space rock to macaroni art is a terrible example.

Testing .03 right now. I  used to test every time someone would say about how it was a scam and about to go under for my own piece of mind. I feel pretty safe knowing I'm always going to get it so I'm doing this for other's piece of mind now.

That slight drop was scary to see after just putting in a buy order. I considered making one of those "I just bought, dump incoming" threads but it seems I wasn't far off.

Are the odds for winning the jackpot equal for all the lands? Asking because of powerball fever that is going on right now.

Coins with PoW that waste a ton of electricity sure are the future right? Nothing gets investors excited like a coin that requires ever expanding resources in order to secure the network.

Don't invest more money and as long as it keeps paying it doesn't matter what crap goes on. Pretty much have just learned to make a withdrawl and forget about it because they always end up coming even if they take a little bit of time. If you are worried, don't invest. If you have already invested, don't worry. Gotta sit back and enjoy the ride whether it be good or bad because you can't get off.

In 2020 it will be : wall street

I get what OP is saying and I somewhat agree. This is an extremely basic example of what he is thinking of:

Let's pretend you didn't have any coins. 450$ in BTC will get you about 1BTC. 450$ gets you roughly 1,000 PPC. If trends continue, PPC is roughly about 0.1% to 1.0% of the BTC price (Roughly 8$ during the 1,200 peak). If Bitcoin were to hit 10,000, and Peercoin hit 1% of that (100$/PPC) your 1BTC would yield 10,000$, while your 1,000 PPC would be 100,000$. Granted it is a higher risk than BTC, but you don't need PPC to hit the moon, you just need for it to do mildly well.

Regardless of your feelings on altcoins, 100$/coin will someday not be a huge fantasy, at least for those in the top ten. The yields are better, but the risks are higher. Investing in the more reputable coins (if there is such a thing) I think is a reasonable investment. Replace PPC with any other coin, I'm not trying to single that one out. Please refrain from bashing, I'm just trying to share my thoughts.

Edit: I'm not saying go all in on altcoins, however much you feel is sufficient should be fine.

801-900 Because Bitcoin loves to mess with those with weak hands/those who expect the moon to happen overnight. I think we won't have too much action at the halving (500-600 range) but the end of the year will start picking up steam.